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I was given this by a friend to read and really enjoyed it. Its a fast read with likable, well drawn characters and an intriguing and original mythology that is quite different to the many other YA novels I've read. The detail of the ocean and surfing was beautifully done as was the dynamic between the main characters, especially the two brothers, Curtis and Dylan. I'd recommend it to younger teens who are looking for something outside the magic school scope of novels and at a manageable 103 pages its a good length for readers who struggle with longer books.
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Cello, meanwhile, is in crisis. Princess Ko’s deception of her people has emerged and the Kingdom is outraged. Authorities have placed the Princess under arrest and ordered her execution. Color storms are rampant, more violent than ever. And nobody has heard the Cello Wind blowing in months.

But Madeleine can’t let go of Cello. It gave her a tantalizing glimpse of the magic she’s always wanted—and maybe it’s the key to the person she is meant to become. She also can’t let go of Elliot, who, unbeknownst to her, is being held captive by a dangerous branch of Hostiles.

What will it take to put these two on a collision course to save the Kingdom of Cello, and maybe to save each other?

For fans of Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness, this funny, suspenseful, and totally original fantasy comes to its brilliantly colorful conclusion.]]> 480 Jaclyn Moriarty 0545397405 Lara 4 4.30 2016
author: Jaclyn Moriarty
name: Lara
average rating: 4.30
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rating: 4
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Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.]]> 181 Neil Gaiman 0062255657 Lara 5 4.00 2013
author: Neil Gaiman
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> 7059135 Keep Your Head Down.
Don't Get Noticed.
Or Else.

I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops. So what if I occasionally use the pipes to sneak around the Upper levels? The only neck at risk is my own…until I accidentally start a rebellion and become the go-to girl to lead a revolution.]]> 320 Maria V. Snyder 037321006X Lara 3 3.82 2010
author: Maria V. Snyder
name: Lara
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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Growing up in the small German kingdom of Hessen-Cassel in the early Nineteenth century, Dortchen Wild is irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the young and handsome fairy tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm.

It is a time of war, tyranny and terror. Napoleon Bonaparte wants to conquer all of Europe, and Hessen-Cassel is one of the first kingdoms to fall. Forced to live under oppressive French rule, the Grimm brothers decide to save old tales that had once been told by the firesides of houses grand and small all over the land.

Dortchen knows many beautiful old stories, such as Hansel and Gretel, The Frog King and Six Swans. As she tells them to Wilhelm, their love blossoms. Yet the Grimm family is desperately poor, and Dortchen's father has other plans for his daughter. Marriage is an impossible dream.

Dortchen can only hope that happy endings are not just the stuff of fairy tales.]]> 538 Kate Forsyth Lara 4 3.92 2013
author: Kate Forsyth
name: Lara
average rating: 3.92
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rating: 4
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]]> 27170154 A priceless book, hidden in a corpse.

A family secret, handed down through generations.

And a woman with no memory of her past.

When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: Mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets.

Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad's tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse.

Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own name. She's told she's been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother. But she can't remember any of it because of her own traumatic brain injury. Then a man from the FBI shows up, asking questions about her dad - and about his connection to the corpse of a man found with an object stuffed into his chest: a priceless book that belonged to Benedict Arnold.

Back at her house, Hazel finds guns that she doesn't remember owning. On her forehead she sees scars from fights she can't recall. Most important, the more Hazel digs, the less she likes the person she seems to have been.

Trying to put together the puzzle pieces of her past and present, Hazel Nash needs to figure out who killed this man - and how the book wound up in his chest. The answer will tell her the truth about her father, what he was really doing for the government - and who Hazel really is.

Mysteries need to be solved. Especially the ones about yourself.]]> 352 Brad Meltzer 1455559490 Lara 5 3.48 2016
author: Brad Meltzer
name: Lara
average rating: 3.48
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rating: 5
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Never read this author(s) before but really enjoyed this mystery thriller. Could not put it down. Thanks guys was supposed to be doing other things, like watching children, cooking etc. Reading it with a toddler hanging of my leg. Great if you like a fast paced mystery. And, interestingly, Tod Goldberg was also a writer on the TV show, Burn Notice, one of my faves. This showed in the dialogue which was snappy and colourful, revealing lots of character. Loved it.
]]> 3636 208 Lois Lowry 0385732554 Lara 5 4.12 1993
author: Lois Lowry
name: Lara
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> 17347389 439 Maggie Stiefvater 0545424941 Lara 4 4.22 2013
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: Lara
average rating: 4.22
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Love Maggie's writing style in these books, she has a unique turn of phrase and her characterisation is first class. Can't wait to read the next one.
]]> 17675462 “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,� Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.�

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.]]> 409 Maggie Stiefvater 0545424925 Lara 4 4.05 2012
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: Lara
average rating: 4.05
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rating: 4
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]]> 876905 323 Robyn Sisman 0452284902 Lara 3 3.31 2003
author: Robyn Sisman
name: Lara
average rating: 3.31
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> 16143347 A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.

