Monday, June 23, 2008
Sail by James Patterson
Sail
Author: James Patterson
Format: Softcover
Description:
Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself. The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-year-old Ernie is nearly catatonic.
This is the worst vacation ever. Anne manages to pull things together bit by bit, but just as they begin feeling like a family again, something catastrophic happens. Survival may be the least of their concerns.
Written with the blistering pace and shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, SAIL takes "Lost" and "Survivor" to a new level of terror.
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James Patterson
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Blue Door by Andre P Brink
The Blue Door
Author: Andre P Brink
Format: Hardcover
Description:
The Blue Door is built around one of the oldest questions in storytelling: What if ...?
What if I return home one day to find, behind a familiar door, an unfamiliar world? What if the people closest to me turn out to be strangers? What if strangers start claiming a place in my life I cannot imagine? What if the memories of the most important moments in my life can no longer be trusted? What if I am not who I think I am?
David le Roux, a teacher recently turned fulltime artist, returns to his studio one afternoon to find his whole familiar world turned upside down. The woman who opens the door and welcomes him as her husband is a complete stranger to him: beautiful and loving, but not the wife he assumes he has been married to for nine years. The children are overjoyed at his return, but he has never set eyes on them before.
And when he goes back to the building he believes he lives in, it no longer exists. Has everything in his life been illusion? Or is the past real and only the present a hallucination?
In a country like South Africa these questions may decide a whole life. Instead of living with the consequences of early choices, he now discovers that behind every choice made lurks the possibility of innumerable other choices not made.
What if, indeed ...?
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Monday, June 16, 2008
After Tears by Niq Mhlongo
After Tears
Author: Niq Mhlongo
Format: Softcover
Description:
Witty, amusing yet rooted in the gritting reality that is Soweto, Mhlongo reminds us yet again why he has been dubbed the writer of the kwaito generation. After Tears is a must-read for anyone seeking escape from the tedium of television. – Zukiswa Wanner, author of The Madams.
"After Tears is a uniquely South African story, told in a fast, hip and happening style that is synonymous with Soweto where the author's witty, dodgy, plain and simple characters play out their daily drama." Lucas Ledwaba, City Press.
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More South-African Interest Books:
Man of the People: Nelson Mandela
Thabo Mbeki: A dream deferred
Cyril Ramaphosa
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Fiction,
Niq Mhlongo,
SA Interest,
South-Africa,
South-African Interest
Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott
Spirit Gate
Author: Kate Elliott
Format: Softcover
Description:
For hundreds of years the Guardians ruled the Hundred, but these unearthly beings have faded from human sight and no longer exert their will on the world. Only the reeves, patrolling from the skies, still represent the Guardians' power.
But there is a corruption in the land that not even they can control, and fanatics are devastating villages, towns, and cities, slaughtering all who oppose them.
Outlanders Anji and Mai are fleeing their homeland with a company of dedicated warriors. On reaching the Hundred, they form an alliance with Reeve Joss, and determine to stand against the devouring horde. But, as region after region slips into chaos, a young woman sworn to the Goddess may be all that keeps them from annihilation ...
A haunting tale of individuals swept up by the chaos of war, this is fantasy adventure at its best - rich in texture, filled with color and excitement.
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Kate Elliott,
Science Fiction
The Da Vinci Method by Garret Loporto
The Da Vinci Method
Author: Garret Loporto
Format: Softcover
Description:
Break Out & Express Your Fire. Discover and master the fiery temperament shared by great leaders, entrepreneurs, artists and AD/HD-ers.
Are you: - Impulsive? - Risk-taking? - Distractible? - Sensation-seeking? - Insightful or Intuitive? Do you: - Crave risk and excitement? - Have an addictive personality? - Rebel against authority? - Think differently? Then you are a DaVinci.
Discover the secret genius that drives risk-takers, rebels, entrepreneurs, artists and ad/hd-ers to achieve greatness. Learn how to express this fire and harness it productively.
About the Author: Garret LoPorto, has been featured in The New York Times, Money Magazine, The Boston Globe and The London Financial Times. He is a successful entrepreneur, CEO, presenter at MIT, U.S. & International patent-pending inventor, and father of two children. He lives with his wife and children in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Garret Loporto,
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Non-Fiction
Behind every successful man by Zukiswa Wanner
Behind every successful man
Author: Zukiswa Wanner
Format: Mass market paperback
Description:
Nobantu has everything a girl could dream of: a brilliant businessman for a husband, two cheeky but adorable children, and two of the best friends a girl could ask for. And yet, on Nobantu’s thirty-fifth birthday, surrounded by glitz, glamour and fame, she realises something important. What has happened to her ambitions? Her career? What has happened to Nobantu? A funky, witty tale of a mother turned entrepreneur – to the great exasperation of Andile, her husband and BEE tycoon.
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Humour,
South-Africa,
Zukiswa Wanner
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Law of Attraction by Michael J Losier
Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't
Author: Michael J. Losier
Format: Softcover
Description:
Have you noticed that sometimes what you need just falls into place or comes to you from an out-of-the-blue telephone call?
Or you've bumped into someone on the street you've been thinking about?
Perhaps you've met the perfect client or life partner, just by fate or being at the right place at the right time.
All of these experiences are evidence of the Law of Attraction in your life. Have you heard about people who find themselves in bad relationships over and over again, and who are always complaining that they keep attracting the same kind of relationship? The Law of Attraction is at work for them too.
The Law of Attraction may be defined as: I attract to my life whatever I give my attention, energy and focus to, whether positive or negative. By reading this book you'll come to understand why and how this happens.
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The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Monday, June 2, 2008
Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman
Compulsion
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Format: Softcover
Description:
Three baffling murder cases, linked only by a perplexing lack of motive ... Until LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are called to the scene of a bizarre 'crime'. A stolen car has been anonymously returned to its owner, undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain. This minuscule clue is enough to set the pair on a hunt for a multiple killer, from the well-heeled centre of LA society to its desperate edges, even as far as New York, where their search thaws out a long-cold case. However, this killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification - and to unmask him, Alex and Milo will have to confront the true face of murderous compulsion ...
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Alex Delaware,
Audio Book,
Jonathan Kellerman,
Kindle Book,
Suspension,
thriller
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