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The Penguin history of modern China : the fall and rise of a great power, 1850 to the present / by Fenby, Jonathan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. This book shows how turbulent that journey has been. For 150 years China has endured as victim to brutality on an unmatched scale, to oppression, to war and to famine. This makes its current position as the newest and, arguably, most important global superpower all the more extraordinary.

Appeasement : Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the road to war / by Bouverie, Tim,1987-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A new history of the British appeasement of the Third Reich on the eve of World War II"--
Subjects: Chamberlain, Neville, 1869-1940.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.; World War, 1939-1945;

Snow country / by Faulks, Sebastian,author.;
Looking back to the Vienna of Klimt and Freud and forward to the shadow that is starting to fall over Europe, Sebastian Faulks's new novel is an intensely personal story that focuses on Lena, a spirited girl born with nothing, and Anton, a man of passion and self-doubt and how their lives become fatally entwined at the Schloss Seeblick in 1933, with Europe precariously placed between two wars.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Journalists; Man-woman relationships; World War, 1914-1918;

Blood on their hands : murder, corruption, and the fall of the Murdaugh dynasty / by Matney, Mandy,author.; Murnick, Carolyn,author.;
"Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn't right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family's teenage son Paul, they began to uncover a web of mysteries surrounding the deaths of the Murdaughs' long-time housekeeper and a young man found slain years earlier on a backcountry road. Just as their investigations were unfolding, the brutal double murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh rocketed Alex Murdaugh onto the international stage"--
Subjects: True crime stories.; Murdaugh, Alex (Richard Alexander), 1968-; Murdaugh, Alex (Richard Alexander), 1968-; Murdaugh, Maggie; Murdaugh, Paul; Family violence; Family violence; Murder; Murder;

A bloom in winter / by Ward, J. R.,1969-author.;
'A Bloom in Winter' is another sexy, high-stakes holiday spinoff instalment of the 'Black Dagger Brotherhood' series about a fighter who has never been a saviour who finds himself falling in love--and trying to rescue--a male who's lost all hope.
Subjects: Gay fiction.; Queer fiction.; Werewolf fiction.; Vampire fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Romance fiction.; Erotic fiction.; Novels.; Man-man relationships; Shapeshifting; Vampires; Werewolves;

A ballad of love and glory : a novel / by Grande, Reyna,author.;
"A Long Petal of the Sea meets Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels in this epic historical romance about a Mexican woman and an Irish-American soldier who fall in love in the thick of the Mexican-American War"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Irish Americans; Man-woman relationships; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Nurses; Soldiers; Women healers;

The inn on Mirror Lake / by Mason, Debbie(Novelist);
While working together to restore her family's inn to its former glory, Elliana MacLeod and law enforcement officer Nathan Black fall victim to the matchmakers of Highland Falls.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Single women; Police; Grandfathers; Hotels; Man-woman relationships; Families;

Big men fear me : the fast life and quick death of Canada's most powerful media mogul / by Bourrie, Mark,1957-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential media moguls. When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day be prime minister of Canada. But the charismatic McCullagh had a dark side. Dogged by the bipolar disorder that destroyed his political ambitions and eventually killed him, he was all but written out of history. It was a loss so significant that journalist Robert Fulford has called McCullagh's biography "one of the great unwritten books in Canadian history"--until now. In Big Men Fear Me, award-winning historian Mark Bourrie tells the remarkable story of McCullagh's inspirational rise and devastating fall, and with it sheds new light on the resurgence of populist politics, challenges to collective action, and attacks on the free press that characterize our own tumultuous era."--
Subjects: Biographies.; McCullagh, George, 1905-1952.; Globe and mail; Newspaper publishing; Publishers and publishing;

Lethal nights / by Leigh, Lora.;
Ilya Dragonovich is no stranger to the dark side. As a safe-house owner for security agency Brute Force, Dragon knows that the battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man--and, sometimes, a beautiful woman... Emma Jane Preston needs help. After her marriage crumbled, she believed she could get back to a normal, happy life. But now she needs the kind of protection that comes at a cost--one that only someone like Dragon can provide. But can Emma Jane trust this handsome, undercover operator to keep her safe when she is in danger of falling into the arms of the deeply seductive, fiery Dragon... and never letting go?
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Man-woman relationships;

Somebody's fool / by Russo, Richard,1949-author.;
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; City and town life; Families; Fathers and sons; Friendship; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons; Police; Small cities;

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