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'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught
with danger' The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the
threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman,
decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be
executed. Showing great daring and aided by a band of brave
comrades, he disguises himself as the formidable Scarlet Pimpernel.
But will his beautiful French wife Marguerite unwittingly prove his
downfall? Baroness Orczy's swashbuckling 1905 novel set the
standard for all future tales of masked avengers and was later
adapted into a famous stage play and several film versions. The
Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of
the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end
of the Second World War.
The final book in The Song of the Shattered Sands series closes the
epic fantasy saga in a desert setting, filled with rich
worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action. The plans of the desert
gods are coming to fruition. Meryam, the deposed queen of Qaimir,
hopes to raise the buried elder god, Ashael, an event that would
bring ruin to the desert. Ceda and Emre sail for their ancestral
home to bring the traitor, Hamid, to justice. To their horror, they
discover that the desert tribes have united under Hamid's banner.
Their plan? A holy crusade to annihilate Sharakhai, a thing long
sought by many in the tribes. In Sharakhai, meanwhile, the blood
mage, Davud, examines the strange gateway between worlds, hoping to
find a way to close it. And King Ihsan hunts for Meryam, but always
finds himself two steps behind. When Meryam raises Ashael, all know
the end is near. Ashael means to journey to the land that was
denied to him an age ago, no matter the cost to the desert. It now
falls to Ceda and her unlikely assortment of allies to find a way
to unite not only the desert tribes and the people of Sharakhai,
but the city's invaders as well. Even if they do, stopping Ashael
will cost them dearly, perhaps more than all are willing to pay.
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The Jester
(Paperback)
James Patterson, Andrew Gross
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Freedom - in eleventh-century France, it is a luxury enjoyed by
only the King and nobility. For the serf, it is surely worth
fighting for. But is it worth dying for? Arriving home
disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers that his
village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders
came in the dead of night, like devils, wearing no colours but
black crosses on their chests, leaving no clue as to who they are.
Knights they may be, but honour and chivalry are not part of their
code. They search for a relic, one worth more than any throne in
Europe, and no man can stand in their way. Until Hugh, taking on
the role of a jester, is able to infiltrate the enemy's castle
where he believes his wife is being held captive. And when a man is
fighting for freedom - for his wife, and for everything he holds
dear - he will prove a formidable opponent.
Fight for your country. Fight for your king. Fight for your life...
Gripping adventure in the Tudor Navy. Jack Stannard has spent his
whole life at sea, enduring savage beatings from his father and the
furious aggression of whip-cracking storms. But a more cruel and
dangerous foe is on the horizon. When Henry VIII dissolves the
monasteries and wages war against France and Scotland
simultaneously, Jack must take up his family destiny at the head of
the Dunwich fleet. But enemy blades may be the least of his
problems. Aging ships, treacherous rivals and ghosts from the past
all threaten to interfere with the war effort. The only man he can
trust is Thomas Ryman, a former warrior turned monk. As the English
fleet descends on Edinburgh, the dangerous game of politics and war
reaches a shattering climax aboard the pride of Henry's navy - the
Mary Rose. Stannard and Ryman know that it is not just their lives
that are at stake, but the future of England herself... Stuffed to
the gunwales with gripping naval combat and adventure, Destiny's
Tide is the first in a thrilling new series set amidst the rise of
the Tudor Navy, perfect for fans of Julian Stockwin, C. S.
Forester's Hornblower, and Patrick O'Brian
Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the
news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the
Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The
next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's
death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else
besides. The three chapters left on O'Brian's desk are presented
here both in printed version-including his corrections to the
typescript-and a facsimile of his manuscript, which goes several
pages beyond the end of the typescript to include a duel between
Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer who is courting his
fiancee. Of course we would rather have had the whole story;
instead we have this proof that O'Brian's powers of observation,
his humor, and his understanding of his characters were
undiminished to the end. Includes a Facsimile of the Manuscript.
After saving the emperor's life in Rome, Marcus and his comrades
have been sent across the sea to the wealthy, corrupt Greek
metropolis of Aegyptus, Alexandria. An unknown enemy has
slaughtered the garrison of the Empire's last outpost before its
border with the mysterious kingdom of Kush. Caravans can no longer
reach the crucial Red Sea port of Berenike, from which the riches
of the East flow towards Rome. The Emperor's most trusted and most
devious adviser has ordered Marcus's commander Scaurus and his
trusted officers to the south. With orders that are tantamount to a
suicide mission, and with only one slim hope of success. Can a
small force of highly trained legionaries restore the Empire's
power in this remote desert no-man's-land, when faced by the
fanatical army of Kush's iron-fisted ruler?
Join young Horatio Hornblower in the thrilling naval adventure from
the author of The Good Shepherd, now a major-motion picture
starring Tom Hanks 'A joyous creation, a perfection in words. Young
Hornblower is, simply, one of the most complete creations of
character in fiction' Conn Iggulden, The Independent _______ 1793,
the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower
receives his first command . . . As a seventeen-year-old with a
touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash
in His Majesty's navy. Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a
French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay and take command of crew
and cargo, he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves. After a
character-forming duel, several deadly chases and some dramatic
captures and escapes, the young Hornblower is soon forged into a
formidable man of the sea. This is the first of eleven books
chronicling the nautical adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable
hero, Horatio Hornblower. _______ 'Absolutely compelling. One of
the great masters of narrative' San Francisco Chronicle
September 1810. Raids across the Straits of Messina to disrupt
preparations for the French invasion of the island have been
repulsed with heavy casualties. George Warne, a bright young
British officer, suspects treachery back in Messina, and is ordered
to investigate. Warne uncovers a shadowy underworld of spies,
traitors and informers where nothing is quite as it seems and where
danger lurks around every corner. If the long-threatened French
invasion erupts will Sicily's defenders be prepared? Winner of the
SAHR Prize for Military Fiction.
"This is Raymond Chandler for feminists." Sharma Shields, author of
The Cassandra "An expressive and striking story that examines what
one does for family and for oneself." Kirkus Reviews Jane's a very
brave boy. And a very difficult girl. She'll become a remarkable
woman, an icon of her century, but that's a long way off. Not my
fault, she thinks, dropping a bloody crowbar in the irrigation
ditch after Daddy. She steals Momma's Ford and escapes to
Depression-era San Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as
a newspaper copy boy. Everything's looking up. She's climbing the
ladder at the paper, winning validation, skill, and connections
with the artists and thinkers of her day. But then Daddy reappears
on the paper's front page, his arm around a girl who's just been
beaten into a coma one block from Jane's newspaper hit in the head
with a crowbar. Jane's got to find Daddy before he finds her, and
before everyone else finds her out. She's got to protect her
invented identity. This is what she thinks she wants. It's
definitely what her dead brother wants.
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