Search Results: Titles starting with D from DASHbooks

In good condition - has tape on front cover - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Uproarious tales of Australia's favourite fictional family, brilliantly illustrated in colour and black and white by Louis Silvestro. Dad, Dave, Sarah, Joe, Mother and all the rest of the irrepressible Rudd family stumble hilariously from one escapade to another as they struggle to make a living from the land against all opposition - including kangaroo, droughts, recalcitrant farm animals, and each other! A superb addition to the family library.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Della Adair hired her old friend Miles Donovan to help her make her way safely across the long Dakota plains. Having sold her property in Deadwood, Della is intent on travelling south to start a new life with her younger sister, due in from the east.The whole town knows Della is carrying the gold made from the sale. Amongst them is Tom DeFord, a stone-cold killer who holds a blood grudge against Miles. With news that the Cheyenne are roaming the plains as well, Miles will have to fight his way along every yard of the trail.

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Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship, and abandoning her career as a poet, for the safety of marriage and domesticity.
Despite her natural reserve, she meets a rich variety of passengers travelling with her, who affect her understanding of her own past. Most significantly, she meets Dino, the dance host, whose motives in befriending Vi are shady, but who teaches her to ballroom dance - and inadvertently helps her to recover from her past.
Moving between the late sixties and the present day, Dancing Backwards is written with the lightness of touch and psychological insight which characterise Salley Vickers' acclaimed work. This bittersweet novel is subtle, poignant and wonderfully… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Dr Jaynat Patel started work at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland in 2003. In the years that followed he was linked to the death's of over 100 patients and was dubbed 'Dr Death'. He then fled to the US and escaped prosecution.Virginia Walker, a qualified registered nurse, worked closely with Dr Patel in the years he worked at the hospital and Dancing With Doctor Death is her personal account of this period.She catalogues the day-to-day stresses and horrors of working in a health system that seemed more obsessed with money and budgets than people and their health.This is a startling story of one of the saddest periods in the history of the health system in Australia.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.1st May 1926Dear Alec,Just when those who should be working are all downing tools for this wretched strike (and I still can't believe it - I mean to say: Riots Alec - in Edinburgh of all places), guess who is setting her virgin shoulder to is very first wheel?I am dressed in serge and sensible footwear, sleeping in an iron bed and dining off pickled tongue at six o'clock each day. I am, in short, that nice young Mrs Balfour's new maid. But don't worry, Alec dear: things haven't got as bad as all that. It's just that that nice young Mr Balfour is going to kill his wife. At least, she thinks so, and the more I hear about him from Butler, Cook and Bootboy the more I'm inclined to agree.So I'm undercover, in disguise, bent upon foiling and jolly hard work it is too - tomorrow is my half-day free if you'd care take me out for a restorative bun. (Every maid needs a beau to buy buns… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The new romantic thriller from a master storyteller.On a bright summer's day a young girl, carefree and smiling, receives an ominous warning from an old gypsy woman, a warning that she will never be able to forget. Some years later, another young woman is caught up, unwittingly, in Alex's sinister story.Imogen Voisey arrives at Upton Stowey House as governess to little Janine, daughter of the dangerously attractive Bradley Palmer. Janine's mother Alexandra died in mysterious circumstances and now Brad's second wife, Rosalie, has also disappeared. Rumours abound concerning the role of Brad Palmer in the fate of his two wives. Against her will and despite the powerful emotions his presence arouses in her, Imogen is forced to confront these rumours and establish, for herself and for Janine, the truth?

