Monday, October 8, 2007

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown


Angels and Demons by Dan BrownAngels and Demons
Author: Dan Brown
Format: Softcover




Description:
When a scientist is found brutally murdered, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is asked to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. Realising it must be the work of the Illuminati - an ancient secret brotherhood sworn against Cathol

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Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell


Book of the DeadBook of the Dead
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Format: Softcover




Description:
The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning.

Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta decides it's time for a change of pace. Moving to the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, she opens a unique private forensic pathology practice, one in which she and her colleagues offer expert crime scene investigation and autopsies to communities lacking local access to competent death investigation and modern technology. It seems like an ideal situation, until the murders and other violent deaths begin.

A woman is ritualistically murdered in her multi-million-dollar beach home. The body of an abused young boy is found dumped in a desolate marsh. A sixteen-year-old tennis star is found nude and mutilated near Piazza Navona in Rome. Scarpetta has dealt with many brutal and unusual crimes before, but never a string of them as baffling, or as terrifying, as the ones before her now. Before she is through, that book of the dead will contain many names ? and the pen may be poised to write her own.

The first name in forensics. The last name in suspense. Once again, Patricia Cornwell proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthral.

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Total Onslaught by De Wet Potgieter


Total Onslaught: Apartheid's Dirty Tricks ExposedTotal onslaught: Apartheid's Dirty Tricks Exposed
Author: De Wet Potgieter
Format: Softcover



Description:
For much of its time in power, the National Party government was bolstered by the direct involvement of its security forces. Ordinary citizens had no idea that their taxes were being used to fund unorthodox and even illegal operations, ranging from international propaganda campaigns to local death squads.

It was the government's total strategy against the enemy's total onslaught. Despite the efforts of a handful of intrepid journalists who began the process of uncovering the truth about apartheid, South Africa's recent history remains fraught with secrets.

Now, for the first time, investigative reporter De Wet Potgieter can reveal the truth behind some of the most enigmatic events in South Africa's past, from what happened during PW Botha's final cabinet meeting to the assassination of Olaf Palme.

These, and many other news stories of the time, are brought to light in this read.

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Ja, No, man! by Richard Poplak


Ja, No, man! by Richard PoplakJa, No, man!
Author: Richard Poplak
Format: Softcover




Description:
Ja, No, Man! is an eerily familiar portrayal of the life of an ordinary white South African growing up during Apartheid-era South Africa. Told with extraordinary humour and self-awareness, the author's story brings his gradual understanding of the difference between his country and the rest of the world vividly to life.

A startlingly original memoir that veers sharply from the quotidian to the bizarre and back again, Ja, No, Man! is an enlightening, darkly hilarious, and, at times, disturbing read.

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The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien


The Silmarillion by JRR TolkienThe Silmarillion
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Format: Softcover




Description:
The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters.

The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's World. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part.

The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor.

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Making Money by Terry Pratchett


Making Money by Terry PratchettMaking Money
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Hardcover




Description:
It's an offer you can't refuse.

Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life.

But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss.

A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead Oh.

And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies.

Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is ...Making Money!

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The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall


The Russian ConcubineThe Russian Concubine
Author: Kate Furnivall
Format: Softcover




Description:
Junchow, China, 1928. Lydia Ivanova has a fierce spirit. Nothing can dim it, not even the foul waters of the Peiho River. Into the river's grime bodies are tossed - those of thieves and Communists alike.

So every time Lydia steals from someone to feed herself and her mother, she takes her life into her own hands. Lydia's mother, Valentina, numbered among the Russian elite until the Bolsheviks rounded them up. They took her husband but she managed to buy back her child and bring her to China.

But survival is hard. Even though mother and daughter live in the Whites-only settlement, no walls can keep Lydia in. She escapes to meet Chang An Lo, who saves her life once and is bound to her for ever .

But Chang has enemies who are hunting him down - Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed towards Junchow to kill Reds like him.

Their all-consuming love can only mean danger for them both, but they are powerless to end it ...

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You've Been Warned by James Patterson


You've Been Warned by James PattersonYou've Been Warned
Author: James Patterson
Format: Softcover




Description:
A creepy thriller from bestselling novelist James Patterson.
Nanny and amateur photographer, Kristin, is plagued by a horrifying recurring nightmare.

In the nightmare she arrives at the aftermath of a shootout where she spies four bodies and a detective, and she can't help but photograph the ghastly scene. The following morning she is greeted with this very same scene as she walks to work.

Kristin's life is complicated: her lover Michael is a married man, and the father of the children she looks after. His wife is a nasty, icy woman.

But things are set to get worse. She starts seeing and photographing the ghosts of dead people on the streets of New York. Yet in her photographs the bodies appear to be transparent, just like the bodies in her nightmare.

Kristin feels like she's going mad, nothing seems to make sense...

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