The secret history

Donna Tartt

"A scholarship student at an exclusive New England college, Richard unexpectedly finds kindred spirits in the the charismatic students of his ancient Greek class, children of privilege immersed in beauty and culture. But his new friends have a horrific secret.

When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their magic circle apart, Richard is drawn into a heart of darkness from which he may never return." -- book cover.
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Stories for Summer

This collection of short stories contains 14 great stories from the pens of F. Scott Fitzgerald, D.H. Lawrenec, Henry James, Sir Aruthor Conan Doyle, Katherine Mansfield and Oscar Wilde.

It includes such great stories as The Diamond as big as the Ritz (Fitzgerald), The garden path (Mansfield) and The model millionaire (Wilde)
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Larkin about Ireland

John Larkin

John Larkin travels to Ireland in search of his spiritual home, the one his father had left behind in the fifties. Instead he finds a nation undergoing tremendous change: from poor to rich, religious to secular, leprechauns to boy bands. Ireland is on the move, cutting deals, talking bollocks on mobile phones.

It's a hilarious and often poignant journey up Croagh Patrick, the holiest of holy mountains, around The Ring of Kerry, to Knock, home to the tackiest sourvenir shops in the world (and an apparition of The Blessed Virgin), and into pubs where the locals still end their days in a lively fall off a bar stool. -- book cover.

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Nice Girls Finish Last

Sparkle Hayter

At 37, with one failed marriage and several lousy dates behind her, Robin Hudson is still working on a new attitude - a positive mental attitude! Sure she's still toiling away in the tabloidesque special reports unit at All News Network for her loathsome bodd, Jerry Spurdle, but amidst the trumours of cutbacks she thinks a good attitude might improve her karma. Besides, she's added a new weapon to her personal defence system - a hot-glue gun with two settings, steam and spray - wo what could go wrong?

Then her gynaecologist is murdered and Jerry sends Robin to investigate a link with the S&M sex-club underworld. In the meantime, someone is taking potshots at ANN's male talent. Are the shootings connected to the murder of the doctor? To Robin? Her PMA hanging by a thread, Robin must solve the mystery - or she may never have another date. -- book cover.

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