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My Book Recommendation : The House At Riverton

Title: The House at Riverton
 
Author: Kate Morton
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Pan; Reprint edition (15 Jun 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0330448447
ISBN-13: 978-0330448444
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 4.6 cm
Product Description

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters [...:]

My Favourite Sebastian Faulks Book 2 – Engleby

Title: Engleby
 
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (27 Mar 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099458276
ISBN-13: 978-0099458272
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
Product Description
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think. When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple [...:]

My Favourite Sebastian Faulks Book 1 – A Week in December

Title:A Week in December
 
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Hutchinson; First Edition By Number String edition (3 Sep 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0091794455
ISBN-13: 978-0091794453
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 3.8 cm
Product Description
London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days, we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the [...:]

My Book Recommendation: Zoo Keepers Wife

Title: The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
 
Author:  Diane Ackerman
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; 1 Reprint edition (28 July 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 039333306X
ISBN-13: 978-0393333060
Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
Synopsis
Documents the true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of [...:]

My Favourite Jayne Anne Krentz Book 2 – Fired Up

Title: Fired Up: Arcane Society 07 (The Arcane Society Series)
 
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Piatkus Books (7 Jan 2010)
ISBN-10: 074995261X
ISBN-13: 978-0749952617
Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm

Product Description
More than three centuries ago, Nicholas Winters irrevocably altered his genetic makeup in an obsession-fueled competition with alchemist and Arcane Society founder Sylvester Jones. Driven [...:]

My Favourite Jayne Anne Krentz Book 1 – Sizzle And Burn

Title: Sizzle and Burn (Arcane Society Series)
 
Author: Jayne Anne Krentz
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Piatkus (13 Dec 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0749908513
ISBN-13: 978-0749908515
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 3.4 cm
Product Description
Raine Tallentyre, recently dumped, knows her gifted Aunt Vella was right – she should always keep her paranormal abilities a secret. And now that Vella, her last relative, [...:]

The Reading Experience

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The View From Nowhere (In Progress) "Osama and Me" –Posted at Fiction on the Side.Me first. February, U.S.A. Smack dab in the middle, the heartland, the center of the country, equally far from the west and the east, the north and the south, the very site of the splitting of all differences. The [...:]

My Book Recommendation : Beach Music

Title: Beach Music
 
Author: Pat Conroy
Paperback: 779 pages
Publisher: Black Swan; New edition edition (1 Sep 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0552996866
ISBN-13: 978-0552996860
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 4.4 cm
Product Description
By the author of "Prince of Tides". This book tells of a family haunted by dark memories that reach back into the terrors of the Holocaust. Jack McCall is [...:]

Blue Peter Award 2010 – Frozen In time

Title: Frozen in Time
 
Author: Ali Sparkes
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford; 1st edition (1 Jan 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0192727559
ISBN-13: 978-0192727558
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.4 cm
Product Description
1956 Freddy and Polly have always known their father is a genius. So they've never minded helping him with his experiments. Even when that means being put into cryonic [...:]

Most Borrowed Authors in Public Libraries (UK)

1. Jacqueline Wilson (16 million)2. Danielle Steel (14 million)3. Catherine Cookson (14 million)4. Josephine Cox (13 million)5. James Patterson (11 million)6. R L Stine (10 million)7. Mick Inpen (10 million)8. Janet and Allan Ahlberg (9 million)9. Roald Dahl (8 million)10. Agatha Christie (8 million)Public Libraries UK : http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/squ... Public Libraries: http://www.library.ie/weblog/public-l... Public Libraries: http://lists.webjunctio...