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Empire Falls by Richard Russo.

 

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Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and hope in the most unlikely places, in this novel by Richard Russo.

 

Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self respect.

What keeps him there?

It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school.

Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon to be ex wife, who’s taken up with a obnoxiously vain health club proprietor.

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Motorworld by Jeremy Clarkson

 

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Jeremy Clarkson invites us to Motorworld, his take on different cultures and the cars that they drive.

 

There are ways and means of getting about that don't involve four wheels, but in this slice of vintage Clarkson, Jeremy isn't much interested in them.

 

Back in 1996, he took himself off to twelve countries (okay, eleven, he goes to America twice) in search of the hows, whys and wherefores of different nationalities and their relationships with cars.

There were a few questions he needed answers to:

 

• Why, for instance, is it that Italians are more interested in looking good than looking where they are going?

• Why do Indians crash a lot?

• How can an Arab describe himself as 'not a rich man' with four of the world's most expensive cars in his drive?

• And why have the otherwise neutral Swiss declared war on the car?

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Stop The Ride, I Want To Get Off: The Autobiography of Dave Courtney; by Dave Courtney

 

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Dave Courtney, the original behind Vinnie Jones's character in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, tells all in his no holds barred autobiography.

 

From the streets of southeast London to bare knuckle fights; from the funeral of Ronnie Kray to drug deals turned sour in Holland, Dave Courtney's story is like no one else's.

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The Abomination (The Carnivia Trilogy #1) by Jonathan Holt

 

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Set in two Venices, the modern physical world and its virtual counterpart, The Abomination by Jonathan Holt is a propulsive tale of murder, corruption, and international intrigue, the first book in an outstanding new trilogy in which Carabiniere Captain Kat Tapo must unravel a dark conspiracy linking the CIA and the Catholic Church.

By the stunning white dome of one of Venice's grandest landmarks a body with two slugs in the back of the head has been pulled from the icy waters.

The victim is a woman, dressed in the sacred robes of a Catholic priest, a desecration that becomes known as the Abomination.

Working her first murder case, Captain Kat Tapo embarks on a trail that proves as elusive and complicated as the city's labyrinthine backstreets.

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Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson

 

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Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries.

How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals?

And has the zenith of Western power now passed?

Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic, that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors.

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Worms to Catch by Guy Martin

 

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‘I was never going to sleep in and take it easy, there were worms to catch.’

 

In August 2015 Guy Martin crashed out of the lead of an Ulster Grand Prix superbike race held on the world’s fastest racetrack.

He had invasive surgery to bolt his broken spine and hand back together, and within days he decided he needed some time away from road racing.

But he wasn’t about to take it easy.

In his brand new book, discover how Britain’s favorite daredevil fills his time when road racing is taken out of the equation.

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Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly..

 

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Bill O’Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness at his command.

He sees that America is in the midst of a fierce culture war between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to change America into a “secular-progressive” country. This is a conflict that differs in many ways from the usual liberal/conservative divide, but it is no less heated, and the stakes are even higher.

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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

by Keith Lowe

 

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The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years.

 

The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century’s most iconic moments.

It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours.

These images of victory and celebration are so strong in our minds that the period of anarchy and civil war that followed has been forgotten.

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Unhooked by Clare Gee.

 

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Addicted to coke and booze and reliant on selling her body for cash, Katie, the heroine of Clare Gee's bestselling Hooked, can no longer cope with the life she's created for herself.

She has messed up badly and thrown everything away.

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A Parrot in the Pepper Tree by Chris Stewart

 

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Chris Stewart continues his account of life on a remote Spanish farm in this sequel to his biography.

He also takes a look back at his previous lives, drumming with Genesis, shearing sheep in Sweden and heading off to Spain to learn flamenco guitar.

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Walking Home From Mongolia by Rob Lilwall

 

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Several years have passed since he returned from his life changing, three and a half year bike ride home from Siberia and explorer Rob Lilwall has itchy feet once more.

Now his adventurous spirit leads him to deepest Mongolia, setting out on foot this time, on a very long walk back home to Hong Kong.