And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.]]> 242 E. Lockhart 0385741278 Lara 5 ]]> 3.65 2014
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deserving of all the praise, sparsely written wonderful characters, a book to make you think long after

]]> 19288043 What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?]]> 415 Gillian Flynn 0307588378 Lara 5 4.22 2012
author: Gillian Flynn
name: Lara
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> 12793361 142 Lawrence Durrell Lara 3 3.83 1945
author: Lawrence Durrell
name: Lara
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1945
rating: 3
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]]> 10114
Daughter of a god, wife of a king, prize of antiquity's bloodiest war, Helen of Troy has inspired artists for millennia. Now, Margaret George, the highly acclaimed bestselling historical novelist, has turned her intelligent, perceptive eye to the myth that is Helen of Troy.

Margaret George breathes new life into the great Homeric tale by having Helen narrate her own story. Through her eyes and in her voice, we experience the young Helen's discovery of her divine origin and her terrifying beauty. While hardly more than a girl, Helen married the remote Spartan king Menelaus and bore him a daughter. By the age of twenty, the world's most beautiful woman was resigned to a passionless marriage until she encountered the handsome Trojan prince Paris. And once the lovers flee to Troy, war, murder, and tragedy become inevitable. In Helen of Troy, Margaret George has captured a timeless legend in a mesmerizing tale of a woman whose life was destined to create strife and destroy civilizations.]]> 611 Margaret George 0670037788 Lara 4 3.95 2006
author: Margaret George
name: Lara
average rating: 3.95
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rating: 4
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]]> 17349163
As they come to terms with life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name, or the comfort of an inheritance, Elinor and Marianne are confronted by the cold hard reality of a world where people's attitudes can change as drastically as their circumstances.

With her sparkling wit, Joanna Trollope casts a clever, satirical eye on the tales of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Re-imagining Sense and Sensibility in a fresh, modern new light, she spins the novel's romance, bonnets, and betrothals into a wonderfully witty coming-of-age story about the stuff that really makes the world go around. For when it comes to money, some things never change. . . .]]> 362 Joanna Trollope 0062200461 Lara 3 3.53 2013
author: Joanna Trollope
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Basically the same story in a modern setting. It's an interesting idea, and Trollope is an excellent writer and really nailed the characters in terms of the way they spoke and their thoughts, hearts and minds, and I think that was the problem; it was too much like Austen's characters plonked into modern day and given ipods, it didn't quite gel for me. Especially problematic was transposing the find a husband thread and reliance on family money to support them instead of getting a job. This was normal in Austen's time, as women were so limited in what they could and couldn't do and really did suffer without a man to support them, especially those in the situation depicted in the book, but move that to modern times and it made the characters self indulgent and irritating - except for Eleanor. I enjoyed it, mostly, but I think that had more to do with the quality of Trollope's prose than the content.
]]> 2417053 The Italian Wedding is a feast of food and love. It's about discovering who your family really are. And who you really want to be.]]> 304 Nicky Pellegrino 0752888684 Lara 3 3.86 2008
author: Nicky Pellegrino
name: Lara
average rating: 3.86
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rating: 3
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]]> 1569034
Sie steht vor der schwersten Krise ihres Lebens, als sie sich beherzt einer Gruppe von Meeresforschern anschlieĂźt, die UmweltsĂĽndern auf der Spur ist. Nach und nach findet Jennifer den Mut, sich von Blair zu trennen.



Die Korallentaucherin von Di im eBook erhältlich!]]> 500 Di Morrissey 1740937325 Lara 3 3.56 2004
author: Di Morrissey
name: Lara
average rating: 3.56
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]]> 3236307
She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po.

She never expects to learn the truth behind her Grace—or the terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.

With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, debut author Kristin Cashore creates a mesmerizing world, a death-defying adventure, and a heart-racing romance that will consume you, hold you captive, and leave you wanting more.]]> 471 Kristin Cashore 015206396X Lara 4 4.07 2008
author: Kristin Cashore
name: Lara
average rating: 4.07
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rating: 4
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]]> 8535273
Annah's world stopped that day and she's been waiting for him to come home ever since. Without him, her life doesn't feel much different from that of the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Then she meets Catcher and everything feels alive again.

