Monday, June 1, 2009

Clearance sale ~ paperback novels

Postage cost: RM3.50 each (WM), RM5.00 each (EM)

Novel 001: Hour of the Hunter by J.A. Jance. RM8.00

Synopsis:
Released after serving six years in prison for the brutal murder of a young girl of Arizona's Tohono O'otham tribe, brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle now has a new target: Diana Ladd, a reservation teacher whose testimony put him behind bars.
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Novel 002: Bone Hunter by Sarah Andrews. RM8.00
Synopsis:
Forensic geologist Em Hanson is attending a palentology conference in Salt Lake City, and is the houseguest of a famous dinosaur expert. When he is murdered, the police suspect Em who must clear her name by finding the real murderer in the large group of people who have strong motives for his murder. This book presents a fascinating look at the world of modern day dinosaur hunters, and the confict between science and religion.
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Novel 003: Second Nature by Alice Hoffman. RM8.00
Synopsis:
In this latter-day Beauty and the Beast a suburban woman discovers her own wild spirit because of a chance encounter.

Robin Moore, coping with a divorce and a troubled teen-aged son, impulsively rescues a stranger from a psychiatric ward – a beautiful, uncivilized innocent who has been raised in the wilderness and possesses no more sophistication than a child. But when she brings him home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood, the events that follow cause Robin to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart – and, ultimately, to change all of her ideas about love and humanity. A novel of suspense and enchantment that is a true page-turner.
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Novel 004: A day late and a dollar short by Terry McMillan. RM8.00

Synopsis:
Much-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan's tour-de-force novel introduces the Price family--matriarch Viola, her sometimes-husband Cecil, and their four adult kids, each of whom sees life--and one another--through thick and thin, and entirely on their own terms. With her hallmark exuberance and cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, the author of the phenomenal best-sellers Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back has given us a novel that takes us ever-further into the hearts, minds, and souls of America--and gives us six more friends we never want to leave.
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Novel 005: Sphere by Michael Crichton. RM8.00
Synopsis:
A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defines their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old....
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