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 damage right into a room in New York's teeth-achingly fascinating Paddington inn and purloin many of the writer's very own letters sooner 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 all of the cultural, spiritual and political barriers of its time. James Achilles Kirkpatrick was once the British Resident on the court docket of the Nizam of Hyderabad while in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa—'Most first-class between Women'—the great-niece of the Nizam's major 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 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 may be reconstructed. For Jael lives within the New nation, created out of the devastation of the 3rd global warfare.

Flashman at the Charge

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, yet there's no higher 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 arrange 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.