Stupid White Men – Michael Moore
Posted by: Rubyshoes on: April 1, 2009
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- …and other sorry excuses for the State of the Nation!
Further Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes
Posted by: Rubyshoes on: March 31, 2009
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From the #1 bestselling author of Under the Duvet
Slide further under the duvet, get yourself comfortable and let Marian take you places you’ve never been before…
Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdale’s with a difference and CAnnes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you’ll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs both with make-up and with Toberones. And of course, agony aunty Mammy Walsh is on hand to solve all your problems.
Hilarious and poignanet, Marian’s long-awaited second volume of journalism and previously unpublished writing, including several short stories, is the modern woman’s perfect companion. So put the kettle on and grab that Kit Kat Chunky – everything else will wait.
Title: Further Under the Duvet
Author: Marian Keyes
Condition: Used and read only once
ISBN: 0141021233
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year of publication: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Comments: This book has only been read once. It is in excellent condition.
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Difficult Daughters – Manju Kapur
Posted by: Rubyshoes on: March 31, 2009
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'A skilful, enticing first novel. Manju Kapur's sensous pages re-create an intimate world.' Sunday Times
Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.
Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Prefessor – a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home (alongside his furious first wife) and helps her towards further studies in Lahoure, is small consolation to her scandalised family. Or even to Virmati, who finds that the battle for her own independence has created irrevocable lines of partition and pain around her.
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Title: Difficult Daughters
Author: Manju Kapur
Condition: Used and read only once
ISBN: 0571195695
Publisher: faber and faber
Year of publication: 1998
Binding: Soft cover
Comments: This book has only been read once. It is in excellent condition.
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Sushi for beginners – Marian Keyes
Posted by: Rubyshoes on: March 31, 2009
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From the #1 bestselling author of "Angels"
‘Dammit,” she realized. ‘I think I’m having a nervous breakdown.’
Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards’ career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she’s divertd to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it?
Ashling Kennedy, Lisa’s super-organized assistant, worries about everything from her lack of waist to the lack of men in her life. She’s even anxious about a little bit of raw fish…
Clodagh Kelly is Ashling’s best friend and has her prince, her beautiful kids and a lovely house – everything in fact that Ashling evern wanted. And yet, she’s still not satisfied.
Three women on the verge of happiness and even closer to complete breakdown. Which way will they fall?
The Hospital by the River – Dr. Catherine Hamlin
Posted by: Rubyshoes on: April 1, 2009
- In: Inspiration | Non-Fiction | Women
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- A story of hope
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Gynaecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catherine is still there, running one of the most outstanding medical programs in the world. Through this work thousands of women have been able to resume a normal existence after living as outcasts.
The Hamlins dedicated their lives to women suffering the catastrophic effects of obstructed labour – a problem easily dealt with in the developed world by assisted delivery or caesarean section, but disatrous without medical intervention. The awful injuries that usch labour produces are called fistulae, and until the Hamlins began their work in Ethiopia, fistula sufferers were neglected and forgotten – a vast group of women facing a lifetime of incapacity and degradation. Read more here
Title: The Hospital by the River: A story of hope
Author: Dr. Catherine Hamlin
Condition: Used and read only once. As NEW
ISBN: 073291082
Publisher: Macmillan Australia
Year of publication: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
Comments: This book has only been read once. It is in excellent condition. Clear cover.
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Mergers & Acquisitions – Dana Vachon
Posted by: Rubyshoes on: April 1, 2009
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A novel by Dana Vachon
Tony Quinn is a recent Georgetown grad who has just landed the job of his dreams as an investment banker at J.S. Spenser, and the perfect girl, Frances Sloan, the daughter of one of New York’s oldest moneyed families. As he travels from the most exclusive ballrooms of the Racquet and Tennis Club to the stuffiest boardrooms of J.S. Spenser, from the golf links of Piping Rock to the bedrooms of Park Avenue, and from the debauched yacht of a Mexican billionaire to the Ritalin-strewn prep school dorm room of his younger brother, he finds that neither the job nor the girl are what they once seemed.
Set against the backdrop of money, lust power, corruption, cynicism, energy, and excitement that is Wall Street, Dana Vachon’s debut is suffused with an authenticity that only an author who lives in the world it portrays could provide. With Mergers & Acquisitions, he delivers a stylish and hilarious tale of the lives and loves of well-to-do young Manhattanites in their first year on Wall Street. Read the rest of this entry »
Great Civilisations
Posted by: Rubyshoes on: April 1, 2009
- From prehistoric times to the present day
A comprehensive series of reference books for use at home or in school, providing a fascinating and informative guide to all aspects of history.
From the familia tales of Greece and Rome and the opulence of the major Chinese dynasties, to the great empires of Egypt and Mesopotamia, Great Civilisations encompassses the rise and fall, victories and defeats, leaders and subjects, of many diverse and magnificent cultures.
This comprehensive and colourful guide traces the development of the world’s greatest civilisations – the powerful, the peaceful, the opulent, and the formidable. Whether they were destined to last just a few years, or dominate the world for centuries, this guide provides a fascinating insight into the foundations, politics, peoples, and customs of the powers of the ancient world.
Fences and Windows – Naomi Klein
Posted by: Rubyshoes on: April 1, 2009
dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate
Fences and Windows is an eyewitness account of a unique chapter in our history and an investigation of globalization and its consequences; a survival guide for life in the world economy. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Stupid White Men – Michael Moore
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- Mergers & Acquisitions – Dana Vachon
- Great Civilisations
- Fences and Windows – Naomi Klein
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- Coronation Talkies – Susan Kurosawa
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