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Fatal Remedies

Sun, 5 May 2013 12:16:22 PST

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For Commissario Guido Brunetti it begins with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism has just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn. But Brunetti soon discovers that the perpetrator is no petty criminal, for the culprit at the scene is none other than Paola Brunetti, his wife.

The Year We Disappeared

Sun, 5 May 2013 12:16:02 PST

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When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with Izod clothing, the Muppets, and a box turtle she kept in a shoebox.

A Family History of Smoking

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 6:42:29 PST

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A Family History Of Smoking is a compelling memoir about two European families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From great-grandfather David, who saw his family's fortunes decline with the gradual rise of anti-Semitism, to the ultra-modern, glamorous mother who held her family together through World War II, Andrew Riemer paints a beautiful portrait of a now vanished w ...

The Nano Flower

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 5:02:50 PST

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Julia Evans, billionairess owner of Event Horizon, has for fifteen years been the power behind England’s economic renaissance – but now she’s in trouble. With her husband missing, and rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth, she has no time to take notice of a single flower delivered anonymously. But this flower possesses genes mill ...

Judas Unchained

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 5:02:07 PST

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After hundreds of years secretly manipulating the human race, the Starflyer alien has succeeded in engineering a war which should result in the destruction of the Intersolar Commonwealth. Now, thanks to Chief Investigator Paula Myo, the Commonwealth’s political elite finally acknowledges the Starflyer’s existence, and puts together an unlikely partnership to track down this enigmatic and terrifyi ...

Edge of Battle

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 5:00:45 PST

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" The War on Terror . . . with a little more firepower Violence and tensions along the U.S.-Mexican border have never been higher, sparked by battles between rival drug lords and an increased flow of illegal migrants. To combat the threat, the United States has executed Operation Rampart: a controversial test base in Southern California run by Major Richter and TALON, his high-tech special ...

A Wanted Man

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:56:41 PST

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Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn't quit. And at last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. But within mi ...

Watching the Dark

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:56:08 PST

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Banks is back his twentieth mystery – and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks, brought in to investigate, is assailed on all sides. By Joanna Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insist ...

I Wouldn't Start from Here

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:55:26 PST

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Creole Belle

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:53:28 PST

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Creole Belle begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song 'Creole Belle' on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later tur ...

The Naked God

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:52:55 PST

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The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the 'possessed' to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal does not quite match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed ...

The Evolutionary Void

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:51:54 PST

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Peter F. Hamilton's startling perspectives on tomorrow’s technological and cultural trends span vast tracts of space and time, his stories are as compelling as they are epic in scope, and yet they are always grounded in characters – human, alien and other – who, for all their strangeness, still touch our hearts and fire our imaginations. Now, in The Evolutionary Void, Hamilton concludes the highl ...

Seeds of Earth

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:47:45 PST

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With little hope of halting the invasion, Earth's last roll of the dice was todispatch three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy.

One Day

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:47:19 PST

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'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years ...

A Youth Not Wasted

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:46:30 PST

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'How can mere red dirt and stones and scrubby trees and shrubs and rises and falls in the land and haze and a vast blue sky be so potent? Such was its power, even in intense heat, even at night - sometimes, especially at night - the landscape seized you ...In the early 1950s, Australia was riding on the sheep's back and no-one doubted the wisdom of making a life in the wool industry, certainly no ...

The Bomber

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 4:45:53 PST

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Seven days. Three killings. And one woman who knows too much...Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon is woken by a phonecall in the early hours of a wintry December morning. An explosion has ripped apart the Olympic Stadium. And a victim has been blown to pieces. As Annika delves into the details of the bombing and the background of the victim, there is a second explosion. These chilling crimes could be ...

Floodgate

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 7:24:39 PST

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The Night is for Hunting

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:40:00 PST

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If only they can withstand another night. The Night is for Hunting is the sixth volume in the award-winning Tomorrow series.

The Help

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:39:53 PST

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"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking i ...

Unpolished Gem

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:39:44 PST

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Incendiary

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:38:29 PST

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Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son in a suicide bombing at a London soccer match, a woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden to persuade him to abandon his terror campaign and becomes embroiled in a psychological web of ...

