Search Results: Titles starting with L from DASHbooks

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Private Investigator Theo Nikonos is back. Having been acquitted of a double murder charge, the detective has left New York and is spending time in Spain, recuperating from his harrowing experience and recovering from the loss of the woman he loved.A chance encounter with a mysterious young nun, known only as La Magdalena, turns Theo's vacation into an investigation that unearths the little-known and mysterious world of early Christianity. A conversation with a priest, who tells a story that is stunning in its scope and heretical in its context, turns deadly. Theo realizes that there is someone who will do anything to prevent the revelation of who La Magdalena really is. And who she is will shatter the foundation of the Christian world.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe altered at checkout.Last November there appeared in Paris a little book called La Vie Anglaise, by Tony Mayer, of the French Embassy here in London. What sort of book was it? You can easily imagine: a sketch of Britain and the British as observed by a witty Frenchman who, unlike his predecessors at the game, had lived among us for many years. And lived among us to good purpose, noticing everything: our weather (naturally), our food (even more naturally), our clothes, our drinks, our tobacco; how we are born, how we get married, how we fall ill, how we die; our education; our music, ballet, theatre, cinema, radio, "dancings"; our royal family; or parties; above all, our conversation. Nor had our sexual characteristics escaped him...Tremendous fun, the whole thing - every bit as much when we say "What's the fellow talking about?" as when we say "Splendid!"We can remember no other instance of such an immediate… Read More

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Who was John Smith? What was the mystery surrounding his past? Why did he elect to live alone in the bush and listen to the silence? These were the questions the outraged members of the Hurlingford clan asked when John Smith came to town and stole the valley out from under their self-important noses. He would have to go! said the third Sir William. What was all the fuss about? asked Alicia the clan belle, too busy planning her wedding to appreciate the ominous rumblings of change that seemed to follow in the stranger's wake.But to no one did the enigmatic John Smith come to matter as he did to the youngest of the three ladies who lived in the house called Missalonghi.Missy Wright's existence could hold no surprises, for it stretched as drearily predictable in front of her as it did behind. Like the mother and maiden aunt who lived with her, Missy was just another of the Hurlingford… Read More

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Descended from the legendary witch of Ein Dor, she alone holds the power to summon the angel Raziel and stop Hitler and his supernatural minions from unleashing total war in Europe. The Nazis have fighters more fearsome than soldiers, weapons more terrifying than missiles, and allies that even they are afraid of SS werewolves; the demon Asmodel who possesses a willing Adolf Hitler, and other supernatural creatures all are literally hell-bent on preventing Magda from possessing the Book of Raziel, a magical text with the power to turn the tide against Hitler's vast war machine.
Magda, young and rebellious, grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Budapest, unaware of her family's heritage. When her mother dies, Magda--ready or not--is the Lazarus, who must face the evil that holds Europe in an iron grip. Unready to assume the mantle of her ancient birthright, but knowing that she… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Can any of us make a difference to the great events which determine our fate? La doubts it, but when she moves from London into the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War, she gets her chance to be more than a mere spectator. Her move to the country has taken place in the trying circumstances of a failed marriage - now she hopes that rural life will offer her peace and the opportunity to recover.But the war brings people together in unexpected ways. A new friend encourages her to form an amateur orchestra, which includes musicians from the village as well as men from the air base nearby. One of the people she recruits is Feliks, a handsome but enigmatic refugee from Poland, who can play the flute. And so, a tender friendship begins to blossom.La's Orchestra Saves the World is an inspiring, gloriously atmospheric and deeply affecting novel which not only… Read More

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Matthew Pearl's enthralling novel reopens one of literary history's greatest mysteries...Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens' untimely death reaches Fields & Osgood, his struggling American publisher, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens' unfinished novel. When Daniel's body is discovered by the docks and the manuscript is nowhere to be found, Osgood must embark on a transatlantic quest to unearth the novel that will save his venerable business and reveal Daniel's killer.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.October 1940. The London borough of West Ham is in the grip of yet another night of bombing, and undertaker Francis Hancock is in the grip of yet another night of temporary insanity.A veteran of World War One, Francis is forced by the nightly air raids to relive the trauma of the trenches, and all he can do is try to outrun the horrific flashbacks. So when he sees a man lurching through the rubble, screaming about being stabbed but with no visible wound, Francis dismisses it as the ravings of another lost soul...until the man's body turns up at his funeral parlour, two days later.Suspecting foul play, Francis feels compelled to discover what really happened that night - but as he finds himself pitted against violent thugs, an impenetrable network of lies and his own fragile sanity, he realises that there are people who want the truth to stay dead and buried.This is Francis… Read More

