Colleen McCullough
2) Bittersweet
Author
Language
English
Description
"Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not enthusiastic about the limited prospects life holds...
4) The touch
Author
Language
English
Description
Having made his fortune, Alexander Kinross summons his bride Elizabeth Drummond to Austalia. But he does not tell her that he has a mistress.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of The Thorn Birds presents a sequel to Pride and Prejudice that finds the willful third Bennet sister setting out in her late thirties in pursuit of adventure while her sisters worry about her at home.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's August 1969 in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut, and police Captain Carmine Delmonico is away on vacation. Back at home, first one, then two anonymous male corpses turn up--emaciated and emasculated. Sergeant Delia Carstairs and Lieutenant Abe Goldberg connect the victims to four other bodies, and suddenly they realize Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose. Luckily Carmine decides to come back from vacation early. Carmine's...
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 4
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
696 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 3
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
878 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
110 BC:
The world cowers before its legions, but Rome is about to be engulfed by a vicious power struggle that will threaten its very existence.
At its heart are two exceptional men: Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth; and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a handsome young aristocrat corrupted by poverty and vice.
Both are men of extraordinary vision, extreme...
The world cowers before its legions, but Rome is about to be engulfed by a vicious power struggle that will threaten its very existence.
At its heart are two exceptional men: Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth; and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a handsome young aristocrat corrupted by poverty and vice.
Both are men of extraordinary vision, extreme...
12) The thorn birds
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (487 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
America in 1968 is in turmoil and the leafy Holloman, Connecticut, suburb of Carew is being silently terrorized by a series of vicious and systematic rapes. When finally one victim finds the courage to speak out and go to the police, the rapist escalates to murder. For Captain Carmine Delmonico, it seems to be a case with no clues.
Author
Series
Carmine Delmonico mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut, home to prestigious Chubb University and armaments giant Cornucopia, chief of detectives Captain Carmine Delmonico has more pressing concerns than finding a name for his infant son: twelve murders have taken place in one day, and Delmonico is drawn into a gruesome web of secrets and lies.
15) On, off
Author
Series
Carmine Delmonico mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
17) The grass crown
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 2
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
894 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 6
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
792 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 5
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
664 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[1981]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Colleen McCullough's third novel is set on one of the Pacific islands at the end of the Second World War. Honour Langtry has been trusted with sole charge of Ward X, whose five inmates have had mental breakdowns in combat and each of whom, in his own way, is in love with Honour. Into their world comes a sixth patient, Sergeant Wilson who causes a highly charged emotional atmosphere and leads Honour to tragedy trapped between this obsession and her...
