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Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard.. . .
 
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Walter Schoen isn't just a Heinrich Himmler look-alike; this Detroit butcher is a dedicated Nazi spy who, when not busy slicing sausage, is avidly assembling Allied production data for his friends in Berlin.
Tired of his covert shenanigans, his wife, Honey, divorces him. Looking for a good time, if not more, she lands in the lap of Carl Webster, the "Hot Kid" of the U.S. Marshals Service.
At the moment though, the only couplings that interest Webster are the handcuffs that he'd like to snap onto the wrists of Hitler's American helpers.
Elmore Leonard's unconventional crime novel has more wrinkles than a bloodhound.

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Darktown (Darktown #1) by Thomas Mullen.
 
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Responding from pressure on high, the Atlanta police department is forced to hire its first black officers in 1948. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers and their authority is limited.
They can’t arrest white suspects; they can’t drive a squad car, they can’t even use the police headquarters and must instead operate out of the basement of a gym.
 
When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up fatally beaten, no one seems to care except for Boggs and Smith, two black cops from vastly different backgrounds.
Pressured from all sides, they will risk their jobs, the trust the community has put in them, and even their own safety to investigate her death.
Their efforts bring them up against an old-school cop, Dunlow, who has long run the neighborhood like his own, and Dunlow’s young partner, Rakestraw, a young progressive who may or may not be willing to make allies across color lines.

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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town. . by Paul Theroux. . . .
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In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train.
In the course of his epic and enlightening journey, he endures danger, delay, and dismaying circumstances. Gauging the state of affairs, he talks to Africans, aid workers, missionaries, and tourists.
What results is an insightful mediation on the history, politics, and beauty of Africa and its people. In a new postscript, Theroux recounts the dramatic events of a return to Africa to visit Zimbabwe.

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Paper Towns John Green. . . .
 
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From the author of The Fault in our Stars.
Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high school.
So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow.
But the next day Margo doesn't come to school and a week later she is still missing.
Q soon learns that there are clues in her disappearance . . . and they are for him.
But as he gets deeper into the mystery - culminating in another awesome road trip across America - he becomes less sure of who and what he is looking for.

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The End Of Stress: A revolutionary new approach to a happier, healthier life - by Andrew J. Bernstein...
 
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Where does stress come from? For more than half a century, we've been told it comes from 'adverse external influences', that it's a by-product of our ancestors' fight-or-flight response, and that because life on earth has changed radically, stress is inevitable today.
All of this, according to Andrew Bernstein, is wrong.
 
In The End of Stress, he shows you exactly why it's wrong.
He takes readers back to the 1930's, pointing out a fundamental error in how the stress concept was initially formulated, and how this mistaken formula has resulted in people relying on inefficient tools such as relaxation and positive thinking.
Bernstein then reveals the truth about where stress comes from and introduces a 7-step process that transforms common challenges - including relationships, money, success, weight loss, heartbreak, uncertainty, interpersonal conflict and the loss of a loved one.
The End of Stress offers a complete re-education in the nature of negative emotions, training readers in how to transform any issue - at home, at school, at work - in order to live happier, healthier lives.

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Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--and How It All Came Crashing Down . . . by Ben Mezrich

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From the author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, the sources for the films The Social Network and 21, comes the larger-than-life true tale of a group of American college buddies who brilliantly built a billion-dollar online poker colossus based out of the hedonistic paradise of Costa Rica. One problem: the U.S. Department of Justice was gunning for them. . . . Based on extensive insider interviews and participation, acclaimed author Ben Mezrich's Straight Flush tells the captivating rags-to-riches tale of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local Dive bar into AbsolutePoker.com, one of the largest online companies in the world, on par with some of the behemoths of the Internet.

At its height, Absolute Poker was an online empire earning more than a million dollars a day, following savvy business strategy and even better luck.

Its founders set up their operations in the exotic Jungle paradise of Costa Rica, embracing an outrageous lifestyle of girls, parties, and money. Meanwhile, the gray area of U.S. and international law in which the company operated was becoming a lot more risky, and soon the U.S. Department of Justice had placed a bull's-eye on Absolute Poker. Should they fold, or double down and ride their hot hand?

Impossible to put down, Straight Flush is an exclusive, never-before-seen look behind the headlines of one of the wildest business stories of the past decade.

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I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes...
 
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A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid.
A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square.
A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard.
Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan.
A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity.
One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey. Pilgrim.'

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The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by John Spencer & Anne Spencer...
 
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Examines over 300 incidences of ghost sightings, poltergeist activities, and other paranormal events, providing the date, location, and source for each account, and offers advice for would-be ghosthunters

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Cop Hunter: Cop Hunter by Vincent Murano,
& William Hoffer...
 
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The shocking true story of corrupt cops and the man who went undercover to stop them.

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Hun Sen’s Cambodia by Sebastian Strangio..
 
