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APR 2013

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THE HOBBIT : AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEYTHE HOBBIT CHRONICLES: CREATURES & CHARACTERS

By DANIEL FALCONER

9780007487264

HARPER UK

S$64.00

The ultimate celebration of the first Hobbit movie reveals

the culmination of the creative vision for the film through

exclusive interviews with the designers, cast and crew, and more than 500 previously unpublished photographs, written

and designed by the team at Weta Workshop.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles –

Creatures and Characters explores the amazing cast of heroes and villains, beasts and beings that populate

Middle-earth in the first chapter of Peter Jackson’s film

adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Richly

illustrated with behind-the-scenes photographs, digital

renders and film stills, this comprehensive book goes species by species, character by character, through the

film’s huge ensemble of characters and bustling menagerie

of creatures, both physical and digital, telling the stories of

how each came to be realized for the film.

KING OF THORNSBy MARK LAWRENCE

9780007439027

HARPER UK

S$18.50

The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his

young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.

To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I’ve walked from pawn to player and I’ll win this

game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood…

The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty

kings fight for the Broken Empire. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg

Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. He saw the game

and vowed to sweep the board. First though he must gather his own

pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them.

THE FORGOTTENBy DAVID BALDACCI

9781455573745

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$13.04

Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is.

A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to

investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case-but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found

dead in Paradise, Florida.

A picture-perfect town on Florida's Gulf Coast, Paradise thrives on

the wealthy tourists and retirees drawn to its gorgeous weather and beaches. The local police have ruled his aunt's death an unfortunate,

tragic accident.

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THE HITBy DAVID BALDACCI

9781455545476

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$23.32

From David Baldacci--#1 bestselling author and one of the world's most

popular, widely read storytellers--comes the most thrilling novel of the

year.

THE HITWill Robie is a master of killing.

A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls

on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters

committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims.

No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman...no one, except

Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous,

Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency.


TELEGRAPH AVENUEBy MICHAEL CHABON

9780007507412

HARPER UK

S$16.50

New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael

Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City

during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures ofKavalier & Clay); to an imaginary Jewish homeland in Sitka, Alaska

(The Yiddish Policemen’s Union); to discover The Mysteries of

Pittsburgh. Now he takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and

exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two

Oakland, California families, one black and one white. In Telegraph Avenue, Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture—

Kung Fu, ’70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music—and

delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories.

Click here to view book review:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/books/review/telegraph-avenue-

by-michael-chabon.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

THIS HOUSE IS HAUNTEDBy JOHN BOYNE

9780857520937

TRANSWORLD

S$29.00

1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as

governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. As she

makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible

hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching

train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor.

When she finally arrives, shaken, at the hall she is greeted by

the two children in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There are no

parents, no adults at all, and no one to represent her

mysterious employer. The children offer no explanation. Later

that night in her room, a second terrifying experience further

reinforces the sense that something is very wrong.


9780385350365

HARPER US

S$22.00

MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN ACCRA

By PAULO COELHO

9780007514236

HARPER UK

S$22.00

The incredible new novel from internationally bestselling author of The

Alchemist.

After lying undiscovered for over 700 years, a manuscript holding the

answers to a city’s final questions is unearthed from a cave in Cairo.

Centuries before, on the eve of the invasion of Accra, the citizens

gathered. A man stood before them and invited the people share their fears that he might offer hope and comfort.

His extraordinary insights on courage, solitude, loyalty and

loss were transcribed and passed on.

A timeless and powerful exploration of personal growth,

everyday wisdom and joy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI9YQtPiiWw

GUILT BY DEGREESBy MARCIA CLARK

9780316129541

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$16.00

Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight--someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions. It began

when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the suspectless

homicide of a homeless man. In the face of courthouse backbiting

and a gauzy web of clues, Rachel is determined to deliver justice. She's got back-up: tough-as-nails Detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel

and Bailey stir things up, they're shocked to uncover a connection

with the vicious murder of an LAPD cop a year earlier. Something

tells Rachel someone knows the truth, someone who'd kill to keep it

secret.

Harrowing, smart, and riotously entertaining, GUILT BY DEGREES is

a thrilling ride through the world of LA courts with the unforgettable

Rachel Knight.


JUST WHAT KIND OF MOTHER ARE YOU?

By PAULA DALY

9780593071700

TRANSWORLD

S$31.00

DEAR THINGBy JULIE COHEN

9780593070833

TRANSWORLD

S$31.00

Claire and Ben are the perfect couple. But behind the glossy facade,

they've been desperately trying - and failing - to have a baby for

years. Now, the stress and feelings of loss are taking their toll on their marriage. Claire's ready to give up hope and get on with her life, but

Ben is not. And then Ben's best friend, Romily, offers to conceive via

artificial insemination and carry the baby for them. Romily acts in

good faith, believing it will be easy to be a surrogate. She's already a

single mother, and has no desire for any more children. Except that being pregnant with Ben's child stirs up all sorts of emotions in her,

including one she's kept hidden for a very long time: Ben's the only

man she's ever loved. Two mothers - and one baby who belongs to

both of them, and which only one of them can keep.


