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The 50th Law by 50 Cent, by‎ Robert Greene.

 

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In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a “bible” for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing.

With stories from 50 Cent's life on the streets and in the boardroom as he rose to fame after the release of his album Get Rich or Die Tryin’, as well as examples of others who have overcome adversity through understanding and practicing the 50th Law, this deeply inspirational book is perfect for entrepreneurs as well as anyone interested in the extraordinary life of Curtis Jackson.

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Light Touch by Stephen Leather

 

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Working undercover is all about trust, getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice.

 

But what do you do when you believe an undercover cop has crossed the line and aligned herself with the international drugs smuggler she was supposed to be targeting?

 

When a deep undercover cop stops passing on intelligence about her target, MI5 sends in Dan 'Spider' Shepherd to check that she is on the straight and narrow.

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Tatiana by Martin Cruz Smith

 

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The fearless investigative reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow the same week that a mob billionaire.

Grisha Grigorenko, is shot and buried with the trappings due a lord. No one makes the connection, but Arkady is transfixed by the tapes he discovers of Tatiana’s voice, even as she describes horrific crimes hidden by official versions.

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Creepers (Frank Balenger #1) by David Morrell

 

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On a cold October night, five people gather in a run down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon hotel.

Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure, which fore-shadowed the beauties of art deco architecture, is now boarded up and marked for demolition.

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Streets of Darkness (Harry Virdee #1) by A.A. Dhand..

 

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Luther meets The Wire, this is the first Detective Harry Virdee novel....

 

The sky over Bradford is heavy with foreboding.

It always is, but this morning it has reason to be, this morning a body has been found.

And it’s not just any body.

 

Detective Harry Virdee should be at home with his wife. Impending fatherhood should be all he can think about but he’s been suspended from work just as the biggest case of the year lands on what would have been his desk.

He can’t keep himself away.

 

Determined to restore his reputation, Harry is obliged to take to the shadows in search of notorious ex-convict and prime suspect, Lucas Dwight.

But as the motivations of the murder threaten to tip an already unstable city into riotous anarchy, Harry finds his preconceptions turned on their head as he discovers what it’s like to be on the other side of the law…

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Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory guide to Deeper States of Meditation by Henepola Gunaratana

 

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“A straightforward and pragmatic guide to deepening levels of concentration and insight.

This book is a joy to read and a great gift to us all.”Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness.

 

Countless people worldwide have made Mindfulness in Plain English a beloved and bestselling classic in almost a dozen languages.

Now after nearly two decades, Bhante helps meditators of every stripe take their mindfulness practice to the next level - helping them go, in a word, beyond mindfulness.

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Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul: by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Wyland

 

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All of us, at one time or another, find ourselves inexplicably drawn to the sea.

For some, it's a place for reflection or romance.

For others, it's the thrill of watching surf crash against a sandy white beach or studying the kaleidoscope of life among a tropical coral reef.

This ability of the ocean to change our lives, to inspire us and to fascinate us is what led us to create Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul, a collection of stories from around the world that celebrate the magic of our ocean planet.

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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

 

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Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic.

Blink changes the way you will understand every decision you make, never again will you think about thinking the same way.

 

Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us.

Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within.

Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, in the blink of an eye, that actually aren't as simple as they seem.

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Books to look out for....

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Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg.

 

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Is There a Doctor in the House?

 

Say you’re at a party.

You’ve had a martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to stay before going out for pizza.

Suddenly you’re introduced to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya.

You forget the pizza, now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you’d like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor but haven’t had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so.

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Triple Your Reading Speed by Wade E. Cutler

 

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This fourth edition of Triple Your Reading Speed does just that with self quizzes and tests that make it fun and simple to acquire the skills that will give you an edge in school and on the job.

The renowned Accelerated Method helps you to break old habits that may be slowing you down, and develop strategies for increased comprehension in less time, with eye exercises to control and expand vision drills for practicing pacing and block reading strategies for mastering the "two-stop" reading method...and more?

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The Man Who Swam the Amazon by Martin Strel.

 

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On Sunday, April 8, 200 7, 52-year old Martin Strel completed the first ever swim of the 3,274 mile long Amazon River.

The Fish Man, as he was called by locals, almost died in the process several times; he encountered deadly piranha, crocodiles, anaconda, river sharks, blistering, relentless sun, dangerous currents, river Pirates and drug runners, and the insidious candiru.

