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The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl 
by Belle de Jour.

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Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high class call girl working in London. 
We'll tell you her story.

From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day to day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny and award-winning web diary. 
Now, in her Intimate Adventures, Belle elaborates on those diary entries, revealing her secret's and how she became a working girl, what it feels like to do it for money, and where to buy the best lingerie for the job. From debating the literary merits of Martin Amis with naked clients to smuggling whips into luxury hotels, this is a no-holds barred account of the high-class sex-trade, and an insight into the secret life of an extraordinary woman.

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The Autobiography: The Kindness of Strangers, by Kate Adie

 

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Kate Adie's story is an unusual one.

Raised in post war Sunderland, where life was 'a sunny experience, full of meat paste sandwiches and Sunday school', she has reported memorably and courageously from many of the world's trouble spots since she joined the BBC in 1969.

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS encompasses Adie's reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and, of course, the Gulf War of 1991.

It offers a compelling combination of vivid front-line reporting and evocative writing and reveals the extraordinarily demanding life of the woman who is always at the heart of the action.

Although an intensely private person, Kate Adie also divulges what it's like to be a woman in a man's world, an inspiration to many working women.

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In Pursuit of Glory by Bradley Wiggins

 

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Few people know the controversial world of professional cycling better than Bradley Wiggins.

At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, he became the first British athlete in 40 years to win three medals in a single Olympic Games, which led to his being awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

The 2007 Tour de France ended in heartbreaking disappointment for him when his teammate failed a drug test but he roared back in Beijing, winning double gold.

In this updated version of Wiggins’s warts and all account, he reveals his incredible life in cycling, and the truth behind the sport.

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Raise the Red Lantern by Su Tong & Michael S. Duke.

 

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The brutal realities of the dark places Su Tong depicts in this collection of novellas set in 1930's provincial China, worlds of prostitution, poverty, and drug addiction, belie his prose of stunning and simple-beauty.

The title novella, "Raise the Red Lantern," which became a critically acclaimed film, tells the story of Lotus, a young woman whose father's suicide forces her to become the concubine of a wealthy merchant.

Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge.

[Daveo]

Crisis by Frank Gardner.

 

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Introducing Luke Carlton, ex-Special Boat Service commando, and now under contract to M-I6 for some of its most dangerous missions.

 

Sent into the hot steamy jungles of Colombia to investigate the murder of a British intelligence officer, Luke finds himself caught deep in the coils of a plot that has terrifying international dimensions.

Hunted down, captured, beaten, tortured and on the run from one of South America's most powerful and ruthless drugs cartels and its psychotic leader thirsting for revenge, Luke is in a life or death race against time to prevent a disaster on a truly terrifying scale.

London is the target, the weapon is diabolical and the means of delivery is ingenious.

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A Colder War by Charles Cumming.

 

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From the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year comes a gripping and suspenseful new spy novel.

Perfect for fans of John le Carré, Charles Cumming is ‘the master of the modern spy thriller.

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Matt Dawson: Nine Lives....

 

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Matt is the most capped England rugby scrum half of all time, a valiant captain of his country, a two times British Lions tourist, Matt Dawson’s career story is a colourful tale spiced with controversy, from club rugby at Northampton to England winning the Rugby World Cup in Australia.

Read Matt's life at Canterbury Tales Sport section...

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Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes ...

 

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"What would happen if Adolf Hitler woke up in modern day Berlin?

In this satirical novel, he'd end up a TV comedy star.

Look Who's Back; has unsurprisingly sparked debate in a country that has grappled for decades with Hitler's unconscionable legacy."

 

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Lost Worlds Vietnam War by Jeremy Smith.

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The Vietnam War transports you back to a time when the United States become involved in a war in Vietnam, and lets you experience the drama for yourself. 

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If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation, by Janine Latus

 

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In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer.

Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, it read, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways.

Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do.

If I am missing or dead this obviously has not protected me...

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In Search of the Tiger: A Golfing Odyssey, by Ian Stafford

 

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Ian Stafford has tried his hand at most sports, but nothing could have prepared him for the sheer humiliation, frustration and exhilaration of the world's most popular game, Golf.

This title talks about his golfing adventure.

[Daveo]

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

 

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award finalist,

 

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

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The Man Who Cycled the Americas by Mark Beaumont

 

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31,000 miles. 22,840 feet high. 34 countries. 15 months. 2 amazing journeys.