Theodore Boone: The Accused

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:38:13 PST

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Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. He certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But then his bike is vandalised, he's attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. When stolen computer equipment turns up in Theo's school locker, the police start leaning on him hard. And he is the only suspect ...

Loving the Enemy

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:37:59 PST

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REBELLION: A flash of petticoats, a banner of red-gold hair - one look at Serena MacGregor and Brigham Langston was captivated.

Shadow

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 7:49:07 PST

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As darkness falls on 10 May, 1975, a little boy stands alone on the steps of an amusement park.

Inside the Stalin archives

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:50:06 PST

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Stalin's spectre hovers throughout, and in the book's crescendo Brent takes us deep into the dictator's personal papers, an unnerving prophecy of the world to come.

All Hell Let Loose

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:17:23 PST

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A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children. Reflecting Max Hastings's thirty-five years of research on World War II, All Hell Let Loose describes the ...

The Stars in the Bright Sky

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:40:37 PST

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The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday to celebrate their reunion. Kay, Kylah, Manda, Rachel and Finn are joined by Finn's equally gorgeous friend Ava - a half-French philosophy student - and are ready to go on the rampage. Just into their twenties and as wild as ever, they've added acrylic nails, pedicures, mobile ...

Gone Tomorrow

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:26:51 PST

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Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan—by dozens of people with one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For ...

A Second Chance at Eden

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:19:26 PST

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SONNIE'S EDGE. The popular sport of 'beastie-baiting' involves contests to the death between artificial monsters controlled via human affinity bonds. Sonnie's team is particularly successful...but then her monster, 'Khanivore', has one special advantage. A SECOND CHANCE AT EDEN. A bitek habitat which orbits Jupiter, mining the fusion fuel on which Earth is dependent, Eden is a mini-nation of radi ...

At Home

Sun, 8 Jan 2012 10:24:20 PST

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New York

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:15:29 PST

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New York is one of the most exciting and pulsating cities on earth. Here a truly dazzling selection of writers celebrate the richness and diversity of this amazing metropolis.

Steel My Soldiers' Hearts

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 7:44:22 PST

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In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the U.S. Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary. David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given t ...

First Thrills

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:08:43 PST

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Con men and killers, aliens and zombies, priests and soldiers - just some of the characters that kill and thrill in this compelling collection of gun-toting, double-crossing, back-stabbing, pulse-pounding stories. Jeffery Deaver investigates the suspicious death of a crime-writer in 'The Plot'; Karin Slaughter's grieving widow takes revenge on her dying ex-husband in 'Cold, Cold Heart'; Stephen C ...

The Affair

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:08:24 PST

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It's March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling h ...

The Road

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:28:55 PST

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The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by VasilyGrossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and ...

Nonsense on Stilts

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:28:42 PST

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Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 per cent of Americans believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, despite it being one of science's best-established findings. More and more parents are refusing to vaccinate their children for fear it causes autism, though this link has been consistently disproved. And about 40 per cent of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated, de ...

Last Car to Elysian Fields

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:28:28 PST

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"For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there -- as he does in Last Car to Elysian Fields -- means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers. When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, ...

Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:18:30 PST

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Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has no recollection of it. Commissaire Adamsberg is convinced all the murders are the work ...

Misspent Youth

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:13:21 PST

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From the author of the magnificent 'Night's Dawn' trilogy, a provocative look at the days not too long after tomorrow It is forty years into the future and, following decades of research and trillions of Euros spent on genetics, Europe is finally in a position to rejuvenate a human being. As the first subject for treatment, is chosen Jeff Baker - the father of the datasphere (which replaced the i ...

Burning Angel

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 8:43:13 PST

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Sonny Boy Marsallas, a New Orleans street hustler, entrusts Detective Dave Robicheaux with a mysterious notebook, kicking off a series of violent incidents and raising questions that need answers, and fast... What did Sonny's girlfriend know that got her murdered? Why is Sonny known as Red Angel by Central American guerrillas? And what do the Mafia want with a desolate stretch of New Iberia? Thi ...

