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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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