She's gone and it's your fault.

You were supposed to be watching your best friend's 13-year-

old daughter, and now she's missing. But you know she's not

just missing - she's been taken. Because Lucinda is the second

girl to be abducted within a fortnight. And the first was found on

a busy high street, naked and severely traumatised. No one

expects the next to be so lucky. You're going to have to figure

this out - who did it. Because if you don't, then Lucinda will be

next. And you'll never forgive yourself.

THE FAMILY CORLEONEBy ED FALCO

9781455598854

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$14.91

THE PANTHERBy NELSON DEMILLE

9781455573752

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$16.00

Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent

Kate Mayfield have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen—one

of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they

will be working with a small team to track down one of the

masterminds behind the USS Cole bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther.

Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts and

murders—and the US government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost. As latecomers to a treacherous game,

John and Kate don't know the rules, the players, or the score. What

they do know is that there is more to their assignment than meets

the eye—and that the hunters are about to become the hunted.


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New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the

Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in

this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a

violent end.

For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future.

While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son

Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his

eldest child.

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NO WAY BACKBy ANDREW GROSS

9780007296910

HARPER UK

S$16.50

A chance encounter with a stranger in a New York hotel ends in a

shooting. Wendy Gould was an average mother – now she’s the sole

witness to the murder she’s being framed for.

YOU CAN RUNWhat she saw makes Wendy the top target for a deadly network of

powerful men. They want her silence. They will take no prisoners. How

can she clear her name?

YOU CAN HIDE

Lauritzia Velez is a suburban nanny with a tragic past – and a terrifying future. After another attempt on her life, she once again leaves

everything she loves behind to go on the run.

THERE IS NO WAY BACK

Both women know too much – except how to escape from this

nightmare alive.

THE KINGMAKER'S DAUGHTERBy PHILIPPA GREGORY

9781476716626

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

S$14.95

The Kingmaker’s Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the

man known as the “Kingmaker,” Richard, Earl of Warwick: the most

powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir,

Richard uses his two daughters as pawns in political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. In this novel, her

first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory explores

the lives of these two fascinating young women.

At the court of Edward IV and his queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and

desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Only a girl

she is married and then left widowed and fatherless, with her mother in

sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy.

Click here for book review:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/philippa-

gregory/kingmakers-daughter/


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9780552774413

TRANSWORLD

S$16.00

9780812983524

RANDOM HOUSE

S$16.00

I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBERBy SOPHIE KINSELLA

THE RECKONINGBy ALMA KATSU

9781451697827

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

S$16.00

Love saved her soul . . . but the shadows of the past condemn her.

THE RECKONING

Deepening the “wicked, sensuous, shattering love story” (Kresley

Cole) begun in The Taker, Alma Katsu pairs a mysteriously alluring

young woman with an ER doctor from rural Maine on a harrowing,

passion-fueled chase that transcends the boundaries of time.

With Dr. Luke Findley by her side, Lanore McIlvrae imprisoned her

immortal enemy and has embarked on a new life; now all of London

is clamoring to see the Victoria and Albert Museum’s “mystery”exhibit— Lanny’s collections of lost nineteenth-century treasures,

including the last precious gift given to her by Jonathan, the man who

owns her heart for eternity. But the portal to her past opens once

more as Adair, the Taker, crashes into the twenty-first century to hunt

down Lanny and exact revenge for her heartless betrayal—the price she must pay for an endless love.


Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man,

Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her “happily ever after” begins to fall apart.

Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill, but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she

spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave

a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect!

Well, perfect except that the phone’s owner, businessman

Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back and

doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wadinginto his personal life.

What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as

Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each other’s lives through

emails and text messages.

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12TH OF NEVER

9781455528912

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$23.32

Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home

with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two

of the biggest cases of her career.

A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted

with the strangest story she's ever heard: An eccentric English

professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder

and he's convinced is real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a

shooting is called in-and it fits the professor's description to the last detail.

Lindsay doesn't have much time to stop a terrifying future from

unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when

Lindsay is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating

loss of her life.

THE BOY WHO FELL TO EARTH

By KATHY LETTE

9780552776820

TRANSWORLD

S$18.50

Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright, beautiful son - who just happens to be autistic.

Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch, Lucy has made Merlin the

centre of her world. Struggling with the joys and tribulations of raising

her adorable yet challenging child (if only Merlin came with operating

instructions), Lucy doesn't have room for any other man in her life.

By the time Merlin turns ten, Lucy is seriously worried that the Pope

might start ringing her up for tips on celibacy, so resolves to dip a toe

back into the world of dating. Thanks to Merlin's candour and

quirkiness, things don't go quite to plan... Then, just when Lucy's resigned to singledom once more, Archie - the most imperfectly

perfect man for her and her son - lands on her doorstep. But then, so

does Merlin's father, begging for a second chance. Does Lucy need a

real father for Merlin - or a real partner for herself?


By JAMES PATTERSON

WALKING DISASTERBy JAMIE McGUIRE

9781476711874

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

S$16.95

Finally, the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster.