In good condition - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to end of pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Night ShiftThe calls came regularly - a cold voice telling late-night radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke that she was going to die. The never-ending threats made her desperate - desperate enough to accept police protection.Cilla preferred to stay away from the police but something about Boyd Fletcher made him difficult to ignore. He was strong, laconic, infuriating and clearly determined to watch over her every second of the day...and night. The trouble was, the more Cilla saw of her unwanted bodyguard, the more she wanted him to share the night she loved...Night ShadowIn a city ruled by fear, a solitary figure walked the night, determined to awaken a terrified metropolis from the nightmare of crime. Nothing - no bullets or legal technicalities - could deter the man they called Nemesis from his mission.Deborah O'Roarke, an idealistic young prosecutor… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the land of Cymria, humans and griffins rule side by side...Arren Cardockson is a despised Northener, a people conquered and enslaved centuries ago. By freak chance, he became a griffiner - chosen by a griffin as their companion - but many people resent and fear his existence.Meanwhile, chained in a cage behind the fighting Arena where rogue griffins entertain the crowds, a mysterious dark griffin dreams of escape. Arren's meeting with this renegade creature sets his life on an inexorable path of murder, conflict...and an encounter with his past.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Air Force One crashes into the sea, with the US President aboard. Is it an accident?Yellowstone National Park erupts in the most devastating volcanic catastrophe ever known. But, when evidence points to foreign terrorists, vengeance is swift and merciless.Guided by ruthless commercial interests, a new American President imposes martial law on a starving, demoralized population and plunges the nation into an overseas race against Russia and China to seize control of the world's most valuable remaining natural resources.Darkness falls across the globe, society collapses, liberty vanishes, and soon forces wielding unfettered power are transforming the United States into the greatest threat to global survival.After months of isolation in the Sudanese desert, Lieutenant Adam Burch learns that his parents have gone missing. Risking execution, he deserts his post and journeys back… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An all-new collection of gene-pool belly flopsMost people don't need a PHD to know that doing chin-ups off the edge of a seventh-floor balcony is a recipe for disaster. Or that it's a bad idea to put a paintball gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. Or to think twice before joyriding in a shopping cart strapped to a four-wheel drive. Darwin Award winners lack this basic sound judgement.Named for Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, The Darwin Awards celebrate those who have dived headfirst into the shallow end of the gene pool. From offering a bear a beer to self-testing a Taser to jumping a drawbridge on a bike, The Darwin Awards V: Next Evolution honours these macabre and entertaining feats of hapless misjudgement.Fully illustrated and with over a hundred new awe-inspiring tales, including science essays from guest writers and answers to FAQs about evolution in action, The… Read More

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Based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944, an unforgettable tale of love and redemption from the bestselling author of The German Girl.
Inspired by one of the most shocking atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, the 1944 massacre of all the inhabitants of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the south of France, The Daughter's Tale is a beautifully crafted family saga of love, survival and hope against all odds.

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Originally published in 1929, this is the remarkably assured tale of an elderly Jewish businessman who has sold his soul.Born into poverty on the Black Sea, David Golder has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. As he works in his magnificent Parisian apartment, his wife and beloved daughter, Joyce, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz. But Golder's security is fragile. For years he has defended his business interests from cut-throat competitors. Now his health is beginning to show the strain. As his body betrays him, so too do his wife and child, leaving him to decide to pursue revenge or altruism?A page-turningly chilling and brilliant portrait of the frenzied capitalism of the 1920s and a universal parable about the mirage of wealth.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the first in a new series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and consulates of Europe in the early 1900s.Trieste in 1906 is one of the greatest seaports in the world, the Austrian Empire's main outlet to the Mediterranean and beyond. But various nationalist movements are threatening to pull the place apart. The heavy-handed militarist regime has trouble keeping a lid on it, the secret police are everywhere, and now the British consul has gone walkabout. Was this the result of some liaison, which it's best not to enquire into too closely? Or could he have fallen foul of the secret police, or the even more secret revolutionaries? And does it matter?Well, yes it does. Britain has commercial interests in the port and there have been rumours of too close a relationship between the consul and… Read More

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I want them to suffer, and I want them dead . . .
Carly Chase is traumatized ten days after being in a traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare.
The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Dectective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: she could be next.
The student had deadly connections; connections that stretch across the Atlantic. Someone has sworn revenge and won't rest until the final person involved in that fatal accident is dead.
The police advise Carly that her only option is to go into hiding and change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees - she knows these people have ways of hunting you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them, she has to find a… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.'Some may call me a vigilante. I think I've just got problems to fix.'Right now, Joe Hunter's big problem is a missing little brother, last seen fleeing the site of a gruesome killing.Fixing it will bring Hunter up against the Harvestman, America's most feared serial killer, and his grisly souvenirs of death.But Joe's ready for a fight. And he's got nothing to lose but blood...

