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Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

At the turn of eighteenth-century England, spirited Elizabeth Bennet copes with the suit of the snobbish Mr. Darcy while trying to sort out the romantic entanglements of two of her sisters, sweet and beautiful Jane and scatterbrained Lydia.<

Jane Austen

Rozważna i Romantyczna

<p>Czy Elinor nauczy się okazywać uczucia, a Marianne powściągać temperament? Kapryśna miłość i subtelny humor w najsłynniejszej wiktoriańskiej powieści wszech czasów.</p><p>Rozważna i romantyczna to historia pełnej wdzięku i zdrowego rozsądku Elinor oraz uczuciowej i impulsywnej Marianne, która przez zamiłowanie do przygód nieomal ściąga na siebie hańbę i nieszczęście. Przedstawiając tak kontrastowo różne bohaterki, autorka ujawnia niepospolity zmysł komizmu i po raz kolejny daje wyraz przekonaniu, iż najwyższą zasadą w życiu młodej panny winien być umiar.</p><p>Rozważna i romantyczna, jedna z najbardziej lubianych powieści Austen, doczekała się wielu ekranizacji, w tym znakomitego filmu Anga Lee z Emmą Thompson, Kate Winslet i Hugh Grantem w rolach głównych.</p><

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Originally titled "Elinor and Marianne", "Sense and Sensibility" was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published. The contrasting personalities of two sisters are the centre of the story, supported by a wealth of satirically portrayed minor characters.<

Jane Austen

Sentido y Sensibilidad

<p>Reglas y emociones. Deberes y devociones. Ubicada en la Inglaterra de principios del siglo XIX, Sentido y sensibilidad presenta las alegrías y sinsabores de las hermanas Dashwood. Desamparadas tras la muerte de su padre y a merced de su medio hermano, Elinor y Marianne deberán enfrentarse a los contrastes del amor y a las exigencias de la sociedad, siempre acompañadas de su madre y su hermana menor. Están ya en edad casadera y sin embargo, ni su carácter ni sus habilidades las ayudan a concretar una relación. El tiempo sigue pasando y todo parece indicar que no lograrán una estabilidad emocional.</p><p>Esta novela examina la estructura social de la época donde el papel de la mujer se limitaba al de mera compañía, por no decir objeto decorativo. Para ellas estaba negada la posibilidad de ejercer una profesión o de poseer bienes. Sólo debían de tener y saber lo necesario. En consecuencia, para muchas su mayor ilusión era encontrar a su príncipe azul, aunque éste no siempre viniera acompañado de dicha.</p><

Janet Aylmer

Julia and the Master of Morancourt

Twenty-year-old Julia Maitland is ready to find a husband. Lord Dominic Brandon has proposed, delighting Julia's socially ambitious mother, despite Brandon's unsavory reputation and rumored ties to smuggling. Though her father favors Jack Douglas-who lacks a title but will inherit his father's fortune-Julia has eyes only for Kit, Jack's younger brother, who will inherit very little. When Julia accompanies her Aunt Lucy to the estate of Lucy's recently deceased childhood friend, she is stunned to see Kit, who inherited the estate and new surname from his godmother, making him the Master of Morancourt. The attraction between the pair blossoms but Julia knows a loveless union still awaits unless she can convince her family otherwise. Aylmer is more enamored of the period than of her characters, and the plot serves as merely a framework for sumptuous descriptions of Regency-era events and fashions. Despite a treasure trove of Austen-era trivia, a stronger narrative would have made the love affair more compelling.<

Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why

<p>Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker-his classmate and crush-who committed suicide two weeks earlier.</p><p>On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.</p><p>Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.</p><

Jean M Auel

THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE

Earth Children

‹p›The long-awaited fourth installment of the Earth's Children series is as warm and inviting as its campfire milieu. sure fire bestseller. Auel again describes her characters' travails, a passionate interest of millions of readers, in impeccably researched detail. The continuous recitation of flora and fauna, coupled with flashbacks to events in the previous books, becomes somewhat tiresome, however. (Would that our "memory" were as instinctual as that of the Clan.) The saga continues the cross-continental journey of Ayla, her mate Jondalar and their menagerie to his homeland. En route, they encounter a variety of problems, yet manage to find panaceas for each. Their enlightened compilation of skills, inventions, therapies and recipes transforms the voyagers into spirit-like personas providing The Others with constant awe. A brief encounter with the Neanderthal Clan rekindles the unique charm of the first (and strongest) book. Such locutions as "out of the cooking skin into the coals" or "Mother's path of milk" for the Milky Way are coyly anachronistic. Nonetheless, this volume is as welcome as letters from a long-lost friend. A novel 1.25 million first printing; major ad/promo; first serial to Ladies' Home Journal; BOMC main selection; author tour. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. ‹/p›<

