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Under Cover of the Night: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder by Diane Fanning.

 

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It was planned to look like a suicide.

But even in the best laid plans, evidence is left behind

Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia.

By her side was a gun and a suicide note, typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint on it.

A fingerprint apparently belonging to Jocelyn’s estranged husband…

 

Wesley Earnest was a respected high school administrator, poised to restart his life in a new community.

Parents entrusted their children to his care and believed he was above reproach.

But the investigation into the life the couple once shared would reveal adultery, troubled finances, and shattered dreams, enough for one man with murder on his mind to travel hundreds of miles.

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The Peninsular War: A Concise Military History

by Michael Glover

 

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The Peninsular War is often eclipsed by the spectacular individual battles by sea and land of the Napoleonic Wars, but it was the decisive struggle in which the Emperor's troops faced defeat for the first time.

Michael Glover seeks to give the basic skeleton of facts and to flesh it out with first-hand accounts of what it was like to march and fight, to eat and be wounded, to command and be commanded at the start of the 19th century.

Stress is laid on the technological limitations of warfare during this period, when all the movement was limited to the pace of a heavily laden infantryman moving across country.

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Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor

by Ozzy Osbourne & Chris Ayres.

 

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Wondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy Osbourne became one of a handful of people in the world to have his entire DNA mapped in 2010.

It was a highly complex, $65,000 process, but the results were conclusive: Ozzy is a genetic anomaly.

The "Full Ozzy Genome" contained variants that scientists had never before encountered and the findings were presented at the prestigious TEDMED Conference in San Diego making headlines around the world.

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Bridging the Gap by NIRATPATTANASAI, KRIENGSAK..

 

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Essential reading for anybody who wants to do business in Thailand.

 

The essential guide for anyone who works or does business in Thailand.

Includes an insightful account of the Thai cultural make-up and a revealing study on how Thais regard foreigners in the workplace, and vice versa.

Real-life case studies highlight common misunderstandings and offer solutions for awkward situations.

Also includes a section on how to handle official social functions such as weddings and funerals.

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In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington by Robert E. Rubin, Jacob Weisberg

 

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Robert Rubin was sworn in as the seventieth U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in January 1995 in a brisk ceremony attended only by his wife and a few colleagues.

As soon as the ceremony was over, he began an emergency meeting with President Bill Clinton on the financial crisis in Mexico.

This was not only a harbinger of things to come during what would prove to be a rocky period in the global economy; it also captured the essence of Rubin himself, short on formality, quick to get into the nitty-gritty.

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Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third whiskey Sour

by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg

 

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The Doctor Is In . . . Again?

 

Did the; Why Do Men Have Nipples? exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing?

No, you say?

Well, good, because the doctor and his able bodied buddy are in, Again?

Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., now take on the differences between the sexes, those burning questions like Why doesn’t my husband ever listen? or Why does my wife ALWAYS have to pee? And of course, Why do men fall asleep after sex?, plus plenty of others to keep you fully informed.

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin

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The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.

In April 2011, the CBS documentary "60 Minutes" called into question Greg Mortenson's work. 
The program alleged inaccuracies in Three Cups of Tea and its sequel, Stones into Schools as well as financial improprieties in the operation of Mortenson's Central Asia Institute. 
Questions were also raised about Mortenson's claim that he got lost near K2 and ended up in Korphe; that he was captured by the Taliban in 1996; the number of schools the CAI claimed to have built and whether CAI funds had been used appropriately for Mortenson's book tours.

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Known to Evil by Walter Mosley

 

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The Walter Mosley and his new hero, Leonid McGill, are back in the mystery series that's already being hailed as a classic of contemporary noir.

 

Leonid McGill-the protagonist introduced in The Long Fall, the book that returned Walter Mosley to bestseller lists nationwide is still fighting to stick to his reformed ways while the world around him pulls him in every other direction.

He has split up with his girlfriend, Aura, because his new self won't let him leave his wife-but then Aura's new boyfriend starts angling to get Leonid kicked out of his prime, top of the­skyscraper office space.

Meanwhile, one of his sons seems to have found true love but the girl has a shady past that's all of sudden threatening the whole McGill family and his other son, the charming rogue Twilliam, is doing nothing but enabling the crisis.

