Grimm's Fairy Tales (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm)

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Blurb: Early in the nineteenth century, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm compiled a collection of stories to preserve the folklore of their native Germany. Forty-three of them - fairy tales, some deliciously dark, that have bewitched readers for generations - are gathered here. Translated into more than 150 languages, these well-loved narratives brim with fearless heroes, humble and hardworking heroines, and treacherous villains, exploring themes of innocence, curiosity, and revenge.

Rich in detail, lyrical phrase, these masterful translations by Margaret Hunt capture the flavour of the original Grimm tales. Here are classics such as Rapunzel, Hansel and Grethel, Thumbling, Cinderella, The Bremen Town-Musicians, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, The Fisherman and His Wife, and Little Snow-White. These cherished fables, created from centuries-old oral tradition, await rediscovery by children and adults alike.

ISBN: 9780486456560 (Paperback)

Year: 1884

Publisher: Dover

Pages: 187 (Fiction)

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1. Wikipedia page for the author's

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4. Detailed information on the Grimm's

5. Wikipedia page for the Fairy Tales

10th Anniversary - Women's Murder Club #10 (James Patterson & Maxine Paetro)

10th Anniversary - Women's Murder Club #10

James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Blurb: Detective Lindsay Boxer finally gets married. But two violent crimes push the Women's Murder Club back to full throttle before the wedding gifts are even unwrapped.

For every secret.

Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous attack: A teenage girl is badly injured and left for dead, and her newborn baby is missing. Lindsay discovers that there is no trace of the criminals - and the victim may be keeping secrets as well.

For every lie.

Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her life: A woman stands accused of murdering her husband in front of her two young children. Yuki's career rests on a guilty verdict. But when Lindsay finds evidence that could save the defendant, Yuki must choose between trusting her best friend - or following her instinct.

There's a different way to die.

With her every move watched by her new boss and the pressure to find the baby interfering with her new marriage to Joe, Lindsay wonders if she'll ever be able to start a family...or solve her two cases. With James Patterson's white-hot speed and unquenchable action, 10th Anniversary is the most deliciously chilling Women's Murder Club book ever.

ISBN: 9780446585163 (Paperback)

Year: 2011

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing 

Pages: 395 (Fiction)

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3. Review of the book

4. Fan page for the book

5. Author's official site

The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Blurb: First published in 1848, the Communist Manifesto is, perhaps, the most influential pamphlet ever written.

Many of its arguments ring true:

-Capitalism impacts on the entire world

-Class has a decisive role in history and society 

-Working people have a world to win

ISBN: 9780850364781 (Paperback)

Year: 1848

Publisher: Merlin Pres

Pages: 32 (Non-Fiction)

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1. Buy from Amazon

2. Wikipedia page for Engels

3. Read the Manifesto online for free

4. Marxist Online Archive 

5. Study notes on the work

The Magnificent Mummies (Tony Bradman & Martin Chatterton)

The Magnificent Mummies

Tony Bradman & Martin Chatterton

Blurb: Meet the Mummy family! There's Mummy Mummy, Daddy Mummy, Tut and Sis and their funny Mummy cat. When someone unexpectedly knocks at their pyramid door, exciting things begin to happen...

ISBN: 1405210249 (Paperback)

Year: 1997

Publisher: Egmont

Pages: 32 (Fiction)

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Hockey Hotshots - Young Stars of the NHL (Steele Filipek)

Hockey Hotshots - Young Stars of the NHL 

Steele Filipek

Blurb: Did you know that:

-Sidney Crosby is the youngest scoring champion of any major sport in North America?

-Alexander Ovechkin is the only player ever to win the point, goal, MVP, and Player MVP awards all in the same season?

-Patrick Kane was the youngest player on the 2010 US Olympic hockey team?

-Jonathan Quick holds the record at his high school for most shutouts in a season?

Find out more about hockey's most dazzling young stars in this book!

ISBN: 9780448454474 (Paperback)

Year: 2010

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Pages: 48 (Non-Fiction)

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3. Stats on young stars from the NHL

4. Article on the top NHL players under 22

5. Official site on the NHL 

The Avengers - The Movie Storybook (Scott Peterson)

The Avengers - The Movie Storybook

Adapted by Scott Peterson

Blurb: The invincible Iron Man, Super-Soldier Captain America. The Incredible Hulk. The Mighty Thor.

One by one, S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury, with the help of special agents Hawkeye and Black Widow, must bring these Super Heroes together to save the world.

The Asgardian Trickster known as Loki has stolen a power source known only as the Tesseract from a top-secret S.H.I.E.L.D base. Now he has the ability to destroy the planet - and he plans on using this unlimited power to rule Earth! Can Earth's Mightiest Heroes, now known as the Avengers, assemble for good and stop the master of mischief before it's too late?

ISBN: 9781742833682 (Paperback)

Year: 2012

Publisher: Scholastic / Marvel

Pages: 64 (Fiction)

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4. IMDB page for the film the book is based on

5. Wikipedia page for the film

Hard Revolution (George Pelecanos)

Hard Revolution 

George Pelecanos

Blurb: In the spring of 1968, Martin Luther King preaches in vain for non-violent protest against the US government; the world is enthralled but the new black communities of Washington, DC still seethe with anger against the iniquities of their society.

Derek Strange has witnessed the white establishment crush his mother, father, and friends their entire lives. Yet, barely out of school, Derek chooses to become a rookie cop in a police-force run by those he despises. Can one young man possibly make a difference? Derek believes that he can, but many of his own kind feel that he's a traitor. Meanwhile his older brother, Dennis, has recently returned from a stint in the military and with no job and no prospect of getting one, is drifting towards drugs and deadly alliances. And in another part of the city, a group of young men, twisted with racial hate, thrill-kill a young black man and plan a shotgun robbery that will have devastating implications for Derek, his partner Troy Peters, and Vaughn, a hard homicide investigator with ties to the Strange family.

Then, on April 4th, 1968, Dr King is assassinated on the balcony of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. And the black nation rises as one to condemn the slaying of one of their prophets. For one week, it seems that the whole country will fall into the abyss. Derek, his family, and his whole community find themselves in the midst of a battle for the heart and soul of this new world as the violent side of the civil rights movement comes upon America in a volcanic fury.

Hard Revolution is the new epic novel from one of America's most powerful crime writers, a story of one man's journey into the fires of a revolution. 

ISBN: 0752856308 (Hardback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Orion

Pages: 376 (Fiction)

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1. Review of the book

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4. Wikipedia page for the author

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The Zero Game (Brad Meltzer)

The Zero Game

Brad Meltzer

Blurb: Come play the Zero Game - you can bet your life on it...

Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are best friends who have plum jobs as senior staffers to well-respected congressmen. But after a decade in Washington, idealism has faded to disillusionment, and they're bored. Then one of them finds out about the clandestine Zero Game.

It starts out as good fun - a simple wager between friends. But when someone close to them ends up dead, Harris and Matthew realise the game is far more sinister than they ever imagined - and that they're about to be the game's next victims.

One the run, they turn to the only person they can trust: a sixteen-year-old Senate page who can move around the Capitol undetected. As a ruthless killer creeps closer, this idealistic page not only holds the key to saving their lives, but it also determined to redeem them in the process.

Brad Meltzer's super-charged new thriller will take you on a white-knuckle rollercoaster of a read, and confirms him as the most dazzling suspense writer of his generation.

ISBN: 0340825014 (Hardback)

Year: 2004

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Pages: 460 (Fiction)

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4. Author's official site

5. Review of the book

Liquid Gold - Lachlan Fox #4 (James Phelan)

Liquid Gold - Lachlan Fox #4

James Phelan

Blurb: Who is Lachlan Fox?

-Graduate ADFA

-Ex-Australian Navy Clearance Diver

-Served in Iraq, East Timor & Afghanistan

-International investigative journalist

-The right man for the wrong place

Water. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th...and some people will do anything to control it.

When investigative journalist Lachlan Fox blows open the story of the decade, simmering tensions between India and Pakistan hit boiling point. 

A continent's water - liquid gold - s at stake and one man thinks nothing of a potential all-out war when there is money to be made.

Before helpless millions die, Fox is determined to expose the corrupt Umbra Corporation and the man behind it, to the world. With hefty prices on their heads, Fox and his trusted man-at-arms, Al Gammaldi, are pitted against time and a ruthless web of terrorist cells, rogue secret agents and dirty money. Flanked by news agency GSR and the FBI, Fox and Gammaldi are going to give as good as they get, but nothing can preparethem for the ferocity of this fight.

Fox knows that the truth alone triumphs...and it's going to hurt.

ISBN: 9780733622595 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Hachette

Pages: 407 (Fiction)

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1. Author's official site

2. Review of the book

3. Wikipedia page on the author

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Man on Fire - A Stunt of a Life (Grant Page with Steve Wright)

Man on Fire - A Stunt of a Life

Grant Page with Steve Wright

Blurb: If you've watched an Australian film, TV show or ad during the past fifty years, chances are you've seen stuntman Grant Page - falling from the sky, jumping off cliffs, crashing motorbikes, rolling cars, hang-gliding over skyscrapers, or setting himself on fire. He's fearless, forensic and there's nothing he won't try - which makes him the go-to man for anyone wanting a spectacular explosion, a kick-arse fight or an edge-of-your-seat adrenaline rush.

Whether it's falling backwards from a great height on fire, sliding a motorbike under a rolling truck, standing in for Mel Gibson - or Shelley Winters! - or mixing in with the maddest and baddest stars and stunties the film industry can offer, Grant's seen and done it all, and had a wild old time along the way. Strap yourself in for the funniest, most outrageous ride of your life as Man on Fire catapults you into the heart of the action.

ISBN: 9781741758184 (Paperback)

Year: 2009

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Pages: 316 (Non-Fiction)

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The Prince of Mist (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

The Prince of Mist

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Blurb: Nothing is as powerful as a promise.

Strange things begin to happen when Max and his family move to an eerie house by the sea.

Time seems to slow, and move backwards An evil-eyed cat watches their every move. And Max is drawn to an abandoned garden where a mysterious statue stands, its arm outstretched, beckoning.

Then, from the shadows of the past emerges the Prince of Mist. A dark sinister character with the power to grant wishes and an age-old debt to settle.

The Prince of Mist is a haunting story of magic, mystery and adventure from Carlos Ruiz Zafon, the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game.

ISBN: 9781921656354 (Paperback)

Year: 1993

Publisher: Text Publishing

Pages: 202 (Fiction)

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1. Author's official English site

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4. Wikipedia page for the book

5. Review of the book