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To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist Utopia in the 1970's. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh, now offers an eye-opening appraisal of modern-day Cambodia in the years following its emergence from bitter conflict and bloody upheaval.
 
In the early 1990's, Cambodia became the focus of the UN’s first great post–Cold War nation-building project, with billions in international aid rolling in to support the fledgling democracy.
But since the UN-supervised elections in 1993, the nation has slipped steadily backward into neo-authoritarian rule under Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Behind a mirage of democracy, ordinary people have few rights and corruption infuses virtually every facet of everyday life.
In this lively and compelling study, the first of its kind, Strangio explores the present state of Cambodian society under Hun Sen’s leadership, painting a vivid portrait of a nation struggling to reconcile the promise of peace and democracy with a violent and tumultuous past.

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Raider by Charles W. Sasser. . . . .
 
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The true story of the legendary soldier who performed more POW raids than any other American in history.
 
He went into battle as a boy.
And on one of the most daring missions of World War II, he became a man and the perfect soldier for America's next wars...
Galen Charles Kittleson was slight, modest, and born to wage war. The son of an Iowa farmer, Kittleson volunteered in 1943 and caught the eye of his commanders.
By 1945, PFC Kittleson was selected for the Army's smallest elite unit, the Alamo Scouts.
While U.S. forces were pushing back the Japanese in the Pacific, the Alamo scouts unleashed legendary raids deep behind enemy lines, including the liberation of over 500 starved, beaten prisoners of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines.
For Kittleson, a career as a raider had just begun...
 
Charles W. Sasser chronicles the remarkable journey that was Kit Kittleson's courageous life in the service of his country.
Now a veteran after first going to war as a boy twenty-five years ago, Kittleson volunteered for one last mission, the most extraordinary and daring POW raid ever attempted by secret American Special Forces in Vietnam...

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Wings on My Sleeve by Eric Brown..
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Eric Brown went to Germany in 1939 on an exchange course, and his first experience of the war came when the Gestapo arrested him, not knowing he was an RAF pilot. The rest is history.
He is the only man alive to have flown every major and most minor combat aircraft of the Second World War (as well as all the early jets), and has been interviewed by the top Nazis.
While testing the Nazi jets in war-stricken Germany, he interviewed (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch.
A living legend among aviation enthusiasts, his amazing life story deserves to be told in full, from crashing in front of Winston Churchill to unmasking a Neo-Nazi ring in the 1950's to his terrifying flights in primitive jets and rockets.

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Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré. . . .
 
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Perry and Gail are idealistic and very much in love when they splurge on a tennis vacation at a posh beach resort in Antigua.
But the charm begins to pall when a big-time Russian money launderer enlists their help to defect.
In exchange for amnesty, Dima is ready to rat out his vory (Russian criminal brotherhood) compatriots and expose corruption throughout the so-called legitimate financial and political worlds.
Soon, the guileless couple find themselves pawns in a deadly endgame whose outcome will be determined by the victor of the British Secret Service's ruthless internecine battles.
The unrivaled master of spy fiction with a taut and suspenseful tale of dirty money and dirtier politics.
 
For nearly half a century, John le Carré's limitless imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers around the globe.
From the cold war to the bitter fruits of colonialism to unrest in the Middle East, he has reinvented the spy novel again and again.
Now, le Carré makes his Viking debut with a stunning tour-de - force that only a craftsman of his caliber could pen.
As menacing and flawlessly paced as The Little Drummer Girl and as morally complex as The Constant Gardener, Our Kind of Traitor is signature le Carré.

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The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift by Helena P. Schrader. . . .
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The Berlin Airlift represents one of the most dramatic humanitarian efforts of the postwar era and was a strikingly successful example of British and American cooperation.
It was also an event that made a major contribution towards turning a wartime enemy into a Cold War ally. Helena Schrader commemorates the “Blockade Breakers” of the Berlin Airlift and the impact they had on Allied-German relations in this thoroughly-researched study.
The book recreates the excitement and tension of the period by reminding the reader that the success of the Airlift was by no means a foregone conclusion.
At the core of the book are two themes: the enormous logistical challenges posed by the Airlift, and the complicated relationship between Berliners and the Western Allies.
It focuses on the human, political, economic, and technological perspectives and includes a wealth of first-hand accounts from British, American, German, and Russian sources.

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The Wisdom of the Heart by Henry Miller.
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In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters.
Writing “from the heart,” always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thoughts and feelings. “His real aim,” Karl Shapiro has written, “is to find the living core of our world whenever it survives and in whatever manifestation, in art, in literature, in human behavior itself.
It is then that he sings, praises, and shouts at the top of his lungs with the uncontainable hilarity he is famous for.”  Here are some of Henry Miller’s best-known writings: an essay on the photographer Brassai; “Reflections on Writing,” in which Miller examines his own position as a writer; “Seraphita” and “Balzac and His Double,” on the works of other writers; and “The Alcoholic Veteran,” “Creative Death,” “The Enormous Womb,” and “The Philosopher Who Philosophizes.”

