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The Girl Next Door by Elizabeth Noble

The Girl Next Door Elizabeth Noble EAN: 9780718152390 Format: Trade Paperback Release Date: [...]

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The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Help Kathryn Stockett EAN: 9781905490486 Format: Trade Paperback Release Date: 1 [...]

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International best selling author Nora Roberts aka JD Robb

Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the disciplines of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland. She worked briefly as a legal secretary.  “I could type fast but couldn’t [...]

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Stephenie Meyer

Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in English. She lives with her husband and three young sons in Phoenix, Arizona. After the publication of her first novel, Twilight, booksellers chose Stephenie Meyer as one of the "most promising new authors of 2005" (Publishers Weekly). Praise for Twilight: A [...]

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Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer (pronounced Owen) was born in Wexford on the South-East coast of Ireland in 1965, where he and his four brothers were brought up by his father (an elementary school teacher, historian and artist of note) and mother (a drama teacher). He first developed an interest in writing in [...]

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Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell was born on June 9, 1956, in Miami, Florida, and grew up in Montreat, North Carolina. Following graduation from Davidson College in 1979, she began working at the Charlotte Observer, rapidly advancing from listing television programs to writing feature articles to covering the police beat. She won an investigative reporting award [...]

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The Perk by Mark Gimenez

The Perk Mark Gimenez EAN: 9780751539677 Format: Paperback Release Date: 1 March 2009 Recommended Retail Price: R120 Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown – and his estranged father – after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still reeling from the murder of sixteen-year-old Heidi, whose father – Beck’s [...]

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Stephenie Meyer – Twilight Saga Takes Top 4 Spots In The Bestseller List

Stephenie Meyer- TWILIGHT saga takes top 4 spots in the Nielsen’s BookScan Children’s figures for South Africa. 1. Breaking Dawn 2. New Moon 3. Twilight 4. Eclipse 5. The Tales of Beedle the Bard 6. Twilight (Film Tie- In) 

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