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Title: Safe Harbour

Author: Luanne Rice
Sub-Category: General Fiction
Blurb: The story of two sisters and the boy next door...Dana Underhill's underwater canvases evoke all the beauty and romance of the seas that she and her sister, Lily, have sailed since childhood. But when a shattering event takes Lily from her forever, Dana must set aside her artist's existence in order become a mother to her two orphaned nieces. An evocative story that shows that to overcome grief, you must learn to love again.
Owner: Sheree
Posted: 18 May 08
Status: Available

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Title: Angel of Honour

Author: Jennifer Bacia

Sub-Category: General Fiction

Blurb: Her mother was a legendary screen goddess. Her father was the President. Wild, beautiful, passionate, she rebels against her convent upbringing to pursue secret desires and forbidden pleasures. Rejecting the land of her birth for fame and fortune in Europe, she loses herself in the decadent high society of Paris and London…until a single, shattering event changes her life forever. Her name is Noella de Bartez. Angel of Honour is her story – the electrifying tale of her rise to power, of the men who loved her, and the one who betrayed her…

Owner: Sheree

Posted: 18 May 08

Status: Available

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Title: A Certain Smile

Author: Judith Michael

Sub-Category: Romance

Blurb: Miranda Grant, a 40-year-old widow with two adolescent children, travels from her home in Boulder, Colo., to Beijing. Petite (size four) Miranda is, on the one hand, shy, fearful and mousy, and, on the other, artistic, creative and hungry for change. Her visit to China is a business trip, arranging knitting contracts for the cashmere sweaters she designs for a New York firm, but it becomes a two-week sojourn that will change her life.(From Publisher's Weekly)

Owner: Narelle

Posted: 18 May 08

Status: Available

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Title: Beneath The Skin

Author: Nicci French
Sub-Category: Psychological Thriller
Blurb: Jane Martello sets out to find the murderer of her childhood friend, Natalie, whose body has unexpectedly turned up in the garden many years later. Since the murder happened so long ago, Jane must depend upon the memories of others and on her own recovered memory, which is nudged to the fore by the convincing psychiatrist, Alex.
Owner: Narelle
Posted: 18 May 08
Status: Available

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Title: The Safe House
Author: Nicci French
Sub-Category: Psychological Thriller
Blurb: A thriller following the story of Sam, a psychologist specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder. When Sam lets the survivor of an attack that left her parents dead stay at her house things start to become scary.
Owner: Narelle
Posted: 18 May 08
Status: Available

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Title: Killing Me Softly

Author: Nicci French
Sub-Category: Crime
Blurb: Alice Loudon has a wonderful boyfriend, Jake; a nice apartment in London; good friends; and a satisfying job as a research manager in a pharmaceutical company. On her way to work one morning, she locks eyes with a handsome man dressed in black, and cannot get him out of her mind. Later that day, she finds him waiting for her and she plunges into an affair of such intensity that she leaves Jake, neglects her friends and her health and even puts herself in great danger. Every decade or so a psychological thriller appears that graphically recounts an intelligent woman's willing sexual subjugation; this gripping novel joins that group. (From Publisher's Weekly)
Owner: Narelle
Posted: 18 May 08
Status: Available

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Title: Beneath The Skin
Author: Nicci French
Sub-Category: Crime
Blurb: Zoe Haratounian (a pre-school teacher), Jennifer Hintlesham (a former model and mother of three) and Nadia Blake (a children's entertainer) are all petite, uniquely pretty women. They also are all involved in, or getting out of, bad relationships with men, and they are all the targets of a murderous stalker who haunts his victims through disturbingly personal letters.
Owner: Narelle
Posted: 18 May 08
Status: Available

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Title: Night Shall Overtake Us
Author: Kate Saunders
Sub-Category: Historical
Blurb: Set in Ireland, England and France during WW I, the plot centers on four girls who swear an oath of eternal friendship on their final night together at an Irish boarding school: Rory, a feisty Irish lass who plans never to marry; Francesca, a delicate beauty forever shamed by childhood incest; Eleanor, who will fall for an abusive lover; and Jenny, who will battle her fiance's mother for years. As the four go about their intertwined adult lives, readers experience their dramatically changing circumstances, as well as the near dissolution of friendship between two of the women, who fall for the same man. Though Saunders concentrates on Rory, each of the heroines' characters are developed in surprising and subtle ways. With its lively dialogue and carefully researched period details, the novel reproduces a bygone era while charging it with timeless human emotion.

