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Title: Born with the Century
Genre: Fiction                                                                                                             Author:  William Kinsolving
Edition:  Published by Longman Canada 1979 - Large Hardcover - Good secondhand condition.

 In a powerful novel spanning seven decades, William Kinsolving traces the life of Magnus Macpherson from a penniless Scottish childhood to the realization of the American dream. Magnus Macpherson is to whiskey what Andrew Carnegie was to steel. Parallel to the rapid rise of his forturne is the private tragedy. This is a fascinating portrait of a man, an industry, a period in the country’s history.

Title: Harmful Intent
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Robin Cook
Edition:  Published by GP Putnam 1990 - Midsize Hardcover - Good secondhand condition.

A physician turned fugitive must save himself and stop a lethal drug tampering plot in Robin Cook’s most disturbing techno-chiller yet. Anestheseiologist Dr. Jeffrey Rhodes’s nightmare begins with nerve shattering swiftness, but it will haunt him always: he administers routine anesthesia during a normal birth. Suddenly the young, healthy mother goes into inexplicable seizures and dies; her infant survives but is severely disabled and brain damaged. But the living nightmare is only the beginning; sued first for malpractice, then brought up on criminal charges, Jeffrey is convicted of malpractice.  A ruined man, Jeffrey must pull himself from the depths of despair to try to salvage the wreckage of his life. A subtle clue puts him and Nurse Kelly Everson on the trail of a crazed killer…..

Title: Deception – A Novel of Murder and Madness in T’ang China
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Eleanor Cooney & Daniel Altieri
Edition:  Published by William Morrow 1992 - Large Hardcover - Very good secondhand condition.

Deception is a rare find for readers of mystery and suspense as well as lovers of historical lore.  Lady Wu and her evil mother are devising a murderous scheme to dispose of the beloved Empress. A child is murdered, the Emperor is secuded by the sexual tricks of his favorite concubine, and the stage is set for an intricate web of lies and terror.  Soon nothing will be able to stop Lady Wu.  Meanwhile across the country, young Magistrate Dee Jen-Chen cannot rid himself of the vision of an elderly gardener being brought to an untimely death. As the thread of this tale intertwine, Judge Dee finds himself involved in the most baffling and horrifying case of his career…

Title: The Eighth Commandment
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Lawrence Sanders
Edition:  Published by NEL Paperback 1987 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

The Havistock family was rich. Discretion and respectability wrapped round them like a bandage, preserving them from the infectious ills of Manhattan life. Drugs, violence and madness might breed and spread like 20th century plagues out there on the city streets, but the family was safe behind its cordon sanitaire of lawyers, accountants and servants. Until the theft.  Until one tiny, rare coin, the pride of Archibald Havistock’s superb collection went missing between his luxury apartment and the auction house where Mary Lou Bateson worked.  Then under suspicion herself, she sets to work to unravel the mystery..

Title: Three Cross (Large Print)
Genre: Fiction - Western                                                                                                         Author:  Ray Hogan
Edition:  Published by Thorndike Press 2000 - Midsize Hardcover- Good secondhand condition. (ex Library).

Shawn Starbuck had covered thousands of rugged miles through the wild Southwest in search of his lost brother Ben. Now at last, he had a real clue. The end seemed almost in sight…Then Starbuck met up with Jim Kelso, a man who desperately needed his help. Kelso’s ranch, Three Cross, was besieged by ruthless marauders who would stop at nothing until the ranch was theirs. What were they after ?  What was the priceless secret of Three Cross? Starbuck swore to find out, though it might mean losing the trail to Ben – and his own neck – in a blood-drenched battle for land and gold.

Title: Salt (Large Print)
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Gabrielle Lord
Edition:  Published by Bolinda Softcovers 2004 - Midsize Paperback - Good secondhand condition (ex Library).

Sando and Hedda are running for their lives. They break out of Sydney, the walled city of 2075, into an Australia decimated by civil strife, rising salt levels, a ravaged ozone layer and daily temperatures of fifty seven degrees.  Their fight to this salt-encrusted otherworld forces them to confront its unimaginable inhabitants, and their love for each other and for the truth is put to the test in a gripping battle against an ancient human evil with a new and terrifying face.

Title: Majesty (Large Print)
Genre: Non Fiction – Biography                                                                                                        Author:  Robert Lacey
Edition:  Published by Hutchinson & Co 1977 - Midsize Hardcover - Fair secondhand condition (ex library / age spots).

Majesty is the biography of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the most prominent yet also one of the least known personalities in the world. Since her accession twenty-five years ago, millions of words have been written about. But she has remained tantalisingly remote. Now Robert Lacey, a young journalist and historian has got closer to her than any previous writer. In MAJESTY he has produced a unique work of contemporary history, marshalled from an unprecedented range of original sources.

Title: Wycliffe & the Pea Green Boat (Large Print)
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  WJ Burley
Edition:  Published by Victor Gollancz 1986 - Midsize Paperback - Average secondhand condition. (ex Library)

Tragedy seemed to stalk the Tremain family. Sidney Tremain had hanged himself for no apparent reason. His son Morley, had the misfortune to fall in love with a loose woman…and get convicted of killing her. And now Cousin Cedric was charged with murdering his wealthy father by blowing up his pea-green boat. Chief Superintendent Wycliffe knew something was fishy…and he was determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Carefully he cast his bait…and waited for the real killer to surface.

Title: Great Racing Stories (Large Print)
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                          Author:  Edited by Dick Francis & John Welcome
Edition:  Published by Bellew Publishing 1992 - Large Hardcover - Average secondhand condition (ex Library).

Dick Francis & John Welcome have selected fourteen enthralling stories from the world of horse racing, featuring work by the editors themselves and such diverse authors as Arthur Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy, Edgar Wallace, Ernest Hemingway, Somerville & Ross and Molly Keane.  The thrills, the suspense, the intrigues in the world of horse racing are all here, and are sure to delight all devotees of the Sport of Kings.

Title: Holy Fools (Large Print)
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                          Author:  Joanne Harris
Edition:  Published by William Morrow 2004 - Midsize Hardcover - Good secondhand condition.(ex Library / first page cut out).

In this novel of love and betrayal, friendship and revenge, set in 17th century France, Juliette, an actress, has been forced to abandon the travelling life and seek refuge among the sisters of the abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer. Reinventing herself as Souer Auguste, Juliette makes a new life for herself and her daughter, Fleur, under the benevolent care of the kind abbess. But when her old benefactress dies, Juliette’s life begins to unravel. The newly appointed head of the abbey is the daughter of a corrupt noble family. And with her comes Guy LeMerle – the man Juliette has every right to fear and hate. Soon, Juliette and Le Merle are engaged in a deadly games of wills, which only one of them can survive.

Title: Sail – Large Print
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  James Patterson & Howard Roughan
Edition:  Published by Little Brown & Co 2008 - Large Hardcover - Good secondhand condition.

A perfect family vacation turns into a life or death nightmare. Barely out of sight of land, the Dunne family finds its summer getaway to paradise already turning into the trip from hell. Carrie, the eldest has thrown herself off the side of the boat in a bid for attention. Sixteen year old Mark is getting high belowdecks. And Ernie, their ten year old brother is nearly catanoic.  Katherine Dunne had hoped this trip would bring back the togetherness they’d lost when her husband died four years earlier.  Maybe if her new husband had been able to postpone his trial and join them it would all be okay…..Suddenly, a disaster hits – someone wants to make sure that the Dunne family never makes it out of paradise alive…

Title: The Rake’s Revenge (Large Print)
Genre: Fiction – Historical Romance                                                                                         Author:  Gail Ranstrom
Edition:  Published by Mills & Boons 2006 - Midsize Hardcover - Good secondhand condition.

He would have his revenge – but at what price ?  Robert McHugh, Earl of Glenross is out to avenge his family’s tragedy. He hasn’t anticipated his reaction to the alluring beauty of Miss Afton Lovejoy. She, in turn, is shocked by the passion she feels for this notorious womaniser. Plunged into a world of intrigue and desire, Robert begins to suspect that Afton is not all she seems. But what will he do when he discovers that she is, in fact, the very woman he’s sworn to destroy….?

Title: The Final Judgement (Large Print)
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Daniel Easterman
Edition:  Published by Wheeler 1996 - Large Paperback - Good secondhand condition (ex Library – stamps).

A young boy is kidnapped and his captors make outrageous ransom demands .Desperate, the boy’s father calls upon his estranged brother-in-law for help. Yosef Abuhatseira is the perfect man for the job: an Israeli patriot, a born hunter, a one-man army of survival skills. Yet the kidnapping, it seems, is only the beginning. Soon a series of killings leads Yosef to the sickening realization that someone is murdering survivors of Auschwitz. Now he must penetrate the deadly wall of secrecy that surrounds the organization responsible, before they can let loose another Final Solution on humanity.

Title: Angels Flight – Large Print
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Michael Connelly
Edition:  Published by Thorndike Press 1999 - Midsize Paperback - Good secondhand condition. (ex Library)

At the foot of Angels Flight, an inclided railway in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, a lawyer is found murdered on the eve of a landmark trial. Howard Elias’s lawsuits against the LAPD for racism and the brutality made him a celebrity and earned him the hatred of every cop in the city. When Harry Bosch is put in charge of the investigating team, he knows that his colleagues are likely to be his chief suspects. He also knows that smoldering racial tensions could ignite if he missteps. Working in the glare of a major media event, Bosch also struggles with a personal mystery: his wife’s disappearance.

Title: A Creed for the Third Millenium
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                           Author:  Colleen McCullough
Edition:  Published by Harper 1985 - Large Hardcover - Good secondhand condition.

This novel traces the progress of a truly good man from obscurity to worldwide fame. Dr. Joshua Christian’s works as a clinical psychologist daily presents him with bitter tableaux of a people spiritually impoverished by too much change: policitical, climate, ideological. Joshua’s deep compassion, extraordinary personal magnetism have created a devout following among his patients, but living in the backwater of small Conneticut city, he yearns to reach out and help on a much larger scale. Enter Dr. Judith Carriol, a brilliant senior official from the powerful Department of Environment.

Title: The Librarian
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                          Author:  Larry Beinhart
Edition:  Published by Nation Books 2004 - Midsize Paperback - Average secondhand condition.(ex library).

How on earth did a nebbish university librarian David Goldberg end up on Virginia’s Ten Most Wanted Criminal List for beastiality? And how did he get ensnared in a vast right wing conspiracy to steal the presidency? It all began so innocently when Goldberg starts moonlighting for an eccentric, aging conservative billionaire whose final wish is to leave behind a memorial library about himself.

Title: Wreck the Halls
Genre: Popular Fiction  / Crime                                                                                                         Author:  Sarah Graves
Edition:  Published by Bantam Books 2002 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

Christmas is just weeks away, but what Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree discovers at Faye Ann Carmody’s house is far from festive: a dazed Faye Ann covered with blood. Her no good husband, Merle – Eastport’s butcher and least liked citizen – is nowhere in sight. Nowhere, that is, until Jake finds his body – wrapped in his own butcher paper.  It look like an open and shut case, but Jake isn’t convinced. Then another resident turns up dead, and Jake knows the bloody trail doesnt begin – or end – with Merle.