Jean M Auel

THE SHELTERS OF STONE

Earth Children

Jean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In The Shelters of Stone, Ayla meets the Zelandonii tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon hunk she rescued from Baby, her pet lion. Ayla is pregnant. How will Jondalar's mom react? Or his bitchy jilted fiancée? Ayla wows her future in-laws by striking fire from flint and taming a wild wolf. But most regard her Neanderthal adoptive Clan as subhuman "flatheads." Clan larynxes can't quite manage language, and Ayla must convince the Zelandonii that Clan sign language isn't just arm-flapping. Zelandonii and Clan are skirmishing, and those who interbreed are deemed "abominations." What would Jondalar's tribe think if they knew Ayla had to abandon her half-breed son in Clan country? The plot is slow to unfold, because Auel's first goal is to pack the tale with period Pleistocene detail, provocative speculation, and bits of romance, sex, tribal politics, soap opera, and homicidal wooly rhino-hunting adventure. It's an enveloping fact-based fantasy, a genre-crossing time trip to the Ice Age.<

Jean M Auel

The Clan of the Cave Bear

Earth Children

When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health-a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through-especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. -Sara Nickerson -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.<

Jean M Auel

The Land of Painted Caves

Earth Children

Thirty thousand years in the making and 31 years in the writing, Auel's overlong and underplotted sixth and final volume in the Earth's Children series (The Clan of the Cave Bear; etc.) finds Cro-Magnon Ayla; her mate, Jondalar; and their infant daughter, Jonayla, settling in with the clan of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonaii. Animal whisperer and medicine woman Ayla is an acolyte in training to become a full-fledged Zelandoni (shaman) of the clan, but all is not rosy in this Ice Age setting; there are wild animals to face and earthquakes to survive, as well as a hunter named Balderan, who has targeted Ayla for death, and a potential cave-wrecker named Marona. While gazing on an elaborate cave painting (presumably, the Lascaux caverns in France), Ayla has an epiphany and invents the concept of art appreciation, and after she overdoses on a hallucinogenic root, Ayla and Jondalar come to understand how much they mean to one another, thus giving birth to another concept — monogamy. Otherwise, not much of dramatic interest happens, and Ayla, for all her superwomanish ways, remains unfortunately flat. Nevertheless, readers who enjoyed the previous volumes will relish the opportunity to re-enter pre-history one last time.<

Jean M Auel

The Mammoth Hunters

Earth Children

The authenticity of background detail, the lilting prose rhythms and the appealing conceptual audacity that won many fans for The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of the Horses continue to work their spell in this third installment of Auel's projected six-volume Earth's Children saga set in Ice Age Europe. The heroine, 18-year-old Ayla, cursed and pronounced dead by the "flathead" clan that reared her, now takes her chances with the mammoth-hunting Mamutoi, attended by her faithful lover, Jondalar. Gradually overcoming the prejudice aroused by her flathead connection, Ayla wins acceptance into the new clan through her powers as a healer, her shamanistic potential, her skill with spear and slingshot and her way with animals (she rides a horse, domesticates a wolf cub, both "firsts," it would seem, and even rides a lion). She also wins the heart of a bone-carving artist of "sparkling wit" (not much in evidence), which forces her to make a painful choice between the curiously complaisant Jondalar, her first instructor in love's delights, and this more charismatic fellow. The story is lyric rather than dramatic, and Ayla and her lovers are projections of a romantic rather than a historical imagination, but readers caught up in the charm of Auel's story probably won't care. 750,000 first printing; $300,000 ad/promo; paperback rights to Bantam; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selections; author tour.<

Jean M Auel

The Valley Of Horses

Earth Children

In this second novel of the Earth's Children saga, Ayla, the unforgettable heroine of THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR, sets out solo into a world far from friendly.She is in search of others like herself…and in search of love.Driven by energies she scarcely understands, she explores where the clan never dared to travel.In a hidden valley, she finds not only a herd of steppe horses, but also a unique kinship with animals as vulnerable as herself.Still, nothing prepares her for the emotional turmoil she feels when she rescues a young man, Jondalar – the first of the Others she has seen – from almost certain death.<

