READER’S DIGEST CONDENSED BOOKS | ||
Title | Author | Publisher |
The Scarlet Thread | Everlyn Anthony | Century Hutchinson |
Steven Falconi is rich and powerful, heir to one of New York’s foremost Mafia families, and married to the beautiful but jealous Clara. On his wedding night, he calls out passionately the name of another woman: that of the English nurse, Angela, whom he had married – and tragically lost – in wartime Sicily. Now Steven tries desperately to convince Clara that his first love is not just dead but no more than a distant memory… But Angela is not dead – and more day, she reappears. From then on Steven finds himself torn between past and future, love and honour. | ||
King of The World | Ewan Clarkson | Century Hutchinson |
Anak, the magnificent caribou bull, is king of his snowy domain until he is captured by strange man who wants him to join their herd of reindeer. From that day on, his only solace is the understanding shown him by Ootek, a young Eskimo. For Ootek too is all alone in the world, desperate to carve out a life for himself in the harsh wilderness. How Anak helps Ootek to realies his dreams is only part of gripping tale set during the early years of this century, a lawless land where life is cheap, and only the strong can survive… | ||
What Was Good About Today | Carol Kruckebreg | Madrona Publishers, Seattle |
“There is something very wrong with Sara’s blood.” For Carol and Walt Krucheberg the doctor’s verdict is a devastating one. Their beautiful, irrepressible eight-year-old daughter has a rare form of leukemia. The odds are against recovery. How can a family live through such a time? With sorrow and unfailing love, certainly. With disbelief, horror, terror, desperation and anger, too. But also unexpectedly, with courage and laughter. A mother’s true story of a child whom it is impossible to forget. | ||
The Minotaur | Stephen Coonts | Collins |
When Captain Jake Grafton, veteran pilot of Vietnam, is summoned by navy officials in the Pentagon to help develop their new stealth bomber, he is given a dire warning. A spy, codename Minotaur, has already penetrated the military security system and it can only be a matter of time before he discovers the top secret radar suppression technology at the heart of the new aircraft. It is impressive that the Minotaur is exposed as soon as possible… An all-too-plausible tale of international espionage from a master of the military thriller. | ||
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READER’S DIGEST CONDENSED BOOKS | ||
Title | Author | Publisher |
The Fist of God | Frederick Forsyth | Bantam |
As Allied forces gather for war in the Gulf, information is received that Saddam Hussain possesses a deadly weapon – Qubth-ut-Allah, the Fist of God. To locate and destroy this doomsday weapon, SAS man Mike Martin is sent undercover to Iraq to run a spy code-named Jericho, whose access to kilitary secrets can surely be bought – at a price. | ||
St Agnes’s Stand | Thomas Eidson | Michael Joseph |
New Mexico, 1856: a small band of travelers – three nuns and seven young children – huddle together behine their wagons, while hostile Apaches taunt them from every side. The Indians, wary wary of the black rope women, have so fat kept their distance. Sooner or later, though, they will attack. But Sister St Agnes, sustained by an abiding faith in God, refuses to give up hope of rescue. And, when a renegade cowboy stumbles upon the scene, she knows in her heart that he is the answer to her prayers. | ||
Exposure | Evelyn Anthony | Bantam |
When press baron William Western asks journalist Julia Hamilton to head Exposure, a new investigative section in his newspaper, it seem like the chance of a lifetime. Her first target is to be Western’s enemy and rival, media tycoon Harold King. As Julia researches into King’s past she finds herself unraveling a fifty-year-old mystery that started in the heat and sand of the desert during the Second World War. | ||
And The Violins Stopped Playing | Alexander Ramati | Hodder And Stoughton |
Polish Gypsy Dymitr Mirga is warned by a relative to flee Warsaw because the Nazis have stated to send Gypsies, as well as Jews, to concentration camps. He and his family rejoin their tribes of Lowland family rejoin their tribe of Lowland Gypsies in Brest Litovsk, and make a desperate attempt to escape to Hungary before the Nazis catch up with them. | ||
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Cher | J Randy Taraborrelli | Pan Book | RM10 |
Outrageous, tough, vulnerable, talented – Cher. She’s one of the world’s most talked about superstars. Now the whole uncensored story can be told. Of how a tough talking bad little girl named Cherilyn Sarkisian became the gorgeous, glitzy, glamorous CHER! |
Going For Stone | Philip Gross | Oxford University Press | RM10 |
Nick is desperate – out on the street, in a strange town, with no money, no ID. He’s got nothing to lose. Then he sees Swan – the living clockwork ballerina – and the others. Human statues. Street performers who can turn themselves to stone – almost. Could he do that? He can. He’s good at it. Very good. But there is someone watchingfrom the shadows – the mysterious Antonin. And he makes Nick an offer that the others would do anything for. Anything. |
Walking a Tightrope | Edited by Rehana Ahmed | Young Picador | RM10 |
A sparkling collection of short stories by some of Britain’s top Asian writers – Rukhsana Ahmad, Debjani Chatterjee, Farrukh Dhondy, Jamila Gavin, Romesh Gunesekera, Aamer Hussain, Preethi Nair, Shyama Perera, Bali Rai and Adam Zameenzad. |
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