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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny by Robin S. Sharma

 

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Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace.

 

This inspiring tale provides a step by step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy.

A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out of balance life.

On a life changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to:

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No Way Back by Andrew Gross

 

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One woman is framed for a horrific crime, and desperate to prove her innocence.

A chance meeting with a stranger in a hotel ends in a shocking murder.

Wendy Gould is an average mom and the only witness.

Nanny Lauritzia Velez knows a shocking secret that could prove to be deadly, both of their lives in danger, this unlikely pair must work together against a network of dangerous men who want nothing more than to see them dead.

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Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos

by Natacha Du Pont de Bie

 

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Natacha Du Pont De Bie is no ordinary tourist.

She'll trek for hours or even days in search of a good lunch. Ant Egg Soup is the result of her adventures in Laos, the stories of the people she met, the places she visited and, of course, the amazing food she tasted.

Drinking raw turkey blood with herbs in a tribal village, cooking Paradise chicken in a little guest house by the Kung Si waterfalls, and sampling fried cricket during the Festival of the Golden Stupa are just a few examples.

Funny and refreshing, with recipes and lines drawings, Ant Egg Soup will awaken the senses while redefining the art of travelling and eating abroad.

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Mercy by David L. Lindsey

 

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When two women are found murdered, female detective Sander Grant is drawn into two strange worlds, the underground world of bisexuality and sadomasochism, and the twisted, sick world of the killer.

Based on research with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit.

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Vengeance (Mystery Writers of America Anthology)

by Lee Child

 

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When a different kind of justice is needed, swift, effective, and personal, a new type of avenger must take action.

 

Vengeance features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaughter, as well as some of today's brightest rising talents.

The heroes in these stories include a cop who's seen too much, a woman who has been pushed too far, or just an ordinary person doing what the law will not.

Some call them vigilantes, others claim they are just another brand of criminal.

Edited and with an introduction by Lee Child, these stories reveal the shocking consequences when men and women take the law into their own hands.

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The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong by Edward Gargan

 

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Along the Mekong, from northern Tibet to Lijiang, from Luang Prabang to Phnom Penh to Can Lo, I moved from one world to another, among cultural islands often ignorant of each other’s presence.

Yet each island, as if built on shifting sands and eroded and reshaped by a universal sea, was re-forming itself, or was being remolded, was expanding its horizons or sinking under the rising waters of a cultural global warming.

It was a journey between worlds, worlds fragiley conjoined by a river both ominous and luminescent, muscular and bosomy, harsh and sensuous.

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My Dark Places by James Ellroy

 

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From the author of L.A. Confidential comes My Dark Places, an investigative autobiography by James Ellroy.

In 1958, Ellroy's mother, Jean, was raped, killed, and dumped off a road in El Monte, California, a rundown L.A. suburb.

The killer was never found, and the case was closed.

It was a sordid, back page homicide that no one remembered. Except her son.

James Ellroy was ten years old when his mother died.

His bereavement was complex and ambiguous: "I cried. I cranked tears out all the way to L.A.

I hated her.

I hated El Monte.

Some unknown killer just bought me a brand new beautiful life." He grew up obsessed with murdered women and crime. He ran from his mother's ghost.

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Black Friday by Alex Kava.

 

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On the busiest shopping day of the year, some idealistic college students believe they're about to carry out an elaborate media stunt at the largest mall in America.

They think the jamming devices in their backpacks will disrupt stores' computer systems, causing delays and chaos.

What they don't realize is that instead of jamming devices, their backpacks are stuffed with explosives, ready to be detonated by remote control and turning them into suicide bombers.

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Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter

 

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Lured From The Safety Of Home, Into The Jaws Of Hell?

 

"America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon, with this true account of unvarnished horror from the early twentieth century.

Journey inside the demented mind of Albert Fish, pedophile, sadist, and cannibal killer and discover that blood-lust knows no time or place....

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The Moonshine Mule: On the Hoof from Mexico to Manhattan

by Tom Fremantle.

 

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In the summer of 1863 Colonel Arthur Fremantle travelled through America at the height of the Civil War, a time when the nation was ripping itself apart.

