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You Can Heal Yourself: Bio-Energy and the Power of Self-Healing

by Seka Nikolic.

 

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Seka Nikolic is a bio-energy practitioner with exceptional power.

The Milan Institute for Bio-Energy scientifically established that her healing powers are unequalled, and Seka's remarkable success rate has earned her a worldwide reputation.

 

Seka believes that her healing ability has a scientific basis and that bio-energy healing can work to complement orthodox medicine. Indeed many of her patients are referred to her by doctors who know that she can help with illnesses like ME.

In this ground-breaking book she explains the principles of bio-energy and describes how the body's energy field can by thrown out of balance by negative emotions like stress or fear, by the impact of other people's energy levels and by geopathic stress.

The result of this imbalance is illness and disease.

Drawing on Seka's twenty-five years of experience, the book mixes case studies with practical advice that enables the reader to recognise the problems that can lead to ill-health and learn how to manage their energy to protect themselves and start the self-healing process.

Accessible and convincing, You Can Heal Yourself will appeal to anyone who is interested in achieving optimum mental and physical health.

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Wish You Were Here by Mike Gayle.

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A brilliant romantic comedy exploring beach basics for the broken-hearted from number one bestselling author Mike Gayle.

Their holiday brochure said 18-30 . . . But they've just turned 35.

After ten years together Charlie Mansell has been dumped by his live-in girlfriend, Sarah. 
All he wants to do is wallow in misery, but mates Andy and Tom have a better idea: a week of sun, sea and souvlaki in Malia, party capital of the Greek islands.

But Charlie and his mates aren't eighteen any more. Or even under thirty. 
And it shows.

It isn't the cheap beer, the late nights or even the fast-food that's the problem.
It's girls.
And life. 
And most of all . . . each other. WISH YOU WERE HERE is a heart-warming, funny and wise tale about love and friendship and how seven days in the sun can change your life forever.

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Holidays in Hell by O ROURKE.

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O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe, from war-torn Lebanon to Korea to Poland to El Salvador, looking for trouble, the truth, and good times. 
A spin with P.J. O'Rourke is like a ride in the back of an old pickup over unpaved roads. 
You get where you're going fast, with exhilarating views, but not without a few bruises.

 

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Jaipong Dancer by Patrick Sweeting.

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Set in 1950's Sumatra, this is a story of lost innocence and complex moral dilemmas. 
It follows the journey of Yahyu, a young Javanese dancer, who runs away from a forced marriage and becomes unwittingly involved in the violent struggle for Sumatra’s independence from Jakarta. 
On her long passage from fame to degradation Yahyu experiences love, hate, sexual slavery and the horror of the rebels’ last bloody battle deep in the Barisan Mountains

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Ancient Angkor by Michael Freeman & Claude Jacques.

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Hit the Ground Running: Executive Guide to Insider's Travel

by Mark H. McCormack.

 

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This is a guide to getting the most from business travel.

With offices in more than 20 international cities, the author of this book has amassed a wealth of invaluable tips including getting the best from airlines and hotels, the art of deal making when time is ticking away and navigating with confidence, a gazetteer to the world's leading business centres.

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Jetty Rats by Phillip Gwynne.

 

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Dogleg Bay is one big retirement home; the richest man in town the funeral director, drives a hotted up Hearse.

 

Hunter Vettori is thirteen, and longs to catch a record-breaking mulloway, leave Dogleg Bay, and become bigger then Rexy Hunt.

 

On the way, maybe he'll get to kiss a girl (there's only two to choose from and they're twins), save his mum from getting a really bad tatt and find out if Target really has a section called Christian Smart Casual.

 

But, above all, Hunter wants his father back.

 

Jetty Rats is a fast, funny, insightful and moving novel that will make you laugh out loud and perhaps want to go fishing

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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson.

 

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Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck.

Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg.

In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety.

Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death.

The next three days were an impossibly grueling ordeal for both men.

Yates, certain that Simpson was dead, returned to base camp consumed with grief and guilt over abandoning him. Miraculously, Simpson had survived the fall, but crippled, starving, and severely frostbitten was trapped in a deep crevasse.

Summoning vast reserves of physical and spiritual strength, Simpson crawled over the cliffs and canyons of the Andes, reaching base camp hours before Yates had planned to leave.

 

How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.

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The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

by Paul Theroux.

