1. The winds of Tara : the saga lives on / Katherine Pinotti.
Pinotti, Katherine
Fremantle, W.A. : Fontaine Press, 2008.
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2. W, or, The memory of childhood / Georges Perec ; translated from the French by David Bellos.
Perec, Georges, 1936-1982
London : Collins Harvill, 1988.
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3. Agatha Christie: The Complete Short Stories: Masterpieces in Miniature [paperback]
Christie, Agatha
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: A boxed set of three bumper volumes containing every Agatha Christie story published in her UK books - a total of 159 stories, including a few rarities exclusive to these volumes.
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4. Angel Fire [paperback]
Blythe, Chris
Parkhouse, Steve, Illustrator
Graphic novel ed.
London, UK Carlton Books 2008.
Summary: Meet John Drury, the poster boy for a morally corrupt generation, a corporate predator who hunts and kills businesses for money, power and bonuses paid in designer drugs.
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5. Every Day is Like Sunday [hardback]
Vlitos, Paul
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: A fresh, funny and wincingly-true-to-life voice, Paul writes with the kind of humour and perception that come along all too rarely. Paul writes with an incredible eye for the ridiculous in everyday life.
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6. Happy families [hardback]
Fuentes, Carlos
Grossman, Edith, Translator
London, UK Bloomsbury 2008.
Summary: The happy families inhabit Fuentes's trademark Mexico, where modern obsessions bump up against those of the mythic past, and the result is a display of the many ways we reach out to one another and find salvation through irrepressible acts of love.
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7. A Hollywood ending [paperback]
Sisman, Robyn
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: Paige Carson, starlet, diva, mess. The daughter of an 80s soapstar and a rock god, it's no wonder Paige has no idea what 'normal' means. She is sick of her Hollywood life and dates that are RP stunts. So when she is offered a Shakespearean role on the London stage, she jumps. But in London, she must learn to stand on her feet, for the first time
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8. The Little Book [paperback]
Edwards, Selden
London, UK Abacus 2008.
Summary: An irresistible time-travelling romp about a displaced 20th-century man who finds himself in Vienna in the 1890s, it's a wonderful look at fathers and sons, as well as a cracking love story.
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9. To love, honour and betray: till divorce us do part [paperback]
Lette, Kathy
London, UK Random House 2008.
Summary: When Lucy's husband of eighteen years runs out on her, she'll do anything to win him back. Including climbing out of her bedroom window at one in the morning wearing her daughter's mini skirt. Jasper has left Lucy for her best friend, the chic and thin interior decorator Renee. To make matters worse, her teenage daughter Tally, blames her.
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10. The Wedding Challange [paperback]
Camp, Candace
Chatswood, NSW Mira Books 2008.
Summary: Lady Calandra is drawn to the mysterious Earl of Bromwell, despite her brother's protests. After Callie enlists the help of a matchmaker she learns too late she may have walked into a trap.
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11. Award Winning Australian Writing 2008 : the best winning writing from short story & bush poetry competitions nationally / [edited by David Tenenbaum].
Melbourne, Vic. : Melbourne Books, 2008.
Summary: Showcases the best writing that actually wins the competitions that are run annually, as well as profiling the winning authors and the competitions. This is the first book to publish such a collection.
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12. Before I Forget [hardback]
Hill, Melissa
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2008.
Summary: Abby's memories are her most precious thing. Even though they're sometimes painful, she can't stop herself looking back, reliving the love of her life. Until a freak accident means that she could lose it: every memory and experience. Abby makes a list of thing she's always wanted to do; she is going to have an unforgettable year of her life!
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13. The Believers [hardback]
Heller, Zoe
London, UK Fig Tree 2008.
Summary: A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt. When New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff is felled by a stroke, his wife Audrey uncovers a secret that forces her to re-examine her ideas about him and their forty-year marriage.
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14. The black tower [hardback]
Bayard, Louis
New York, USA HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Welcome to Paris, c. 1818. After the execution of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI and the death of their son, the Dauphin, the Bourbon monarchy has at last been restored. But a remnant core of Republicans is still working to fulfil the promise of the Revolution and the great Napoleon is plotting his next return to power.
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15. Blonde Roots [hardback]
Evaristo, Bernardine
London, UK Hamish Hamilton 2008.
Summary: A dazzling imaginative reversal of the slave trade, in which the Africans are the masters and the Europeans the slaves.
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16. The Clouded World: Darkening for a Fall and Empire of Chaos [paperback]
Amory, Jay
London, UK Gollancz 2008.
Summary: A war is coming. And it's being taken to the skies. Beneath the cloud cover, in the perpetual half-darkness of the shadows cast by immense sky cities looming overhead, toil a race of people known as Groundlings. They have toiled for hundred of years, farming, hunting and fishing and sending a tithe from their labours to the sky cities.
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17. The Dracula Dossier: A Novel of Suspense [hardback]
Reese, James
New York, USA HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Tells the story of the Irish novelist Bram Stoker's encounter with and conquest of Jack the Ripper, events which pass from the all-too real into the fictive and foreshadow Stoker's later Dracula.
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18. Everything I Knew [paperback]
Goldsworthy, Peter
Camberwell, Vic Hamish Hamilton Australia 2008.
Summary: Robbie Burns, the precocious only child of the local cop, is on the cusp of adolescence and high school. Up until now his life has consisted chiefly of rabbiting and carrying out experiments in the backyard shed, often with explosive results.
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19. Fifty-first State [hardback]
Bailey, Hilary
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: It is the year 2013. The friendly partnership between the UK and the US is over and global security is at risk. After a new election is called, Lord Gott, Treasurer of the Conservative Party receives large sums of money from supposedly legitimate sources.
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20. Hell Hole: A John Ceepak Mystery (Ceepak Mystery) [hardback]
Grabenstein, Chris
New York, USA St Martin's Press 2008.
Summary: Ceepak is confronted with his most personal case yet when he must investigate the alleged suicide of a military corporal who recently returned from Iraq.
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21. Night of the Furies [hardback]
Angsten, David
New York, USA St Martin's Press 2008.
Summary: In the moonlit ruins of the Temple of Apollo, a young archeologist falls into a trance and offers a clue to the secret of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the most celebrated religious ritual of ancient Greece.
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22. Our Lady of Pain [paperback]
Forbes, Elena
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: When a young woman's naked body is discovered deep in the snowy undergrowth of Holland Park, ritualistically bound and gagged, the only clue is a verse from a bizarre poem found stuffed in her mouth. The woman is Rachel Tenison, a wealthy West End art dealer who outwardly seemed to lead a normal, fulfilled life.
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23. Past Imperfect [hardback]
Fellowes, Julian
London, UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008.
Summary: Damien Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surry, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and house- maid. His main concern is to find any living heirs. His fortune is in excess of 100 million pounds.
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24. The Temporal Void [hardback]
Hamilton, Peter F.
London, UK Macmillan 2008.
Summary: The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil as the Living Dream's deadline for launching its Pilgrimage into the Void draws closer. Not only is the Ocisen Empire fleet fast approaching on a mission of genocide, but also an internecine war has broken out between the post-human factions over the destiny of humanity.
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25. The various flavours of coffee [paperback]
Capella, Anthony
London, UK Sphere 2008.
Summary: It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee, and encounters Pinker's free-thinking daughters, Philomenia, Ada and Emily.
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26. The Business [hardback]
Cole, Martina
London, UK Headline 2008.
Summary: Gritty, gripping and unforgettable. Martina is back with her 15th novel. Always uncompromising, never holding back.