Owner: Narelle
Posted: 18 May 08
Status: Available

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Title: The Most Wanted
Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard
Sub-Category: General Fiction
Blurb: Arley Mowbray is a drop-dead gorgeous 14-year-old, who, with her long, muscular frame and mature, collected manner could easily pass for 18. And pass she does. On a dare from her outspoken best friend, Elena Gutierrez, Arley writes to convict Dillon LeGrande in prison and convinces him she's a college student (though she hasn't made it out of junior high). Therein begins an ill-fated love story that myths are made of and men die for--except that's not what Dillon has in mind. Jacquelyn Mitchard's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the first to receive Oprah's benediction, instantly making it a bestseller and thrusting Mitchard into the halls of literary stardom.
Owner: Narelle
Posted: 15 May 08
Status: Available

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Title: In the Night Room

Author: Peter Straub

Sub-Category: Horror

Blurb: Willy Bryce Patrick, a children's book author soon to be married to coldhearted financier Mitchell Faber, at least until Willy discovers that Faber had her first family murdered. Moving briskly while ranging from high humor to the blackest dread, this is an original, astonishingly smart and expertly entertaining meditation on imagination and its powers; one of the very finest works of Straub's long career, it's a sure bet for future award nominations. (From Publisher's Weekly)

Owner: Narelle

Posted: 15 May 08

Status: Available

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Title: Mallory's Oracle (First Mallory Novel)

Author: Carol O'Connell

Sub-Category: Crime

Blurb: Kathleen Mallory was an 11-year-old thief living on the streets of New York City when Detective Louis Markowitz rescued her and raised her in his home. The novel opens a decade later when Markowitz, a widower, is found dead beside the third in a series of Gramercy Park dowagers slashed and murdered in broad daylight. Mallory, whose early criminal instincts and keen intelligence have been loosely channeled into computer science, is forced to take a leave from the department and decides to seek vengeance on her own.

Owner: Narelle

Posted: 15 May 08

Status: Available

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Title: The Gripping Beast

Author: Charlene Teglia

Sub-Category: Romantic Erotica

Blurb: Lorelei Michaels, flamboyant lead vocalist of the all-female rock band The Sirens, has a passion for myths and legends. She just never expected to find herself actually living one. While touring with the band, a Viking armband with an interesting history and a design known as the gripping beast throws her into a time warp-full of Norsemen, macho attitudes and a lamentable lack of modern amenities. Upon seeing the strange, beautiful woman being auctioned off, Erik Thorolfsson was mesmerized. Until the slave trader put his hands on her. With a roar of rage and sword drawn, he charged forward to take that which he wanted for his own. But he discovers owning her isn't enough, he has to make her his-for all time.

Owner: Elle

Posted: 18 May 08

Status: Available

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Title: Every Eighteen Minutes

Author: Ellen Flint

Category: General Non-Fiction

Blurb: This heartfelt memoir follows Ellen's journey through the years following her 26 year old brother's disappearance. Poignant and powerful.

