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Mrs. Peel, We're Needed

By: Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Frank Hui,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Sunday Swift,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Dan O'Shea

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Mrs. Peel, We're Needed

By: Rodney Marshall,Sam Denham,Bernard Ginez,Richard Cogzell,Piers Johnson,James Speirs,Frank Hui,Margaret J Gordon,JZ Ferguson,Sunday Swift,Lauren Humphries-Brooks,Dan O'Shea

The Avengers was a unique, genre-defying television series which blurred the traditional boundaries between 'light entertainment' and disturbing drama. It was a product of the constantly-evolving 1960s yet retains a timeless charm. The monochrome filmed Emma Peel season had established a cult following for a series which became an intrinsic part of the 'Swinging Sixties'. Backed by US dollars, the show was now filmed 'in color' and Avengerland becomes stranger and more playful than ever: Steed is shrunk to the size of a desk pad, forced to evade a machine-gun-toting nanny; Emma Peel is tortured in a medieval ducking stool and turned into a living cybernaut. Mrs. Peel, We're Needed draws on the knowledge of a broad range of experts and fans of The Avengers as it explores the wonderfully mad Technicolor world of Emma Peel.

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1326120093

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Piccolo

By: James Baddock

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Piccolo

By: James Baddock

This is very much a 21st century thriller, involving ‘a new kind of treason'. Police Inspector Steven Redmond, of Special Branch, is charged with investigating the suspicious deaths by ‘accident' or ‘suicide’ of several Ministry of Defence computer experts. He soon realises that he is expected to deliver a ‘whitewash’ report and that to buck the system is to put his career on the line. Compelled by his assistant, computer expert Sergeant Gail Harper, and by continued unexplained deaths, Redmond digs deeper. He soon finds out that not only is he under surveillance, but that several of the victims are linked to a top-secret Anglo-American defence project code-named Piccolo. As Redmond and Harper peel away Piccolo’s grim secrets, they slowly unearth a massive and deadly conspiracy that encompasses both British and American governments and big business and which threatens to engulf them in a tide of bloody violence. The nonstop action builds as it moves from London to Florida and on to a climactic, vicious firefight where only the winners will survive.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1782347577

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Harlequin Historical November 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2

A Christmas Historical Romance Novel

By: Sophia James,Virginia Heath,Catherine Tinley,Ann Lethbridge,Laura Martin

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A Christmas Historical Romance Novel

By: Sophia James,Virginia Heath,Catherine Tinley,Ann Lethbridge,Laura Martin

Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: CHRISTMAS CINDERELLAS By Sophia James, Virginia Heath and Catherine Tinley (Regency) You shall go to the ball with these three Christmas Cinderella stories! A fateful encounter, a festive house party and a midnight kiss under the mistletoe. All in one festive volume. A SHOPKEEPER FOR THE EARL OF WESTRAM The Widows of Westram By Ann Lethbridge (Regency) Accused of peddling fakes, antiques seller Harriet Godfrey must accept the help of the Earl of Westram—her accuser! They’re destined for different fates. Is this their last chance for passion? ONE SNOWY NIGHT WITH LORD HAUXTON By Laura Martin (Regency) Mortified at accidentally slipping into Lord Hauxton’s bed one snowy night, runaway debutante Henrietta is even more horrified to discover they’re snowed in together the next morning! Look for Harlequin® Historical’s November 2020 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!

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148806931X

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Snatched

By: Bill James

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Snatched

By: Bill James

Bill James is on top form in this sharply satirical black comedy set behind the scenes at a museum George Lepage, the new Director of the Hulliborn Regional Museum and Gallery, has great hopes that his tenure in the post will be short and profitable. He has visions of early retirement, and perhaps – like his predecessor, and his predecessor’s predecessor – a knighthood. But circumstances do their best to snatch his happy dreams away from him. First a deranged former staff member causes a riot in the Folk Department, and then three recently purchased, ruinously expensive paintings of dubious authenticity are stolen, putting the museum’s security – and judgement – into question. The fate of the upcoming Japanese Ancient Surgical Skills exhibition, and its astonishing collection of tonsil excision implements, hangs dangerously in the balance. And over everything hangs the grim specter of the former Director, “Flounce” Butler-Minton, whose body may be most definitely dead but whose legacy lives on. And with every day that passes, the rumours of what Flounce did behind the Iron Curtain – and how the haversack straps, the whippet and the legendary Mrs Cray were involved – grow, threatening to erupt into a scandal that may cost the museum, and Lepage himself, everything . . .

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1780105290

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Harlequin Historical September 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Sophia James,Mary Brendan,Liz Tyner,Jodi Thomas

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Harlequin Historical September 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Sophia James,Mary Brendan,Liz Tyner,Jodi Thomas

ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME: WINTER'S CAMP by New YorkTimes bestselling author Jodi Thomas Harlequin®Historical brings you three new titles for one great price, availablenow! This box set includes: MARRIAGE MADE IN SHAME (Regency) ThePenniless Lords • by Sophia JamesDespite his reputation, Gabriel Hughes, Earl of Wesley, shies awayfrom intimacy. Until his convenient marriage to Adelaide Ashfieldawakens a desire he never thought he'd feel again! TARNISHED, TEMPTED AND TAMED (Regency) byMary Brendan Fiona Chapman is a tarnished woman, or so thegossips have it! But she won't succumb to Major Luke Wolfson's charms,not unless he makes her an honorable proposal… FORBIDDEN TO THE DUKE (Regency) by LizTyner When the Duke of Harling catches Bellona Cherroll trespassing onhis land, he knows he should avoid her. What does he do? Invite her tolive under his roof! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin®Historical!

