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13:10, 03 Jul 2009Product review
Red, White and Kool 5 out of 5
This is a marvelously colourful story which, in its idiosyncratic style, really brings the reader into the same world as the Merry Pranksters themselves. Although the plot may seem ficticious and far ...
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The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
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14:50, 02 Jul 2009Product review
St John Ambulance 5 out of 5
Being a member of the St John Ambulance brigade today, this book brought the world of war frighteningly close. Had I been born fifty years earlier this could have been me. It made me wonder about ...
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Rose Humble, one of six children, is used to holding her own in the world. But as war casts a shadow over her family, Rose comes to see there are people who are not all they seem. Like her own sister, Queenie, and the young fire-fighter she meets who forces her to rethink her world once more.

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Victor Pemberton
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14:45, 02 Jul 2009Product review
The start of an obsession 5 out of 5
This book provoked so much emotion that I became addicted to family sagas based around WW1 and WW2. I now have over 100 books but this still remains my favourite. Let yourself become completely ...
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Set during World War I, this book tells the story of Alice Hawthorne and her love for the handsome young gamekeeper Tom Dwerryhouse. It is also the story of the entanglements and rivalries of the two families who separately employ Alice and Tom.

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Elizabeth Elgin
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14:42, 02 Jul 2009Product review
Don't turn out the lights 5 out of 5
At first it felt as though it was going to be a typical ghost story but as the tale unfolded I found myself whisked along into the attic surrounded by cold air and frightened of the sound of my heart ...
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When Joss, an adopted child, discovers that her real mother has left the beautiful family home, Belheddon Hall, to her, she is thrilled, until she discovers that the Hall is haunted by a presence which will not tolerate husbands or sons living in the house.

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House of Echoes
Barbara Erskine
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14:38, 02 Jul 2009Product review
WW2 Saga 5 out of 5
I went into France with the sisters and felt their terror and dismay. This is a book I could read over and over again! Never have I cried so much at the end of a book. Thank you Lyn Andrews!
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As nurses in World War I, sisters Kate and Evvie set off far from their loving homes

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Angels of Mercy
Lyn Andrews
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14:35, 02 Jul 2009Product review
WW2 Saga 5 out of 5
Another fantastic book by Lillian Harry. I felt that I was living through the war with the characters. Pulled at almost every heart string, could't put it down.
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A Girl Called Thursday
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A terrifically compelling wartime story of love and loss from the author of A SONG AT TWILIGHT.

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Lilian Harry
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10:21, 02 Jul 2009Comment
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I was really happy when I saw the news that Borders were now offering eBooks. Finally, I thought, some competition for the rip-off merchants at Waterstones eBook shop.

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22:47, 01 Jul 2009Product review
Henna Fanatics 4 out of 5
great for ideas and tips especially if you are looking for more traditional and conventional designs ideal for wedding season
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The First British Book of Henna Art
Farah Khan
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15:09, 01 Jul 2009Product review
This book is AMAZING! 5 out of 5
This book is amazing! The storyline is INCREDIBLE. I love reading this book over and over again. The connection between Emily and Clint is unbelievable. I LOVE THIS BOOK!
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Emily Wallace has no doubt about who killed her best friend ten years ago: Clint Austin, her then boyfriend. The key witness in his trial, Emily put Clint behind bars with her testimony. After serving ten years for a crime he didn't commit, Clint knows only the truth can set him free.

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Debra Webb
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14:15, 01 Jul 2009Product review
Exhilarating 5 out of 5
I've never read a crime novel before, but after reading this, I will make a point to pick up more novels like it as this is truly the most engaging and exhilarating novel I have read in a very long ...
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The Black Monastery
Stav Sherez (Editor)
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When Nikos, a detective in the final years of his career, is persuaded back to his home town he is faced with the gory murder of a young boy near the old monastery. Echoing two murders committed 33 years previously in the exact same spot, and a mass cult suicide, it brings back a part of the island's history that it has tried hard to forget.

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14:12, 01 Jul 2009Product review
Thrilling 3 out of 5
I bought this book as I felt like reading the book that the film, Hellraiser, was based on would help me enjoy the film more than I originally did. I found the film tedious and at times just ...
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Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror film, Hellraiser.

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Clive Barker
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14:10, 01 Jul 2009Product review
An Informative and Enjoyable Biography of the 70s 5 out of 5
I don't want to use the cliché reference of it being surprising that Andy Beckett can write such an engaging book about an era he never knew because that can be applied to any historical writer and ...
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The seventies in modern British political history encompasses strikes that brought down governments, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath, the IMF crisis, the Winter of Discontent and the three-day week. This book goes in search of what really happened, what it felt like at the time, and where it was all leading.

