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FICTION
APR 2013
Major & Lead
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THE HOBBIT : AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEYTHE HOBBIT CHRONICLES: CREATURES & CHARACTERS
By DANIEL FALCONER
9780007487264
HARPER UK
S$64.00
The ultimate celebration of the first Hobbit movie reveals
the culmination of the creative vision for the film through
exclusive interviews with the designers, cast and crew, and more than 500 previously unpublished photographs, written
and designed by the team at Weta Workshop.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles –
Creatures and Characters explores the amazing cast of heroes and villains, beasts and beings that populate
Middle-earth in the first chapter of Peter Jackson’s film
adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Richly
illustrated with behind-the-scenes photographs, digital
renders and film stills, this comprehensive book goes species by species, character by character, through the
film’s huge ensemble of characters and bustling menagerie
of creatures, both physical and digital, telling the stories of
how each came to be realized for the film.
KING OF THORNSBy MARK LAWRENCE
9780007439027
HARPER UK
S$18.50
The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his
young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.
To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I’ve walked from pawn to player and I’ll win this
game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood…
The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty
kings fight for the Broken Empire. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg
Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. He saw the game
and vowed to sweep the board. First though he must gather his own
pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them.
THE FORGOTTENBy DAVID BALDACCI
9781455573745
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
S$13.04
Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is.
A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to
investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case-but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found
dead in Paradise, Florida.
A picture-perfect town on Florida's Gulf Coast, Paradise thrives on
the wealthy tourists and retirees drawn to its gorgeous weather and beaches. The local police have ruled his aunt's death an unfortunate,
tragic accident.
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THE HITBy DAVID BALDACCI
9781455545476
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S$23.32
From David Baldacci--#1 bestselling author and one of the world's most
popular, widely read storytellers--comes the most thrilling novel of the
year.
THE HITWill Robie is a master of killing.
A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls
on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters
committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims.
No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman...no one, except
Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous,
Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency.
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TELEGRAPH AVENUEBy MICHAEL CHABON
9780007507412
HARPER UK
S$16.50
New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael
Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City
during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures ofKavalier & Clay); to an imaginary Jewish homeland in Sitka, Alaska
(The Yiddish Policemen’s Union); to discover The Mysteries of
Pittsburgh. Now he takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and
exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two
Oakland, California families, one black and one white. In Telegraph Avenue, Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture—
Kung Fu, ’70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music—and
delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories.
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THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTEDBy JOHN BOYNE
9780857520937
TRANSWORLD
S$29.00
1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as
governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. As she
makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible
hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching
train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor.
When she finally arrives, shaken, at the hall she is greeted by
the two children in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There are no
parents, no adults at all, and no one to represent her
mysterious employer. The children offer no explanation. Later
that night in her room, a second terrifying experience further
reinforces the sense that something is very wrong.
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MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN ACCRA
By PAULO COELHO
9780007514236
HARPER UK
S$22.00
The incredible new novel from internationally bestselling author of The
Alchemist.
After lying undiscovered for over 700 years, a manuscript holding the
answers to a city’s final questions is unearthed from a cave in Cairo.
Centuries before, on the eve of the invasion of Accra, the citizens
gathered. A man stood before them and invited the people share their fears that he might offer hope and comfort.
His extraordinary insights on courage, solitude, loyalty and
loss were transcribed and passed on.
A timeless and powerful exploration of personal growth,
everyday wisdom and joy.
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GUILT BY DEGREESBy MARCIA CLARK
9780316129541
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S$16.00
Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight--someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions. It began
when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the suspectless
homicide of a homeless man. In the face of courthouse backbiting
and a gauzy web of clues, Rachel is determined to deliver justice. She's got back-up: tough-as-nails Detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel
and Bailey stir things up, they're shocked to uncover a connection
with the vicious murder of an LAPD cop a year earlier. Something
tells Rachel someone knows the truth, someone who'd kill to keep it
secret.
Harrowing, smart, and riotously entertaining, GUILT BY DEGREES is
a thrilling ride through the world of LA courts with the unforgettable
Rachel Knight.
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JUST WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU?
By PAULA DALY
9780593071700
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S$31.00
DEAR THINGBy JULIE COHEN
9780593070833
TRANSWORLD
S$31.00
Claire and Ben are the perfect couple. But behind the glossy facade,
they've been desperately trying - and failing - to have a baby for
years. Now, the stress and feelings of loss are taking their toll on their marriage. Claire's ready to give up hope and get on with her life, but
Ben is not. And then Ben's best friend, Romily, offers to conceive via
artificial insemination and carry the baby for them. Romily acts in
good faith, believing it will be easy to be a surrogate. She's already a
single mother, and has no desire for any more children. Except that being pregnant with Ben's child stirs up all sorts of emotions in her,
including one she's kept hidden for a very long time: Ben's the only
man she's ever loved. Two mothers - and one baby who belongs to
both of them, and which only one of them can keep.
