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Making use of unpublished diaries, journals, and extensive correspondence, the extraordinary story of two British mountaineers who single-handedly mapped out much of the Himalayas--including Everest--and the mountains of Africa

In the 1930s, Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa and the Himalayas and found the key to unlocking Everest. They crossed Africa by bicycle, explored China with Spender and Auden, journeyed down the Oxus River to its source and, with no support, opened up much of the Nepalese Himalaya. In the words of Jim Perrin, "The...

Stella Carrington, young and beautiful, feels that life is passing her by in the repressed Victorian household of her grandmother and spinster aunts. A casual flirtation shocks and horrifies the elderly ladies, and they summon Robert Crayfield, her godfather, who is an officer in the Indian Civil Service, to make suitable arrangements for her to be a missionary or governess. But, tantalized by her beauty and disregarding the difference in their ages, he offers to marry her instead, scandalizing the village. 

Stella, indifferent to romance, is most excited by the prospect of...

Lesen und wohlfühlen: Nach dem Spiegel-Bestseller-Erfolg von «Das Mörderarchiv» heißt es Welcome Back im idyllisch-mörderischen Castle Knoll.
Die Tante sammelte Geheimnisse, die Nichte löst Verbrechen! Und das Mörderarchiv weiß immer Rat.

«Jemand hat Olivia Gravesdown umgebracht.» Das sagt Peony Lane, als sie die Krimischriftstellerin Annie bei einem nebligen Morgenspaziergang trifft. Wahrsagerin Lane ist im beschaulichen Castle Knoll berüchtigt, denn in ihren Prophezeiungen kommt oft das Wort «Sterben» vor....

In Stuart Perrin's multicultural suspense novel "Little Sisters," the protagonists are drawn into the dangerous world of international sex trafficking. Beyond revealing the nightmare of sexual slavery, it's a story of four sisters and how each of them is transformed by the horrors of life in a Mumbai brothel in dramatically different and unpredictable ways.

"When children (no matter what their nationality, ethnicity or religion) are forced to...

"I Wrote the Script, but I Want to Change the Ending" is her inspirational autobiography, telling the story of a woman determined never to let her past dictate her future. Using her unique voice, Perrin depicts her challenges as a single woman living and working in small Canadian cities from the 1940s to the late 1990s. She details her struggles with patriarchy, chauvinism, institutional systems, and living with multiple...

I knew it wasn't true. It couldn't be. . . . And yet, I couldn't help staring at him, wondering. However fleeting, there was the slightest hint of doubt in my mind.

Didi Randall doesn't think her life can get much worse than public humiliation when her boyfriend is the subject of a vicious rumor on campus. Despite their four-year relationship, the rumor puts a wedge between her and Drake, but Didi is hopeful that they can reconnect on the winter break cruise. She, Drake, and a handful of Lan-U students will be sailing the high seas of the Caribbean just before the start of the...