The Cannibal Virus: After Dark Series #26 (Sue Robinson & Peter Gouldthorpe)

The Cannibal Virus: After Dark Series #26

Sue Robinson & Peter Gouldthorpe

Blurb: How can an ordinary history assignment turn into a life-threatening encounter with cannibal convicts?

And how can an ordinary computer carry a man-eating virus?

Just ask Stuart, who was unlucky enough to find out...

A blood-curdling story based on one of history's most notorious criminals, by author Sue Robinson, illustrated by award-winning artist Peter Gouldthorpe.

ISBN: 0850919002 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Lothian Books

Pages: 48 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Barnes and Noble

2. Good reads page for the series

3. Art work by the illustrator

Notes from a Big Country (Bill Bryson)

Notes from a Big Country

Bill Bryson

Blurb: Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth.

Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood: the glories of a New England autumn; the pleasingly comical sight of oneself in shorts; and motel rooms where you can generally count on being awakened in the night by a piercing shriek and the sound of a female voice pleading, 'Put the gun down, Vinnie, I'll do anything you say.'

Whether discussing the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, the jaw-slackening direness of American TV or the smug pleasure of being able to eat your beef without having to wonder if when you rise from the table you will walk sideways into the wall, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life.

ISBN: 9780552997867 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Black Swan

Pages: 383 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Review of the book

4. Another review

5. Google books page

The Rugrats Movie: A Novelization (Cathy East Dubowski and Mark Dubowski)

The Rugrats Movie: A Novelization

Cathy East Dubowski and Mark Dubowski

Blurb: Things will never be the same...

While the growed-ups at the baby shower talk about the baby that Stu and Didi Pickles are expecting, Tommy Pickles, his friends Chuckie, Phil and Lil, and Angelica go through the baby presents looking for Tommy's new baby sister. After all, Angelica said that babies are 'a gift from Bob.' But Bob isn't at the party, and neither is Tommy's sister.

The babies have more luck when they go to the hopsical and find it's a baby store. Tommy proudly meets his sister, only to find out that she is a boy named Dil.

Baby Dil is a big pain. He cries all the time and messes up everything. Tommy won't let Phil and Lil take Dil back to the baby store, but before the babies know it, they're on the way to a great adventure in Stu's latest invention: the Reptar Wagon.

While Stu and Didi desperately search for Dil and the babies, Tommy tries to take responsibility for his little brother. But the growed-ups better find the babies soon, because Lil and Phil are about to trade Dil for a baby monkey...

ISBN: 0671021060 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 137 (Fiction)

Links

1. Good reads page

2. Wikipedia page for the film of the same name

3. Google books page

4. More books based on the Rugrats Movie

5. Buy from Amazon

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Blurb: If you've got a problem and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female detective.

The traditionally built heroine of the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels may not rely on conventional methods, but Mma Ramotswe has warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side, as well as a host of wonderful friends. And she's going to need them all as she sets out on a trail that will lead her into a hotbed of strange situations and more than a little danger...

ISBN: 9780349120997 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Abacus

Pages: 250 (Fiction)

Links

1. Author's official page

2. Author's Wikipedia page

3. Publisher's page

4. Google books page

5. Review of the book

The Divine Wind (Garry Disher)

The Divine Wind

Garry Disher

Blurb: Friendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don't, or as we form other alliances, as we betray our friends or are ourselves betrayed...

In the pearling town of Broome, against the backdrop of World War II, a young man and a young woman fall in love. Hart is the son of a pearling master, Mitsy the daughter of a Japanese fiver. Can their love survive as Japan enters the War and Mitsy encounters prejudice and hate?

In this beautifully written novel, Garry Disher evokes a war-devastated Australia and its effects on young adults forced to leave their childhood behind.

ISBN: 0733615902 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Hodder

Pages: 151 (Fiction)

Links

1. The author's official page

2. Review from The Age

3. Author's Wikipedia page

4. Detailed book review

5. Buy from Booktopia

Planet X - Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men (Michael Jan Friedman)

Planet X - Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men

Michael Jan Friedman

Blurb: On the planet Xhaldia, ordinary men and women are mutating into bizarre creatures with extraordinary powers. But is this a momentous evolutionary leap or an unparalleled catastrophe? The very fabric of Xhaldian society is threatened as fear and prejudice divide the transformed from their own kin.

Dispatched to cope with the growing crisis, Captain Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise receive some unexpected visitors from another reality, in the form of a group of mutant heroes known as the uncanny X-Men. Storm, leader of the team, offers her help in resolving a situation that is agonisingly similar to the human/mutant conflicts of their own time and space.

But when hostile aliens appear in orbit around Xhaldia to try and abduct the transformed for use as superpowered weapons in an attack on the Federation, even the combined forces of the crew of Starfleet and the X-Men may be unable to prevent an inferno of death and destruction.

Starfleet's finest crew and Earth's greatest mutant heroes will need all their powers and abilities to save Xhaldian people and stop a deadly threat to the Federation.

ISBN: 9780671019167 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 265 (Fiction)

Links

1. Buy from Amazon

2. Author's Wikipedia page

3. Goodreads page for the book

4. Review of the book

5. Fiction db page

Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)

Amsterdam

Ian McEwan

Blurb: Old friends Clive Linley and Vernon Haliday meet outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both had been her lovers before they reached their current eminence - as had Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a man tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow, the two friends will make a disastrous pact, the consequences of which nether could ever have foreseen.

ISBN: 9780099535133(Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Vintage Books

Pages: 178 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the book

2. Buy from Amazon

3. Study guide for the book

4. Author's official page for the book

5. Review of the book

Clinton: The Starr Report (Kenneth Starr)

Clinton: The Starr Report

Kenneth Starr

Blurb: The truth behind the lies.

The Starr Report is the uncensored, unexpurgated story of the most sensational political store since Watergate. It is the full account of President Clinton's fall from grace.

Every detail of Clinton's alleged perjury.

Every detail of his obstruction of justice.

Every detail of his witness tampering.

Every detail of his abuse of power.

AND

Every detail of Bill Clinton's sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

Not since the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974 has an American President been so close to impeachment.

This is the report that is changing history.

ISBN: 0752825011 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Orion Books

Pages: 322 (Non-Fiction)

Links

1. Full text of the report online

2. Wikipedia page for the Starr Report

3. Wikipedia page on the Monica Lewinsky scandal

4. PBS Online Focus on the scandal

5. Starr's Wikipedia page

Pandora - New Tales of the Vampires (Anne Rice)

Pandora - New Tales of the Vampires

Anne Rice

Blurb: In a cafe in modern-day Paris, in the aftermath of a fresh kill, the fearless and beautiful Pandora begins to tell her tale of treachery, vengeance and love stretching across two millennia. As a young mortal in Imperial Rome in the time of Caesar Augustus, Pandora was first introduced to the blood-tainted cult of Isis. Later, in exile in Antioch, she was drawn even further into the dark, ancient rites. Now, looking back across the centuries, Pandora decides to return once more to New Orleans, to find the love of her early life, Marius, and to see once again the Vampire Lestat...

ISBN: 9780099271086 (Paperback)

Year: 1998

Publisher: Arrow Books

Pages: 406 (Fiction)

Links

1. Anne Rice's Official Page for the book

2. Youtube clip of Anne Rice speaking about the book

3. Buy at Amazon

4. Wikipedia page for the series

5. Google books page