Quality Book Club Edition - no dates - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On May 7, 1915, the huge Atlantic liner, the Lusitania, sank within sight of the Irish coast just eighteen minutes after being torpedoed by a German submarine. Never before in the history of warfare had an unarmed passenger ship been attacked without warning; a shocked world learnt of the loss of 1,198 lives, and the sinking of this ship was one of the factors which finally brought the United States into the war, for 124 Americans went down with her.The Lusitania's passenger list included many names that were internationally famous, among them Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the millionaire; Sir Hugo Lane, the art-collector; Charles Frohman, the theatrical producer. What they, their fellow-passengers, the crew and the men of the German submarine itself, did in the hours preceding the attack and in the minutes after, as the Lusitania sank, makes a story that… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In Nazi-occupied France the assassination of a new German commandment by Amalie de Gruchy sparks a crisis in both Nazi Germany and the British secret service.Supposedly killed in a raid a few months previously, Amalie is now being pursued by, amongst others, the head of the German secret police and the mysterious Joanna Jonnson, a spy with a murky past. Amalie's beautiful sister, Liane de Gruchy - also thought to have been killed months before - comes out of hiding to help in the search for Amalie.But soon the Resistance finds itself with a much bigger problem as the Germans uncover British plans which, in the wrong hands could change the course of the war...

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.It was a fateful day when Maui, in defiance of the wishes of his older brothers, sneaked on board their canoe. Revealing himself only when they were far out to sea, he baited his magic hook and, chanting a powerful incantation, cast his line. There was no doubts that the fish would be wondrous, but even Maui's brothers were in awe of it when it leapt through the waves. Falling on the fish in their hunger, they hacked at it, tearing its edges and pitting its surface. So Aotearoa was born to the world of light. Aotearoa New Zealand: land of lakes and forests, mountains and rivers. Aotearoa: the legendary land.The legendary land is revealed in all its astonishing beauty in this exceptional book. Through the images of the young German photographer Holger Leue and the words of distinguished Maori writer Witi Ihimaera, The Legendary Land captures the essence of the timeless New Zealand landscape… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.An unidentifiable woman is found on a roadside. She has been beaten into a coma and raped. The man who finds her, troubled by his inability to resuscitate her, spends hours at her hospital bed, talking to the woman everyone calls Elise. Two years later Elise's condition is downgraded to persistent vegetative state - if the hospital takes her off life support, Elise's attacker will be guilty of her murder.Now months away from retirement, Chief Superintendent Frances Harman has been assigned to investigate Elise's case. This is stacked on top of Fran's growing obligation to her elderly parents, a duty that takes her from Kent to Devon, and back, every weekend. Over cups of strong coffee, Fran sleepily contemplates her future as her irritable parents' caretaker.Fran verges on overload as she takes on more and more responsibilities - her parents, Elise, a child abduction, the… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.As a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. But Alex feels blessed with her life and happy marriage - until lightning strikes her. Suddenly a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal shattering news.Sam Parker is a star venture capitalist, a Wall Street whiz-kid, and is as proud of his long-time marriage to Alex as he is of his successful career. As a major player in New York's financial world, Sam is used to being in control - until he is caught off guard by Alex's illness. Terrified of losing his wife and family, and haunted by ghosts from his past, Sam fails to provide any kind of emotional support to Alex.Unable to cope with her needs, Sam takes his distance from her, and almost overnight she and Sam become strangers. As… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - has no dust jacket - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.But for the promptings of a mate on the opal fields of Lightning Ridge, Australia's greatest story teller might well have remained one of the anonymous host of roving adventurers who have pioneered the little known corners of this continent. Urged by a fellow opal-seeker, he began to write - and wrote his way to fame.In Lightning Ridge Ion Idriess tells of his beginnings of his childhood in Lismore and Tamworth and Broken Hill, of his apprenticeship in bushcraft, and of the growing love for the Australian outback which illumines all his work. He tells of the jobs he had - as rouseabout, horse breaker, horse tailer, shearer - and of how his wanderings brought him to the opal mines at Lightning Ridge. The romance of opals, with their fiery beauty, captured the author's imagination - and has held it ever since. He became one of the band of opal-seekers who live in these… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Some (Aboriginals) were curious going out to meet the new arrivals, taking advantages of new foods like flour, hunting the ponderous cow and the artless sheep.Gold turned the world upside down, stripping cities and populating creeksides.The 1950's may look like...a suburban idyll, of men and motor mowers, and women busy tidying a world they played a significant part in making, (but it) grew out of uncertainity as much as hope.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In her dramatic follow-up to the sensational bestseller I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was, Barbara Sher offers a dynamic new step-by-step program that will help you create a life you can truly love. By using Sher's practical exercises and bold, innovative strategies, you can make your 'impossible' dreams possible, reachable, and real - in just ten easy step-by-step lessons.

