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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Irons in the Fire (Russell Brand)

Irons in the Fire
Russell Brand

Blurb: '... the writings of a highly capricious and volatile witness to events at Upton Park and Soho Square...'

This is how Russell Brand describes this compilation of his Guardian columns that lead us from the disappointment of the World Cup through the following turbulent season for West Ham and England.

Brand writes about West Ham Football Club in a way that transcends club loyalties, and even a passion for football, to take us on the journey that 'Homer himself would regard as improbable.'

ISBN: 9780340961360 (Hardback)
Year: 2007
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Pages: 152 (Non-Fiction)

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Remember June (Damien Leith)

Remember June
Damien Leith

Blurb: Mattie Finch is a kid living with his aunt in Ireland in 1990.

He often talks to his mother, but he hasn't seen his father Dave for six months.

Dave's been trying to face his family, but there are just too many demons. He can't forget how he and his brother Stephen escaped the troubles of Northern Ireland ten years earlier. He is haunted by what happened when they met June and her sister Susan, and the irreversible changes the town of Stonebridge brought to their lives.

A shattering and redemptive story of fathers and sons, and the power of memory.

ISBN: 9780732286828 (Paperback)
Year: 2010
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 304 (Fiction)

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Monday, November 28, 2011

The Stallion (Harold Robbins)

The Stallion
Harold Robbins

Blurb: Continuing the phenomenal story in The Betsy, The Stallion reintroduces the Hardeman family and the cut-throat world of their vast automobile empire, where the stakes are high and everyman, and woman, is a gambler.

Loren Hardeman, known as 'Number One', is gradually transferring control of Bethlehem Motors to his grandson, Loren Hardeman III - a man possessed with his father's cunning, but sadly lacking in his ability to go for the kill. So when Angelo Perino, an outsider previously nurtured by 'Number One', threatens the position held by Hardeman III, what ensues is a battle of wills in which integrity takes a backseat to animal instinct, and in which there can only be one winner.

Bursting with huge ingredients of lust, greed, sex and intrigue - and a plot full of twists and double-crosses - this is Harold Robbins at his sizzling best.

ISBN: 9781849835404 (Paperback)
Year: 1996
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages: 364 (Fiction)

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

King of the Cross (Mark Dapin)

King of the Cross
Mark Dapin

Blurb: 'Think Nick Hornby on a meth binge and you've got the style. Think Underbelly 2, but so much more real, and you've got the content...fun and compelling and just thinly veiled enough to make it so real.' Melbourne Times

'A fantastic work of crime fiction... a brilliantly funny yet violent and intriguing novel.' Launceston Examiner

'Will have you rolling in laughter... an outrageously uninhibited account of Sydney's most infamous nether world.' Sun-Herald

'...punctuated by lacerating comic dialogue and scenes of explosive violence, full of the kind of inventive word play and thinly veiled social commentary that makes Florida-based crime author Carl Hiaasen so much fun to read - and, as with Hiaasen, there's ample substance beneath the dialogue.' The Age

'Violent funny and poignant by turn; if you liked Underbelly, you'll love this.' Grazia Magazine

'I laughed out loud... the publisher's blurb says the book is 'crime fiction as it's never been written before', and that is a fair call. Dapin brings to the book the quirky, insightful turn of phrase that makes his newspaper columns for Good Weekend mandatory readying.' Stephen Romei, Australian Literary Review

'Dapin is a writer who punches with both hands and winks at the crowd while he's at it. His protagonist is part punk, part pug, part poet - an anti-hero who reveals his own back story as he gets the King of the Cross to unravel the eerily familiar tale of his unlikely rise.' Andrew Rule, author of Underbelly.

'Explosive, gritty, hilarious and - best of all - truly origianly. This book detonates while you're reading it.' Robert Drewe

ISBN: 9780330426121 (Paperback)
Year: 2009
Publisher: Pan
Pages: 311 (Fiction)


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Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Water Room (Christopher Fowler)

The Water Room
Christopher Fowler

Blurb: An oasis in the heart of Kentish Town, Balaklava Street is ripe for gentrification. But then the body of an elderly woman is found at No. 5. Her demise seems to have been peaceful but for the fact that her throat is full of river water...