At the finish his blood pressure was at heart attack level, his entire body full of subcutaneous larvae, and besieged by dehydration, diarrhea, and exhaustion.

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Come Back Alive by Robert Young Pelton.

 

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Welcome to the art of survival.

Come Back Alive is the indispensable and witty guide to avoiding nasty situations, whether on a business trip, an adventure vacation, or a weekend hike.

In this book, the author of the classic travel annual "The World's Most Dangerous Places, " Robert Young Pelton--"Dangerman" "tourist with an attitude" "the patron saint of adventure travelers" reveals the Secrets that have kept him alive and laughing:

in the desert: finding water where it ain't, dehydration and rehydration, copping a nuclear tan

in the jungle: trekking, camping, Jungle tucker, what to do when there's no bridge

in the woods: when you're tentless and clueless, when dinner's still mobile

in the snow: dressing for excess; building a snow Cave, what to do when someone's going hypo

on the road: surviving adventure travel, from mild to wild

when assaulted: passive self-defense, active self-defense, better ideas in self-defense

when kidnapped: how to avoid it, how to survive it ......

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1)

by Jeff Kinney

 

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Boys don’t keep diaries......or do they?

 

The launch of an exciting and innovatively illustrated new series narrated by an unforgettable kid every family can relate to.

It’s a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.

The hazards of growing up before you’re ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.

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White Shotgun: The Sicilian Mafia in Their Own Words

by Attilio Bolzoni

 

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Find this in our extensive True Crime section.....

 

For thirty years Attilio Bolzoni has reported on the shadowy activities of Cosa Nostra.

Now, for the first time, he has collected together a powerful anthology of rare interviews, court proceedings and phone taps that together capture the essence of this most hidden of secret society.

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Off the Rails in Phnom Penh: Into the Dark Heart of Guns, Girls, and Ganja by Amit Gilboa

 

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Phnom Penh is a city of beauty and degradation, tranquillity and violence, and tradition and transformation, a city of temples and working girls, music and gunfire, and festivals and coups.

But for many, it is simply an anarchic celebration of insanity and indulgence.

Whether it is the $2 wooden shack brothels, the marijuana-pizza restaurants, the AK-47 fireworks displays, or the intricate brutality of Cambodian politics, Phnom Penh never ceases to amaze and amuse.

For an individual coming from a modern Western society, it is a place where the immoral becomes acceptable and the insane becomes normal.

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Modigliani Scandal by Ken Follett.

 

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In the modern art world of intrigue and competition, rumours had long flourished about the existence of a lost masterpiece by Modigliani.

Now, with the prize for uncovering the work higher than ever, a chase begins across Europe to see who can get the painting first.

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The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam

 

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A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man's loyalty to his country, his family and his heritage.

 

Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English academy in 1960's Saigon, and he is well accustomed to bribing a forever changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of his school.

 

Fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, he is quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country, though he also harbors a weakness for gambling haunts and the women who frequent them.

He devotedly ignores all news of the fighting that swirls around him, but when his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections and wealth and is forced to send him away.

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Welcome to Hell: One Man's Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton by Colin Martin

 

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Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police.

Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, he accidentally killed that man’s bodyguard.

Colin was arrested, denied a fair trial, convicted of murder and thrown into prison, where he remained for 8 years.

Honest and often disturbing, but told with a surprising humour, Welcome to Hell is the remarkable story of how Colin was denied justice again and again.

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Street Boys by Lorenzo Carcaterra

 

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Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943.

The only people left in the shattered, bombed out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day.

None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II.

They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra's exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience.

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Sacred World: The Shambhala Way to Gentleness, Bravery, and Power by Karen Hayward

 

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This is the first book to offer step by step instruction in Shambhala warriorship.

Combining Buddhist mindfulness practice and pre-Buddhist shamanic teachings, Shambhala warriorship training teaches ways to call on powerful, natural energies for personal and collective transformation.

It shows us how to use everyday situations to unite mind, body, and emotions in a harmonious whole.

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The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

by Diana Preston

 

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Chinese peasants chafed against the foreign technologies and ideas that the imperialists introduced.

Then a new movement mystical, materialistic, and virulently anti-Christian-began to spread among them like wildfire.

The foreigners laughed at the peasants' martial arts routines and nicknamed them "the Boxers"-never imagining that the group, with the backing of China's empress dowager, would soon terrorize the world.

This acclaimed account of the Boxer Rebellion, by an Oxford trained historian, is an important new addition to every shelf of high quality, highly accessible history.