Except, Catcher has his own secrets -- dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah's longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it's up to Annah -- can she continue to live in a world drenched in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction?]]> 384 Carrie Ryan 0385738595 Lara 4 4.03 2011
author: Carrie Ryan
name: Lara
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> 7260188 My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.

It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss.

The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.]]> 390 Suzanne Collins 0439023513 Lara 4 4.10 2010
author: Suzanne Collins
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> 22321557 266 Sophie Masson 0987488325 Lara 4 4.25 2014
author: Sophie Masson
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for anyone who is serious about their writing and wants to know the current state of publishing this is a book with some great insights. Mainly a collection of interviews with authors, agents and publishers it details their thoughts on how publishing has changed, what they do to keep published and their predictions for how things may change. This is great to read now so if you are writing and need some insight into how things really are pick up this book now.
]]> 6555517 416 Carrie Ryan 0385736843 Lara 4 3.92 2010
author: Carrie Ryan
name: Lara
average rating: 3.92
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rating: 4
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]]> 10215349 To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness�

Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them—the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters.

Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend—a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what and who is worth dying for� again.

Enter Julie Kagawa's dark and twisted world as an unforgettable journey begins.]]> 485 Julie Kagawa 0373210515 Lara 4 4.08 2012
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]]> 6746018
Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother’s past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in �the distant hours� of the past has been waiting a long time for someone to find it.

Morton once again enthralls readers with an atmospheric story featuring unforgettable characters beset by love and circumstance and haunted by memory, that reminds us of the rich power of storytelling.]]> 562 Kate Morton 1439152780 Lara 4 3.88 2010
author: Kate Morton
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> 4932435
Evanjalin is determined to return home and she is the only one who can lead them to the heir. As they journey together, Finnikin is affected by her arrogance . . . and her hope. He begins to believe he will see his childhood friend, Prince Balthazar, again. And that their cursed people will be able to enter Lumatere and be reunited with those trapped inside. He even believes he will find his imprisoned father.

But Evanjalin is not what she seems. And the truth will test not only Finnikin's faith in her . . . but in himself.]]> 416 Melina Marchetta 0670072818 Lara 5 3.89 2008
author: Melina Marchetta
name: Lara
average rating: 3.89
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]]> 10165727 Blood sings to blood, Froi . . .
Those born last will make the first . . .
For Charyn will be barren no more.

Three years after the curse on Lumatere was lifted, Froi has found his home... Or so he believes...

Fiercely loyal to the Queen and Finnikin, Froi has been trained roughly and lovingly by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family, and has learned to control his quick temper. But when he is sent on a secretive mission to the kingdom of Charyn, nothing could have prepared him for what he finds. Here he encounters a damaged people who are not who they seem, and must unravel both the dark bonds of kinship and the mysteries of a half-mad Princess.

And in this barren and mysterious place, he will discover that there is a song sleeping in his blood, and though Froi would rather not, the time has come to listen.

Gripping and intense, complex and richly imagined, Froi of the Exiles is a dazzling sequel to Finnikin of the Rock, from the internationally best-selling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, On the Jellicoe Road and The Piper's Son.]]> 593 Melina Marchetta 0670076082 Lara 5 4.27 2011
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]]> 10165761 There's a babe in my belly that whispers the valley, Froi. I follow the whispers and come to the road . . .

Separated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi must travel through Charyn to search for Quintana, the mother of Charyn's unborn king, and protect her against those who will do anything to gain power. But what happens when loyalty to family and country conflict? When the forces marshalled in Charyn's war gather and threaten to involve the whole of the land, including Lumatere, only Froi can set things right, with the help of those he loves.]]> 516 Melina Marchetta 0670076244 Lara 5 4.30 2012
author: Melina Marchetta
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average rating: 4.30
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]]> 10757005 321 Nicky Pellegrino 1409100936 Lara 4 3.79 2011
author: Nicky Pellegrino
name: Lara
average rating: 3.79
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]]> 13514612
Four years earlier, the biggest problem in Marina’s life is figuring out how to tell her shy and brilliant best friend James that she’s in love with him. That is, until he night an assassin’s bullet changes everything and sends Marina and James on a desperate hunt for answers, with a killer who seems to anticipate their every move right on their heels.

Marina will protect James at any cost. Em will sacrifice everything to rewrite her future.