For the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit, led by London's longest-serving detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, this curious death marks the beginning of a distinctly sinister investigation. And the new owner of No. 5 is understandably unsettled by the damp in the basement of her home, some particularly resilient spiders and the ghostly sound of rushing water.

Unearthing hitherto undiscovered secrets, the two octogenarian policemen learn that, in a London filled with the rich, the poor and the dispossessed, there's still something a desperate individual is willing to kill for. And kill again to protect.

Armed only with their wits, their own idiosyncratic practices and a plentiful supply of boiled sweets, Bryant and May come face to face with madness, greed and revenge in a wickedly sinuous mystery that goes to the heart of every London home.

ISBN: 9780553824681 (Paperback)
Year: 2004
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages: 430 (Fiction)

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Friday, November 25, 2011

A Time to Sow - Star Trek (Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore)

A Time to Sow - Star Trek
Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore

Blurb: On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise has never been told.

Until now.

More than two centuries ago, the Dokaalan sent an unmanned probe into the void, bearing a distress call for anyone who could save their doomed world. But the message reached Federation space too late to save the planet or its people. Or so it was believed...

Generations later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-E are stunned to discover the last of the Dokaalan - now only a colony, fighting to stay alive in a decrepit asteroid mining complex. Although their home planet was destroyed long ago, the survivors hope to someday transform a nearby planet into a new home for their people. But bitter divisions exist among the Dokaalan, sowing seeds of sabotage and terrorism - and placing Picard and the Enterprise in the middle of an escalating crisis that can only lead to total destruction!

ISBN: 0743482999 (Paperback)
Year: 2004
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages: 316 (Fiction)

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Middle School - The Worst Years of My Life (James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts)

Middle School - The Worst Years of My Life
James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts

Blurb: This is the totally insane story of how I, Rafe Khatchadorian,
-fought and overcame a diabolical teacher called Dragon Lady,
-sold my soul to the school bully, a dollar at a time,
-wrestled with a real live bear; repeatedly,
-fell kind of in 'like' with the most popular girl in school,
-went into the soda business and went bust,
-and accidentally-on-purpose hurt all the people I care about.

The worst days of my life were good sometimes.

Bad sometimes.

But mostly they were hilarious.

See for yourself.

ISBN: 9780099543992 (Paperback)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Young Arrow
Pages: 283 (Fiction)

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

It's True! It's True! (Kurt Angle with John Harper)

It's True! It's True!
Kurt Angle with John Harper

Blurb: 'This book is a recounting of my life and how I see it. It is how life's triumphs and shortcomings affected me.'

A real American story from one of World Wrestling Entertainment's biggest superstars.

ISBN: 0007145071 (Paperback)
Year: 2001
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 367 (Non-Fiction)

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Outside In (Insider #2) (Maria V. Snyder)

Outside In (Insider #2)
Maria V. Snyder

Blurb: Me? A Leader?

Okay, so I did prove that there's more to Inside than we knew. A whole world exists beyond this cube we live in. And finding that led to a major rebellion between worker scrubs like me and the snobby Uppers who rule our world. Make that ruled. Because of me, we're free. I thought that meant I could go off on my own again - while still touching base with Riley, of course. He's the one Upper I think I can trust.

But then we learn that there is an Outside. And something from Outside wants in.

ISBN: 9781921794834 (Paperback)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Pages: 326 (Fiction)

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Shadows in the Mist (Brian Moreland)

Shadows in the Mist
Brian Moreland

Blurb: Germany 1944: The Hurtgen Forest is a killing field. But there is something worse than the enemy in the shadows: An ancient power is waiting to be unleashed upon those who oppose the Third Reich - and then the world...

World War II hero Jack 'Grim Reaper' Chambers survived the war, but he still has nightmares about Hurtgen - and the unholy horrors he battled there. Now, he is determined to reveal the truth behind his platoon's massacre...

His grandson, Sean, is given the task of carrying Jack's message. But Sean's quest pulls him into a deadly race against those who wish to bury the truth forever - and those who wish to use it to unleash hell on earth...