Owner: Sheree

Posted: 15 April 08

Status: Available

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Title: The Taming & The Conquest (Peregrine Book 1 and 2)
Author: Jude Deveraux
Category: Historical Romance
Blurb: England's most valiant knights paid court to wealthy Liana Neville, but only the infamous warrior Rogan Peregrine made no secret of his powerful desires. His very caress melted Liana into liquid fire, and she vowed to capture this manificent, wild man. Boldly the delicate beauty gave him her hand -- and Britain's richest dower. Yet he was bound to a bitter feud: for love betrayed, brothers killed, and ancestral land usurped. In Rogan's war-ravaged castle, Liana would lay her tender seige...to redeem his embattled spirit and win his untamed heart! A very sensual historical romane - one of Jude Deveraux's best.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Predator
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Category: Crime
Blurb: Kay Scarpetta and her colleagues-Benton Wesley, Pete Marino, and her niece Lucy Farinelli-return to a series of forensic cases as haunting as any they have ever tackled. Working with the National Forensic Institute in Florida, Scarpetta and Marino examine the X-rays of a man who has died from a shotgun blast to the chest. But the pellets embedded show a strange 'pinball' pattern and the two can't help but wonder if this points to suicide-or to murder. In an abandoned house in the rural South, a woman is held against her will. Her captor is unknown to her-and indeed unseen-but even in the dark, she knows that he is near. And on Cape Cod, Lucy awakens to a gray winter morning and the sure feeling that she has made a dreadful mistake.
Posted: 5 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: Joe Cinque's Consolation
Author: Helen Garner
Category: True Crime
Blurb: In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests – most of them university students – had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder.
Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as ‘evil'; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care.
It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Rachel's Holiday
Author: Marian Keyes
Category: Chick-Lit
Blurb: Rachel Walsh is 27 and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. Overly fond of recreational drugs, she gets frogmarched into the Cloisters, Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. Once there, she seeks redemption in the shape of Chris, a "man with a past". This is Marion Keyes's most autobiographical work of fiction and is written with her usual combination of sharp wit and deep insight.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: The Secret
Author: Rhonda Byrne
Category: Self-Help
Blurb: What is The Secret? Find out how the law of attraction can help you find happiness, health and wealth.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Love in a Torn Land
Author: Jean Sasson
Category: General Non-Fiction
Blurb: One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death.It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin ‘Chemical Ali’ to bombard Joanna’s village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape.Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women’s lives in the Princess trilogy and Mayada. Love in a Torn Land is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious ‘Chemical Ali’, Saddam Hussein’s most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Author: J. K. Rowling
Category: Children's Fiction
Blurb: As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It's been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero's non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief... or will it?
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper

Status: Available

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Title: Vanishing Acts
Author: Jodi Picoult
Category: General Fiction
Blurb: Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Magician
Author: Raymond E. Fiest
Category: Fantasy
Blurb: To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Da Vinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Category: General Fiction
Blurb: Come on guys, you all know what this one's about! Right????
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Next
Author: Micheal Crichton
Category: Sci-Fi Thriller
Blurb: We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.
We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes... Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Fondling Your Muse
Author: John Warner
Category: General Non-Fiction, Writing
Blurb: Fondling Your Muse is John Warner's innovative and slightly insane book of instruction for those who want to write, and those who think they already can. It's packed with quirky (possibly deranged) advice guaranteed to make you laugh out loud in the most embarrassing fashion possible. You know what we mean. It also includes a special chapter entitled "Everything Stephen King Knows About Writing Successfully: Plus Some Things I Know That He Doesn't Because He Isn't That Special."
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Writing a Romance Novel for Dummies
Author: Leslie Wainger
Category: General Non-Fiction
Blurb: Writing A Romance Novel For Dummies is perfect for both beginning and more accomplished writers who are looking to get the leading edge on writing a romance novel and get it published. Leslie Wainger, Executive Editor at Harlequin Books, explains what it takes to become the next Nora Roberts, providing the techniques you need to succeed.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Idiot's Guide to Getting Your Romance Published

Author: Julie Beard

Category: General Non-Fiction

Blurb: If you genuinely love happy endings, Julie Beard (My Fair Lord) is here to help you become the next, well, Julie Beard. Embedded within chapters about writing and publishing and promoting your romance are all kinds of juicy tidbits about the romance biz. Beard discusses each romance subgenre in detail, disclosing typical story lines, the appropriate tone to use, and authors whose work is worth checking out.

Posted: 5 April 08

Owner: Mad Scrapper

Status: Available

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Title: Second Chance
Author: Jane Green
Category: Chick-Lit
Blurb: Green tells the story of a group of people who haven't seen each other since they were best friends at school. When one of them dies in a terrible tragedy, the reunited friends work through their grief together and find that each of their lives is impacted in ways they could have never foreseen. Warm, witty, and as wise as ever, this is a story of friendship, of family, and of life coming full circle.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: True Believer
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Category: General Fiction
Blurb: As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter of the twon psychic. Now, if the young lovers are to have any kind of future at all, Jeremy must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows, or do something he's never done before - take a giant leap of faith.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Mad Scrapper
Status: Available

