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Claire is ice blue, triangular, beautiful. Her speciality is lists, she remembers them verbatim. Katherine is red, multi angled , a chameleon slipping into whatever role she is playing and making it seem authentic. Amy won’t let anyone cross her boundaries, she is a butterfly that has folded her wings around her and crept back into her cocoon. Katherine, her mother is desperate to reach her. Claire, her aunt is the only one who can. Kaleidoscope is a novel about shifting perspectives within a family, brought about by the birth of an autistic child.	Kaleidoscope Barbara Erasmus
Abandoned by the side of a country road at the age of three, Walker Devereux is now nineteen and in Toronto to discover the truth about his early life. In pursuit of answers Walker uncovers his family’s dark secrets and comes within the deadly grasp of a man whose own early abandonment helped transform a lonely boy into a murderous psychopath.	Midnight Cab James W. Nichol 1841954489 TPB April 2004 R140.00
Irina Davydovna survives the sinking of the ice ship Chelyuskin. Finding herself back in her beloved home city of Leningrad, she thinks her troubles are over. But this is Leningrad in 1933, one of the most devastating moments of human history, Stalin is beginning to turn against the city, and his old favourite Sergei Kirov, and Irina finds herself caught up in forces beyond anyone’s control. **** Gillian Slovo will be in South Africa from 3 - 7 May ******	Ice Road Gillian Slovo 0316727482 TBP April 2004 R140.00
Max Skinner lives a life of long hours and fierce competition at the heart of London’s financial universe. When his Uncle Harry dies, he finds himself the owner of a vineyard in France. When Max decides to get an expert to look at the poor quality of wine in the vineyard, his efforts are met with a resistance he cannot understand. And then a mysterious stranger arrives from California …	A Good Year Peter Mayle 0316725439 TBP May 2004 R140.00
'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? Meanwhile, there are difficulties at the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where one of the apprentices has discovered the Lord, problems at home with the mysterious death of a hoopoe, and romantic complications when Mma Makutsi sets up a typing school for men ...	Kalahari Typing School For Men Alexander McCall Smith
The human story of the battle of Iraq in 2003 from the perspective of the BBC news correspondent, Rageh Omaar, who had spent several years living and reporting from Iraq before the war. He describes the atmosphere before the bombardment of Baghdad began and how the populous coped.	Revolution Day Rageh Omaar

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