Only one of them can succeed.]]> 362 Cristin Terrill 1423176375 Lara 5 4.02 2013
author: Cristin Terrill
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> 10566 (front flap)]]> 513 Stephen King 0743289412 Lara 3 3.70 2006
author: Stephen King
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]]> 9752754 We want our son returned. This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time.

To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations that scarred the earth and sheltered inside the paradise that is the Dome. But Partridge escaped to the outside world, where Wretches struggle to survive amid smoke and ash. Now, at the command of Partridge’s father, the Dome is unleashing nightmare after nightmare upon the Wretches in an effort to get him back.

At Partridge’s side is a small band of those united against the Dome: Lyda, the warrior; Bradwell, the revolutionary; El Capitan, the guard; and Pressia, the young woman whose mysterious past ties her to Partridge in way she never could have imagined. Long ago a plan was hatched that could mean the earth’s ultimate doom. Now only Partridge and Pressia can set things right.

To save millions of innocent lives, Partridge must risk his own by returning to the Dome and facing his most terrifying challenge. And Pressia, armed only with a mysterious Black Box, containing a set of cryptic clues, must travel to the very ends of the earth, to a place where no map can guide her. If they succeed, the world will be saved. But should they fail, humankind will pay a terrible price...]]> 480 Julianna Baggott 1455503088 Lara 5 4.01 2013
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name: Lara
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 13582198
In the tradition of medieval believers, or scammers, who paid others to carry their sins to holy places, and so buy forgiveness, Ailsa asked her colleagues and friends to donate a sin. She then shouldered them across country, being taunted and tempted by them along the way, and trying to discover the mysteries of faith. What is faith? Did she have it? Could she get it? Would she know it if she saw it?

Sinning across Spain celebrates the call of the road, the possibilities for connection, and the simple act of putting one foot down � and then the other, and repeat � for more than a thousand kilometres of dusty road.]]> 288 Ailsa Piper 0522861393 Lara 4 3.94 2012
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> 10710406
Because getting out alive is going to cost more than she's ever imagined. And in the end, is survival really worth the sacrifice?]]> 307 Lili St. Crow 1595143955 Lara 4 4.10 2011
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name: Lara
average rating: 4.10
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rating: 4
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]]> 10859509 When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe?

Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who has stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them.

Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities.

Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. And if they’re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away.]]> 323 Jennifer Rush 0316197084 Lara 0 to-read 4.02 2013
author: Jennifer Rush
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]]> 17332969 No one has set foot on Earth in centuries—until now.

Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents—considered expendable by society—are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission.

CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves—but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth.

Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.]]> 323 Kass Morgan 0316234478 Lara 2 3.59 2013
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All was not easy, however. They faced blank incomprehension from the local inhabitants. "Why do you want to have a garden here?" they were asked. "There's no water, the ground is like cement, it's too cold in winter and too hot in summer, it never rains. . . ." But Joan and Robert's enthusiasm for the land, their ignorance of the obstacles that faced them, their downright obstinacy and the unexpected friends who helped them -- all served to conquer the intransigent terrain.

"I fell in love with Etruria one chilly evening in the middle of winter," says Joan. "They were having a New Year's Eve festival in a little town near Campagnano, and a group of local boys dressed in Renaissance costumes were marching in a torchlight parade down the main street. As I stood there in the cold watching the flames lurching to the sky, I realized that I felt very much at home in this ancient place. If ever we should decide to move to the country, this was the kind of place I would choose....."

Inspirational, aspirational, enchanting -- this is an account of a passion for a place and an obsession with a garden that will charm all who love Italy, gardening, and life.]]> 348 Joan Marble 0060185740 Lara 3 good for gardeners<br /> 3.48 2000
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When she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI forensic psychologist and husband, Benton Wesley, have secrets of their own. Feeling alone and betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel.