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27. The Dragon Hunter's Handbook [hardback]
Van Helsing, Adelia
Teves, Miles, Illustrator
New ed.
Brighton, UK Pavilion 2008.
Summary: This is the third book to be published from the vaults of the Van Helsing library and presents the accumulated wisdom of Adelia. The first female Van Helsing to take up the sword and do battle with the denizens of Hell, Adelia lived some seven centuries ago.
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28. An Empire of Lies [hardback]
Klavan, Andrew
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: After a youth he would rather forget, Jason Harrow has settled down, built a stable family life and become a pillar of principle in America's mid-west. Then the phone rings and his past is on the other end of the line.
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29. A family affair [hardback]
Tate, June
London, UK Headline 2008.
Summary: Kathy Bates finds her loyalty to both her fiance and her beloved sister tested on the eve of the Second World War.
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30. Goldengrove [paperback]
Prose, Francine
New York, USA HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Nico and Margaret have grown up with their ex-hippie parents in an isolated New England town on the shores of placid Mirror Lake. Nico, is still adolescent, small and pudgy, trying her best to grow up to be like her sister.
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31. The Life and Soul of the Party [paperback]
Gayle, Mike
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2008.
Summary: This book is a warm, funny and moving tale celebrating love, life and those special moments we've all spent in the kitchen at parties.
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32. Magda's Daughter [hardback]
Collier, Catrin
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: Stateless and destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give are the ambitions she had once cherished for herself. At twenty-one tragedy strikes, and a mother's bitter secret is exposed!
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33. Turning Point [hardback]
Turnbull, Peter
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: George Hennessey is beginning to accept the inevitable - that age is catching up with him and he needs to delegate. But there is no substitute for experience as he marshals his troops to investigate two parallel murders committed 20 years apart.
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34. A Year to Learn a Woman [paperback]
Richardson, Paddy
Auckland, NZ Penguin NZ 2008.
Summary: Claire is a Dunedin freelance writer who is hired by a dodgy lawyer to write a biography of a serial rapists at present in prison. She's wary, but she's a solo mother with a teenage daughter and needs the money. Travis Crill inspires revulsion from everyone she approaches, but despite warnings, she forges on. He is chillingly charming!
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35. Alexander and Alestria: A Novel [hardback]
Sa, Shan
Hunter, Adriana, Translator
New York, USA HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: The story begins with his childhood in Macedonia with his father, the abusive, tyrannical King Philip and his overbearing mother Olympias. Educated by Aristotle and put through military training, Alexander develops the fierce character, strength and amibition to overthrow his abusive father and take the crown.
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36. Azincourt [hardback]
Cornwell, Bernard
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: The story of Azincourt and of a victory by a small, despised, sick and hungry army over an enemy that massively outnumbered it and of the archers who helped win a battle that has entered legend.
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37. Ghost Radio [hardback]
Gout, Leopoldo
New York, USA HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: From the cramped bowels of a dimly lit Mexican radio station, Ghost Radio is beamed onto the airwaves. More than a call-in show to tell scary stories about vampires and poltergeists, Ghost Radio is a sanctuary for those sleepless denizens of the night, lost half way between this world and the next.
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38. Labyrinth in the snow [paperback]
Rochecouste, Lindsay
Hartwell, Vic Sid Harta Publishers 2008.
Summary: Labyrinth in the Snow is much more than a gripping yarn, it is also an investigation on the nature of reality as perceived by the world of science and eastern philosophy.
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39. Modesty Blaise: Green Cobra [paperback]
O'Donnell, Peter
Burns, John, Illustrator
Graphic novel ed.
London, UK Titan Books 2008.
Summary: The dark underworld of espionage and crime is lit up by the fatal charms of the gorgeous Modesty Blaise, high priestess of pulp crime and goddess of cult thrillers!
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40. The Reinvention of Ivy Brown [paperback]
Taylor, Roberta
London, UK Atlantic Books 2008.
Summary: Arthur is the man on whim Ivy has pinned all her hopes. 'We are our own secret' Arthur says, and Ivy loves to repeat it, even as she reollects the secrets she has kept from him. But when Ivy spots Arthur at a bus stop, his arm around a young girl, she realises that she isn't the only person keeping secrets.
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41. South of the Pumphouse [paperback]
Claypool, Les
New York, USA Akashic Books 2008.
Summary: This is a debut novel from the art-rock pioneer and frontman of Primus. This is a dark, clever tale, reminiscent of "The Old Man and the Sea" and of the raw, tweeked perspective of a Hunter S. Thompson novel.
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42. Testimony [hardback]
Shreve, Anita
London, UK Little, Brown 2008.
Summary: A sex scandal rocks a posh New England boarding school and what's worse there is a videotape. A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve's book explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.
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43. Angels Unaware [hardback]
Ripley, Mike
London, UK Allison & Busby 2008.
Summary: Private detective Fitzroy Maclean Angel is not your ordinary private detective. The world he inhabits is strange and it is about to get stranger.
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44. Bloody Palms (Deets Shanahan) [hardback]
Tierney, Ronald
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: When seventy-something Indianapolis PI Dietrich 'Deets' Shanahan receives a call from Jack Wenders, his former commanding officer in Korea, inviting him to Mexico to discuss a case, Shanahan accepts, hopeful that feisty girlfriend Maureen might join him and help him forget a particular nasty case that almost got him killed.
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45. Fatal quest: Woodend's first case [hardback]
Spencer, Sally
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: Nobody seems interested in bringing the killer of sixteen year old Pearl Jones to justice. Working alone, sifting through the rubble of post-war London, DS Charlie Woodend promises himself he will find the murderer - even if that means putting his career and even his own life on the line.
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46. Full circle [paperback]
Lewis, Alison
Hartwell, Vic Sid Harta Publishers 2008.
Summary: Consider the circle, difficult to see where it starts and where it finishes. Like life, where does it truly start and does it really end?
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47. A God for the Killing [paperback]
Massin, Kain
Sydney, NSW ABC Books 2008.
Summary: The winner of the 2008 ABC Fiction Award, this is a thought-provoking thriller combining historical events, biblical conspiracy theories and a story of survival and triumph.
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48. Skeletons for Sadness [paperback]
Southby-Tailyour, Ewen
Rendlesham, UK Seafarer 2008.
Summary: Edward Casement, sailing towards Cape Horn and the Pacific in his ketch Nomad, calls in at the Falkands Islands in September 1980. Things don't go according to plan and having lost his crew, he spends longer in the islands than intended.
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49. An Unsuitable Mother [hardback]
Kelly, Sheelagh
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Nell is just eighteen when war breaks out and she's keen to do her bit, which means leaving her safe office job and starting to train as an auxiliary nurse.
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50. Warning at One [hardback]
Purser, Ann
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: Peculiar things are happening on Gordon Street: the local grocery store was recently robbed, and odd comings and goings are happening in the home of Mrs Blairgowrie, the elderly woman who claims to be blind. Then the old man next door and his noisy pet rooster are found dead.
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51. Wedding Belles [hardback]
Smith, Haywood
New York, USA St Martin's Press 2008.
Summary: Georgia, Linda, Diane, Teeny, and Pru have been best friends since high school, and never have they needed one another more. Georgia's precious twenty-eight-year-old daughter, Callie, has gone and gotten engaged. But Callie's intended groom just happens to be a man "they" went to high school and college with: Wild Man Wade!
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52. A whispered name (Father Anselm) [hardback]
Brodrick, William
London, UK Little, Brown 2008.
