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Another Kind of War is the second of the Harry Lockwood books. It is 1948, and the Second World War is still fresh in everyone’s memories. Trooper Harry Lockwood is serving the last half of his National Service in the 5th Royal Tank Regiment in Germany. Harry’s best friend from school days, known as ‘the Captain,’ is also in Germany. He has signed on as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps. The two meet for a skiing holiday at a leave centre in Austria. There, the Captain is drugged and kidnapped by a mysterious blond man and his obnoxious female assistant. They take him across the Iron Curtain, where he is imprisoned in a strange castle. What do they want him for? Will he be executed or released? the company story takes the reader on a roller coaster of excitement and romance from the UK to British Occupied Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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The time: September 1941 to December 1944. The place: a high-class English boarding school for boys near London. Thirteen-year-old Harry Lockwood fights for survival at Markham College, where the misuse of power by sadistic prefects creates a closed society ruled by fear and violence. As if this is not enough, Hitler's bombardment of Britain with terrifying V1 flying bombs and V2 ballistic missiles threatens to destroy him. This is indeed a story of war, but it is also a story of loyal friendship among four boys, of young love, of tragedy and joy.
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A hot and steamy night, a hideous four-legged monster, and a terrified little girl, are forebodings of horror on an island paradise in the Caribbean. A mutilated body in a rainforest reservoir and a terrifying plane crash point to a ruthless, covert Organization, which has taken over its government. Soon, an English family and their friends find themselves in unwilling combat with a hidden threat to world stability. As the struggle moves from the island of St. Barbe's, to the United States, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, they and their friends are almost destroyed by this seemingly invincible menace.
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A dead uncle, an ordinary house and a summer in a far-off place–they all come together and change Riley’s life forever. Riley Barnett is a second year student at the University of Toronto. Early in April of 1978, the postman brings a letter that lures her to Newfoundland where she spends the summer vacation. It is a friendly place for those who come from away, but a dark conspiracy soon rears its ugly head and almost destroys her.
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The year is 1950 and four friends from Markham College in England are now young men in their early twenties. The Iceland Connection is the last book in the trilogy that follows their eventful lives during and after the Second World War. Richard Bloombury, nicknamed Pansy, has disappeared while on holiday in Scandinavia. His younger sister Petra and ‘Beastly' Barnett, travel there to search for him with surprising results for them both. Meanwhile, Harry Lockwood and his girlfriend Jenny Rawlings are living in Edinburgh. It isn't long before their idyllic romance is strained to breaking point by misfortune and betrayal. Throughout all this, the Captain and his wife Kristy are always available at their home in Cambridge to support their friends. As the years go by, Fate continues to point an invisible finger toward the Land of Ice and Fire. In the summer of 1953, Harry organizes a student expedition to Iceland from Scotland's Perth University, where he is a Lecturer. The scientific work goes well until an ominous link with the Second World War is uncovered. Disaster and horror strike. As soon as Harry arrives home, he sinks into unfathomable depths of despair until at last the mystery of The Iceland Connection is resolved.
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Reed's Point
by T. Cline
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 The Reed’s faith, a mystery to some, will be tested like never before. Will it hold? Mark’s love for his wife and their intimate romance is shattered by Brandy, a barmaid. |
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