Jeanne Adams

Dark and Deadly

Jeff Abbott

A Kiss Gone Bad

Whit Mosley

Jeff Abbott

Adrenaline

Sam Capra

Jeff Abbott

Black Joint Point

Whit Mosley

Jeff Abbott

Collision

Jeff Abbott

Cut and Run

Whit Mosley

Jeff Abbott

Distant Blood

Jordan Poteet

Jeff Abbott

Do Unto Others

Jordan Poteet

Jeff Abbott

Fear

Jeff Abbott

Only Good Yankee

Jordan Poteet

Jeff Abbott

Pánico

<p>El vértigo y la incontenible alegría que sintió al despertar aquella mañana eran para Evan Casher la mejor prueba de que estaba profundamente enamorado. Sí, sin duda aquél era el inicio de una nueva y feliz vida que compartiría junto a Carrie, la joven responsable de aquel cambio sustancial en él. Sin embargo, un solo instante puede cambiar toda una vida: una llamada de su madre, apremiándolo a reunirse con ella de inmediato, iba a provocar un vuelco radical en la hasta entonces tranquila existencia de Evan. Para su horror, descubrirá que su madre ha sido asesinada, y sin tiempo siquiera para asumirlo, a punto estará de ser asesinado él también. Sólo la súbita intervención de un misterioso personaje, aparentemente surgido de la nada, le permitirá salvar la vida, al menos por esta vez…</p><p>No obstante, esto es sólo el principio de un peligroso viaje sin retorno, durante el cual Evan descubrirá que su vida hasta entonces no ha sido más que una sucesión de engaños y artificios donde nadie era quien aparentaba ser: empezando por sus propios padres y por la adorable Carrie, a la que, como pronto averiguará, en realidad no conocia en absoluto. Perseguido por un implacable traficante de información convencido de que posee unos valiosos documentos, Evan deberá salvar su vida y descubrir la verdad, consciente de que, esta vez, no tendrá una segunda oportunidad.</p><

Jeff Abbott

Promises of Home

Jordan Poteet

Jeff Abbott

The Last Minute

Sam Capra

Jeff Atkins

Aunt Donna, do me!

Diary novel

Jeffrey Archer

A Prisoner Of Birth

<p>Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fianceé up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation.</p><p>A few hours later Danny is arrested for murder and later is sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to irrefutable testimony from Spencer, the prosecution's main witness.</p><p>Danny spends the next few years in a high-security prison while Spencer Craig's career as a lawyer goes straight up. All the while Danny plans to escape and wreak his revenge.</p><p>Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's poignant novel of deception, hatred and vengeance, in which only one of them can finally triumph while the other will spend the rest of his days in jail. But which one will triumph? This suspenseful novel takes the listener through so many twists and turns that no one will guess the ending, even the most ardent of Archer's many, many fans.</p><

Jeffrey Archer

Casi Culpables

<p>¿Dónde está la frontera entre la culpabilidad y la inocencia? Solo un escritor como Jeffrey Archer es capaz de imprimir en las conciencias un sentimiento tan complejo como la duda.</p><p>¿Puede un convicto confesar su culpabilidad y conseguir que se desee su libertad, que se crea en su inocencia? Este es el dilema que presenta uno de los doce relatos, manifestación de talento y elegancia narrativa, que, inspirados en historias inolvidables de personajes reales, abordan la cuestión de la delincuencia: entre el engaño y la estafa, entre el asesinato y el robo, estos maravillosos relatos guían al lector por los laberintos de un mundo paralelo y subterráneo. Pero al tiempo muestran el lado más humano de sus protagonistas, culpables, pero no tanto.</p><p>Aunque algunas de estas historias fueron conocidas por el autor tras su puesta en libertad, la mayoría lo fueron durante su estancia en prisión, lo que les da una unidad de fondo. Todas confirman a Archer como uno de los mejores creadores de relatos cortos de la actualidad.</p><p>Las ilustraciones del inigualable Ronald Searle representan un valor añadido de una edición inolvidable.</p><p>«Con estilo, ingenioso y siempre entretenido… Jeffrey Archer tiene una aptitud natural para las historias cortas.» – The Times</p><p>«Probablemente el mejor contador de historias de nuestro tiempo.» – Mail-on Sunday</p><p>«Un narrador de la talla de Alejandro Dumas.» – Washington Post</p><p>«Archer es un maestro del entretenimiento.» – Time</p><p>«Este hombre es un genio.» – Evening Standard</p><p>«Archer es un narrador excelente, que cumple las expectativas del lector: el deseo de pasar la página y saber qué ocurre después.» – Sunday Times</p><p>«Archer tiene un don para la trama que solo se puede definir como genial.» – Daily Telegraph</p><