Summary: When Father Anselm meets Kate Seymour in the cemetery at Larkwood, he is dismayed to hear her allegation. Herbert Moore had been one of the founding fathers of the Priory, revered by all who met him, a man who'd shaped Anselm's own vocation.
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53. Bones of the hills [hardback]
Iggulden, Conn
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Genghis Khan has united the warring tribes but now finds trouble rising in the west of the Mongolian plain. So, diving his army and using his sons as generals to discover new territory, exact tribute and lay waste to cities which resist he is diffusing rivalries between his sons and heirs as he decides who will succeed him as khan.
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54. The comfort of Saturdays (An Isabel Dalhousie novel) [hardback]
Smith, Alexander McCall
London, UK Little, Brown 2008.
Summary: Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel ethics are not theoretical at all, but an everyday matter of
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55. A Dangerous friendship (Severn House British Mysteries ) (Hardcover) [hardback]
Ashford, Jeffrey
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: Detective Constable Andy Gregg is security officer for Kent County CID, and takes his responbilities, which include conducting security surveys for vulnerable premises, very seriously.
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56. Doctor Who: Ghosts of India [hardback]
Morris, Mark
Film/TV tie-in ed.
London, UK BBC Books 2008.
Summary: The Doctor and Donna travel back in time to India, 1947. It is a country torn apart by internatl strife. When the Doctor and Donna arrive in Calcutta, they are instantly swept up in violent events. Barely escaping, they discover that the city is rife with tales of 'half-made men' who roam the streets at night and steal people.
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57. Drop-Off [hardback]
Quinlan, Patrick
London, UK Headline 2008.
Summary: Smoke Duggan, one-time bomb-maker for the mob, is on the run. It's not easy to keep a low profile when you've got your girlfriend (Lola) her best friend (Pamela) and a retired professional assassin (Cruz) with you; and if you're carrying $2,5 million in cash, you can be sure the people the money belongs to won't let the trail go cold.
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58. The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal [hardback]
Dixon, Sean
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club are THE foremost book club in Canada, no, in the world. Priding themselves on their good taste, intelligent discussions and impeccable opinions, theu are a group of misfits and oddballs, living on the edge of it.
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59. Late Nights on Air [paperback]
Hay, Elizabeth
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returndd to a small radio station in Yellowknife, Northern Canada. There, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is a surprise and even more than he imagined.
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60. Nectar of the Gods [paperback]
Watkins, Gwen C.
Harpenden, UK No Exit Press 2008.
Summary: A murder mystery set in the Barossa Valley against the big deals, high fliers, movers and shakers of the international world of wine. The world's most famous wine critic is murdered as a premier cellar faces bankruptcy. A plot that puts the billion-dollar Australian wine industry at risk.
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61. Other People's Diaries [paperback]
Webb, Kathy
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2008.
Summary: Alice Day's theory has led to five strangers meeting in a bar to take part in her experiment. But can this one-time bestselling author, now a mother and housewife, follow through and change their lives for the better (and perhaps her own as well)?
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62. Questions of Guilt: and other stories [hardback]
Neil, Tom
Walton-on-Thames, UK Red Kite 2008.
Summary: The story of an emotionally exhausted fighter pilot being pushed to the limit by responsibilities of command and his guilt of shooting down a fellow pilot in a tragic accident.
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63. The Admirals' Game [hardback]
Donachie, David
London, UK Allison & Busby 2008.
Summary: Since being illegally press-ganged into joining King George's Navy, John Pearce has overcome numerous adversaries, which hav secured him a position of command on board HMS Faron. Having successfully overcome the French at the Siege of Toulon, Pearce and his comrades, the Pelicans, now fact the on-going bloody battle to defend the port.
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64. The Ancient Ship [paperback]
Wei, Zhang
London, UK HarperPerennial 2008.
Summary: Depicts the changes in Wali, where most people have made their livelihood by simply cooking and selling noodles. Once the home to large sailing ships that travelend along the Luqing River, Wali is now left with an unearthed hull of an ancient wooden ship.
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65. Angel Rising [hardback]
Nicole, Christopher
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: Sequel to "Angel of Doom". Germany, 1945. With the collapse of the Third Reich and MI6's decision to retire their premier double agent cum assassin, it seems the war is finally over for beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrback, aka the Countess von Widerstand. But she is wanted by the Russians.
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66. Blood of Elves (The Witcher Saga, 2) [hardback]
Sapkowski, Andrzej
London, UK Gollancz 2008.
Summary: Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting. Ciri the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Centra, has strange powers and a stranger destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world, for good, or for evil. Geralt, the witcher of Rivia has her to safety.
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67. The Edge of Madness [hardback]
Dobbs, Michael
New York, USA Simon & Schuster 2008.
Summary: An old Russian nuclear reactor goes into Chernobyl-style meltdown while, on the other side of the world, the US Eastern Seaboard is plunged into darkness. No one knows - yet - who is responsible for the chaos. Hidden from view of the rest of the world, an extraordinary meeting of the US President, the Russian President and the British Prime Ministe
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68. The Final Reckoning [paperback]
Bourne, Sam
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Tom Byrne has fallen from grace since his days as an idealistic young lawyer. When the UN call him in to do their dirty work he accepts the job. A suspected suicide bomber shot by UN security staff turns out to be an innocent old man. But not quite the innocent he seemed as Tom unravels details of a brotherhood united in a deadly mission.
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69. The Idea of Love [paperback]
Dean, Louise
London, UK Fig Tree 2008.
Summary: When foreign couples with families converge on Provence for a better life, it seems as if sunshine, drinking and partying will create an idyllic little community of like minded sorts. But compelled to venture, far from this Eden, to Africa, two of the couples lives are changed irrevocably when each begins to doubt themselves; who and why!
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70. The Last Watch (Night Watch, 4) [hardback]
Lukyanenko, Sergei
Bromfield, Andrew, Translator
London, UK William Heinemann 2008.
Summary: While on holiday in Scotland, visiting a macabre tourist attraction, 'The Dungeons of Edinburgh', a young Russian tourist is murdered. As the police grapples with the fact that the cause of the young man's death was a massive loss of blood, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose.
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71. Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, 3) [paperback]
Maguire, Gregory
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2008.
Summary: When civil war looms in Oz, an ancient and tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before she can return to dust, however, the Cowardly Lion, an enigmatic figure named Brrr, arrives in search of information about Elphaba Thropp, the Wickard Witch of the West.
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72. The Lost Army [hardback]
Manfredi, Valerio Massimo
London, UK Macmillan 2008.
Summary: In the 4th century BC, in a village in Syria, a woman, dressed in rags and covered in blisters and sores, is seen approaching on the road coming from the north. Suspicious of her, the villagers shout and throw rocks at her. She is struck and falls. She seems dead...Her story encompasses one of the great collective acts of heroism of the ancient wor
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73. One Morning Like a Bird [paperback]
Miller, Andrew
London, UK Sceptre 2008.
Summary: 1940, Tokyo. Japan is at war with China, and Yuji Takano is clinging to the life he has made for himself as a young poet, the company of his friends, the monthly meetings of the French Club at Monsieur Feneon's house, elite Imperial University. But the world is closing in on Yuji. The allowance is gone, and conscription is coming closer!
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74. One night in Malibu [hardback]
Adler, Elizabeth
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: Mac Reilly is a private investigator with a penchant for lost causes. One night in Malibu, he comes to the aid of a distraught woman in a black negligee waving a gun in the doorway of a fabulous beach house. When the women disappears and the gun shows up in his car, Mac is pulled into a web of deception and lies that entangle his life.