This is Kay Scarpetta as you have never seen her before. The Bone Bed is a must read for any fan of this series, or an ideal starting point for new readers.]]> 463 Patricia Cornwell 0399157565 Lara 4 3.64 2012
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quality Cornwell as usual, though I'm not a big reader of her work. I'm not a big fan of crime fiction in general and I find the attention to detail Cornwell puts into the narrative at times too much for my taste; I don't need to know every movement of Scarpetta's when she's lifting a sheet or picking up a specific type of instrument. However, the style suits the character and no doubt is informed by Cornwell's own scientific background. The Bone Bed was a good read that picked up pace in the last third so much so that I couldn't put it down until I found out who did it. Quality writing from a lady who is a skilled creator of intelligent crime thrillers.
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A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, the British Isles, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, the South of Italy, and North Africa. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and social and culinary traditions, Mayes brings the immediacy of life in her temporary homes to readers. An illuminating and passionate book that will be savored by all who loved Under the Tuscan Sun , A Year in the World is travel writing at its peak.]]> 420 Frances Mayes 0767910060 Lara 4 3.59 2006
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Since freshmen year, Jane and her two roommates, Lucy Toller and Deirdre Hall, were inseparable–studying the classics, performing school girl rituals on the lake, and sneaking out after curfew to meet Lucy’s charismatic brother Matt. However, the last winter before graduation, everything changed. For in that sheltered, ice-encrusted wonderland, three lives were taken, all victims of senseless suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that has stayed hidden for more than two decades in the dark depths of Heart Lake.

Now pages from Jane’s missing journal, written during that tragic time, have reappeared, revealing shocking, long-buried secrets. And suddenly, young, troubled girls are beginning to die again . . . as piece by piece the shattering truth slowly floats to the surface.

At once compelling, sensuous, and intelligent, The Lake of Dead Languages is an eloquent thriller, an intricate balance of suspense and fine storytelling that proves Carol Goodman is a rare new talent with a brilliant future.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 390 Carol Goodman 034548715X Lara 4 3.78 2002
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]]> 1097858 Carol Drinkwater 0752881396 Lara 3 3.66 2003
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]]> 87473
Featuring Marlena’s own incredible recipes, A Thousand Days in Venice is the enchanting true story of a woman who opens her heart � and falls in love with both a man and a city.]]> 290 Marlena de Blasi 0345457641 Lara 3 3.49 2002
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]]> 13552764 “There will come a day when a thousand Illegals descend on your detention centres. Boomers will breach the walls. Skychangers will send lightning to strike you all down from above, and Rumblers will open the earth to swallow you up from below. . . . And when that day comes, Justin Connor, think of me.�

Ashala Wolf has been captured by Chief Administrator Neville Rose. A man who is intent on destroying Ashala’s Tribe � the runaway Illegals hiding in the Firstwood. Injured and vulnerable and with her Sleepwalker ability blocked, Ashala is forced to succumb to the machine that will pull secrets from her mind.

And right beside her is Justin Connor, her betrayer, watching her every move.

Will the Tribe survive the interrogation of Ashala Wolf?]]> 395 Ambelin Kwaymullina 1921720085 Lara 4 3.76 2012
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]]> 1950052 Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut—young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.

Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.

Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.

Ender's Game is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.]]> 256 Orson Scott Card 0812533569 Lara 4 4.26 1985
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Now Maylene is gone and Bek must return to the hometown—and the man—she abandoned a decade ago, only to discover that Maylene's death was not natural . . . and there was good reason for her odd traditions. In Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected—and beneath the town lies a shadowy, lawless land ruled by the enigmatic Charles, aka Mr. D. From this dark place the deceased will return if their graves are not properly minded. And only the Graveminder, a Barrow woman, and the current Undertaker, Byron, can set things to right once the dead begin to walk.]]> 324 Melissa Marr 0061826871 Lara 3 3.48 2011
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]]> 9557 alternate cover can be found here

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.

Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.

Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...]]> 229 Haruki Murakami 0099448475 Lara 5 3.85 1999
author: Haruki Murakami
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The year is 1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, a tiny isolated settlement in the Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. Laurent Jammett had been a voyageur for the Hudson Bay Company before an accident lamed him four years earlier. The same accident afforded him the little parcel of land in Dove River, land that the locals called unlucky due to the untimely death of the previous owner.

A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees the tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. It is Mrs. Ross's knock on the door of the largest house in Caulfield that launches the investigation. Within hours she will regret that knock with a mother's love -- for soon she makes another discovery: her seventeen-year-old son Francis has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect.

In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the crime and to the township -- Andrew Knox, Dove River's elder statesman; Thomas Sturrock, a wily American itinerant trader; Donald Moody, the clumsy young Company representative; William Parker, a half-breed Native American and trapper who was briefly detained for Jammett's murder before becoming Mrs. Ross's guide. But the question remains: do these men want to solve the crime or exploit it?

One by one, the searchers set out from Dove River following the tracks across a desolate landscape -- home to only wild animals, madmen, and fugitives -- variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for seventeen years, and a forgotten Native American culture before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good.