In good condition - Vintage - has markings from use - has slight yellowing to front & end pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants, animals and man thrive or survive within the extremes of climate and almost infinite variety of domicile which it offers. Single species, and often whole communities, adapt to make the most of ice-cap and tundra, forest and plain, desert, ocean and volcano. The adaptations are sometimes extraordinary: fish which walk or lay eggs on leaves in mid-air, snakes that fly; flightless birds that graze like deer; and bears which grow hair on the soles of their feet.In The Living Planet, based on his BBC television series, David Attenborough's searching eye, unfailing curiousity and infectious enthuriasm, explain and illuminate the intricate lives of these colonies - from the lonely heights of the Himalayas to the wild creatures which have established themselves in the most recent of environments,… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.We've all dreamt about it, but for Cleo Dowling the dream becomes a reality. Lucky Cleo comes into serious money and takes herself off to the pretty village of Kilrowan in the west of Ireland to write a novel. But what happens when she loses the plot and becomes obsessed with her sexy neighbour?Dannie Moore's love life has always been complicated - and Dannie has the knack of complicating things even more. When film director Jethro Palmer chooses Kilrowan as the location for a blockbuster movie, the effect on her life is cataclysmic.Deirdre O'Dare leaves her husband Rory behind in LA to accompany her friend, movie star Eva Lavery, to Kilrowan. When the cat's away and all that...but which is the cat? Deirdre or Rory? And although Deirdre is writing Eva's biography, it would appear that the actress is not telling the truth, the whole truth...

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In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Logavina Street is a six-block-long history lesson. To know Logavina Street is to know Sarajevo, to understand what this city was and what it has become. To know Logavina is to witness the strength and ingenuity that ordinary people can muster when they need to in order to survive.Here, as elsewhere, the war had turned everything upside down. It had turned rich men into paupers, even light into darkness.Before the war, residents of Logavina Street looked forward to clear, bright days to stroll downtown. Now they waited for fog and rain, which obscured them from the sniper's view. Before the war, the best homes on Logavina faced south and offered unobstructed views of lovely Trebevic, site of the toboggan and bobsled competitions in the 1984 Winter Olympics. Now, the mountain and former ski chalets were occupied by Bosnian Serbs, their big artillery guns pointing towards Sarajevo.

In very good condition - has markings from use - dust jacket in good condition - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.André Migot is a French doctor with a remarkable aptitude for solitary meditation and active adventure which led him on the journey into Tibet so memorably described in Tibetan Marches. On his return from the Far East in 1953 he had a new opportunity to indulge these tastes in different surroundings. He volunteered to spend a year in Kerguelen in the remote and stormy south of the Indian Ocean with the French scientific mission on those islands. During this year of exile he was able to enjoy studying not only the peculiar and remarkably friendly sea-elephants, penguins and other creatures that came to breed in this forbidding landscape, but also the effects on long and enforced isolation on his companions less fitted than himself to use and value solitude. When his tour of duty was almost over, and weaker spirits were thinking only of home, he seized… Read More