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The Motorcycle Diaries: by Ernesto Che Guevara.

 

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The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary,

This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon.

 

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Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith.

 

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Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico, a temple of Arts and Crafts architecture, with comforting, weathered brickwork and frankly frivolous dormer windows, it is home to a delightfully eccentric cast of Londoners.

 

In the top flat lives William, with a faithful ex-vegetarian dog named Freddie de la Hay and a freeloading son who he hopes will soon fly the nest.

Four lively young women share the first floor flat, including....

 

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The Bourne Enigma by Eric Van Lustbader, Robert Ludlum.

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On the eve of Russian General Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his old friend and fellow spymaster.
In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. 

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Southeast Asia on a Shoestring (Lonely Planet on a Shoestring)

 

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The longest running travel guide to Southeast Asia features suggested itineraries by expert authors, includes coverage of 11 countries including Myanmar and East Timor. Full color. 174 maps, so much information.

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Wings on My Sleeve by Eric 'Winkle' Brown.

 

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How to Buy Land and Build a House in Thailand

Philip Bryce.....

 

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This book contains essential information for anyone contemplating buying and building a house in Pattaya &Thailand.

Subjects covered, land ownership options, land titles, taxes, permits, lawyers, architects and builders.

Also includes English/Thai building words and phrases and common Thai building techniques.

Learn how to build your dream house in Thailand that is well made, structurally sound and nicely finished.

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The Woman in Silk by R.J. Gadney...

 

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Captain Hal Stirling is flown to England from Afghanistan after a roadside bomb renders him battered and broken.

 

Once he arrives home, he retreats to his ancestral family seat of Stirling Towers, a Gothic mansion that dominates the landscape near the remote Scottish Borders, for a Christmas of quiet relaxation & recuperation.

But on arrival he discovers that his mother, a fanatical spiritualist, has died and been hastily buried.

 

 

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Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (Perennial Philosophy)

by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy

 

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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy was engaged in the world not only as a scholarly expositor of traditional culture and philosophy, but also as a radical critic of contemporary life.

Edited by the author's son Rama, this book is an introduction to the essential writings of a key figure in the twentieth century revival of traditionalist thought.

A. K. Coomaraswamys writings have been revered and respected worldwide for demonstrating the universal spiritual content within the traditional art and philosophy of both the East and West.

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

 

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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead.

She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable.

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Would the Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up.

 

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Gerry Ryan on life, the world, the universe and a few things besides.

Here are his experiences, stories and opinions drawn from nearly thirty years of talking to the nation.

It's a sharp, punchy read all told in his no nonsense, irreverent, straight to the bone style.

It's the best, the worst, the funniest, the most outrageous.

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Balzac's Horse by Gert Hofmann .

 

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A collection of short stories ranging from the comic to the macabre by German writer Gert Hofmann, the author of "Our Conquest", "The Parable of the Blind" and "The Spectacle at the Tower", which won the Alfred Doblin Prize in 1982.

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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey.

 

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Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before.

It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice.

Before considering reading this book.

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Fast & Louche: Confessions of a Flagrant Sinner

by Jeremy Scott

 

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Jeremy Scott had a spectacularly successful life in advertising in the 1960's and 1970's until reinventing himself first in Provence and then as an ascetic, whose life was saved by Marcus Aurelius 10 years ago.

This book is his story.

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The Taming of the Queen The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels;

by Philippa Gregory.

 

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Why would a woman marry a serial killer?

Because she cannot refuse.

Kateryn Parr, a thirty year old widow in a secret affair with a new lover, has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives, King Henry VIII commands her to marry him.

Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she faces, the previous Queen lasted sixteen months, the one before barely half a year. But Henry adores his new bride and Kateryn's trust in him grows as she unites the royal family, creates a radical study circle at the heart of the court, and rules the kingdom as regent.

 

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Cambodia (Lonely Planet Country Guide)

 

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Angkor Wat is just the beginning.

If you want to go deeper into the real Cambodia, this guide is your key.

Unlock the mysteries of the sacred temples, share the Mekong with endangered dolphins, and eat with pythons and cobras by your side.

Lonely Planet guides you, you will have the adventure you always hoped for.

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No Ordinary Joe by Joe Calzaghe

 

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IT WAS past three o'clock in the morning when Joe Calzaghe experienced the sweetest validation of his professional life. Victory over Jeff Lacy, a 28 year old American compared to a young Mike Tyson because of his power and "take no prisoners attitude", left no one in doubt about the world super middleweight champion's talent.

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Stuart Neville - 'Collusion'

 

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A road chase through the rural lanes of Northern Ireland's border country opens Stuart Neville's second politico crime thriller, ****COLLUSION****

 

As a car is forced to stop, its occupants frantically ditch their drugs cache and wait for the pursuing police.

But instead their car boot is forced open, something weighty is lifted into it and familiar weapons are thrown inside the car itself.

A smiling police officer takes the key, double locks the car doors upon its occupants and places the key on the bonnet, in full view of the driver.

With a wave, the pursuers drive off, very fast.

 

"Collusion…" as one character later remarks, "… goes all ways, all directions."

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Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob, by Howard Blum.

 

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In the tradition of "Wiseguy" and "Boss of Bosses" the inside story of the fall of the "Teflon Don" The team.

A handpicked squad of FBI agents, led by a war hero determined to get the job done.

The target: John Gotti, the seemingly invincible head of the richest and most powerful crime of modern day Untouchables, the FBI's C-16 Organized Crime squad, who finally ended the cocky crime lord's reign of terror.

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The Tourist (The Tourist #1) by Olen Steinhauer.

 

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Milo Weaver has tried so hard to leave his old life of Secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a “tourist” for the CIA an undercover agent with no home no Family and no identity.

 

Now he is working at a desk at the agency’s New York H-Q, but when the arrest of a long sought after deadly assassin sets off an investigation into one of his colleague's, exposing new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has only one choice; to go back undercover and find out who’s behind it all from the start.

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Dark Dawn (DS O'Neill #1) by Matt McGuire

 

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Belfast. January 2005.

Acting Detective Sergeant John O'Neill stands over the body of a dead teenager.

The corpse was discovered on the building site of a luxury development overlooking the River Lagan.

 

Kneecapped then killed, the body bears the hallmarks of a punishment beating.

But this is the new Northern Ireland, the Celtic Tiger purrs, the Troubles are over, the paramilitaries are gone.

So who is the boy?

Why was he killed?

O'Neill quickly realises that no one cares who the kid is, his colleagues, the politicians, the press, making this case one of the toughest yet.

And he needs to crack this one, his first job as Principle Investigator, or he risks ending up back in uniform.

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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles Bernard Cornwell.

 

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On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels.

In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny.

The Allies were in a hurried retreat.

 

The blood soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history, to be examined over and again, not least because until the evening of the 18th, the French army was close to prevailing on the battlefield.

 

Now, brought to life by the celebrated novelist Bernard Cornwell, this is the chronicle of the four days leading up to the actual battle and a thrilling hour by hour account of that fateful day.

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Overcoming the Giants in Your Land by Reginald Klimionok

 

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This book condenses into practical living the most crucial ways of conquering such major emotional, physical and spiritual problems as fear, finances, condemnation, etc.

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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz by Denis Avey & Rob Broomby.

 

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THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III.

 

In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III.

He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could.