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Two weeks away from giving birth, Detective Inspector Honey Laird is at a point when bending down is becoming increasingly difficult and straightening up again almost impossible, when her boss calls upon her to investigate Dr McGordon...her next door neighbour.On the outside, Dr McGordon appears to be the perfect doctor, giving services free in poor areas, providing care in underdeveloped countries, and even bringing patients to Britain (at his own expense) for special treatments. But when officers knock on his door, looking for witnesses to an accident, Dr McGordon, panicky and pale, reveals a guilty conscience about something and refuses to say anything.Aware that he's done something wrong but unsure of what, Honey - along with the help of an unsure young officer, her overprotective housekeeper, and her faithful Labrador, Pippa - dives into the case, using the computer,… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On May 25, 1928 over the frozen seas of the Arctic, an airship falls out of the sky. Among the survivors is a young scientist on the verge of a discovery that will redefine physics. On October 3, 1996 through the dusty industrial towns of India's Great Trunk Road, a disgraced and disfigured female detective starts tracking a criminal syndicate whose tentacles spread from forgery to smuggling to piracy. Her life has been ruined, but she will have her revenge. On December 26, 2004 a tsunami washes up a rusting container on the island of Bali. Locked within this aluminium tomb are the mummified remains of a shipping magnate missing for 29 years, and a handwritten journal of his last days. On December 13, 2011 off the coast of Sri Lanka, a tramp steamer is seized by pirates. The captain has his wife and son aboard, and their survival depends on following the pirates' every demand.… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Bossy, impulsive, and unlucky in love, the all-too-human Agatha Raisin has proved to be a surprisingly effective - and endearing - amateur sleuth. But can Agatha make it as a private investigator? After getting mugged on vacation, in what she will always think of as the Paris Incident, she decides to find out.Agatha soon learns that running her own detective agency in the Cotswolds is not quite like starring in a Raymond Chandler movie. Instead of dames in distress with big should pads, her clients are ladies with missing cats and a man whose son has run off with his car. Agatha even worries that she might be outclassed by her sixty-seven-year-old secretary, Emma Comfrey.But then wealthy divorcee Catharine Laggat-Brown walks in with their first "real" case. Mrs Laggat-Brown's daughter has received a death threat, and when Agatha thwarts an attack on the girl at a dinner… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Brain surgeon Allen Wyler has written a thriller on the bleeding edge of new millennium hospital technology.When a brain surgeon discovers that a revolutionary computerized medical records system is responsible for a series of patient deaths - and threatens many more - he must navigate a treacherous maze of conspiracy. And risk his life to expose it.A comatose man is given a fatal dose of insulin in the emergency room - even though he isn't diabetic.A ulcer patient dies of haemolytic shock after receiving a transfusion - of the wrong blood type.A recovering heart patient receives a double dose of the same medication - triggering a fatal cardiac arrest.When doctors and nurses at Seattle's prestigious Maynard Medical Centre start making preventable drug and treatment errors that kill their patients, neurosurgeon Dr. Tyler Mathews suspects that something is murderously wrong with… Read More

Large Print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Heron Close is situated alongside an East Anglian estuary. Susan Swann is a teacher who shares a house with Miss Kant, a retired lecturer. Also on the Close are the elderly Whitwhams and James Cobb. Sandy Robson and David Fairburn, both freelancers, share another house. Tony Smith and his wife Lisa live next door to Susan, and Lisa works at the same school. And then there's Patrick Dawson and his next-door neighbour, the widow Eva Maitland. Susan thinks that they are a typical bunch, but then something happens to disturb the Close one summer's evening. And worse is to follow...