Can you love someone too much?

Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died:

Love hard. Fight harder.

In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground

gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.

Every story has two sides. In Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. Now

it’s time to see the story through Travis’s eyes.

ZOOBy JAMES PATTERSON

9781455545544

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$13.04

Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is James Patterson's best book ever.

TotalFor 36 years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing

novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is

the thriller he was born to write.

WorldAll over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz,

a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing

sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.

Click here for book review:

http://www.booksnreview.com/articles/1067/20120917/zoo-james-

patterson-tops-fifty-shades-freed-new-york-times-bestsellers-list.htm


THE PERFUME COLLECTOR

By KATHLEEN TESSARO

9780007419845

HARPER UK

S$18.50

LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANSBy M.L. STEDMAN

9780552779074

TRANSWORLD

S$17.00

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne

returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus

Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island,

where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are

granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the

grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up

onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose

moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast.

Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her

Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are

reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has

devastated one of them.


A secret history of scent, memory and desire from the Sunday Times bestselling author of ELEGANCE and THE DEBUTANTE.

One letter will turn newly-married Grace Munroe’s life upside down:

‘Our firm is handling the estate of the deceased Mrs Eva D’Orsey and

it is our duty to inform you that you are named as the chief beneficiary

in her will. We request your presence at our offices at your earliest

convenience, so that we may go through the details of your inheritance.’

There is only one problem. Grace has never heard of Eva D’Orsey.

So begins a journey which leads Grace through the streets of Paris

and into the seductive world of perfumers and their muses. An

abandoned perfume shop on the Left Bank will lead her to unravel the

heartbreaking story of her mysterious benefactor, an extraordinary

woman who bewitched high society in 1920s New York and Paris.

LET LOVE FIND YOUBy JOHANNA LINDSEY

9780552165778

TRANSWORLD

S$16.00

AND THEN SHE FELLBy STEPHANIE LAURENS

9780062068644

HARPER US

S$14.91

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens has

returned to another utterly irresistible branch on her beloved Cynster

family tree . . .

The only thing more troublesome than a Cynster man . . .

. . . is a Cynster lady who believes love is not her destiny. Famously

known in London society as "The Matchbreaker," Henrietta Cynster's

uncanny skill lies in preventing ill-fated nuptials—not in falling victim to Cupid's spell.

But then she disrupts one match too many and feels honor-bound to

assist dashing James Glossup in finding a suitable bride for a

marriage-of-convenience.

A task infernally complicated by the undeniable, unquenchable

attraction that flares between James and Henrietta, who continues to

believe she will never fall . . .


Lovely Amanda Locke, the daughter of a duke, has been out in

London society for three years but has still not found a husband.

Devin Baldwin, a darkly handsome breeder of horses, is well known

for using his expertise to bring about the matching of eligible young

ladies to suitable gentlemen - and becomes Amanda's riding

instructor, when she sets her sights on a wealthy nobleman known

to be passionate about horses.

But Amanda finds herself falling for the matchmaker instead, and

her desire for a husband takes her in a wholly unexpected

direction...

FLASHBACKBy DAN SIMMONS

9780316006972

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$18.00

The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users

to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective

Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be

with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result.

Nick may be a lost soul but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to

investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. This

flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change

the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the

past.

Click here to view book trailer:http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/07/entertainment/la-ca-dan-

simmons-20110807

TAKEN BY STORMBy KELLI MAINE

9781455598991

HACHETTE BOOK GROUP

S$21.00

DECEPTIONMaddie Simcoe knows the devastation that comes from keeping

secrets. Now, she's desperate to move on from the heartbreak that

almost destroyed her -- trading wild passion that once made her knees

weak for a life of comfortable stability.

PASSIONWhen Maddie blows back into MJ Rocha's life, nothing will stop him

from proving to her that walking away from him was the biggest mistake of her life -- not even the engagement ring she wears.

REDEMPTIONTrapped by a hurricane roaring through Turtle Tear Island, MJ and

Maddie find shelter in each others' arms. While the lightning flashes,

MJ and Maddie are helpless to fight bonds of desire that tie them

together.


GEARS OF WAR: THE SLAB

By KAREN TRAVISS

9781439184080

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

S$17.00

Ten years after Emergence Day, as the Locust Horde advances on

humanity’s last defended area—Ephyra—in a bloody war that has seen

billions die, Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders and abandons his post during a critical battle in a bid to rescue his father,

weapons scientist Adam Fenix. But Adam is buried in the rubble during a

ferocious assault on the Fenix mansion, and Ephyra falls to the enemy.

Marcus, grieving for a father everyone believes is dead, is sentenced to

forty years in the Coalition of Ordered Government’s brutal maximum security prison, known simply as the Slab.

But Adam is very much alive, snatched from the destruction by the elite

Onyx Guard on Chairman Richard Prescott’s orders. He’s now a long way

from home and in a prison of his own—a COG doomsday bunker on the

tropical island of Azura, a place hidden from the rest of Sera since the

Pendulum Wars.


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