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Indian in the Cupboard Study
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Omri receives several conventional gifts
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least
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learning
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~ Rebecca James
An international sensation that The
Wall Street Journal called
a “publishing phenomenon,” this layered, poignant, and
chilling novel of psychological suspense is the year’s most
stunning American fiction debut. From its wrenching opening
to its shocking climax, Beautiful
Malice unfolds
a haunting story in which people, motives, and circumstances
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Full dark
~ Stephen King
I believe there is another man inside every
man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early
pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the
first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from
Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James,
that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes
selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha,
setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In
'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters
the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she
takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated
and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her
face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself.
'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps
the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with
the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer
but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.
When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of
his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in
the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a
worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband.
It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling
intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'. Like
DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated
such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and
Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a
master of the long story form. |
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Dannii: My Story
Dannii Minogue
Dannii Minogue first appeared on television
aged seven. She signed her first record deal at the age of
seventeen and ever since she has been wowing audiences
around the world with her charm and her charisma. In
this very personal and uplifting autobiography, Dannii talks
openly for the first time about the highs and lows of her 30
year career; her marriage and subsequent divorce to Julian
McMahon; the trials and tribulations of her role as an X
Factor judge; her relationship with sister Kylie and, of
course, becoming a mother. Explosively revealing, Dannii
Minogue: My Story was one of the big autobiographies of 2010 |
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Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from
My Grandmothers
~Adriana Trigiani
Fans of novelist Trigiani will be delighted
with this guided tour through the author's family history
via her grandmothers, Lucia and Viola. She lovingly details
the women's lives and recounts the lessons she's learned
while offering a fascinating look at U.S. history from the
perspective of her Italian-American forebears. She credits
them with telling good stories: "I mimicked their work ethic
imagining myself in a factory, layering words like tasks
until the work was done. I took away more than life lessons
from their stories; I made a career out of it." Here,
Trigiani combines family and American history, reflections
on lives well-lived, and sound advice to excellent effect,
as a legacy to her daughter and a remembrance of two
inimitable women |
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The
Power ~ Rhonda Byrne
You are meant to have an amazing life!
This is the handbook to the greatest power in the Universe -
The Power to have anything you want. Every discovery,
invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect
health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life
filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and
have everything you want, all come from The Power. The life
of your dreams has always been closer to you than you
realized, because The Power - to have everything good in
your life - is inside you. To create anything, to change
anything, all it takes is just one thing...THE POWER.
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The Finkler Question
Winner 2010 Man Booker Prize
~ Howard Jacobson
Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and
understanding. It is also beautifully written … Indeed,
there’s so much that is first rate in the manner of
Jacobson’s delivery that I could write all day on his
deployment of language without once mentioning what the book
is about.”—Edward Docx, Observer (UK)
It takes in the mysteries of male friendship,
the relentlessness of grief and the lure of emotional
parasitism.”—Alex Clark, Guardian (UK)
“The Finkler Question is
characterized by [Jacobson’s] structuring skill and
unsimplifying intelligence—this time picking through the
connections and differences, hardly unremarked but given
fresh treatment here, between vicariousness and parasitism,
and between Jewishness, Judaism and Zionism.”—Leo
Robson, New
Statesman |
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FREE
RANGE KIDS has
become a national movement, sparked by the incredible
response to Lenore Skenazy s piece about allowing her
9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups
argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil
with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot of
parents today, Skenazy says, see no difference between
letting their kids walk to school and letting them walk
through a firing range. Any risk is seen as too much risk.
But if you try to prevent every possible danger or difficult
in your child s everyday life, that child never gets a
chance to grow up.
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By Maria
Quinn
Brilliant, lonely genetic scientist Piggy Brown is
desperate for a child, but he's in a tricky legal situation. Dancer
is a lawyer with his own reasons for wanting to grant Piggy's
dearest wish - and he can set up Conjugal Contracts which push the
envelope of the law. Dancer visits The Nest, the official centre for
surrogates, and inveigles them into recommending someone they have
used before, someone who won't ask too many questions about the baby
she carries. But choosing a surrogate can be risky, and this one,
Angela, comes with baggage: her own child, Molly, a six-year-old who
has already seen too much of her mother's world. When a grotesque
kidnapping occurs, everything is thrown into chaos and Jack Lee,
Chief Investigator for the UN Ethical Science Council, decides it's
time to take charge of the case - for the sake of humanity's future.
(Winner:
The inaugural Norma K Hemming Award for excellence in
the exploration of themes of race, gender, class and sexuality in
Australian speculative fiction ) |
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1
Mark Twain
Edited by
Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin
Griffin, Victor
Fischer , Michael
B. Frank, Sharon
K. Goetz , Leslie
Diane Myrick
"Dip into the first enormous
volume of Twain's autobiography that he had decreed
should not appear until 100 years after his death. And
Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and
still astonishing, but less sure-footed, and at times
both puzzled and puzzling in ways that still resonate
with us, though not the ways we might expect."
--New York Times
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