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FICTION BEST SELLERS
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
The first of the Millennium Trilogy. Michael Blomkvis, a journalist, is asked to investigate the loss of a child decades earlier. This crime involves the Vanger Corporation, one of Sweden’s biggest industrial companies. The head of the company, Henrik Vanger, is convinced someone within the family had something to do with the disappearance. Mikael enlists the help of the girl with the dragon tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, an enigmatic delinquent and dangerous security specialist. A genius computer hacker, she tolerates no restrictions placed upon her by individiuals, society or the law. The first in a gripping trilogy.
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
England in the 1520s. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn because if he dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. The king’s advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, is a victim of the king’s displeasure and into his place steps Thomas Cromwell, son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a bully and a charmer.
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Last year’s Pulitzer Prize. Olive Kitteridge: compassionate, often unpredictable. A retired schoolteacher in a small coastal town in Maine, struggling to make sense of the changes in her life as she grows older. We meet her stoic husband, bound to her in a marriage both broken and strong, and a young man who aches for the mother he lost - and whom Olive comforts by her mere presence, while her own son feels tyrannized by her overbearing sensitivities. A vibrant exploration of the human soul in need.
The Long Song
Andrea Levy
July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation in Jamaica and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831 and when slavery ended. The story is also of July’s mama Kitty, of the negroes who worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer, the sister of the plantation owner who took July away from her mother because she wanted her for a plaything. A delightful story. I laughed and I cried reading it.
NON-FICTION BEST SELLERS
A Life on Pittwater
Susan Duncan
Welcome to Pittwater, an idyllic waterside community where there are no oads, streetlights or traffic. Here, everyone commutes by boat or ferry, and life revolves around the water, bush and a vibrant social life. A Life on Pittwater describes the richness of this special place. Text is by Susan Duncan as she and photographer Anthony Ong show you just how unique and loved this area is.
The Element
Ken Robinson
How finding your passion changes everything. The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. Robinson considers the child bored in class, the disillusioned employee and those of us who feel frustrated but can’t quite explain why - and shows how we all need to reach our Element. Through the stories of people like Paul McCartney, Arianna Huffington and Matt Groening, who have recognized their unique talents and made a successful living doing what they love, Robinson explains how every one of us can find ourselves in our Element, and achieve everything we’re capable of.
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth is in her thirties, settled in a large house with a husand who wants to start a family. But she doesn’t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a rebound fling later, Elizabeth emerges battered yet determined to find what she’s been missing. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing temple floors. Finally in Bali, a toothlss medicine man reveals a new path to peace, leaving her ready to love again.
No Time To Cook
Donna Hay
Fresh and easy recipes for a fast forward world. This is a book Minna, Ellie and I all can vouch for. You can turn out easy, interesting meals with a minimum of fuss. The ingredients are easily obtained and the end result is always good. If you haven’t looked at the book, treat yourself next time you are in store.
CHILDREN’S BEST SELLERS
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian
Rick Riordan
Most people get presents on their sixteenth birthday. I get a prophecy that could save or destroy the world. That’s how it is when you’re the son of Poseidon, God of the Sea. According to an ancient prophecy, bad things will happen when I turn sixteen - because I’m the one who gets to decide the fate of the entire world. This is the one where Konos, Lord of the Titans, is beginning his attack on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually ungarded. Oh, and the dreaded, enormous monster Typhon is also heading our way. So it’s me and forty of my demigod friends versus untold evil. For 9 and up
Conspiracy 365: February
Gabrielle Lord
On New Year’s Eve, Callum is chased down the street by a crazed man with a deadly wrning: They killed our father, they’ll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days! Now he’s on the run. The people who killed his father want him dead, and the police are chasing him for a crime he didn’t commit. A month has gone by and he’s still no nearer to solving the Ormond Riddle, the family secret that has turned his life into a nightmare. Can he t rust the mysterious Winter Frey, or will she lead him further into danger? He has 334 days. For 11 and up.
Fallen
Lauren Kate
What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours? 17 year old Lucinda falls in love with gorgeous, intelligent, Daniel at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross, only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good and evil forces plot to keep them apart. Some angels are destined to fall. For 11
The Piper’s Son
Melina Marchetta
Marchetta’s brilliant, heart-wrenching new novel takes up the story of the group of friends from her best-selling, much-loved book Saving Francesca - only this time it’s five years later and Thomas MacKee is the one who needs saving. Thomas MacKee wants oblivion. Ages 15+
