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#AtoZChallenge, Book Titles, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

P is for Pride and Prejudice #AtoZChallenge

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Pride and Prejudice

P is for Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 

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Blurb (from Goodreads): “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s witty comedy of manners–one of the most popular novels of all time–that features splendidly civilized sparring between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.

#AtoZChallenge, Book Titles, Mandy Baggot, One Wish in Manhattan

O is for One Wish in Manhattan #AtoZChallenge

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One Wish in Manhattan

O is for One Wish in Manhattan by Mandy Baggot

 

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Blurb: (from Goodreads) The temperature is dropping, snow is on its way and Hayley Walker is heading for New York with one wish on her mind…to start over.

With her nine year-old daughter Angel, Hayley is ready for an adventure. From hot chocolates and horse-drawn carriage rides in Central Park, to ice-skating at the Rockefeller Centre, and Christmas shopping on 5th Avenue – they soon fall in love with the city that never sleeps.

But there’s more to New York than the bright twinkly lights and breathtaking skyscrapers. Angel has a Christmas wish of her own – to find her real dad.

While Hayley tries to fufil her daughter’s wish, she crosses paths with Billionaire Oliver Drummond. Restless and bored with fast living, there’s something intriguing about him that has Hayley hooked.

Determined to make her daughter’s dream come true, can Hayley dare to think her own dreams might turn into reality – could A New York Christmas turn into a New York Forever?

Travel to the Big Apple this Christmas and join Hayley and Oliver as they both realise that life isn’t just about filling the minutes…it’s about making every moment count.

 

#AtoZChallenge, Book Titles, Chris Longmuir, Night Watcher

N is for Night Watcher #AtoZChallenge

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Night Watcher

N is for Night Watcher by Chris Longmuir

 

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Blurb: (from Goodreads) A mysterious stranger arrives in Dundee, Scotland, with a mission to find a new Chosen One to punish. His inner voices guide him to Nicole, a ruthless business woman with a weakness for the husbands of other women.
One of Nicole’s paramours is found hanged and everyone assumes he has committed suicide. However, his estranged wife, Julie, knows better and blames his death on Nicole. Obsessed with the need to punish Nicole, Julie stalks her, unaware that there is another stalker, the deranged and dangerous Night Watcher.

Who will exact punishment on Nicole first?
What price will Nicole have to pay for her misdemeanors?
Will Julie’s mind games drive Nicole over the edge?
And what price will Julie have to pay for her obsession?

Only the Night Watcher knows!

 

 

#AtoZChallenge, Agatha Christie, Book Titles, Murder on the Orient Express

M is for Murder on the Orient Express #AtoZChallenge

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Murder on the Orient Express

M is for Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

 

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Blurb: (from Goodreads) Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. A passenger lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.

 

 

#AtoZChallenge, Book Titles, Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson

K is for Kidnapped #AtoZChallenge

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Kidnapped

K is for Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped

Blurb (from Goodreads): The adventures of David Balfour, a young orphan, as he journeys through the dangerous Scottish Highlands in an attempt to regain his rightful inheritance.

Stevenson is also one of three Scottish authors featured in the Writers’ Museum in Edinburgh.

#AtoZChallenge, Book Titles, In the Cold Dark Ground, Stuart MacBride

I is for In the Cold Dark Ground #AtoZChallenge

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In the Cold Dark Ground

I is for In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride

In the Cold Dark Ground

I love the Logan McRae series by Stuart MacBride. I first discovered them in Costco when they had package deal on – first two and then last of the series bundled together. Of course, you’re hooked and have to get the others. And coupled with the fact that these books are set in Aberdeen city and shire, places near and dear to my heart, makes them even better.

You can read the blurb for In the Cold Dark Ground on Stuart MacBride’s website.

 

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H is for Halloween Party #AtoZChallenge

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Halloween Party

H is for Halloween Party by Agatha Christie

Halloween

One of my cousins bought the hardcover edition of this book for my grandmother the year she got indoor plumbing. Good reading material while she waited for her turn in the new bathroom. But I digress…

Blurb: (from Goodreads) A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples… At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘evil presence’. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer…

 

#AtoZChallenge, Book Titles, Miriam Wakerly

G is for Gypsies Stop tHere #AtoZChallenge

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Gypsies Stop tHere

G is for Gypsies Stop tHere by Miriam Wakerly

Gypsies

Blurb: (from Goodreads) Will uprooting herself from London to live in the country help Kay escape guilt-ridden memories of her husband’s death? Far from finding a quiet life, she is caught up in an age-old village conflict where passionate opinions on Romany Gypsy Travellers divide the local people.

A young woman, Lena, enters her life, unwittingly putting Kay’s plans on hold as Kay struggles to not only come to terms with her emotional past but to resolve Lena’s problems, those of the village and the Gypsies.

 

#AtoZChallenge, Book Titles, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

F is for Fahrenheit 451 #AtoZChallenge

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Fahrenheit 451

F is for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

Blurb: (from goodreads) The terrifyingly prophetic novel of a post-literate future.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.

Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.