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The Working Poor: Invisible in America, by David K. Shipler

 

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As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology, hard, honest work.

But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse.

Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor, white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants.

We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy.

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Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes by Mark J. Penn & E. Kinney Zalesne

 

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Mark Penn argues that the biggest trends in America are the Microtrends, the smaller trends that go unnoticed or ignored. One million people can create new market for a business, spark a social movement, or effect political change.

In 1996, a microtrend identified by Penn ("soccer moms") was crucial in re-electing President Clinton.

With years of experience as one of world's most highly regarded pollsters, Mark Penn identifies the new microtrends sweeping the world:

*Single women by choice: More often than ever before, they aren't waiting for Mr. Right.

They are raising children by themselves and buying their own homes.

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Nighthawk by Clive Cussler,

 

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NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world’s most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind’s last in this action packed thriller from bestselling grand master of adventure.

 

When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine.

Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem.

They know what others don’t, that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero.

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Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

by Chalmers Johnson

 

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The long-awaited final volume of Chalmers Johnson's bestselling Blowback trilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic.

 

In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home.

In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the ways in which the growth of American militarism and the garrisoning of the planet have jeopardized our stability.

Now, in Nemesis, he shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic itself, both economically and politically.

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You: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz.

 

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Between your full length mirror and high school biology class, you probably think you know a lot about the human body. While it's true that we live in an age when we're as obsessed with our bodies as we are with celebrity hairstyles, the reality is that most of us know very little about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout this miraculous, scientific, and artistic system of anatomy.

Yes, you've owned your skin covered shell for decades, but you probably know more about your cell phone plan than you do about your own body.

When it comes to your longevity and quality of life, understanding your internal systems gives you the power, authority, and ability to live a healthier, younger, and better life. "You: The Owner's Manual" challenges your preconceived notions about how the human body works and ages, then takes you on a tour through all of the highways, back roads, and landmarks inside of you.

After taking a quiz that tests your body of knowledge, you'll learn about all of your blood pumping, food digesting, and keys, remembering systems and organs.

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Phantom by Jo Nesbø.

 

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Following from Jo Nesbø's The Snowman and The Leopard, now comes Phantom, which plunges the brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole into a full tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will come to depend.

 

When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong, fleeing the traumas of life as a cop, he thought he was there for good.

But then the unthinkable happened.

The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled.

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Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin.

 

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Retirement doesn’t suit John Rebus.

He wasn’t made for hobbies, holidays or home improvements. Being a cop is in his blood.

 

So when DI Siobhan Clarke asks for his help on a case, Rebus doesn’t need long to consider his options.

 

Clarke’s been investigating the death of a senior lawyer whose body was found along with a threatening note.

On the other side of Edinburgh, Big Ger Cafferty, Rebus’s long-time nemesis, has received an identical note and a bullet through his window.

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Kill Fee by Owen Laukkanen

 

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The new Stevens and Windermere novel from one of the most dazzlingly acclaimed new writers in crime fiction.

 

The billionaire picked a heck of a way to die.

 

On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Stevens and his occasional colleague FBI special agent Carla Windermere witness the assassination of one of the state’s wealthiest men.

The shooter is a young man, utterly unremarkable, except in his eyes.

There is something very wrong in his eyes

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The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker

 

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Brilliant. Complicated. Psychopath.

 

That’s the Four Monkey Killer or ‘4MK’. A murderer with a twisted vision and absolutely no mercy.

 

Detective Sam Porter has hunted him for five long years, the recipient of box after box of grisly trinkets carved from the bodies of 4MK’s victims.

 

But now Porter has learnt the killer’s twisted history and is racing to do the seemingly impossible, find 4MK’s latest victim before it’s too late…

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Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz

 

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A tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz's riveting novel Reservation Road.

Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. Ethan, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession with revenge that threatens to tear his family apart.

Dwight, a man at once fleeing his crime and hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son.

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Ramses: The Lady of Abu Simbel by Christian Jacq,

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Saga about ancient Egypt & the powerful struggle between Ramses & his enemies.

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Love You More by Lisa Gardner.

 

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One question, a split second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor.

His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open and shut case.

But where is their six year old daughter?

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I,ROBOT by Isaac Asimov.

 

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Classic Science Fiction from the master himself..

In the Science fiction section at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.

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