Title: The Great Scot
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                           Author:  Donna Kauffman
Edition:  Published by Brava Books 2009 - Small Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

Location coordinator Erin McGregor has finally found the perfect setting for her romance reality show. The Chisholm clan stronghold in the Scottish Highlands has it all – romantic moors, windswept cliffs, misty lochs, four hundred year old castle, and the most gorgeous man she ever laid eyes on, Dylan Chisholm. He is at the top of his village’s matchmaking list and now they’ve sent an American lass up to tempt him into a devil’s bargain, a foolish romance show for the money his village desperately needs.  He can’t turn away from such a promising offer, but keeping his thoughts off Erin McGregor is another matter.

Title: City of Joy
Genre: Popular Fiction/Non-Fiction                                                                                         Author:  Dominique LaPierre
Edition:  Published by Arrow Books 1996 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition (has some age spots on front couple pages).

Living in the seeming hell of one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of Calcutta are the saints of today: saints such as Mother Teresa, saints such as Stephen Kovalski, an unknown Polish Catholic priest who made his home there to care for the poorest of poor. And Max Loeb an American physician dedicated to fighting disease in this dirty hellhole. City of Joy, the story of these saints, is a testament to the human spirit iunbowed by the most wretched of circumstances.  This book was made into a movie starring Patrick Swayze – half the royalties received from the original sale of this book were donated to the people of the “City of Joy”.

Title: Just When We are Safest
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Reg Gadney
Edition:  Published by Faber & Faber 1995 - Small Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

“MI5 will change my life tonight”. The entry in the secret diary of Mary R. Walker (Metropolitan Police) is all too accurate. When Walker is murdered in a terrorist attack, her lover, Alan Rosslyn, undercover Senior Investigation Officer, is seconded to the hunt for a killer of unpraralleled skill and savagery. The deeper Rosslyn penetrates the increasing number of atrocities, the clearer it becomes that the enemy is not only terrorism but the rivalries and corruption within the reformed and reorganized Security Services.

Title: The Lady in the Tower
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                               Author:  Jean Plaidy
Edition:  Published by Fontana 1988 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

Obsessive love turns into murderous hate. Anne Boleyn was destined for distinction. The possessor of a quality more exciting than beauty, she was soon noticed and desired even by the King himself. But Henry VIII was sometimes sentimental and always ruthless, a man with absolute power over those around him – including Anne, impetuous, reckless, heading for danger and realizing it only when it was too late.

Title: Golf for Dummies (Australia & New Zealand Edition)
Genre: Sport                                                                                                                            Author:  Gary McCord & Jon Underwood
Edition:  Published by Wiley Publishing - Large Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

• A concise, helpful and entertaining guide to the game of golf. Golf for Dummies is a complete golf reference with information specifically for players in Australian & New Zealand. The easy to follow instructions ensure you’ll imporve your game and lower your score. This is a must red for all golfers – whether you’re a beginner or looking to take four shots off your game.  Discover how to:
• Get out of bunkers first time, every time.
• Cure the dreaded slice
• Hit your drives further
• Hole more putts
• Improve your short game.
• Be four shots better this weekend.

Title: KISS (Keep it Simple Series) – Guide Playing Golf
Genre: Sport                                                                                                                            Author:  Steve Dunno
Edition:  Published by Dorling Kindersley 2001 - Large Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

• The only guide you’ll ever need…to come to grips with the great game of Golf.  
• Get Started – find a course and choose the right equipment for your game.
• Tackle the finer points of your grip, set-up and swing
• Make the most of your practice sessions
• Master basic rules and etiquette – Learn expert tips on taking difficult shots and negotiating hazards – Stregthen your swing and perfect your putts.
• Develop a variety of specialty shots for difficult situations
• Check out the best web sites and organisations for Australian golf lovers.

Title: Fire House
Genre: Non Fiction / Memoir                                                                                                        Author:  David Halberstram
Edition:  Published by Hyperion 2002 - Midsize Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, two firetrucks set out from the New York firehouse, Engine 40, Ladder 35, located on the West Side of Manhattan. Thirteen men were aboard; twelve of them would never return.  In a moving tribute, David Halberstam traces the events of that day as the men were called to duty, while their families waited anxiously for news of them. As the tragedy unfolds, Halberstam captures the culture of the firehouse – why men eagerly dedicate themselves to such a dangerous profession, often following in the footsteps of their fathers. And why, more than anything else, it’s not just a job, but a calling. Deeply felt and emotional, Firehouse is a tribute to these honourable and heroic men, and a celebration of their selflessness, not only as firefighters, but also as husbands, fathers, sons, brothers & friends.

Title: Act of War
Genre: Fiction - Action                                                                                                          Author: Dale Brown
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 2006 - Small Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

A Californian oil refinery belonging to one of the world’s largest multi-national energy companies is blown apart with a “backpack” nuclear device. An obscure group calling itself Defenders of the Oppressed Militia, or DOOM, claim responsiblity. Their mission is simple  – to end the oppression of poor nations by global corporations and governments who plunder the world’s natural resources for profit. It’s Brigadier General Jason Richter’s job to stop them – by any means necessary. Richter is the head of Task Force TALON, a special unit set up by the US to track terrorists and anticipate their next move.

Title: Manhattan Music
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                          Author:  Meena Alexander
Edition:  Published 1997 - Midsize Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

Sandhya Rosenblum, an immigrant from India married to an American Jewish man, tries to make sense of her life in a time of turbulence. In this sweeping novel set in Manhattan and India, Meena Alexander lyrically and poignantly explores crossing borders, the Indian dispora, fanaticism, ethnic intolerance, interracial affairs and marriages, and what it means to be an American today.

Title: Dangerous in Love
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Leslie Thomas
Edition:  Published by Pengin Books 1998 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

Detective Constable Davies has two things on his mind: Jemma Duval, the beautiful, black, hymn-singing social workers, and “Lofty” Brock, the harmless old eccentric who drowned in the canal. To prove that Lofty’s death was no accident, our hero sets out to do some undercover detective work on his own. He soon discovers that something sinister is going on. Something that requires intuition, dedication, brilliant deduction – and a timely blow with a blunt instrument.

Title: Asking for It
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Anonymous
Edition:  Published by Coronet - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

Why does Jenny Glendower choose to walk out of her hotel, alone and by night, in the notoriously dangerous red-light district of London, Great North? What confusion and yearning propels this attractive schoolteacher from West Country, mother of two to abandon every lesson of prudence? When a gang of youths closes round her on the streets, Jenny realises too late that she a target not only for robbery – but worse.  Oliver Rawl and his partner, Sarah Woods, both legal aid solicitors, legally represent the most evil of the cynical youths who have taken Jenny captive. One of them, Charco Rios, still walks free as the notorious murderer of a Headmaster. Jenny has been in love with Oliver for many years, but she remains innocent of the painful conflict between professional duty and private sentiment that will gradually destroy Oliver’s relationship with Sarah.

Title: Melt Down
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  David Schofield
Edition:  Published by Pocket Books 2002 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

Professor Wallace Bradley, a Nobel Prize nominated Oxford economist has a secret, all-consuming obsession: the financial destruction of the world’s second economic superpower. To achieve his aim, he recruits and indoctrinates nine idealistic undergraduates. Over the years, these dedicated collaborators rise to positions of influence from which they deliberately start a financial wildfire to threaten world stability and cause economic meltdown.  Only one man starts to realise what’s going on: investigative journalist James Emerson begins to uncover evidence of a conspiracy as he follows the exploding crisis around the globe..

Title: A Theory of Relativity
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                          Author:  Jacquelyn Mitchard
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 2002 - Small Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

Powerful & Compassionate – The emotional story of a fierce custody battle over a little girl, A Theory of Relativity is an unforgettable tale of love and the bonds that unite us all. 

Title: The Home Team – Weapons Grade
Genre: Fiction - Action                                                                                                          Author:  Dennis Chalker, USN (Ret) & Kevin Dockery
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 2007 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

The leader of an elite group of shooters known as The Four Horsemen, former Navy SEAL Ted Reaper operates outside bureaucracy, outside politics, and, sometimes outside the law. His only mandate – destroy America’s enemies. Now the threat of a deadly anthrax attack has Reaper and his “A-Team” of elite warriors leaping into action on the trail of an IRA trained master assassin who’s in bed with America’s worst enemies. Relentless and ingenious – armed with a biological nightmare left over from the Soviets’ Cold War – he could strike anywhere, at anytime. And unless Reaper and his men can smoke the rat out, the killers next attack will make 9/11 look like a warm up act – as the Apocalypse explodes with the world watching.

Title: War of the Rats (The Novel of Stalingrad)
Genre: Fiction – Thriller/Action                                                                                                        Author:  David Robbins
Edition:  Published by Orion 1999 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition (age spots).

Stalingrad in 1942 is a city in ruins, its Russian defenders fighting to the last man to repel the invading German army. One of their most potent weapons is the crack sniper school developed by Vasily Zaitsev. Its members can pick off the enemy at long range, and their daring tactics mean that no German can ever feel safe. The battle is a much psychological as military, and to counter the threat the Nazi command bring to the city their own top marksman, Heinz Thorvald. His skill is legendary, his accuracy astonishing. His mission is simple: to identify and kill Zaitsev.  Based on the true story, War of the Rats is a brilliantly compelling thriller.

Title: Red Dragon
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Thomas Harris
Edition:  Published by Arrow Books 1993 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

The novel that launched Hannibal Lecter’s legacy of evil. Sexual hunger; demonic violence; sinister logic – the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families, and calls himself….The Red Dragon.

Title: Dead Dry
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Sarah Andrews
Edition:  Published by St. Martins 2005 - Small Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

For Em Hansen, things couldn’t be better professionally and personally. She’s got a full time gig with the Utah Geological Survey; she’s the go-to forensic geologist for state law enforcement – and a long simmering acquaintance with a handsome pilot is turning into more than friendship. But when she’s called in to investigate how a massive quarry wall collapsed, she’s shocked to discover that the viciously mutilated body that was trapped beneath belongs to none other than Em’s old colleague, Afton McWain, an oil tycoon – turned – controversial geological consultant.

Title: Ultimate Prizes #3 Church of England Series
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                              Author: Susan Howatch
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 1993 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

Neville Aysgarth, archdeacon, and right-hand man of the Bishop of Starbridge, has spent his life chasing worldly success. In 1942 he has a perfect wife, a perfect family and a perfect future in the Church of England – all ultimate prizes. Then Asygarth meets an attractive young socialite and is soon dangerously and chaotically entangled in adultery, hypocrisy and obsession. Tormented and on the brink of ruin, he must at last face the truth about himself, his marriage and the mysterious past he cannot discuss as he chases the most vital prize of all – his own survival…

Title: Scandalous Risks #4 Church of England Series
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                              Author: Susan Howatch
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 1993 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition. 

