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Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and "The Worst Baseball Team in History" - The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers.....by Mike Shropshire.....

 

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“Even before the start of spring training, Herzog had said, ‘If Rich Billings is the starting catcher again, we’re in deep trouble.’

When that evaluation was passed along to Billings, he simply nodded and said, ‘Whitey, obviously, has seen me play.’”

In early 1973, gonzo sportswriter Mike Shropshire agreed to cover the Texas Rangers for the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, not realizing that the Rangers were arguably the worst team in baseball history.

Seasons in Hell is a riotous, candid, irreverent behind-the-scenes account in the tradition of The Bronx Zoo and Ball Four, following the Texas Rangers from Whitey Herzog’s reign in 1973 through Billy Martin’s tumultuous tenure.

Offering wonderful perspectives on dozens of unique (and likely never-to-be-seen-again) baseball personalities, Seasons in Hell recounts some of the most extreme characters ever to play the game and brings to life the no-holds-barred culture of major league baseball in the mid-seventies..

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Hill 488 by Ray Hildreth & Charles W. Sasser....

 

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For some, Hill 488 was just another landmark in the jungles of Vietnam.

For the eighteen men of Charlie Company, it was a last stand. This is the stirring combat memoir written by Ray Hildreth, one of the unit's survivors.

 

On June 13, 1966, men of the 1st Recon Battalion, 1st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488.

Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of the U.S. military, winning a Congressional Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses, thirteen Silver Stars, and eighteen Purple Hearts, some of them posthumously.

 

During the early evening of June 15, a battalion of hardened North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong, outnumbering the Americans 25-to-1 - threw everything they had at the sixteen Marines and two Navy corpsmen for the rest of that terror-filled night.

Every man who held the hill was either killed or wounded defending the ground with unbelievable courage and unflagging determination, even as reinforcements were on the way.

 

All they had to do was make it until dawn.

[Daveo]

A History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh

 

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In 1842 a barren island was reluctantly ceded by China to an unenthusiastic Britain.

Hong Kong, grumbled Palmerston, will never be a mart of trade.

But from the outset the new colony prospered, its early growth owing much to the energy and resourcefulness of opium traders, who soon diversified in more respectable directions. In 1859 the Kowloon Peninsula was sold to Britain, and in 1898 a further area of the mainland, the New Territories, was leased to Britain for 99 years, the arrangement from which the present difficulties spring.

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The Colour of Death by Michael Cordy.....

 

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In a residential neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, an unknown young woman uncovers a shocking crime scene by inexplicably sensing the evil within its walls.

To the police, she is a mystery.

She can't even tell them her own name.

They christen her Jane Doe.

 

Suffering terrifying hallucinations, Jane is assigned to Nathan Fox, a forensic psychiatrist struggling with his own demons. Together they must piece together the jigsaw that is Jane's identity.

 

Then a sequence of brutal killings terrorizes the city and Fox learns Jane is the only cryptic link between the unrelated victims.

To solve the murders, Fox must discard his black and white preconceptions, look beyond the spectrum of normal human experience and confront the dark truth of her past...and his own.

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Curtain of Death by W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV

 

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W. E. B. Griffin offers us the dramatic third novel in the Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency and a new breed of warrior.

January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance.

That is the agents first mistake, and their last.

One of the WACs, a blond woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded.

The incident, however, will send shock waves rippling up and down the line and have major repercussions not only for her, but for her boss, James Cronley, Chief DCI-Europe, and for everybody involved in their still-evolving enterprise.

For, though the Germans may have been defeated, Cronley and his company are on the front lines of an entirely different kind of war now.

The enemy has changed, the rules have changed and the stakes have never been higher."

[Daveo]

What the Best Ceos Know: 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming Any Business

by Jeffrey A. Krames.....

 

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The bestselling book that teaches you leadership lessons from top captains of industry...

 

What the Best CEO's Know examines the careers of seven CEOs, world-renowned for their consistent and phenomenal success, and details the methodologies that propelled them to the top as industry leaders.

