SMPW Library Book List
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DESERT ROYAL
By: JEAN SASSON
BOOK ID: 001-001
In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultan’s revelations about life in Saudi Arabia’s royal family. Royal women live as virtual prisoners, surrounded by unimaginable wealth and luxury, privileged beyond belief, and yet subject to every whim of their husbands, fathers and even their sons. Daughters of Arabia featured Sultan’s teenage daughters, determined to rebel but in very different ways.
ROBINSON CRUSOE
By: DANIEL DEFOE
BOOK ID: 001-002
It happened one day about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man’s naked foot on the shore…
Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe’s physical, moral and spiritual values are tested to the limit. For 24 years he remains in solitude and learns to tame and master the island, until he finally comes across another human being.
THE BENE THIEF
By: JEFFERSON BASS
BOOK ID: 001-003
‘The woman on the autopsy table had been dead for only two days and had seen in the cooler that whole time, but if I’d been guessing from the condition of her neck, I’d have guessed that her corpse had been ripening at the Body Farm for a week or more’.
Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton is exhuming a body to obtain a bone sample. A simple enough job, until he discovers that the body’s limbs have all been removed.
Brockton soon finds himself working undercover for the FBI, infiltrating the brutal world of black market body parts.
Faced with the toughest case of his career, Brockton is also in grave danger. If one of his shady new associates should discover they’ve been double-crossed, they’re unusually well-placed to dispose of his body.
The Bone Thief is the new thrill-a-minute chiller from the real life to dispose of his body.
BONES OF BETRAYAL
by: JEFFERSON BASS
BOOK ID: 001-004
Dr Bill Brockton has just received an urgent call from the nearby town of Oak Ridge, home of the A-bomb in World War II.
With his graduate assistant Miranda Lovelady, Brockton rushes to the scene, where they find a body frozen facedown in a swimming pool. The victim is Dr Leonard Novak, the designer of a plutonium reactor integral to the bomb. But when they carry out an autopsy, the discover he died of a searing dose of radiation. And everyone in the room is now in grave danger…
A Second body is discovered and the race to find the truth intensifies. As Brockton digs deeper, he uncovers a mystery that is far darker and more complex than he could ever have imagined. Will he discover the truth before more people die? Just how far back he need to look to find the truth?
THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS
By: SOPHIE KINGSELLA
BOOK ID: 001-005
My name is Samantha. I’m twenty-nine years old. I’ve never baked a loaf of bread in my life. I can’t sew on a button. What I do know is how to restructure a corporate finance agreement and save my client thirty million pounds.
Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day…she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge it’ll wreck her career.
She goes into meltdown, walks right out of the office, get on the first train she sees, and finds herself in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she is mistaken for the interviewee housekeeper and finds herself being offered the job. They have no idea they’ve hired a Cambridge-educated lawyer with an IQ of 158 – and Samantha has no idea how to work the oven.
The story of a girl who needs to slow down. To find herself. To fall in love. And to discover what an iron is for…