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She's gone and it's your fault.
You were supposed to be watching your best friend's 13-year-
old daughter, and now she's missing. But you know she's not
just missing - she's been taken. Because Lucinda is the second
girl to be abducted within a fortnight. And the first was found on
a busy high street, naked and severely traumatised. No one
expects the next to be so lucky. You're going to have to figure
this out - who did it. Because if you don't, then Lucinda will be
next. And you'll never forgive yourself.
THE FAMILY CORLEONEBy ED FALCO
9781455598854
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THE PANTHERBy NELSON DEMILLE
9781455573752
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
S$16.00
Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent
Kate Mayfield have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen—one
of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they
will be working with a small team to track down one of the
masterminds behind the USS Cole bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther.
Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts and
murders—and the US government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost. As latecomers to a treacherous game,
John and Kate don't know the rules, the players, or the score. What
they do know is that there is more to their assignment than meets
the eye—and that the hunters are about to become the hunted.
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New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the
Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in
this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a
violent end.
For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future.
While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son
Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his
eldest child.
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NO WAY BACKBy ANDREW GROSS
9780007296910
HARPER UK
S$16.50
A chance encounter with a stranger in a New York hotel ends in a
shooting. Wendy Gould was an average mother – now she’s the sole
witness to the murder she’s being framed for.
YOU CAN RUNWhat she saw makes Wendy the top target for a deadly network of
powerful men. They want her silence. They will take no prisoners. How
can she clear her name?
YOU CAN HIDE
Lauritzia Velez is a suburban nanny with a tragic past – and a terrifying future. After another attempt on her life, she once again leaves
everything she loves behind to go on the run.
THERE IS NO WAY BACK
Both women know too much – except how to escape from this
nightmare alive.
THE KINGMAKER'S DAUGHTERBy PHILIPPA GREGORY
9781476716626
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
S$14.95
The Kingmaker’s Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the
man known as the “Kingmaker,” Richard, Earl of Warwick: the most
powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir,
Richard uses his two daughters as pawns in political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. In this novel, her
first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory explores
the lives of these two fascinating young women.
At the court of Edward IV and his queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and
desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Only a girl
she is married and then left widowed and fatherless, with her mother in
sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy.
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gregory/kingmakers-daughter/
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9780552774413
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S$16.00
9780812983524
RANDOM HOUSE
S$16.00
I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBERBy SOPHIE KINSELLA
THE RECKONINGBy ALMA KATSU
9781451697827
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
S$16.00
Love saved her soul . . . but the shadows of the past condemn her.
THE RECKONING
Deepening the “wicked, sensuous, shattering love story” (Kresley
Cole) begun in The Taker, Alma Katsu pairs a mysteriously alluring
young woman with an ER doctor from rural Maine on a harrowing,
passion-fueled chase that transcends the boundaries of time.
With Dr. Luke Findley by her side, Lanore McIlvrae imprisoned her
immortal enemy and has embarked on a new life; now all of London
is clamoring to see the Victoria and Albert Museum’s “mystery”exhibit— Lanny’s collections of lost nineteenth-century treasures,
including the last precious gift given to her by Jonathan, the man who
owns her heart for eternity. But the portal to her past opens once
more as Adair, the Taker, crashes into the twenty-first century to hunt
down Lanny and exact revenge for her heartless betrayal—the price she must pay for an endless love.
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Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man,
Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart.
Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill, but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she
spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave
a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!
Well, perfect except that the phone’s owner, businessman
Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and
doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wadinginto his personal life.
What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as
Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through
emails and text messages.
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12TH OF NEVER
9781455528912
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Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home
with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two
of the biggest cases of her career.
A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted
with the strangest story she's ever heard: An eccentric English
professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder
and he's convinced is real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a
shooting is called in-and it fits the professor's description to the last detail.
Lindsay doesn't have much time to stop a terrifying future from
unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when
Lindsay is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating
loss of her life.
THE BOY WHO FELL TO EARTH
By KATHY LETTE
9780552776820
TRANSWORLD
S$18.50
Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright, beautiful son - who just happens to be autistic.
Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch, Lucy has made Merlin the
centre of her world. Struggling with the joys and tribulations of raising
her adorable yet challenging child (if only Merlin came with operating
instructions), Lucy doesn't have room for any other man in her life.
By the time Merlin turns ten, Lucy is seriously worried that the Pope
might start ringing her up for tips on celibacy, so resolves to dip a toe
back into the world of dating. Thanks to Merlin's candour and
quirkiness, things don't go quite to plan... Then, just when Lucy's resigned to singledom once more, Archie - the most imperfectly
perfect man for her and her son - lands on her doorstep. But then, so
does Merlin's father, begging for a second chance. Does Lucy need a
real father for Merlin - or a real partner for herself?
