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Deck the Halls (Mills And Boon Love Inspired Ser.)

by Arlene James

Retrieving the mail from his old apartment brought more than just letters for Vince Cutler.

Decked: The Christmas Thief, Deck The Halls, He Sees You When You're Sleeping (Regan Reilly Mystery Ser. #No. 1)

by Carol Higgins Clark

The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise. She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune hunter, a jewel thief and an assassin, Regan is sailing home - and into the hands of a young girl's killer.

Decky Does A Bronco (Oberon Modern Plays Ser.)

by Douglas Maxwell

Decky Does a Bronco is the tragi-comic story of a gang of nine-year-old boys who spend the summer of 1983 'Broncoing swings' in Girvan, on the west coast of Scotland. Broncoing (kicking the swing over the bar) is the social bench mark and a dangerous mixture of vandalism and sport.Decky is the smallest of the group and the only one who cannot Bronco. His friend David remembers the event of that summer, which at first seem hilarious but ultimately remain painful, as the boys are faced with an unthinkable tragedy and are thrown into a restless adulthood.

Declan Kirby: Championship Journey (Declan Kirby: GAA Star #1)

by Michael Egan

Declan Kirby plays for a promising new football club called Smithgreen. They have lots of talent but there are problems beneath the surface. Will their temperamental star player, Dereck, produce the goods when it is really needed?Meanwhile, someone seems to be hatching a secret plan to have the manager replaced, just when they need him the most.Declan also carries a secret wish – that his dad will once again come and see him play. Maybe if they make the championship final his dream will come true?Written by teacher and school GAA coach Michael Egan, this exciting series is ideal for GAA-loving children.

Declan Kirby: Away Days (Declan Kirby: GAA Star #2)

by Michael Egan

Declan Kirby can’t believe it when he’s selected for the county team to play in the inaugural All-Ireland underage competition. What’s more, a few teammates from his home club, Smithgreen, are picked too.Declan and his friends will have to give it everything they’ve got to make it to the big final in Croke Park. But when they travel to Galway for the tournament, they find out that all is not as it seems …Away Days is the second book in the exciting new series written by teacher and school GAA coach Michael Egan.Watch out for Championship Journey, book 1 in the Declan Kirby: GAA Star series.

Declan Kirby: Over the Bar (Declan Kirby: GAA Star #3)

by Michael Egan

After joining the school hurling team, Declan must find a way to juggle training for this new sport and football at the same time.When Smithgreen’s goalkeeper gets injured, Declan convinces his brother, Daniel, to take the spot. But their parents mustn’t find out, as a childhood illness means Daniel is forbidden from playing sport.Declan struggles to hide the truth while competing in two championships. Has he finally bitten off more than he can chew?‘Ideal for GAA-loving children aged 9+.’ Hogan Stand Magazine

Declan Kirby: European Dreams (Declan Kirby: GAA Star #4)

by Michael Egan

The Smithgreen team are invited to Spain to participate in the GAA World Games and play against teams from different countries.But Declan’s excitement about the trip soon turns sour, as he struggles to prove himself to the new coach and keep his place on the team.Meanwhile, the boys get caught in a storm while enjoying a boating adventure. Can they find their way back to shore before something terrible happens?‘A lot of insight and heart.’ The Irish Times

Declan's Cross: Rock Point: A Sharpe And Donovan Series Prequel Novella Saint's Gate Heron's Cove Declan's Cross Harbor Island (A Sharpe & Donovan Novel #3)

by Carla Neggers

For marine biologist Julianne Maroney, two weeks in tiny Declan's Cross on the south Irish coast is a chance to heal her broken heart. She doesn't expect to attract the attention of FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan, who are in Ireland for their own personal retreat.

