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The Adventures of Sam Cash by Barry Crump.

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A selection of the best Sam Cash stories, filled with tall tales and astonishing achievements.

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The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian..

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Napoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix.

If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo.

In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering.

They are inclined toward Napoleon because of his conversion to Islam during the Egyptian campaign, but they will not move without a shipment of gold ingots from Sheik Ibn Hazm which, according to British intelligence, is on its way via camel caravan to the coast of North Africa.

It is this gold that Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin must at all costs intercept. The fate of Europe hinges on their desperate mission.

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Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Has Crippled Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber...

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A no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject

Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popular belief the money coming in to universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and rarely even covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs. The bigger and more prominent the sports program, the more money it siphons away from academics. Sperber chronicles the growth of the university system, the development of undergraduate subcultures, and the rising importance of sports.

He reveals television's ever more blatant corporate sponsorship conflicts and describes a peculiar phenomenon he calls the "Flutie Factor"--the surge in enrollments that always follows a school's appearance on national television, a response that has little to do with academic concerns. Sperber's profound re-evaluation of college sports comes straight out of today's headlines and opens our eyes to a generation of students caught in a web of greed and corruption, deprived of the education they deserve. Sperber presents a devastating critique, not only of higher education but of national culture and values. Beer & Circus is a must-read for all students and parents, educators and policy makers.

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Mobsters In Our Midst: The Kansas City Crime Family First Edition by William Ouseley.

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The true story of Kansas City's longest-reigning crime family boss. Nick Civella, a former tire theft, against all odds, took over leadership of the local mob, known as the "Outfit", and for the next 30 years oversaw the varied rackets common to La Cosa Nostra crime families.

Not as well known outside of Kansas City, as bosses in New York or Chicago, Civella nonetheless came to wield considerable influence in Cosa Nostra affairs, especially when it came to the Teamsters and the Nevada gaming industry. In the end, he and his 'Outfit" were decimated by one of the FBI's most important prosecutions of the day.

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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash. . . .

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In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly. The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with great charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, he hatched a plot to seize the ship and her riches.

The mutiny might have succeeded, but in the dark morning hours of June 3, 1629, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia.

The captain and skipper escaped the wreck, and in a tiny lifeboat they set sail for Java - some 1,500 miles north - to summon help. More than 250 frightened survivors waded ashore, thankful to be alive. Unfortunately, Jeronimus and the mutineers had survived too, and the nightmare was only beginning.

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The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel by Robert Mazur..

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The electrifying true story of Robert Mazur's life as an undercover agent who infiltrated one of the world's largest drug cartels by posing as a high-level money launderer - the inspiration for the major motion picture The Infiltrator. Robert Mazur spent years undercover infiltrating the Medellín Cartel's criminal hierarchy. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended - some of whom still shape power across the globe - knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life.

Together they partied in $1,000-per-night hotel suites, drank bottles of the world's finest champagne, drove Rolls-Royce convertibles, and flew in private jets. But under Mazur's Armani suits and in his Renwick briefcase, recorders whirred silently, capturing the damning evidence of their crimes. The Infiltrator is the story of how Mazur helped bring down the unscrupulous bankers who manipulated complex international finance systems to serve drug lords, corrupt politicians, tax cheats, and terrorists. It is a shocking chronicle of the rise and fall of one of the biggest and most intricate money-laundering operation of all time-an enterprise that cleaned and moved hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Filled with dangerous lies, near misses, and harrowing escapes, The Infiltrator is as bracing and explosive as the greatest fiction thrillers - only it's all true.

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Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible: Master the Finesse Swing and Lower Your Score Relié – by Dave Pelz...

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Fed up with trying to imitate the pros, buying the latest expensive equipment, and seeing your handicap stay the same? The first book by bestselling author and internationally revered golf instructor Dave Pelz since Putt Like the Pros, his bestselling classic, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible can show you the way to lower scores by improving your short game.

The result of decades of scientific research studying thousands of golfers, Dave's philosophy is as simple as it is revolutionary and groundbreaking: Instead of practicing the wrong things the right way, or the right things the wrong way, Pelz shows you how to find your own personal weaknesses and how to improve them to efficiently lower your scores. Packed with all the knowledge, charts, and photos needed to learn from the master, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible is the essential book for every golfer who's looking to improve his or her game. A former physicist for NASA, Dave brings a scientific rigor to his research and instruction that has made him the top short-game expert in the world. His renowned golf schools and clinics focus exclusively on putting and the short game, attracting top players like Tom Kite, Colin Montgomerie, two-time U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen, reigning PGA champion Vijay Singh, Steve Elkington, Payne Stewart, Peter Jacobsen, and many LPGA players including Annika Sorenstam and Liselotte Neumann. The pros know, as you are about to learn, that while others teach golfers how to swing, Dave Pelz teaches golfers how to score . . .  and win.