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75. The Painted Man (The Demon Trilogy, 1) [hardback]
Brett, Peter
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Mankind has ceded the night to the corelings: demons that rise up out of the ground each day at dusk, killing and destroying at will until dawn, when the sun banishes them back to the Core. As darkness falls, the world's few surviving humans hide behind magical wards, praying that the magic will see them through another night.
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76. Quiver [hardback]
Leonard, Peter
London, UK Faber & Faber 2008.
Summary: An explosive and filmic novel that marks the debut of an outstanding and powerful new voice in contemporary crime fiction.
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77. Sleepwalk [paperback]
Tomine, Adrian
Graphic novel ed.
London, UK Faber & Faber 2008.
Summary: A classic Tomine collection: a series of vignettes that scratch beneath the surface of seemingly well-adjusted lives.
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78. Soul Murder [paperback]
Nugent, Andrew
London, UK Headline 2008.
Summary: Denis Lennon and Molly Power are called out to a well-respected boarding school when the body of a long-service house master is discovered in the boys' dormitory. Superintendent Denis Lennon and Sergeant Molly Power of the Irish Police Force struggle to uncover any probable motive for this brutal killing.
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79. Turtle [paperback]
Bryson, Gary
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2008.
Summary: Set in bleak, rain-bedrizzled Glasgow, this is the story of Donald Pinelli, whose mother Trixie is not only mad, she's psychic too - not a good combination, especially when it means she's convinced Donald is cursed to die by drowning on his 18th birthday. If that isn't enough he has to contend with a gangster father and siblings who hate him.
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80. The Beacon [hardback]
Hill, Susan
London, UK Chatto & Windus 2008.
Summary: A gothic novella about what happens within a family when one of the brothers publishes his "misery memoir". there is serialisation, media frenzy, TV, a film... The family is ostracised. Is this litany of childhood torments at the hands of his parents and siblings a complete invention?
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81. Cara Gayle [hardback]
O'Neill, Geraldine
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: Yet in the background, her return to Ireland and life with Oliver looms. Can Cara Gayle find the courage, at long last, to finally please herself?
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82. Dead Man Dancing (Hannah Ives) [hardback]
Talley, Marcia
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: Driving a wedge between Ruth and her fiance, Hutch, is not what Hannah intends when she recommends J & K Dance Studios to her sister. Ruth is determined to shine on her wedding day.
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83. Dead Slow Ahead (Casey Jones Cruise Ship Mysteries) [hardback]
Whitelaw, Stella
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: Cruise Entertainments Director Casey Jones is back on board the Countess Georgina for the Mediterranean cruise. She has a new deputy, the charming Lee Williams, and a fresh troupe of entertainers, dancers, singers and lecturers to entertain the guests.
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84. The fire gospel / Michel Faber.
Faber, Michel
Melbourne, Vic. : Text Publishing, 2008.
Summary: In the aftermath of the war in Iraq, Theo Griepenkerl is visiting the looted museum of Mosul, when a bomb explodes outside the building. As theo seeks shelter, he stumbles across the discovery of a lifetime; ine papyrus scrolls that have lain hidden for two thousand years.
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85. Morality Tale [hardback]
Brownrigg, Sylvia
London, UK Picador 2008.
Summary: You've been married for several years. Long enough, certainly, for the rosy glow of your first love to have faded. Then, one day, you meet him. The man of your dreams. You weren't expecting it, but you look at him, he looks at you, and it's there. The real question, though, is not so much what it is but what you do about it..
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86. Murder in Paradise [hardback]
Knight, Alanna
London, UK Allison & Busby 2008.
Summary: Young Inspector Faro stumbles on a plot involving the stealing of a priceless jewel. His investigation leads him to Kent, and on the trail of his nemesis Macheath. Whilst there Faro bumps into an old school friend, Erland Flett. Erland is about to marry a beautiful lady, but Faro recognises her as the famous Madeline Smith! Never convicted!
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87. Muse [paperback]
Irvine, Susan
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: Naomi survives her first fashion shoot in the oppressive summer heat of Paris and returns to London barely aware how she has been changed by an unnerving series of encounters. She loses her job, then casts off her boyfriend and her home and falls into a new experimental life fuelled by drugs and sex.
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88. Off Track [hardback]
Curzon, Clare
London, UK Allison & Busby 2008.
Summary: Research biologist, Piers Egerton, has been working on a top-secret project for a number of years and has finally realised it is something he wants no part of. But the people he works for think h know too much and he realises his life is in danger.
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89. Sandie Shaw and the millionth Marvell Cooker [hardback]
Robertson, Wendy
London, UK Headline 2008.
Summary: In the summer of 1965, when rock and roll music fills the dance halls and a new era is dawning, the Marvell factory in Grafton is buzzing with life. Could it be because a singing sensation Sandie Shaw is coming to town?
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90. Swordmage (Blade of the Moonsea, 1) [hardback]
Baker, Richard
Renton, USA Wizards of the Coast 2008.
Summary: Geran, a swordmage exiled from the elven city of Myth Drannor, returns home to find the once peaceful Moonsea town of Hulburg under the thumb of greedy and ruthless merchants.
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91. Undertow [paperback]
Hunt, Arlene
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2008.
Summary: When Sarah Kenny and John Quigley, from QuicK Investigation, are asked to take on a missing person case; that of Slovakian immigrant, Orie Kavlar, whose frantic girlfriend is due with their baby any day. They could use the work, but they're straining with their own problems; like Vic, Sarah's murdered ex, who was a dangerous psychotic anyway!
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92. The Wasted Vigil [paperback]
Aslam, Nadeem
London, UK Faber & Faber 2008.
Summary: A devastatingly moving and beautiful novel of family secrets, forbidden love and the tragedy and consequences of war.
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93. The Wingless Boy: The Fledging of Az Gabrielson and Pirates of the Relentless Desert [paperback]
Amory, Jay
London, UK Gollancz 2008.
Summary: Imagine a city high in the sky comprised of pristine white spires, bathed in glorious golden sunlight - a city above the cloud layer, looking down on the ever-changing cloud formation below. From up here, the worst thunderstorms are little but flashes of light amongst the cloud cover. But life isn't so good for Azreal Gabrielson.
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94. Cross Country [hardback]
Patterson, James
New York, USA Random House 2008.
Summary: When Alex Cross is called to investigate a massacre style murder scene, he is shocked to find that the victim is an old college friend. Determined, more than ever, to find the perpetrators, he is quickly taken on a thrilling and life-threatening journey into a Washington D.C.
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95. Dead Line [hardback]
Rimington, Stella
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Caryle is summons to a meeting with her boss head of Counter-Espionage Branch. Alarming intelligence has been received regarding the disruption of an important Middle East Peace Conference and the future of the Middle East is at stake as the conference deadline draws closer.
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96. The devil's eye : a novel / Ian Townsend.
Townsend, Ian
Pymble, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2008.
Summary: At the end of the 19th century one of the most powerful storms in history, a hurricane named Mahina moved across the Coral Sea. The path of the storm caused one of Australia's deadliest natural disasters and the birth and death of an Australian dream.
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97. Do You Want to Know a Secret? [paperback]
Carroll, Claudia
London, UK Bantam Books 2008.
Summary: Vicky Harper is single and it's been a long time since she had a date with that elusive species, the decent single man so she decides to put the laws of attraction into action. All she has to focus on is thinking her wildest fantasies into reality.
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98. Dreams Of Rivers and Seas [paperback]
Parks, Tim
London, UK Harvill Secker 2008.
