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Merde Actually [electronic resource] : How NOT to open an English tearoom in Paris
Merde Actually [electronic resource] : How NOT to open an English tearoom in Paris
Clarke, Stephen2008
Books, Manuscripts
A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions: _________________ What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why are there no health warnings on French nudist beaches? And is it really polite to sleep with your boss's mistress? In his se...
Merde Happens [electronic resource] : Hell is an American road trip with a French passenger
Merde Happens [electronic resource] : Hell is an American road trip with a French passenger
Clarke, Stephen2008
Books, Manuscripts
Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job: _________________ It involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Paul's French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend, Jake, whose m...
Talk to the Snail [electronic resource]
Talk to the Snail [electronic resource]
Clarke, Stephen2008
Books, Manuscripts
Have you been taken to what you've been assured is the perfect house deep in the French countryside, only to find there's no electricity or running water? Gone to the doctor with a nasty cough, and been diagnosed with a rather more personal complaint? Walked into an half-empty restaurant, only to...
A Year In the Merde [electronic resource] : The pleasures and perils of being a Brit in France
A Year In the Merde [electronic resource] : The pleasures and perils of being a Brit in France
Clarke, Stephen2008
Books, Manuscripts
What are the French really like? Paul West, a young Englishman arriving in Paris to start a new job, is about to find out. _________________ They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings. They don't wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on strike really is the secon...
The French Revolution & what went wrong
The French Revolution & what went wrong
Clarke, Stephen, 1958-2019
Books, Manuscripts
Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched. In the ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transformed into an idyll of Liberté, Egalité and Frat...
The ghost of Tutankhamun
The ghost of Tutankhamun
Cole, Stephen, 1971-2016
Books, Manuscripts
Niall Rivers's life changed for ever when he met a strange, clumsy figure wrapped in bandages, and now his adventures with the last surviving ancient mummy detective continue, this time featuring Egypt's most famous boy king, Tutankhamun. When King Tut's computer game obsession threatens to i...
Run [electronic resource] : A Thriller
Run [electronic resource] : A Thriller
Crouch, Blake2011
Books, Manuscripts
For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris... Picture this: A landscape of American genocide. 5 days ago... A rash of bizarre murders swept the country. Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike...
Devil's Gate [electronic resource]
Devil's Gate [electronic resource]
Cussler, Clive2011
Audiobooks
The “spine-tingling adventures” (Chicago Tribune) of Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala continue as the NUMA® crew teams up with a beautiful Russian agent in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.    NUMA Special Assignment Team leader Kurt Austin, and his right-hand man, Joe Zavala, are looking fo...
Fast Ice [electronic resource]
Fast Ice [electronic resource]
Cussler, Clive2021
Books, Manuscripts
Join the latest thrilling NUMA Files adventure as Kurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet . . . FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLER ______ A research ship is adrift off the coast of Antarctica . . . Weeks earlier, one of the crew mess...
Havana Storm [electronic resource] : Dirk Pitt #23
Havana Storm [electronic resource] : Dirk Pitt #23
Cussler, Clive2014
Books, Manuscripts
Dirk Pitt returns in Havana Storm, the thrilling new novel from the grand master of adventure and No.1 New York Times bestselling author, Clive Cussler. While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in ...
The gunslinger born
The gunslinger born
David, Peter (Peter Allen)2017
Books, Manuscripts
'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' With those words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland - an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower. Now, in a comic book Roland's past is revealed!
The king of the crags
The king of the crags
Deas, Stephen, 1968-2011
Books, Manuscripts
Prince Jehal has plotted and murdered his way to power. Speaker Hyram is dead. Queen Shezira faces trial for treason. Jehal is married to her daughter and has the new speaker for his lover. He has everything he ever dreamed of. And he's learning that dreams can swiftly become nightmares.
The war within
The war within
Donaldson, Stephen R.2020
Books, Manuscripts
It has been twenty years since Prince Bifalt of Belleger discovered the Last Repository and the sorcerous knowledge hidden there. At the behest of the repository's magisters, and in return for the restoration of sorcery to both kingdoms, the realms of Belleger and Amika ceased generations of war....
Wenceslas : a Christmas poem
Wenceslas : a Christmas poem
Duffy, Carol Ann, 1955-2012
Books, Manuscripts
In her own inimitable style, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy retells the story of King Wenceslas and his sumptuous Feast of St. Stephen.
The Wordsmith's Tale [electronic resource]
The Wordsmith's Tale [electronic resource]
Edden, Stephen2011
Books, Manuscripts
Stephen Edden is an exciting new name in historical fiction. Writing with modern cadences and style about three generations of a poor Anglo-Saxon family, he brings alive the reality of life in the 11th century with page-turning verve. In 1087, Thomas the Piper sits down to recount the heartwarm...
Sacrifice [electronic resource]
Sacrifice [electronic resource]
Farris, John2013
Books, Manuscripts
John Farris is the New York Times bestselling author of such classic thrillers as The Fury and Son of the Endless Night. A filmmaker, as well as a novelist, Farris is a seminal influence on many of our most highly regarded writers, including Stephen King. Sacrifice, a terrifying thriller, is ...
A Calling for Charlie Barnes [electronic resource]
A Calling for Charlie Barnes [electronic resource]
Ferris, Joshua2021
Books, Manuscripts
From the Booker-shortlisted author of To Rise Again at a Decent Hour comes a hilarious novel about fathers, sons, thwarted dreams and confronting the reality of who we really are 'This is a fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man trying to be better. In dark times like...
Flight 19 [electronic resource]
Flight 19 [electronic resource]
Finnegan, Grant2018
Books, Manuscripts
How would you cope if, in a matter of minutes, everything you had—was no longer yours? Pacific International Airlines Flight PI019—Flight 19—leaves Honolulu airport on a routine trip to Los Angeles on Thursday, January 17th, 2019. Two hours in, with 210 people on-board, the plane vanishes into ...
Degrees of Darkness [electronic resource]
Degrees of Darkness [electronic resource]
Forder, Tony J.2017
Books, Manuscripts
"An awesome read . . . put it on a scare factor alongside Stephen King and Thomas Harris"—from the author of the bestselling DI Bliss series (Books from Dusk till Dawn). Pre-teen girls are being abducted from their homes and their families murdered. When Frank Rogers, once a DI with the Me...
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