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Over 50s challenges   . A Thousand Splendid Suns .   . Over 50s challenges
  A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini  

By Khaled Hosseini
For those that enjoyed The Kite Runner – this is a book that tells of the life of two women in Kabul living under the Russians and then the Taliban.  Mariam is only fifteen when she is forcibly married to the bitter and troubled Rasheed.  Two decades later tragedy strikes at fifteen year old Laila who is forced to join the unhappy household.  This story tells of the deep bond that develops against a violent background of war torn Afghanistan.
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  Simple Genius by David Baldacci  

By David Baldacci
A page turner detective/spy thriller – with
more twists and turns than a maze and many
red herrings. The CIA training ground of Camp Peary is the site of a murder and Sean King and Michelle Maxwell join forces to try to solve the enigmatic phrase “codes and blood”. They enter a world of cryptography and a secretive
research centre full of eccentric scientists. Simple Genius is their toughest case yet, testing them to their limits.
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Over 50s challenges     Far from the Madding Crowd       Having It All  
  Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy  

By Thomas Hardy
This story of love and consequences lays out a far reaching plot. Bathsheba Everdene is the centre of a complex story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. This is the first of Hardy’s novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of the south-west of England. A book with rich characterisation and atmosphere that will make you want to read more of this author’s work. 
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  Having it all  

By John Assaraf
Having It All contains practical exercises and powerful lessons to help you to achieve greater happiness and long-lasting success in life. This book will help you to pinpoint what you truly want in life and give you the tools to get what you want. John Assaraf started life with nothing and as a young man found himself descending into a life of crime; he managed to change his life around and went on to create a multimillion dollar empire.

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  Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela  

By Nelson Mandela
This book should be read by anyone trying to understand Africa today. These are the memoirs of an outstanding leader and statesman of our time. It is an uplifting story of an epic life and the monumental struggle for freedom from apartheid. It shows one man’s struggle against injustice and one man’s struggle to bring hope to a troubled land.
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