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For Harriet Delvaney, the great house of Menfreya, standing like a fortress on the Cornish coast, had always been a citadel of happiness and high spirits.

Throughout history, numerous famous and infamous men and women have contributed in their sometimes perverted but almost always intriguing ways to the world of gastronomy.

Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth-century garden design.

Is this the new Sherlock Holmes? Not only did Sherlock Holmes survive the Reichenbach Falls, but he has a son, Sebastian, itching to prove himself his father's equal.

Roly Carradine has found refuge in Cornwall, in the mellow stone house of his childhood.

When Felinski, a British agent, is parachuted into Germany three months before the end of World War II, his brief is to reorganize a small group of Russian agents abandoned by Moscow.

It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.

Mr. Warington Smyth takes the reader, after a general introduction, to the Baltic, Denmark, and Sweden.

In 1799, the American captain Amasa Delano anchored in the bay of a Chilean coastal desert island. The next morning at the site appeared a mysterious ship, the Santo Domingo.

"The wild folk in Pleasant Valley were whispering strange stories to one another. If the stories were true, they were most amazing.

"All music", said Johann Sebastian Bach, ""should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no true music." At twenty three,