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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake #1) by C.J. Sansom

 

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Henry VIII has ordered the dissolution of the monasteries and England is full of informers.

At the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control with the murder of Commissioner Robin Singleton. Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer, and his assistant are sent to investigate.

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Lonely Planet Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Northern Thailand (Travel Guide)

 

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Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Northern Thailand is your passport to the most relevant, advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you.

Tempt your taste-buds with pho noodle soup in Vietnam, sail past the limestone peaks of Halong Bay, or experience the transcendent tranquility of temples like Angkor Wat; all with your trusted travel companion.

Get to the heart of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Northern Thailand and begin your journey now.

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Shantaram & The Mountain Shadow (Shantaram #2)

by Gregory David Roberts.

 

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"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."

 

So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay.

Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.

 

The Mountain Shadow;

A sequel to SHANTARAM but equally a standalone novel, The Mountain Shadow follows Lin on further adventures in shadowy worlds and cultures.

It is a novel about seeking identity, love, meaning, purpose, home, even the secret of life...

As the story begins, Lin has found happiness and love, but when he gets a call that a friend is in danger, he has no choice but to go to his aid, even though he knows that leaving this paradise puts everything at risk, including himself and his lover.

 

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Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky

 

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When Susan Tate's seventeen year old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned.

A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right, She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself.

 

Then comes word of two more pregnancies among high school juniors who happen to be Lily's best friends and the town turns to talk of a pact.

As fingers start pointing, the most ardent criticism is directed at Susan.

As principal of the high school, she has always been held up as a role model of hard work and core values.

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Pool And Its Role in Asian Communism, by Colin Cotterill

 

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The year is 1970.

Waldo Monk is 65 years old, a widower, and two months away from retirement after a lifetime at Roundly's pool-ball factory in Mattfield, Indiana.

Enter Saifon, a twenty something Lao / American girl with an attitude, who has come to the US under mysterious circumstances.

She's just arrived at Roundly's, and it's Waldo's task to train her up for his job as pool-ball quality controller.

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Psychic Case Files by Tony Stockwell

 

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Police, victims of crime, and family members regularly ask Tony Stockwell to use his psychic powers to help investigate cases that have not yielded to conventional methods.

In this fascinating collection, Tony opens his case files and discusses some of his most amazing assignments, including tracking down the body of a young sailor lost at sea, uncovering the hidden Secrets of a haunted abbey, and revealing the truth behind a pair of apparent suicides.

This is a treasure trove for crime buffs and psychic enthusiasts alike.

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How to Make Money: The 88 Steps to Get Rich and Find Success by Felix Dennis..

 

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Felix Dennis is one of Britain's wealthiest self made entrepreneurs with an estimated fortune of £500 million.

And he didn't get there simply by reading about how to get rich.

He went out and did it.

 

Appreciating that those intent on becoming rich will not have the time or inclination to read page upon page of guidance and advice on the subject, Felix Dennis has reduced his own business wisdom to 88 tenets of wealth-generation, all written in his inimitable style.

 

How to Make Money is for those determined to get rich, for those who will not confuse reading with doing, for those who seek the narrow road.

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SCUBA Diving (Dk Eyewitness Companions)

by Monty Halls & Miranda Krestovnikoff ..

 

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An authoritative and encouraging guide to SCUBA diving for the beginner or intermediate enthusiast, this book contains expert advice and step-by-step illustrations on how to perfect key skills, how to buy and maintain equipment, what the different diving options are, and where to find classic dive sites around the world.

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Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time Volume I - 2 & 3

by Eric Lynch, Jon Turner,& Jon Van Fleet

 

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Now you can learn exactly how consistent winners REALLY do it?

Meet Pearl-Jammer, Rizen, and Apestyles.

These top guns of tournament poker are frequent winners in today's highly competitive online scene, as well as in live tourneys.

Their collective experience and track record is staggering: more than 35,000 tournaments played, more than 1,000 final tables made, over 200 major wins, and more than $6,000,000 in cashes.

They regularly outplay fields consisting of other top professionals victories that are documented by detailed online hand histories.

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Outliers: The Story of Success; by Malcolm Gladwell.

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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. 
He asks the question: what makes high achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. 
Along the way he explains the Secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. 

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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer

 

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Foer's unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives.

 

On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they've forgotten.

Joshua Foer used to be one of those people.

But after a year of memory training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship.

Even more important, Foer found a vital truth we too often forget: In every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov,

 

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Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime.

Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow, the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a Satanic ball; to such somber scenes as the meeting of Pilate and Yeshua, and the murder of Judas in the moonlit garden of Gethsemane; to the substance-less, circus-like reality of Moscow.

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Breaking Vegas Ben Mezrich.

 

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For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action. His name was Semyon Dukatch, and stories swirled in his wake.

Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, others a pop star from Eastern Europe.

But the truth was even more unlikely: he was a twenty-one year old graduate student who had a plan that would one day make him richer than anyone could possibly imagine.

 

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Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk.

 

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Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to.

Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius.

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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis.

 

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Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem, how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team.

Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success.

But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs.

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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs

 

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Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.

 

33,000 Pages

44 Million Words

10 Billion Years Of History

1 Obsessed Man

 

To fill the ever widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but unconvinced.

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Diving & Snorkeling Thailand (Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling)

 

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Each map listing begins with the map title field.

This title describes the coverage of the map as well as any unique map features.

If no features are listed, it can be assumed that the map is a paper, folding map.

We encourage customers to include the title, along with the Map Link Code or ISBN Number, to assure the correct map is ordered.Most of the maps we sell are folded, except topographic maps, wall maps and atlases.

Wall maps are listed with dimensions, in inches, appearing in the title field (height x width).

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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

 

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In April 1992 a young man from a well to do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley.

His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless.

He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.

Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

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Diver Down: Real-World Scuba Accidents and How to Avoid Them by Michael R. Ange

 

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One diver, after a seemingly brief period below the surface, discovers that his gas supply has run perilously low. Another, paralyzed, bobs helplessly on the surface, and when a poorly trained dive-master attempts rescue, things go from bad to worse.

Two other divers, fascinated by the bountiful undersea life of the Caribbean, fail to notice that a powerful current is sweeping them rapidly away from their unattended boat.

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Non-Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk

 

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Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine.

The pieces that comprise Non-Fiction prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world of college wrestlers; the underground world of anabolic steroid gobblers; the harrowing circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer, each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of America's most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.

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