ISBN: 9780425224335 (Paperback)
Year: 2006
Publisher: Berkley Books
Pages: 356 (Fiction)

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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Mr. Nobody (Roger Hargreaves)

Mr. Nobody
Roger Hargreaves

Blurb: Mr. Happy finds someone who is nobody. But can anyone be nobody?

ISBN: 9781846467110 (Paperback)
Year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 36 (Fiction)

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Quarantine (Alone #3) (James Phelan)

Quarantine (Alone #3)
James Phelan

Blurb: What is left for Jesse to lose?

Jesse lost his friends in the destruction of New York.

Now he's endangered the survivors.

He's shown the Chasers where Rachel and Felicity have taken refuge. He's pushed Caleb to the edge - and watched him pay the price. The people at Chelsea Piers seem Jesse's only hope for escape.

But will they move before it's too late?

And when the quarantine is lifted, what hope will the authorities bring? A vaccine? A cure?

Who will be saved - and who will be left to battle on... ALONE?

ISBN: 9780733624810 (Paperback)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Lothian
Pages: 263 (Fiction)

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Orion's Hounds (Star Trek: TITAN) (Christopher L. Bennett)

Orion's Hounds (Star Trek: TITAN)
Christopher L. Bennett

Blurb: As the U.S.S. Titan ventures beyond the outermost reaches of known space, the telepaths in her crew - including Diplomatic Officer Deanna Troi - are overwhelmed by an alien cry of distress, leading the ship to the scene of a shocking act of carnage: a civilisation of interstellar 'whalers' preying upon and exploiting a familiar species of sentient spaceborne giants.

Appalled but reluctant to rush to judgment, Captain William Riker and his crew investigate, discovering a cosmic spawning ground in a region of active star formation - the ecosystem for a bewildering array of diverse but similarly vast life-forms. While attempting to negotiate an end to the victimisation of these creatures, Riker's crew inadvertently grants them the means to defeat their hunters' purpose... only to learn that things are not exactly as they seem.

ISBN: 9781416509509 (Paperback)
Year: 2006
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages: 379 (Fiction)

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)

American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis

Blurb: Patrick Bateman is handsome, well-educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom. He is twenty-six years old and living his own American Dream.

ISBN: 0307278638 (Paperback)
Year: 1991
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 399 (Fiction)

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club #2) (James Patterson and Andrew Gross)

2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club #2)
James Patterson and Andrew Gross

Blurb: A CRAZED GUNMAN
I moved closer and knelt over the body. Tasha's blouse was soaked with blood, mixed with falling rain. Just a few feet away, a rainbow-hued knapsack still lay on the grass. Bullet holes were everywhere, splintered glass and wood. Dozens of kids had been streaming out onto the street... All those shots, and only one victim.

THE WOMEN'S MURDER CLUB IS BACK

The tragic end of the honeymoon murder case left Lindsay Boxer, San Francisco's only woman homicide detective, unsure if she could ever return to work. But when a little girl is shot outside a San Francisco church, she knows it's time to reconvene the Women's Murder Club.

Working with reporter Cindy Thomas, Assistant DA Jill Bernhardt, and medical examiner Claire Washburn, Lindsay starts to track a mystifying killer who quickly turns his pursuers into his victims.

ISBN: 9780755349272 (Paperback)
Year: 2002
Publisher: Headline
Pages: 401 (Fiction)

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (Michael Davis)

Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
Michael Davis

Blurb: One evening in early 1966 a group of friends were gathered at a Manhattan dinner party, where the conversation turned to a subject a number of them had been thinking about: Why couldn't television be used to teach children? Suddenly, one of the most influential, durable, and beloved shows in the history of broadcasting was born.

Michael Davis's Street Gang unfolds the never-before-told saga behind Sesame Street: the miraculously improbably alchemy that brought a passionate team together, and kept them going through four decades of social change and the backstage dram behind a television show that had always appeared effortless. Street Gang is a story of a crusade, one that has already influenced four generations of children - and one that will remain a part of childhood for generations to come.

