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The Friday night knitting club by Kate Jacobs
"It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their knitting needles and wool from Georgia Walker’s little yarn shop linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat and before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. And as the needles clack, and the garments grow, the conversation moves on from patterns and yarn to life, love and everything. They may be different ages, from different backgrounds and facing different problems, but they are drawn together by threads of affection that prove as durable as the sweaters they knit." (Cover)
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Double cross by James Patterson
"Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex knows: the killer adores an audience. As victims are made into gruesome spectacles citywide, inducing a media hysteria, it becomes clear to Alex that the man he's after is a genius of terror--and he's after fame. The killer has the whole city by its strings--and he'll stop at nothing to become the most terrifying star that Washington D.C. has ever seen." (Nielsen bookData Online) |
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Princess Margaret by Tim Heald
Tim Heald's vivid and elegant biography portrays a woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring - even more so than Princess Diana, years later - and whose reputation for naughtiness co-existed with the glamour. The mythology is that Margaret's life was 'ruined' by her not being allowed to marry the one true love of her life - Group Captain Peter Townsend - and that therefore her marriage to Lord Snowdon and her well-attested relationships with Roddy Llewellyn and others were mere consolation prizes. Margaret's often exotic personal life in places like Mustique is a key part of her story. The author has had extraordinary help from those closest to Princess Margaret..., as well as three of her private secretaries and many of her ladies in waiting. He has also had the Queen's permission to use the royal archives.Heald asks why one of the most famous and loved little girls in the world, who became a juvenile wartime sweetheart, ended her life a sad wheelchair-bound figure, publicly reviled and ignored." (Nielsen BookData Online) |
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Game over by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
"The murder of any journalist is bound to whip the news media into a frenzy. So when ex-BBC correspondent Ed Stonax is found dead, the last thing Detective Inspector Slider needs to complicate his life is the reappearance of an old enemy issuing death threats. Trevor Bates, aka The Needle, is on the loose and trying to kill him, and with a high-profile murder to solve, he must try to find a spare moment to marry Joanna before their baby is born - and stay alive long enough to do it...The eleventh Bill Slider Mystery finds the everyman hero grappling with corruption in high places as two old cases come back to haunt him." (Nielsen Bookdata Online)
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Painful decisions by Mary Larkin
"Life is tough for the McGuigans. Tommy exerts a powerful influence over his family with bouts of drunken violence and cruelty. Johnny, the eldest son, is forced to change his life to deal with the shameful consequences of young love, and his sister Louise, a beautiful hard-working mill girl, falls for the educated and handsome Conor O'Rourke. Nora McGuigan embarks on a secret relationship of her own - one that threatens to destroy the very foundation of the family. Painful decisions must be made - decisions that bring hurt and anguish, but also a new honesty, understanding and love." (ISIS Publishing)
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Fallen Angels by Valerie Wood
"After her husband's attempts to sell her at a wife sale, Lily Fowler is left alone, frightened and heavily pregnant on the streets of Hull. Cast aside and shunned by society, Lily struggles to find a respectable job and is forced to work in a brothel. Here she finds unexpected solace in the company of the other women. Together they strive to escape from their miserable surroundings. United by bonds far stronger than normal friendship, these fallen angels bid farewell to the slums and, to their very great surprise, doors open, lost loves are recovered and the happy endings that none of them dared to dream of begin to materialise." (ISIS Publishing)
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Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
"Jane was a sweet, funny, chubby seven-year-old, desperately seeking love from her self-obsessed mother and her preoccupied father. Her only friend was handsome, funny, 30-something Michael. Michael was different. No one else could see him. No one else believed he existed beyond the realms of her imagination.
