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Description: From the author of the best-selling Once Were Warriors, a powerful story of love between father and son, of contrasting ways of looking at the world and of revenge. When Johno comes out of prison, he resolves never to go back again. But his new life is not easy, especially as he soon finds himself in sole charge of his strange young son, Danny. Danny isn't the kind of son he would have chosen, but...
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Description: Alan Nelson was not a prolific writer, and as far as I know he wrote (or at least had published) only short stories. No novels. However, these stories are true gems. They originally appeared in some of the most prestigious venues for short fiction of the 1940s and 1950s. Many of Nelson's fantasy tales first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, where they were very popular, but hi...
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Description: This is the story of a boy, born in Burlington, Vermont during the great depression, and emancipated in his seventeenth year, lived his life. Written for the benefit of his descendants, here is how one man coped with the demands of middle class life in America during the second half of the Twentieth Century and into the new millennium. Readers of the author's generation will enjoy the stories of a...
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Description: From a young age, Alan Henry knew what it felt like to be left in the dust. Abandoned by his father after his mother's death, eight-year-old Alan was passed around from relative to relative, from Brooklyn to Cincinnati, until later in his teenage years. Despite finding some normalcy, security, and a comforting home life in Cincinnati with his uncle, aunt, and cousin, Alan was forced to return to h...
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Description: It is July 1944. German generals have tried – and failed – to kill Hitler. One man in London is relieved. Jago Craze, Military Intelligence Officer and failed S.O.E. agent, believes the premature death of Hitler could cause the Allies to lose the war. Jago attempts something he has never imagined, a secret operation to save Hitler. The Link, a subversive organisation of British Fascists, is also doing something they never imagined. To save Nazi Germany they are going to assassinate Adolf Hitler – and the man who stands in their way, Jago Craze...
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Description: Wild Child by Alan Croghan: a child's journey through crime, punishment and redemption. From the moment his mother went into labour with him - on a transatlantic flight - Alan Croghan's life was chaotic. As a young boy in north Dublin, he drank, took drugs and rarely attended school. What he loved best was stealing cars, driving them around, and swapping parts with his fellow thieves. By the age o...
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Description: The Broken Bell, the second book in Alan KennedyÕs Boat in the Bay trilogy. When he arranges a surprise holiday for the children Uncle Albert imagines he can look after them well enough. But before this story ends he is the one who needs looking after. Set on a remote island off the coast of southern France, an idyllic holiday gradually becomes a terrifying race against time, building to a dramat...
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Description: From the streets of Brooklyn, New York, to cities, nations, and earth-shaking events across the world, Alan Walden takes the reader on the adventure of a lifetime to which he was witness and, in some cases, an active participant. In his relentless pursuit of excellence as a broadcaster and journalist, Walden plumbed the who, what, where, when, and why of each event with a near fanatical desire to ...
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Description: Gathering No Moss is the autobiography of a possibly autistic child, born in 1925, who, idiosyncratically educated, grew up to see out, as a member of the Colonial Service, the end of the British Empire in East Africa. In later service with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, he witnessed novice states exulting in new-found independence. His last appointment, as deputy director ...
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Description: As soon as you discover Fraser walking backward and barefoot on the Meadows, Edinburgh Castle splashed by Hogmanay fireworks, you will be hooked. You will be further compelled when you find out Edinburgh is a character in the novel, her worried eye on Fraser that ominous night. Allow yourself to be both warmed and appalled with the characters you will meet, all in some way dealing with core human ...
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