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Ziņojumi: 1861
Pilsēta: Рига, Пурвциемс
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If you like reading books in English, you are welcome to English Book Club. 
List of books available in English Book Club:
Chick-lit & Romance
Sophy Kinsella ‘Remember me?’- (2008) When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she's in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she's about to find out just how much things have changed.
Candace Bushnell ‘Four Blondes’- (2000)Consider this a sequel to her Sex & The City with new characters. Bushnell's quartet of blondes struggle with high-powered success, stretch marks, romantic intrigues, Manhattan expectations, dull lovers, biological clocks, and their own paranoia.
Lionel Shriver ‘The past birthday world’ (2007)- The new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'. It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player.
Audrey Howard ‘River’s of the heart’- (2000) This is the story of a woman whose broken heart leads to a marriage filled with both tragedy and passion. She has only ever loved one man in her life - her adopted brother - but his decision to marry her sister causes more than just heartbreak.
Adele Parks ‘Husbands’- (2005) The Sexy New Novel From The Bestselling Author Of 'the Other Woman's Shoes' And 'still Thinking Of You'. Backed By An Unmissable National Consumer Advertising Campaign.
Catharine Cookson ‘Riley’- (1998) Catherine Cookson explores the relationship between a young man and an older woman. Riley, who left school with scant education, is invited to work with a theatre and it is here that he meets the leading lady, Nyrene Forbes-Mason.
Katie Fforde ‘Flora’s Lot’- (2005) Flora Stanza has sub-let her London life in a bid to join the family antiques business. Her knowledge of antiques extends only to the relics of information she has crammed from frantic daytime TV watching, but what she lacks in experience she makes up for in blind enthusiasm. So she is more than a little put off when she doesn't receive the warm country welcome she expected. Her curt, conservative cousin Charles and his fiancee Annabelle are determined to send Flora packing, and their offer to buy out her recently inherited majority-share of the business is tempting...until a strange warning makes her think twice. Stuck with a cat about to burst with kittens, and keen to avoid a certain man back in London, Flora soon discovers country life can be anything but dull and sets about rebuilding the crumbling business...
William Kane ‘Archer’
Thrillers
Dan Brown ‘Digital Fortress’- (1998) When the United States' National Security Agency's code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious and ingeniously complex code called Digital Fortress that it cannot break, the agency calls in Susan Fletcher, a brilliant mathematician and their head cryptographer, to crack it. Fletcher eventually discovers that the code is a viral program designed to break down the NSA's firewall and encryption systems, allowing anyone anywhere to access all of the NSA's files. She also discovers that it was written by Ensei Tankado, a former NSA employee who became displeased with the NSA's intrusion into people's private lives...
John Grisham ‘The last juror’- (2004) In 1970, a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Local newspaper editor Willie Traynor reported the details of the horrifying crime. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi, threatening revenge against the jurors if they convict him, but guilty he was found and sentenced to life in prison. In Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt gets parole. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.
Arthur Hailey ‘Airport’- (1968) In a raging blizzard, a stricken aeroplane is struggling against all odds to reach its destination. For seven suspense-filled hours a blocked runway, a suicide, a mass demonstration, a stowaway, a pregnancy and a psychotic with a home-made bomb, bring the plot to a shattering conclusion.
Sallie Day ‘The palace of strange girls’ - (2008) Blackpool, 1959. The Singleton family is on holiday. For seven-year-old Beth, just out of hospital, this means struggling to fill in her 'I-Spy' book and avoiding her mother Ruth's eagle-eyed supervision. Her sixteen-year-old sister Helen, meanwhile, has befriended a waitress whose fun-loving ways hint at a life beyond Ruth's strict rules. But times are changing. As foreman of the local cotton mill, Ruth's husband Jack is caught between unions and owners whose cost-cutting measures threaten an entire way of life. And his job isn't the only thing at risk. When a letter arrives from Crete, a secret re-emerges from the rubble of Jack's wartime past that could destroy his marriage. As Helen is tempted outside the safe confines of her mother's stern edicts, with dramatic consequences, an unexpected encounter inspires Beth to forge her own path.Over the holiday week, all four Singletons must struggle to find their place in a shifting world of promenade amusements, illicit sex and stilted afternoon teas, in this touching and extraordinarily evocative novel.
Biography
Hellen Keller ‘The story of my life’- (1905) Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.[1][2] The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
Janey Godley ‘Handstands in the Dark’- Janey Godley (born 1961) is a Scottish stand-up comedian and writer. Her non-humorous autobiography Handstands in the Dark was a UK Top Ten bestseller and she was a 2006 Scotswoman of The Year finalist. She was a columnist for the Monday edition of The Scotsman newspaper 2007-2009.
Detective stories
Agatha Christie ‘Short Stories’
Books for children
Folk Tales
Persia’s brighest star
English Book Club is created and managed by helen, please, contact me if you have any offers or concerns. 
All books are available at KKM club, Kr. Barona 134.
Please, leave you name and phone when you take books to read. 
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