ISBN: 9780143116639 (Paperback)
Year: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 380 (Non-Fiction)

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Monday, November 14, 2011

The Book, the Film, the T-Shirt (Matt Beaumont)

The Book, the Film, the T-Shirt
Matt Beaumont

Blurb: What does a successful adman do when he realises the stars of his new commercial want to kill each other, his director has walked off the set and his client has turned up in the wrong T-Shirt?

How does one of those stars react when he's asked if it's true that he's packing salami into his shorts?

Why on earth does the other one think that dueting with a Chinese Elvis impersonator on the Old Ken Road could possibly be a smart career move?

What does the successful adman's pregnant, swollen-ankled wife do when she realises the cheating bastard just happens to be shooting an ad with a rubber-clad Hollywood nymph?

And how could any of the above possibly have a connection to the world's most useless drug smuggler?

All these questions and more are answered in The Book, the Film, the T-Shirt, a novel that hilariously describes the making of a tyre ad and the destruction of several careers.

ISBN: 000714878X (Paperback)
Year: 2002
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 306 (Fiction)

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Disco Mystery - Moshi Monsters Pick Your Path #1 (Lauren Holowaty)

Disco Mystery - Moshi Monsters Pick Your Path #1
Lauren Holowaty

Blurb: There's something strange going on in Monstro City. The Underground Disco has gone eerily silent...

One of the fangtastic Fizzbangs has gone missing and the other bands are refusing to perform until their friend has returned! Will you see if you can find them, or seek your own monSTARdom in Rockstar Reef?

Pick your path and decide

ISBN: 9781409390770 (Paperback)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Sunbird
Pages: 77 (Fiction)

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Sacred (Dennis Lehane)

Sacred
Dennis Lehane

Blurb: Grief stricken over the accidental death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree Stone has been missing for three weeks - and so has the first investigator her father hired to look for her. And when the dying billionaire hires Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to continue the search for his missing daughters, they find that nothing is remotely what it seems.

Travelling from the windblown streets of Boston to the rum-punch sunsets of Florida's Gulf Coast and back again, they search for a woman and a man who could be saints or sinners, victims or victimizers, alive or dead. And the more Patrick and Angie discover, as they are led down a trail of half-truths and corruption into a dark and terrifying world, the more they realise that on this case, any wrong step will certainly be their last.

ISBN: 9780553818260 (Paperback)
Year: 1997
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages: 447 (Fiction)

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Friday, November 11, 2011

The Medusa Plot - The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers #1 (Gordon Korman)

The Medusa Plot - The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers #1
Gordon Korman

Blurb: Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, thought they belonged to the world's most powerful family. They thought the hunt for the 39 Clues leading to the source of that power was over. They even thought they'd won. But Amy and Dan were wrong.

One by one, distress calls start coming from around the globe. Cahills are being kidnapped by a shadowy group known only as the Vespers. Now Amy and Dan have just days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request or their captured friends will start dying. Amy and Dan don't know what the Vespers want or how to stop them. Only one thing is clear. The Vespers are playing to win, and if they get their hands on the Clues... the world will be their next hostage.

ISBN: 9780545298391 (Hardback)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages: 222 (Fiction)

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Dulcie - Disney Fairies (Martine Allars)

Dulcie - Disney Fairies
Martine Allars

Blurb: Listen closely. Can you hear that? It's the sound of bells and means fairies are nearby. Do you believe in fairies? I do, because I am one. My name is Dulcie and I am a magical Never fairy. I live in Never Land, a far-away place where anything can happen.

ISBN: 9781863968126 (Paperback)
Year: 2008
Publisher: ACP
Pages: 24 (Fiction)

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Seriously... I'm Kidding (Ellen DeGeneres)

Seriously... I'm Kidding
Ellen DeGeneres

Blurb: Oh, hi. I'm so glad you decided to turn the book over. Inside you will find an assortment of wonderful things - words, pictures, advice, tidbits, morsels, shenanigans, and, in some copies, four hundred dollars cash. So you might want to buy a few.