In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelation, and humor into an exhilarating thriller; a panoramic historical romance; a gripping murder mystery; and, ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, an epic for the ages.]]> 384 Stef Penney 1416540741 Lara 4 3.73 2006
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]]> 2419186 287 Lawrence Durrell 0670352969 Lara 4 3.78 1978
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]]> 114408 "A fine, well-rounded portrait of Harper Lee. Mockingbird is good reading."—Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)

To Kill a Mockingbird—the twentieth century's most widely read American novel—has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite her book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee, has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields brings to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters—Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout.

At the center of Shields's evocative, lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel, but her colorful life contains many highlights—her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Truman Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of In Cold Blood. Mockingbird—unique, highly entertaining, filled with humor and heart—is a wide-ranging, idiosyncratic portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.]]> 344 Charles J. Shields 0805083197 Lara 3 3.95 2006
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]]> 940127
At the beginning of THE SINGER OF ALL SONGS, Calwyn fled Antaris with Darrow to defeat the ambitious chanter Samis. In THE TENTH POWER, she comes back to the mountains in hopes of rejuvenating her lost powers of chantment. But Samis's magic left terrible scars on Antaris, so Calwyn finds only conflict rather than the peace she craved. Meanwhile, Darrow suffers from a sickness that has sapped his magic as well as his strength--and Samis has returned to continue his quest for the Singer of All Songs. All of Tremaris seems to be dying. How can Calwyn save the land, and finally save them all?]]> 306 Kate Constable 0439554829 Lara 4 4.05 2005
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The second novel in the captivating Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy follows Calwyn and her friends to the desolate Merithuran Empire. As they search for a group of kidnapped children who have the gift of enchantment, they must negotiate the unforgiving desert and the even more treacherous Palace of Cobwebs, where they uncover the dreadful secret that holds the Empire together. Meanwhile, Darrow has broken away from the group to form a new alliance of his own. Can he still be trusted? In this book, Calwyn's quest for peace and justice has greater consequences than she ever could have imagined.]]> 336 Kate Constable 0439554810 Lara 4 4.05 2003
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]]> 489612
But then Calwyn befriends Darrow, a mysterious Outlander who appears inside the Wall and warns of an approaching danger. To help Darrow, to see the world, and perhaps to save it, Calwyn will leave the safety of the Wall for a journey with a man she barely knows—and an adventure as beautiful and dangerous as the music of chantment itself.]]> 320 Kate Constable 0439554799 Lara 4 3.91 2002
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]]> 11486976
Now Inspector Singh must pull out all the stops to crack a crime that could potentially free a beautiful and innocent woman and reunite a mother with her children. There's just one problem - the Malaysian police refuse to play ball...]]> 305 Shamini Flint 0748111670 Lara 3 3.91 2009
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]]> 6495359
When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package - possibly a bomb - waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta’s life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Scarpetta's niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past�.]]> 494 Patricia Cornwell 0399156399 Lara 3 3.73 2009
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]]> 60926 746 Octavia E. Butler 0446676101 Lara 5 4.35 1987
author: Octavia E. Butler
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]]> 18490 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439471

'Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart ...'

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.]]> 288 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Lara 4 3.77 1818
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Read more about Lynette at ]]> 257 Lynette Chiang 0762743905 Lara 3 3.37 2003
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]]> 9680114 Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers . . . to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run.

Burn a Pure and Breathe the Ash . . .
There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her.

When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.

]]> 431 Julianna Baggott 1455503061 Lara 4 Read this.]]> 3.74 2012
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Really enjoyed this book and looking forward to the next in the series. It's not what I expected it to be. Filled with lonely scarred characters who find each other and a reason to fight. Julianna didn't flinch from making some tough choices in the story and I loved that. It is written in the present tense, which I'm not usually a big fan of (it annoys me for some reason), but 99% of the time it works here and I hardly ever thought about it. This book is further proof of the quality of YA writers around.
Read this.
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I've not read Ishiguro before but may now source The Remains of the Day after reading this. A heart breaking read but worth it. Dystopian but not obviously so, the actual plot isn't unique but his telling of it is. I won't give spoilers because part of the enjoyment of this book ( if you're reading it without having seen the film) is unravelling the truth at the heart of their lives. It's clear after reading this why Ishiguro has won an award for every book he's written.
]]> 2662169 436 Margo Lanagan 0375848118 Lara 5 3.58 2007
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as always Margo writes with the kind of beautiful heart breaking clarity that has me in awe of her skills. A story of love and what it means to be human in all it's savagery and frailty. Read it.
]]> 8061032
This is Shyness was shortlisted for a number of major Australian literary awards and named a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book.