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Title: Tall Dark and Hungry
Author: Lynsay Sands
Category: Paranormal Romance
Blurb: It bites: New York hotels cost an arm and a leg, and Terri has flown from England to help plan her cousin’s wedding. The new in-laws offered lodging. But they’re a weird bunch -- and it isn’t just that they’re Canadian! There is the sometimes-chipper-sometimes-silent Lucern, and the wacky stage-actor Vincent: she can’t imagine Broadway casting a hungrier singing-and-dancing Dracula. And then there is Bastien. Just looking into his eyes, Terri has to admit she’s falling for someone even taller, darker, and hungrier. She’s feeling a mite peckish herself. And if she stays with him, those bloodsucking hotel owners won’t get her!
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Kate Cuthbert
Status: Available

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Title: Jane Austen's Guide to Dating
Author: Lauren Henderson
Category: Self-Help
Blurb: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." --Jane Austen, Pride and PrejudiceThere was never a more astute chronicler of the hits and near-misses of love than Jane Austen. Now, she helps readers discover their inner heroines and get the guy in this witty book of romance and dating strategies.Utilizing wisdom inspired by Jane Austen's novels, from Sense and Sensibility to Pride and Prejudice and beyond, author Lauren Henderson creates an indispensable guide for navigating the all-too-mystifying dating scene.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Kate Cuthbert
Status: Available

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Title: An Assembly Such As This
Author: Pamela Aiden
Category: Historical Romance(P&P told from Mr Darcy's POV)
Blurb: Aidan retells the now iconic story of Pride and Prejudice through the eyes of Fitzwilliam Darcy as he visits Netherfield with his good friend Charles Bingley and his sisters. The austere Darcy takes life very seriously, and is at a loss as to how he became friends with the amicable Bingley. Darcy has escaped many marriage-minded mothers and their daughters, which is why he initially disdains the Bennet family. Once he gets to know Elizabeth, however, he realizes his mistake, but his attempts to apologize to her only make him act even more awkwardly in her presence. The first in Aidan's planned trilogy of improvisations on Jane Austen concludes with the infamous Netherfield ball. Austen fans will relish the tale's retelling from Darcy's perspective as well as new characters, including Fletcher, the insightful and amusing valet who apparently approves of the charming Miss Elizabeth Bennet.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Kate Cuthbert
Status: Available

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Title: Me vs Me
Author: Sarah Mlynowski
Category: Contemporary Romance
Blurb: Gabby Wolf, 24, is all set to move to from Arizona to New York for the job of her dreams when her boyfriend, Cam, proposes to her 36 hours before her flight. Forced to choose between a $125K cable news production job and being a Southwestern wife with a less flashy career, Gabby makes an ambivalent gesture that Cam interprets as a yes. Distracted during their celebratory snog, Gabby makes a wish on a shooting star she espies out the window. The result: she gets to have both lives, transporting herself from one to the other whenever she falls asleep, and allowing her to live the same day twice in different places.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Kate Cuthbert
Status: Available

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Title: Exit Strategy
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Category: Romantic Suspense
Blurb: Nadia Stafford, a cop-turned-hit-woman, saddled in her first adventure with a killer vs. killer mission. After being retired from a Canadian police force for shooting a suspect dead, Nadia becomes a hit woman—temporarily, that is, while she waits for her lakeside lodge to take off—targeting smalltime career criminals for clients who are often their direct competitors. Now, she's teaming up with her mentor, Jack, to apprehend a hit man–turned–serial killer known as the Helter Skelter killer. As Nadia pursues the case deeper into the dangerous world of assassins and spies, she finds reason to suspect just about everybody in Armstrong's fine cast of shifty, complex characters. The sexual tension between Jack and Nadia is entirely believable, adding a compelling, organic layer to the suspense. Armstrong's expert plotting never falters, and she's able to keep ramping up the intensity throughout more than 500 pages—no easy feat—making this a top-notch entertainment sure to seduce fans of tough heroines.
Owner: Kate Cuthbert
Posted: 5 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: The Raven Prince (Princes Trilogy, Book 1)
Author: Elizabeth Hoyt
Category: Historical Romance
Blurb: After reviewing her somewhat precarious financial situation, Anna Wren comes to the conclusion that she needs a job. When she discovers that Edward de Raaf, the Earl of Swartingham, requires a new secretary, it seems like the perfect solution to her employment problem. Having already lost two secretaries because of his temper, Edward reluctantly agrees to give Anna a chance. Much to Anna's surprise, she finds she likes working for the often stubborn but unexpectedly kind Edward, and Edward soon realizes that Anna is not only an excellent secretary but also an extraordinarily intriguing woman. Hoyt's superb debut historical romance will dazzle readers with its brilliant blend of exquisitely nuanced characters, splendidly sensual love story, and elegant writing expertly laced with a dash of tart wit.
Owner: Kate Cuthbert
Status: Available