In 1963, when traditional values are coming under attack, a young woman in her twenties, Venetia Flaxton, becomes disastrously involved with her best friend’s father, the powerful, dynamic but ultimately mysterious Dean of Starbridge Cathedral. Yet, as a married man and a senior Churchman, Asygarth has nothing to offer her but an admiration which spirals out of control into an obsessive love. As Aysgarth begins to take scandalous risks to further their friendship, pressures rise and the dangers multiply. Venetia finds herself trapped in a desperate web of love and lies from which it seems impossible to escape.

Title: Absolute Truths #6 Church of England Series
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                              Author: Susan Howatch
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 1996 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

Charles Ashworth is privileged, pampered and pleased with himself. As Bishop of Starbridge in 1965 he “purrs along effortlessly” while he proclaims his famous “absolute truths” to a society which he sees -with rage and revulsion – as increasingly immoral and disordered. But then a catastrophe tears his life apart and confronts him with the real absolute truths, truths which so shatter him that he finds himself stripped of his pride and struggling for survival.

Title: Goldilocks
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author:  Andrew Coburn
Edition:  Published by Leisure Book 2007 - Small Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

Lawrence, Massachusetts is a quiet little town. But it’s only quiet because the deals have already been made, the police are working hand in hand with the mob, and everyone knows just where they stand. That quiet is about to be shattered. Louise Baker has married her way to the top and her mob connections have brought her the power she always wanted. She doesn’t worry much about jilting her latest lover, handsome Henry Witlo, known as Goldilocks. But Henry’s got a vicious streak and maybe he’ a little crazy. Crazy enough to set in motion a chain of events that could blow the town sky-high.

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Title: Glittering Images #1 Church of England Series
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                              Author: Susan Howatch
Edition:  Published by Fontana 1988 - Small Paperback - Good secondhand condition (shows age spots).

Title: La Parc Jurassique
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: Michael Crichton
Edition:  Published 1990 - Midsize Paperback - Good secondhand condition.

Une petite ile du Pacifque perdue dans le brouillard. Un vieillard milliardaire qui realise enfin son reve: creer le parc d’attractions le plus original du monde. Une entreprise americaine specialisee dans la recherche genetique, en particulier le clonage, qui travaille d’arrache-pied et dans le plus grand secret a recreer des dinosaures: en tout, quinze especes differentes, au comportement soi-disant inoffensif.  Un triomphe scientifique qui tourne au desastre lorsque le jeune paleontologiste Alan Grant, un des preiers visiteurs du parc, rencontre l’inconcevable….Une formidble course poursuite de vingt-quatre heurers pour eviter le pire.  Voici enfin, avec Le parc Jurassique, un formidable suspense sur les possibilities infinies de la technologie et de la genetique aujourd’hui.  Mais vouloir dominer la nature est un reve dangereux…

Title: Le roi aux deux reines (French)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: Dorothy Eden
Edition:  Published 1970 - Small paperback – Average secondhand condition.

Un lettre venue de Stockholm, curieusement signee Wilhelmina – signal d’alarme entre les deux cousines – et voila Grace Asherton en route pour la Suede, pour retrouver Willa. Mais Willa n’est pas a Stockholm et Grace, installee dans l’appartement de sa cousine, sent peu a peu l’angoisse la gagner. Et puis elle decouvre la vie desordonnee que menait Willa. Tandis que les jours passent, que Willa ne revient pas, une peur grandissante s’insinue en Grace. Le triste hiver scandinave approche, le vent siffle, beintot ce sera la neige. Pourtant cette neige ne tombera pas avant que la terre encoure nue ne revele son secret.

Title: Le Cimetiere des bateaux sans nom (French)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
Edition:  Published 2001 – small paperback - good secondhand condition.

Un marin exile de la mer, follement epris d’une femme dangereuse et belle. Un brigantin englouti-depuis plus de deux siecles dans la penombre verte de la Mediterranee. Une ancienne carte nautique qui n’en finit pas de reveler ses enigmes. Un secret dont les bribes eparpillees dans les liasses jaunies des bibliotheques et ds musees excite la convoitise de chasseurs d’epaves sans scrupules. Et une fabuleuse histoire d’amour et d’aventure dont l’inoubliable heroine est la mer.

Title: La Bougainvillee  – Le Jardin du Roi (French)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: Fanny Deschamps
Edition:  Published 1982 - Large Hardcover - Good secondhand condition (Dust jacket has noticeable wear).

Voici un roman fastueux tout a la fois education sentimentale, grand roman historique, piquant roman d’amour, d’aventures et de moeurs. Un roman enjoue, endiable, ecrit avec un bonheur constant dans une langue superbe.  Un vrai “roman-feuilleton”, vivant et talenteueux, comme peu savent encore en ecrire.  Un roman qui fera se rappeler a chacun qu’il n’est pas mauvais de vivre en France, meme “apres le deluge” qui devait suivre la mort de Louis XV le Bien-aime….

Title: Beatrice en enfer (French)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: Didier Decoin
Edition:  Published 1984 - small paperback – good but aged secondhand copy.

1976: Romilly-sur-Seine (Aube). Beatrice Saubin, 16ans, est declaree bonne pour la vie active par le conseil des professeurs de son lycee. Pour le coup, elle va s’activer. Voyager. Avec une copine, elle part pour l’Italie. Joyeuse et libre Beatrice.  Madame Michelot, sa grand-mere, chez qui elle vit depuis toujours, a eu la nuit du depart de sa petite fille un pressentiment. Quelque chose de maudit s’est agrippe au wagon de Beatrice, qui ne la lachera plus.  Aujourd’hui, la vie de Beatrice Saubin cesse d’etre une aventure vertigineuse pour devenir l’Affaire Saubin. Ce livre, cette historie vraie, pour tout dire. Et la sauver. 

Title: Stendhal Le rouge et le noir (French)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: Chronique du XIX siecle
Edition:  Published 1993 - Small Paperback  - Good secondhand condition.

En 1827, dans une eglise, un jeune homme tire a bout portant sur la femme qu’il aime, dont il a eleve les enfants. Stendhal veut passionner ses lecteurs, il s’inspire d’un fait divers. Son heros, Julien Sorel, est aussi un fils d’artisan renie par sa famille parce qu’il lit. Toute sa vie, il se sentira il reve de pourpre et de gloire napoleonienne. Precepteur fier de son savoir, il n’est que domestique, un pauvre dans un monde de riches. Aime a la folie par Mme de Renal et part Mathilde de La Mole, il oublie de laisser parler son coeur: tenir leur main ne lui sera pas une joie mais un devoir a accomplir.

Title: Par une nuit sans memoire (French)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: Nora Roberts
Edition:  Published Rivers End 2001 - Small Paperback – Good secondhand condition.

Beverly Hills, 1979, Olivia MacBride est temoin du meurtre de sa mere. Pis encoure, la fillette reconnait son pere dans ce monstre qui brandit une paire de ciseaux! Pourquoi Sam Tanner a-t-il tue Julie, une des actrices les plus adulees d’Hollywood? Vingt ans plus tard, Sam s’apprete a sortir de prison. Avec une seule obsession: qu’Olivia l’entende et le reconnaisse. Pour eclairer ce drame obscur, il choisit de se confier a Noah Brady, le fils due flic qui l’a fait incarcerer. Noah est ecrivain, il saura trouver les ressorts secrets du crime. Vengeance, piege? Quel est le but de Tanner? Attirer Noah, lui faire miroiter un recit ou terroriser ses proches? Pour Noah et Olivia, qui se decouvrent complices, l’enjeu est d’importance car une menace plane a nouvau. Le dernier acte n’est peut-estre pas joue.

Title: Das Madchen Orchidee
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: Pearl S. Buck
Edition:  Published 1982 - Small paperback - average secondhand condition.

Dieser Roman erzahlt das abenteuerliche Leben der letzten chinesischen Kaiserin Tsu Hsi, die aus einer kleinen Beamtenfamilie stammte, als Konkubine an den Hof befohlen wurde und durch ihre Klugheit und Tatkraft zur Kaiserin emporstieg. Uber vierzig Jahre lang hielt sie die Zugel der Macht fest in ihren Handen und steuerte das Reich mit staatsmannischem Geschick zwischen allen Klippen hindurch. Im Alter genob sie im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes gottliche Verehrung und erhielt von ihrem Volk den Ehrentitel.

Title: Das Schweigen des Glucks (German)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: Nicholas Sparks
Edition:  Published by Warner Books 2000 - Small Paperback - Very good secondhand condition.

Die bedingungslose Liebe einer Mutter zu ihrem behinderten Sohn ist so stark, dass fur weitere Menschen kein Platz zu sein scheint. Denises, die allein mit ihrem funfjahrigen Sohn Kyle lebt, nimmt samtliche Entbehrungen in Kauf, um einzig fur dessen Wohlergehen zu sorgen. Als Kyle nach einem Autounfall in einer dramatischen Aktion von dem Feuerwehrmann Taylor gerettet wird, scheint zum erstein Mal seit langem ein Fremder Zugang zu der Welt der beiden zu bekommen. Doch bevor Denise ihr Gluck rightig fassen kann, ziehen neue dunkle Wolken am Himmel auf….

Title: Mit Keresett Isten (A Haloszobaban?)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                          Author: A.J. Christian
Edition:  Published 2004 - Midsize Hardcover - Very good secondhand book.

Bevallom, sokat hezitaltam e konyv kiadasan: nem tudtam eldonteni, hogy a mennyet vagy a poklot adja-e az emberek kezebe. Aztan egyszer csak rajottem, hogy nem allhatok az Elet utjaba, rajottem, nem donthetek seni helyett. Ugyhogy olvass batran, de tudd, hogy az erzelem, a parkapcsolat vagy a szexualitas tenyszeruen, kenyelmes hazugasagoktol mentesen jelenik meg a lapokon. Vigyazz, mert az oszinteseg mindig megvaltoztatja az eletedet, az igazsag mindig felkavarja lelked szunnyado parazsat – de ne felj, mert mig e kotet a hamis tuzet elotja, a valodit fellobbantja.

Title: De Krediet Crisis (Dutch)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                       Author: Willem Vermeend
Edition:  Published by Lebowski 2008 – Paperback - Like new.

Een topexpert over economie, banken, bonussen, de huizenmarkt, pensionen, Obama en hoe we de crisis kunen aanpakken.  De kredietcrisis (en hoe we er sterker uit kunnen komen) is bedoeld voor iedereen die geinteresseerd is in de achtergronden van de crisis, de gevolgen en de mogelijke aanpak.

