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Resumption Resumption Christopher Nicole Two young men-- Jack Dawson, a British Royal Navy lieutenant, and Hirada Tanawa, an Imperial Japanese Navy pilot--become friends from 1937 until December 1941, a relationship that will have tragic co… OL10530676W
Sword of Empire Sword of Empire Christopher Nicole This sequel to "Sword of Fortune" evokes the turbulence and savagery of 19th-century India. Laura Dern's son is threatened by the evil Prince Batraj. Shackled to Batraj as his concubine, Laura is for… OL10530683W
Sword of fortune Sword of fortune Christopher Nicole This novel tells of the escapades and adventures that befall Richard Bryant in India after the period of Clive. The hero carves a career as a mercenary soldier during Britain's days of Empire. Bryant… OL10530684W
The Last Bannerman The Last Bannerman Alan Savage In this sequel to "The Eight Banners", the trading house of Barrington is firmly established in Shanghai. China, however, has begun her slow decline into anarchy, with not only the beginnings of the … OL131424W
The Sword and the Jungle The Sword and the Jungle Alan Savage Having escaped from Singapore the day before it fell to the Japanese, Captain Harry Brand and his wife, Constance, seek refuge in Burma. Caught up in the retreat from Japanese invasion in Burma, Harr… OL131427W
Moghul Moghul Alan Savage This is the story of the lives and lusts, ambitions and avarices, triumphs and defeats of the Moghuls, and five generations of the English family who witnessed and participated in it all. In 1524 … OL131430W
The Sword and the Scalpel The Sword and the Scalpel Alan Savage The first in a planned series of military sagas which follows the fortunes of the Brand family and its involvement in the British Army. Harry Brand fails medical school in 1935 and takes himself o… OL15283938W
The Sword and the Prison The Sword and the Prison Alan Savage Germany, 1940. Badly wounded and a prisoner of war after the fall of France, Major Hector Brand is nursed back to health in the Von Pattens' family home rather than a prison hospital. A family as fam… OL15284140W
Stop Rommel! Stop Rommel! Alan Savage Egypt, 1939. When John Warrey agrees to act as navigator for a trans-Saharan expedition led by photographer Margo Cartwright. After training back in England, John returns to Cairo to spy on Il Duce's… OL15284176W
The Cause The Cause Alan Savage Harry Curtis is one of the lucky few to escape from a top secret raid gone wrong on St Nazaire - resulting in horrific carnage - and anyone might believe that he deserves a rest. But in wartime nobod… OL15284464W
Tomorrow's Harvest Tomorrow's Harvest Alison York Being side by side doesn't mean seeing eye-to-eye Hugo Baron was the proverbial "stuffed shirt." He made it clear that he had standards to maintain--and Petra Collins just didn't meet them. Sti… OL2898724W
A Binding Contract A Binding Contract Alison York What a strange, ironic, topsy-turvy world, Julia couldn't help thinking. Warren Kane had been part of her past, and now it seemed that he was back to stay. Only this time, Julia Sinclair was to… OL2898728W
Summer in Eden Summer in Eden Alison York It was time to get her life in order When Clare realized she couldn't go through with marriage to a man she could never love--she took off to think about a new and different future. The job tha… OL4573842W
Dear Enemy Dear Enemy Alison York The first time Alex Leeward had seen him, he'd appeared with the sunrise, astride a white horse, But reality had hit -- hard -- when she'd discovered that he was Marcus Wakeford, the man who'd dumped… OL4573844W
The Promised Land The Promised Land Caroline Gray When their police inspector father is murdered in the then colony of British Guiana, the three teenage Grain children return to England. Whilst Matilda and her brother succumb to the carnal freedom w… OL4641214W
The Torrent The Torrent Caroline Gray She is the owner's representative. On the spot. Therefore, she is responsible for solving problem. Twenty years old and the joint heir to the successful Caribee Shipping line, Helen Edge has just … OL4641226W
Bloody Sunset Bloody Sunset Christopher Nicole Son of an English father and an American mother, Nicholas Barrett is nonetheless a second generation Japanese citizen, born and bred into the great tradition of the Japanese navy. His greatest ambiti… OL4797933W
Guns in the Desert (Nicole, Christopher. Arms of War Series, 3rd.) Guns in the Desert (Nicole, Christopher. Arms of War Series, 3rd.) Christopher Nicole When the Senussi tribesmen of southern Libya, rise in revolt against their Italian masters in the 1920s, their principal problem is obtaining arms and ammunition to fight against a modern army. In th… OL4797948W
Red Gods (Russian Quartet) Red Gods (Russian Quartet) Christopher Nicole It is 1919 and civil war prevails as the newly installed Communist regime confronts the armies of the dead Tsar. Families are torn apart and Prince Alexei Bolugayevski and his family are no exception. OL4797982W
The Red Tide (Russian Quartet) The Red Tide (Russian Quartet) Christopher Nicole Set in 1911, the latest in a series of sagas depicting the overturn of Russian society between 1853 and 1953. OL4797983W
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