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Mad Men Season 2

New Stuff : DVDs (November 2009)

Posted Nov 06, 2009 in news

New season Mad Men and Gossip Girl just in! xoxo

New Stuff : Sci Fi and Fantasy (November)

Posted Nov 06, 2009 in news

Book 12 of the Wheel of Time series is just in. Get in line for your chance to read Robert Jordan’s: The Gathering Storm …

The Girld who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

New Stuff : Crime (November)

Posted Nov 06, 2009 in news

New crime titles from Matthew Reilly, James Patterson and the much anticipated; “The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Stieg Larsson, all available now …

Parrot and Olivier in America

New Stuff : Fiction (November)

Posted Nov 06, 2009 in news

Exciting new fiction this month from Peter Carey, Ben Elton, Tracy Chevalier, Paul Auster, Marian Keyes and more …

West Side Story

DVD Screening Schedule

Posted Nov 06, 2009 in events

There’s something due any day; I will know right away, Soon as it shows. It may come cannonballing down through the sky, Gleam in its eye, Bright as a rose! … It’s the Rowdy screening schedule for this week starring West Side Story! Great, Daddy-O! …

X-Men Origins Wolverine

New Stuff : DVDs (October 2009)

Posted Oct 30, 2009 in news

There’s sure to be something to please everyone this month in our new dvd selection for October including Mary and Max, Angels and Demons, Disgrace, Tokyo Gore Police, Chop Socky Chooks plus many many more …

Hollywood Ending

New Stuff : Crime (October)

Posted Oct 23, 2009 in news

New crime and mystery titles for October include Truth by Peter Temple, The Complaints by Ian Rankin, Hollywood Ending by Kathy Charles and many many more …

The Knife of Never Letting Go

New Stuff : Science Fiction and Fantasy (October)

Posted Oct 23, 2009 in news

New Sci-Fi titles for October by Tamora Pierce, Terry Brooks, Iain M. Banks, Jennifer Fallon, Robin Hobb and more …

The Sartorialist

New Stuff : Non Fiction (October 2009)

Posted Oct 23, 2009 in news

New non-fiction for October covering drought, guilt, suffering, … and on a lighter note; fashion, love, serenity and er, military history .. plus many many more …

Censoring and Iranian Love Story

New Stuff : Fiction (October 2009)

Posted Oct 23, 2009 in news

New fiction for October by Margaret Atwood, Philippa Gregory, Nick Hornby, Andrew McGahan and more …

Bye, Beautiful

Bye, Beautiful

Posted Sep 30, 2009 in reviews

Compared to her beautiful sister Marianne, Sandy feels invisible.

Lottery

Lottery

Posted Sep 30, 2009 in reviews

Perry is a man with an IQ of 76 whose claim to fame is winning millions of dollars in the lottery and dealing with the changed attitudes of his family and friends and his new-found celebrity.

Henry James

Washington Square

Posted Sep 30, 2009 in reviews

it was easy to read!

The Reserve

The Reserve

Posted Sep 29, 2009 in reviews

When it comes to fiction, I generally read genre: romance, science fiction, crime, horror, fantasy, and any or all of the above with as many hyphens as you care to add.

decemberists

The Crane Wife by The Decemberists LD 2746

Posted Sep 29, 2009 in reviews

Ever been so struck by a story that lush music bursts from the page into your head?

Jones Town

Jonestown

Posted Sep 29, 2009 in reviews

There’s been a lot of mud flung at this book whose subject is the notorious shock jock and flinger of mud himself, Alan Jones.

Gangland War

Underbelly: The Gangland War

Posted Sep 29, 2009 in reviews

The story of Melbourne’s Gangland War is entertaining and well-told and it is easy to sit down and breeze through several chapters.

Bubba Ho-Tep

Bubba Ho-Tep

Posted Sep 29, 2009 in reviews

I know, I know: A still-alive Elvis in a quiet country nursing home and his black friend, who is convinced that he is JFK, secretly stashed away by his enemies after his “assassination” back in the sixties, do battle with a reincarnated Egyptian Pharaoh.

Wonderfalls

Wonderfalls

Posted Sep 29, 2009 in reviews

Uber-slacker Jaye has convinced herself that she is happy with her underachieving lifestyle.