Title: Vang me als ik val (Dutch)
Genre: Foreign Language                                                                                                       Author: Nicci French
Edition:  Published Joined up writing 2005 - Midsize Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

Holly Krauss leidt een opwindend leven. Ze is jong en succesvol, heeft prive alles goed voor elkaar en wordt aanbeden en bewonderd door iedereen die ze tegenkomt. Maar dat is een kant van Holly. De andere Holly is losbandig en wild, zoekt regelmatig de verkeerde mensen op en belandt vaak in riskante situaties. Wanneer de roekeloze uitspattingen elkaar steeds sneller opvolgen en Holly’s wilde kant de overhand neemt, dreigt ze de controle over haar leven te verliezen. Ze vermoedt dt ze gestalkt wordt, ze wordt bedreigd door iemand die eist dat ze haar schulden aflost – op elke hoek van de straat loert het gevaar en het geduld van Holly’s geliefde en vrienden begint op te raken. Is het Holly’s eigen schuld?  Is zij paranoide of zijn haar angsten reeel? En als ze niet meer op haar eigen intuite kan vertrouwen, wie is er dan om haar te vangen als ze valt?

Title: Queen Bees & ‘Wannabes
Genre: Reference / Parenting
Edition:  Published by Three Rivers Press 2002 -Midsize Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

*Helping your daughter survive cliques, gossip, boyfriends & other realities of adolescence (basis for the movie Mean Girls).

Do you feel as though your adolescent daughter exists in a different world, speaking in a different language and living with different laws? She does.  This groundbreaking book takes you inside the secret world of girls’ friendships, translating and decoding them so parents can better understand and help their daughter navigate through these crucial years. Rosalind Wiseman has spent more than a decade listening to thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in shaping what they wear and say, how they feel about school, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about themselves.  “A useful how to manual for parents, with step-by-step instructions for what to do in the trickiest situations” – Newsweek.

Title: Goddess of Vengeance
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                           Author: Jackie Collins
Edition:  Published by Simon & Schuster 2011 - Large Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition.

Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance !  Lucky rules with her high profile casino and hotel complex, The Keys in Vegas.  Lennie, her ex movie star husband, is still writing and directing successful movies: while Max, her wild and gorgeous teenage daughter is about to celebrate her 18th birthday, and her son, Bobby, owns a string of hot clubs.  Lucky has everything. Family. Love. Life.    And everything is exactly what billonaire businessman Armand Jordan is determined to take from her one way or the other.

Title: Private London
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller
Author: James Patterson & Mark Pearson                                                                               Edition: Published by Century 2011 – Large Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition.

For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private – the world’s most exclusive detective agency – saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can’t flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police
Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over
again.  In central London, young women are being abducted of
the street. When the bodies are found some days later, they have
been mutilated in a particularly mysterious…

Title: Instant People Reading through Handwriting
Genre: Non-Fiction/Reference                                                                                                          Author: Anne Conway
Edition:  Published by Newcastle Books 1989 – midsize paperback - very good secondhand quality.

A person’s handwriting can tell you just about anything you want to know – how passionately she kisses; which traffic lane he drives in; how often he calls his mother; whether she can accept your biggest fault.  It’s all here in this breezy entertainingly written book by an expert handwriting analyst with over 400 written samples.  You’ll find out the six major personality types that handwriting reveals: Thinkers (Mr. Nice Guy); Jugglers (they’re always busy); Pleasers (the get emotional); Reacters (the tornadoes); Menders (they’ll try to fix you); Chameleons (they infuriating).

Title: Wish You Well
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                             Author: David Baldacci
Edition:  Published by Warner Books 2000 – small paperback – good secondhand quality.

Tragedy strikes the New York based Cardinal family when their car is involved in a terrible accident. Twelve year old Lou and seven year old Oz survive, but the crasheleaves their father dead, and their mother in a coma. It would seem their world has been shattered forever until their great-grandmother, Louisa Mae, agrees to raise the childern on her Virginia mountain farm. But before long their idyll is threatened by the discovery of natural gas on the mountain.  Determined to protect her home from ravages of big business, Louisa Mae refuses to sell, but then neighbours turn against her. Now the Cardinal family find themselves in another battle, to be played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom, a battle for justice, for survival, and for the right to stay together in the only place they know as home.

Title: Absolute Power
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: David Baldacci
Edition:  Published by Warner Books 1996 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

Set in Washington DC, this riveting thriller of unparalleled suspense dares to explore an unthinkable abuse of power and criminal conspiracy: a vicious murder involving the US President and a cover up orchestrated by his zealously loyal Chief of Staff and the Secret Service. But unknown to the President and his lackeys, one unlikely witness saw everything. Trapped behind a two-way mirror in a country house in Virginia, Luther Whitney, a professional burglar, witnesses an event that destroys his faith in justice. By the time he escapes, pursued by two Secret Service agents, a young woman has been sexually assualted, then shot dead. And a breathtaking cover up has been set in motion.

Title: A Traitor to Memory
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: Elizabeth George
Edition:  Published by Hodder & Stoughton 2001 – large paperback – good secondhand condition.

Twenty eight year old virtuoso violinist Gideon Davies has lost not only his memory of music but also his ability to play the instrument he mastered as a five year old prodigy. One fateful night at Wigmore Hall, he lifted his violin to play in a Beethoven trio…and everything in his mind related to music was gone. Gideon suffers from a form of amnesia, the cure for which is an examination of what he can remember. And what he can remember is little enough until his mind is triggered by the weeping of a woman and a single name: Sonia.  One rainy evening, a woman called Eugenie travels to London for a mysterious appointment. But before she is able to reach her destination, a car swoops out of nowhere and kills her in the street. In pursuing the killer of Eugenie, Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata come to know a group of people whos lives are inextricably connected by a long-ago death, a trial and a prison sentence handed down as retribution for a crime no-one has spoken of for twenty years.

Title: With No One as a Witness
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author: Elizabeth George
Edition:  Published by Hodder & Stoughton 2005 – large paperback – good secondhand condition.

When the Metropolitan Police fail to realize a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer’s victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institutionalised racism is claimed by the community’s activists and tabloids alike. Acting Superintendant Thomas Lynley is given the case and finds himself thwarted by office politics as he tries to have Barbara Havers reinstated, and to keep control of events surrounding the murders. Soon, Scotland Yard task force is handling an epidemic of killings and a looming tragedy.

Title: Don’t Look Twice
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Andrew Gross
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 2009 – large paperback – good secondhand condition.

A revenge killing. A dead public attorney. And a family caught in the crossfire.

For local detective, Ty Hauck, life is good. A waterfront house, a new girlfriend, and , after uncovering a Wall Street scandal, he’s even a local hero. But then a day trip with his daughter turns into a bloodbath. Inner city violence seems to have invaded his quiet Greenwich suburb. Or does someone just want it to appear that way ?  If so, it’s someone powerful enough to kill without fear of reprisal. 

Title: Jemima J
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Jane Green
Edition:  Published by Penguin Books 2005 – midsize paperback – good secondhand condition.

Jemima Jones is overweight. About seven stone overweight.  Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the Kilburn Herald by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented, but better paid), her only consolation is food. What with that and her passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben, she knows her life needs changing.  But can Jemima reinvent herself?  Should She?

Title: Broken Angels (a.k.a. Merciless)
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: Richard Montanari
Edition:  Published by Arrow Books 2008 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

When the first body is found, mutilated and strangled on the riverbanks, Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano suspect yet another case of random urban violence. Then it happens again. And again.  Carefully dress and posed, each victim seems to tell a story so gruesome that Byrne and Balzano struggle at first to make sense of the killer’s dark and twisted imagination. But when they stumble upon a collection of old fairy tales, the fragile link between the murders suddenly becomes clear – and with it the terrifying conclusion of the killer’s plan.

Title: A Fraction of the Whole
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Steve Toltz
Edition:  Published by Penguin Books 2008 – midsize paperback – good secondhand condition.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize 2008 and listed as 1 of the 50 books you can’t put down.. 

A Fraction of the Whole – Meet the Deans – “The fact is, the whole of Australia despises my father more than any other man, just as they adore my uncle more than any man. I might as well set the story straight about both of them”. Heroes or Criminals?  Crackpots or Vicionaries ?  Relatives or Enemies?  It’s a simple family story…

Title: Star Wars – Vision of the Future
Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi                                                                                                            Author: Timothy Zahn
Edition:  Published by Bantam Spectra 1999 – small paperback – good secondhand quality.

The Empire’s master plan is under way: The New Republic is on the verge of civil war and the rumor that the legendary Admiral Thrawn has returned from the dead is rallying the Imperial forces. Now Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and their allies face the challenge of their lives. They must infiltrate a hidden fortress filled with Imperial fanatics, rendezvous wiht a double-dealing Imperial commander, and journey into enemy territory to learn the identity of those responsible for an act of unthinkable genocide.

Title: Star Wars New Jedi Order – Balance Point
Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi                                                                                                            Author: Kathy Tyers
Edition:  Published by Arrow Books 2001 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

There is no place else to channel the flood of refugees fleeing the murderous Yuuzhan Vong but the overcrowded planet Duro, poisoned by centuries of technological excess. Fortunately a deal is struck in exchange for a new home, the refugees will work to restore the planet to health, under the watchful eye of Leia Organa Solo.

Title: Star Wars New Jedi – Dark Tide 1 Onslaught
Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi                                                                                                               Author: Michael A. Stackpole
Edition:  Published by Arrow Books 2000 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

It is a perilous time for the New Republic. Just when unity is needed most, mistrust on the rise. Even the Jedi feel the strain, as rogue elements rebel against Luke Skywalker’s leadership. When alien invaders known as the Yuuzhan Vong strike without warning, the New Republic is thrown on the defensive. Luke must wield all the awesome powers of a Jedi Master to defeat the gravest threat since Emperor Palpatine.

Title: Star Wars – New Jedi Order – Hero’s Trail Agents of Chaos 1
Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi                                                                                                            Author: James Lucen0
Edition:  Published by Arrow Books 2000 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

Merciless attacks by invincible alien force have left the New Republic reeling. Dozens of worlds have succumbed to occupation or annihilation, and even the Jedi Knights have tasted defeat. In these darkest of times, the nobel Chewbacca is laid to rest, and a grief stricken Han Solo is left to fit the peices of his shattered life back together before he loses everythings: friends, family and faith.

Title: Star Wars – The Courtship of Princess Leia
Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi                                                                                                            Author: Dave Wolverton
Edition:  Published by Bantam Books 1995 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

Though Darth Vader and the Emperor are dead, the Empire lives on and a weakened Alliance must find powerful new help if it is to survive. The answer could lie in the Hapes consortium, a cluster of sixty three high tech worlds. There is only one catch, Princess Leia must marry the Queen Mother’s son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder. Han Solo reacts badly to the news…

Title: Star Wars – The Truce at Bakura
Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi                                                                                                                Author: Kathy Tyers
Edition:  Published by Bantam Books 1994 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

In the Truce at Bakura, the Rebel Alliance struggles to survive in the fateful days following the events in The Return of the Jedi.  No sooner has Darth Vader’s funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance faces a new challenge at the farflung Imperial outpost of Bakura. The Ssi-ruuk, a race of cold-blooded reptilian invaders, plan to enslave human minds to pilot their invincible machines of war and destruction. With the hope of turning Bakura’s loyalties toward the fledgling New Republic with defensive aid, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia race to the beseiged planet…

Title: Star Wars – Ambush at Corellia #1 of Corellian Trilogy
Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi                                                                                                            Author: Roger Macbride Allen
Edition:  Published by Bantam Books 1995 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

A trade summit at Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home world he left many years before. Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their children, and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds himself part of a deceptive plant whose aim not even he understands. One thing is clear the five inhabited worlds of the sector are on the brink of civil war.

