10 of the Best
Books
from the Pivotal Network 2013
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Donna Tartt
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a
devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent
father, survives an accident that otherwise tears
his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he
is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is
tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother,
and down the years clings to the thing that most
reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating
painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal
underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide
between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty
antiques store where he works. He is alienated and
in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him
at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous
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Sheryl Sandberg
Ask most women whether they have right to
equality at work and answer will be a resounding
yes, but ask same women whether they'd feel
confident asking for a raise, a promotion and
some reticence creeps in. This title looks at
what women can do to help themselves, and make
small changes in their life that can effect
change on a universal scale. |
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The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer
From bestselling author Wolitzer
comes a dazzling, panoramic novel about what becomes
of early talent, and the roles that art, money, and
even envy can play in close friendships. The summer
that Nixon resigns, six teenagers become
inseparable. Decades later the bond remains
powerful, but so much else has changed. |
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Doctor Sleep
Stephen King
Stephen King returns to the character and territory
of one of his most popular novels ever,The
Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about
the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very
special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a
tribe of murderous paranormals.
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James McBride
From the bestselling author of The
Color of Water and
Song Yet Sung comes
the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John
Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a
girl to survive.
An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and
told with McBride’s meticulous eye for detail and
character, The
Good Lord Bird is
both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of
identity and survival. |
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A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE
... Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are
controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but
many in the scientific community have argued that they
are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those
people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had
operated on thousands of brains in the course of his
career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call
the “soul” is really a product of brain chemistry. Then came the day when Dr. Alexander’s
own brain was attacked by an extremely rare illness. This story would be remarkable no matter
who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander
makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith
will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your
life. |
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Life after Life
Kate Atkinson
Does Ursula's apparently infinite
number of lives give her the power to save the
world from its inevitable destiny? And if she
can - will she?
Wildly inventive, darkly comic,
startlingly poignant - this is Kate Atkinson at her
absolute best. |
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Bill O'Reilly
A riveting historical
narrative of the shocking events
surrounding the assassination of
John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up
to mega-bestselling author Bill
O'Reilly's Killing
Lincoln. Now the
anchor of The
O'Reilly Factor; recounts in
gripping detail the brutal murder of
John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a
sequence of gunshots on a Dallas
afternoon not only killed a beloved
president but also sent the nation
into the cataclysmic division of the
Vietnam War and its culture-changing
aftermath. The events leading up
to the most notorious crime of the
twentieth century are almost as
shocking as the assassination
itself. Killing
Kennedy chronicles
both the heroism and deceit of
Camelot, bringing history to life in
ways that will profoundly move the
reader. This may well be the most
talked about book of the year.
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Jamie Oliver
This
book is completely devoted to what we are asking for
- super quick, tasty, nutritious food that you can
eat everyday of the week. In creating these recipes
Jamie's made sure they're methodical, clever,
sociable, fun, with beautiful food full of big
flavours. It's a classic book that will arm you with
the skills to create wonderful meals, shockingly
fast. He's taken inspiration from all over the
world, embracing the tastes that we all love,
playing on classic chicken, steak and pasta dishes,
looking at Asian-inspired street food and brilliant
Moroccan flavours, putting together great salads and
so much more. And these are some of the quickest and
easiest meals Jamie's ever done. These recipes have
been tested and tested to ensure that this book is a
reliable companion for you and your family.
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Gillian Flynn
How well do you know your lover? The art of marriage
truly is the art of war in the new novel from the
CWA award-winning author of Sharp Objects and Dark
Places. 'What are you thinking, Amy? The
question I've asked most often during our marriage,
if not out loud, if not to the person who could
answer. Just how well can you ever know the person
you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must
ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding
anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears.
So what did really did happen to Nick's beautiful
wife? And what was left in that half-wrapped box
left so casually on their marital bed? In this
novel, marriage truly is the art of war... |
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