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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the twelth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty's Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit, led by an old enemy of Sharpe's, and suffer heavy losses. The army's high command blame Sharpe for the disaster and his military...

A modern, heartwarming twist on Mary Shelley's classic, this compelling debut novel weaves an old-fashioned love story with modern scienceand leaves us wanting more.Lucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, in her crumbling family mansion. Surrounded by four generations of clothes, photographs, furniture, and other remnants of past lives, they are strangely out of touch with the modern worldexcept in the basement,...

Never before published in a single volume, Tolkien's four novellas ("Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, Smith of Wootton Major," and "Roverandom") and one book of poems ("The Adventures of Tom Bombadil") are gathered together in a fully illustrated set.

Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.

A mountaineer who was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disorder traces his struggle to ascend the "Seven Summits."

Hunted through the Arizona Territory by Apaches who take to the warpath after he murders their Chief, Donovan rides into a small horse ranch that's the perfect place for a long siege. But when the Apaches kidnap the rancher's son and begin subjecting him to their most savage, excruciating tortures, Donovan realizes that if an Apache arrow doesn't kill him, then a rancher's rifle will!

While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help with preparing the family's fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.

The minute he rode into his old hometown, Medicine Arrow, Frank Kaily knew something was wrong. Behind the blank stares of his former friends lurked a terrible secret ... a secret that directly involved him. What it was, Kaily didn't know. But one thing was perfectly clear. Because of it, the whole town was ready and eager to kill--and Kaily was their number-one target!

After a decade of aimlessness marked by remaining a professional college student and drifting through relationships, Nathan Carter moves from Boston to rustic Eden, Vermont in search of a more purposeful life. When he meets Wallace Fiske, the town outcast, a strange friendship grows between these two lonely men, and Nathan slowly begins to learn the story of the love and pain that have haunted Wallace's life. Brilliantly intertwining past and present,...

Clay Hanford knew that when he bought the legal deed to the J P ranch in Fandango Basin he also bought trouble. The Basin was run by tough, ruthless King Morgan and his two hard-case sons. They claimed the whole basin for their range--and that meant the J P spread, too. So a legal deed wasn't about to be enough, Clay Hanford knew. It would take powder, bullets and blood to hold on the the J P!