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HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets
Those who are familiar with the DDC will know that strange stuff can be found in the 000s section. Although it’s boringly entitled “Generalities”, it’s a haven for fans of the paranormal/unexplained - crop circles, lake monsters, yetis, aliens, hauntings… you name it, if it’s weird, it’s probably located in that shelf!  
Just yesterday, whilst browsing […]

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QUIRKY THEMES: Flubbergasted . book reviews

The Riddles of Epilson
Christine Morton-Shaw
New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2005
Call No.: English Y MOR
On the island Lume there stands a cottage. It had been deserted for many years, until a recent arrival from the city, Jessie, stumbles upon it. Little does she expect that her life in Lume will be […]

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QUIRKY THEMES: Flubbergasted . book reviews

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Sebastian Junger
New York: HarperTorch, 1997
Call No.: English JUN-[MO]
When we think of the beach, we think of ocean swells gently lapping at our feet. This book doesn’t deal with those kinds of ‘vacation waves’. It deals with monster waves, whipped by […]

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QUIRKY THEMES: Flubbergasted . book reviews

Cadillac Beach
Tim Dorsey
New York: HarperTorch, 2005
Call No.: English DOR-[MY]
When asked by his psychiatrist at Chattahoochee State Hospital what makes him angry, Serge A. Storms replies:
“Phone contractors that say they’ll show up between one and five, subcontractors who don’t show up at all, drivers who stop side by side in the […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

New York : Berkley Books, 1991.
Call No.: English CHR -[MY]
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[HBeditor: This book was previously published as Ten Little Indians.]
Supposedly the best selling novel by Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None appeals to me in its conciseness. The personality of the ten characters were sufficiently described […]

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, c2006
Call No.: English ILE-[TH]
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rana writes:
Set in Natchez, Mississippi, Turning Angel is a whodunnit where a doctor is charged with the murder of his 17-year-old girlfriend. The affair shocks the local community where both the doctor and the girl — the high school valedictorian — were seen as […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

New York : St. Martins Press, 1996.
Call No.: RIP [MY]
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If you enjoy stories with a murder thrown in, and if you happen to love gardening, this is a book for you.
Louise, an accidental amateur sleuth and homemaker, finds herself a suspect when the prima-donna hostess she […]

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QUIRKY THEMES: The (Un) Usual Suspects. book reviews

New York: Knopf; Distributed by Random House, 1995.
Call No.: ELL -[TH]
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The 1950s has always been viewed nostalgically, as a golden age of American innocence, before the darkness of Vietnam and Watergate. It is a myth that Ellroy explodes in one of his most ambitious, […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

London : Little, Brown, 2004.
Call No.: MAC-[MY]
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This is the second book I have read by Alexander McCall Smith. I loved his bestseller, The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. In a way, this is even better.
Isobel Dalhousie is as far removed from Precious Ramotswe, the owner of […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

Red Phoenix by Larry Bond
London : Warner Books, 1992
Call No.: English BON -[TH]
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If you like to read Tom Clancy’s novels, then you will enjoy Larry Bond’s war fiction - Red Phoenix. To quote Tom Clancy, this book is a “direct hit! The techno-thriller has […]

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