The Burglar in the Rye (Bernie Rhodenbarr)

Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's child, replaced Bernie Rhodenbarr's existence. And now beautiful Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, wishes the bookselling, book-loving burglar to wreck right into a room in New York's teeth-achingly captivating Paddington resort and purloin a few of the writer's very own letters earlier than an unscrupulous agent can promote them.

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

White Mughals is the romantic and eventually tragic story of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended the entire cultural, spiritual and political barriers of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick used to be the British Resident on the court docket of the Nizam of Hyderabad whilst in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa—'Most very good between Women'—the great-niece of the Nizam's leading Minister and a descendant of the Prophet.

Facial Justice (Twentieth Century Classics)

'You'll by no means be at liberty until eventually you could imagine and appear and feel like other folks . . . ' Jael ninety seven is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her attractiveness, she is pressured to report back to the Ministry of Facial Justice, the place her face can be reconstructed. For Jael lives within the New country, created out of the devastation of the 3rd international battle.

Flashman at the Charge

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, yet there isn't any greater guy to enter the jungle with. sign up for Flashman in his adventures as he survives apprehensive ordeals and outlandish perils around the 4 corners of the realm. because the gentle Brigade arrange to cost the Russian weapons at Balaclava, Flashman assumes his attribute conflict place: sabre damn, the teeth chattering, bowels rumbling in terror and approximately to bolt.