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Author: Damian Thompson
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 162
Thompson sets out in six concise chapters to highlight the dangers and possible consequences for society in its disturbing thirst for “counterknowledge” – which is basically an alternative word for “mumbo-jumbo” that earned Francis Wheen a bestseller in 2004. Although comparisons will inevitably be made between Counterknowledge and How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, this is no bad thing.

Author: David Almond 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2000
Pages: 182
In the elegant, hypnotic, thoroughly engaging Counting Stars, British author David Almond, winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for Kit's Wilderness and a Printz honor for Skellig, shares a collection of stories about his childhood.

Author: Robert Crais
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2000
Pages: 371

John Michael Fowles has a natural talent: he understands explosives. He has a feel for them. It is a talent which he fully expects will take him onto the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Along the way he will match himself against the best - the FBI's elite team of bomb technicians and one person in particular - Carol Starkey, Detective in the LAPD Criminal Conspiracy Section.

Author: Matthew Kneale 
Condition: 7/10
Published Date: 2000
Pages: 462

It is 1857 and the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson had set out for Tasmania, hoping to find the true site if the Garden Of Eden.  But the journey is turning out to be less than straight forward - dissent is growing between him and sinister reacial - theorist Dr Potter, and unknown to both the ship they had hurrriedly chartered is in fact a Manx summgling vessel, fleeing from British Customs.

Author: Martina Cole 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 655

Gritty. Gripping. Unforgettable. Martina's back.Just before Danny Cadogan's fourteenth birthday, his father leaves. Having drunkenly run up a gambling debt he cannot pay, Big Dan Cadogan takes the easy way out. Leaving behind his wife and children to face the wrath of the men sent to collect the debt. Determined to protect his mother, brother and sister, something changes in Danny and, overnight, he turns into a young man set on making his way in a violent and dangerous world.

Author: Nancy Horan 
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date: 2008
Pages: 362

In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America's greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney's profound influence on Wright.

Author: William Landay 
Condition: 9/10
This books Published Date: 2003
Pages: 509

From its violent and shocking opening, through vivid depictions of battle-scarred inner-city Boston, to its intensely suspenseful conclusion, Mission Flats is the most thrilling literary crime novel in some years - combining intelligent, thoughtful and, precise prose with page-turning action.

Author: Allan Gurganus
Condition: 6/10
Published Date: 1984

Bawdy, raucous, comic...The story of the South in all its tragic and self-perceived glory.

Author: Rupert Everett
Condition: New
Published Date: 2006

Rupert Everett was born in Norfolk in 1959.  Educated at Ampleton College, he was latter expelled from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, but soon made a name for himself in the avant - garde Glasgow Citzen's Theatre.  In 1984 he found international fame following his lead role in Another Country, and has since appeared in many successful films, including Shakespeare in Love; An Ideal Husband; The Madness of King George; The Importance of Being Earnest; Dance with a Stranger; Pret - a Porter and My Best Freinds Wedding.

Author: Richard Yates 
Condition: 9/10
Published Date:  1962
Pages: 337

Hailed as a master piece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road, is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary.  With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decesion to change their lives for the better leads to bretrayal and tragedy.

Now A Major Motion Pitcure Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

Author: Richard North Patterson 
Condition: 6/10
This books Published Date: 1997
Pages: 488

A family-revenge story and courtroom drama. A young man is brutally murdered and his distraught girlfriend is charged and brought to trial. Her aunt, about to take up a top job in the US Court of Appeals, decides to defend her, but it is the girl's first contact with her family for 20 years.

Author: Richard North Patterson 
Condition: 10/10
This books Published Date: 2007
Pages: 455
Can an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics

Author:  Susan Howatch 
Condition: 4/10
This books Published Date:  1989 
Pages:  480
Neville Aysgarth, archdeacon, and right - hand man of the Bishop of Starbridge, has spent his life chasing wordly success. In 1942 he has a perfect wife, a perfect family and a perfect future in the Church of England- all ultimate prizes. Witty, wise and compelling, Ultimate Prizes powerfully explores both the temptations of sex and success, and the ultimate themes of sin and salvation.