The Pillars of the Earth (#1 Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett
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Category: Contemporary | Series: The Kingsbridge Novels | Reading Level: good
The no.1 bestselling masterpiece "A novel of majesty and power." Chicago Sun-TimesA spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece. The Pillars of the Earth tells t ...Show more
Nineteen Twenty-One by Adam Thorpe
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Vintage War
It is the freakishly hot, drought summer of 1921; dust storms in London, parched and cracking earth, autumn tints in July. Holed up in a cottage in the Chilterns, a young writer strives to write the first great novel of the War, impelled by his own suffering. Outward events and inner crises deflect him ...Show more
No Book but the World by Leah Hager Cohen
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A young boy goes missing. The accused is a loner and outsider. When Ava Manseau learns that the suspect is actually her brother, Fred, she is compelled to piece together what actually happened, convinced that she alone will be able to explain him and his innocence. Fred has always been different: certai ...Show more
Tapestry by Fiona McIntosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
The key to her future is trapped in the past. In 1978, Jane Maxwell is celebrating her engagement to Will, a handsome American geophysicist, but though she should be deliriously happy, she is plagued by doubts. When tragedy leaves Will hanging between life and death, Jane's guilt makes her determined to ...Show more
Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Lesbian passion, clinical obesity, murder, conjoined twins, and huge servings of food, sex and filthy language: it's the brand-new Irvine Welsh...When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman chasing two frightened homeless men along a deserted causeway a ...Show more
The Awakening of Miss Prim by Nata Sanmartin Fenollera; Sonia Soto (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving ...Show more
Rooms by Lauren Oliver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family-bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna-have arrived for their inheritance. But the Walkers are not alone. Prim ...Show more
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
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Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. So she leaves Blackpool and her family behind, takes herself off to London, and gets a job behind the cosmetics counter of a Kensington department store, wh ...Show more
Skin by Ilka Tampke
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Category: Contemporary | Series: A\Daughter of Albion Novel Ser.
For the people of Caer Cad, 'skin' is their totem, their greeting, their ancestors, their land Ailia does not have skin. Abandoned at birth, she serves the Tribequeen of her township. Ailia is not permitted to marry, excluded from tribal ceremonies and, most devastatingly, forbidden to learn. But the M ...Show more
Resistance (Dave Hooper #2) by John Birmingham
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Dave Hooper
Two bright geometric shapes, metallic flashes picked out in the morning sun, moving impossibly fast and straight amidst the visual clutter and chaos of forest and rock...'Is it dragons, Dave, is that what it is? Because I'm not ready for dragons...' A dragon brings down the Vice President's plane, a mon ...Show more
Weightless by Sarah Bannan
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015Adamsville wasn't a place that people came to. It was a place you were from, where you were born, where you were raised, where you stayed... Before Carolyn Lessing arrived, nothing much had ever happened in Adamsville, Alabama. Each w ...Show more
The Tax Inspector by Carey Peter
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Category: Contemporary
The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Sixteen-year-old Benny dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empir ...Show more