Bookcrossing

This is another interesting site. You may have heard of this movement – if not take the time to this out. It's an interesting way to share your favourite books with the rest of the world.

LibraryThing

This is a great tool for keeping track of your personal collection and you can sign up and catalogue up to 200 items for free. If you have more in your collection then the annual fee is extremely modest - $10 (US) per year or $25 (US) for life.

You can just use it to catalogue your own collections but you can also check for reviews or check under the Zeitgeist section to see what the rest of the world is reading.

Salt on Our Skins

Benoite Groult

“Exploring the realms of desire, sexuality and love with uninhibited candour, Benoite Groult’s extraordinary novel charts the lifelong affair between a Parisian intellectual and a Breton fisherman, a couple divided by everything but he flame of passion which burns between them.

They first meet as children. As the years pass they are separated by a path each feels compelled to follow. She pursues an academic career in France, Canada and the United States, while he marries a local girl and settles down to the stifling narrowness of family life. Yet, despite the torment of separation, and the obligations that bind them to others, their improbably perfect love endures.” – book cover.
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Endless Chain

Emilie Richards

The story covers the events in a small town, Toms Brook in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, which occur after Sam Kinkade, the minister of the local church, plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community.

The story is woven around the activities of the local Quilting Bee. The title of the book refers to the pattern being used to construct a hand-made quilt.

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Earth, Air, Fire and Custard

Tim Holt

"J.W. Wells seems to be a respectable establishment, but the company paying Paul Carpenter's salary is in fact a deeply sinister organisation with a mighty peculiar management team.
Paul thought he was getting the hang of it (particularly when he fell head over heels for his strangely alluring colleague Sophie), but death is never far away shen you work at J.W. Wells. Unlike the stapler - that's always going AWOL. Our lovestruck hero is about to discover that custard is definately in the eye of the beholder. And that it really stings.
Tom Holt's exceedingly comic fantasies are populated with evil goblins, annoying sprites and people like us. However, it's not always possible to tell the difference." - book cover.
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The Apprentice Lover

Jay Parini

"When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, Alex drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri, There, he becomes secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet, who dominates the island like a latter-day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island.
As Alex stumbles upon intrigues and secrets, he tries to balance what others demand of him with his own nascent desires. His apprenticeship in love, literature, and life unfolds with a combination of Mediterranean clarity, wry humour, wit and emotional power that only a master of fiction could orchestrate." - book cover
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In Honour Bound

Gerald Seymour

"Barney Crispin, SAS Captain, is sent urgently to the Afghanistan border on the direct order of the Foreign Secretary. His mission - to organize the destruction of one of the new Soviet helicopters and to bring its secret parts back to Britain. But the Guerillas he trains and sends in are killed, and in defience of his orders he goes in himself to challenge the Russian gunships in the remote Afghan valleys." - back cover
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