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Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Sunday, September 11, 2011
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2011

Last Man Down: A Fireman’s Story by Richard Picciotto [TSS]

Last Man Down: The Fireman

Publisher: Berkley
Published on: May 6, 2003
ISBN: 0425189880
Number of pages: 272
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“When I first started out, in the early 1970s, it was custom in the department to sound a sequence of five bells over our internal bell system, four times in a row, whenever a firefighter died on the job. Everyone would stop, wherever they stood, whatever they were doing, for a long moment of silence as the sequence rang out. Five bells, four times.

I will never forget the sad sound of five bells, four times over, repeated six times after the legendary Waldbaum’s fire of 1978, when we lost six good men, and every firehouse in the city went silent as we counted off 120 rings. And I will never forget the bells we never heard on 11 September 2011, when our country was in chaos and our city was in ruins, and 343 of our brother firefighters lay dead in the rubble of the World Trade Center complex. There was no time to ring the bells for these brave soldiers, and too few of us left to hear the ringing.”
–extract from opening chapter–

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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2011

The Accident by Linwood Barclay

The Accident

Publisher: Bantam
Published on: August 8, 2011
ISBN: 0553807188
Number of pages: 400
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“The curtain opened and a tall, thin man, with dark hair and a scar over his eye, stepped out. He had a gun, and it was pointed straight at her head.
In her last remaining second, Edna spotted just inside the room beyond the curtain, an elderly Chinese man, seated at a desk, his forehead resting on it, a rivulet of blood training from his temple.
The last thing Edna heard was a woman – not Pam, because Pam was done talking – saying, “We have to get out of here.”
–extract from the prologue–

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Saturday, August 27, 2011
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2011

Claim of Innocence by Laura Caldwell

Claim of Innocence

Publisher: Mira
Published on: August 23, 2011
ISBN: 0778329321
Number of pages: 448
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“‘Izzy’, my friend Maggie said, ‘I need you to try this murder case with me. Now.’
‘What?’ I shifted my cell phone to my other ear, not sure I’d heard her right. I had never tried a criminal case before – not even a parking ticket, much less a murder trial.
‘Yeah,’ she said. ‘Right now.’
It was a hot August Thursday in Chicago, and I had just left the civil courthouse. I had taken three steps into the Daley Center Plaza, looked up at the massive Picasso sculture – an odd copper thing that looked half bird, half dog – and I actually said to it, ‘I’m back’.”
–opening paragraphs–

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
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2011

Solitary Man by Carly Phillips

Solitary Man

Publisher: Kensington
Published on: September 1, 2004
ISBN: 0758206623
Number of pages: 288
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“He killed his partner. He might as well have taken the gun and pulled the trigger himself. Only fourty-eight hours had passed during which he’d doubted anything would help him forget. How ironic it was that the woman in his bed had done what a bottle of scotch could not. She’s been a blessing, something he didn’t deserve.”
–opening paragraph–

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Saturday, August 20, 2011
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2011

To be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal

To be Sung Underwater

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Published on: June 2, 2011
ISBN: 0316127396
Number of pages: 448
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“The swerve (to use Judith’s own term) that slipped her outside the customary course of her life derived from one of those off-hand moments in which odd circumstances and amplified emotions invite an odd and over-coloured response. Amusement was the presumed objective, whatever the actual result might be… At the time though it seemed simple. Judith was renting a storage garage for some old furniture and when, late in the transaction, she was asked her name, she gave one that was not her own, a name in fact she hadn’t thought of in years. A few hours later, Judith, who was not a loser of keys, lost a key.” –extract from opening chapter–

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Sunday, August 7, 2011
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eReader Reviews

20 places you can find free Kindle books and other downloads – and they’re all legal!

If you are the proud owner of a Kindle 3G then you are probably keen to load up some books to read. I was browsing online a few months back when I came across a site called The Novel Network. This site doesn’t offer free Kindle books but instead it promised that in return for $50 I could get access to hundreds of Kindle books. The site mentioned bestsellers such as The Passage, Twilight and even Harry Potter.

I couldn’t quite work out how on earth they could get access to all of these Kindle books and provide them in a membership site for such a low one-time price, but since the site was sitting on the ClickBank network I decided to give it a go (safe in the knowledge that I could get my money back if I wasn’t satisfied).

Here’s what happened next…

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Saturday, August 6, 2011
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5 best Kindle 3G cases and covers to keep your Kindle in tip top condition

When I took delivery of my Latest Generation Kindle it was everything I wished for and more. Except for one thing. It doesn’t ship with a cover or case! Yep, not even a temporary sleeve to keep it in, once you remove the plastic sticky covers, which you need to in order to use it, then it’s open to the elements.

If you have yet to order your new Kindle then don’t make the same mistake I did. Order a Kindle case or cover at the same time so that you have something to protect your beloved Kindle 3G straight from the box.

If you already did make my mistake then you’ll be glad to know that I’ve reviewed the Kindle cases and covers on offer for the new Latest Generation Kindle and I have the results all published here to save you having to do the same.

Oh just before we get started… you need to know that the cases for the previous Kindles such as the Kindle 1, Kindle 2 and even Kindle DX won’t fit the Kindle 3, so you need to buy a case that is specifically designed for the Latest Generation Kindle 3G.

Posted by: Clare Swindlehurst
Saturday, August 6, 2011
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Kindle Review – The Amazon Kindle 3G is simply amazing!

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Do you want to know what the best selling, most gifted and most wished for product is over at Amazon? The Amazon Kindle.

I suppose it’s no surprise really because for those of us who enjoy reading, paperback and hardback copies of books can be a real pain. They’re cumbersome to carry around, they take up way too much space in your house, and when you go away on vacation you have to decide in advance what you want to read.

Let’s take a look at what makes the Kindle 3G so special…