The Burglar in the Rye (Bernie Rhodenbarr)

Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's child, replaced Bernie Rhodenbarr's lifestyles. And now lovely Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, desires the bookselling, book-loving burglar to wreck right into a room in New York's teeth-achingly captivating Paddington lodge and purloin many of the writer's very own letters ahead of 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, non secular and political obstacles of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was once the British Resident on the court docket of the Nizam of Hyderabad whilst in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa—'Most first-class 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 look and feel like people . . . ' Jael ninety seven is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her good looks, she is forced 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 conflict.

Flashman at the Charge

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, yet there's no greater guy to enter the jungle with. sign up for Flashman in his adventures as he survives frightened ordeals and outlandish perils around the 4 corners of the realm. because the mild Brigade organize to cost the Russian weapons at Balaclava, Flashman assumes his attribute conflict place: sabre damn, tooth chattering, bowels rumbling in terror and approximately to bolt.