What We're Reading In Blackrock

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  Running with the Kenyans
  Adharanand Finn

  Paperback · 04 Apr 2013 · €11.99
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  After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest long-distance races, the author sets out to discover what it was that made them so fast - and to see if he could keep up.

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  Omens
  Kelley Armstrong

  Hardback · 20 Aug 2013 · €22.70

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  Beautiful Ruins
  Jess Walter

  Paperback · 30 May 2013 · €11.99

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  Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying.

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  The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
  Rebecca Miller

  Paperback · 12 Jun 2008 · €11.99

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  Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage.

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  The Black Count
  Tom Reiss

  Paperback · 25 Apr 2013 · €11.99
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  Shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Alex Dumas' own father, Alex - the son of a marquis and a black slave... He achieved a giddy ascent from private in the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider who had grown up among slaves, he was all for Liberty and Equality.