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Andy Beckett
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14:08, 01 Jul 2009Product review
Remarkable 5 out of 5
Now I'm not very good with philosophy. I always find it difficult to get my head around particular concepts as there is never a set sequence of ideals due to them all being based around different ...
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What Price Liberty?: How Freedom Was Won and is Being Lost
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Takes us through British, American and European history, elaborating not just how civil liberties were constructed in the past, but how they were continually rethought - and re-fought - in response to modernity, and puts into context various controversies of the past.

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Ben Wilson
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14:07, 01 Jul 2009Product review
Marvellous Read 5 out of 5
When people hear of the country Jamaica, the majority of us will imagine the palm trees, beaches and intense natural beauty. Others will think of drugs, violence and death, but very rarely there will ...
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Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed out in vast quantities. Since independence in 1962, it has gradually become a society where extreme violence has become ordinary and gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live. This book explores a country of lost promise.

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Ian Thomson
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12:42, 01 Jul 2009Product review
RE: 'incomplete info' 3 out of 5
to Brinder - The image says "Annual Magazine Subscription", so there is a duration stated, albeit not very clearly.
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Politics, Business, The Environment. Science. Health,. The Arts. People Time brings you informed, illuminating and superbly photographed coverage of the topics that interest you most. Time provides a fresh international perspective on the important issues of the day, together with candid and revealing profiles of people in the news.

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12:32, 01 Jul 2009Product review
Great film 4 out of 5
The film offers a great insight into the life of Beethoven taking into account social, historical and musical goings on of the time and how they shaped and influenced his life and music. The number ...
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Phil Grabsky (Director)
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Phil Grabsky (Director)
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21:26, 29 Jun 2009New blog article
How to shoot a Good Travel Picture?
Many of the great travel icons like the Taj Mahal or Macchu Pichu are so instantly familiar that they have virtually passed into our collective conscious: even people who have never left home can ...
10:47, 26 Jun 2009New blog article
Essential Reading- American Flagg!
Titan is proud to launch a special section on Borders.co.uk bringing you all our latest books from Television/Film and Graphic novels to contemporary fiction. Our page will update once a month ...
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One of the key comics of the 1980s - along with Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! was a massive-selling hit, breaking new ground in comics storytelling and influencing a generation of writers and artists. America, 2031. TV star Reuben Flagg is drafted to protect the citizens of Chicago as a Plexus Ranger, having pretended to be one onscreen. The ...

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American Flagg
by Howard Chaykin
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It was America, 2031. TV star Reuben Flagg is drafted to protect the citizens of Chicago as a Plexus Ranger, having pretended to be one onscreen. The inexperienced Flagg must tackle an America blighted by a biased and oppressive media, dubious 'wars', widespread political corruption and environmental disaster...

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by Howard Chaykin
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08:27, 18 Jun 2009New blog article
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

This is an excellent read.  The pages just fly by!

18:41, 15 Jun 2009New blog article
I want never gets..

I want karin slaughters new book genesis now !! i dont want to wait till 2nd july i want it now .. now i say !!!!

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23:19, 12 Jun 2009New blog article
It's been a while...What I'm reading Now
It's been a while since I've posted on here...I do post a lot of reviews and recommendations on my book blog (check it out: http://pagesofthemind3.blo
18:12, 05 Jun 2009New blog article
House of NIght
Best book series ever even better than twilight.
Zoey is abit of a player   lol
9 HOF books in total
1. Marked  2. Betrayed  3. Chosen  4. Untamed&n
18:08, 05 Jun 2009New blog article
Twilight
OMG this series is amazing!
I love it alot! Own or the books and i saw the movie but they missed oput loads of good stuff, it was ok but not as good as the book
New Moon - out in ...
11:08, 28 May 2009New blog article
Recent Book Titles
Our school has two copies of the three books up for the Red House Award. Blood Ties, by Sophie McKenzie, Broken Soup, by Jenny Valentine, and Young Samuri : The Way of the Warrior, by Chris ...
14:34, 27 May 2009New blog article
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Pandemic
for a coursework question in school we had to emulate the style of an author, i chose HG Wells and War of the Worlds. i wrote about the recent swine ...
15:22, 22 May 2009New blog article
How Sardinian Silver (and other things) came to be written

It occurs to me that some people might be interested in how Sardinian Silver came to be ...