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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: 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: 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: The Wandering Fire (Fionavar Tapestry Book Two)

Author: Guy Graviel Kat

Category: Fantasy
Blurb: A group of five university students return to Fionavar to become warriors and wizards charged with freeing the suffering land from an unnaturally prolonged Winter. This elaborate fantasy weaves a tale of both Authurian legends and adolescent struggle.

Owner: Lman

Posted: 27 April 08

Status: AVAILABLE

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Title: The Other QueenAuthor: Philippa Gregory
Category: Historical Fiction

Blurb: A dramatic novel of passion, politics and betrayal from the author of The Other Boleyn Girl, in which Mary, Queen of Scots, fights to regain her kingdom whilst under the guard of Queen Elizabeth's trusted accomplice, Bess of Hardwick. She is newly married to her fourth and most distinguished husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury. But what marriage can withstand the charms of Mary? Or the threat of rebellion that she always carries? With her characteristic combination of superb storytelling and authentic historical background, Philippa Gregory brings to life this period of great change in her final novel in the Tudor series.

Owner: Annie Bucknall
Posted: 5 May 08

Status: AVAILABLE

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