Here is a selection of really great books, from one of my favorite novelists, Ken Follett and my new favorite Author Ben Mezrich who also writes novels that are all based on fact, are riveting and just the most fantastic leisure reads you will ever find, to a few recommended by girl friends of mine and of course the greatest gift for boys between 10 and 20, the Guiness book of world records. Have a look through these and feel free to suggest any really good books.
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Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it home triumphantly, to prove to his father that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan is the best kite runner that Amir has ever seen, and he promises to help him – for Hassan always helps Amir out of trouble.
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I have a new favorite author folks, this guy writes incredibly well and Rigged had me riveted from the first page. The most amazing thing is that the story is true. It’s a rags to riches story of a New York Mercantile exchange trader that has so much intrigue you will sit back and think, “can that possibly be true”
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For nearly five years, he was known as the ‘Darling Of Las Vegas’. Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, others a pop star from Eastern Europe. But the truth was even more unlikely: he was a twenty-one year old graduate student who had a plan that would one day make him richer than anyone could possibly imagine.
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The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House pens the incredible true story of the accidental creation of Facebook, and the even more amazing tale of what followed. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends-outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and longtime legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with the opposite sex.
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Jealousies, distrust, and hidden rivalries uncover dark secrets, and then a dozen vials of a deadly virus go missing. Several people are under siege by the elements, the emotional sparks crackle and dark secrets are uncovered threatening to drive Stanley and his family apart forever. Filled with twists, this book is a knife-edge drama.
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In the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. And they will live under the shadow of the unexplained killing they had witnessed.
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When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella.
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New features of the book include: Eye-catching ’sunburst’ holographic cover, 100% new photographs, 3D PHOTOGRAPHIC FEATURES! A pair of 3D glasses to view more than 20 3-D photographs
A grieving father receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him to meet in the Oregon wilderness where his daughter was brutally murdered. What he learns there is transforming readers around the world.
Warren Buffet, known as the Oracle of Omaha, is the subject of this biography-of both the man and his ideas. This great American story includes two 16-page black-and-white photo inserts.
A completely new volume of distilled wisdom from Angelou contains short but spellbinding essays that invite one along on an inspirational journey that explores ideas garnered from a well-lived life.
Known by his 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 Stone’s freedom has come at a steep price.
In the much anticipated fourth book in Stephanie Meyer’s love story, questions will be answered and the fate of Bella and Edward will be revealed. If you have not strted this series, now is the time.
Project H is a story set in South Africa five years from now, a country cured of its economic and social ills all due to a man named Jasper King and his invention called Project H.
What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls? Why, open a marriage bureau, of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag in South India, sees his new business flourish
Brilliant things to do selected from The Daring Book for Girls – the only book for all feisty, fun-loving, adventure-seeking girls. This is a book that no man wants his wife or girlfriend to read. Have some fun ladies and shock the pants off your men.
It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories.
The savage murder of beloved teacher Bennett Little shocked a community and baffled police. That his killer was never caught has haunted one of his pupils in particular, the gifted but shy Genoa
Ken Follett, internationally-acclaimed master of split-second suspense, author of six #1 bestsellers, reaches beyond the expected to achieve his most brilliant and remarkable novel.
When John Sutter’s aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London.
If you can’t take one more day of self-loathing, you’re ready to hear the truth: you cannot keep shovelling the same crap into your mouth every day and expect to lose weight. Not for the faint-hearted
An internationally bestselling fable about a spiritual journey, littered with powerful life lessons that teach us how to abandon consumerism in order to embrace destiny, live life to the full….
Shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in children – fast. There is not a parent of cildren of any age that should not read this book and for those contemplating having children in the next 200 years, read it!
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