The Girl Next Door
Elizabeth Noble

EAN: 9780718152390
Format: Trade Paperback
Release Date: 1 March 2009

Recommended Retail Price: R190

A gorgeous and unforgettable novel set in a turn-of-the-century New York apartment building on the Upper West Side…

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The Help
Kathryn Stockett

EAN: 9781905490486
Format: Trade Paperback
Release Date: 1 May 2009

Recommended Retail Price: R200

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step in Kathryn Stockett’s New York Times bestselling debut, The Help…

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can look like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women – mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends – view one another.

A deeply moving book filled with poignancy, humour, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.

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She worked briefly as a legal secretary.  “I could type fast but couldn’t spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever,” she says now.  After her sons were born she stayed home and tried every craft that came along.  A blizzard in February 1979 forced her hand to try another creative outlet.  She was snowed in with a three and six year old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate. Born into a family of readers, Nora had never known a time that she wasn’t reading or making up stories.  During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that a career was born.  Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981.

Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves.  They were married in July 1985.  Since that time, they’ve expanded their home, traveled the world and opened a bookstore together.

Through the years, Nora has always been surrounded by men. Not only was she the youngest in her family, but she was also the only girl.  She has raised two sons.  Having spent her life surrounded by men has given Ms. Roberts a fairly good view of the workings of the male mind, which is a constant delight to her readers.  It was, she’s been quoted as saying, a choice between figuring men out or running away screaming.

Nora is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry.

Nora’s J.D. Robb titles include:

• Naked in Death
• Glory in Death
• Immortal in Death

Nora Roberts titles include:

• Angels Fall
• Birthright
• Black Rose
• Blood Brothers
• Blue Dahlia
• Blue Smoke
• Born in Fire
• Born in Ice
• Dance of the Gods
• High Noon

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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 New York Times Editor’s Choice
• A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
• An Amazon "Best Book of the Decade…So Far"
• A Teen People "Hot List" pick
• An American Library Association "Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults" and "Top Ten Books for Reluctant Readers"
• Has been translated into 20 languages

Stephenie’s published books include: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn

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He says, “I will keep writing until people stop reading or I run out of ideas. Hopefully neither of these will happen anytime soon. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.

Eoin’s published books include: Airman, Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, Artemis Fowl And The Arctic Incident, Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code, Artemis Fowl:The Graphic Novel, Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox, Half Moon Investigations, The Legend Of Captain Crow’s Teeth and The Supernaturalist

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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 from the North Carolina Press Association for a series of articles on prostitution and crime in downtown Charlotte.

Her award-winning biography of Mrs. Billy Graham, A Time for Remembering, was published in 1983. From 1984 to 1990 she worked as a technical writer and a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia.

Her first crime novel, Postmortem, was published by Scribner’s in 1990. Initially rejected by seven major publishing houses, it became the first novel to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure in a single year. In Postmortem, Cornwell introduced Dr. Kay Scarpetta as the intrepid Chief Medical Examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 1999, Dr. Scarpetta herself won the Sherlock Award for best detective created by an American author.

Following the success of her first novel, Cornwell has written a string of bestsellers featuring Kay Scarpetta, her detective sidekick Marino, and her volatile niece, Lucy: Body of Evidence (1991), All That Remains (1992), Cruel and Unusual (1993) which won Britain’s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for the year’s best crime novel, The Body Farm (1994), From Potter’s Field (1995), Cause of Death (1996), Unnatural Exposure (1997), Point of Origin (1998), Black Notice (1999), The Last Precinct (2000), Blow Fly (2003), Trace (2004), Predator (2005), and Book of the Dead (2007) [which won the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards’ Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year; she is the first American ever to win this award] and Scarpetta (2008).

In addition to the Scarpetta novels, she has written three best-selling novels featuring Andy Brazil: Hornet’s Nest (1996), Southern Cross (1998), and Isle of Dogs (2001); two cook books: Scarpetta’s Winter Table (1998) and Food to Die For (2001); and a children’s book: Life’s Little Fable (1999). In 1997, she updated A Time for Remembering, and it was reissued as Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Bell Graham. Intrigued by Scotland Yard’s John Grieve’s observation that no one had ever tried to use modern forensic evidence to solve the murders committed by Jack the Ripper, Cornwell began her own investigation of the serial killer’s crimes. In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed (2002), she narrates her discovery of compelling evidence to indict the famous artist Walter Sickert as the Ripper. A revised edition of this book with new and startling evidence will be published in the near future.

In January 2006, the New York Times Sunday magazine began a 15-week serialization of At Risk, featuring Massachusetts state investigator Win Garano and D.A. Monique Lamont. Its sequel, The Front, was serialized in the London Times in the spring of 2008; both novellas were subsequently published as books and were promptly optioned for adaptation by Lifetime Television Network.

Patricia Cornwell co-wrote and co-produced the movie ATF for ABC, and she is often interviewed on national television as a forensic consultant. She helped found the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine and is the former Director of Applied Forensic Science at the National Forensic Academy. In May 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she is a Senior Fellow at its International Crime Scene Academy. In the citation for her honorary degree, she was praised for “enlightening society through commitment to the principles of academic excellence and understanding for all.” She is also a member of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital’s National Council, where she is an advocate for psychiatric research.

Her work is translated into thirty-two languages across more than thirty-five countries, and she is regarded as one of the major international best-selling authors.

Her novels are praised for their meticulous research and an insistence on accuracy in every detail, especially in forensic medicine and police procedures. She is so committed to verisimilitude that, among other accomplishments, she became a helicopter pilot and a certified scuba diver and qualified for a motorcycle license because she was writing about characters who were doing these things. “It is important to me to live in the world I write about,” she said. “If I want a character to do or know something, I want to do or know the same thing.”

Cornwell is also well known for her philanthropic efforts in animal rescue, college scholarships, literacy, and criminal justice. Some of her projects include the establishment of an ICU at Cornell’s Animal Hospital, the archaeological excavation of Jamestown, the scientific study of the Confederate States submarine H.L. Hunley, and, most recently, a $1 million gift toward the establishment of a Crime Scene Academy at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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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 old college friend – asks Beck to help him find Heidi’s killer before the statute of limitations runs out.

Meanwhile, Beck is pushed into becoming town Judge, and he makes some powerful enemies amongst the rich white landowners when he refuses to condone their treatment of the Mexican workers of the town. As events escalate, the landowners carefully plot their revenge…

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