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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant. . . .
 
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A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey - The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time.
Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this book is a splendid example of his eminently readable scholarship.
Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is a key book for any reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.

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Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 by W. Somerset Maugham....

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This first volume of Somerset Maugham's collected short stories includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of the prudish missionary Mr Davidson and Sadie Thompson, the prostitute.

The collection contains thirty stories that take us from the islands of the Pacific Ocean to England, France and Spain. They all reveal Maugham's acute and often sardonic observation of human foibles and his particular genius for exposing the bitter reality of human relationships. Somerset Maugham learnt his craft from Maupassant, and these stories display the remarkable talent that made him an unsurpassed storyteller.

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Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller...

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One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays.

Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others were printed in small limited editions which have gone out of print. Miller's genius for comedy is at its best in "Money and How It Gets That Way" a tongue-in-cheek parody of "economics" provoked by a postcard from Ezra Pound which asked if he "ever thought about money."

His deep concern for the role of the artist in society appears in "An Open Letter to All and Sundry," and in "The Angel is My Watermark" he writes of his own passionate love affair with painting.

"The Immorality of Morality" is an eloquent discussion of censorship. Some of the stories, such as "First Love," are autobiographical, and there are portraits of friends, such as "Patchen: Man of Anger and Light," and essays on other writers such as Walt Whitman, Thoreau, Sherwood Anderson and Ionesco. Taken together, these highly readable pieces reflect the incredible vitality and variety of interests of the writer who extended the frontiers of modern literature with Tropic of Cancer and other great books.

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Stolen Marches by David Crackanthorpe..

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As a student in France under the German occupation, Stephen Seagrave risked his life for the Resistance.

But with the German defeat come dangers of another but no less frightening kind as he searches for the Gypsy whore he tried to save from the camps.

His only weapon is a compromising photograph of a collaborator, now a powerful man in the new government, whom he must blackmail into helping him.

But such a dangerous game will lead him into a deadly labyrinth of deceptions and betrayals where it is no longer possible to tell friend from foe.

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The Beauty of Destruction by Gavin G. Smith. . .
 
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In the far future, after the Loss of Earth, war has begun and an unknowable alien race has awakened, intent on the destruction of everything.
Here and now, the end of the world has come. And the only way our species will survive is if two augmented humans can fight their way through apocalypse to a faint glimmer of hope.
Long ago, the seeds of that apocalypse were resisted by the warrior tribes of Britain, with devastating consequences for them and their lands.
And all three of these times will meet on another world . . .

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Billion Dollar Brain by Len Deighton

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The classic thriller of a lethal computer age and a maniac's private cold war…

General Midwinter loves his country, and hates communism. In a bid to destabilize the Soviet power bloc he is running his own intelligence agency, whose “brain” is the world's biggest supercomputer. With his past coming back to haunt him, the unnamed agent of The Ipcress File is sent to Finland to penetrate Midwinter's spy cell. But then a deadly virus is stolen, and our hero must stop it from falling into the hands of both the Russians and the billionaire madman.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver ..
 
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The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.
Eva never really wanted to be a mother and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday.
Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin.
Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails.

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The Damage Done by James Oswald...
 
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This book part of James Oswald's phenomenal Inspector McLean series set in Edinburgh.
 
Inspector McLean is back in the next gripping instalment in James Oswald's best-selling crime series.
McLean must investigate the seedy goings on of an exclusive and secretive society, catering for the rich and powerful of the city.
Somehow it is linked to a particularly gruesome cold case from twenty years ago, McLean's first case with the force.
 
The Damage Done follows Natural Causes, the R&J summer highlight, The Book of Souls, The Hangman's Song, Dead Men's Bones and Prayer for the Dead.

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The Case for God by Karen Armstrong. . . .
 
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Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao.
Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.
Why has God become unbelievable?
Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors?
 
Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level.
And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of logos.
The task of religion is “to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations.”
She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically.
It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from “dedicated intellectual endeavor” and a “compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood.”

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The Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees. . . .

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Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader, fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to debate political issues and yet he commanded enormous support.

So how was it possible that Hitler became such an attractive figure to millions of people?

That is the important question at the core of Laurence Rees' new book. The Holocaust, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the outbreak of the Second World War, all these cataclysmic events and more can be laid at Hitler's door.

Hitler was a war criminal arguably without precedent in the history of the world.

Yet, as many who knew him confirm, Hitler was still able to exert a powerful influence over the people who encountered him. In this fascinating book to accompany his new series, the acclaimed historian and documentary maker Laurence Rees examines the nature of Hitler's appeal, and reveals the role Hitler's supposed 'charisma' played in his success. Rees' previous work has explored the inner workings of the Nazi state in The Nazis: A Warning from History and the crimes they committed in Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution. The Charisma of Adolf Hitler is a natural culmination of twenty years of writing and research on the Third Reich, and a remarkable examination of the man and the mind at the heart of it all.

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