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Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department...but he lives for his night-time hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him and copying his methods.Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure...in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.Like the previous five bestselling novels in the Dexter series, DOUBLE DEXTER showcases the witty, macabre originality that has propelled Jeff Lindsay to international success. DOUBLE DEXTER is raucously entertaining, full of smart suspense and dark laughs.
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WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . .King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
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Across the globe, millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully coded world of T'Rain - an addictive internet role-playing game of fantasy and adventure. But backstreet hackers in China have just unleashed a contagious virus called Reamde, and as it rampages through the gaming world spreading from player to player - holding hard drives hostage in the process - the computer of one powerful and dangerous man is infected, causing the carefully mediated violence of the online world to spill over into reality.
An inimitable and compelling thriller that careers from British Columbia to South-West China via Russia and the fantasy world of T'Rain, Reamde
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Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her dreams. Shirley, approaching 80, believes she was betrayed by her lover many years ago and has retreated from the world, becoming a recluse living in an underground dugout. Her new friends cause her to reassess what she's done with her life. Anna, 20, has a promising athletic career but is torn between the commitment to her sport, which could carry her to the Olympics, and the other challenges in her life. Will running away solve her problems? The friendship that develops between these three women who meet in the strangely beautiful but desolate landscape of Opal Lake helps them resolve deal with the next stage of their lives.
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THE OBERNEWTYN CHRONICLES - BOOK SIX

It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free.
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Garry Hartshorn and Softie Monaghan were never love's young dream. Not even on their wedding day. Softie was sophisticated, a career woman, who owned a nice apartment overlooking St Kilda Beach. Garry had a few rough edges, plus one failed marriage and an assortment of jobs under his belt. But Softie's body clock was ticking, and Garry wanted children ... So they got married, and produced the only thing they ever had in common. Matilda. Now, two years later, their golden-haired child is at the centre of a bitter custody battle. Both parents insist that her well-being is the only thing they care about. Yet, in truth, Matilda was always the one most likely to become lost.
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Until now, home cooking has remained stubbornly out of touch with technological development but Heston Blumenthal, champion of the scientific kitchen, is set to change all that with his radical new book. With meticulous precision, he explains what the most effective techniques are and why they work.
Click for more info
A broken, old bus appears one morning, sad as a whale on a beach, right outside Stella's house. On the front of it, held up with packing tape, is a hand painted sign... "Heaven".
Click for more info
Have lots of fun with Grug in the Australian bush. Read stories, explore, write poems, solve puzzles, bake cakes, make masks. There is so much to do.
Click for more info
Welcome to the colourful streets of this world! Around the world, market stalls, food stalls and mobile food carts are part of everyday street scene. Street Food - this is the quick snack many have at lunch time, or a snack for between meals. Whether at the souks in the Arab States, or in the bustle of Asian cities, whether in Morocco eating couscous or hot dogs in America, Street Food- is the diversity of regional delicacies which offer limitless variety and is a living expression of the various nations and their cultures.
Click for more info
Dexter Morgan is not your average serial killer. He enjoys his day job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department...but he lives for his night-time hobby of hunting other killers. Dexter is therefore not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him and copying his methods.Dexter is not one to tolerate displeasure...in fact, he has a knack for extricating himself from trouble in his own pleasurable way.Like the previous five bestselling novels in the Dexter series, DOUBLE DEXTER showcases the witty, macabre originality that has propelled Jeff Lindsay to international success. DOUBLE DEXTER is raucously entertaining, full of smart suspense and dark laughs.
Click for more info
WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . .King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
Click for more info
Across the globe, millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully coded world of T'Rain - an addictive internet role-playing game of fantasy and adventure. But backstreet hackers in China have just unleashed a contagious virus called Reamde, and as it rampages through the gaming world spreading from player to player - holding hard drives hostage in the process - the computer of one powerful and dangerous man is infected, causing the carefully mediated violence of the online world to spill over into reality.
An inimitable and compelling thriller that careers from British Columbia to South-West China via Russia and the fantasy world of T'Rain, Reamde
Click for more info
Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband who had been the centre of her existence and for whom she sacrificed her own art career. Now she needs to find the courage to rekindle her dreams. Shirley, approaching 80, believes she was betrayed by her lover many years ago and has retreated from the world, becoming a recluse living in an underground dugout. Her new friends cause her to reassess what she's done with her life. Anna, 20, has a promising athletic career but is torn between the commitment to her sport, which could carry her to the Olympics, and the other challenges in her life. Will running away solve her problems? The friendship that develops between these three women who meet in the strangely beautiful but desolate landscape of Opal Lake helps them resolve deal with the next stage of their lives.
Click for more info
THE OBERNEWTYN CHRONICLES - BOOK SIX