I don't have enough room on this back cover to tell you all the reasons why you should buy this book, but I can tell you this and it's a guarantee: If you buy it, you will feel better, look better, be happier, grow taller, lose weight, get a promotion at work, have shinier hair, and fall madly, deeply in love.

As you probably know, this is normally where authors put nice quotes from fancy people praising their book. I'm a little uncomfortable with that. It feels like a gimmick to get people to buy it and I don't believe in cheap tricks like that. Besides, I know you're way too smart and beautiful to fall for that kind of stuff. Actually, I think you're so wonderful I thought I would use this space to praise you. Yes, that's right. You. Here are some of the nice things I have to say about you:

'That is a beautiful blouse you're wearing. It goes so nicely with this book.' - Ellen DeGeneres
'I love the way you're holding this book. It's like you were born to buy it and hold it forever.' - Ellen DeGeneres
'You know what I love most about you? That we get each other. And also your eyes.' - Ellen DeGeneres
ISBN: 9780732294694 (Paperback)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 269 (Non-Fiction)

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Song of Susannah: The Dark Tower VI (Stephen King)

Song of Susannah: The Dark Tower VI
Stephen King

Blurb: Roland Deschain, gunslinger, hero, continues his perilous adventures in search of the key to the quest that will define his life.

Roland's loyal followers Jake, Father Callahan and Oy set out to break Susannah's date with destiny in New York.

Meanwhile, Roland and Eddie brave the state of Maine in the summer of 1977. It is a frightful world where bullets are flying. A world inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot...

Driven by revelation and suspense, this pivotal instalment in this magnificent epic will leave readers gasping to read the electrifying conclusion, The Dark Tower.

ISBN: 9780340827208 (Paperback)
Year: 2004
Publisher: Hodder
Pages: 436 (Fiction)

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Flesh House (Stuart MacBride)

Flesh House
Stuart MacBride

Blurb: Panic strikes the Granite City...

When an offshore container turns up at Aberdeen Harbour full of human meat, it kicks off the largest manhunt in the Granite City's history.

Twenty years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering people all over the UK - turning his victims into oven-ready joints - until Grampian's finest put him away. But eleven years later he was out on appeal. Now he's missing and people are dying again.

When members of the original investigation start to disappear, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae realises the case might not be as clear cut as everyone thinks...

Twenty years of secrets and lies are being dragged into the light. And the only thing thats certain is Aberdeen will never be the same again.

ISBN: 9780007244553 (Paperback)
Year: 2008
Publisher: Harper
Pages: 595 (Fiction)

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Ox is Slow but the Earth is Patient (Mick Malthouse & David Buttifant)

The Ox is Slow but the Earth is Patient
Mick Malthouse & David Buttifant

Blurb: Mick Malthouse was appointed as coach at the Collingwood Football Club at the beginning of 2000. By the end of that year David Buttifant had joined him as head of conditioning. In the following decade this duo shared in each other's achievements, including football's ultimate prize, and supported one another through tragedy and other life-changing events.

This uniquely talented team reveal the secrets of preparing football sides - and athletes in general - for success. Boys become men and profound life lessons are taught that transcend the sport world. Mick and David chronicle the defining moments in their professional and personal lives, the discoveries made in those moments and the lesson learnt. Here they pass these lessons on to you.

Throughout the book, Mick and David's profound insights are complemented by scores of others: players, coaches, philosophers, politicians and poets - past and present - who bare their souls as they strive not just for improves performance, but that mysterious spiritual quality that transforms a collection of good individuals into a champion team.

The Ox is Slow but the Earth is Patient is not just another sport book. If you have an open mind and heart and you're interested in success, or in simply improving yourself in any endeavour at all, this inspirational book will change you forever.

ISBN: 9781742378053 (Hardback)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Pages: 287 (Non-Fiction)

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Saturday, November 5, 2011

The Avengers: The Ultimate Guide (Tom DeFalco)

The Avengers: The Ultimate Guide
Tom DeFalco

Blurb: Welcome to the thrill-packed world of earth's mightiest heroes!