Rob and his cameraman companion Leon take a 3,000 mile hike through the dramatic landscapes and extreme temperatures of back road China

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Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times, by Thomas Hauser

 

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In the words of more than 200 of Ali’s family members, opponents, friends, world leaders, and others who have known him best, the real Muhammad Ali emerges: deeply religious, mercurial, generous, a showman in and out of the ring.

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A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths by Tony Fletcher.

 

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They were, their fans believe, the best band in the world. Critics and sales figures told a similar story: six albums between 1984 and 1988 made number one or number two in the UK charts.

Twenty five years after their break up, the band remain as adored and discussed as ever.

To this day, there is a collective understanding that The Smiths were one of the greatest of all British bands.

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Treasure Hunt by John Lescroart.

 

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Mickey Dade hates deskwork, but that's all he's been doing at Wyatt Hunt's private investigative service,

The Hunt Club.

His itch to be active is answered when a body is discovered: It's Dominic Como, one of San Francisco's most high profile activists, a charismatic man known as much for his expensive suits as his work on a half dozen nonprofit boards.

One "person of interest" in the case is Como's business associate, Alicia Thorpe-young, gorgeous, and the sister of one of Mickey's friends.

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

 

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Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making in a world we don’t understand.

The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile,and The Bed of Procrustes.

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Angels of Death: Inside the Biker Gangs' Crime Empire

by Julian Sher & William Marsden...

 

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A woman named Cynthia Garcia is stabbed to death and dumped in the Arizona desert after partying at a Hells Angels clubhouse in Arizona; three bullet ridden bodies of bikers turn up in a river in Holland; a retired policeman is killed when his car is bombed in Australia.

Meanwhile, the world’s most famous Hells Angel, Sonny Barger, is feted by the media on his global book tour. Angels of Death takes readers to Arizona, inside the biggest American police undercover operation to infiltrate the bikers; to British Columbia, Canada, where wealthy bikers dominate the organized crime pyramid; to Australia where the “bikies” shoot it out with police; to Curaçao where terrorist organizations funnel drugs to Dutch bikers; and to the streets of Oslo, Copenhagen, and Helsinki where a murderous biker war saw rocket attacks and bombs turn Scandinavia into a war zone.

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Live from the Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast

 

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Armed with over fifty classified documents, confidential memos, and secret plans, Greg Palast cuts through the TV news baby-talk.

It was he who first uncovered how Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris stole the 2000 election.

Harris calls him "twisted," but here's the new twist revealed in this CD: John Kerry won in 2004, and 2008 is already fixed.

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The Black Grizzly of whiskey Creek by Sid Marty

 

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In describing the true events surrounding a series of frightening bear attacks in 1980, a bestselling nature/adventure author explores our relationship with the great grizzly.

 

Many citizens of Banff, Alberta, valued living in a place where wildlife grazed on the front lawn; others saw wild bears as a mere roadside attraction.

None were expecting the bear attacks that summer, which led to one man’s death.

During the massive hunt that followed, Banff was portrayed in the international media as a town under siege by a killer bear, and the tourists stayed away.

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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.

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Stay Close by Harlan Coben

 

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Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side.

Now she’s got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction.

Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity obsessed rich kids.

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The Wrath of Angels by John Connolly..

 

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In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered.

There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time.

What the wreckage conceals is more important than money: it is power. Hidden in the plane is a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil.

Now a battle is about to commence between those who want the list to remain secret and those who believe that it represents a crucial weapon in the struggle against the forces of darkness.

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Hour of the Wolf by Håkan Nesser.

 

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The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this latest entry into the internationally acclaimed, award winning mystery series, one of the darkest tales yet in the series that is, as well, an electrifying stand alone novel.

 

In the middle of the night, a boy is struck by a car after leaving his girlfriend's house.

The driver, drunk, leaves the boy's body by the side of the road and, wrestling with guilt, tries to put it all out of his mind until a blackmail note arrives.

In the meantime, Reinhart, the new chief inspector of the Maardam police force, has set his team to work.