Summary: For some time now, I have been plagued, perhaps blessed, by dreams of rivers and seas, dreams of water. Just days after writing these lines to his son, John, in London, he is dead. He abandons his girlfriend, and flies to Delhi to comfort his mother, who has arranged the strangest cremation.
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99. Firmin: Adventures Of A Metropolitcan Lowlife [hardback]
Savage, Sam
London, UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008.
Summary: This is a novel told through the voice of a rat. Firmin is born in the basement of a ramshackle old bookstore, but because he is the runt of the litter, he is forced to complete for good and ends up chewing on the books that surround him. He soon realizes his source of nourishment has endowed him with the ability to read!
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100. Red Dress Walking [paperback]
Jones, Sarah
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2008.
Summary: When Will gave Emily a stunning, deeply sexy red dress, somehow everything in changes ... a playful, modern, engrossing novel of ideas, books, love, relationships, breakdowns and break-ups. Author from Inglewood, Western Australia.
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101. The slap [paperback]
Tsiolkas, Christos
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2008.
Summary: a novel about the relationships between children and adults, and the new Australian multicultural middle-class. From the controversial cult author of 'Loaded' and 'Dead Europe'.
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102. The Widows of Eastwick [hardback]
Updike, John
London, UK Hamish Hamilton 2008.
Summary: The delightfully wicked sequel to John Updike's much loved, The witches of Eastwick.
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103. Dark Vengeance [hardback]
Greenwood, Ed
New York, USA Tor Books 2008.
Summary: Orivon Firefist was captured as a six-year-old child by the Nifghar, the dark elves, who attacked his village by night on one of their surface raids. Fiften years later, he is a moon-pale, scarred, muscular giant of a man, who has spent his days at forgework for a dark elf family.
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104. Graceling [paperback]
Cashore, Kristin
London, UK Gollancz 2008.
Summary: In a world where people are born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited: Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises, the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, Kid of the Middluns and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punishing and torturing anyone who displeases him.
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105. The hour I first believed [paperback]
Lamb, Wally
New York, USA HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: The extraordinary novel about a high school teaching couple; Caelum is away for the day with his ill aunt, but Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine High, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives, but at a cost; she is unable to recover from her trauma.
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106. The Lace Reader [paperback]
Barry, Brunonia
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Towner Whitney comes from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace and who have guarded a history of secrets going back for generations.
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107. The rip [hardback]
Drewe, Robert
Camberwell, Vic Hamish Hamilton Australia 2008.
Summary: These short stories are subtle and domestic in tone, but epic in scope. Rob Drewe returns to a familiar genre with this exquisite collection of short stories dealing with the complexities of human relationships, with many of the stories set against landscapes that are as threatening as they are beautiful.
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108. Someone Special [hardback]
O'Flanagan, Sheila
London, UK Headline 2008.
Summary: Romy Kilkenny loves her life in Australia, she has her dream job, lots of mates and a best friend in Keith, who understands her better than anyone. Best of all, she couldn't be further from her family. But when her brother rings to say she's needed back in Ireland right away, Romy's world is turned upside down.
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109. Tales from the Perilous Realm: Roverandom and Other Classic Faery Stories [hardback]
Tolkien, J.R.R.
London, UK Collins Educational 2008.
Summary: The definitive collection of Tolkien's four acclaimed modern classic 'fairie' tales in the vein of The Hobbit.
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110. Tamarisk: A Novel [hardback]
Aronica, Lou
Los Angeles, USA Volt Press 2008.
Summary: A young girl's tragic illness leads her on a journey to a mystical dreamland, revealing truths that force her family to make the most difficult choice of their lives.
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111. Tethered [paperback]
MacKinnon, Amy
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: Clare Marsh is an undertaker. She spends her solitary life among the dead, preparing their last baths before bidding them farewell. But her structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlour, desperate for a friend. But is there a tie between an unclaimed child, Precious Doe, and Trecie?
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112. Twice Loved (Belles of Timber Creek) [paperback]
Copeland, Lori
New York, USA HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Willow Madison and her friends, Copper and Audrey taught school in neighbouring Texas communities until the Yankees rode into the area and burned them out. Survivors banded together and fought to keep what remained of their homes until word that the war was over reached the people.
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113. The Gate of Air [paperback]
Buchan, James
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: When a mysterious loner Jim Smith moves into remote Paradise Farmhouse he experiences some strange but wonderful midnight visits from an ethereal woman. He soon discovers that this dream-like figure is the incarnation of a 1960s beauty, immortalised in a famous nude portrait that belongs to his neighbour.
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114. Out of the shadows [hardback]
Lewis, Susan
London, UK William Heinemann 2008.
Summary: Since Susannah Cates' husband was sent to prison three years ago, life has been a constant struggle to provide for herself and their teenage daughter. Worried by her mother's unhappiness, Neve decides to take matters into her own hands, unknowingly unleashing a spectre of horror.
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115. Portobello [hardback]
Rendell, Ruth
London, UK Hutchinson 2008.
Summary: The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger.
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116. Royal exile (Valisar, 1) [hardback]
McIntosh, Fiona
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: A terrifying army of mercenaries and renegades led by Loethar, a ruthless tyrant plans to overthrow King Brennus of Penraven, 9th of the Valisars. Loethar is convinced that if he consumes these empowered people he will then be imbued with their skills and magic.
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117. A Tale Out of Luck [hardback]
Nelson, Willie
Blakely, Mike
New York, USA Grand Central Publishing 2008.
Summary: Former Texas Ranger and veteran of the Texas War for Independence, Captain Hank Tomlinson has retired to life in Luck, the town he founded in the new state of Texas. Now the owner of the Broken Arrow Ranch, he knows his new Kentucky Thoroughbred mare is bound to win the annual race, beating out his rival, Jack Brennan.
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118. A beautiful place to die [paperback]
Nunn, Malla
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2008.
Summary: In the Sth African town of Jacob's Rest, Detective Emmanuel Cooper investigates the murder of an Afrikaans police officer, Captain Willem Pretorius. The more he digs, the more dangerous the investigation becomes & Cooper has secrets of his own. If he can survive long enough to learn the truth about Captain Pretorius it might just save his life
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119. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein [hardback]
Ackroyd, Peter
London, UK Chatto & Windus 2008.
Summary: Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn near Oxford with corpses provided by the coroner's office often damaged and putrid. He moves to Limehouse in search of the perfect specimen and one day Thames-side at dawn, Victor sees slung into the stern of an approaching boat the corpse of a handsome young man.
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120. Comic Book Tattoo [hardback]
Guerra, Pia
Graphic novel ed.
Orange, USA Image Comics 2008.
Summary: Over 80 of the best creators from every style and genre have contributed over 50 stories to this anthology featuring tales inspired by the songs of multi-platinum recording artist, Tori Amos! Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman, with stories by creators such as Carla Speed McNeil, Mark Buckingham, C.B.
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121. Crash [hardback]
Hammond, Gerald
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: One beautiful Scottish spring day, Julian Custer comes across the devastating scene of a very recent car crash. A car is mangled and only the passenger has survived: Delia Barrow is confused and badly injured; her name is all she can remember.
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122. Extreme Measures [hardback]
Flynn, Vince
New York, USA Simon & Schuster 2008.
Summary: With Mitch Rapp away on assignment in Pakistan, CIA Director Irene Kennedy turns to his protegee, Mike Nash.
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123. A Good Woman [hardback]
Steel, Danielle
New York, USA Random House 2008.
Summary: From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the horrors of World War I, Annabelle Worthing flees New York society and finds her true calling as an ambulance medic on the front lines, studying medicine and saving lives. When war ends she begins a new life in Paris her old life forgotten until a fateful meeting.
