The clockwork queen

Chess prodigy Sophie Peshka inherited her love of the game from her grandmaster father. But now that he has been imprisoned in the dungeons of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg by powerful Empress Catherine the Great, Sophie must use all her strategic skill and cunning to help him escape. Part of Sophie's plan involves an incredible chess-playing automaton called the Clockwork Queen, but wi…

A gentleman in Moscow

He can't leave. You won't to go. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Rus…

A study in drowning

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Ed. 1

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9780063211506

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The four winds: a novel

Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, ther…

The prime of miss Jean Brodie

'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life...' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the crème de la crème, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into …

The songbird and the rambutan tree

Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942. Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn’t sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for safety. But all Emmy wants to do is stay in Batavia with her best friend, Bakti, even if it means putting up with her snooty classmate, Violet. Then the Japanese army invades—and as war erupts…

Genduk duku

“Memang kau benar. Itu tidak adil. Tetapi itulah kekuasaan. Tidak menimbang mana adil dan tidak adil. Kekuasaan seperti angin topan saja. Menghancurkan apa saja yang menghadang di jalan....” “Kalau begitu, perkenankanlah hambamu Duku untuk sementara minta diri dan bersembunyi di tempat yang cukup jauh saja. Sebab hambamu Duku khawatir, bila beliau datang lagi dan minta hal-hal yang buk…

Perjalanan mustahil samiam dari lisboa: sepasang elang dari diyarbakir

Saat sendirian di sebuah kedai di Konstantinopel, Samiam Nogueira dipukul sampai pingsan dan diculik. Kaki tangan Takhta Suci ternyata berhasil mengendus keberadaannya. Petualang yang telah melangkahkan kakinya jauh dari tanah kelahirannya di Lisboa itu kembali terpisah dari cinta sejatinya, Bianca. Kebersamaan mereka direnggut paksa oleh kekuatan-kekuatan yang tak terbayangkan sebelumnya. S…

Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables #1)

"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it"

The nightingale

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in Ge…