Title: One for the Money
Genre: Popular Fiction/Crime                                                                                                        Author: Janet Evanovich
Edition:  Published by Penguin Books 2004 – small paperback – good secondhand quality.

Stephanie Plum is down on her luck. She’s lost her job, her car’s on the brink of repossession, and her apartment is fast becoming furniture-free. Enter Cousin Vinnie, a low-life who runs a bail-bond company. if Stephanie can bring in vice cop turned outlaw Joe Morelli, she stands to pick up $10,000. But tracking down a cop wanted for murder isn’t easy… And when Benito Ramirez, a prize-fighter with more menace than mentaility, wants to be her friend Stephanie soon knows what it’s like to be pursued. Unfortunatley the best person to protect her just happens to be on the run….

Title: Along Came a Spider
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                     Author: James Patterson
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 1993 – midsize Hardback – very good secondhand condition.

He had always wanted to be someone; for years he had planned to kidnap somebody famous, and he had chosen his victims carefully.  When Maggie Rose Dunne, the daughter of high profile Hollywood actress and  Michael Goldberg, son of the Secretary of Treasury were snatched from their school it was headline’s news.  Then Michael Goldberg’s body was found in a river. The pressure to catch the kidnapper and rescue Maggie Rose was intense. So Detective Alex Cross is on a mission…

Title: The Big Bad Wolf
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                        Author: James Patterson
Edition:  Published by Headline Book Publishing 2003 – midsize hardcover – good secondhand condition.

Alex Cross battles a shadowy predator known only as The Wolf.  Alex Cross’s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold.  And it seems The Wolf is the master criminal behind this terrible trade and is bringing a new reign of terror to organised crime.

Title: Divine Justice
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: David Baldacci
Edition:  Published by Warner Books 2008 – large paperback -good secondhand quality.

Stone wished with all his heart he could do more for the Camel Club, after all they had done for him. He had thought of simply turning himself in. But there was such a core of survivor mentality built into his psyche that essentially walking to his own execution was not an option. He could not let them win that way.  Known by the alias, “Oliver Stone”, John Carr is the most wanted man in America.  With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone’s past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.  But these assassinations have prompted the United States government to unleash a massive manhunt….

Title: Stone Cold
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: David Baldacci
Edition:  Published by Hachette Books 2007 - large paperback – good secondhand condition.

Casino king and vicious thug Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle Conroy, who conned him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues Reuben, Milton and Caleb marshal all their resources to protect Annabelle. Yet their skills may not be enough when a deadly new opponent rips off the veneer of Stone’s own mysterious past. This newcomer Harry Finn has a lethal nature – passing as a normal family man, Finn has already killed three men, with more targets to come.

Title: The Collectors
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: David Baldacci
Edition:  Published by Warner Books 2006 – large hardcover – very good secondhand condition.

Annabelle, a beautiful con artist, is planning the heist of a century.  Jonathan DeHaven, the shy head of the Rare Books Division at the Library of Congress, is planning nothing more than an uneventful day amongst his cherished collection. But something fatal is lying in wait for him. When fellow librarian Caleb Shaw stumbles upon his colleague’s body, his friends in the Camel Club are determined to investigate this inexplicable death. But when they visit Jonathan’s home it is clear that there was much more to him than a mild manner and love of books.

Title: True Blue
Genre: Fiction - Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: David Baldacci
Edition:  Published by MacMillan 2009 – large paperback – good secondhand condition.

Mason “Mace” Perry was a maverick cop on the DC police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her career, her liberty – and spent two years in prison. Now, back on the outside, Mace is trying to rebuild her life and track down the people who set her up. But even with her police-chief sister at her side, she has to work in the shadows: there’s a vindictive US attorney on her tail and she’s looking for a reason to send her back behind bars…Roy Kingman is a young lawyer, when Roy discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm, his fate becomes entangled with Mace’s as the two team up to investigate.

Title: 3rd Degree
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: James Patterson & Andrew Gross
Edition:  Published by Headline Book 2004 – large paperback – good secondhand condition.

Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street as a fiery explosion rips through the neighbourhood. A Townhouse owned by an internet millionaire is immediately engulfed in flames, and when Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, she finds three people dead. A child who lived in the house cannot be found – and a mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department completely baffled.  Then a prominent businessman is found murdered in bizarre circumstances, with another mysterious message left behind by the killer.  Even more terrifying, the four friends who call themselves the Women’s Murder Club discover that the killer has targeted one of them.

Title: Cross
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: James Patterson
Edition:  Published by Headline Publishing 2006 – large paperback – very good secondhand condition.

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington DC Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him.  Years later, Alex makes a bold move: he leaves the FBI and sets up practice as a psychologist once again. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie and little Alex finally feel like it’s in order.  He even has a chance at new love.  Then Cross’s former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. He is tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown, one whose brutal modus operandi includes threating his vicitms with terrifying photos.  When the case triggers a connection to Maria’s death, Alex has a chance to catch his wife’s murderer after all these years….

Title: Judge & Jury
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: James Patterson & Andrew Gross
Edition:  Published by Headline Book Publishing 2006 – large hardcover – very good secondhand condition.

Andie DeGrasse, an aspiring actress and single mother, is not your typical juror. She tries to be dismissed from the pool but ends up as Juror No. 11 in a landmark trial against a notorious mob boss. Mafia Don Dominic Cavello, known as The Electrician, is linked to hundreds of gruesome, unspeakable crimes. Senior FBI Nick Pellisante has been tracking him for years. He know’s Cavello’s power reaches far beyond the courtroom, but the FBI’s evidence against the ruthless killer is iron-clad. Conviction is a sure thing. As the jury is about to reach a verdict, the Electrician makes one devastating move that no one could have predicted. The entire nation is reeling, and Andie’s world is shattered….

Title: Losing You
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: Nicci French
Edition:  Published by Penguin Books 2007 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

Nina is supposed to be taking her two children on holiday today with her new boyfriend. But the road away from the isolated winter bleakness of Sandling Island seems to be littered with obstacles, frustrating her plans at every turn. Most pressingly of all, her fifteen year old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out…..minute by minute Nina’s unease builds to worry & panic. Has Charlie run away?  Or has something sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously?  As day turns to night on the island and a series of half buried secrets lead Nina from sickening suspicion to deadly certainty, the question becomes less whether she and her daughter will leave the island for Christmas, and more whether they’ll ever leave it again.

Title: Death Dance
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: Nicci French
Edition:  Published by Sphere 2006 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

Natalya Galinova, prima ballerina with a fierce temper and a foul mouth, storms out of a ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House. Twenty four hours later she is officially a missing person. Several hours after that, she is officially dead.  Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper finds the corpse and is swiftly immersed in the world of New York’s theatrical elite. But she and Mike Chapman of the NYPD soon realise they are dealing with a script of murky, private dealings behind a glorious public facade.

Title: Land of the Living
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: Nicci French
Edition:  Published by Penguin Group 2002 – large paperback – good secondhand condition.

Abbie Deveraux wakes in the dark. She is hooded, bound at her hands and feet. She doesn’t know where she is or how she got there. A man she never sees feeds her and talks to her. He promises to keep her alive for now, but says he will kill her – like the others.  But Abbie has spirit, strength and bloody mindedness on her side.  Above all she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life – the land of the living.  Could there be a connection between her real life and the voice in the darkness. How can she survive in a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems to much to bear..? 

Title: You’ve Been Warned
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                     Author: James Patterson & Howard Roughan
Edition:  Published by Headline Group 2007 – large paperback – very good secondhand condition.

Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy, “don’t think, just shoot” – pictures that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full time as a nanny to fabulously wealthy Turnbull family waiting for her glamorous life as a New York fashion photographer to begin. But Kristin has a major distraction, forbidden love. The man of her dreams is almost hers for keeps. But Kristin ignores all the signs of a catastrophe brewing.  Fear exists for a reason…and Kristin can only dismiss the warnings for so long.  Searching desperately for the truth through the lens of her camera, she can only hope that it’s not too late.

Title: The 6th Target
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
Edition:  Published by Headline Group 2007 – Large Hardcover – Very good secondhand condition.

A crazed killer – when a lone gunman goes on a shooting spree aboard a packed San Francisco ferry, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is called in to investigate. Arriving at the scene she finds the killer gone, three people dead and her best friend and fellow Women’s Murder Club member, Claire Washington, fighting for her life. As the gunman investigation makes its way to the courts, news comes through that a child’s been abducted. Lindsay’s put on the case and digging deeper, she discovers more children have been taken….A race against time for Lindsay to try to fit all the pieces together….

Title: The Beach House
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: James Patterson
Edition:  Published by Headline Book Publishing 2002 – large paperback – good secondhand copy (name whited out).

The second that Columbia law student Jack Mullen steps down from the train at East Hampton, he knows that something is very wrong. As he greets his family, his kid brother Peter lies stretched out on a steel gurney, battered, bruised – dead.  The police are calling it an accident, saying he drowned in stormy seas, but Jack knows that Pete, a strong swimmer, would never have risked the ocean at night in such conditions. And suicide makes no sense. Someone must have wanted his brother dead.  So Jack tries to uncover what really happened on the beach that night…..

Title: Lifeguard
Genre: Fiction – Thriller/Crime                                                                                                         Author: James Patterson & Andrew Gross
Edition:  Published by Headline Book Publishing 2005 – large paperback – very good secondhand condition.

The perfect job – working for an easy-going boss at his sprawling luxurious mansion by the sun-kissed beach, watching beautiful women walk by. The perfect girl, beautiful, funny, apparently very rich and what’s more – Tess is as head-over-hells for him as he is for her. The perfect score – five million up for grabs. And to get his share, all he needs to do is trigger three house alarms to throw the cops off the scent of the real robbery.  But on the big night, things don’t go quite according to plan and Ned is now the prime suspect in a murder case. He has been set up….

Title: Cross Fire
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: James Patterson
Edition:  Published by Century 2010 – large paperback – very good condition.

Detective Alex Cross is happy and content, planning his wedding to the woman he loves, Brianna Stone. But this blissful existence begins to unravel when Cross is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.’s most hated public figures: a corrupt congressman and an underhanded lobbyist.  As more crooked politicians are picked off with similar long-range shots, public opinion is divided – is the marksman a vigilante or a hero ? Media coverage of the case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Cross and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue.

Title: Final Custody
Genre: Fiction – Thriller                                                                                                            Author: George Elliott
Edition:  Published by Coronet Books – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

“Remember this night. If you ever make any attempt to get our son, I will kill the child right in front of your eyes, and then I will kill you”.  The words of her husband rang in her ears. Who could she tell? Who could she trust? Who could help her ?  Mary had a big problem. Her child has been abducted by its father.  Not an unusual problem perhaps, but when the father is a Colombian drug baron, you are in way over your head.

