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Book 39 - 2019
Book 39: The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book by Neil Gaiman - 485 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:Before he died in 2015, Terry Pratchett asked Neil Gaiman to make a television series of the internationally beloved novel they wrote together about the end of the world ( Read more... ) -
Book 28 - 2019
Book 28: The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber - 287 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:For almost four years, men came to my cabin carrying trouble on their backs, each one haunted and looking over their shoulders . . . They showed up during the spring, they appeared in the summer and early fall. But never now, never in January ( Read more... ) -
Book 22 - 2019
Book 22: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - 405 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a ( Read more... ) -
Book 14 - 2019
Book 14: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - 367 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life ( Read more... ) -
Book 25 - 2018
Book 25: The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill - 241 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:As the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland risked everything for the sake of others, and for the love of Christ. Despite the danger and threat of discovery, the ten Boom family ( Read more... ) -
Book 16 - 2018
Book 16: The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare against Civilians - Why it Has Always Failed, and Why it Will Fail Again by Caleb Carr - 259 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:Military historian Caleb Carr's groundbreaking work anticipated America's current debates on preemptive military action against terrorist sponsor states, ( Read more... ) -
Book 1 - 2018
Book 1: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood - 324 pages
Description from bookdepository.co.uk:Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire ( Read more... ) -
BYZANTINE INTRIGUES.
Andrew Greeley turns auxiliary bishop John Blackwood Ryan loose to investigate a murder at The University of Chicago in The Bishop Goes To The University. I'm not sure whether there is greater intrigue in the Roman Catholic Church, which secretly ordains a Russian Orthodox monk as a cardinal, or in the Divinity School, where a youngish dean is ( Read more... )