It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free.
Click for more info
Garry Hartshorn and Softie Monaghan were never love's young dream. Not even on their wedding day. Softie was sophisticated, a career woman, who owned a nice apartment overlooking St Kilda Beach. Garry had a few rough edges, plus one failed marriage and an assortment of jobs under his belt. But Softie's body clock was ticking, and Garry wanted children ... So they got married, and produced the only thing they ever had in common. Matilda. Now, two years later, their golden-haired child is at the centre of a bitter custody battle. Both parents insist that her well-being is the only thing they care about. Yet, in truth, Matilda was always the one most likely to become lost.
Click for more info
Until now, home cooking has remained stubbornly out of touch with technological development but Heston Blumenthal, champion of the scientific kitchen, is set to change all that with his radical new book. With meticulous precision, he explains what the most effective techniques are and why they work.
Click for more info
A broken, old bus appears one morning, sad as a whale on a beach, right outside Stella's house. On the front of it, held up with packing tape, is a hand painted sign... "Heaven".
Click for more info
Have lots of fun with Grug in the Australian bush. Read stories, explore, write poems, solve puzzles, bake cakes, make masks. There is so much to do.
Click for more info
Welcome to the colourful streets of this world! Around the world, market stalls, food stalls and mobile food carts are part of everyday street scene. Street Food - this is the quick snack many have at lunch time, or a snack for between meals. Whether at the souks in the Arab States, or in the bustle of Asian cities, whether in Morocco eating couscous or hot dogs in America, Street Food- is the diversity of regional delicacies which offer limitless variety and is a living expression of the various nations and their cultures.
Foster's Little Bookshop is South Gippsland's premiere bookstore. We supply all types of books including fiction, non-fiction, children's and special interest books. Even if we don't have it in stock we can find any book for you, so why not drop in and see us or just have a browse - you never know you might stumble across something inspiring! We look forward to seeing you soon.
- Jan & Bob   

December 08, 2011

The Bookworm

Take a look at some of the interesting books around at the moment.

 

The Forgotten Island Michael Veitch

Michael Veitch has long been fascinated by the islands that lie between mainland Australia and Tasmania. As a child, he was told a mysterious tale about a young man, a lighthouse and one of the islands of Bass Strait. He stored this information away, mentally filing it alongside other snippets he gleaned about the islands and the goings-on there. Years later he is reminded of this story and wonders if there is any truth to it. Then, one day, he finally has a chance to explore the islands.

 

Bass Strait has over fifty cold, dark islands that are regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited. These islands are rich in atypical Australian history: sealers, shipwrecks, lighthouse keepers, feuds, Aboriginal 'resettlements', deadly encounters with nature and people who have vanished.This is the story of how he manages to get to the islands (weather/transport dependent) and what he finds when he gets there - the inhabitants, the stories, the birds and plantlife.  On his personal odyssey (plagued at times by appalling seasickness, airsickness and stinging nettles) around these islands, Michael comes across unresolved myths and legends, beaches of incomparable beauty, magical lighthouses, and people who live truly solitary lives.

 

The Forgotten Islands is an incredible, evocative read that will shine a light on this little known part of Australia and its extraordinary history.

 

The Best Australian Truck Stories Jim Haynes

A collection of true stories taken from the lives of trucking men and women from Tarcutta to Alice Springs and all over Australia.

 

The trucker's job - so vital to our nation's everyday life - makes for a diverse treasure trove of stories.
This first ever collection of stories about Aussie truckers captures the humour, tragedy and fascinating history of their world, proving once again that truth is often stranger, funnier and more inspiring than fiction. The unlikely yarns and tales, collected by Jim Haynes, quickly transport the reader into the intriguing but often hard and lonely world of the long-distance truck driver.

There are stories of endurance while crossing the Nullarbor in the early 1950s, of rescuing mates stranded in the desert and dumping wheat in protest at Parliament House, of repossessing vehicles in suburban Adelaide, and of men imprisoned during the long political battle to make the roads of Australia free to carry freight. Steeped in larrikinism, these are salt-of-the-earth Aussie voices from the most genuine characters to ever spin a yarn.
Whether you're interested in one of the most significant social revolutions to have shaped our nation, or in these never-say-die modern pioneers who astound with their resourcefulness, or whether you're just after a laugh and a bloody good story, this book is for you.

 

And finally a memoir that deserves to be in this list.....................

 

Worse Things Happen at Sea by William  McInnes and Sarah Watt

Worse Things Happen at Sea is about families, suburbs and homes, friends, love and day to day life written by bestselling author William McInnes and award winning filmmaker, photographer and animator Sarah Watt.

 

In William's first book A MAN'S GOT TO HAVE A HOBBY he wrote about family life in the 1960s with humour, affection and honesty. WORSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA does the same for family life in 2000s; written by William and Sarah in a way that many Australians can relate to and enjoy.

 

This book celebrates the wonderful, messy, haphazard things in life -  bringing home babies from hospital, being a friend, a parent, son or daughter, and dog obedience classes. It's about living for twenty years in the family home, raising children there, chasing angry rabbits around the backyard, renovations that never end. It is also about understanding that sometimes you have to say goodbye; that is part of life too.

 

Illustrated throughout with Sarah Watt's photographs of family life and beautiful, everyday objects.

 

That's all for this month.

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