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Watches International VII...

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For six years, "Watches International", the original annual of the world's finest wristwatches, has set the standard for up-to-date reference guides devoted to luxury timepieces. Like its predecessors, "Watches International: Volume VII" showcases the latest masterpieces from the world's leading watch houses with editorial profiles highlighting the brands' histories, new developments and new introductions, and detailed technical profiles listing calibers, functions, and, when possible, retail prices. It also features more than 1,000 full color photographs, a full glossary, and contact information for each house, making this the must have reference for watch collectors and professionals.

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Complete Guide to Self Publishing: Everything You Need to Know to Write, Publish, Promote, and Sell Your Own Book by Tom & Marilyn Ross..

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Provides writers with step-by-step guidance on every aspect of publishing and marketing a book.

This guide also gives up-to-date advice on e-publishing and electronic rights.

Appendices list marketing contacts, and other chapters cover production tips, cover design and advertising.

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Plum Island (John Corey #1) by Nelson DeMille...

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Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide cop John Corey is convalescing in rural eastern Long Island when an attractive young couple he knows is found shot to death on the family patio.

The victims were biologists at Plum Island, a research site rumored to be an incubator for germ warfare.

Suddenly, a local double murder takes on shattering global implications and thrusts Corey and two extraordinary women into a dangerous search for the secret of PLUM ISLAND....

The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wry wit of The Gold Coast...this is vintage Nelson DeMille at the peak of his originality and the height of his powers.

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A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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Michael Riordan’s attack on George Appo made the headlines of the New York Tribune.

Lexow Committee investigators quickly determined that this version of the events was fabricated. For the first time committee officials acknowledged that Appo was helping to procure evidence. “He has proven himself truthful, accurate, prompt, and faithful,” reported John Goff. The counsel then admitted that this was not the first attempt on Appo’s life. Only two nights earlier, after leaving Goff’s office, Appo was assaulted outside the General Post Office at Broadway and Park Row. With blood flowing down his face, Appo desperately pursued his assailant. On finding him at an elevated train stop, he asked police officers standing nearby for help. They simply looked at him and smiled.41

Investigators quickly pieced together the chain of events. The attending physician testified that Appo’s wound was not self-inflicted. Lexow Committee investigators rejected assertions that Appo was drunk at the time, speculating instead that he was drugged as part of a plot to kill him. Appo insisted that he was attacked during the night at the hospital. A male orderly, at the behest of a guarding police officer, punched Appo in the jaw and temple, twisted cords around his left wrist, and attempted to gouge out his remaining eye. In court Appo displayed his left arm, bruised and swollen from hand to elbow, another bruise on his temple, and a swollen jaw. Appo’s charges were later bolstered when Thomas Coleman, the policeman assigned to guard Appo, gave an incoherent account of the events in the hospital.42 Despite the evidence, however, the charges against Riordan were dismissed while Appo’s case was postponed, a portent of what lay ahead for him.

In November 1894 Appo came upon Ned Lyons in front of the Brower House, a West Twenty-eighth Street hotel just off Fifth Avenue. Lyons was one of America’s most famous criminals. A tough character, he stood five feet eight inches in height and weighed a burly 180 pounds. Lyons was without the top half of his left ear, a “gift” from Jimmy Haggerty, who chewed it off in a Philadelphia street fight in 1869. At least four bullet holes disfigured his body, one of which had left a visible scar on his jaw. Lyons was involved in some of the most lucrative bank robberies in nineteenth-century America, including the $1 million heist of the Ocean Bank in New York City in 1869. In 1872, he successfully escaped from Sing Sing. By 1886, he had abandoned bank robbery for the green goods.

But on 9 October 1894 Lyons’s green goods operation in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, was exposed on the front page of the New York Sun. The article claimed that Lyons was having a difficult time, earning only forty dollars weekly. Although the article was full of details only an insider could have provided, no evidence indicated that Appo was a source of information. That, however, mattered little to Lyons; Appo presented a convenient scapegoat. As they passed each other in front of the Brower House, Lyons belted Appo across the face, knocking him into the street.

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This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information by Andy Greenberg. . .

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The barbarians aren't at the gates.

They're inside.

This is the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world's information, from the Forbes reporter whose work has traced their history and future.

