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From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, author Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles.
At their second home on the Isle of Skye, the Ramsay family surrounds itself with friends and colleagues. They contend with World War I, family deaths, and hardships both spoken and unspoken. All the...
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Edinburgh nights volume 3
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Everyone's favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers' biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery--a locked room mystery, if an entire creepy haunted castle on lockdown counts. One of the magical attendees has stolen a valuable magical scroll. Caught between Qozmos, the high wizard of Ethiopian magic; the larger-than-life Lord Sashvindu Samarasinghe; England's Sorcerer Royal;...
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Hospitality consultant Andrea Sullivan has one last chance to snag a high-profile client or she'll have to kiss her dreams of promotion good-bye. When she's sent to meet Scottish celebrity chef James MacDonald on the Isle of Skye, she just wants to finish her work as efficiently as possible. Yet her client is not the opportunistic womanizer he portrays himself to be, and her attraction to him soon dredges up memories she'd rather leave buried. For...
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Agatha Christie novels volume 4
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Who saw him die? I, said the fly, with my little eye. I saw him die. An astonishingly beautiful setting on the island of Skye. A gathering of fascinating guests at a hunting lodge set to enjoy abundant hospitality. And a double murder. A household in chaos... No one is allowed to leave. A tantalizing new case for Agatha Christie to solve.
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March 1912: Elspeth Dunn, a young poet on Scotland's Isle of Skye, receives her first fan letter from student David Graham in America. Their correspondence blossoms into love -- until World War I engulfs Europe. June 1940: As World War II begins Elspeth's daughter, Margaret, falls for an RAF pilot. When a bomb rocks Elspeth's house, dislodging her hidden letters, Elspeth disappears. Only one letter remains to help Margaret find her mother . . .
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"Recently widowed Serena MacDonald Stewart focuses on her children to the exclusion of her career, her art, and her sanity. When her brothers ask her to oversee the family guest house on the Isle of Skye, it's a chance to dust off her long-ignored business skills and make a new start. But her hopes for a smooth transition are dashed when the hotel manager, Malcolm Blake, turns out to be irritating, condescending . . . and incredibly attractive. Malcolm...
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"Carly and Dennis weren't destined for friendship when they first met at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. In fact, they couldn't stand each other. But complications arose the moment they landed in London. Soon, they were on the run, from London to the Isle of Skye, uncovering secrets of the past and, in the process, discovering each other" -- Amazon.com
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Escocia, siglo XV. Ante la imposibilidad de concebir hijos con su esposa Meribeth, Alistair Mcleod, jefe de su clan, encarga a un grupo de guerreros, con su sobrino Daimh al frente, la misión de viajar a la isla de Skye para solicitar la ayuda de la famosa hechicera que vive allí.
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"When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod returns to her roots on Scotland's Isle of Skye, a chance encounter in the woods behind a nearby activities centre leads her to what seems to be a crime scene, but without a victim. Could this be linked to a group of army medics, who visited the centre while on leave from Afghanistan and can no longer be located on the island? Enlisting the help of local tracker dog Blaze, Rhona starts searching for a connection.Two...
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