The Wreckers

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 8:42:23 PST

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From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea. A fine wreck has always represented sport, pleasure, treasure, and in many cases, the difference between living well and just getting by. The Cornish were supposedly so ferocious that ...

A Steroid Hit the Earth

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 8:42:09 PST

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'A Steroid Hit The Earth' is a catalogue of errors, omissions, mistakes and other disasters, ranging from the straight typo or the ambiguous statement to the downright bizarre. Each demonstrates a sub-editor or proofreader taking their eye off the ball, to the delight of millions, every single example preserving the humble misprint as a perpetual source of 'schadenfreude'. From the holy typo of 1 ...

The Confession

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:04:44 PST

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An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police and prosecutors arrested Donte Drumm, a local football star with no connection to the crime. ...

How to Make Gravy

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:04:25 PST

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This extraordinary book had its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Paul Kelly performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between songs he told stories about them, and from those little tales grew How to Make Gravy, a memoir like no other. Each of its hundred chapters, also in alphabetical order by song title, ...

Life

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:04:16 PST

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With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll life: taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life. Listeni ...

Caught

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 7:41:19 PST

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Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid never gave her parents a moment's worry. Until one morning her mother wakes to find that Haley didn't come home the night before. Three months quickly pass without a word, and everyone assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to identify and bring down sexual predators via televised sting operations. Her latest target is Dan Mercer, a social worke ...

Long Lost

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:04:50 PST

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Worth Dying For

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:04:25 PST

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The Man from Beijing

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:00:47 PST

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Bad Boy

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:59:50 PST

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Banks isn't back, and that's the problem. If DCI Alan Banks had been in his office when his old neighbour came calling, perhaps it would have turned out differently. Perhaps an innocent man would still be alive. And perhaps Banks's daughter wouldn't be on the run with a wanted man. But Banks is on holiday, blissfully unaware of the terrible chain of events set in motion by the discovery of a load ...

After America

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:10:16 PST

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So Greek

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:09:58 PST

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Last Man to Die

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:09:29 PST

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An acclaimed historical thriller by the author of HOUSE OF CARDS - a highly original, fast-moving tale that gives an unexpected twist to the last days of the Second World War. Now reissued in a new cover style. Spring 1945. The final weeks of the war. One man holds the secret that will decide the fate of post-war Europe: Peter Hencke, an unlikely hero, a German prisoner-of-war on the run. Refusin ...

Davo's Little Something

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:09:13 PST

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61 Hours

Mon, 8 Nov 2010 8:02:17 PST

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The new heartstopping thriller starring today's most admired action hero, thegallant and enigmatic loner Jack Reacher.

Heartless

Mon, 8 Nov 2010 8:01:36 PST

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Bottlemania

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:48:29 PST

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The Vietnam Years

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 7:18:32 PST

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The Vietnam War was the longest and most divisive war in our history. Almost 60 000 Australians served and more than 500 were killed.

Skin and Bones

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 8:30:02 PST

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In this brilliant first thriller, in the vein of Peter James, a killer goes on the rampage in a quiet Sussex village, leaving only one witness — a woman ...

A Quantum Murder

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 8:29:21 PST

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Dr Edward Kitchener, a brilliant researcher into quantum cosmology for the Event Horizon conglomerate ...but no good to anybody now, lying dead with his lungs spread out on either side of his open chest. The security system at Launde Abbey was premier-grade, yet a mercenary could still have got through, and plenty of people anxious to stop Kitchener's work would pay the killer's fee. But why woul ...

The Three Evangelists

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 8:29:02 PST

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The opera singer Sophia Simeonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop, and three impecunious historians, Mathias, Marc and Lucien - the three evangelists. They agree to dig around the tree and see if something has been buried there. They find nothing but so ...

Callahan's Lady

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:13:59 PST

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A HOUSE OF HEALTHY REPUTE . . .Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that is a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves.Wife of time traveling bartender Mike Callahan, and employer of some of the most unusual and talented performing artists ever to work ...