Going beyond anecdotes and quotes to introduce proven methods to help you become a better leader, bestselling business author Jeffrey Krames uses cases, self-assessments, and concise summaries to provide a blueprint-like framework for success.

 

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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

by Nikolai Gogol Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)....

 

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When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed."

"Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven't recovered."

 

More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation, from an award-winning team of translators, presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English-speaking readers.

 

For the first time, the best of Gogol's short fiction is brought together in a single volume: from the colorful Ukrainian tales that led some critics to call him "the Russian Dickens" to the Petersburg stories, with their black humor and wonderfully demented attitude toward the powers that be.

All of Gogol's most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.

 

These fantastic, comic, utterly Russian characters have dazzled generations of readers and had a profound influence on writers such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov.

Now they are brilliantly rendered in the first new translation in twenty-five years, one that is destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol's most important stories.

[Daveo]

Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook.....

 

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In this final installment of his internationally bestselling three-part memoir, including The Hacienda and Unknown Pleasures British rocker Peter Hook focuses on the 1980's New Wave and Dance Punk scene and the rise of one of the most influential bands of the Second British Invasion: New Order.

 

1980. Resurrected from the ashes of Joy Division after the suicide of its lead singer, Ian Curtis, New Order would become one most critically acclaimed and important bands of the decade and beyond.

With their hits "Bizarre Love Triangle", "Perfect Kiss", and "Blue Monday" the biggest-selling 12-inch single of all time, Peter Hook and company quickly rose to the top of the alternative music scene.

Widely regarded as the godfathers of electronic dance music, their sound would influence Moby, The Chemical Brothers, The Postal Service, The Killers, and other acts that followed in their wake.

 

Hook tells the complete, unvarnished story of New Order’s founding and evolution; the band’s experiences in the New York City club scene and rapid rise to international fame, its impact on house music, techno, and rave; and its eventual rancorous dissolution.

Full of Hook’s "gleefully profane" (Entertainment Weekly) humor and vivid, witty storytelling, Substance is the most important and certainly the most controversial part of his story, emanating with drugs, booze, and sex.

 

Complete with timelines, discographies, geographies and track-by-track analysis, and exclusive photographs and archival images from Hook’s personal collection, it is the definitive, comprehensive history of New Order and a compelling snapshot of the '80s cultural scene in all its neon-hued glory.

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The Berlin Connection by Johannes Mario Simmel.....

 

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Nazi savagery. Famous Hollywood actor. Sinister doctor and fiendish torture. Young girl enslaved by secret passion. Woman with no boundaries.

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South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami.....

 

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Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters.

His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection.

But when his family moved away, the two lost touch, now Hajime is in his thirties, after a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar.

Then Shimamoto reappears - She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery, Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.

[Daveo]

I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld #38) by Terry Pratchett

 

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It starts with whispers.

 

Then someone picks up a stone.

 

Finally, the fires begin.

 

When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . .

 

Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own.

As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that aren't sparkly, aren't fun, don't involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy.

 

But someone or something is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches.

Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its root before it takes her life.

Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls with her.

 

Chilling drama combines with laugh-out-loud humor and searing insight as beloved and bestselling author Terry Pratchett tells the high-stakes story of a young witch who stands in the gap between good and evil.

[Daveo]

The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson.....

 

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You are about to begin one of the classic American novels of suspense by one of the world's bestselling authors.

It begins with three terrifying murders in the South.

It ends with a relentless and unforgettable manhunt in the North.

In between is the riveting story of a chilling assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice.

[Daveo]

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen

 

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Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can't tell a Seahorse from a sawhorse.

And when he throws his beautiful wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better.

An expert swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot and then to an island inhabited by an ex-cop named Mick Stranahan, whose ex-wives include five waitresses and a TV producer.

Now Joey wants to get revenge on Chaz and Mick's happy to help her.

But in swampy South Florida, separating lies from truths and stupidity from brilliance isn't easy.

Especially when you're after a guy like Chaz-who's bad at murder, great at fraud, and just terrible at getting caught...

[Daveo]

Scream for Me by Karen Rose.....

