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Mothers Day Top 10 2008

Breath

1) Breath - Tim Winton

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When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an accident. Pike knows the difference between suicide and misadventure. He understands only too well the forces that can propel a kid toward oblivion. Not just because he's an ambulanceman but because of the life he's lived, the boy he once was, addicted to extremes, flirting with death, pushing every boundary in the struggle to be extraordinary, barely knowing where or how to stop... More

Change of Heart

2) Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult

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One day June Nealon was happily anticipating a lifetime of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. Waiting for a miracle to happen.For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens one day that changes everything for him... More

This Charming Man

3) This Charming Man - Marian Keyes

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Stylist Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying - because although she's his girlfriend, she definitely isn't the bride-to-be. Heartbroken, she flees the city for a cottage by the sea. But will Lola's retreat prove as idyllic as she hopes?

... Not if journalist Grace has anything to do with it. She wants the inside story on the de Courcy engagement and thinks Lola holds the key to it. Grace knew Paddy a long time ago. But why can't she forget him?... More

Hold Tight

4) Hold Tight - Harlan Coben

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Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill-the latest in a string of issues at school-they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son: "Just stay quiet and all safe."... More

Piri Piri Starfish

5) Piri Piri Starfish - Tessa Kiros

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Tessa Kiros believes that food is the essence of any country's people - a quilt that is patchworked together with their language, culture and songs. When she takes her family to live and travel in Portugal, she is captivated by the country and charmed by the old-fashioned way of doing things. Portugal has everything she loves - the markets, the sea, the
beautiful old poussadas - but she would have gone for the pasteis de nata alone. In Piri Piri Starfish , Tessa embroiders the recipes, traditions and Portuguese way of living together with her own unique colours and threads. ...More

Slow Journey South

6) Slow Journey South - Paula Constant

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EARN 135 POINTS

When Paula Constant and her husband, Gary, attempt to break away from the conventional 9-to-5 routine, a few weeks lazing in a resort or packed in a tour bus is not what they have in mind. What starts out as an idle daydream to embark on 'a travel to end all travels' turns into something far greater: an epic year-long 5000-kilometre walk from Trafalgar Square in London to Morocco and the threshold of the Sahara Desert... More

The Sum of Our Days

7) The Sum of Our Days - Isabel Allende

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Now, in 'The Sum of the Days', we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends -- her daughter never did wake up from her coma and died in 1992 -- when Allende recounts spreading Paula's ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husband, son, grandchildren as well as close friends -- kindred spirits -- central to her life... More

The Last Lecture

8) The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch, Jeffry Zaslow

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Did 'Tuesdays With Morrie' move and inspire you? Then you'll love 'Last Lecture', the story of Dr Randy Pausch, a 47-year-old computer science lecturer diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer...Dr Pausch gave his 'Last Lecture' to an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University on 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams'. He talked about the most important things he'd learnt throughout his life and the message he wanted to leave his children, aged 1, 2, and 5. ...More

The Other Queen

9) The Other Queen - Philippa Gregory

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Mary is Queen of Scotland but she has been forced to flee her land and take refuge in an England that is ruled by her cousin Elizabeth. But England, precarious in its Protestant state, set against the mighty powers of Spain, France and Rome, doesn‘t need a charismatic Catholic figurehead at large. So Elizabeth‘s chief advisor, Cecil, devises a plan in which Mary will live under guard with his trusted accomplice: Bess of Hardwick... More

I Peed on Fellini

10) I Peed on Fellini - David Stratton

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I PEED ON FELLINI, the long-awaited memoir from legendary film critic David Stratton, is an honest, funny and thoroughly entertaining journey through a remarkable life in film.

Passionate since boyhood about the cinema, Stratton has reviewed thousands of movies, directed and adjudicated at international film festivals, and lectured in film history at the University of Sydney... More