Cadillac Jukebox

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:13:40 PST

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When former Klansman and piney-woods outcast Aaron Crown is finally imprisoned for a decades-old murder, it is to Detective Dave Robicheaux that he proclaims his innocence loudest. Crown seems to be a lightning rod for every kind of trouble that the state of Louisiana can unearth. A documentary film writer seeking to prove Crown's innocence is found murdered; a button man for the New Orleans mob ...

The Neutronium Alchemist

Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:30:00 PST

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Zigzag Street

Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:07:21 PST

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Richard Derrington is twenty-eight and single. More single than he'd like to be. More single than he'd expected to be, and not coping well. Since Anna trashed him six months ago he's been trying to find his way again. He's doing his job badly, he's playing tennis badly, his renovating attempts haven't got past the verandah, and he's wondering when things are going to change. Zigzag Street covers ...

Indignation

Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:06:19 PST

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It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he here and not at a local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hardworking neighbourhood butcher seems to ...

The King of Lies

Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:06:18 PST

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Jackson Workman Pickens - 'Work' to his friends - an unambitious lawyer in a small Southern town, has some serious baggage. His mother died a year ago from a 'fall' down the family's colonial staircase and his father, Ezra, has been missing ever since. Work is left to deal with his psychologically damaged sister, his father's legal caseload and his own rocky marriage. Power and greed bring many e ...

Miracles of Life

Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:06:18 PST

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J. G. Ballard has been, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', in this revelatory autobiography he charts the course of his astonishing life. J.G. Ballard has been, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic n ...

Plan of Attack

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:25:59 PST

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The high-adrenalin new Patrick McLanahan adventure from the bestselling author of Flight of the Old Dog and Air Battle Force. Stuck in a desk job in Air Force Intelligence, maverick pilot Patrick McLanahan uncovers disturbing evidence that the Russians are secretly arming their bomber fleet with nuclear warheads. Worse still, he realises that despite the lessons of 9/11 the USA is still vulnerabl ...

One Step Behind

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:25:59 PST

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On Midsummer's Eve, three friends gather in a secluded meadow in Sweden. In the still-sun-lit northern night, they don costumes and begin to role play. But an uninvited guest soon brings their performance to a gruesome conclusion. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. The murderer then carefully photographs the grisly tableau. Meanwhile, the Ystad police stati ...

The Towers of the Sunset

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:25:59 PST

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Return now to the world of Recluce in The Towers of the Sunset

Black Cherry Blues

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:25:59 PST

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Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by vivid dreams and visitations, Dave finds his only tranquillity at home with his young ward Alafair. But even this fragile peace is shattered by the arrival of Dixie Lee Pugh who brings with him a brutal trail of murder and violence. Robicheaux reluctantly agrees to hel ...

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:25:58 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 ...

Wolf Totem

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:56:54 PST

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Tamarisk Row

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:08:06 PST

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Journey to the Stone Country

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:07:59 PST

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Journey to the Stone Country confirms Miller's reputation as one of Australia'smost intelligent and uncompromising writers.

Pull Up a Stump

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:07:51 PST

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Breath

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:06:22 PST

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Heads

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:06:17 PST

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True Compass

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:06:17 PST

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Edward M. Kennedy is widely regarded as one of the great Senators in the nation's history. He is also the patriarch of America's most heralded family. In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Kennedy speaks with unprecedented candour about his extraordinary life. He writes movingly of his brothers and their influence on him; his marriage to the woman who changed his life, ...

The Temporal Void

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:19:46 PST

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The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer. Not only is the Ocisen Empire fleet fast approaching on a mission of genocide, but also an internecine war has broken out between the post-human factions over the destiny of humanity. Countering the various and increasingly desperate agents and factions is Paula Myo, a ...

Glory Road

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 8:28:06 PST

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April Fool's Day

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:46:21 PST

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Seeking Whom He May Devour

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:32:22 PST

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Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers, because of his beardlessness (according to popular legend, werewolves have no hair on their bodies because they are inside the body). ...