Leanne Hall won the 2009 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing for this spellbinding debut for readers fourteen and up.]]> 272 Leanne Hall 1921656522 Lara 5 3.62 2010
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]]> 9213976 377 Kim Edwards 0670022179 Lara 4 3.17 2010
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average rating: 3.17
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]]> 6000352 It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free.

The time has come at last for Elspeth Gordie to leave the Land on her quest to find and stop the computermachine Sentinel from unleashing the deadly Balance of Terror arsenal. But before she can embark on her journey, she must find a lost key. And although she has long prepared for this day, nothing is as she anticipated.

Elspeth's search will take her where she never thought to go, and bestow upon her stranger companions than any she ever imagined. It will lead her far from her destination to those she believed lost forever.

And it will test her, as she has never been tested before . . .]]> 755 Isobelle Carmody 0670853593 Lara 5 4.10 2011
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Like spending time with an old friend. I love Isobelle's Obernewtyn books and this one is even better than The Stone Key. Elspeth is finally on the road to finding Sentinel but at great cost to herself and those she loves. It is with such sweet sadness I finished it knowing that there is only one book left in this series, The Red Queen which comes out next year.
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Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much–adored teacher in a school shooting two days before his sixteenth birthday.

Neither nature nor nurture exclusively shapes a child's character. But Eva was always uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood. Did her internalized dislike for her own son shape him into the killer he’s become? How much is her fault?

Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with Kevin’s horrific rampage, all in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin.

A piercing, unforgettable, and penetrating exploration of violence and responsibility, a book that the Boston Globe describes as “impossible to put down,� is a stunning examination of how tragedy affects a town, a marriage, and a family.]]> 414 Lionel Shriver 1582438870 Lara 0 to-read 4.01 2003
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]]> 11399605 I wanted to turn but I was held captive by the song on the wind. I’m coming, I told the voices. Please, wait for me.

When her sister becomes betrothed to a prince in a northern nation, Zeraphina’s only consolations are that her loyal animal companions are by her side � and that her burning hunger to travel north is finally being sated.

Already her black hair and pale eyes mark her out as different, but now Zeraphina must be even more careful to keep her secret safe. Craving blood is not considered normal behaviour for anyone, let alone a princess. So when the king’s advisor, Rodden, seems to know more about her condition than she does, Zeraphina is determined to find out more.

Zeraphina must be willing to sacrifice everything if she’s to uncover the truth � but what if the truth is beyond her worst nightmares?]]> 290 Rhiannon Hart 1742750966 Lara 4 3.86 2011
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]]> 2116855 480 Tobsha Learner 0732281091 Lara 4 3.34 2006
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]]> 9712341 I've discovered the secret to successful singledom. I'm acting like a man. And it's working.

After breaking up with her boyfriend of, well, forever, Abigail Wood must learn how to be single from scratch. Her dating skills are abysmal, and she ricochets from disaster to disaster � until Robert, one of London's most notorious lotharios, agrees to coach her. With his advice, she learns to navigate the bastard-infested waters of the bar scene and practices the art of being bulletproof. The new Abigail is cocky, calm, composed� but what happens when she meets her match?]]> 423 Gemma Burgess 184756190X Lara 3 3.94 2011
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]]> 10220 272 M.M. Kaye 0312252811 Lara 4 3.91 1960
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]]> 7757324 A WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

A thrilling and addictive novel about three unlikely friends and the web of lies that unravels after one of them goes missing.

At the center of The Legacy is the story of Julia Alpers, her friend Ralph, and the beautiful and wealthy Ingrid. As students in Sydney, the bond that ties this threesome together is complex - delicate and intense, shaped by intellect, and defined by desire. When Ingrid falls in love and marries the much older and very handsome Gil Grey, she decides to leave her friends and settle in New York City, where Gil is a major player in the art world. It is here that she becomes stepmother to Gil's teenage daughter, a former child prodigy, and begins her own work on rare, ancient texts called "curse scrolls" at Columbia University. But on the morning of September 11, 2001, she has an appointment downtown. And is never seen again.

Devastated and heartsick, Ralph sends Julia to New York to investigate Ingrid's last days. What Julia discovers plunges her more deeply into Ingrid's life than she could ever imagine. As Julia grows closer to unearthing the truth about Ingrid's death, she is forced to confront her conflicted feelings about her former friend and to make a crucial decision about her own future.

