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The Stand

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 2:50:18 PST

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The Tommyknockers

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 2:48:57 PST

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Bobbi Anderson and the other good folks of Haven, Maine have sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of Hell.

The Dead Zone

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 2:47:57 PST

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If any of King's novels exemplifies his skill at portraying the concerns of his generation, it's The Dead Zone. Although it contains a horrific subplot about a serial killer, it isn't strictly a horror novel. It's the story of an unassuming high school teacher, an Everyman, who suffers a gap in time--like a Rip Van Winkle who blacks out during the years 1970-75--and thus becomes acutely consciou ...

The murder at the vicarage

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 2:46:36 PST

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The Pale Horse

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 2:46:14 PST

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Kitchen

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 2:45:58 PST

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Juxtaposes two tales about mothers, trans-sexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the minds of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan.

Everything's Eventual

Wed, 8 Dec 2010 2:38:22 PST

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And Then There Were None

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 1:32:53 PST

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First, there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. B ...

Skeleton Crew

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 5:21:50 PST

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King's stunning second collection contains twenty short stories, a short novel, "The Mist", and two poems, each tale showing the distinctive blend of unimaginable terror and realism that typifies King's early work. We meet gramma -- who only wants to hug little George, even after she's dead; a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite in the raft; an innocent-looking monkey with evil powe ...

Nocturnes

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 5:20:18 PST

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In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by ...

Under the Dome

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 5:15:11 PST

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On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on ...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 5:07:59 PST

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With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael Chab ...

The Behaviour of Moths

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 5:00:11 PST

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From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left, forty-seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive moth expert, has rarely ventured outside it. But with Vivien's arrival, dark, unspoken secrets surface. Told in Ginny's unforgettable voice ...

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

Thu, 9 Sep 2010 2:10:55 PST

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This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" is a few days ride into t ...

Imaginings of Sand

Thu, 9 Sep 2010 2:10:42 PST

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It is the eve of South Africa's first free elections, and Kristien Muller returns to her native country and her dying grandmother who tells her stories of the past. As the present closes in, Imaginings of Sand traces with passionate precision the unforgettable story of a country and a people on the cusp of irrecoverable change.

A Passage to India

Sat, 4 Sep 2010 19:20:18 PST

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What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster's last and greatest novel. After a mysterious incident during their visit to the caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman new to India. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-I ...

Vanity Fair

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 2:55:51 PST

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On a broad and colourful canvas, extending from urban and rural England to Waterloo and the continental haunts of exiles, Thackeray gives us one of the greatest social-satirical novels in the language - one of the most entertaining and profound, and, in the person of Becky Sharp, we have one of literature's most resourceful, attractive, and amoral characters. Essentially a commentary on hypocrisy ...

The Day of the Jackal

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 2:55:39 PST

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One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A. S., to assassinate General de Gaulle.

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 2:55:24 PST

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Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family. Dragan, gripped by fear, does not know who among his friends he can trust. And Arrow, a young woman count ...

Carter Beats the Devil

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:14:31 PST

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Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as technology and the cinema challenge the allure of magic and Carter's stunts become increasingly audacious. Until the night President Harding takes part in C ...

The Winter Queen

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:14:17 PST

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This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in Tsarist Russia. Moscow 1876. A young law student commits suicide in broad daylight in Moscow's Alexander Gardens. But this is no ordinary death, for the young man was the son of an influential industrialist and has left a considerable fortune. Erast Fandorin, a hotheaded new recruit to the Cr ...

To the Lighthouse

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:13:46 PST

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Virginia Woolf is one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, and To the Lighthouse is perhaps her crowning achievement. The story of the Ramsay family and the guests visiting their summer house in the Hebrides, Woolf?

The House on the Strand

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:05:26 PST

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Danse Macabre

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:58:07 PST

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Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture from the seminal classics of "Count Dracula" and "Frankenstein", Stephen King describes his ideas on how horror works on many levels and how he brings it to bear on his own inimitable novels. Told in the chatty, intelligent style of the course for which this was originally devised, this is a charming book replete with pertinent anecdo ...

Bloodline

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 2:35:55 PST

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When a dead body is found in a North London flat, it seems like a straightforwarddomestic murder until a oodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the ...

Strange Days Indeed

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 2:33:46 PST

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'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.' A jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by mass paranoia told with Francis Wheen's wonderfully acute sense of the absurd. The nostalgic whiff of the seventies evokes memories ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

Sun, 2 May 2010 0:13:43 PST

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Salander is plotting her revenge against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.

Atonement

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 4:06:02 PST

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On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia wil ...

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 7:52:19 PST

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Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. She hasn't got a past.She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town. Not to S ...

Persepolis

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 7:45:48 PST

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 19:37:13 PST

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Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can’t wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn’t if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There’s an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of ...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 19:36:54 PST

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Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last...