The Draco Tavern

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:32:03 PST

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When a tremendous spacecraft took orbit around the Earth’s moon and began sending smaller landers down toward the North Pole, the newly arrived visitors quickly set up a permanent spaceport in Siberia. Their presence attracted many, and a few people grew conspicuously rich from secrets they learned from talking to the aliens. One of these men, Rick Schumann, established a tavern catering to all o ...

Callahan's Key

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:31:43 PST

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Nobody blends good science with bad puns as brilliantly as Spider Robinson, as his legion of devoted fans will attest. Now he's back with the latest chapter of the Callahan saga -- an improbable tale of impending doom, a road trip, space, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. The universe is in desperate peril. Due to a cluster of freakish phenomena, the United States' own defense system has become a perfe ...

Warsaw 1920

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:21:09 PST

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The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe. In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess, following a brutal civil war, and the best way of ensuring its survival appeared to be to export the revolution to Germany, itself economic ...

Have Mercy on Us All

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:20:48 PST

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Joss le Guern is a town crier in Paris's 14th arrondissement. He calls out the local news three times a day to all who will listen. Over the course of a few days, however, a number of enigmatic and disturbing messages are slipped in to the daily news, and he becomes increasingly alarmed. Superintendent Adamsberg is visited by an extremely troubled woman who has found strange marks on the door of ...

Top Price

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:19:38 PST

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Whether he was writing about Australian rules or the rules of politics, Bob Dylan or Sherbet, his high school reunion or the Big Brother controversies, the late reporter Matt Price did it with humour, wit and a rare wisdom. Here, in a collection of some of his liveliest columns filed over the past decade, he tackles issues both big ad small with the flair that made him one of the country's best j ...

This Night's Foul Work

Sun, 31 May 2009 19:11:52 PST

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On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old nurse who has murdered several of her patients has escaped from prison. Is there a connection between the three cases? In this mystery, Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against nemeses past and present: Ariane Lagarde, France ...

The Tin Roof Blowdown

Sun, 31 May 2009 19:10:53 PST

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New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, the survivors wait in trees or on rooftops for help that never comes. In a landscape transformed into a violent wasteland, Dave Robicheaux must investigate the shooting of two looters and find out why some very dangerous people are hunting a third. Is ...

The Magic Engineer

Sun, 31 May 2009 19:09:11 PST

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Return now to the world of Recluce in The Magic Engineer.

The Reality Dysfunction

Sun, 31 May 2009 19:08:41 PST

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In AD 2600, the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth ...

Deal Breaker

Sun, 31 May 2009 19:07:57 PST

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Sports agent and sometime investigator Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Suddenly Myron is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail. Trying to u ...

Before the Frost

Sun, 31 May 2009 19:07:11 PST

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In woodland outside Ystad, the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim's side, the pages marked with scribbled corrections. A string of macabre incidents, including attacks on domestic animals, have been taking place, and Inspector Wallander fears that these disturbances could be the prelude to attacks on hum ...

All the Colours of Darkness

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 6:39:12 PST

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A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods. But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree. DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatre's current production of Othello ...

The Book Thief

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 6:38:36 PST

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But these are dangerous times.

Child 44

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 6:37:47 PST

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In Stalin's Soviet Union, crime does not exist. But still millions live in fear. The mere suspicion of disloyalty to the State, the wrong word at the wrong time, can send an innocent person to his execution. Officer Leo Demidov, an idealistic war hero, believes he's building a perfect society. But after witnessing the interrogation of an innocent man, his loyalty begins to waver, and when ordered ...

Town Like Paris

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 7:45:20 PST

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Fleeing London, in search of adventure and determined to sample some of the famed delights of the City of Light, our hero arrives in Paris with only a suitcase and a determination to have the time of his life. He launches himself into la vie parisienne, throws himself at the local female population and quickly discovers his down-home Aussie charm has no currency in France. Like the monotonous ser ...

The Two Minute Rule

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 7:44:50 PST

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Two minutes can be a lifetime. But break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. But not everyone plays by the rules. When an aging ex-con finally gets out of jail, freedom doesn't taste too sweet. His son is gunned down in a dr ...