Monthly Archives: August 2013

Ride with the wind by Anne McCullagh Rennie – Book of the Week 12/08/2013

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Joanna Kingsford is passionate about horses. The scent of leather, sweat and hay, the clatter of hooves — this is the world she shares with her father, the champion trainer Charlie Kingsford. Jo couldn’t be less like Nina, her socialite … Continue reading →

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Big Brother by Lionel Shriver

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From the author of ‘We need to talk about Kevin’…… When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn’t recognize him. In the four years since the grown siblings last saw one another, … Continue reading →

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Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Imperative by Eric Van Lustbader – Book of the Week 5/08/2013

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Jason Bourne pulls a drowning man from a lake – a man not only freezing, but bleeding profusely from a gun-shot wound. He wakes as an amnesiac, with no memory of who he is or why he was shot…an eerie … Continue reading →

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White Lies by Witi Ihimaera – Book of the Week 29th July 2013

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A powerful novella from the much-loved author of The Whale Rider, plus a moving screenplay, film stills and commentary on writing and movie making. A medicine woman a giver of life is asked to hide a secret that may protect … Continue reading →

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