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1460393988

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Christmas Cinderellas

By: Sophia James,Virginia Heath,Catherine Tinley

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Christmas Cinderellas

By: Sophia James,Virginia Heath,Catherine Tinley

The holiday season finds three women living their own Cinderella stories in this collection of Christmas Regency romance novellas. In Sophia James’s Christmas with the Earl, usually composed Ariana burns up like a Christmas candle at the infamous Earl of Norwich’s touch! Next, in Virginia Heath’s Invitation to the Duke’s Ball, a festive country house party is a bore for lady’s companion Eliza, until she meets a dashing Duke. And in Catherine Tinley’s A Midnight Mistletoe Kiss, Nell’s life of drudgery is about to change after a Christmas kiss with the handsome gentleman Tom Beresford . . .

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1488066027

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Harlequin Historical August 2021 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Amanda McCabe,Catherine Tinley,Lotte R. James

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Harlequin Historical August 2021 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Amanda McCabe,Catherine Tinley,Lotte R. James

Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: PLAYING THE DUKE’S FIANCÉE Dollar Duchesses by Amanda McCabe (Victorian) To escape an unwanted marriage arrangement, heiress Violet begins a fake betrothal with the seemingly stuffy Duke of Charteris. Only as she gets to know him, she can’t help wanting more… CAPTIVATING THE CYNICAL EARL by Catherine Tinley (Regency) For the Earl of Hawkenden, emotions are the path to pain. But when Lady Cecily visits, Jack is captivated. In a month she’ll be gone—unless Jack’s frozen heart thaws before then? THE HOUSEKEEPER OF THORNHALLOW HALL by Lotte R. James (Georgian) New housekeeper Rebecca Merrickson is shocked when brooding earl William Reid unexpectedly returns. They immediately clash, but as he softens, Rebecca realizes she’s becoming improperly attracted to her master! Look for Harlequin® Historical’s August 2021 Box Set 1 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!

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0369711122

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9780369711120

Hawkwood

By: James Mcgee

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Hawkwood

By: James Mcgee

James McGee’s historical crime thriller introduces a Regency-era James Bond who uncovers a sinister Napoleonic plot against Britain. The year is 1811, and Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood is ordered by Chief Magistrate James Read to investigate the double murder of a coachman and a naval courier on the Kent Road. Hawkwood initially wonders why Read is so concerned by this relatively mundane case, but before long, another body is discovered, and a higher agenda emerges—an attempt by the Emperor Napoleon to deliver a crushing military and psychological blow to Britain that could lead cause terror on the seas for years to come. . . . Gripping and fast-paced, the first book in the Hawkwood Mysteries is an impressively researched novel of suspense that features an enigmatic hero facing a dangerous threat to his homeland during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639360433

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9781639360437

The British Critic

Vol. V

By: James Shergold Boone,John Henry Newman

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The British Critic

Vol. V

By: James Shergold Boone,John Henry Newman

Reprint of the original, first published in 1795.

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3368511343

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9783368511340

The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie

A Reader's Guide

By: James Zemboy

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The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie

A Reader's Guide

By: James Zemboy

The most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie's 66 detective novels are covered here in great detail. Each chapter begins with general comments on a novel's geographical and historical setting, identifying current events, fashions, fads and popular interests that relate to the story. A concise plot summary and comprehensive character listing follow, and each novel is discussed within Christie's overall body of work, with an emphasis on the development of themes, narrative technique, and characters over the course of her prolific career. An appendix translates Poirot's French and defines the British idiomatic words and phrases that give Christie's novels so much of their flavor.

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McFarland

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1476665958

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9781476665955

Marriage Made in Shame

By: Sophia James

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Marriage Made in Shame

By: Sophia James

Secrets of the marriage bed… Heiress Adelaide Ashfield lost her trust in men years ago. She spurns the advances of society's most eligible bachelors, but time is running out. Forced to make her choice, Adelaide accepts the hand of Gabriel Hughes, Earl of Wesley. Despite his debauched reputation, Gabriel shies away from intimacy. But his marriage to Adelaide awakens a desire he never thought he'd feel again. Maybe his beguiling new bride is the key to shaking off the shame which has haunted him for so long…

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1460387589

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9781460387580

New Earths

Transforming Other Planets for Humanity

By: James E. Oberg

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New Earths

Transforming Other Planets for Humanity

By: James E. Oberg

This exciting new volume presents every ship in which Admiral Horatio Nelson served, in full detail, for the first time. Includes a comprehensive background of each vessel and the incidents that occurred when Nelson was aboard each ship. 45 photos. 40 line drawings.

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Stackpole Books

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0811710076

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9780811710077

Making Dystopia

The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism

By: James Stevens Curl

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Making Dystopia

The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism

By: James Stevens Curl

In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.

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Oxford University Press

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0191068152

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Mrs. Peel, We're Needed

Mrs. Peel, We're Needed

Piccolo

Piccolo

Harlequin Historical November 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2

Harlequin Historical November 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2

Snatched

Snatched

Harlequin Historical September 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

Harlequin Historical September 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

Christmas Cinderellas

Christmas Cinderellas

Harlequin Historical August 2021 - Box Set 2 of 2

Harlequin Historical August 2021 - Box Set 2 of 2

Hawkwood

Hawkwood

The British Critic

The British Critic

The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie

The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie

Marriage Made in Shame

Marriage Made in Shame

New Earths

New Earths

Making Dystopia

Making Dystopia

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