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Streisand: Her Life by James Spada

 

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A riveting biography of one of the greatest stars in Hollywood and music history, STREISAND is about the woman who conquered Broadway, the recording industry, television and the movies by the age of twenty-six and has been largely hiding from the public ever since.

Based on hundreds of interviews with Barbra’s family and associates, and unprecedented behind-the-scenes information, this is the definitive Streisand biography.

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Henry Flagler: The Astonishing Life and Times of the Visionary Robber Baron Who Founded Florida - by David Leon Chandler. . . . .

 

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"An unsentimental and unaffected account of how the outnumbered RAF fought the Luftwaffe to a standstill during the summer and early autumn of 1940 ...

A wide-ranging, painstakingly documented and comprehensive appreciation of a turning-point engagement."

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Evening in Byzantium by Irwin Shaw

 

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Honest men and thieves, pimps, panderers and men of virtue: they were all gamblers in a game with no rules, placing their bets debonairly, or in the sweat of fear.

The place is Cannes, the setting, a film festival, and the hero is Jesse Craig, whose survival is at stake.

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Shibumi by Trevanian

 

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Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man.

Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father and is the protégé of a Japanese Go master. Hel survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world’s most artful lover and its most accomplished and well-paid assassin.

Hel is a genius, a mystic, and a master of language and culture, and his secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection known only as shibumi.

 

Now living in an isolated mountain fortress with his exquisite mistress, Hel is unwillingly drawn back into the life he’d tried to leave behind when a beautiful young stranger arrives at his door, seeking help and refuge.

It soon becomes clear that Hel is being tracked by his most sinister enemy, a super monolith of international espionage known only as the Mother Company.

The battle lines are drawn: ruthless power and corruption on one side, and on the other . . . shibumi.

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Dhammapada, translated by Glenn Wallis. . . .

 

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In this elegant new translation, Sanskrit scholar Glenn Wallis has exclusively referred to and quoted from the canonical suttas, the presumed earliest discourses of the Buddha, to bring us the heartwood of Buddhism, words as compelling today as when the Buddha first spoke them.

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The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation: As Taught by S. N. Goenka by William Hart. . . .

 

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The Ancient Meditation Technique that Brings Real Peace of Mind.

 

Vipassand-bhavand, "the development of insight," embodies the essence of the teaching of the Buddha.

As taught by S. N. Goenka, this path to self-awareness is extraordinary in its simplicity, its lack of dogma and, above all, its results.

The Vipassana technique can be successfully applied by anyone.

 

Based on the lectures and writings of S. N. Goenka and prepared under his direct guidance, The Art of Living shows how this technique can be used to solve problems, develop unused potential, and lead a peaceful, productive life.

It includes stories by S. N. Goenka, as well as answers to students' questions, that convey a vivid sense of his teaching.

 

S. N. Goenka's Vipassana courses have attracted thousands of people of every background.

Unique among teachers of meditation, Goenka is a retired industrialist and former leader of the Indian Community in Burma.

Although a layman, his teaching has won the approval of senior Buddhist monks in Burma, India, and Sri Lanka, a number of whom have taken courses under his guidance. Despite his magnetism, he has no wish to be a "guru" instead he teaches self-responsibility.

This is the first systematic study of his teachings to appear in English.

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Bite-Size Science: Everything You Need to Know About Science in Small, Easily-Digestible Portions by Robert Dinwiddie.....

 

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This compelling collection of facts, theories, and general scientific information is presented in clear, jargon-free language for all non-scientists who want to keep abreast of the latest developments.

Two chapters that open the book explain the very small and the very large, starting with the structure of atoms and then going on to describe the composition of the solar system, stars, galaxies and black holes.

Author Robert Dinwiddie next describes modern science's understanding of the Big Bang, which scientists believe first brought all of physical reality into existence.

A chapter on the planet Earth discusses plate tectonics, continental drift, volcanoes, earthquakes, and extreme weather systems.

