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Hard Girls, Martina Cole

March 10, 2010

Kristy McCormick
Touted as “the only author who dares to tell it like it really is” Martina Cole sure knows how to pack a punch. Her novel, Hard Girls, is not for the faint hearted. The book is set in the tough streets of East London and explores the harsh reality of living, and working, alongside [...]

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Red Lotus, Pai Kit Fai

March 6, 2010

Andrea Parks
In 1906, a little girl is born on a spice farm in Southern China. Unwanted – because she is a girl – she is an encumbrance to her family and is nearly buried alive in the middle of a mustard field by her father. Meanwhile, Pai-Ling, her beautiful concubine mother, violently ends the suffering [...]

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The Crowded Shadows, Celine Kiernan

March 4, 2010

Tina Gamble
The Moorehawke Trilogy (II)
Alone for the first time in her life, Wynter Moorehawke travels unprotected in bandit-infested mountains, searching for missing Prince Alberon.
Every tyrant who ever threatened the Kingdom is gathering to Alberon’s table, and the forest is alive with spies and wolves. Within these crowded shadows, Wynter remains determined to find the rebel [...]

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That Loving Feeling, Carole Matthews

March 4, 2010

Keryn O’Donnell
Ever reached a point in a relationship where you become TOO comfortable with your partner? Where the spark and magic seems to have simmered away into bland, monotonous, every day life? Ever dreamed of having that ex who shattered your heart into a million pieces suddenly reappear in your life, begging for forgiveness and [...]

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I Heart Hollywood, Lindsey Kelk

March 3, 2010

Keryn O’Donnell
Having not read the first instalment (I Heart New York), I was apprehensive about jumping into I heart Hollywood by Lindsey Kelk with no background knowledge – fortunately this was no problem at all. With enough background knowledge served up about both the plot line and the characters, you feel instantly at home by [...]

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Meals Men Love, Lana Vidler

March 2, 2010

Samantha Singer
“It’s official…the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach”; or so says Lana Vidler, author of Meals Men Love, the light blue cook book that takes us back to the 1950s and right back into the kitchen.
Now, I love to cook and I love to cook for my boyfriend. Yes, it is [...]

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Evidence, Jonathan Kellerman

March 2, 2010

Andrea Parks
Serious investigation into a serious crime is what we get in Evidence. In this, his 24th novel in the Alex Delaware mystery/crime thriller series, Jonathan Kellerman is an expert, and well, he’s written 24 bestselling novels…need I say more? He smoothly sets the scene with a grisly crime and promptly moves his detectives to [...]

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Roadside Crosses, Jeffery Deaver

March 1, 2010

Kristy McCormick
I am not tech savvy. I do not tweet and to many of my friends eternal frustration I am not on Facebook. Apparently it would make their social lives easier if I were.
And I have to say, after reading Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver, I am not all that sure if I want the [...]

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