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Title: A Week From Sunday
Author: Dorothy Garlock
Category: Heartland Romance
Blurb: Adrianna Moore has just had a double shock: the death of her father and the discovery that he has left his entire estate to his lawyer. The lawyer, a repulsive social climber, tells her that to regain her inheritance, she must marry him A WEEK FROM SUNDAY. Adrianna takes off, driving desperately to a new life. Caught in a violent rainstorm, she collides with an oncoming truck. Quinn Baxter, the driver of the truck, demands repayment for his lost cargo. They reach a bargain: she will live in his home, tutor his bedridden younger brother and play piano in Quinn's tavern to pay off her debt. Drawn to the rugged Quinn, challenged by the interaction with the tavern patrons, she also must deal with an intractable foe--Quinn's housekeeper who is scheming to become his wife. And all the while, the spurned lawyer is following Adrianna's trail, determined to find her and force her to marry him.
Posted: 5 April 08
Owner: Kate Cuthbert
Status: Available

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Title: Dangerous
Author: Nora Roberts
Category: Contemporary (bind-up of two titles)
Blurb: A suspenseful anthology written by one of today's most popular romance authors.
Owner: Kate Cuthbert
Posted: 5 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: A Girl's Guide to Vampires
Author: Kate MacAllister
Category: Paranormal Romance
Blurb: All Joy Randall wants is a little old-fashioned romance, but when she participates in a "Goddess evoking" ceremony with her friend, Roxy, Joy finds out her future true love is a man with the potential to put her immortal soul in danger. At first the ever-practical Joy is ready to dismiss her vision as a product of too much gin and too many vampire romances, but while traveling through the Czech Republic with Roxy, Joy begins to have some second thoughts about her mystery lover because she is suddenly plagued by visions of a lethally handsome stranger. Then, when she and Roxy attend a local GothFaire, Joy meets Raphael Griffin St. John, head of security, and she becomes even more bewildered because the dark and dangerous Raphael seems too close to her dreams for comfort. Readers will gladly give in to the wickedly sharp bite of MacAlister's wit in this temptingly toothsome romance.
Owner: Kate Cuthbert
Posted: 5 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: Royal Road to Fotheringay
Author: Jean Plaidy
Category: Historical Fiction
Blurb: The haunting story of the beautiful—and tragic—Mary, Queen of Scots, as only legendary novelist Jean Plaidy could write it. The first book in Plaidy's two Queen of Scots books, following Mary's troublesome beginning leading to her house arrest in England.
Owner: Kjirsten Hartwell
Posted: 06 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: Dear John
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Category: General Fiction
Blurb: An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his lifeuntil he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. Dear John, the letter readand with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true loveand face the hardest decision of his life.
Owner: Peta LeBoydre
Posted: 06 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: The Miracle at St. Bruno's
Author: Philipa Carr
Category: Historical Fiction
Blurb: "I was born in the September of 1523, nine months after the monks had discovered the child in the crib on that Christmas morning. My birth was, my father used to say, another miracle: He was not young at the time being forty years of age . . . My mother, whose great pleasure was tending her gardens, called me Damask, after the rose which Dr. Linacre, the King's physician, had brought into England that year." (Taken from Opening Paragraph)
Owner: Kjirsten Hartwell
Posted: 06 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: The Wandering Prince (Stuart Saga, Book 3)
Author: Jean Plaidy
Category: Historical Fiction
Blurb: He was born Charles Stuart, and deprived of his heritage, he was forced to spend the early years of his manhood wandering Europe. He became Charles II, King of England, the most fascinating rake in British history. It is the story of Chares' early years that is told here through the eyes of two women -- one, Lucy Water, who became his mistress and the mother of his natural son; the other, Charles' younger sister, Minette.
Owner: Kjirsten Hartwell
Posted: 06 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: The Naked Face

Author: Sidney Sheldon

Category: Crime

Blurb: Judd is a New York psychoanalyst who deals with very disturbed patients. When one of his patients is stabbed and his secretary is murdered, Judd quickly falls under the suspicion of the police. With someone after his life and the evidence slanted against him, will Judd be able to survive and prove his innocence?

