Eric Knight
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Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence of the ruling elite, Clive decides not to return to the Army and to go absent without leave.
Deserving comparison to Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", This Above All was heralded as...
3) The Amazing Adventures of the Flying Yorkshireman: The Amazing Adventures of the Flying Yorkshireman
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This is the story of Sam Small, a man from Yorkshire who wakes up one morning and decides that he can fly on his own two hands. So he does. This is for all those who know that dogs talk, Sundays can be repeated seven days in a row so that Monday never comes, and other dreamy escapism. You'll have to read to believe how he learned to fly like a bird, by faith, how he changed a dog into a girl and back again, how he coped with the two selves of his...
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The prison cracks. What emerges is something no one expected...
Wulf Rome clawed his way up from the gutter to become a general in the Qarathian army. But when he rebels against the king's mad plan for another senseless war, he is exiled to the frontier and sent on a suicide mission into the depths of a merciless desert.
But Wulf Rome is a hard man to kill. Instead of dying, he survives, and in an underground cavern he finds...something.
A vast,...
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People who search for the lost Temple of Totec have a way of turning up dead....
Ace Lone Wolf, a half-Apache gunslinger with a quick draw and a penchant for finding trouble, is about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit. Then Victoria, a beautiful English noblewoman, and her hulking manservant, Block, break him out of jail.
Victoria's father, a famed archaeologist from London, disappeared while searching for the lost temple of the bloodthirsty...
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Led by dragons, the Emperor's vast army conquers every nation in its path...
The Emperor seeks to free the Dragon Queen from the Abyss. The only ones who could have opposed him are the Knights of Dragonwatch, an ancient order created to defend the world against the Dragon Queen, and they are no more, betrayed by one of their own and hunted to extinction.
Jarryd is a young man with a secret. He sees demons. The visions have plagued him since he witnessed...
8) Lassie
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Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie when they fall on hard times. On her journey of 500 miles, Lassie faces dangers, natural and human, and finds help in unexpected places as she returns to her home and the boy she loves.