What is the machine that kills Secrets? WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers’ identities while they spill the private data of government agencies and corporations.

But that technology has been evolving for decades in the hands of hackers and radical activists, from the libertarian enclaves of Northern California to Berlin to the Balkans. And the secret-killing machine continues to evolve beyond WikiLeaks, as a movement of hacktivists aims to obliterate the world’s institutional secrecy.

This is the story of the code and the characters idealists, anarchists, extremists who are transforming the next generation’s notion of what activism...

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Monthly deals on this 3rd floor serviced room;

Air condition - balcony - ensuite - electronic safe - TV - DVD player - free DVD's - 5 mins walk to soi Buakhao and LK Metro...

email; [email protected]

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The Buddha in the Jungle by Kamala Tiyavanich. . . .

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In "The Buddha in the Jungle", real-life stories about 19th and early 20th century Buddhist monks in Thailand are ingeniously intermingled with experiences recorded by their Western contemporaries.

The stories tell of giant snakes, bandits, boatmen, midwives, and guardian spirits and collectively portray a Buddhist culture in all its imaginative and geographical concreteness.

By juxtaposing these eyewitness accounts, Kimala Tiyavanich presents a new and vivid picture of Buddhism as it was lived and of the natural environments in which the Buddha's teachings were practiced.

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Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen El Feki..

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If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms. As political change sweeps the streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at upheaval a little closer to home - in the sexual lives of men and women in Egypt and across the region. The result is an informative, insightful and engaging account of a highly sensitive, and still largely secret, aspect of Arab society. Sex is entwined in religion and tradition, politics and economics, gender and generations, so it makes the perfect lens for examining the region's complex social landscape. From pregnant virgins to desperate housewives, from fearless activists to religious firebrands, Sex and the Citadel takes a fresh look at the sexual history of the Arab region and gives us unique and timely insight into everyday lives in a part of the world that is changing in front of our very eyes.

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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud,

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In "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" Freud examines the psychological basis for the forgetting of names and words, the misuse of words in speech and in writing, and other similar errors.

Freud's examination of the subject is extensively discussed through the use of anecdotes and examples. "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" makes for one of Freud's more readable works. Presented here is the original english translation of A. A. Brill.

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A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery by E. Benjamin Skinner

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To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told and heard.

As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch did for genocide, Skinner has now done for modern-day slavery. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, he has produced a vivid testament and moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time.

There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. After spending four years visiting a dozen countries where slavery flourishes, Skinner tells the story, in gripping narrative style, of individuals who live in slavery, those who have escaped from bondage, those who own or traffic in slaves, and the mixed political motives of those who seek to combat the crime.

Skinner infiltrates trafficking networks and slave sales on five continents, exposing a modern flesh trade never before portrayed in such proximity. From mega-harems in Dubai to illicit brothels in Bucharest, from slave quarries in India to child markets in Haiti, he explores the underside of a world we scarcely recognize as our own and lays bare a parallel universe where human beings are bought, sold, used, and discarded. He travels from the White House to war zones and immerses us in the political and flesh-and-blood battles on the front lines of the unheralded new abolitionist movement.

At the heart of the story are the slaves themselves. Their stories are heartbreaking but, in the midst of tragedy, readers discover a quiet dignity that leads some slaves to resist and aspire to freedom. Despite being abandoned by the international community, despite suffering a crime so monstrous as to strip their awareness of their own humanity, somehow, some enslaved men regain their dignity, some enslaved women learn to trust men, and some enslaved children manage to be kids. Skinner bears witness for them, and for the millions who are held in the shadows.

In so doing, he has written one of the most morally courageous books of our time, one that will long linger in the conscience of all who encounter it, and one that - just perhaps - may move the world to constructive action.

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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff . .

 

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“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush and impenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame with great games, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is a true story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew - what an utterly compelling and deeply satisfying read!" - Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic

Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff Unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S.military personnel into a land that time forgot.

Fans of Hampton Sides’ Ghost Soldiers, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor, and David Grann The Lost Cityof Z will be captivated by Zuckoff’s masterfully recounted, all-true story of danger, daring, determination, and discovery in Jungle clad New Guinea during the final days of WWII.

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Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family by Joaquin "Jack" Garcia (Author), Michael Levin..

