Dec 28, 2009

** A Hollywood Ending **

Book Title: A Hollywood Ending (SOLD!!) 
Author: Robyn Sisman
Book Condition: New, Large Paperback
MYR18

Something is amiss in the perfect world of Paige Carson, movie star and Hollywood princess. Her co-star is a pig. Her Daddy has done the unforgivable. And, at twenty-nine, she's spotted her first wrinkle. The acting parts are drying up, and so is her love life.
Oscar Night is the final humiliation that sends Paige fleeing to London, where she's been offered a Shakespearean role on the stage. She's determined to prove her worth as an actress, lead a 'normal' life - and maybe even snare herself a cute English lord.
But Paige is in for a shock. London is damper, dirtier and far more carb-heavy than she imagined. The men are less Hugh Grant and more Heathcliff, to judge by her stuck-up neighbout, Ed Hawkshead. As opening night looms, Paige must learn not only how to master a decent British accent, but also to stand on her own two feet for the first time.

Dec 22, 2009

** Aphelion **

Book Title: Aphelion
Author: Emily Ballou
Condition: New, Large Paperback
MYR22 

Exiled by love, Hazel Rey moves to the historic town of old Adaminaby. A victim of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, the town now lurks, gone but not forgotten, under the waters of Lake Eucumbene.
There, on the shore of the lake, Hazel meets four generations of women sharing one house. Eighty-year-old Esme Windle waits patiently for her turn to die - but a daughter is not meant to go before her mother, and Esme's ancient mother Hortense shows no signs of being finished with living. Esme's neice Byrne and Byrne's daughter, the widowed Lucetta, are succumbing to their own lonely fate. All four seem destined to live in a perpetual aphelion, pulled down by dark regrets and lost love.
But when young Rhett Davys returns to his abandoned family home after the death of his mother, he carries within him a fire that will ignite all of their lives.

Dec 8, 2009

** Cast Not The Day **

Title: Cast Not The Day
Author: Paul Waters
Book Condition: Excellent, Only Read Once
MYR15

It is the middle of the fourth century AD and the Roman empire has been ruled for a generation by Christian emperors. Three brothers - the sons of the emperor Constantine the Great - are joint rulers and ruthless rivals. Beyond its borders, the vast empire is threatened by foreign enemies. And now, at last, the church, with the force of the state behind it, is moving to crush all oppostition to its power. But in Britain there is resistance.
Against this backdrop of civil war and disarray, Drusus, a young British nobleman of Roman birth, learns of the betrayal of his father by enemies at court. He faces the loss of all he has known. As his life is torn apart, he must decide who to trust, who to care for and who to fight; and he must make choices which will forge the man he will become. 

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Dec 7, 2009

** Of Merchants & Heroes **

Title: Of Merchants & Heroes   
Author: Paul Waters
Book Condition: New, Excellent
MYR15


At the end of the third century BC, as republican Rome's long war with Carthage in Afirca draws to a close, a new danger is arising - the ruthless King of Macedon, Philip the Fifth, is moving against the independent city states fo Greece and threatening Rome itself.
Against this background, Marcus, a young Roman, embarks on a sea crossing with his father. Pirates, led by the wild corsair Dikaiarchos, ambush the ship, and Marcus's father scarifices his own line in order to save his son. Marcus vows to avenge his father's death, setting him on a voyage that will forge his character and bring him to his unexpected destiny.

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Dec 2, 2009

** Paint It Black **


Title: Paint It Black
Author: Janet Fitch
Book Condition: New 
MYR15


Josie Tyrell, art model, teen runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene, finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday. A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist, Michael introduces her to his spiritual quest for beauty and a world of sophisticcation she had never dreamed existed. But the day she is called to identify her lover's dead body, Josie's bright dreams all turn to black.
Struggling to understand Michael's death, Josie finds herself both repelled by and attracted to his formidable mother, Meredith, who holds Josie responsible for her son's torment.