An overview of the Earth's environment explains the hazards of pollution, the challenges posed by global warming, and the efforts to reverse those patterns by developing renewable energy sources and alternative fuels.

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Images Of Sri Lanka Through American Eyes - Travellers In Ceylon In The 19th & 20th Centuries.

by Christopher Van Hollen & H.A.I. Goonetileke. . . .

 

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A Leaf in the Bitter Wind: A Memoir by Ting-xing Ye

 

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Ting-xing Ye was born in Shanghai in 1952, just three years after the People's Republic of China was officially created.

In her enthralling memoir, she weaves together her personal history with the larger history of Mao's China to create a tale both intimate and epic, colored by deep family bonds and the constant foreboding presence of a totalitarian government.

Ye's father, a successful factory owner, had his business taken away at the outset of the Cultural Revolution.

His death in 1962, followed by his wife's two years later, left behind a family of five children, a beloved servant known as "Great-Aunt," and the potentially fatal tag of "capitalist." In telling her story, Ye gracefully combines idyllic memories of her childhood on Purple Sunshine Lane with harrowing tales of harassment by the feared Red Guards.

As a teen, Ye was sentenced to a prison farm; the book traces her journey from prisoner to university student, her work as a police agent and a translator, and the love affair that led to her dramatic defection to the West.

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Jawaharlal Nehru - an Autobiography..

 

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Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, was a great personality who also wrote a number of inspiring and knowledgeable books.

Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography is his autobiographical work which he penned down between the years of 1934 and 1935 while he was in prison.

In this book, Nehru explores his ideologies and the events in his life that led him to the situation he was positioned in when he wrote this book.

The practice of civil disobedience that Nehru had taken up, is discussed by him terms of his belief in the movement. The author starts off the book with an introduction to his ancestral history, where he mentions that his predecessors had to run away from Kashmir to settle elsewhere.

Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography also paints a vivid picture of the pre-independence era in India, where the air of dissension was at an all time high.

The book depicts the political realisation of an upcoming giant of a nation and the battle for its freedom.

This honestly written book provides its readers with authentic descriptions of prominent freedom fighters such as Mahatma Gandhi.

This profound book gives readers an idea about the character of the writer himself.

With a true and unceasing love for life and nature, Jawaharlal Nehru has written a thought-provoking book which provides immeasurable moral and ethical scope for its readers.

 

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Norman Birkett: The Life of Lord Birkett of Ulverston (True Crime S.)

by H.Montgomery Hyde....

 

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This is a book about Norman Birkett, one of the most humane judges of his time.

In 1946 he was one of two British judges at the international war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg.

Later he was promoted to the Court of Appeal and on his retirement was created Lord Birkett.

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Grand Jury by Phillip Friedman....

 

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The New York police seize more than a million dollars tainted with heroin powder, implicating two elderly and distinguished Chinatown residents.

Their case is rushed before the grand jury.

 

Susan Linwood and David Clark are strangers before being asked to serve in the name of justice.

Yet as prosecutor Dan Mahoney presents the drug-conspiracy case, they soon become completely absorbed with the proceedings - and increasingly with each other.

 

As Mahoney struggles with facts that refuse to fit the crimes his superiors have told him to pursue, Linwood and Clark are launched onto a treacherous path to Hong Kong and China, to the edge of disaster - uncovering an ultimate truth with chilling, worldwide implications.

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My Life by Bill Clinton. . .

 

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An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the former president as a son, brother, teacher, father, husband, and public figure. Clinton painstakingly outlines the history behind his greatest successes and failures, including his dedication to educational and economic reform, his war against a "vast right-wing operation" determined to destroy him, and the "morally indefensible" acts for which he was nearly impeached. My Life is autobiography as therapy--a personal history written by a man trying to face and banish his private demons.

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Arguments With England by Michael Blakemore..

