A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING

POWELL, ANTHONY

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In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times [London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.

The Woman Destroyed

Literature & Fiction

BEAUVOIR, SIMONE DE

Literary

Stardust

Connolly, Ray

Prince Regent

Burke, John

Genre Fiction

The rogue

Romance

Dailey,Janet

Contemporary

Maddon's Rock

Hammond-innes

British & Irish

After the sculptor Sander Williams is blinded by a tragic accident, Domini struggles to reawaken his will to live and rekindle his love for her

Hold Back the Night

Abra Taylor

Demonspawn: Fire Wolf Bk. 1

Science Fiction & Fantasy

BRENNAN, J.H.

Science Fiction

Medusa

HMS Medusa is an obsolete frigate with an ill-assorted crew and an insecure captain. Why has she been dispatched under secret orders to be a sitting duck in one of the most vital ports of the Mediterranean? The author has written 27 novels including "The Lonely Skier" and "Campbell's Kingdom".

INNES, HAMMOND

Struck off the Navy List for a crime he did not commit, Jack Aubrey takes command of a privateer and begins a voyage which may, just may, restore him to the rank. Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When The Letter of Marque opens he has been struck off the Navy List for a crime he has not committed. With Aubrey is his friend and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also an unofficial British intelligence agent. Maturin has bought for Aubrey his old ship the Surprise, so that the misery of ejection from the service can be palliated by the command of what Aubrey calls a 'private man-of-war' -- a letter of marque, a privateer. Together they sail on a voyage which, if successful, might restore Aubrey to the rank, and the raison d'etre, whose loss he so much regrets. Around these simple, ostensibly familar elements Patrick O'Brian has written a novel of great narrative power, exploring his extraordinary world once more, in a tale full of human feeling and rarely matched in its drama.

The Letter of Marque

Patrick OBrian

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