In 2008, Mark Beaumont totally smashed the world record for cycling around the world, by an amazing 81 days.

His race against the clock took him through some of the toughest terrain and the most demanding of conditions.

In 2009, Mark set out on his second ultra endurance challenge. And this one would involve some very big mountains.

[Daveo]

Great Failures of the Extremely Successful by Steve Young.

 

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Failure: The Best Thing that Ever Happened to You

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Culture shock Southeast Asia & the Orient.

Includes; Burma/Myanmar - Cambodia - China - Hong Kong - Indonesia - Japan - Laos - Malaysia - Philippines - Singapore - South Korea - Taiwan - Thailand - Vietnam.
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Many good tips on Thailand and Southeast Asia, 
How to? what to? Warnings? Money, Culture and much more.
brand new; includes Pattaya maps....*****180 baht*****
Includes Pattaya maps of the Bar's Go Go's Walking Street and general street map.

[Daveo]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

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Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. 
This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids.

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On 5/2/2017 at 04:27, Daveo said:

The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia; by Mike Dash.

 

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Before the notorious Five Families who dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half century, there was the one fingered criminal genius Giuseppe Morello, known as “The Clutch Hand” and his lethal coterie of associates.

In The First Family, historian, journalist, and bestselling author Mike Dash brings to life this little known story, following the rise of the Mafia in America from the 1890's to the 1920's, from the lawless villages of Sicily to the streets of Little Italy.

Using an impressive array of primary sources hitherto untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, trial transcripts, and interviews with surviving family members, this is the first Mafia history that applies scholarly rigor to the story of the Morello syndicate and the birth of organized crime on these shores.

 

Progressing from small time scams to counterfeiting rings to even bigger criminal enterprises, Giuseppe Morello exerted ruthless control of Italian neighborhoods in New York, and through adroit coordination with other Sicilian crime families, his Clutch Hand soon reached far beyond the Hudson River.

 

The men who battled Morello’s crews were themselves colorful and legendary figures, including William Flynn, a fearless Secret Service agent, and Lieutenant detective Giuseppe “Joe” Petrosino of the New York Police Department’s elite Italian Squad, whose pursuit of the brutal gangs ultimately cost him his life.

 

Combining first-rate scholarship and Pulse quickening action, and set amid rustic Sicilian landscapes and the streets of old New York, The First Family is a groundbreaking account of the crucial period when the American criminal underworld exploded with violent fury across the nation.

Thanks for this one, I'll try and find it on Kindle.  If I was there now I'd certainly buy a copy from you.

[Daveo]

Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper.

 

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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos, war and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news.

In this gripping yet candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life.

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Fowler: My Autobiography by Robbie Fowler.

 

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Pronounced by some as the greatest goal-scoring talent since Jimmy Greaves, at 17-years old Robbie Fowler was immediately catapulted to fame and fortune.

The skinny, baby faced Toxteth lad was now a millionaire, an idol, and inspiration to every kid who kicked a soccer ball.

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Village of Stone by Xiaolu Guo,

 

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A bewitching novel about memory, loss and the search for redemption, from one of China’s freshest voices.

 

Coral and her frisbee-obsessed boyfriend, Red, live in a cramped stuffy tower block in the megalopolis that is the modern-day City called Beijing.

The epitome of disaffected youth, their already fragile existence is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious fishy package.

As the smells of the sea wash over her, Coral is transported back to a traumatic childhood dominated by solitude, fear and shame.

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The Gangster We Are All Looking For, By THI DIEM THUY LE.

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This acclaimed novel reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country. 

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We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.

 

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Eva never really yearned to be a mother, certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him.

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 absent husband, Franklyn.

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Deborah Harry: The #Biography

 

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Billy Connolly The #Biography

 

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The Devil's Tinderbox by Alexander McKee.

 

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Margret Freyer, an unusually beautiful girl, she was twenty four years of age, who had already survived a full day’s interrogation by the Gestapo and escaped the concentration camp by carefully considering what her answers should be.

She would also to survive two cellars in Dresden on the night of 13/14 February, both were in the Altstadt, where the fire storm was about to develop.

She lived at Ferdinandstrasse 13 and took shelter in the cellar there during the first wave of attack, soon to be joined by forty three other women......

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