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Alcorobics: fitness and harmony through drinking

Karen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:52 +1000

ISBN 1740512030

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Tried aerobics but couldn't cope with the stupid leotards? Gave pilates a go but felt like a prat?

Well, now there's a revolutionary new exercise system just perfect for your busy life: AlcorobicsT: fitness and harmony through drinking!

AlcorobicsT is a fantastic mind-body-spirit approach to good health and stunning looks which lets you tone your muscles without ever having to leave the pub. Try AlcorobicsT while sinking beers at the bar, playing pool, or jumping about on the dance floor! With AlcorobicsT you can literally drink till you're drop-dead gorgeous!

Based on ancient Sumerian philosophy, and refined for the 21st century by fitness guru, the Reverend Andrew Masterson, AlcorobicsT is the perfect system for all men and women who would desperately like to look trim, taut and terrific, but don't like visiting gyms for the very sound reason that such places rarely if ever serve booze.

Lavishly illustrated and divided into easy to follow sections, this book will teach you all you need to know about the most important physical exercise method since the invention of legs. Throw away your ab-expanders and jogging shorts. With AlcorobicsT you'll be well on the way to having the body you always dreamed of having by the end of your first glass! Buy this book and head for the nearest hotel. Your new life can start today!

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Submitted by Karen on Fri, 21/09/2007 - 3:17pm.

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And De Fun Don't Dun

helen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:53 +1000

ISBN 0330274473

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They don't call him Lucky Les for nothing. A ticket in a raffle and Norton was off to the US of A where it turned out hot, red hot, and it wasn't just the weather. Night club brawls, mafia hitmen and too many girls called Lori, all in a sea of margaritas. Even for Les Norton it was just too hot to handle. So it was off to the Caribbean, where Millwood Downie - schoolteacher, historian and would-be stand-up comic - helps Les trace his family tree and possibly uncover the biggest earn ever.

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Submitted by Karen on Mon, 23/07/2007 - 3:35pm.

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Between the Devlin And The Deep Blue Seas

helen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:54 +1000

ISBN 0330272306

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Les Norton's apartment block in Randwick was proving to be nothing but trouble, full of mayhem and murder. It seemed the longer he owned it the more money he lost. But while he's trying to solve his financial problems, Les still has time to fight hate-crazed roadies, sort out a drug deal after fighting a gang of bikies, help a feminist Balmain writer with some research she won't forget in a hurry, and get involved with Franulka, a super-sexy leadsinger of an all-girl rock band, The Heathen Harlots. And with the help of two ex-Romanian Securitate explosive experts, he might even be able to sort out his investment. But can Les pull off the perfect crime?

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Submitted by Karen on Mon, 23/07/2007 - 3:54pm.

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Big Ask, The

Karen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:21:13 +1000

ISBN 1877008524

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Four a.m. and the smart money's home in bed. More importantly for Murray Whelan, his son Red isn't. He's gone missing, on the run somewhere in Sydney. So what's Murray doing in a greasy spoon at the fruit and veg markets, nursing his facial bruising and talking to Donny Maitland about a grass-roots takeover of the truckies' union?

Working a deal for Angelo Agnelli, Minister for Transport and sparring partner of the United Haulage Workers, that's what. Business as usual for Murray. Until the blokeⁱ who inflicted the bruises turns up to do some more inflicting. And then turns up dead.

Murray needs to stay out of trouble long enough to find Red. But that, it seems, might be a pretty big ask.

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Submitted by Karen on Wed, 12/09/2007 - 12:29pm.

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Brush Off, The

Karen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:21:13 +1000

ISBN 1876485329

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Angelo Agnelli has been Minister for the Arts for twelve hours and already artists have started killing themselves. Or so it seems when Marcus Taylor's body is fished from the Arts Centre moat.

Was it really an act of protest over the state of arts funding? And what's the political damage if the suicide note becomes public?

The career of Murray Whelan, minder and general dogsbody to the hapless Agnelli, hangs by its usual slender thread. If he can put the fix in here, he might have a chance of staying employed.

But as Murray soon discovers, in the world of culture vultures they don't just sit around waiting for you to die before they start tearing the flesh off your bones.

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Submitted by Karen on Wed, 12/09/2007 - 12:32pm.

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Crime Scene Cessnock

helen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:57 +1000

ISBN 073228211X

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Les is back and on the detox ... All it took was a summer's day and a flat tyre on his push-bike, and Les is out on bail and on the run from a gun-happy street gang intent on a drive-by. So, with Warren's help, Les Norton defendant, becomes Len Gordon film director, safely ensconced at the ultra-swish Opal Springs Health Resort till Eddie can sort things out back in Sydney. Unfortunately, the first thing Les finds on arrival is motivational guru Alexander Holden dead at the front gate. Then, before you can say 'soya beans with tahini and lime dressing', the cops arrive and Les is up to his neck in a land of a thousand acronyms, fighting off steroid-happy body builders, sex-crazed socialites, violent greyhound owners - and, worst of all, caffeine withdrawals - while at the same time matching wits with the four acrimonious writers-in-residence. Was Alexander Holden murdered? Or was it an accident? Find out in the gripping climax and food fight when all is revealed - in the library. Robert G. Barrett's latest Les Norton adventure, Crime Scene Cessnock, set in New South Wales's beautiful Pokolbin Valley, is a whodunnit with a difference, and proves once again why Barrett is, to quote The Australian newspaper, 'the king of popular fiction'.

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Submitted by Karen on Mon, 23/07/2007 - 3:56pm.

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CURSE OF THE GOLDEN YO-YO, THE - Robin Bowles

Karen — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:07:02 +1000

Davo's Little Something

helen — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:58 +1000

ISBN 0330272926

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All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone. But this was Sydney in the early Eighties - the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic, street gangs, gay bashings and murders. When a gang of skinheads bash Davo's old school- friend to death simply because he was gay, and leave Davo almost dead in an intensive care unit, they unleash a crazed killer onto the city streets. Before the summer had ended, over thirty corpses had turned up in the morgue, leaving two bewildered detectives to find out where they were coming from. Davo's Little Something is not for the squeamish. Although written with lashings of black humour the action is chillingly brutal - a story of a serial killer bent on avenging himself on the street tribes of Sydney ...

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Submitted by Karen on Mon, 23/07/2007 - 3:58pm.

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FAT, FIFTY & F***ED! - Geoffrey McGeachin

Karen — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:03:50 +1000

FEARLESS FOURTEEN by Janet Evanovich

voyagersaus — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:38:01 +1000