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THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT by Barbara Vine — Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a beautiful woman in a chance encounter, the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers like to call “adventure sex.” It’s the dress-up and role-play that inspire Ivor to create a surprise birthday present for his beloved that involves a curbside kidnapping. It’s all intended as mock-dangerous foreplay, but after things go horribly wrong, Ivor begins to receive anonymous letters that reveal astonishingly specific details about the affair and its aftermath. Somehow he must keep his role from being uncovered — and his political future from being destroyed by scandal.
MY BOOKY WOOK: A MEMOIR OF SEX, DRUGS, AND STAND-UP by Russell Brand — Russell Brand (FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL) learned early on to make a joke of fear and failure. From a troubled childhood in industrial Essex, England, to his descent into addictions to alcohol, drugs and sex in the seamy underbelly of London, Brand has seen his share of both and miraculously lived to tell the tale. In MY BOOKY WOOK, he leads readers on a journey through his disastrous school career, his infamous antics on MTV and his multifarious sexual adventures. But this irreverent memoir is a story not simply of struggle, but also of redemption — a testament to the difficulty of discovering what you want from life and the remarkable power of a bloody-minded determination to get it.
TRUANCY ORIGINS by Isamu Fukui — Fifteen years ago, the Mayor of the Education City was presented with an unwelcome surprise by his superiors: twin 6-month-old boys. As the Mayor reluctantly accepted the two babies, he had no way of knowing that they would change the city forever. Umasi and Zen are as different as two brothers can be. Umasi is a good student; Zen an indifferent one. They love their adoptive father, but in a city where education is absolute, even he cannot keep them sheltered from the harsh realities of the school system. But when they discover that their father is responsible for their suffering, affection turns to bitterness. Umasi and Zen are thrust onto two diverging paths. One will try to destroy the city. The other will try to stop him.
PERCEPTION OF DEATH by Louise Anderson — Hardly 10 a.m. and attorney Erin Paterson was already having the worst day of her life. One of Glasgow’s top litigation lawyers, her specialty was victim compensation, not criminal law. But in the next 24 hours, she’d assault her soon-to-be-ex boyfriend and become the chief suspect in the brutal murder of an old schoolmate. Erin hardly remembered Lucy Grant, so what were messages from the dead woman and her killer doing on her phone the day of the murder? It’s a question that will soon unravel Erin’s carefully wrapped life to uncover a family trauma she and her troubled sister have done their best to leave behind. Suddenly Erin’s on the verge of losing everything: her reputation, her family’s law firm, and her life. For she’s on the short list of a serial killer concealed in the one place she’d almost rather die than look.
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Naming your memoir MY BOOKY WOOK is an excellent way of *never* getting me to read it.
What about “My Wookie Book?”