The Adelphi Theatre has been the centre of drama in Headley Cross for one-hundred years. Interim manager, Flick Anderson, does her best to juggle running the theatre and directing her first play, Home Is Where the Heart Is. Flick is overjoyed when her best friend and ex-boyfriend, Will Reid, takes on the main male lead-especially as she wrote the role for him. Award-winning actor Will Reid prefers stage work to anything else. When the job he should...

The story is divided into two sections which meet in the latter part of the work but both relate to the Botallack mine in South Cornwall. The first involves a group of Russian students who defect to the West seeking political asylum from the British Government. However the incident causes international dissent from the Russian government, to the embarrassment of the British government and the students are hidden away in a remote spot in Cornwall until...

Presents an illustrated version of the Christmas carol written by English poet Christina Rosetti.

"Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now,...

This first volume in the Amazing Christmas Carols collection features:• In the Bleak Midwinter • The Boar's Head Carol • Jingle Bells • God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen • The Holly and the Ivy • Little Town of Bethlehem • Come, O Come Emmanuel • While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night • Silent Night Good King WenceslasEach carol is presented with an introduction featuring information about its origins, the full music score (all...

An incident from Juliet's past comes back to haunt her. A priceless work of art brings her to a secret bunker. An unidentified corpse is found in the river. As if this day weren't bad enough... Juliet is kidnapped! Juliet Van Allen, heiress, and ex-con Elmer Vartanian, casual partners in the business of ferreting out murderers, take us to the Berkshires of western Massachusetts in the bleak midwinter of 1951. What happens next is murder. Whitewash...

Get in the Christmas spirit with this unique collection of the most beloved Christmas carols, from the warmly nostalgic to the majestically solemn and uplifting. The book features one carol for each day from December first to Christmas Eve, and presents both the lyrics and the fascinating stories and interesting facts behind the creation of the songs. Each entry deepens our understanding of the music and enhances our appreciation of why these songs...

The winter holiday season is a time for gifts and music, for snow and miracles, and for family and going home. For Jessie Malone, it's a time for sorrow. Jessie is a graduate student living in London, where she hopes to be one of the first folklorists ever to trace an urban legend back to its original source. She's also a grieving young widow unable to heal from the agony of her life-shattering loss. In the bleak midwinter, Jessie learns of an urban...