Summer Reading List 2016
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The Goldfinch
Author: Donna Tart
Page Count: 864
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0349139630
Synopsis/Blurb: Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and an absent father, miraculously survives a catastrophe that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo is tormented by longing for his mother and down the years he clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.
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The Client
Author: John Grisham
Page Count: 628
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0099179412
Synopsis/Blurb: A US State Senator is dead, and 11-year-old Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats.Together they must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer.
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The Dead Zone
Author: Stephen King
Page Count: 467
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0708818749
Synopsis/Blurb: Awake in the dead zone and awake ...into a nightmare. Recoil in horrors as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men's souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.
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The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Page Count: 150
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 0224094153
Synopsis/Blurb: Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.
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Island
Author: Aldous Huxley
Page Count: 286
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0099477778
Synopsis/Blurb: For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where Western science has been brought together with Eastern philosophy to create a paradise on earth. When cynical journalist Will Farnaby arrives to research potential oil reserves on Pala, he quickly falls in love with the way of life on the island. Soon the need to complete his mission becomes an intolerable burden and he must make a difficult choice/
Author: Stephen King
Page Count: 467
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0708818749
Synopsis/Blurb: Awake in the dead zone and awake ...into a nightmare. Recoil in horrors as you are touched by a young man cursed with the power to perceive the evil in men's souls. And whose ability to see into the future forces him into a terrifying confrontation with a charismatic, power-hungry and infinitely dangerous man.
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The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Page Count: 150
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 0224094153
Synopsis/Blurb: Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.
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Author: Aldous Huxley
Page Count: 286
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0099477778
Synopsis/Blurb: For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where Western science has been brought together with Eastern philosophy to create a paradise on earth. When cynical journalist Will Farnaby arrives to research potential oil reserves on Pala, he quickly falls in love with the way of life on the island. Soon the need to complete his mission becomes an intolerable burden and he must make a difficult choice/
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How The Dead Dream
Author: Lydia Millet
Page Count: 244
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0099520757
Synopsis/Blurb: An only child in a typical middle-American family. T is unusual only in his interest in, and talent for, making money. As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, and turns himself into a successful businessman. But T's material life begins to change after he adopts a dog, meets a girls, and takes his mother in after she splits up with his father. But when events conspire to leave T isolated again he starts to lose faith in people and civilisation and turns to nature instead, developing a strange and powerful obsession with endangered animals...
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Asking for Trouble
Author: Liz Young
Page Count: 338
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 009463375
Synopsis/Blurb: Sophy's single and happy about it. She does, however, have an imaginary boyfriend, Dominic, a little white lie designed to keep Sophy's mother off her back. Which is fine, until his presence is demanded at a family wedding. So does Sophy admit Dominic is a fantasy? Oh no. Sophy hires an escort. But when the distinctly delicious Josh Carmichael arrives on her doorstep, Sophy can tell things are going to get tricky. And the wedding is only the beginning...
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How The Dead Dream
Author: Lydia Millet
Page Count: 244
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0099520757
Synopsis/Blurb: An only child in a typical middle-American family. T is unusual only in his interest in, and talent for, making money. As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, and turns himself into a successful businessman. But T's material life begins to change after he adopts a dog, meets a girls, and takes his mother in after she splits up with his father. But when events conspire to leave T isolated again he starts to lose faith in people and civilisation and turns to nature instead, developing a strange and powerful obsession with endangered animals...
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Asking for Trouble
Author: Liz Young
Page Count: 338
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 009463375
Synopsis/Blurb: Sophy's single and happy about it. She does, however, have an imaginary boyfriend, Dominic, a little white lie designed to keep Sophy's mother off her back. Which is fine, until his presence is demanded at a family wedding. So does Sophy admit Dominic is a fantasy? Oh no. Sophy hires an escort. But when the distinctly delicious Josh Carmichael arrives on her doorstep, Sophy can tell things are going to get tricky. And the wedding is only the beginning...
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