Words and Pictures

'Raven Black' - Ann Cleeves

2009-12-20T16:00:46Z

When teenage girl Catherine Ross is found murdered in Shetland, suspicion immediately falls upon loner Magnus Tait. Residents of the secluded village of Ravenswick have not forgotten another young girl who disappeared eight years earlier and wh...

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'The Rice Mother' - Rani Manicka

2009-12-13T22:25:19Z

This is the story of Lakshmi, a young Ceylonese girl brought to Malaya in 1930, as the young bride of an older man, and her children and grandchildren. Lakshmi narrates the first part of the book, where she explains about her childhood and how s...

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'The Night Watch' - Sarah Waters

2009-12-01T21:47:11Z

n what was a departure for Sarah Waters after three (extremely popular) Victorian novels, this book is set during and around the time of WWII. It tells the story of four characters - Kay; a lonely woman, tired of life and love; Viv, a young bea...

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'The Help' - Kathryn Stockett

2009-11-23T19:18:56Z

This rather beautiful books tells the story of three women, two of whom – Aibileen and Minny – are black maids working for white families in Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1960s, when racial segregation meant that black and white people could not ...

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The Men Who Stare At Goats

2009-11-17T18:25:27Z

Ewan McGregor plays a journalist named Bob Wilton, who while trying to get over his broken marriage, meets Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who claims to be a former member of the US Army's First Earth Battalion, an elite force trained to use their...

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'The Help' - Kathryn Stockett

2009-11-16T22:28:27Z

In medieval 1193, while the King, Richard the Lionheart is held captive by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, many people in England find themselves short of food and provisions, due to the efforts made to raise the ransom for the King’s release. ...

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'The Bone Collector' - Jeffrey Deaver

2009-11-11T21:52:22Z

Lincoln Rhyme is New York City's best Criminalist, who has helped solve some of the most perplexing crimes that have been committed in the city. He is also a quadraplegic, as the result of an accident at a crime scene, three years before; and h...

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'Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen' - Joanna Denny

2009-11-08T16:13:16Z

Anne Boleyn is one of the most famous Queens of England. Typically in literature she is described as the manipulative schemer who lured Henry VIII from his devoted wife Katharine of Aragon and later met her death on (probably trumped up) charges...

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'Fine Just the Way It Is' - Annie Proulx

2009-11-01T11:32:20Z

Fine Just the Way It Is is Annie Proulx's third collection of Wyoming stories. There are nine stories in this collection, and as usual, most of them concentrate on depicting the hard life of ranchers, politicians and cowboys, and the arguably e...

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Network

2009-10-27T20:19:05Z

Peter Finch (who won a posthumous Oscar for this role) plays Howard Beale, a news anchor, who upon being told that he is being fired due to low ratings, has an on air-breakdown where he says that he will kill himself live on tv the following week...

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