 

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Award winning travel writer Paul Theroux invites you aboard The Old Patagonian Express by Train through the Americas; packed with powerful descriptions and portraits of the many colours of humanity, The Old Patagonian Express is an unforgettable read.

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Cambodia: Year Zero by François Ponchaud.

 

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On its publication in France, Cambodia: Year Zero received worldwide attention as the first detailed account of the 1975 Cambodian Communist revolution, one of the most brutal and least understood revolutions in history.

Jean Lacouture, reviewing the French edition in the New York Review of Books, hailed it as "by far the best informed report to appear on the new Cambodia." Now, updated and with a new introductory note on the English translation, Cambodia: Year Zero remains the most authoritative source we have on contemporary Cambodia.

 

Its author, Francois Ponchaud, was a missionary in Cambodia from 1965 until he was forced to flee Phnom Penh in May, 1975, just before the total victory of the Khmer Rouge.

He observed at first hand the evacuation of the city and later amassed testimony from scores of Cambodian refugees in Thailand, Vietnam, and France.

Their accounts of the horrors they endured, forced migration into the countryside, forced labor, starvation, disease, mass murder, separation of families are presented in their own words, along with official radio and print communiques from the revolutionary government of Cambodia.

 

Ponchaud traces the roots of the revolution in Cambodia's history, including the role that the United States and other foreign powers played and presents portraits of the revolutionary leaders.

The shocking, close up view Ponchaud provides is of a nation that has shut itself off from the outside world and a government that has systematically destroyed its own people and their past.

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Reminiscences and Observations of a Hong Kong Chai Lo

by John H.T. Griffiths.

 

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This is the memoir of a 'chai lo' a Hong Kong police officer.

The Cowboy, so called because of a childhood fondness for John Wayne films, has time to reminisce as he flies back to his native Wales after 33 years in the force.

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The Guardship by James L. Nelson.

 

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With the bounty from his years as a pirate, a life he intends to renounce and keep forever secret.

Thomas Marlowe purchases a fine Virginia plantation from a beautiful young widow, Elizabeth Tinling.

Soon afterwards, while defending her honour, he kills the favourite son of one of the colony's most powerful families in a duel.

But in a clever piece of manoeuvring he manages to win command of the Plymouth Prize, the colony's decrepit guardship, and is charged with leading the King's sailors in bloody pitched battle against the cutthroats who infest the waters off Virginia's shores.

 

A threat from his illicit past appears, however, as an old pirate enemy plots to seize the colony's wealth, forcing Marlowe to choose between losing all, or facing the one man he fears.

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Off Duty by Victor Headley.

 

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Carlton, an off duty policeman from Jamaica witnesses his best friend gunned down in cold blood on his wedding day.

Vowing revenge he sets off through the ganglands of London determined to find the murderers.

Set in the backstreets of London and the crime ridden ghettos of Jamaica, Off Duty shows through the life of Carlton and his comrades the devastating effects of gangland crime on the youth of Jamaica.

Growing up in the ghetto, Carlton starts his life as part of a gang. Hijacking trucks, drugs and guns are just part of the coming-of-age experience.

When he meets Rico, the policeman who arrests him, he is given two choices, to stay on the straight and narrow or be put away.

When Rico is gunned down on his wedding day, Carlton swears to find the men who killed the man who changed his life...

 

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Never Screw Up by Jens Lapidus.

 

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Niklas, a weapons expert, has returned home after years as a mercenary.

His world has no laws.

His life has made him a violence fanatic and an adrenaline junkie.

He is haunted by traumatic childhood memories.

One night his mother calls, hysterical.

Someone has been murdered in her apartment building, Thomas is a demoralized cop, he’s working the night shift when the call about the murder comes in.

The victim has been badly beaten, and his arms have been pockmarked by syringes, but someone wants the case silenced - why? Mahmud is just out of jail, and keen to live the high life.

He has debts to someone he used to deal for. In a game of russian roulette, his life is spared, but at what cost?

He has to look for a man whom he later wishes he’d never found and his search takes him to a side of Stockholm he wishes he’d never seen.

No matter how hard they try, the power is not theirs, it belongs to Radovan who rules over the dark parts of the city where everything is for sale, but the price is much too high.

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Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas.

 

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Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special.

Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming pool has the potential to transform his life, silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship, and take him far beyond his neighborhood, possibly to international stardom and an Olympic medal.

Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has ever made, has been in pursuit of this dream, but what happens when the talent that makes you special fails you?