'Avengers assemble!' Whenever this rousing call to arms rings out, the world's mightiest heroes gather, ready to take on any super-menace. The Avengers' roster includes inspiring leader Captain America, the mighty Thor, the invincible Iron Man, the astonishing Ant-Man and the wondrous Wasp. Individually they are formidable - together they're unstoppable! Avengers: The Ultimate Guide reveals all the secrets of this premier team of comic-book heroes.

ISBN: 9781740338288 (Paperback)
Year: 2005
Publisher: DK Publishing
Pages: 144 (Fiction)

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Friday, November 4, 2011

The Viking Invader (Fergus Fleming)

The Viking Invader
Fergus Fleming

Blurb: The Viking Invader

Coming to a village near you, SOON...

This funny, factual book takes an imaginative, but historically accurate look at how a modern tabloid newspaper might have covered the issues of the past - but with tongue firmly in cheek

ISBN: 9780746029572 (Paperback)
Year: 1997
Publisher: Usborne
Pages: 32 (Fiction)

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Deadly Beloved (Max Allan Collins)

Deadly Beloved
Max Allan Collins

Blurb: Marcy Addwater killed her husband - there's no question about that. Shot him dead in the motel room where he was trysting with a blonde hooker. Shot the hooker, too.

But where the copts might see an open-and-shut case, private eye Michael Tree - Ms. Michael Tree - sees a conspiracy. For Ms. Tree, digging into it could mean digging her own grave...and digging up her own murdered husband's.

Based on the longest-rinning private-eye comic book series of all time, DEADLY BELOVED brings you an all-new adventure of the legendary Ms. Tree - the groundbreaking female P.I. who put the 'graphic' into graphic novel...

ISBN: 9780843957785 (Paperback)
Year: 2007
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing
Pages: 203 (Fiction)

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Lost Forests (Tony Barber)

The Lost Forests
Tony Barber

Blurb: In 1876, a young boy called TImothy Barber escaped from his cruel uncle, Fumble Fingers Farrow, and came to Australia from England. Timothy carried a bag of seeds, given to him by one of the world's last flying pigs! The pig told Timothy that all the creatures of magic and mythology had gone underground to lie safely in the many 'Other Worlds'.

As Timothy was a 'special person', the pig told him to listen for the sounds of the 'Other Worlds' drifting upwards from below. In these places he should plant one seed from the bag...and the talking guardian trees - The Lost Forests - would then spring up, surrounding magic trapdoors.

These trapdoors were the only entrances to the 'Other Worlds'. In 1932 Timothy and his wife Rosebud disappeared forever into the 'Other Worlds'. All the forests and trapdoors he had discovered vanished also.

Timothy's grandson, Tony Barber, who wrote this book, found the bag of the magic seeds left by his grandfather. Wherever he hears the sounds of the 'Other Worlds', he plants a seed, and a 'Lost Forrest' appears, along with a trapdoor. Each night he enters the 'Other Worlds', still trying to find his grandfather. The Lost Forests books are all about the creatures and many adventures Tony has there. We hope you enjoy reading them.

ISBN: 0646068711 (Hardback)
Year: 1989
Publisher: Matchbooks
Pages: 32 (Fiction)

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Disneyland - A Pictorial Souvenir Celebrating 45 Years of Magic (Tim O'Day)

Disneyland - A Pictorial Souvenir Celebrating 45 Years of Magic
Tim O'Day

Blurb: One familiar greeting at the Main Entrance has welcomed over 400 million guests since the opening of Disneyland Park in 1955: 'Hello and welcome to this happy place called Disneyland.' With the creation of the park Walt Disney conceived one of the most important entertainment landmarks of the 20th century...a place that transcends age, language, and politics. It has also become a living blueprint for all of the Disney theme parks and resorts that have followed in its successful example. However, it is still truly one-of-a-kind and 'will never be completed as long as there is imagination left in the world.' So whether this is your first visit with us or one hundredth, once again, we say 'Welcome!' As Walt Disney stated on opening day, 'Disneyland is your land' and we hope you have a fun-filled stay with us here at 'The Happiest Place on Earth' and leave with cherished memories that will last a lifetime.

ISBN: 0786885017 (Paperback)
Year: 1999
Publisher: Disney Editions
Pages: 80 (Fiction)

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