Title: The Honey Trap                                                                                               Genre: Fiction – Action                                                                                                            Author: Clive Egleton                                                                                              Edition:  Published by Hodder & Stoughton 2001 – small paperback – very good secondhand condition.

A Queen’s Messenger is tortured to death in Latin America – but when Peter Ashton starts to probe deeper into the messenger’s background and what he was carrying, he comes up against nods and winks urging him not to look too closely.   Then an innocent housewife dies during a botched burglary in the London surburbs and the case becomes urgent.

Title: Dark Lady
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: Richard North Patterson
Edition:  Published by Arrow Books 2000 – small paperback – very good secondhand condition.

The closer she comes to the truth, the higher and more personal the price she will be forced to pay.  Stella Marz, Assistant County Prosecutor, is the head of Steelton’s Homicide Unit. She is known as the Dark Lady because of her ruthless tenacity in hunting down killers and bringing them to justice. But Stella’s ambitions – indeed her very life – are threatened when her ex-lover, drug lawyer Jack Novak, is brutally murdered and she is handed the case.  Novak’s death leads her into a labyrinth where her personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.

Title: Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Deception (#7 Bourne Series)
Genre: Fiction – Thriller/Action                                                                                            Author: Eric Van Lustbader
Edition:  Published by Orion Books 2010 – midsize paperback – good secondhand condition.

Jason Bourne finds himself engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a dangerous assassin stalking his every move. Soon he is ambushed and forced underground – taking on a new persona. Vulnerable and on the run, he begins to question who he is and how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity.  Meanwhile, a missile strike on a plane leads to a global investigation which intersects with Bourne’s search for his attacker, embroiling him in one of the most lethal and challenging situations he has ever faced. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne must uncover the truth, while being hunted by his nemesis…

Title: Shutter Island
Genre: Fiction – Thriller/Crime                                                                                                         Author: Dennis Lehane                                                                                          Edition:  Published by Transworld Publishers 2003 – Large Paperback – Good Secondhand condition.

US Marshall Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels.

Title: Mystic River
Genre: Fiction  – Thriller/Crime                                                                                                        Author: Dennis Lehane
Edition:  Published Transworld Publishers 2001 – large paperback – very good secondhand condition.

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened – something that ended their friendship and change all three boys for ever.  Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave Boyle is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay – demons that urge him to do horrific things.  When Jimmy Marcus’s daughter is found murdered, Sean Devine is assigned to the case. A tense and unnerving psychological thriller.

Title: To Love, Honour and Betray
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Kathy Lette
Edition:  Published by Bantam Press 2008 – paperback – Very good Secondhand condition.

When Lucy finds out her football coach hubby’s been playng away from home, she’s devastated. But when she discovers just who he’s been scoring with, she wants to kick a few balls of her own. So now that Lucy’s learnt that her perfect marriage was like most of her orgasms (faked), the big question is are all men bastards, or will she find the one exception to the rule ?

Title: Someone Know by Name
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Lawrence Hill
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 2008 – Large Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition.

* Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize*.

Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom – and of the knowledge she needs to get home. Sold to an indigo trader who reconizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from her husband and child and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War.  In Manhattan, Aminata helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for service to the king with safe passage to Nova Scotia. There Aminata finds a life of hardship and stinging prejudice. When the British abolotionists come looking for “adventurers” to create a new colony in Sierra Leone, Aminata assists in moving 1200 Nova Scotians to Africa and aiding the abolitionist cause by revealing the realities of slavery to the British public. This captivating story of one woman’s remarkable experience spans six decades and three continents and brings to life a crucial chapter in world history.

Title: The Minotaur
Genre: Fiction - Thriller                                                                                                           Author: Barbara Vine
Edition:  Published by Viking 2005 – large paperback – good secondhand condition.

Kerstin Kvist didn’t quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside.  The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs. Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter – a widow herself and apparently quite rich – came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others.  More puzzling still was Mrs. Cosway’s son John, a sad, self absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. “There’s madness in the family” offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn’t right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John.

Title: The Torment of Others
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                Author: Val McDermid
Edition:  Published by Harper Collins 2005 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

A dead girl lies on a bloody soaked mattress, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy. The scene matches a series of murders which ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of one Derek Tyler. But Tyler’s been locked up in a metal institution for two years, barely speaking a word except to say that “the Voice” told him to do it. Top criminal psycholgist Dr Tony Hill is prepared to think the unthinkable – this is not a copycat murder but something much stranger. While DCI Carol Jordan and her team mount a desperate and dangerous undercover police operation to trap the murderer, Hill heads towards a terrifying face-off with one of the most perverse killers he has ever encountered…

Title: The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Elizabeth Stead
Edition:  Published by University of Queensland 2007 – large paperback – very good condition.

Missionary Amen Morley arrives on a tropical island to find a community largely untouched by the Modern World. A magnet for eccentric characters, the Island paradise soon becomes a hotspot of conflicting cultures.  The preachers are competing to save souls, while others have come to make a new beginning. There’s Herbert Glass, The English Doctor who cures clocks, Missy Wing, the Chinese trader and Sam Maitland, who the locals dub the “crocodile man”  The Islanders are bemused by the beahviour of these strange intruders. But instead of being the ones doing the converting, the foreigners end up most transformed by this extraordinary place.

Title: The Onion Field
Genre: Non Fiction – True Crime                                                                                                       Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Edition:  Published by Querus 2007 – large paperback – very good secondhand condition.

Hollywood, Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did.  The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and it’s terrible aftermath.

Title: Torn Apart
Genre: Non-Fiction                                                                                                                      Author: James Patterson & Hal Friedman
Edition:  Published by Century 2008 – Large Hardcover – Like new

Cory Friedman was an ordinary, fun-loving little boy. That fateful March morning in 1989 started just like any other but later that day, he started to feel very different and the course of his life was set to change.  It started with an irresistible urge to shake his head, and before long, his body became a volatile, explosive and unpredictable force. Overtaken by urges, tic and compulsions, the bright young boy started to feel and look like a puppet on a string. Cory had developed a rare combination of Tourette Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder and other neurological conditions. Torn Apart is a true story of one family’s courage, heartbreak, sacrifice and ultimately triumph.

Title: The Scarecrow
Genre: Fiction - Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: Michael Connelly
Edition:  Published  Allen & Unwin 2010 – paperback – very good condition.

Crime Reporter Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line. With cuts being made, he’s got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment – Training his young replacement.  But Jack has other plans. He is going to go out with a bang – a final story that will win journalism’s highest honour: a Pulitzer Prize.   Jack focuses on a 16 year old drug dealer who has confessed to a brutal murder. But he soon realises that the so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as “The Scarecrow” who has worked completely below the police radar.  Jack is off and running on the biggest story he’s had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before – but “The Scarecrow” knows he’s coming…..

Title: The First Casualty
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Ben Elton
Edition:  Published  by Black Swan 2006 – paperback – good secondhand conditon.

Douglas Kingsley is sent to Flanders in 1917 to investigate the murder of a British officer. Forced to conduct his investigations admidst the hell of the Third Battle of Ypres, Kinglsey soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him.  Ben Elton’s tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama which explores some fundamental questions. What is murder ? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter ? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle ?  As the gap between legally-sanctioned and illegal murder becomes ever more blurred, Kingsley quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth.

Title: The Pilgrimage
Genre: Non-Fiction/Biography                                                                                                          Author: Paulo Coelho
Edition:  Published Harper Collins 2009 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

In his first major book, which paved the way for his bestselling phenomenon “The Alchemist”, Paulo Coelho documents the experiences of his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela on a contemporary quest for ancient wisdom.  Following the legendary road travelled by pilgrims of San Tiago, Coelho’s journey becomes a truly initiatory experience, and he is transformed forever as he learns to understand the nature of truth through the simplicity of life.

Title: Dead Spy Running
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller/Spy                                                                                               Author: Jon Stock
Edition:  Published Blue Door 2009 – Large Hardback – very good secondhand condition.

Daniel Marchant, a suspended MI6 officer, is running the London Marathon. He is also running out of time. A Competitor is strapped with explosives. If he drops his pace, everyone around him will be killed, including the US Ambassador to London.  Marchant tries to thwart the attack, but is he secretly working for terrorists?  There are those in America who already suspect Marchant of treachery. Just like they suspected his late father, former head of MI6, who was removed from his job by the CIA.  On the run from the CIA, Marchant is determined to prove his father’s innocence in a personal journey that takes him from Wiltshire, via Poland, to India…..

Title: Isobel’s Wedding
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Sheila O’Flanagan
Edition:  Published by Headline Book Publishing 2006 – Paperback – Very good condition.

Four hundred and twnety pearls handsewn on to the wedding dress. The Mediterranean honeymoon booked for months. A pile of presents bigger than Everest. And her lovely Tim, with his jet-black hair and navy-blue eyes, the most perfect bridgeroom a girl could wish for. Except, two weeks before the wedding, he changes his mind….Isobel’s wedding is off !   Her world in tatters, Isobel turns to Spain, a new job, a new life and as many men as she can decently manage. But part of her knows that she will have to go back home some day…

Title: Court in the Middle
Genre: Non Fiction/True Crime                                                                                                       Author: Andrew Fraser
Edition:  Published by Hardie Grant 2007 – paperback – good secondhand condition.

A true story of cocaine, police, corruption and prison….For thirty years, Andrew Fraser was one of Australia’s high profile criminal lawyers. He defended the likes of Alan Bond, Melbourne’s underworld family the Morans, footballer Jimmy Krakouer and killer Dennis Allan. His clients could reach him 24/7 and he worked tirelessly to free them from the clutches of the law.  Then cocaine unravelled everything.  Police bugged his office, and in an unfortunate sequence of events, charged Fraser with being knowingly concerned with an importation of cocaine – serious charges that received no mercy – sentenced to seven years inmprisonment with a minimum of five years.  “Court in the Middle “is a revealing insight into the prison world from someone who knows the criminal system inside out. Andrew Fraser lost everything: he was disbarred, discredited, broken financially and his marriage destroyed, but he refuses to play the victim. He writes as he acted in court: tough, relentless with no holds barred attitude.

Title: Operation Sunshine
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Jenny Colgan
Edition:  Published Sphere 2008 – paperback – good secondhand condition.

Evie needs a good holiday. Not just because she’s been working all hours in her job as a receptionist for two high-powered cosmetic surgeons, but also because every holiday she has ever been on in her life has involved sunburn, arguments and projectile vomiting – sometimes all three at once. Why can’t she have a normal holiday, like other people seem to have – some sun, sand, sea (and hopefully) sex?  So when her employers invite her to attend a conference with them in the South of France, she can’t believe her luck….

Title: Deception Point
Genre: Popular Fiction /Action                                                                                                          Author: Dan Brown
Edition:  Published Corgi Books 2004 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory…a victory that has profound implications for US space policy and impending presidential election. The President dispatches White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to verify the authenticity of the find. However, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable – evidence of scientific trickery – a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before Rachel can make her findings known, she realises, perhaps too late, that such knowledge puts her and her colleague Tolland in deadly jeopardy…..