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By JAMES PATTERSON
WALKING DISASTERBy JAMIE McGUIRE
9781476711874
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
S$16.95
Finally, the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster.
Can you love someone too much?
Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died:
Love hard. Fight harder.
In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground
gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.
Every story has two sides. In Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. Now
it’s time to see the story through Travis’s eyes.
ZOOBy JAMES PATTERSON
9781455545544
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
S$13.04
Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is James Patterson's best book ever.
TotalFor 36 years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing
novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is
the thriller he was born to write.
WorldAll over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz,
a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing
sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.
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THE PERFUME COLLECTOR
By KATHLEEN TESSARO
9780007419845
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S$18.50
LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANSBy M.L. STEDMAN
9780552779074
TRANSWORLD
S$17.00
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne
returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus
Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island,
where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are
granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the
grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up
onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose
moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast.
Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her
Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are
reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has
devastated one of them.
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A secret history of scent, memory and desire from the Sunday Times bestselling author of ELEGANCE and THE DEBUTANTE.
One letter will turn newly-married Grace Munroe’s life upside down:
‘Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs Eva D’Orsey and
it is our duty to inform you that you are named as the chief beneficiary
in her will. We request your presence at our offices at your earliest
convenience, so that we may go through the details of your inheritance.’
There is only one problem. Grace has never heard of Eva D’Orsey.
So begins a journey which leads Grace through the streets of Paris
and into the seductive world of perfumers and their muses. An
abandoned perfume shop on the Left Bank will lead her to unravel the
heartbreaking story of her mysterious benefactor, an extraordinary
woman who bewitched high society in 1920s New York and Paris.
LET LOVE FIND YOUBy JOHANNA LINDSEY
9780552165778
TRANSWORLD
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AND THEN SHE FELLBy STEPHANIE LAURENS
9780062068644
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S$14.91
#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens has
returned to another utterly irresistible branch on her beloved Cynster
family tree . . .
The only thing more troublesome than a Cynster man . . .
. . . is a Cynster lady who believes love is not her destiny. Famously
known in London society as "The Matchbreaker," Henrietta Cynster's
uncanny skill lies in preventing ill-fated nuptials—not in falling victim to Cupid's spell.
But then she disrupts one match too many and feels honor-bound to
assist dashing James Glossup in finding a suitable bride for a
marriage-of-convenience.
A task infernally complicated by the undeniable, unquenchable
attraction that flares between James and Henrietta, who continues to
believe she will never fall . . .
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Lovely Amanda Locke, the daughter of a duke, has been out in
London society for three years but has still not found a husband.
Devin Baldwin, a darkly handsome breeder of horses, is well known
for using his expertise to bring about the matching of eligible young
ladies to suitable gentlemen - and becomes Amanda's riding
instructor, when she sets her sights on a wealthy nobleman known
to be passionate about horses.
But Amanda finds herself falling for the matchmaker instead, and
her desire for a husband takes her in a wholly unexpected
direction...
FLASHBACKBy DAN SIMMONS
9780316006972
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The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users
to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective
Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be
with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result.
Nick may be a lost soul but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to
investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. This
flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change
the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the
past.
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TAKEN BY STORMBy KELLI MAINE
9781455598991
HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
S$21.00
DECEPTIONMaddie Simcoe knows the devastation that comes from keeping
secrets. Now, she's desperate to move on from the heartbreak that
almost destroyed her -- trading wild passion that once made her knees
weak for a life of comfortable stability.
PASSIONWhen Maddie blows back into MJ Rocha's life, nothing will stop him
from proving to her that walking away from him was the biggest mistake of her life -- not even the engagement ring she wears.
REDEMPTIONTrapped by a hurricane roaring through Turtle Tear Island, MJ and
Maddie find shelter in each others' arms. While the lightning flashes,
MJ and Maddie are helpless to fight bonds of desire that tie them
together.
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GEARS OF WAR: THE SLAB
By KAREN TRAVISS
9781439184080
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
S$17.00
Ten years after Emergence Day, as the Locust Horde advances on
humanity’s last defended area—Ephyra—in a bloody war that has seen
billions die, Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders and abandons his post during a critical battle in a bid to rescue his father,
weapons scientist Adam Fenix. But Adam is buried in the rubble during a
ferocious assault on the Fenix mansion, and Ephyra falls to the enemy.
Marcus, grieving for a father everyone believes is dead, is sentenced to
forty years in the Coalition of Ordered Government’s brutal maximum security prison, known simply as the Slab.
But Adam is very much alive, snatched from the destruction by the elite
Onyx Guard on Chairman Richard Prescott’s orders. He’s now a long way
from home and in a prison of his own—a COG doomsday bunker on the
tropical island of Azura, a place hidden from the rest of Sera since the
Pendulum Wars.
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