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"Petey Chops wasn't kicking up. And if he didn't start soon, he was going to get whacked." So begins Making Jack Falcone, the extraordinary true story of an undercover FBI agent's years-long investigation of the Gambinos, which resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized crime family. But long before Joaquin "Jack" Garcia found himself wearing a wire with some of the Mafia's top capos, he was one of the FBI's unlikeliest recruits. A Cuban-born American, Jack graduated from Quantico standing six-foot-four and weighing 300 pounds - not your typical G-man. Jack's stature soon proved an asset as the FBI looked to place agents undercover with drug smugglers, counterfeiters, and even killers. Jack became one of the few FBI agents dedicated solely to undercover work. Using a series of carefully created aliases, Jack insinuated himself in the criminal world, from the Badlands of Philadelphia, where he was a gregarious money launderer, to the streets of Miami, where an undercover Garcia moved stolen and illicit goods and brought down dirty cops. Jack jumped at the opportunity to infiltrate the shadowy world of La Cosa Nostra, but how would the Cuban-American convince wiseguys that he was one of their own, a Sicilian capable of "earning his button" - getting made in the Mafia?

For the first time, the FBI created a special "mob school" for Jack, teaching him how to eat, talk, and think like a wiseguy. And it wasn't long before the freshly minted Jack Falcone found himself under the wing of one of the Gambinos' old school capos, Greg DePalma. DePalma, who cared for an ailing John Gotti in prison, introduced Falcone to his world of shakedowns, beatings, and envelopes of cash, never suspecting that one of his trusted crew members was a federal agent. A page-turning account of the struggle between law enforcement and organized crime that will rank with such classic stories as Donnie Brasco, Serpico, and Wiseguy, Making Jack Falcone is an unforgettable trip into America's underworld through the eyes of a highly decorated FBI veteran.

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The book all about Pasta Pasta...

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The Killer Book of True Crime: Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Murder and Mayhem by Tom & Michael Philbin..

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The perfect read for any true crime junkie!

You've read all the stories...but can you match the mobster with the way he met his end? Do you know how they caught the Boston Strangler? Can you define chickens, a Shotaro complex or Colombian neckties?

The Killer Book of True Crime is the ultimate collection of in-depth stories, trivia, quizzes, quotes and photos gruesome and interesting enough to make any crime buff shudder in horrified delight. Discover all the odd and intriguing facts and tidbits you've never heard, such as:

John Wayne Gacy's favorite movies

How America's most prolific burglar was captured

Which city houses the world's largest red light district

How a roach led to the capture of Albert Fish

An eyewitness account of the murder of eight nurses

Where Al Capone really got the scar on his face

These and many more shocking tales and tidbits will have you double-checking your locks at night!

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Robert Ludlum's - The Geneva Strategy (A Covert-One novel Book 11) by Jamie Frevele.

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On one evening in Washington, DC, several high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping. Among the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy.

He is the victim with the most dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that are used to program the drones. If revealed, his kidnappers could reprogram the drones to strike targets within the United States. Jon Smith and the Covert One team begin a worldwide search to recover the officials, but as the first kidnapping victims are rescued, they show disturbing signs of brainwashing or mind-altering drugs.

Smith's investigation leads him to Fort Detrick, where a researcher, Dr. Laura Taylor, had been attempting to create a drug to wipe memory from soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. But Dr. Taylor's research was suspended almost a year ago, when she was placed in a mental institution.

Now, if Smith doesn't figure out the brainwashing drug, and track down the kidnapped Nick Rendel, the kidnappers will soon have the power to carry out drone strikes anywhere in the world....

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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung. . . .

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After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind.

In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war.

In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers.

Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.

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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

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Following a near-fatal accident, Mark Schluter is nursed by his reluctant sister. But when he emerges from his coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor. As a famous neurologist investigates his condition, Mark tries to learn what really happened the night of his accident. On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, 27-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an identical impostor.

Shattered by her brother’s refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognizes Mark as a rare case of Capgras Syndrome, a doubling delusion, and eagerly investigates.

What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition. Set against the Platte River’s massive spring migrations – one of the greatest spectacles in nature - The Echo Maker is a gripping mystery that explores the improvised human self and the even more precarious brain that splits us from and joins us to the rest of creation.

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Biography Of Peter Cook by Harry Thompson....

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There are those who say and Peter Cook himself was among them - that most of his humour was autobiographical. Others - and Peter Cook himself was among them - contend that this simply isn't the case.

The truth, of course, lies somewhere in the middle.

Peter Cook made President Kennedy wait in line to see him and visited Elizabeth Taylor in her dressing room. He befriended tramps and fundraised for CND.

He was capable of extraordinary kindnesses and occasional cruelties. He helped define comedy and satire for a generation, but ended his life a recluse. Harry Thompson has produced the first ever comprehensive biography of this influential and fascinating subject who came up with some of the funniest sketches and greatest jokes of all time.

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