Good Book Guide - Mary Ryan's Books, Music & Coffee. Q8. 4Haruki Murakami$1. The year is 1. Q8. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both. Something extraordinary is starting."6. Hours. Lee Child$1. Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm. There's a small town twenty miles away, where a vulnerable witness is guarded around the clock. There's a strange stone building five miles further on, all alone on the prairie. There's a ruthless man who controls everything from the warmth of Mexico. Jack Reacher hitched a ride in the back of the bus. A life without baggage has many advantages. And crucial disadvantages too, when it means facing the arctic cold without a coat.
But he's equipped for the rest of his task. He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn’t like people who put it to wrongs. A Brief History of Seven Killings. 9781903854846 1903854849 Service Crew - The Inside Story of Leeds United's Hooligan Gangs, Caroline Gall 9781436795685 1436795680 Cage and Singing Birds - How to. A Brief History of Seven Killings James Marlon $22.99. Jamaica, 1976: Seven men storm Bob Marley's house with machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but. Every once in a while, I pick up a book that’s so compelling I just can’t put it down until I reach the last page. Sometimes it’s because the book is flat-out. James Marlon$2. 2. Jamaica, 1. 97. 6: Seven men storm Bob Marley's house with machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but leaves Jamaica the following day, not to return for two years. Inspired by this near- mythic event, A Brief History of Seven Killings is an imagined oral biography, told by ghosts, witnesses, killers, members of parliament, drug dealers, conmen, beauty queens, FBI and CIA agents, reporters, journalists, and even Keith Richards' drug dealer. Marlon James' dazzling novel is a tour de force. It traverses strange landscapes and shady characters, as motivations are examined - and questions asked - in a masterpiece of imagination. A Change in Altitude. Anita Shreve$3. 2. Margaret and her new husband James travel to. Kenya with the intention of staying a year. Invitedon a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya, thenewlyweds are caught up in a horrific accident. Inthe aftermath, Margaret must try to understandwhat happened on that mountain and what it hasdone to her marriage. Author Anita Shrevesearches out the secrets at the core of our closestrelationships and the ways in which lives can turnon the axis of a single catastrophic event. A Common Loss. Kirsten Tranter$2. From the critically acclaimed author of The Legacy. They were originally five. Elliot. Brian. Tallis. Cameron. And Dylan - charismatic Dylan - the mediator, the leader, the man each one turned to in a time of crisis. Five close friends, bonded in college, still coming together for their annual trip to Las Vegas. This year they are four. Four friends, sharing a common loss: Dylan′s tragic death. A common loss that, upon their arrival in Vegas, will bring with it a common threat: one that will make them question who their departed friend really was, and whether he is even worthy of their grief. A Common Loss is Kirsten Tranter′s follow- up to her critically acclaimed debut, The Legacy. Yet again, Tranter′s weave of watertight prose and literary sensibilities shows her to be a born writer with a precocious control of storytelling and style. A Dance With Dragons part 1: Dreams and Dust. George R. R. Martin$2. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the east, Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, her dragons grown to terrifying maturity, rules as queen of a city built on dust and death, beset by enemies. Now that her whereabouts are known many are seeking Daenerys and her dragons. Among them the dwarf, Tyrion Lannister, who has escaped King's Landing with a price on his head, wrongfully condemned to death for the murder of his nephew, King Joffrey. But not before killing his hated father, Lord Tywin. To the north lies the great Wall of ice and stone - a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has been elected the 9. Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, but he has enemies both in the Watch and beyond the Wall, where the wildling armies are massing for an assault. On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting, played out by a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all.. A Delicate Truth. John Le Carre $2. A counter- terrorist operation, code- named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a hight- value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom firend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far right. So delicate is the operation that even the minister's private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. A Game Of Thrones George R R Martin$2. HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series. So vivid that you'll be hooked within a few pages' The Times Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must … and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty. The old gods have no power in the south, Stark's family is split and there is treachery at court. Worse, the vengeance- mad heir of the deposed Dragon King has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities. He claims the Iron Throne. A God in Ruins. Kate Atkinson$3. Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life, the bestselling adult book this year to date in the UK, explored the possibility of infinite chances, as Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy - would- be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 2. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. A God in Ruins is a masterful companion to Life After Life, and will prove once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age. A Kiss from Mr. Fitzgerald. Natasha Lester$2. In the Manhattan of gin, jazz and speakeasies, Evelyn Lockhart is determined to follow her dream to study obstetrics, even if it means turning her back on her family and the only life she's ever known. In a desperate attempt to support herself as one of the first female students at Columbia University's medical school, Evie auditions for the infamous Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. But if she gets the part, what will it mean for her fledgling relationship with Upper East Side banker Thomas Whitman - a man Evie thinks she could fall in love with, if only she lived a life less scandalous.. A captivating, tragic love story set amid the fragile hearts and glamour of 1. New York. If you loved The Paris Wife and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald you will devour this deliciously evocative story of a young woman ahead of her time. A Memory Of Light, Wheel of Time Book 1. Robert Jordan; Brandon Sanderson$3. The long awaited conclusion to the Wheel of Time series is finally here, and it’s well worth the wait! In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join behind Rand al'Thor, or to stop him from his plan to break the seals on the Dark One's prison — which may be a sign of his madness, or the last hope of humankind. Egwene, the Amyrlin Seat, leans toward the former. In Andor, the Trollocs seize Caemlyn. In the wolf dream, Perrin Aybara battles Slayer. Approaching Ebou Dar, Mat Cauthon plans to visit his wife Tuon, now Fortuona, Empress of the Seanchan. All humanity is in peril, and the outcome will be decided in Shayol Ghul itself. The Wheel is turning, and the Age is coming to its end. The Last Battle will determine the fate of the world.. A Pure Clear Light. Madeleine St John$3. A Pure Clear Light examines a marriage at the moment it goes haplessly off- track. Simon and Flora Beaufort have a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes their three children for a month- long vacation in France, Simon stays home to work on his latest film project. He meets Gillian, a cool, blonde accountant, and as their passionate affair begins Flora discovers a new love of her own. Simon and Flora stray from each other, but neither of them can escape the revelation that lies at the heart of the phenomenon called love. A Room of One’s Own & The Voyage Out. Virginia Woolf$6. A Room of Ones Own (1. Virginia Woolf’s best known work. The Voyage Out (1. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society. In the essay, Woolf’s prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man’s, she must have an independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute analysis and a spirited rallying cry, and remains surprisingly resonant and relevant in the 2. The novel explores these issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman whose voyage out to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow- travellers, men and women. As she begins to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of love, but also sees its brute power. A Stairway to Paradise. St John Madeleine$2. A Stairway to Paradise is classic Madeleine St John: poignant, witty, full of sharp and subtle observations. Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara…Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people locked in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. In St John’s hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent.
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