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124. Ice [paperback]
Nowra, Louis
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2008.
Summary: A novel of hauntings, love, longing, memory and loss told with audacity and breathtaking imaginative power from one of Australia's most acclaimed writers.
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125. Jack in the Box [hardback]
Ison, Graham
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: DCI Harry Brock is called to Ham Common early on a Sunday morning. But when he arrives at the murder scene, he learns that this killing is far from being an ordinary sort of murder.
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126. Just after sunset [hardback]
King, Stephen
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2008.
Summary: What would you do if your everyday world turned upside down in an instant? Here are twelve riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be careful what you wish for!
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127. A kind of vanishing [paperback]
Thomson, Lesley
North Melbourne, Vic Spinifex Press 2008.
Summary: A child disappears. A woman grows up harbouring a terrible secret. her daughter wants to know the truth. It's the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot.
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128. Lonely Teardrops [hardback]
Lightfoot, Freda
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2008.
Summary: On the day of her beloved father's funeral, Harriet's grandmother tells her that Joyce, the woman she has always called Mum, isn't her her real mother after all. At least that explains why Joyce has always favoured Harriet's brother, Grant. Her emotions are in turmoil!
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129. Perfect Night: memories can kill [paperback]
Grimsdale, Peter
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: When ambitious young documentary film-maker Nick witnesses the death of a notorious arms dealer in Sri Lanka, he's lucky to escape with his own life. He was on his way to interview him on his yacht when it was blown to smithereens. But the head injuries he receives destroy his memory and his burgeoning career. A deftly plotted political thriller.
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130. The Right Hand of the Sun [hardback]
Mason, Anita
London, UK John Murray 2008.
Summary: Shipwrecked on the coast of Aztec Mexico, Geronimo is one of only two men to survive the sinking of their great Spanish galleon. Taken in by the winic Indians, Geronimo learns that if he is to survive, he must abandon his European customs and language and learn to live as the Indians do. What follows is a two-stranded tale!
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131. Rough Weather [hardback]
Parker, Robert B.
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: A walthy woman has just recruited Spenser to accompany her to her private island to attend her daughter's wedding as sort of stand-in husband. It should be a straightforward job..
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132. The Tenth Case [paperback]
Teller, Joseph
Chatswood, NSW Mira Books 2008.
Summary: Criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, better known as "Jaywalker" has just been suspended for using 'creative' tactics and receiving 'gratitude' in the courtroom stairwell from a client charged with prostitution. Convincing the judge that his other clients are counting on him, Jaywalker is allowed to complete ten cases.
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133. Three Silent Things [hardback]
Mayhew, Margaret
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: The Colonel has been living at Pond Cottage in the peaceful Dorset village of Frog's End for nearly a year. Although still regarded by some in the village as newcomer, he is respected by most for his willingness to 'do his bit', and for his role in solving the murder of the late Lady Swynford.
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134. To Dream of the Dead (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) [hardback]
Rickman, Phil
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: Archaeologists are unearthing an ancient row of standing stones in Coleman's Meadow which some people would rather stay buried. Merrily Watkins looks like having a cold and complex Christmas in an ancient community forced to untangle its own history against the swirling uncertainty of the future.
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135. Ulterior Motives [paperback]
Joy, Lucienne
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2008.
Summary: A gripping psychological thriller that takes a compelling and shocking journey into the secrets of a marriage and the heart of a woman who discovers that love can't shelter you from the truth.
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136. What Makes a Child Lucky [hardback]
Timpanelli, Gioia
New York, USA W.W. Norton 2008.
Summary: In a timeless moment in rural Sicily, a boy experiences the brutal killing of his best friend and is kidnapped by the murderers. No child should have to know evil so intimately, yet once he does, what will save him?
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137. All our worldly goods [paperback]
Nemirovsky, Irene
London, UK Chatto & Windus 2008.
Summary: A gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars.
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138. Buried in Clay [hardback]
Masters, Priscilla
London, UK Allison & Busby 2008.
Summary: 1787: A man hastily puts the finishing touches to his beloved jug as police decent upon him. Arrest him and hang him. Almost two centuries later, the same jug reappears, but where has it dwelt since the fatal day of its creator? Susanna cannot help but wonder over the piece of pottery and is further intrigued as sinister revelations emerge!
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139. Cooee: A Novel [paperback]
Kelly, Vivienne
Carlton North, Vic Scribe Publications 2008.
Summary: This literary suspense novel, brimful of twists and turns, will have you gasping at its unexpected revelations, but also doubled over at Isabel's blackly comic wit. She's one highly entertaining yet unreliable narrator.
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140. Doctor Who: Shining Darkness [hardback]
Michalowski, Mark
Film/TV tie-in ed.
London, UK BBC Books 2008.
Summary: For Donna Noble, the Andromeda galaxy is a long, long way from home. But even two and a half million light years from Earth, danger lurks around every corner. A visit to an art gallery turns into a race across space to uncover the secret behind a shadowy organisation.
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141. Doctor Who: The Doctor Trap [hardback]
Messingham, Simon
Film/TV tie-in ed.
London, UK BBC Books 2008.
Summary: The Doctor becomes the prize in a most dangerous game - the latest in the bestselling series. Sebastiene is after only one more prize. This one will require help. They are hunting for the last of the Time Lords - the Doctor.
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142. Exit lines [paperback]
Barfoot, Joan
London, UK Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008.
Summary: When three women and one man become friends in a retirement home, they are well aware of how the rest of the world will view such a move. But, these people are still the complex, quirky and fascinating characters they have always been. But then one of them asks the question no one is prepared for...!
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143. The Graveyard Book: adult edition [hardback]
Gaiman, Neil
McKean, Dave, Illustrator
London, UK Bloomsbury 2008.
Summary: 'It's going to take more than a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard" said Silas. An adventure story about a boy raised by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres of a local graveyard.
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144. One Fifth Avenue [hardback]
Bushnell, Candace
London, UK Little, Brown 2008.
Summary: The stories of five women living in Manhattan's swankiest apartment building. From the author of Sex in the City.
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145. Under control / Mark McNay.
McNay, Mark, 1965-
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2008.
Summary: Who do you trust? Charlie and her boyfriend Gary are struggling to keep their lives on track in an imperfect world. When the money runs out or the drugs don't work, love is not always enough. Help is on hand in the form of social worker and guardian angel Nigel, but as best intentions meet compulsive desires, their fates are transformed!
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146. Victory of Eagles [hardback]
Novik, Naomi
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Laurence and Temeraire have betrayed the British. They have foiled their attempts to inflict death upon the French dragons by sharing the cure they found in Africa with their enemy.
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147. Whose Life Is It Anyway? [paperback]
Moriarty, Sinead
London, UK Penguin Ireland 2008.
Summary: True love catches Niamh O'Flaherty by surprise. . . With him being older and a bit of an intellectual. Pierre is the las person Niamh woul expect to fall for her. But love her he does, and she in turn adores his wicked sense of humour, his unfailing strength of character and, of course, his stunning looks . There's just one BIG problem. . .
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148. Drums of War [hardback]
Marston, Edward
London, UK Allison & Busby 2008.
Summary: We come across our hero, Captain Rawson, deep inside the war-ravaged borders of Europe, as he fights alongside the brave and resolute Earl of Marlborough in defeating the, self-proclaimed invincible French army. Yet victory is short lived.
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149. Easy Kill [paperback]
Anderson, Lin
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2008.
Summary: A young woman has been brutally slain and left across a grave in Glasgow's sprawling cemetery, the Necropolis. Rhona Macleod, called in to carry out forensic investigations, has no doubt that the depraved killer's motives were sexual.