When the goal that you’ve been pursuing for as long as you can remember ends in humiliation and loss?

 

Twenty years later, Dan is in Scotland, terrified to tell his partner about his past, afraid that revealing what he has done will make him unlovable.

When he is called upon to return home to his family, the moment of violence in the wake of his defeat that changed his life forever comes back to him in terrifying detail, and he struggles to believe that he’ll be able to make amends.

Haunted by shame, Dan relives the intervening years he spent in prison, where the optimism of his childhood was completely foreign.

 

Tender, savage, and blazingly brilliant, Barracuda is a novel about dreams and disillusionment, friendship and family, class, identity, and the cost of success.

As Daniel loses everything, he learns what it means to be a good person and what it takes to become one.

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The Silent Gift by Michael Landon Jr. & Cindy Kelley.

 

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The 1930's were a decade of enormous uncertainty, for the world, for America, and in particular for one lonely, struggling mother and her disabled son.

Their story is one of love and enormous sacrifices in the face of circumstances horrendous beyond belief.

When her husband leaves her for someone whose time isn't wrapped up in a silent, handicapped kid, Mary and little Luke are out on their own in a world that has no room for the poor and disabled.

Especially not at a time when most Americans are simply trying to survive their economic woes and job losses.

But then arrives The Gift...where has it come from, and why? How can a young boy who can neither hear nor speak provide comfort, direction, and sometimes challenges to seekers who learn of the special ability?

Whatever the source, its presence brings a single shaft of light and hope to Mary and her beloved Luke.

Will it be enough?

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Giant Steps by Karl Bushby.

 

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In Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, Karl Bushby set out on one of the most remarkable journeys of modern times.

His plan is as simple as it is extraordinary: to walk up the Americas, across the Bering Strait, through Asia, Russia and Europe, back through the Channel Tunnel and returning to Britain in 2011.

 

It is a journey of remarkable endurance, 20 miles a day, 3,000 miles a year, 36,000 miles in total.

By the time Karl returns, he will have crossed four continents, twenty-five countries, a frozen sea, six deserts and seven mountain ranges.

 

But more than that, unlike other similar expeditions, Karl is attempting it single handed: no huge support teams, no large sponsorship deals, this is the inspiring true story of a man facing remarkable odds and winning.

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The Last Nizam: An Indian Prince In The Australian Outback

by John Zubrzycki.

 

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This is a lucid and compelling history of one of India's most wealthy dynasties and one of its most controversial royals.

"The Last Nizam" is the story of an extraordinary dynasty, the Nizams of Hyderabad, and how the heir to India's richest princely state gave up a kingdom and retired to the dusty paddocks of outback Australia.

With vivid detail and anecdote John Zubrzycki charts the rise of the Nizams to fabulous wealth and prominence under the Mughal emperors of India, giving a rich and vibrant portrait of a realm soaked in blood and intrigue.

Above all he describes the strange, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, life of Mukarram Jah, His Exalted Highness, the Rustam of the Age, the Aristotle of the Times, Wal Mamaluk, Asaf Jah VIII, the Conqueror of Dominions, the Regulator of the Realm, Nawab Mir Barakat Ali Khan Bahadur, The Victor in Battles, the Leader of Armies, the last Nizam, the man who left behind the diamonds of Golconda and the palaces of Hyderabad to drive bulldozers in the Australian bush.

A delicate and detailed work, "The Last Nizam" adds a crucial chapter to the history of India, capturing the very scent of wine, women and wealth whose appetites kept the Nizams in news and scandal while simultaneously deepening their legend.

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Baggage by Emily Barr.

 

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From the award-winning author of Backpack comes a novel about renewing old friendships and finding the answers to life's most baffling questions where it is least expected.

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Pictures from the water trade: An Englishman in Japan

by John David Morley.

 

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First published in 1985, Pictures from the Water Trade brought Morley instant international acclaim as a vivid stylist.

Now recognized as a classic work, this incisive portrait of Japanese society investigates a nation whose deeper proclivities remain veiled behind cliches cherished in the West.

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A Chameleon's Tale: True Stories of a Global Refugee

by Mo Tejani.

 

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A heart touching real life story of Mo Tejani, a global refugee who spends thirty four years searching five continents for a country he could call home.

Enjoy the ride through numerous countries in Asia, Africa, North and South America.

His adventurous stories are unique; distinctly different from other travelers' tales.