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USA Bestsellers Dec 2009 (NYT)

Hardcover Fiction http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/be...
Top 5 at a Glance
1. U IS FOR UNDERTOW, by Sue Grafton
2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown
3. I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson
4. UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King
5. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett



Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin
2. STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson
3. HAVE [...:]

UK Books Bestsellers – Dec 2009

1.The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown
2.New Moon By Stephenie Meyer
3.Eclipse By Stephenie Meyer
4.Twilight By Stephenie Meyer 
5.The Time Traveler's Wife By Audrey Niffenegger
6.The Girl Who Played with Fire By Stieg Larsson
7.Heart and SoulBy Maeve Binchy
8.A Most Wanted Man By John Le Carre
9.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo By Stieg Larsson
10.The Other Hand ByChris Cleave
Product Descriptions & Buy Online: http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20
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Christmas Reading

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Christmas Reading ChristChurch City Libraries
Christmas is celebrated in so many different ways around the world. Children in the Northern Hemisphere have a cold Christmas, snuggled up inside with roaring fires while snow falls outside. Children in the Southern Hemisphere have a very different Christmas, one that is warm, and we can enjoy BBQs and having [...:]

Christmas Poems, Plays….

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Kids Poems, Rhymes and Recitals
Christmas Poems, Rhymes, Recitals

A Catastrophe by Susie M. Best
A Christmas Garden
A Christmas Gift by Mabel L. Pray
A Christmas Wish for All My Friends by Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr.
A Gentle Reminder by Alice W. Rollins
Bells Across the Snow by F.R. Havergal
Christmas Time by M.N.B.
The Five Best Fairies by Winifred [...:]

My Book Recommendation – The Early Stories John Updike

 
Title: The Early Stories: 1953-1975
 
Author:  John Updike
 
Paperback: 864 pages
Publisher: Penguin (7 April 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0141016086
ISBN-13: 978-0141016085
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 5.8 cm
Product Description
Gathering together almost all the short fiction that John Updike published between 1953 and 1975, this collection opens with Updike's autobiographical stories about a young boy growing up during the Depression [...:]

Current Fiction Bestsellers in Ireland – Dec 2009

List
1. The Lost Symbol  by Dan Brown
2. Perfect Man by O Flanagan Sheila
3. Once in a Lifetime  by Cathy Kelly
4. Return Journey by Maeve Binchy
5. Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
6. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  by Stieg Larsson
7. My Sister's Keeper  by Jodi Picoult
8. Girl Who Played with Fire  by Stieg Larsson
9. Love & Summer  by Trevor [...:]

Christmas Reading

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In what is surely a desperate attempt to get us all spending by the power of suggestion, news 'reports' are informing us that today will be (probably) 'the one' where the nation's fingers go into a trigger-happy frenzy on the 'confirm order' button over at Amazon. I remember when news reports used to be about [...:]

Christmas Poems

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Baby's First Christmas by Alice E. Chase
Candlelit Heart by Mary E. Linton
Cherish His Christmas by Roger J. Robicheau
Christmas Long Ago by Jo Geis
Christmas Past by Carice Williams
The Christmas Thing by Jane Merchant
Christmas Trees by James M. Bilbrey
The Gift
One Day After Christmas
The Real Meaning of Christmas by Joseph P. Martino
'Twas The Night Before Christmas by Pastor [...:]

My Book Recommendation – Catch 22

 
Title:  Catch-22 (Vintage Classics)
 
Authors:  Joseph Heller and Howard Jacobson
 
Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (7 Feb 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0099470462
ISBN-13: 978-0099470465
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 3.4 cm
Product Description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 [...:]

Funny Poets – Christmas Poems

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Christmas Poems

 






 

Christmas Poems







 
A Christmas Tale
Jacqueline Ramm
 


 
At this time of year it is patently clear that the males are the ones who are blest.


 
A Letter to Rudolph
Denise Hobbs
 


 
Another Lonely Christmas for Mrs R Reindeer….


 
An Eighties Christmas Flashback
Flower Child
 


 
Christmas Party times of the 80's. How that generation "tiptoed through the tulips". [...:]