Staff Recommended Reads June 2011

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  The Distant Hours
  Kate Morton

  Paperback · 12 May 2011 · €10.00

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  From the international bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden comes a brand new tale of love, mystery, betrayal and dark secrets ...

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  Fall of Giants
  Ken Follett

  Paperback · 03 Jun 2011 · €12.00
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  An epic of love, hatred, war and revolution

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  The Psychopath Test
  Jon Ronson

  Paperback · 06 May 2011 · €17.35
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  Tells a story about madness that starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist. She and several colleagues have recently received a cryptically puzzling book in the mail, and Jon is challenged to solve the mystery behind it. As he searches for the answer, Jon finds himself, on an adventure into the world of madness.

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  The Sentimentalists
  Johanna Skibsrud

  Hardback · 31 Mar 2011 · €17.35

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  Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his memories. As his health ultimately declines, his two daughters move him from his trailer in North Dakota to Casablanca, Ontario, to live with the father of Napoleon's friend who was killed in action.

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  What the Day Owes the Night
  Yasmina Khadra

  Paperback · 05 May 2011 · €12.00

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  Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents surrender him to the care of his more affluent uncle. Renamed Jonas, he grows up in a colourful colonial Algerian town, and forges a unique friendship with a group of boys, an enduring bond that nothing - not even the Algerian Revolt - will shake.

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  The Butterfly Cabinet
  Bernie Mcgill

  Paperback · 09 Jun 2011 · €10.00

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  A secret shared. Two lives entwined. Finally the past must come to light.

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  White Death
  Tobias Jones

  Paperback · 21 Apr 2011 · €17.35

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  Castagnetti, a bee-keeping private detective, is hired by a businessman to find out who set fire to his car and why. It seems like a dead-end case, nothing more than an instance of mindless vandalism. But before long the businessman is receiving threatening phone calls, his factory is burnt to the ground and an employee loses his life.

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  The Sisters Brothers
  Patrick deWitt

  Paperback · 05 May 2011 · €17.35
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  From the author of the acclaimed ABLUTIONS, this dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat Western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother, on the trail of a man named Warm -