 

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Now recognized as one of today's greatest theater directors and winner of two Tony Awards-and director of this season's most acclaimed play, Democracy, by his frequent collaborator Michael Frayn-Michael Blakemore followed a unique path to success.

In this book, he discusses his boyhood in Australia and his start in England as an actor-his life changed by a tour of Titus Andronicus with Laurence Olivier at the height of his powers-and continuing up to his first success as a director with A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.

In recounting his early life, Blakemore provides "a pitch-perfect account of dreaming youth, driven, frustrated, and eventually deepened by a realistic love of the theatre"

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Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

by Ben Macintyre...

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In 1943, from a windowless London basement office, two intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple & complicated, Operation Mincemeat.

Purpose?

To deceive the Nazis into thinking the Allies were planning to attack Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed & the Allies ultimately chose. 

Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 & the British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu were very different. Cholmondeley was a dreamer seeking adventure.

Montagu was an aristocratic, detail-oriented barrister.

A perfect team, they created an ingenious plan: equip a corpse with secret (but false) papers concerning the invasion, then drop it off the coast of Spain where German spies would hopefully take the bait.

The idea was approved by British intelligence officials, including Ian Fleming (007's creator).

Winston Churchill believed it might ring true to the Axis & help bring victory.

Filled with spies, double agents, rogues, heroes & a corpse, the story of Operation Mincemeat reads like an international thriller.

Unveiling never-before-released material, Macintyre goes into the minds of intelligence officers, their moles & spies, & the German Abwehr agents who suffered the “twin frailties of wishfulness & yesmanship.”

He weaves together the eccentric personalities of Cholmondeley & Montagu & their improbable feats into an adventure that saved thousands & paved the way for the conquest of Sicily.

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The Thai Dragon by Guy Lilburne...

 

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A beautiful young woman is found murdered in a luxury apartment on the tropical holiday island of Phuket. She has been butchered.

She has a top security pass for the British embassy. Exhibits have gone missing and the crime scene has been tampered with.

Dublin born Detective Sgt Danny O’Brien has been an alcoholic for the last ten years, when the British Ambassador in Bangkok requests assistance from Scotland Yard for this ‘No hoper’ of a case.

Danny is packed off to Thailand to see out the last six months before his retirement.

He is met at the airport by the beautiful, but brand newly promoted Thai Detective ‘Ying’ who is assigned to him because she is the only Thai Detective who is fluent in English.

They both have Secrets and sorrows from their pasts and issues with each other and with the case.

Can they overcome a cultural difference that puts them worlds apart long enough to solve an unsolvable case?

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The Account of Murder Mutiny & Mayhem by Joe O'Shea ...

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The Irish are often thought of as a nation of missionaries, explorers, freedom fighters, artists, and writers.

But for every Tom Crean or Bernardo O'Higgins, there is a Captain William Cotter or Antoine Walsh wreaking havoc around the world.

This dramatic book explores the most obscure and unbelievable stories of the Irish slaves, grave-robbers, duellists, conmen, drug-lords, and killers who wreaked havoc around the world.

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Body Language Secrets: A Guide During Courtship & Dating by R. Don Steele . . .

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Sexual signals help you find, meet, talk with and date Mister or Ms Right using Secrets of nonverbal communication.

Forty photographs clearly show what to watch out for.

The essence of courtship and dating conversations is to communicate, with and without words, "This is who I am.

I like myself. I hope you like me. Show and tell me about yourself so I can discover if I like you."

Women, learn how you can easily get noticed, then interest and attract the right type of man, a man you can trust.

The way he stands or sits, touches or does not touch himself lets you know if he is telling the truth.

The brutally honest chapter is titled Courtship Tactics For Women.

Men, learn how you can tell from across the room if she's interested in you just by her posture and gestures.

During conversation, find out if she's leading you on or if she's sincerely interested in you.

The brutally honest chapter is titled Courtship Testicles For Men.

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Snow Wolf by Glenn Meade...