Title: Jackdaws
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Ken Follett
Edition:  Published MacMillan 2001 – small paperback – good secondhand condition.

It is May 1944 – a time of international tension where nothing is certain….Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications – but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously.  Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as “Jackdaws” and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise.  But unknownd to Flick, Rommel has assigned a brilliant, ruthless Intelligence colonel, Dieter Franck, to crush the Resistance. And Dieter is on Flick’s trail…..

Title: The Undomestic Goddess
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Sophie Kinsella
Edition:  Published Random House 2005 - Large Paperback - Good Secondhand Condition.

Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership.  Until one day…she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge it’ll wreck her career.  She goes into meltdown, walks out of the office, gets on the first train she sees and finds herself in the middle of nowhere.  Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she is mistaken for the interviewee housekeeper and finds herself being offered the job.  They have no idea they’ve hired a Cambridge educated lawyer with an IQ of 158 – and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven….Disaster ensues….It is chaos…as Samantha battles domestic duties….!

Title: The Ice Master
Genre: Non Fiction                                                                                                                      Author: Jennifer Niven                                                                                                  Edition:  Published by Pan Books 2001 - Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition.

It was to be the grandest and most elaborate Arctic expedition in history. In fact, it was to be the most comprehensive scientific attack on the Artic of all time, with the largest scientific staff ever taken on such an expedition.  The Ice Master is an epic tale of adventure, with a cast of characters as rich as any novel. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and journals of crew members, their descendants, and astonishly, interviews with survivors, Jennifer Niven’s book is a riveting account of one of the most ambitious – and disastrous – Arctic expeditions ever mounted. It is a story about unlikely heroes and unexpected villains – humans reduced to their primal needs by the infinite power and mystery of nature….

Title: Christine Falls
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: Benjamin Black
Edition:  Published by Picador 2006 - Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition.

In the Pathology Department it was always night. This was one of the things Quirke liked about his job.  But late one night, after a party, Quirke stumbles across a body that shouldn’t have been there….and his brother-in-law, eminent paediatrician Malachy Griffin – a rare sight in Quirke’s gloomy domain – altering a file to cover up the corpse’s cause of death.  It is the first time Quirke has encountered Christine Falls, but the investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived  – and the reason she died, disturbs a dark secret that has been festering at the core of Dublin’s Catholic network, a secret ready to destabilize the very heart of Quirke’s own family….

Title: The Alchemist
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Paulo Coelho
Edition:  Published Harper Collins 2009 - Small Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

This is the magical story of Santiago, a shepherd boy who dreams of travelling the world to seek the most wonderful treasures known to man. From his home in Spain, he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and, from there, into the Egyptian desert, where a fateful encounter with the alchemist awaits him.

Title: White Nights
Genre: Fiction – Thriller/Crime                                                                                                         Author: Ann Cleeves
Edition:  Published by MacMillan 2008 - Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition.

The body hung from a thick noose. Only when Perez went a few steps further did he see the mask, grinning. At first, the hanging body seems to be straightforward case of suicide. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez recognizes the victim – a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death. Soon Perez realizes that this was no desperate act of anguish, but the work of a cold and calculating killer. And the small Biddistra community is determined to keep its secrets. Then another body is found….

Title: The Brethren & The Summons (Two bestsellers in one volume)
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                Author: John Grisham
Edition:  Published Century 2004 - Large Paperback - Good Secondhand Condition.

The Brethren: The perfect scam: the wrong victim.  Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they spend hours writing letters.  They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it’s starting to really work and the money is pouring in.  Then their scam goes awry…..

The Summons: Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Viriginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi: a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for Ray to return, but the meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray…..and perhaps someone else!

Title: The Mermaid Chair
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Edition:  Published Headline Book 2005 - Hardcover – Good Secondhand Condition (couple of library stamps).

Forty two and married for half her life, Jessie Sullivan lives quite convetionally, “moulded to the smallest space possible”. She honestly believes that she is happy. She has a lovely home, a good, dependable husband and an accomplished teenage daughter. But when she returns to the remote island of her childhood, to establish the cause of her mother’s increasingly strange behaviour, Jessie is drawn to Brother Thomas, a Benedictine monk on the verge of taking his final vows.  Amid the seductive beauty of South Carolina salt marshes and tidal creeks, their encounters awaken an immense sexual and spiritual desire in Jessie.

Title: Beautiful Death
Genre: Fiction – Thriller/Crime                                                                                                         Author: Fiona McIntosh
Edition:  Published Harper Collins 2009 - Large Paperback - Good Secondhand Condition.

A man walking his dog by the River Lea in London makes a grisly discovery and soon DCI Jack Hawksworth is in the grip of a confounding case: Londoners have become the target of a calculating killer, who “trophies” the faces of his victims.  Under enormous pressure from politicians and the public, Jack and his team begin their investigation, which takes them into the murky world of human organ trading. But when the murderer strikes closer to home than Jack could ever have imagined possible, the case becomes a personal crusade – and a race against time…

Title: Dirt Music
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Tim Winton
Edition:  Published Pan MacMillan 2002 - Hardcover -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn’t love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in cyberspace.  Leached of all confidence, Georgie has lost her way; she barely recognizes herself.  One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from her computer screen to see a shadow lurking on the beach below, and a dangerous new element enters her life. Luther Fox, the local poacher. Jinx. Outcast. So begins an unlikely alliance….

Title: Forbidden Love
Genre: Non Fiction / Biography                                                                                            Author: Norma Khouri
Edition:  Published Bantam Book 2003 - Large Paperback - Good Secondhand Condition (signed by author).

Dalia was a young, beautiful Arabian Muslim living with her family in Amman, Jordan. At the age of twenty-five, she unexpectedly fell in love with Michael, a major in the Royal Army, and a Catholic. For a Muslim woman, any relationship with a Catholic man is forbidden and Dalia was only too aware that flouting this rule could cost her her life. But they were deeply in love and with the help of Dali’a lifelong friend, Norma, with whom she ran a hairdressing salon, they went to extraordinary lengths to find ways to meet in secret. On only a handful of occassions were Dalia and Michael able to be alone and their relationship remained entirely chaste. Although they covered their tracks meticulously, when one of Dalia’s brothers became suspicious, she was suddenly gripped by the terrifying reality of what could happen to her.

Title: Away
Genre: Popular Fiction                                                                                                            Author: Amy Bloom
Edition:  Published Granta Books 2008 - Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition.

Young Lillian Leyb has come to America alone, her family murdered in a Russian pogrom in which her three-year-old daughter Sophie vanished. Determined to make her way, she is taken under the wing of a famous theatrical impresario in 1920s New York. But then her cousin arrives with news of Sophie. Driven by wild hope, Lillian set off on an odyssey across America….

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Title: Trace
Genre: Fiction – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                         Author: Patricia Cornwell
Edition:  Published Berkely Publishing 2005 - Small Paperback - Good Secondhand Condition.  

Dr. Kay Scarpetta,now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago, Richmond, Virginia’s recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta’s help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however Scarpetta finds that nothing is as expected; her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn’t the one who requested her; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems; and a glamourous FBI agent, whom Scarpetta dislikes instantly, meddles with the case. Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen year old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evidence – traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify…

Title: The Gate House
Genre: Fiction  – Crime/Thriller                                                                                                   Author: Nelson DeMille
Edition:  Published Sphere 2009 - Small Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

After John Sutter’s aristocratic wife killed her Mafia don lover, John left Americanand set out in his boat on a journey around the world, eventually settling in London. After ten long years, John Sutter has come home to the Gold Coast, the stretch of Long Island’s North Shore that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Taking up temporary residence in the gate house of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living round the corner from Susan, who has also returned to Long Island. Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan’s ex-lover is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and intent on two missions: drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family and exacting revenge on his father’s murderer – Susan Sutter.

Title: Rough Guide - Nepal
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Fourth Edition, published June 1999 - Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition

The Rough Guide to Nepal is the definitive handbook to Asia’s most breathtaking destination. Features include in-depth accounts on all the sights, from Hindu temples and Buddhist stupas to wildlife reserves and spectacular mountain viewpoints. Comprehensive listings of the best places to eat, drink and stay, from Kathmandu’s traveller haunts to off the beaten track finds. Authoritative background on the Nepalese culture, contemporary politics and development issues. Colour photos and more than 50 maps.

Title: The Increment
Genre:  Fiction – Action/Thriller                                                                                                  Author: David Ignatius
Edition:  Published Querus 2009 - Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition.

The Increment – A shadowy, elite group of covert operatives recruited from the SAS.      An anonymous email is sent to the CIA website: a scientist deep within Iran’s top-secret nuclear programme is ready to talk.  Harry Pappas, head of the Agency’s Iran desk knows that if the contact is real, he is looking at the intelligence coup of the decade.  Harry contacts and old friend in MI6. Together they plan to identify the source and extract him from Iran for debriefing.  For the job they turn to The Increment.  But the Iranians have a card to play of their own – Al-Majnoun, the “Crazy One”.  In the chaos of the post-imperial world, where loyalties shift like the desert sands, Harry must discover who he can trust before it’s too late.

Title: Cardogan Guides – IRELAND – Take the Kids                                     Genre: Reference / Travel
Author: Amy Corzine                                                                                             Edition:  Published 2006 – Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition

Great holidays with your children have never been easier, just pick up this indispensable guide and follow expert author Amy Corzine as she takes you far and wide around the Republic of Northern Ireland. From dolphin-sighting trips on the open seas to collaborative music sessions around a cosy traditional hearth there’s something to inspire every family. The guide includes invaluable tips on travelling with kids; fact boxes, riddles, stories & limericks; personally recommended hotels, B&Bs, hostels and self catering; hand picked restaurants, cafes and shops; detailed maps to guide you in your travels; colour photographs for a flavour of the regions. Have fun in pet farms, adventure parks and sealife centres. Be active and find out the top spots for biking, sailing, surfing, horse riding, fishing and more. Discover culture rich cities and what they have to offer to visitors of all ages, from tots to teens.

Title: Lonely Planet Britain
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Fifth Edition, published March 2003 - Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition.

From the bars and clubs of Soho to the lochs and glens of the Highlands, Britain is a land of proud contrasts. Discover them all with this essential guide. Insider tips on the best place to eat, drink and be merry from John O’Groats to Land’s End. Indepth coverage of Britain’s cultural attractions and heritage. Cycling, walking and watersports; practical info on outdoor activities.  Accommodation options to suit every taste. Section on Bizarre Britain reveals the nation’s taste for the weird and wonderful. 153 detailed maps.

