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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: The No. 1 Ladie's Detective Agency

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Category: General Fiction
Blurb: Mma Ramotswe is Botswana's only female detective with only a detective manual, the frequently cited example of Agatha Christie and her instincts to guide her. Mma Ramotswe's love of Africa, her wisdom and humor, shine through these pages as she shines her own light on the problems that vex her clients. Images of this large woman driving her tiny white van or sharing a cup of bush tea with a friend or client while working a case linger pleasantly. General audiences will welcome this little gem of a book just as much if not more than mystery readers.
Owner: Lman
Posted: 27 April 08
Status: AVAILABLE

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Title: Once Were Warriors
Author: Alan Duff
Category: General Fiction
Blurb: Read the book that inspired the controversial film. In a Maori ghetto of urban New Zealand, Jake and Beth Heke battle entrenched poverty, racism and other ills that overwhelm their traditional Maori culture. With a gritty, realistic eye, Duff portrays Jake and Beth, who because of alcoholism, abuse and poverty can provide little protection against the gangs, drugs and violence that menace their children.
Owner: Lman
Posted: 27 April 08
Status: AVAILABLE

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Title: The Persimmon Tree

Author: Bryce Courtenay
Blurb: Set during the Japanese invasion of the Pacific in WWII, The Permission Tree is unashamedly a love story. Courtenay captures the essence of love - how in a world gone mad with malice and hate, it has the ability to forgive and to heal. As it is in this story, love is always hard earned but, in the end, a most wonderful and necessary emotion. Without love, life for most of us would lack true meaning. (Adapted from the Author's notes on the book)
Owner: Jade
Posted: 4 May 08
Status: AVAILABLE

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