Over 20 years later, Jane, isolated and lonely, catches a glimpse of that unforgotten face. This time, though, Michael isn't just a figment of her imagination. But will the path of true love be a smooth one? And will Jane get her happy ever after?" (ISIS Publishing)
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In the woods by Tana French
"Summer 1984 and three children are playing in the woods. When they don’t return, the police are called. Two are never seen again. The third child is found terrified, unable to recall anything. Twenty years later, that boy, Rob Ryan, is a Dublin detective. But when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox find themselves investigating a case with chilling links to that long-ago disappearance. Now, Rob has the chance to unravel both the case before him and his own shadowy past. And every trail leads inexorably back ... into the woods." (Cover)
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Antarctica: Exploring a fragile Eden by Jonathan & Angela Scott
"A journey to Antarctica changes your life. It forces you to take a long hard look at the state of our planet and its last wild places ... Antarctica promises man the chance to do something that he has never done before – commit to the preservation of a vast wilderness, simply because it exists. Here the Scotts tell the story of their modern–day exploration of this extreme continent, a journey through the magnificent icy landscape, to explore the wildlife of this rare sanctuary, and reflect on the experiences of early explorers, and on the relationship between man and the wildlife in this remote and spectacular environment." (Cover)
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Another woman's husband by Sarah Duncan
"Becca thought she was happy. She's been with her husband Martin so long it rarely occurs to her that there could be any other way; her fourteen-year-old daughter is growing up to be confident and clever; and she has an unusually good relationship with her parents. But when her mother announces that she's leaving Becca's father, suddenly everything changes. Becca's in freefall, as everything she thought was certain is slipping away. When Martin becomes too preoccupied with training for the marathon to listen to her concerns, Becca is drawn, dangerously, to a man who has no right to pursue her...Whether her marriage will survive or not, Becca's woken up, and she's never going to be quite the same woman again."(Nielsen Bookdata Online)
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A prisoner of birth by Jeffrey Archer
"Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss' daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge University. After leaving university he becomes a criminal barrister and is soon tipped to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation. Danny and Beth travel up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. They end the evening in a wine bar where Spencer Craig is also celebrating - his 30th birthday, along with a select group of university chums. Although the two young men don't meet, their lives will never be the same again. For, an hour later, one of them is arrested for murder, while the other ends up as the Prosecution's chief witness in an Old Bailey trial." (Nielsen Bookdata Online) |
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The Black Angel by John Connolly
"The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives. A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is 'blood' to the killer Louis, the man who stands at the right hand of private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her. But as Louis' violent search progresses, Parker comes to realize that the disappearance is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel. Yet the Black Angel is more than a myth. It is conscious. It dreams. It is alive. And men are not the only creatures that seek it ..." (Nielsen BookData Online) |
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An arsonist's guide to writers' homes in England by Brock Clark
"A lot of remarkable things have happened in Sam's life. He spent ten years in prison for accidentally burning down poet Emily Dickinson's house - and unwittingly killing two people in the process. He emerged at age twenty-eight and set about creating a new life for himself - and then watched in awe as the past caught up with him, right at his own front door.
As, one by one, the homes of other famous New England writers are torched, Sam knows that this time he is most certainly not guilty. To prove his innocence, he sets out to uncover the identity of this literary-minded arsonist..." (Cover)
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The French Gardener by Santa Montefiore
"Miranda and David move out of London into a beautiful contry house with a magical garden. But Miranda insists on tottering across the wet lawn in kitten heels, David is never there, and the children won't tear themselves away from the telly. Then an enigmatic Frenchman arrives. With the wisdom of nature heslowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? And what is his secret?" (Cover)
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The Summer of Secrets by Martina Reilly
""Hope is about to go travelling. She needs to escape from her IT job in London and think about what she wants to do with the rest of her life. But what she doesn't know is that the unthinkable is about to happen. The plane she's travelling on crash lands, killing most of her fellow passengers. Hope is one of only a handful to survive. When she wakes up she finds herself in hospital, her best friends at her side. They are taking her home, they say, to recuperate. But home is the last place Hope wants to go - not now, with all the secrets she's carrying..." (cover) |
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A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
A Short History of Nearly Everything is Bill Bryson's quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.
His challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could beinterested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?" (Cover)
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Dead Men by Stephen Leather
" Former SAS trooper turned undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. But when a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, Shepherd has to put his life on the line to protect his former enemies. Whilst he is undercover in Belfast, a grief-stricken Saudi whose two sons died under torture in the name of the War On Terror is planning to avenge their deaths by striking out at two people close to Shepherd As the Muslim assassin closes in on his prey, Shepherd realises that the only way to save lives is to become a killer himself." (Nielsen BookData Online)
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Blood brothers by Nora Roberts
"Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys - Caleb, Fox, and Gage - went on a camping trip to the Pagan Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men - and the women who love them…
This modern-day legend draws reporter and author Quinn Black to Hawkins Hollow with the hope of making the eerie happening the subject of her new book. It is only February, but Caleb Hawkins, descendent of the town founders, has already seen and felt the stirrings of evil. Though he can never forget the beginning of the terror in the woods twenty-one years ago, the signs have never been this strong before. Cal will need the help of his best friends, Fox and Gage, but surprisingly he must rely on Quinn as well. She, too, can see the evil that the locals cannot, somehow connecting her to the town – and to Cal. As winter turns to spring, Cal and Quinn will shed their inhibitions, surrendering to a growing desire. They will form the cornerstone of a group of men and women bound by fate, passion, and the fight against what is to come from out of the darkness…" (Cover)
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