Ironically, almost 140 years later Tom Fremantle strode off in his swashbuckling ancestor's footsteps to walk the 2700 miles from Mexico to Manhattan just ten days before the 11 September attacks on New York and witnessed a country seemingly never more united.

Their journeys could not have been more different.

Colonel Arthur rode stage coaches, steam trains and Mississippi river skiffs while his less sensible descendant slogged the entire way on foot.

Colonel Arthur flirted with saucy belles; Tom Fremantle kept company with Browny, a cantankerous 17-year-old mule.

The Colonel ate skunk meat and was arrested twice as a spy before witnessing the devastating Battle of Gettysburg and sailing home from New York.

The twenty-first century Fremantle ate grits and was chased by a buffalo before leading the hapless Browny over George Washington Bridge and into Central Park.

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Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

 

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San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends.

But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires.

On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear.

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Ashoka: the Search for India's Lost Emperor by Charles Allen

 

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India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history.

In his quest to govern India by moral force alone Ashoka turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion and set up a new yardstick for government which had huge implications for Asia.

But his brave experiment ended in tragedy and his name was cleansed from the record so effectively that he was forgotten for almost two thousand years.

But a few mysterious stone monuments and inscriptions survived, and the story of how these keystones to the past were discovered by British Orientalists and their mysterious lettering deciphered is every bit as remarkable as their author himself.

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Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry.

 

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Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors, two proud & passionate men whose remarkable quest to carve a future out of Indian Territory east of the Arkansas River after the Civil War is not only history but legend.

Played out against an American West governed by a brutal brand of frontier justice, this intensely moving saga brims with a rich cast of indomitable and utterly unforgettable characters such as Becca, Zeke's gallant Cherokee wife, and Jewel Sixkiller Proctor, whose love for Ned makes her a tragic heroine.

At once exuberant and poignant, bittersweet and brilliant, Zeke and Ned takes us deep into the hearts of two extraordinary men who were willing to go the distance for the bold vision they shared and for the women they loved.

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The Gate of the Tigers by Henry Meigs

 

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When an American employee of a Tokyo computer firm is murdered, Lieutenant Mori of the Japanese police and Ludlow, a cynical CIA free-lancer, reluctantly team up to solve the crime.

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The Last Boat To Samui by William Peskett.

 

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Numchai is the most experienced ferry captain on the short route from the Thai mainland to the tourist island of Ko Samui. But while nothing has gone wrong before, tonight the ferry is drifting in mid channel with no power.

At head office, Eek is manning the phones.

Learning of the ferry’s predicament, he anticipates a crisis whose resolution is above his pay-grade.

He calls the ferry company’s managing director at home.

What ensues is a sensitive negotiation between the depressed sea-captain and an increasingly irate managing director, with Eek as the hapless go-between. As relations between Numchai and his boss go from bad to worse, the captain threatens to scuttle his ship.

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Freedom from Fear by Aung San Suu Kyi,

 

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Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta.

Today, she is newly liberated from six years' house arrest in Rangoon, where she was held as a prisoner of conscience, despite an overwhelming victory by her party in May 1990.

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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
by Pascal Khoo Thwe

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The astonishing story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his journey from his strife torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge. 
In lyrical prose, Pascal Khoo Thwe describes his childhood as a member of the Padaung hill tribe, where ancestor worship and communion with spirits blended with the tribe's recent conversion to Christianity. 
In the 1930's, Pascal's grandfather captured an Italian Jesuit, mistaking him for a giant or a wild beast; the Jesuit in turn converted the tribe.

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Meltdown by Ben Elton

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For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. 
His whole life was a party, Adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled.
If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab.
But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so instead of burning out, his star just burned brighter than ever.

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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

by Ben Macintyre.

 

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D-Day 6 June 1944 the turning point of the Second World War was a victory of arms.

But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation one of deceit aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway not Normandy were the targets of the 150 000-strong invasion force.

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Tell Tale: Short Stories by Jeffrey Archer

 

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Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Jeffrey Archer returns with his eagerly awaited, brand new collection TELL TALE, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visited during the past ten years.

 

Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor?

And the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life in the most profound way.

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Under Orders by Dick Francis

 

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"Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon.

However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than one eyebrow."

 

It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley.

Last seen in 1995's Come to Grief, former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest.