Lauren

Pure – Julianna Baggott

Jan 15, 2012
Lauren

Pure - Julianna BaggottPure
Julianna Baggott

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from the Dome to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar.

Pressia Belze has lived outside of the Dome ever since the detonations. Struggling for survival she dreams of life inside the safety of the Dome with the ‘Pure’.

Partridge, himself a Pure, knows that life inside the Dome, under the strict control of the leaders’ regime, isn’t as perfect as others think.

Bound by a history that neither can clearly remember, Pressia and Partridge are destined to forge a new world.

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Sick Notes – Tony Copperfield

Aug 17, 2011
Lauren

Sick Notes - Tony CopperfieldSick Notes
Tony Copperfield

The hilarious, shocking and occasionally tragic truth about the working life of a British GP, written for the lay reader.

Dr Tony Copperfield is an average GP in an average town. He spends his life fighting off the worried well armed with internet print outs and health pages torn from newspapers, dealing with youngsters with meningitis, worrying about swine flu, mopping up vomit, shouting at bureaucrats and banging his head against the brick walls of the NHS. Perfect for anyone who has ever wondered what really goes on in a GP practice.

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The Maid – Kimberly Cutter

Aug 17, 2011
Lauren

The Maid - Kimberly CutterThe Maid
Kimberly Cutter

It is the early part of the fifteenth century and the tumultuous Hundred Years War rages on. The French city of Orleans is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside wreaking destruction on all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. And in the quiet of her parents’ garden in Domremy, a twelve-year-old peasant girl, Jehanne, hears a voice that will change her life – and the course of European history.

The tale of Jehanne d’Arc, the saint and warrior who believed she had been chosen by God to save France, and who led an army of 10,000 soldiers against the English, has captivated our imagination for centuries. But the story of Jehanne – the girl – whose sister was murdered by the English, who sought an escape from her violent father and a forced marriage, who taught herself to ride, and fight, and lead, and who somehow found the courage and tenacity to convince first one, then two, then tens, then thousands to follow her, is at once thrilling, unexpected and heart-breaking.

Sweeping, gripping and rich with intrigue, betrayal, love and valour, The Maid is an unforgettable novel about the power and burden of faith, and the exhilarating and devastating consequences of fame.

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Inside WikiLeaks – Daniel Domscheit-Berg

Apr 4, 2011
Lauren

Inside WikiLeaks - Daniel Domscheit-BergInside WikiLeaks
Daniel Domscheit-Berg

An explosive exposé of the inner workings of the whistle-blowing phenomenon and the dissent and infighting that has rocked it.

This is the true story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks from the insider who lived it all.

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The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

Jan 8, 2011
Lauren

Lovely Bones - Alice SeboldThe Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

“My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from out neighbourhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertiliser.”

This is Susie Salmon, speaking from heaven – which looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets, councellors to help newcomers adjust, and friends to room with. Everything Susie wants appears as soon as she thinks of it – except the one thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth.

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The Book of Night Women – Marlon James

Jan 7, 2011
Lauren

The Book of Night Women - Marlon JamesThe Book of Night Women
Marlon James

The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they – and she – will come to both revere and fear.

The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy’s weak link.

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