Owner: Kjirsten

Posted: 06 April 08

Status: AVAILABLE

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Title: Saint Thomas's Eve (Tudor Series, Book 6)
Author: Jean Plaidy
Category: Hsitorical Fiction
Blurb: This is the beautifully conceived story of Sir Thomas More -- scholar, chancellor of England, man of integrity -- who was snatched from the peaceful life of his family home in Chelsea, to die on the scaffold as the price of his opposition to the wild desires of King Henry VIII. It is also the story of a delectable family caught up in the intrigues of a lustful king. Thomas More did not seek fame. His merry household, sanctuary of Holbein and Erasmus, was in startling contrast with the licentious Tudor court. But when fame was thrust upon More, he began the perilous journey which ended on St. Thomas's Eve.
Owner: Kjirsten Hartwell
Posted: 06 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: The Bookseller of Kabul
Author: Asne Seierstad
Category: General Non-Fiction
Blurb: A female journalist from Norway moved in with the Khan family in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Disguised as she was behind the bulky, shapeless burka and escorted always by a man and even in Western dress, she was somehow anonymous and accepted readily into the bookseller's large extended family. Her account is of the tragedy, contradictions, rivalries, and daily frustrations of a middle-class Afghan family. She accompanied the women as they shopped and dressed for a wedding and was privy to the negotiations for the marriage. She tells of the death by suffocation of a young woman who met her lover in secret, the bored meanderings of a 12-year-old boy forced to work 12-hour days selling candy in a hotel lobby, and of going on a religious pilgrimage with a restless, frustrated teen. All this is recounted with journalistic objectivity in spite of her close ties to the Khans.
Owner: Helen
Posted: 14 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: The Dog Walker
Author: Leslie Schnur
Category: General Fiction
Blurb: The Dog Walker is a hilarious and heartwarming novel about Nina Shepard, a dog walker who snoops in peoples' apartments, and her quest for fulfillment. It is about city living-any city, all cities-and the struggle to make connections. It's about dogs and their owners and who needs more training. Finally, it's about life itself: unpredictable, bursting with love, and not to be missed.
Owner: Sandra
Posted: 15 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: Heartswap
Author: Celia Brayfield
Category: General Fiction
Blurb: The novel begins with transatlantic e-mails between two old friends discussing their impending marriages, Flora to Dillon, "Financial products design. 6ft 2in. Buns of custard", and Georgie to Felix, a medical researcher investigating the mysteries of "Lightoller's Syndrome". All seems well until their glacial, glamorous former boss Donna suggests that they try to seduce each other's man as a trial of their fidelity and commitment. Against Flora and Georgie's better instincts both find themselves playing the game.
Owner: Sandra
Posted: 15 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: The Works of Sir Walter Scott

Author: Sir Walter Scott
Category: General Fiction
Blurb: Sir Walter Scott was a prolific scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time. In some ways Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers all over Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English language literature and of Scottish literature. (Taken from Wikipedia)
Owner: Debbie
Posted: 16 April 08
Status: AVAILABLE

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Title: English Social History
Author: G M Trevelyan
Category: General Non-Fiction
Blurb: Trevelyan's best known work is a pioneering classic, and in many respects remains a great achievement. It covers the period from the early fourteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and is one of the very first attempts to describe everyday life in England between these dates. It is not entirely consistent in approach, but in the main it centres around certain individuals whose writing is important in understanding their times: Chaucer, Defoe and Cobbett, for example.
Owner: Debbie
Posted: 16 April 08
Status: Available

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Title: Claiming the Courtesan
Author: Anna Campbell
Category: Historical Romance
Blurb: Dire circumstances have forced Verity Ashton - London's most celebrated courtesan - to barter her innocence and change her name for the sake of her family. But Kylemore destroys her plans for a respectable life when he discovers her safe haven. He kidnaps her, sweeping her away to his hunting lodge in Scotland, where he vows to bend her to his will. There he seduces her anew. Verity spends night after night with him in his bed . . . and though she still dreams of escape and independence, she knows she can never flee the unexpected, unwelcome love for the proud, powerful lover who claims her both body and soul.
Owner: Debbie
Posted: 16 April 08
Status: AVAILABLE

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