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Title: Ninepins Author: Rosy Thornton Format: ARC Paperback Pages: 320 (2012 total – 4,969) Approx. Word Count: 96,000 (2012 total – 1,374,983) Release Date: April 16, 2012 Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd Categories: general fiction, women’s fiction Source: ARC from author Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: Deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, Laura is living alone with her 12-year-old daughter Beth, in the
Read moreTitle: The Night Strangers Author: Chris Bohjalian Format: ARC Paperback Pages: 416 (2012 total – 4,265) Approx. Word Count: 124,800 (2012 total – 1,163,783) Release Date: October 04, 2011 Publisher: Crown Categories: general fiction Source: ARC from publisher Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door
Read moreTitle: Anil’s Ghost Author: Michael Ondaatje Format: Kindle Pages: 307 (2012 total – 3,427) Word Count: 75,321 (2012 total – 945,825) Release Date: April 24, 2001 Publisher: Vintage Categories: general fiction Source: personal copy Rating: 2 out of 5 Back of the book: With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all
Read moreTitle: Hardly Knew Her Author: Laura Lippman Format: Audio Length: 9 hrs 25 min Release Date: October 7, 2008 Publisher: William Morrow Categories: general fiction, short stories Source: personal copy Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award
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