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 8:20:22 PST

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Wonderful...an illusionist extraordinaire, King peoples his fiction with believable characters. (Publishers Weekly)

The Time of My Life

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 5:18:34 PST

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In September 2009 movie star Patrick Swayze lost his long and bravely fought battle against pancreatic cancer. Dedications soon came flooding in from Swayze's many friends in film and television as well as from his legions of adoring fans. His was a life richly led and this memoir, completed just weeks before his death, is a testament to the strength and passion of this remarkable man. It was Jan ...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 5:18:24 PST

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Say you've spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactl ...

A.B.Guide to Music Theory, Book I

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 3:15:04 PST

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Piano Notes

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 3:14:10 PST

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In this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, world-renowned concert pianist and music writer Charles Rosen draws on a lifetime's wisdom to consider every aspect of the instrument: from what makes a beautiful sound to suffering from stage fright, from the physical challenges of playing to tales of great musicians, including Vladimir Horowitz's recording tricks, ...

Chocolat

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 7:19:20 PST

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When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud denounces her as a serious moral danger to his flock - especially as it is the beginning of Lent, the traditional season of self-denial. As passions flare and the conflict escalates, the whole community takes sides. Can the solemnity of th ...

Hide and seek

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 3:12:52 PST

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A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more l ...

The Incas

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 6:51:18 PST

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At its height, the great empire of the Incas encompassed an area of western South America comparable in size to the Roman Empire in Europe. This book describes and explains its extraordinary progress from a small Andean society in southern Peru to its rapid demise little more than a century later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors. The Incas is the first book to fully synthesize history and a ...

The Jungle Book

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:39:17 PST

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The Girl Who Played with Fire

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:48:25 PST

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Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe the police. Using all his magazine sta ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:48:08 PST

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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Saland ...

The Mosquito Coast

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 7:33:55 PST

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"The Mosquito Coast" - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search for utopia from bestseller Paul Theroux. Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic gen ...

The Moon and Sixpence

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 7:22:21 PST

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Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, "The Moon and Sixpence" is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian ...

Savage Season

Mon, 11 May 2009 21:33:24 PST

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Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are an odd crime team - one white and straight and the other gay and black. The reappearance of Trudy, Hap's one-time lover, with talk of buried loot, is greeted with misgivings by Leonard. In this tale of greed and murder his assumptions are not wrong.

Underworld

Mon, 11 May 2009 21:33:10 PST

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Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.

Everything is Illuminated

Sat, 9 May 2009 19:07:02 PST

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The simplest thing would be to describe Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Shoah. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish-American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who save ...

American Pastoral

Sat, 9 May 2009 19:06:38 PST

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In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant ...

Around the World in Eighty Days

Sat, 9 May 2009 19:06:16 PST

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Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the tr ...

Nineteen Eighty-four

Sat, 9 May 2009 19:05:57 PST

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Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and libert ...

Lolita

Sat, 9 May 2009 19:05:41 PST

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This is the novel that first established Nabokov's reputation with a large audience tour-de-force of comic satire on sex and the American ways of life.

Treasure Island

Sat, 9 May 2009 19:05:22 PST

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The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" is edited with an introduction by John Seelye in "Penguin Classics". When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man's possessions. But Jim soon becomes only t ...

The House of the Spirits

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:00:36 PST

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Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's family saga is populated by a memorable, often eccentric, cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature and of history, converge in a brlliantly realised novel.

The Road

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:00:36 PST

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The Chalk Circle Man

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:00:36 PST

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Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis; he appears permanently distracted. In spite of all this his colleagues are forced to admit that he is highly successful - a born cop.When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pav ...

The White Tiger

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:00:36 PST

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Winning the Man Booker prize is something that most authors dream of, although -- ironically -- the reputation of the prize itself was under siege a few years ago. Books that won the award were acquiring a reputation of being difficult and inaccessible, but those days appear to be over -- and unarguable proof may be found in the 2008 winner, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Apart from its consid ...

Gomorra

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 8:09:25 PST

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Un libro che racconta il potere della camorra, la sua affermazione economica e finanziaria, e la sua potenza militare, la sua metamorfosi in comitato d'affari. Una scrittura in prima persona fatta dal luogo degli agguati, nei negozi e nelle fabbriche dei clan, raccogliendo testimonianze e leggende. La storia parte dalla guerra di Secondigliano, dall'ascesa del gruppo Di Lauro al conflitto interno ...

The Secret River

Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:30:31 PST

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Grenville's Australian bestseller, which won the Orange Prize, is an eye-opening tale of the settlement of New South Wales by a population of exiled British criminals. Research into her own ancestry informs Grenville's work, the chronicle of fictional husband, father and petty thief William Thornhill and his path from poverty to prison, then freedom. Crime is a way of life for Thornhill growing u ...

The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat

Fri, 6 Feb 2009 2:22:44 PST

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Grace the Cat is not at all like me, as she is forever bent on mischief. But because I am an older and wiser cat, she looks to me for counsel, and so I have allowed Grace to prevail upon me to set down the story of my life as a housecat in the human world. . . . As the irrepressible Foudini M. Cat regales us with his adventures, an exciting story unfolds. After his valiant but frail mother leav ...

A suitable boy

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:30:22 PST

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Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, the tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the lives of four large families and those who orbit them, it is also a vast panoramic exploration of a whole continent at a crucial hour as a sixth of the world's population ...

Bag of Bones

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 5:55:18 PST

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When 40-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan returns to his lakeside cabin to process his wife's death, he finds the place a beacon for nightmares and ghoulish visits...

Dreamcatcher

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 3:04:58 PST

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'Salem's Lot

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 3:03:46 PST

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Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.

Needful Things

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 3:03:30 PST

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The Vesuvius Club

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 3:01:56 PST

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Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most fashionable portrait painter is a wit, a dandy, a rake, the guest all hostesses (and not a few hosts) must have. But few know that Lucifer Box is also His Majesty's most accomplished and daring secret agent. And so of course when Britain's most prominent scientists begin turning up dead, there is only one man his country can ...

Love in the Time of Cholera

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 2:41:14 PST

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Fifty-one years, nine months and four days ago, Florentino's love was rejected by beautiful Fermina. While she became a model wife, poor Florentio pined for her and has done so ever since, never finding love or peace as he yearns for the day he can woo her again. When Fermina's husband is killed falling from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young lo ...

The Speed Queen

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 2:36:57 PST

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Sitting on Death Row, the Speed Queen tells how mainlining speed turned into dealing, how dealing turned into robbery, and robbery turned into mass murder. Set against an American landscape of fast-food joints and endless highways, this comic tale tells of lives in uncontrollable overdrive.

Momo

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 2:31:25 PST

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Tra le rovine di un anfiteatro, ai margini di una grande città, trova rifugio una strana bambina che, fuggita dall'orfanotrofio, non conosce nemmeno la sua età. Agli abitanti dei dintorni, che la guardano incuriositi, dice di chiamarsi Momo. Non passa molto tempo che la bambina si conquista la fiducia e la simpatia di tutti: chiunque abbia un problema va o è inviato dagli altri a recarsi da Momo, ...

Just After Sunset

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 2:40:49 PST

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One Shot

Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:26:47 PST

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Jack Reacher is working on his tan with a Norwegian blonde on the beach in Miami. The weather is hot and he is so cool you could skate on him. But he doesn't like to stick around. He likes to be on the move. He was in the machine his whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat him out. Now he takes it easy. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for Reacher. A lone gunman h ...

French Tales

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 7:14:56 PST

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French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper Merimee in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the twenty-first, affords readers a panoramic view of French society and culture, reflecting, as it does, its variety and diversity from Britt ...

Parole e canzoni

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 5:12:41 PST

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Il libro, "Provokautore" non è solo il canzoniere ragionato di Vasco Rossi.Scrittori, amici e compagni di viaggio hanno contribuito a tracciare ilritratto artistico e umano del "Blasco". Con pagine rare o ineditedell'artista di Zocca. In appendice nota biografica, discografia completa,bibliografia e altro. Nel DVD, attraverso immagini tratte dai concerti, dalleapparizio ...

The Tortilla Curtain

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:21:49 PST

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The author of East Is East replays the tragi-comic meeting of representatives from two different cultures with nothing in common. This book calmly grabs hold with an unexpected suspense.

Set In Darkness

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:17:31 PST

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Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John Rebus is charged with liaison, thanks to the new parliament being resident in Queensbury House, bang in the middle of his patch. But Queensbury House has its own, dark past. Legend has it that a young man was roasted there on a spit by a madman. When the fireplace where the ...

Invisible Monsters

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:16:25 PST

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She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will te ...

Our Man in Havana

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 7:26:28 PST

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS. Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get ...

The Heart of a Dog

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:44:59 PST

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A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance. An absurd and superbly comic story, this classic novel can also be read as a fie ...

The Black Book

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 2:00:49 PST

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When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But not everyone wants the puzzle solved - perhaps not e ...

Tooth And Nail

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 2:00:49 PST

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They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy at yet more interference, and Rebus finds himself dealing with racial prejudice as well as the p ...

The Clock Winder

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 1:12:05 PST

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A compassionate tale of a fragmented family on the verge of destruction and the free-spirited young woman who drifts into their lifes.

Four past midnight

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 0:59:07 PST

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This is a collection of four stories on the theme of 'midnight', the moment when the familiar world gives way to an alternative reality, and a new and terrifying world is revealed. It is written by the author of "Carrie", "The Shining" and "The Dark Half".

Lullaby

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 6:26:00 PST

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Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her ow ...

Duma Key

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 6:23:22 PST

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DUMA KEY is the engaging, fascinating story of a man who discovers an incredible talent for painting after a freak accident in which he loses an arm. He moves to a 'new life' in Duma Key, off Florida's West Coast; a deserted strip, part beach, part weed-tangled, owned by a patroness of the arts whose twin sisters went missing in the 1920s. Duma Key is where out-of-season hurricanes tears lives ap ...