Jeffrey Archer

Como los cuervos

<p>No le fue fácil a Charlie alcanzar el objetivo de amasar una fortuna; sin embargo algo había en él que le hacía un predestinado al triunfo y, como apreciará el lector, este algo tiene mucho que ver con su capacidad de trabajo, astucia, coraje, ganas de aprender y un maravilloso abuelo -el de más fino olfato para la venta- que le guió con su ejemplo en sus primeros tiempos.</p><p>Desde las primeras páginas la historia se convierte en una trepidante aventura sobre el mundo de los negocios, en una ascensión ilusionada desde la humilde situación de vendedor de verduras callejero hasta la realización de un gran proyecto empresarial: es la historia de un tendero que metido a negociante termina creando una importante red de establecimientos comerciales mientras van desfilando los grandes acontecimientos de este siglo.</p><

Jeffrey Archer

El cuarto poder

<p>Las historias de Lubji, húngaro judío perseguido durante la segunda guerra mundial, y la de Kent, joven adinerado que descubre sus facultades de líder, sirven de escenario para que el gran Jeffrey Archer, dibuje con magistralidad y estilo propio, los pormenores de la vida del mundo de la prensa en EL CUARTO PODER, popular novela que fue llevada a la pantalla, y que muestra descarnadamente los laberintos de la información desde un punto de vista desprovisto de concesiones. Lubji emerge de un pasado lleno de frio y soledad, donde debe escapar de su mundo para lograr salvar la vida mientras sus habilidades de comerciante le permiten sobrevivir en el gélido ambiente de una Europa desgarrada por la lucha fratricida con la amenaza de Adolf Hitler rondando la buena marcha de la paz y la concordia.</p><p>Kent, por su parte, entre apuestas en el hipódromo, y su propio despertar sexual mientras participó en intrigas y maldades, va envolviéndose en un mundo donde el conocimiento es la llave del éxito. Escrita con un estilo fuerte e incluyente, El Cuarto Poder es un retrato perfecto del rostro de los grandes magnates que encajan muy bien en la máxima de Balzac, "Detrás de cada gran fortuna, hay un gran crimen". Esta novela es un fiel reflejo de dos historias unidas por la sagacidad y el destino, y que los lleva al inevitable choque.</p><

Jeffrey Archer

En pocas palabras

Quince muestras del talento multiforme y sutil de Jeffrey Archer, quince relatos, irónicos unos, románticos otros, pero siempre llenos de ingenio y elegancia. Desde el cuento árabe, de estremecedora brevedad, “La muerte habla”, hasta la divertida jerarquía de personajes insatisfechos de “La hierba siempre es más verde”, pasando por historias de amor y entrega o por explorar las zonas oscuras de la legalidad y cómo de puede abusar de ellas, En pocas palabras lleva al lector a un universo siempre amable, pero en el que no dejan de aflorar los conflictos humanos que, a pesar de todo, constituyen la sal de la tierra.<

Jeffrey Archer

Heaven

<p>"Day 167 – New Year's Day – Tuesday 1st January 2002 – 6.00 pm</p><p>I miss my wife, I miss my family and I miss my friends. But the only enemy I have to contend with is boredom and it's a killer. For many prisoners, it is the time when they first experiment with drugs. To begin with, offered by the dealers for nothing, and when they want more, in exchange for a phone card and an ounce of tobacco. Finally, when they're hooked, they'll give anything for a fix – including their life."</p><p>Jeffrey Archer's final volume of prison diaries covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration there – it also throws light on a system that is close to breaking point.</p><p>Told with humour, compassion and honesty, the diary closes with a thought-provoking manifesto that should be applauded by the Establishment and prison population alike.</p><

Jeffrey Archer

Hell

Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years' imprisonment at 12.07pm on Thursday 19th July 2001. Within six hours, Prisoner FF8282, as he is now known, was on suicide watch in the medical wing of Belmarsh top security prison in south London. This, he discovered, is standard procedure for first-time offenders on their first night in jail. By 6.00am the next morning, Archer had resolved to write a daily diary of everything he experienced while incarcerated, because "I have a feeling that being allowed to write in this hellhole may turn out to be the one salvation that will keep me sane". Jeffrey Archer's diary of his first three weeks imprisonment is a raw account of life in a top-security jail in Britain. It is also an indictment of the British penal system. The tales of his fellow inmates – many of whom are in for life – are often moving stories of hopelessness. But there are those, too, who, no matter what their previous histories, attempt to live their prison lives with dignity and integrity. Returning favours, Archer comments, is far more commonplace in prison than outside. The diary should be of interest to anyone concerned with the improvement of our penal system, whether they are concerned citizens, politicians or workers in the prison service.<