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150. The gate house [hardback]
DeMille, Nelson
London, UK Sphere 2008.
Summary: When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant.
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151. A Good Walk Spoiled (Lambert and Hook Mysteries) [hardback]
Gregson, J.M.
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: Richard Cullis is attacked one night on his way home from a bar. A man with a knife threatens his life if he doesn't promise to cease animal testing in the labs where he is the director of research. He is given two weeks to get results if he wants to live.
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152. Harm's Way [hardback]
Walden, Celia
London, UK Bloomsbury 2008.
Summary: A stunning coming-of-age novel about sex, jealousy and the nature of female friendship.
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153. Heir to Sevenwaters [paperback]
Marillier, Juliet
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2008.
Summary: The chieftains of Sevenwaters have long been custodians of vast forest, said by some to be one of the last refuges of the Tuatha De Danann, the Fair Folk of ancient story. Whatever the truth, Human and Otherworld dwellers hav existed side by side in peace, sharing a wary trust.
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154. The Heretic's Daughter [paperback]
Kent, Kathleen
London, UK Macmillan 2008.
Summary: Sarah Carrier is bright and wilful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. In this startling novel, she narrates the story of her early life in Andover, near Salem. When her mother is accused of witchcraft, and the whisperings in the community escalate, she makes her daughter promise not to stand up for her if the case is ta
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155. Home [hardback]
Robinson, Marilynne
London, UK Virago 2008.
Summary: Takes up the story of the wayward son Jack who, after decades away, edgily and uneasily, but finally, returns home. He is the prodigal son and his family believe against all evidence, that if they love him enough, if they welcome him back, he will change and he will stay.
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156. The murder stone [paperback]
Penny, Louise
London, UK Headline 2008.
Summary: The Finney family have come to Manoir Bellechasse, an idyllic lakeside retreat for a special occasion, to pay tribute to their late father. But as the heat wave gathers strength, old secrets and bitter rivalries begin to surface and when a body is found Chief Inspector Armand Gamache finds himself in the middle of a murder enquiry.
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157. Playing the game [hardback]
Jour, Belle de
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: The TV series, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, is about to screen on Channel Nine. With the series introducing more back-story for Belle, now is the perfect time to move into fiction. In this sharp and refreshing novel, Belle is the still centre state, but carrying her story on in fiction which gives Belle free rein to be more outrageous.
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158. Primary Instinct [paperback]
Reiter, David P.
Carindale, Qld Interactive Publications 2008.
Summary: Do you know what happens beyond your child's school gate and the latest feel-good newsletter? Here's the scoop!
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159. The Risk of Infidelity Index [paperback]
Moore, Christopher G.
London, UK Atlantic Books 2008.
Summary: In Bangkok, everything is for sale - even life itself. Introducing Vincent Calvino, disbarred lawyer turned Bangkok PI. Christopher Moore's series of internationally acclaimed, Calvino novels are finally available in the UK.
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160. A Simple Act of Violence [hardback]
Ellory, R.J.
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: Washington DC, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspaper reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few people who could ignore it.
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161. An Empire of Lies [paperback]
Klavan, Andrew
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: After a youth he would rather forget, Jason Harrow has settled down, built a stable family life and become a pillar of principle in America's mid-west. Then the phone rings and his past is on the other end of the line.
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162. Extreme Measures [paperback]
Flynn, Vince
New York, USA Simon & Schuster 2008.
Summary: With Mitch Rapp away on assignment in Pakistan, CIA Director Irene Kennedy turns to his protegee, Mike Nash.
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163. Azincourt [paperback]
Cornwell, Bernard
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: The story of Azincourt and of a victory by a small, despised, sick and hungry army over an enemy that massively outnumbered it and of the archers who helped win a battle that has entered legend.
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164. Bones of the hills [paperback]
Iggulden, Conn
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Genghis Khan has united the warring tribes but now finds trouble rising in the west of the Mongolian plain. So, diving his army and using his sons as generals to discover new territory, exact tribute and lay waste to cities which resist he is diffusing rivalries between his sons and heirs as he decides who will succeed him as khan.
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165. Playing the game [hardback]
Jour, Belle de
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: The TV series, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, is about to screen on Channel Nine. With the series introducing more back-story for Belle, now is the perfect time to move into fiction. In this sharp and refreshing novel, Belle is the still centre state, but carrying her story on in fiction which gives Belle free rein to be more outrageous.
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166. Royal exile (Valisar, 1) [paperback]
McIntosh, Fiona
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2008.
Summary: A terrifying army of mercenaries and renegades led by Loethar, a ruthless tyrant plans to overthrow King Brennus of Penraven, 9th of the Valisars. Loethar is convinced that if he consumes these empowered people he will then be imbued with their skills and magic.
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167. Someone Special [paperback]
O'Flanagan, Sheila
London, UK Headline 2008.
Summary: Romy Kilkenny loves her life in Australia, she has her dream job, lots of mates and a best friend in Keith, who understands her better than anyone. Best of all, she couldn't be further from her family. But when her brother rings to say she's needed back in Ireland right away, Romy's world is turned upside down.
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168. The Business [paperback]
Cole, Martina
London, UK Headline 2008.
Summary: Gritty, gripping and unforgettable. Martina is back with her 15th novel. Always uncompromising, never holding back.
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169. The comfort of Saturdays (An Isabel Dalhousie novel) [paperback]
Smith, Alexander McCall
London, UK Little, Brown 2008.
Summary: Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice.
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170. My First Divorce [paperback]
George, Sheryn
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2008.
Summary: Caitlin Cooper is living life full-tilt, she's a red-hot television producer, her husband is devoted and her kids are bright and beautiful. When the two people she trusts more than anyone else in the world betray her big time, Caitlin needs a total makeover professionally and personally and maybe her first divorce.
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171. Testimony [paperback]
Shreve, Anita
London, UK Little, Brown 2008.
Summary: A sex scandal rocks a posh New England boarding school and what's worse there is a videotape. A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve's book explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%288694933%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
172. To Dream of the Dead (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) [paperback]
Rickman, Phil
Eastbourne, UK Quercus 2008.
Summary: Archaeologists are unearthing an ancient row of standing stones in Coleman's Meadow which some people would rather stay buried. Merrily Watkins looks like having a cold and complex Christmas in an ancient community forced to untangle its own history against the swirling uncertainty of the future.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%288694934%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
173. Vampyres of Hollywood / Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott.
Barbeau, Adrienne
Scott, Michael, 1959-
New York : St Martin's Press, 2008.
Summary: Ovsanna Moore is a Hollywood siren, horror film legend and cut-throat producer. She also happens to be a vampire. When those around her start dropping dead, she teams up with Peter King, a cynical cop who's seen it all.
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174. The Edge of Madness [paperback]
Dobbs, Michael
New York, USA Simon & Schuster 2008.
Summary: An old Russian nuclear reactor goes into Chernobyl-style meltdown while, on the other side of the world, the US Eastern Seaboard is plunged into darkness. No one knows - yet - who is responsible for the chaos. Hidden from view of the rest of the world, an extraordinary meeting of the US President, the Russian President and the British Prime Ministe
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175. The Jack Irish Double: Dead Point and White Dog [paperback]
Temple, Peter
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2008.
Summary: Jack Irish is no ordinary investigator. He was a Melbourne criminal lawyer, but quit when a deranged client murdered his wife. After a long alcoholic binge of despair, he recovered sufficiently to set up a non-criminal practice in the suburb of Fitzroy. Jack has a big build, and women find him attractive. He has a dry wit and an observant eye.