 

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In the heart of the Cold War, they sent him to plot the ultimate assassination.

Now they want him dead...

It is 1953. Joseph Stalin, the world's most tyrannical dictator, is teetering on the edge of insanity, and about to plunge the world into nuclear chaos.

Only one man and one woman can penetrate the Iron Curtain and stop this madman, before it's too late.

But someone inside the Kremlin knows. And as the KGB's deadliest manhunter pursues these two CIA-hired assassins, another duel unfolds, between secret warriors of the West and East, with a U.S. agent caught in between. Now that agent must do the unthinkable: find his way to the heart of the Soviet Union and stop the mission he himself set in motion-before it ignites World War III.

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The Evening News by Arthur Hailey . .

 

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This passionate, terrifying drama takes us behind the scenes of a great television network faced with mortal dangers and moral challenges as it collides with a smaller but equally potent force, the most feared terrorist group in the Americas.

Few writers possess Hailey's ability to combine careful, accurate research with a profound sense of human drama.

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Paul dam Omnibus - Unholy Trinity & Shadow Chasers.

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The Unholy Trinity;

The death of Father Vivaldi, known as the Red Priest because of his devotion to the poor and destitute, seemed like the beginning.

In fact, it was just another link in a vast conspiracy that powerful, unseen forces will go to any lengths to conceal. Rome foreign correspondent Andy Chapman, investigating the brutal killing, discovers evidence that implicates high-ranking members of the church.

He turns his information over to the investigating magistrate, beautiful Elena Fiorini, and together they begin a hunt for the killers.

They find themselves up against the might of the Catholic Church and a sinister network of neo fascist fanatics.

Their quest leads them to the very heart of the Vatican, and back to the last days of Mussolini's dictatorship, when people changed their identities but not their allegiances.

A pulsating thriller of stunning plausibility, heralding the arrival of an exciting new voice to the genre.

A page-turner that artfully mixes contemporary politics and religion.

 

Shadow Chasers;

British Customs officer, Rob Sullivan, is on secondment to Brussels where a tiny unit from the EU's member states is supposed to tackle all excise duty crime in Europe. Much of his work is either boring or frustrating, but now all his leads seem to result in his witnesses meeting with "accidents".

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The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi & Tamim Ansary...

 

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Farah Ahmedi's "poignant tale of survival" chronicles her journey from war to peace.

Equal parts tragedy and hope, determination and daring, Ahmedi's memoir delivers a remarkably vivid portrait of her girlhood in Kabul, where the sound of gunfire and the sight of falling bombs shaped her life and stole her family.

She herself narrowly escapes death when she steps on a landmine.

Eventually the war forces her to flee, first over the mountains to refugee camps across the border, and finally to America.

Ahmedi proves that even in the direst circumstances, not only can the human heart endure, it can thrive.

"The Other Side of the Sky" is "a remarkable journey"

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Notorious by Joey Pyle & Earl Davidson....

 

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The Krays, the Richardsons and men like Buster Edwards or Freddie Foreman may be better known to the public, but by the end of the sixties they were either in prison or living in enforced exile.

Joey Pyle was (and continues to be) every bit as notorious, feared and respected.

His broad range of criminal contacts and associates ensured he was either involved in or very much aware of every major criminal escapade that took place.

From the murder of Jack the Hat by the Kray twins to the Great Train Robbery, from the fatal shooting at the Pen Club to the American Mafia's attempts to penetrate London's casino scene, Pyle has seen it all.

Yet, despite a few close calls, including a spell in prion on a murder charger that would have seen him hanged if found guilty, Pyle remained at liberty throughout.

He saw firsthand the nature of organised crime change from the protection rackets and casino scame of the sixties, through the highly organised armed robberies of the seventies.

To the rise of the drug trade which began in earnest in the eighties and continues to the present day.

He is therefore able to provide a fresh perspective on many well-known crimes as well as a wealth of information about hitherto unknown aspects of criminality.