Praised by international critics as an "entertaining literary thriller that skillfully describes the almost pleasurable pain of love and life denied" (The Australian), The Legacy is an utterly addictive and beautifully written novel that introduces a brilliant new voice in fiction.]]> 448 Kirsten Tranter 143917718X Lara 5 A wonderful book. Literary mystery with characters and settings that put me in mind of a noirish High Society. Something to read while listening to smokey jazz with the scent of fresh cut lawn in the air. I love the quiet style it's written in which contains so many dark undercurrents. Highly recommended.]]> 2.92 2010
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What happened to Ingrid? Centres around the narrator, Julia, who is adrift in her life and in unrequited love with her friend Ralph, the son of a wealthy Sydney family. Old money and aged leather sofas abound. Ingrid is Ralph's cousin who comes to stay and they form an odd threesome. Ingrid is part Grace Kelly, part Hitchcockian heroine. Blonde, beautiful, above average intelligance yet surreal in a way with an odd naivity. Then Ingrid comes into a large inheritance and goes to New York, meets an older man with an art prodigy daughter, marries him and at 9am on November 11, 2001, she has an appointment downtown and is never seen again. The Legacy is the story of her affect on Julia and Ralph and what Julia finds when she goes to New York on Ralph's behalf to try to find out what happend to Ingrid.
A wonderful book. Literary mystery with characters and settings that put me in mind of a noirish High Society. Something to read while listening to smokey jazz with the scent of fresh cut lawn in the air. I love the quiet style it's written in which contains so many dark undercurrents. Highly recommended.
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For young scribe Caitrin it is a safe haven. This place where nobody else is prepared to go seems exactly what she needs, for Caitrin is fleeing her own demons. As Caitrin comes to know Anluan and his home in more depth she realizes that it is only through her love and determination that the curse can be broken and Anluan and his people set free.]]> 405 Juliet Marillier 0230017916 Lara 5 4.07 2009
author: Juliet Marillier
name: Lara
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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I'm probably a bit biased because I've loved every book Juliet's written, so I came into this expecting to enjoy it and of course I did. Well written, well researched and with characters who feel real.Highly recommended for those who want a love story with depth.
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Now I’m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends - a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch - and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.]]> 360 Kelley Armstrong 0061662763 Lara 3 4.14 2009
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Lara
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2011/09/29
date added: 2011/09/29
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]]> 12323475 364 Peter Docker 192169694X Lara 0 to-read 3.93 2011
author: Peter Docker
name: Lara
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2011/09/15
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Mira had always lived quietly until the day a stranger is shot and killed in front of her. The woman's body is quickly removed, leaving bloodstained snow and a crumpled piece of paper on the ground as the only clues to her murder. Mira discovers that the paper contains a list of names, including her own -- but why?

Terrified, she begins to view everyone with suspicion, and attempts to follow the clues that the dead woman left behind, unaware of the danger she is stumbling into. For Mira lives in an environmentally damaged and socially dangerous Great Britain that is ruled by the caste of the Great Families, forming a society where reproduction is strictly limited and where families keep illegal clones -- or "spares" -- of themselves, just in case a replacement is ever needed... ]]> 528 Patrick Cave 1416912223 Lara 4 3.22 2005
author: Patrick Cave
name: Lara
average rating: 3.22
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2011/09/12
date added: 2011/09/12
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]]> 8159643 Not just the facts I know you want to hear.
If I’m going to tell you my story,
I’m telling it my way.

Strap yourself in...

Eliza Boans has everything.
A big house.
A great education.
A bright future.

So why is she sitting in a police station confessing to murder?]]> 280 Shirley Marr 1742031323 Lara 4 3.62 2010
author: Shirley Marr
name: Lara
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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brilliantly dark, funny, shocking. read it.
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What are the Night Creatures Retra can see in the shadows? What happens to those who grow too old for Ixion? Without Joel, is her eternal bond with a Riper guardian enough to save her?

Listen well, baby bats. Burn bright, but do not stray from the paths. Remember, when you live in a place of darkness you also live with creatures of the dark.]]> 316 Marianne de Pierres 1864719885 Lara 5 3.70 2011
author: Marianne de Pierres
name: Lara
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. We have lived among you without you knowing.

But they know.

They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They killed them all.

I am Number Four.

I am next.]]> 440 Pittacus Lore 0061969559 Lara 2 3.94 2010
author: Pittacus Lore
name: Lara
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2010
rating: 2
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date added: 2011/08/30
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]]> 99561 Before. Miles “Pudge� Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps� even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .
After. Nothing is ever the same.]]> 221 John Green 1435249151 Lara 5 3.97 2005
author: John Green
name: Lara
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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Touching, fabulous book by this best selling author.
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