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As the pig turns
M.C. Beaton
Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village next door to Carsely, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities and Agatha Raisin has arrived with friend and rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal Agatha - and the rest of the village - realise that things aren't as they seem...
Gamble : a Dick Francis novel
Felix Francis
As one of the youngest ever winners of the Grand National, Nick Foxy Foxton's career as a world class jockey is on perfect track until a near fatal accident cuts his dream brutally short. But when he returns to Aintree as a spectator years later, nothing can prepare him for what unfolds.
The next always
Nora Roberts
The first book in The Inn Boonsboro Trilogy.
Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders /
Gyles Brandreth
Another in the historical mystery series which features Wilde as the detective helped by his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Divas
Rebecca Chance
Never get between a girl and her diamonds ...Stunning good looks, a gorgeous fiance, a limitless trust fund: London's leading It Girl Lola Fitzsimmons leads a charmed life, a pampered princess whose rich father funds her every whim. Evie Lopez is just as beautiful, but she's had to work her own way up life's greasy pole - literally.
Justice deferred
Jeffrey Ashford
A powerful examination of evidence and motive, truth and lies - Elaine Cane is scared of her suspicious, overbearing husband. But one day he goes too far & he drunkenly tries to use force on her, so she flees the house.
New Fiction
Kill my darling : a Bill Slider mystery
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
When Melanie Hunter uncharacteristically disappears, the men in her life come under suspicion. It soon becomes clear that there are many secrets in Melanie's past. Bill Slider and his team are investigating and they will have to unravel lies, half-truths and deceptions to find the answer to their questions.
Short and sweet : a collection of short romantic stories
Anna Jacobs
A new collection by the popular author of Moving On pairs each of the 15 entries with an author introduction and includes the gentle romance, "Kissing Emily Baker" and "Group Settlers Wife," in which a young family pursues a new life in 1920s Australia.
Blood games
Faye Kellerman
New suspense fiction from popular author Faye Kellerman.
Wildfire : a novel
Sarah Micklem
Firethorn, a healer, precognitive dreamer and slave, is struck by lightning while on a voyage to join her master. Sire Galan still desires her, but her rebellious acts strain their relationship. Then Galan's adversary, King Arkhyios Corvus, takes Firethorn captive, and her further travails lead her to truly understand the gift of "inward fire."
Devil's daughter
Catherine Coulter
Historical fiction.
English teacher : a novel
Lily King
Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived from Texas alone and pregnant at Fayer Academy. She has since become a fixture and one of the best English teachers Fayer has ever had. By living on campus, on an island off the New England coast, Vida has cocooned herself and her son, Peter, from the outside world and from an inside secret. For years she has lived in solitude and largely through the books she teaches, but when she accepts the impulsive marriage proposal of ardent widower Tom Belou, the prescribed life Vida had constructed is swiftly dismantled.
New Non Fiction
Why be happy when you could be normal?
Jeanette Winterson
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster.
Great battles in Australian history
Jonathan King
Covers the Afghan War, 2001; Iraq War, 2003; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Korean War, 1950-1953; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1914-1918; and Transvaal (South Africa), 1880-1881.
Cooking well : IBS
Dede Cummings ; foreword by Jessica Black
Over 100 easy recipes for irritable bowel syndrome plus other digestive diseases including Crohn's, celiac, and colitis.
Merchants of doubt
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming.
The sweet spot : how Australia made its own luck and could now throw it all away
Peter Hartcher
Australia is an international success story, but can it stay on top? The Sweet Spot takes a provocative look at how Australia continues to ride the boom, and what might cause it to fall.
Heaven is for real : a little boy's astounding story of his trip to heaven and back
Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
Presents the story of the four-year old son of a Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven.
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