Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library Monday Book Group January/February 2025Like this list

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• Marry Me in Italy

  Pellegrino, Nicky, 1964-

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  “A dream wedding in Italy? It's the chance of a lifetime! Skye has been with Tim forever and the last thing she's thinking about is saying 'I do'. It's Tim that enters the dream wedding competition - he's longing to win an all-expenses-paid trip to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Too Deep

  Child, Lee, pseud., 1954-

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  Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ordinary Time

  Rentzenbrink, Cathy

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  Ann is a reluctant Vicar's wife. She loves her family and tries hard to do her duty, but is beginning to wonder how she ended up here. Her husband is too preoccupied with the needs of his congregation to notice those closer to home and her son is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vincent Van Gogh Atlas

  Denekamp, Nienke

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  Vincent van Gogh travelled widely through various countries in Europe on foot, by boat and, above all, by train. He wrote countless letters to his family as he went, and used the world around him as the subject for hundreds of drawings and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Short the Long and the Tall

  Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-

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  Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and ends up falling in love; and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Life of Dai

  Henwood, Dai, 1978-

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  "Dai Henwood wanted to be a comedian even before he knew what a comedian was. He always knew there was something special in being able to make people laugh. Over a 25-year career, the much-loved Kiwi entertainer and TV host has won every major…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Last Letters

  Barrett, Kerry, 1973-

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  London, 1940. When nurse Elsie offers to send a reassuring letter to the family of a patient, she has an idea. She begins a book of last letters: messages to be sent on to wounded soldiers' loved ones should the very worst come to pass, so that no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Does It Feel Like?

  Kinsella, Sophie, pseud., 1969-

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  Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumour growing in her brain. As Eve…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat

  Kim, Jiyun, 1992-

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  Situated at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, the Yeonnam-dong Smiley Laundromat is a place where the extraordinary stories of ordinary residents unfold. It is already a haven of tranquility and reflection for locals, but when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sister

  Lupton, Rosamund

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  'My sister would never have killed herself...' When Beatrice hears that her little sister, Tess, is missing, she returns home to London on the first flight available. But Bee is unprepared for the terrifying truths she must face about her younger…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Storm

  Ahern, Cecelia, 1981-

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  It is a wild night in the middle of December, and GP Enya is crouched over a teenage boy, performing CPR in the freezing rain. She found him on a mountain road near Dublin, the victim of a hit-and-run. The boy survives, but Enya goes to pieces. She…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carrie Soto Is Back

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins

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  Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has shattered every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Frozen River

  a Novel

  Lawhon, Ariel

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  Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Solve Murders

  Osman, Richard, 1970-

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  Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Secret Agent

  Latour, Pippa, 1921-2023

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  This is the astounding true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold

  Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-

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  In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yellowface

  a Novel

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)

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  Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wavewalker

  Breaking Free

  Heywood, Suzanne

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  Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Colours of the Dark

  Whitaker, Chris

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  Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who will risk everything to find her best friend. But when she does: it will break her heart. Patch lies…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Year of the Locust

  Hayes, Terry, 1951-

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  If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is required, and get out again by whatever means necessary. You know when to run, when to hide and when to shoot. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation