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Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940 and ends with Germany turning its attention to Russia, this work falls into two parts. The first part is a depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; and the second follows the inhabitants of a rural community under occupation.
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Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-ninth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job now seem to come from Eastern Europe.
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Adam Hall's prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is on death row for the murder of two Jewish children in 1967. Why would he want to take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? The answer lies in the past, in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another time.
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Three and a half years ago Sara Linton moved to Atlanta hoping to leave her tragic past behind her. Now working as a doctor in Atlanta's Grady Hospital she is starting to piece her life together. But when a severely wounded young woman is brought in to the emergency room, she finds herself drawn back into a world of violence and terror.
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Inferno - unabridged 14 cds. read by paul michael
Dan Brown
- Random house uk
- 14 Mai 2013
- 9781846573811
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GO SET A WATCHMAN - READ BY REESE WITHERSPOON
Harper Lee
- Random house uk
- 14 Juillet 2015
- 9781846574375
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Stephen Hawking is an intellectual icon, known not only for the adventurousness of his ideas but for the clarity and wit with which he expresses them. His phenomenal multi-million-copy bestseller A Brief History of Time introduced the fascinating landscape of theoretical physics to readers all over the world.
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An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney in the cold room, awaiting the dissection. But when medical examiner Maura Isles unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, the corpse opens its eyes. Now, the "dead" woman with cool precision, murders a security guard and seizes hostages. Who is this mysterious hostage-taker, and what does she want?
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Presents a story of the picturesque village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - children and old men, expatriates of all ages, tourists and locals. For some, such as Teresa, a dreamy village girl, it is a place from which to escape; and for others, it is a way of running from trouble.
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Michael Campion was a people's hero, a popular governor's son who publicly battled against a rare and debilatating heart illness. When he vanished without a trace one evening, his disappearance and the search to find him, dead or alive, hit the headlines daily. But the trail went cold very quickly.
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As Peter Carlyle waves his wife, children and brother-in-law off on a sailing holiday, all they have in mind is lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm breaks out, an explosion causes the boat to vanish without a trace and the family are lost, presumed dead. Until now.
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With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Blackman receives a surprise pardon from a lame duck President. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past.
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Blood from a stone - audio cd read by andrew sachs
Donna Leon
- Random house uk
- 16 Février 2005
- 9781856869720
Double CD, running time 3 hours.
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Tom Sullivan, about to graduate from Princeton, is haunted by the violent death of his father, an academic who devoted his life to one of the rarest, most complex books in the world.
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HUMAN TRACES - AUDIO CD READ BY SAMUEL WEST
Sebastian Faulks
- Random house uk
- 6 Septembre 2005
- 9781856869744
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Set in 1955-65, this title is built upon the story of that year of delicate political manoeuvring - and how, in winning the battle of that year, Michael Corleone set the stage to lose the war: the war to make the Family legitimate, the war to keep the Corleones supremely in power, and, the war to stay true to his father's wishes.
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Hannibal rising - unabridged edition in 6 cds
Thomas Harris
- Random house uk
- 12 Décembre 2006
- 9781856868372
Living with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki, Hannibal Lecter flourishes with Lady Murasaki's help. But his old demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn. He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death's prodigy.
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End in tears. a chief inspector wexford mystery - audio cd read by christopher ravenscroft
Ruth Rendell
- Random house uk
- 6 Octobre 2005
- 9781856869782
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a stone bridge over an unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while. It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters had been murdered. Sylvia has always been a cause for concern.
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The first casualty - cd read by jack davenport
Ben Elton
- Random house uk
- 7 Novembre 2005
- 9781856868365
A British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead. An English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Kingsley, previously a detective with the London police, is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction. He quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth.
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The chemistry of death ; audio cd read by greg wise
Simon Beckett
- Random house uk
- 21 Février 2006
- 9781846570315
When the bizarrely mutilated and long-dead body of a young woman is found in a ditch in Manham, an isolated and insular village in the Norfolk marshlands, it isn't just the fact that she had been a friend that disturbs Dr David Hunter. He was once a high-profile forensic anthropologist and all too familiar with the different faces of death.
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Break no bones - audio cd read by dorothee berryman
Kathy Reichs
- Random house uk
- 12 Juillet 2006
- 9781856867191
It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school - the students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a much more recent burial is uncovered. It's a case forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan has to take. But, it seems to be putting herself in danger.
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Army-cop-turned-drifter Jack Reacher orders coffee in a cup made of foam, not china, so he can move on at a moment's notice. He owns nothing, carries less, has never encountered a female colleague he can't bed, or a case he can't solve. But now Reacher is confronted by a situation so disturbing and deceptive that the truth eludes him.
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The runaway jury - audio cd read by michael beck
John Grisham
- Random house uk
- 2 Août 2006
- 9781846570193
In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely. Soon they have to be sequestered. A young woman is able to predict the juror's odd behaviour. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? Why?
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From his birth in April 1921, this autobiography spans Sir Peter Ustinov's extraordinary career as actor, playwright, film star and director, confirming his early belief that he is 'irrevocably betrothed to laughter'.