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The Cover to Cover newsletter features the latest in fiction from easy entertainment to the high-reads of contemporary literature. There’s a top 10 bestseller list featuring Exclusive Books' fiction titles and news on a selection of recommended books that are sure to captivate you. |
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Get 20% off the four books below when you buy them online. The price listed on the website is the discounted price. This offer is valid until 31 July 2008. (Terms) |
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A gifted Cape Town law student with a glittering career in the offing, Alistair seems to have it all: looks, charm and money – and the attention of the hottest girls on campus. But his privileged lifestyle is about to be turned upside down as he is lured deeper and deeper into the sinister online world of Dark Video, where reality blurs and morals unravel. An intense thriller that will keep you spellbound. Usually R123, Online price NOW R98.40  
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It's the late eighties and British teenagers Vicki and Sage go on the run in Paris after burning down their art school pottery shed. Penniless, homeless, and worst of all, out of cigarettes, it isn't long before they find themselves living on the streets. Survival means not only learning to navigate the perils of soup-kitchens, begging, hallucinogens and sleeping rough, but also dealing with charismatic gypsy fire-eaters. Usually R123, Online price NOW R98.40
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Rosa *** is a fashionable journalist in her thirties, already the picture of London Achievement. Her handsome boyfriend is something in politics and her other friends are confident, prosperous and ambitious. But one afternoon, staring at her computer screen at work, she fails to see the point, walks out of her job - and begins her long fall from modern grace. Winner of the Orange Prize for New Writers. Usually R159, Online price NOW R127.20
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Joan McAllistair is about to embark on a trip with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family homestead in the Free State. For Eloise the trip is partly a gift, partly a means of assuaging the guilt she feels at moving her mother to a care home. The discovery of her grandmother's journal transports Joan to the troubled times of the Anglo-Boer war. Usually R199, Online price NOW R159.20
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This Month's Top Seller For four women in particular, the big news about the gorgeous politician is especially momentous... |
Notable Mover Peter Carlyle loses his family to a storm at sea... but all is not as it seems. |
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It is 1953, and America is still haunted by the war. Pearlie and Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland's elderly aunts, the family have no regular visitors. That is until one day, a neat and elegantly dressed gentleman named Buzz appears at their door.The Story Of A Marriage reveals how we can never truly know the ones we love.
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Three very different women, each poised for success, find themselves failing spectacularly. We follow the three family members over the course of one summer as at first they hide their crises - addiction, teenage promiscuity, bankruptcy - from one another, but then find their secrets exposed as the curtain-twitching world they inhabit begins to intrude. A thoughtful and clever study of three very different women trying to keep afloat.
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Emmy finds herself single for the first time in years. She vows to find a man on every continent for some pure, no-strings-attached fun. Adriana is stunning and can have any man she desires. She wants an eligible bachelor who'll slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger. Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her, she just can't refuse.
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Liza, Kellyanne and Billie are ambitious heroines chasing their dreams in the demimondes of media politics, reality television and rock music. Their journey unfolds thrill by thrill, shock by shock in an unputdownable story about the illusions of glamour, the dark side of success, the elusiveness of love and the fragility of relationships. Three incidents will change their lives forever: a career free fall, a surprise pregnancy and a brutal murder.
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The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading 'soul' who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect. Melanie has plans for Wanderer.
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It started with a child's letter. Karen Wiley, recently qualified San Francisco psychologist, thought she understood moral dilemma. A tormented past, an ugly divorce, and a troubled eleven-year-old daughter have given her more life experience than she ever wanted. Now, somewhere out there, an anonymous child has begun to cry to her for help. No-one Karen knows is in trouble. But the letters keep coming.
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Fear stalks our lives. In the press. On the television. Over the airwaves. Across the internet. Everywhere we go, someone somewhere is always watching. Waiting for the mistake that will reveal secrets, truths, lies, the real story or what they want to believe. No longer is anonymity a given right. We are being controlled without our knowledge and we don't appear to care.
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Boston, 1963. A city on the edge. But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claimed a dozen victims, a murderer whose name is indelibly linked to their city: the Boston Strangler. For the three Daley brothers, sons of a Boston cop, crime is the family business. They are simply on different sides of it. Two mysteries will collide and a shattering truth will be revealed.
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See you in August ...
The Exclusive Books.Com Team