Jeffrey Archer

Juego Del Destino

Jeffrey Archer, con su habitual maestría narrativa, presenta en su última novela una apasionante historia marcada por un insólito cruce de destinos: dos hermanos gemelos separados al nacer y que desconocían la existencia del otro, se reencuentran treinta años más tarda como rivales políticos. Ambos pertenecen a familias de distinta extracción social y credo ideológico, pero el azar propiciará que sea Fletcher quien defienda a su hermano Nat, acusaso del asesinato de su rival en las elecciones a gobernador. Cuando Fletcher sufra un accidente y sea necesario conseguir sangre de un grupo muy extraño se desvelará el parentesco. Una trama perfectamente urdida en torno a las sorpresas que puede deparar el destino, al podeer político, al juego sucio, a la pérdida y al reencuetro, que ha hecho las delicias de miles de lectores en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos.<

Jeffrey Archer

La falsificación

<p>¿Por qué una anciana es asesinada en su mansión de Inglaterra la madrugada del 11 de septiembre de 2001?</p><p>¿Por qué un exitoso banquero de Nueva York no se sorprende al recibir por correo la oreja de una vieja dama?</p><p>¿Por qué un prestigioso abogado trabaja para un único cliente sin cobrar honorarios?</p><p>¿Por qué una joven ejecutiva roba un Van Gogh si no es una ladrona?</p><p>¿Por qué una brillante licenciada trabaja como secretaria después de heredar una fortuna?</p><p>¿Por qué una atleta cobra un millón de dólares por cumplir una misión?</p><p>¿Por qué una aristócrata estaría dispuesta a matar si sabe que pasará el resto de su vida en prisión?</p><p>¿Por qué un magnate japonés del acero va a dar una fuerte suma de dinero a una mujer a la que no conoce?</p><p>¿Por qué un experto agente del FBI tiene que averiguar cuál es la conexión entre estas ocho personas aparentemente sin relación entre ellas?</p><p>Las respuestas a todas estas preguntas las da esta absorbente novela: en ella, una conspiración internacional, cuyo objetivo es uno de los lienzos más valiosos del mundo, introduce al lector en el mercado negro del arte, desde Nueva York hasta Londres, desde Bucarest hasta Tokio, tras las huellas de falsificadores y asesinos a sueldo, en un relato cuya lectura no da tregua.</p><

Jeffrey Archer

Only Time Will Tell

The "Clifton Chronicles" is Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, 'I was told that my father was killed in the war'. But it will be another twenty years before Harry discovers how his father really died, which will only lead him to question: who was his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who worked in Bristol docks, or the first born son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? "Only Time Will Tell" covers the years from 1920 to 1940, and includes a cast of memorable characters that "The Times" has compared to "The Forsyte Saga". Volume one takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford, or join the navy and go to war with Hitler's Germany. In Jeffrey Archer's masterful hands, the reader is taken on a journey that they won't want to end, and when you turn the last page of this unforgettable yarn, you will be faced with a dilemma that neither you, nor Harry Clifton could have anticipated.<

Jeffrey Archer

Paths Of Glory

This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals. But what if one man had such a dream, and when he'd achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition? "Paths of Glory", is the story of such a man. But not until you've turned the last page of this extraordinary novel, will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to this list of legends, because if he were, another name would have to be removed.<

Jeffrey Archer

Purgatory

The No 1. Bestseller and storyteller continues his forceful account of life inside the British penal system. On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. In this second installment of his diaries, Jeffrey Archer recounts the time he spent in Wayland Prison.<

Jeffrey Archer

The Sins of the Father

<p>International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with his most ambitious work of epic storytelling – a multi-generational saga of fate, fortune, and redemption that began with ONLY TIME WILL TELL.</p><p>On the heels of the international bestseller ONLY TIME WILL TELL, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles.</p><p>Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets recently revealed, and forced to admit that his wish to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw. When Bradshaw dies in the night, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past and assumes his identity.</p><p>But on landing in America, he quickly learns the risks of such a scheme, when he discovers what is awaiting Bradshaw in New York. Without any way of proving his true identity, Harry Clifton is now chained to a past that might be far worse than the one he had hoped to escape.</p><

Jeffrey Archer

Twelve Red Herrings

These twelve stories feature people under pressure: how do they react when there is an opportunity to seize, a crucial problem to solve, a danger to avoid? Each tale has its twist, each its diversion — a red herring to uncover, while the last one provides a choice of endings.<

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