The Declaration (Declaration)

by Gemma Malley

Sixteen-year-old Anna should not have been born. It is the year 2140 and people can live for ever. No one wants another mouth to feed, so she lives in a Surplus Hall, where unwanted children go to learn valuable lessons . . . at least she wasn't put down at birth. One day, a new inmate arrives. Anna's life is thrown into chaos. He says things about her parents and the Outside that couldn't possibly be true . . . Or could they? Thrilling, passionate and beautifully written, this dystopian novel is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games

The Declaration (Declaration)

by Gemma Malley

The first book in a YA trilogy set in a reproductively dystopian future. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood and Aldous Huxley, but for teens. It's the year 2140 and Anna shouldn't be alive. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of kids like her, kids whose parents chose to recklessly abuse Mother Nature and have children despite a law forbidding them from doing so as long as they took longevity drugs. To pay back her parents' debt to Mother Nature, Anna will have to work for the rest of her life. But then Peter appears at the hall, and he tells a very different story about the world outside of the Grange. Peter begs Anna to escape Grange Hall, and to claim a life for herself outside its bleak walls. But even if they get out, they still have to make their way to London, to Anna's parents, and to an underground movement that's determined to bring back children and rid the world of longevity drugs.Don't miss these other books by Gemma Malley:The Declaration TrilogyThe Declaration The ResistanceThe ReturnersThe Legacy The Killables TrilogyThe KillablesThe DisappearancesThe System

A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians: A Novel (The\shadow Histories Ser. #1)

by H. G. Parry

'A rich, sprawling epic full of history and magic.' Alix E. Harrow, Hugo award-winning authorA sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom.It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for revolution in France to the weather mage Toussaint L'Ouverture leading the slaves of Haiti in their fight for freedom, to the bold new Prime Minister William Pitt weighing the legalization of magic amongst commoners in Britain and abolition throughout its colonies overseas. But amidst all of the upheaval of the enlightened world, there is an unknown force inciting all of human civilisation into violent conflict. And it will require the combined efforts of revolutionaries, magicians, and abolitionists to unmask this hidden enemy before the whole world falls to chaos.For more from H.G. Parry, check out The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep'Impressively intricate; fans of the magic-and-history of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell will be delighted.' Alexandra Rowland, author of A Conspiracy of Truths'A beautiful tapestry of words, a combination of carefully observed and researched history and a well-thought-out and fascinating system of magic. An absolute delight to read.' Genevieve Cogman, author of The Invisible Library'Puts a human face on the titans of the past, while weaving in supernatural elements that add a whole new dimension. I stayed up well past my bedtime to find out what happens next.' Marie Brennan, author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent series

The Declaration (PDF)

by Gemma Malley

Sixteen-year-old Anna should not have been born. It is the year 2140 and people can live for ever. No one wants another mouth to feed, so she lives in a Surplus Hall, where unwanted children go to learn valuable lessons . . . at least she wasn't put down at birth. One day, a new inmate arrives. Anna's life is thrown into chaos. He says things about her parents and the Outside that couldn't possibly be true . . . Or could they?Thrilling, passionate and beautifully written, this dystopian novel is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games

Declarations of War

by Len Deighton

A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death.

Declarations of War (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Len Deighton

'Deighton really is something special' Sunday TimesLen Deighton's only collection of short stories explores the devastating experiences of ordinary soldiers across over two thousand years of war. From Hannibal's march on Rome to the American Civil War, and from a British Hurricane pilot in the Second World War to a modern conflict played out in the Mexican borderlands, each of these stories shows the effects of war on the human character, and how it can lead to extraordinary deeds, both great and terrible. 'Len Deighton is a fearless observer of the deceptive human world' John Gray

Declare: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD

by Tim Powers

A mesmerising, award-winning, daringly imaginative, multi-levelled thriller for fans of John le Carre or Neal StephensonAn ultra-secret MI6 codename. A deadly game of deception and intrigue. Dark forces from the depths of history. The terrible secret at the heart of the cold war.Operation: DECLARELondon, 1963. A cryptic phone call forces ex-MI6 agent Andrew Hale to confront the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: an ultra-secret wartime operation, codenamed Declare.Operation Declare took Hale from Nazi-occupied Paris to the ruins of post-war Berlin and the trackless wastes of the Arabian desert, culminating in a night of betrayal and mind-shattering terror on the glacial slopes of Mount Ararat.Now, with the Cold War at its height, his superiors want him to return to the mountain and face the dark secret entombed within its icy summit. Hale has no choice but to comply, for Declare is the key to a conflict far deeper, far colder, than the Cold War itself.

Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America

by Roy Morris Jr.

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had “nothing to declare but my genius.” But as this sparkling narrative reveals, Wilde was, rarely for him, underselling himself. A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.

Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America

by Roy Morris Jr.

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had “nothing to declare but my genius.” But as this sparkling narrative reveals, Wilde was, rarely for him, underselling himself. A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.

Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

<P> A brilliant satire of 1920s British culture. <P>Poor Paul Pennyfeather. One night of drunken shenanigans, and a spot of public pantslessness and he finds himself expelled from Oxford and disinherited by default. What ever will he do? A teaching job at a small school in Wales should be nice and peaceful, right? Perhaps not so much…

Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Evelyn Waugh

Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. Hi colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and Captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul.

The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City: Latin America in the Cold War (Convergences: Inventories of the Present #24)

by Jean Franco

The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard. This was also a twilight of literature at the threshold of the great cultural revolution of the seventies and eighties, a revolution to which the Cold War indirectly contributed. In the eighties, civil war and military rule, together with the rapid development of mass culture and communication empires, changed the political and cultural map. A long-awaited work by an eminent Latin Americanist widely read throughout the world, this book will prove indispensable to anyone hoping to understand Latin American literature and society. Jean Franco guides the reader across minefields of cultural debate and histories of highly polarized struggle. Focusing on literary texts by García Marquez, Vargas Llosa, Roa Bastos, and Juan Carlos Onetti, conducting us through this contested history with the authority of an eyewitness, Franco gives us an engaging overview as involving as it is moving.

Decline of the English Murder (Penguin Modern Classics)

by George Orwell

In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Decoded: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Mai Jia

Decoded tells the story of Rong Jinzhwen, one of the great code-breakers in the world. A semi-autistic mathematical genius, Jinzhen is recruited to the cryptography department of China's secret services, Unit 701, where he is assigned the task of breaking the elusive 'Code Purple'. Jinzhen rises through the ranks to eventually become China's greatest and most celebrated code-breaker; until he makes a mistake. Then begins his descent through the unfathomable darkness of the world of cryptology into madness. Decoded was an immediate success when it was published in 2002 in China and has become an international bestseller. With the pacing of a literary crime thriller, Mai Jia's masterpiece also combines elements of historical fiction and state espionage. Taking place in the shadowy world of Chinese secret security, where Mai Jia worked for decades, it introduces us to a place that is unfamiliar, intriguing and authentic. And with Rong Jinzhen, it introduces us to a character who is deeply flawed and fragile, yet possessing exceptional intelligence. Decoded is an unforgettable and gripping story of genius, brilliance, insanity and human frailty.Mai Jia (the pseudonym of Jiang Benhu) is arguably the most successful writer in China today. His books are constant bestsellers, with total sales over three million copies. He became the highest paid author in China last year with his new book, Wind Talk. He has achieved unprecedented success with film adaptation: all of his novels are made - or are being made - into major films or TV series, the screenplays of which are often written by Mai Jia himself. He is hailed as the forerunner of Chinese espionage fiction, and has created a unique genre that combines spycraft, code-breaking, crime, human drama, historical fiction, and metafiction. He has won almost every major award in China, including the highest literary honor - the Mao Dun Award.

Decoded (Colby Agency: Secrets #2)

by Debra Webb

Slade Keaton was the man Maggie James fell in love with…until she learned he was a lie. Escaping a hit meant for him, she found herself on the run–fleeing a danger she couldn't comprehend with a man she couldn't trust. And pregnant with his baby.

Decoding A Criminal: Cold Case At Cardwell Ranch / Decoding A Criminal (behavioral Analysis Unit) (Behavioral Analysis Unit #2)

by Barb Han

He needs her to solve a crime, but wants much more

Decoding Gender in Science Fiction

by Brian Attebery

From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre.

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