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176. Magda's Daughter [paperback]
Collier, Catrin
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: Stateless and destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give are the ambitions she had once cherished for herself. At twenty-one tragedy strikes, and a mother's bitter secret is exposed!
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177. Cara Gayle [paperback]
O'Neill, Geraldine
London, UK Orion Books 2008.
Summary: Yet in the background, her return to Ireland and life with Oliver looms. Can Cara Gayle find the courage, at long last, to finally please herself?
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178. Taking Off [paperback]
Howard, Matt
Crows Nest, NSW Arena 2008.
Summary: The hilarious, but poignant, account of two blokes' adventures and friendship as they journey into the unknown.
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179. The Frozen Circle [paperback]
Watt, Peter
Sydney, NSW Macmillan Australia 2008.
Summary: In 1918, after the Great War, two Australian soldiers join the British army to help fight the Bolshevik forces in northern Russia. Almost a century later, two bodies are unearthed in the small Australian country town of Valley View.
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180. Keeping the Dead [paperback]
Gerritsen, Tess
London, UK Bantam Press 2008.
Summary: She's Pilgrim Hospital's most unusual patient. She's probably been dead for centuries and is in fact a mummy but when she is X-rayed the scan reveals a bullet. A subsequent autopsy shows that the mummy died recently and Dr Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli uncover a sadistic killer whose next victim is closer than anyone thinks.
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181. Edge of Desire [paperback]
Laurens, Stephanie
New York, USA HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: Letitia believes that Christian abandoned her when she needed him most, and she hates to call on his aid, but to clear her brother's name she has sworn to use every weapon at her command, even if it means seducing her ex-lover.
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182. Exposed (MIRA tradesize) [paperback]
Kava, Alex
Chatswood, NSW Mira Books 2008.
Summary: FBI crinimal profiler Maggie O'Dell knows dangerous minds. She's seen what they do. Now she confronts a shocking - and perhaps unstoppable - new face of evil.
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183. The gate house [paperback]
DeMille, Nelson
London, UK Sphere 2008.
Summary: When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant.
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184. The gift [hardback]
Ahern, Cecelia
London, UK HarperCollins 2008.
Summary: This is a story about people who not unlike parcels, hide secrets. They cover themselves in layers until the right person unwraps them and discovers what's inside. Sometimes you have to be unravelled in order to find out who you really are. For Lou Suffern, that took time.
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185. High noon in Nimbin [paperback]
Barrett, Robert G.
Pymble, NSW HarperCollins Australia 2009.
Summary: What could Les Norton possibly be doing in Nimbin, the hippie capital of Australia? And how did the little green tree-frog in Les's backyard start it all? This novel, is a cracking new tale for this Christmas, and another unputdownable adventure from Australia's popular fiction king.
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186. Awakening (Twins of Saranthium) [paperback]
Morgan, Lara
Sydney, NSW Tor Australia 2008.
Summary: In the lands of Saranthium, the pact between human and serpent is failing. Rogue serpents are attacking villages, and in the city of Salmut, rumours claim that the banished god, Azoth, has returned to resurrect his empire of slavery.
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187. Black Ops (a Presidential Agent Thriller) [hardback]
Griffin, W.E.B.
Sutton, UK Severn House 2008.
Summary: Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo receives a series of back-channel messages concerning covert US intelligence assets gone missing and then, suddenly, found dead. He suspects that is only a matter of time before his chief assigns him and his group to look into the deaths while the intel agences fight among themselves.
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188. Bones: an Alex Delaware thriller [paperback]
Kellerman, Jonathan
Sydney, NSW Hodder Headline Australia 2008.
Summary: A woman's body is found in marshland outside LA, not long dead. By the next morning the police have discovered the decaying corpses of three more women, there's no telling how long they've been there. The women were all prostitutes except for the most recent victim; a classically trained pianist. Psychologist Alex Delaware is drafted in to help.
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189. Divine Justice [paperback]
Baldacci, David
New York, USA Palgrave 2008.
Summary: Following the success of "The Camel Club", "The Collectors" and "Stone Cold" comes the next thrilling novel featuring Oliver Stone and his friendsKnown by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.
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190. The Given Day [paperback]
Lehane, Dennis
London, UK Doubleday 2008.
Summary: Boston 1918: Danny Coughlin is in charge of policing the Italian neighbourhoods of the North End, where political dissent is in the air. Meanwhile Luther Lawrence abandons his wife and flees to Boston finding work with the Coughlin household whose family relationships are unravelling.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%288694953%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
191. One Fifth Avenue [paperback]
Bushnell, Candace
London, UK Little, Brown 2008.
Summary: The stories of five women living in Manhattan's swankiest apartment building. From the author of Sex in the City.
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192. To love, honour and betray: till divorce us do part [hardback]
Lette, Kathy
London, UK Random House 2008.
Summary: When Lucy's husband of eighteen years runs out on her, she'll do anything to win him back. Including climbing out of her bedroom window at one in the morning wearing her daughter's mini skirt. Jasper has left Lucy for her best friend, the chic and thin interior decorator Renee. To make matters worse, her teenage daughter Tally, blames her.
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193. Cross Country [paperback]
Patterson, James
New York, USA Random House 2008.
Summary: When Alex Cross is called to investigate a massacre style murder scene, he is shocked to find that the victim is an old college friend. Determined, more than ever, to find the perpetrators, he is quickly taken on a thrilling and life-threatening journey into a Washington D.C.
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194. Truly, Madly, Manhattan [paperback]
Roberts, Nora
Chatswood, NSW Harlequin Mills & Boon 2008.
Summary: Two complete novels presenting the passionate heart of Manhattan, the city that never sleeps.
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195. The Bodies Left Behind [paperback]
Deaver, Jeffery
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2008.
Summary: A spring night in a small town in Wisconsin, a call to police emergency from a distant lake house is cut short, a phone glitch or an aborted report of a crime?
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196. A Good Woman [paperback]
Steel, Danielle
New York, USA Random House 2008.
Summary: From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the horrors of World War I, Annabelle Worthing flees New York society and finds her true calling as an ambulance medic on the front lines, studying medicine and saving lives. When war ends she begins a new life in Paris her old life forgotten until a fateful meeting.
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197. Just after sunset [paperback]
King, Stephen
London, UK Hodder & Stoughton 2008.
Summary: What would you do if your everyday world turned upside down in an instant? Here are twelve riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be careful what you wish for!
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198. The Lieutenant [hardback]
Grenville, Kate
Melbourne, Vic Text Publishing 2008.
Summary: A thrilling and deeply moving novel about a young man on a quest to find his place in the world, and how he starts to find it in the most unlikely of places, New South Wales in the period immediately after the arrival of the First Fleet.
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199. Portobello [paperback]
Rendell, Ruth
London, UK Hutchinson 2008.
Summary: The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality, an indefinable edge that adds a spice of danger. One day, Eugene Wren comes across an envelope containing money and rather than reporting it to the police, he writes a note and sticks it to a lamp post near his home thus linking the lives of a number of very different people.
http://catalogue.frankston.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?QRY=IRN%288694962%29&QRYTEXT=SDI%20Alert
200. Murder on a midsummer night (A Phryne Fisher mystery) [paperback]
Greenwood, Kerry
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2008.
Summary: The fabulous Phryne - the 1920s most elegant and irrepressible sleuth - returns for her seventeenth adventure investigating the death of a man at St Kilda while at the same time trying to find a lost child who could inherit an old woman's fortune.
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