Title: Rough Guide - Accessible Britain
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Third Edition, published March 2010 - Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

This third edition of the Rough Guide to Accessible Britain produced in association with Motability, is packed with over 180 ideas for great days out for the disabled visitor.  Features include candid accounts of inspirational places to visit and things to do, from discovering Victorian ingenuity onboard Brunel’s ss Great Britain to learning to glide through the Scottish skies.  Attractions recommended, visited and reviewed by writers with disabilities.  Handy tips on parking, getting around and places to eat. Chapters arranged by region, pinpointing great things to do within driving distance of your home or holiday accommodation. 

Title: Lonely Planet Netherlands
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  First Edition, published January 2001 – Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition

From the cosmopolitan wonders of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague to windmills, tulips and boundless bike tracks this indispensable guide will help you to experience all that the Netherlands has to offer.  45 maps including 8 colour Amsterdam city maps. Accommodation options from trekkershutten to five star hotels. Background on windmills – how they work, where to find them.  Entertainment choices from coffee shops and brown cafes to opera and classical music.  The lowdown on where to see Dutch art from Rembrandt to Mondriaan.

Title: Rough Guide - Europe 2003 Edition
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  First Edition, published November 2002 – Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

The Rough Guide to Europe is the ultimate travel handbook to the continent. Features include full colour section introducing the highlights of any trip to Europe. Lively accounts of the main attractions from Hamburg’s nightlife to the beaches of Greece. Special focus throughout on budget travel and the needs of students and backpackers. Comprehensive reviews of the best value places to stay, eat and drink. Practical coverage of the best ways to get around from the InterRail passes to organised tours.

Title: Rough Guide - First Time Europe
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Published March 2007 - Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition

Planning a trip to Europe?  Get started with First Time Europe guide. Packed with essential information, this pre-trip guide makes the preparations easy and the travelling fun – and saves you money along the way.  Features include full colour introductory section. Informed advice on choosing a rail pass, planning your intinerary, budgeting and packing wisely. Practical tips on coping with your first night, plus the lowdown on getting around, finding accommodation and working in Europe. Comprehensive country profiles, from Austria to Turkey, covering where to go and what to do – including maps to help plan your route.

Title: Lonely Planet – Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Sixth Edition, published 2004 – Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

Pakistan is a country for the truly intrepid. Whether you are trekking in mind-blowing mountainscapes, experiencing life in a Pashtun village, standing awestruck in front of one of the world’s biggest mosques or wandering through fabled bazaars – be prepared for a warm hearted welcome, and expect the unexpected. This guidebook covers the country from Karachi to Peshawar and up the Karakoram Highway into China. Informs on Pakistan history, politics and culture with chapters written by experts in the field. 90 easy to use maps including customised itinerary maps.  Details on Pakistan’s best treks. Vital safety tips from advice on how to dress to places to avoid.

Title: Lonely Planet Bali & Lombok
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Eighth Edition, published March 2001 – Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition.

This definitive guide to Indonesia’s paradise islands lets you discover the glorious beaches and verdant landscapes, savour exciting local food and culture, and get away from it all with superb diving and trekking.  60 easy to read maps, accommodation options from the budget to the blow-out. Where to get the ultimate mind/body/spirit fix, from volcano treks to massages with volcanic mud. Detail language chapter featuring Bahasa Bali, Bahasa Indonesia and Sasak.

Title: Lonely Planet Sri Lanka
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Eighth Edition, published September 2001 – Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition.

Whether you want to marvel at ancient cities or the Buddha’s tooth, comb idyllic beaches or follow the paths of elephants, this guide to the colours and flavours of Sri Lanka is your key to unlocking its secrets.  43 maps including colour country map; Colour section on the wildlife of Sri Lanka, plus essentional tips for bird-watchers.  The Flavours of Sri Lanka from a morning hopper to an evening arrack. Cheap dens to colonial mansions…

Title: Rough Guide - Singapore
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Fourth Edition, published November 2003 – Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

The Rough Guide to Singapore is the definitive handbook to this vibrant city. Features include full colour section introducing the city’s highlights. Infromed accounts of all the sights, from the stately buildings of the Colonial district and the temples of Little India, to Chinatown’s bustling markets and the city’s parks and gardens. Insider’s reviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink.  Excursions to Sentosa and the southern isles. Maps and plans covering the whole city.

Title: Rough Guide - Bali & Lombok
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Third Edition, published November 2000 – Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition.

The Rough Guide to Bali and Lombok is the ultimate guide to Indonesia’s best-loved island and its equally attractive neighbour. Features include In-depth coverage of the sights, from dramatic hilltop temples to spectacular coral-fringed beaches.  Practical detail on where to dive, surf and hike, including accounts of routes up Gunung Rinjani and rice paddy walks in Ubud.  Listings of the most authentic restaurants and the accommodation suggestions from traditional homestays to five star retreats.  Cultural background with advice on where to see traditional dance and the best places to buy local crafts. Full colour photos and more than 40 maps.

Title: Rough Guide - Sri Lanka
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  First Edition, published November 2004 – Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition.

The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka is the definitive guide to one of the world’s most beautiful islands. Features include Full colour section introducing Sri Lanka’s highlights. Detailed accounts of all the sights, from the sedate tea plantations of the highlands to Colombo’s bustling street markets and the great Buddhist monuments of the Cultural Triangle. Candid reviews of all the best places to eat and stay, from laid-back beachside guesthouses to tranquil ayurveda resorts and elegant colonial-era hotels.  Informed coverage of Sri Lanka’s history, culture and religions, plus the lowdown on all the island’s colourful festivals. Maps for every region.

Title: Rough Guide - China
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Third Edition, published April 2003 - Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition

The Rough Guide to China is the definitive handbook to this vast and extraordinary country. Features include full colour section introducing China’s highlights. Lively coverage of the entire country, from booming Beijing and Shanghai to the ethnic-minority regions of the southwest and the oasis towns of the Silk Road.  Expert advice for every budget on places to stay, where to find best Chinese cuisine and getting around by public transport.  Unrivalled background on China’s history, politics, cultures and people. Handy Chinese script covering places, sights, accommodation and restaurants throughout.

Title: Rough Guide - Greece
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Ninth Edition, published February 2002 - Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition.

The Rough Guide to Greece is the definitive guide to one of Europe’s most popular destinations.  Features include full-colour section introducing Greece’s hgihlights.  Informed accounts of every attraction, from the ancient site of Mycenae to the secluded beaches of Karpathos.  Advice on places to stay, eat and drink to suit all budgets. Practical guidance on hiking, windsurfing and even skiing. Authorative coverage of topics such as music, mythology and history.  Maps and plans for every region.

Title: Rough Guide - First-Time Around The World
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  First Edition, published March 2003 - Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

Planning to travel around the world?  Let First-Time Around the World Guide get you started. Loaded with the latest travel information, including all you need to know about round-the-world tickets, this pre-departure guide willl help get your ultimate journey underway. Features full colour introductory section. The lowdown on where to go, when to go, what to bring, how much it will cost and which vaccinations will keep you healthy. Essential tips that will save you money, help keep you safe, and maximize your time on the road. Concise regional information with overland maps and details on weather, major attractions and unmissable festivals.

Title: First Time Latin America
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  First Edition, published March 2003 - Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition.

Planning a Trip to Latin America?  Get started with this First-Time Latin America guide packed with essential information, this pre-trip guide makes the preparations easy and the travelling fun – and saves you money along the way.  Features include full colour section on Latin America’s highlights. Informed advice on  buying the best plane ticket, getting visas, vaccinations, planning your itinerary, budgeting and packing wisely. Practical tips on coping with your first night in Latin America, plus lowdown on getting around, finding accommodation and travelling safely. Concise profile of all 21 mainland Countries, from Mexico to Chile – where to go, when to go and what to do – including maps and suggested itineraries.

Title: Handbook of the Canadian Rockies
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Second Edition, published 1995 – Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition

“Invaluable to those who want to learn as they explore the glorious Rockies” – Canadian Geographic.    Author Ben Gadd loves the mountains. From childhood he has lived in or near the Rockies, hiking, climbing, skiing, watching wildlife and enjoying wildflowers, wild places and wild weather.  He is an independent interpretive guide in Jasper National Park and has written other books. This handbook provides information / pictures on Geology, plants, animals, history and recreation from Waterton/Glacier to the Yukon. Artist Matthew Wheeler did the 333 color pencil drawings of mammals, birds and butterflies.

Title: Lonely Planet New Zealand
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Eleventh Edition, published September 2002- Paperback – Good Secondhand Condition.

Experience the infinite variety of New Zealand: sample the cafes and bars of Auckland, take a gravity-defying bungy jump or tramp through some of the world’s most spectacular wilderness areas with this bestselling guidebook. Over 120 detailed maps, colourful guide to New Zealand’s unique wildlife. Special section on Maori culture and art, fully extreme Activities chapter, insider tips for aspiring hobbit spotters and accommodation listings.

Title: Lonely Planet Panama
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  First Edition, published January 1999 - Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition’

Panama is Central America’s little-known jewel, a country where adventurous travellers can spot rare birds, hide out on deserted Caribbean isles and wander through vast wildernesses where jaguars and pumas still prowl. Blazing a trail to this fascinating country, this indispensable guide takes you to every not-t0-be-missed site, from cosmopolitan Panama City to untamed Darien Province to beautiful forests, archipelagos and parks.  Complete coverage of outdoor activities, Pacific surfing breaks and Caribbean dive spots. Accommodation and low down on way off the beaten track adventures. 42 detailed maps of cities, regions and parks.

Title: Rough Guide - First Time Asia
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Third Edition, published March 2003 - Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition.

Planning a trip to Asia? Get started with this First Time Asia Guide – packed with essential information, this pre-trip guide makes the preparations easy and the travelling fun, and saves you money along the way. Features including full colour section of Asia’s highlights. Informed advice on buying the best ticket, getting visas and vaccinations, planing your itinerary, budgeting and packing wisely.  Practical tips on coping with your first night in Asia, plus the lowdown on getting around, finding accommodtaion and staying healthy. Concise profiles of 20 countries – where to go, when to go and what to do – including maps and suggested itineraries.

Title: Lonely Planet – Maldives
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  Fourth Edition, published September 2000 - Paperback -Very Good Secondhand Condition.

Whether you’re a honeymooner or hardcore diver, a cultural tourist or contemporary castaway, this book will help you find your piece of paradise in the turquoise seas of the Maldives archipelago.  Provides accurate and detailed maps showing atolls, reefs, resorts and dive spots. The best spots for surfing, snorkelling, sailing and diving. colour guide to Maldivian reef fish. Important advice on marine conservation and tips to exploring Male, the enigmatic capital.

Title: Lonely Planet Auckland
Genre: Reference / Travel
Edition:  First Edition, published November 2000 – Paperback – Very Good Secondhand Condition

The Lonely Planet Auckland is a great guide with a comprehensive 10 page colour map section. Guide to Auckland, one of the world’s most beautiful waterside cities – whether you are into beaching, walking, street culture or high culture, this essential guide reveals the best of the City of Sails. Tips on the city’s nocturnal culture, tips for trippers to the spectacular Hauraki Gulf Islands & to Rotorua, New Zealand’s volcanic wonderland. Guide to Pacific Rim cuisine & accommodation.