Astonishing, suspenseful, and creative the Hourglass from author Claudia Grey, will keep your teens guessing with its inevitable twists and turns and cliff hanger ending.
Bianca has found refuge again with the Black Cross, and she and Lucas work desperately to keep her secret. In this company, being a vampire is a death sentence, [...]

The Eternal Son is an honest and insightful story that touches us all, written by one of Brazil’s foremost award winning novelists, Cristovao Tezza beautifully translated by Alison Entrekin. It is world literature at its finest, a story of a life-changing encounter brought about the birth of a disabled child.
In this multi-award-winning autobiographical novel, Tezza [...]

James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Record. 9th Judgement is his compelling, unstoppable best!
A psychopathic killer targets San Francisco’s most innocent and vulnerable A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their [...]

If David Shield succeeds and converts you to his point of view then you will see Reality Hunger: A Manifesto as a call to arms; detractors however will view it as an occasion to defend the status quo. It is certain to be one of the most controversial and talked about books of the season [...]

Freedom – Daniel Suarez

Posted on March 8th, 2010 by Jarvis in Crime, Fiction

This has all the action and creative ideas of the next gen futuristic world, one in which the humans are seeking to find their way toward FREEDOM from the monster, they have themselves created, computers.
In one of the most buzzed-about debuts of 2009, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, [...]

Consolation – Anna Gavalda

Posted on March 8th, 2010 by Jarvis in Fiction

In Consolation French author Anna Gavalda tells a heartbreaking, unusual story about one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite. It is a triumphant, spellbinding, finally consoling novel about life, love and second chances.
Alive with wit and vivid observation, sparkling dialogue and brilliant characters, Consolation (La Consolante*) was the bestselling [...]

The Egyptologist – Arthur Phillips

Posted on March 8th, 2010 by Jarvis in Fiction

The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips has all the elements of great read, it is  witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed and, about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. The story opens predictably on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its  unconventional way from the slums of [...]

Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome is an historical saga combing all the ingredients of a good epic in an historical setting one in which the protagonists decide the future of democracy while ensuring that revenge becomes the coin of the realm so that everyone, who deserves it, gets what is owing to them.
This is [...]

Laura Joh Rowlands The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte places the quiet, self effacing renowned English historical novelist Charlotte Bronte, whose works are so often overshadowed by that of her historical rival Jane Austen, in the middle of a murder mystery that will keep you enthralled to the last page.
Laura Joh Rowland’s San Ichiro novels [...]

Gill Harvey brings Ancient Egypt vividly to life for children in The Sacred Scarab an adventure about two orphans Hopi and Isis who are always getting into difficult situations. It is festival time and someone is plotting against the Pharoah and the kids have to find out who and stop him.
Fantastically atmospheric evocations of Egyptian [...]

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