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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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