 

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Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer.

 

Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murder linked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his brother, Simon, the ruthless serial killer who met his demise in DIE FOR ME.

Daniel is certain that someone even more depraved than his brother committed these crimes, and he's determined to bring the current murderer to justice and solve the mysterious crime from years ago.

 

With only a handful of images as a lead, Daniel's search will lead him back through the dark past of his own family, and into the realm of a mind more sinister than he could ever imagine. But his quest will also draw him to Alex Fallon, a beautiful nurse whose troubled past reflects his own.

As Daniel becomes attached to Alex, he discovers that she is also the object of the obsessed murderer.

Soon, he will not only be racing to discover the identity of this macabre criminal, but also to save the life of the woman he has begun to love.

[Daveo]

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn.....

 

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Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.”

She survived and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer.

Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club, a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes, locates Libby and pumps her for details.

They hope to discover proof that may free Ben.

 

Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club, for a fee.

As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started on the run from a killer.

[Daveo]

Larry Bond's First Team (Larry Bond's First Team #1)

by Larry Bond & Jim DeFelice.....

 

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In these harrowing times, with our enemies lurking in the shadows and their widespread tactics of unconventional warfare limiting the ability of our traditional armed forces, special measures are needed to fight this war on terror. Heeding this call the President has set up the Joint Services Special Demands Project.

Known as "The Team" it is a unique unit existing beyond the bureaucratic restraints of either the U.S. intelligence or military establishments.

With an almost unlimited budget, the Team, consisting of a CIA officer, two Special Forces commandos, and one outnumbered Marine, is authorized to track vital intelligence and then take immediate action.

Called upon to track a quantity of radioactive waste that has gone missing in the former Soviet Union, the Team is faced with the fact that this material is now in the wrong people's hands. . . .

And these terrorists are geared to wage the single deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil.

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Galactic Bounty (Sam McCade #1) by William C. Dietz.....

 

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A traitor is on the loose.

A treacherous navy captain plans to sell military Secrets to the alien Il Ronn.

The only man who can stop him is Sam McCade, an interstellar bounty hunter with a score to settle.Betrayed by his friends, stalked by his enemies, McCade is the only one standing between a terrifying alien threat and the unimaginable devastation of the Terran Empire..

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Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin.....

 

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Underneath the cobbled streets of Edinburgh's old Town are medieval stone cellars where a man could scream and never be heard.

In mortal Causes, the tortured body of a young man is found hanging from a butcher's hook in one of these underground rooms.

The tattoo on his wrist and a cryptic inscription scratched in the dirt suggest to Inspector John Rebus that this was an execution, but what man or men carried it out?

[Daveo]

Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored - by John Lydon.

 

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John Lydon has secured prime position as one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history.

As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970's with singles such as 'Anarchy in the UK' and 'God Save the Queen'.

So revolutionary was his influence, he was even discussed in the Houses of Parliament, under the Traitors and Treasons Act, which still carries the death penalty.

Via his music and invective he spearheaded a generation of young people across the world who were clamouring for change and found it in the style and attitude of this most unlikely figurehead.

 

With his next band, Public Image Ltd (PiL) Lydon expressed an equally urgent impulse in his make-up, the constant need to reinvent himself, to keep moving.

From their beginnings in 1978 he set the groundbreaking template for a band that continues to challenge and thrive in the 2010s.

He also found time for making innovative new dance records with the likes of Afrika Baambaata and Leftfield.

 

Following the release of a solo record in 1997, John took a sabbatical from his music career into other media, most memorably his own Rotten TV show for VH1 and as the most outrageous contestant ever on I'm a Celebrity…. Get Me Out of Here!

He then fronted the Megabugs series and one-off nature documentaries and even turned his hand to a series of much loved TV advertisements for Country Life butter.

 

Lydon has remained a compelling and dynamic figure - both as a musician, and, thanks to his outspoken, controversial, yet always heartfelt and honest statements, as a cultural commentator.

 

The book a fresh and mature look back on a life full of incident from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents who grew up in post-war London, to his present status as a vibrant, alternative national hero.

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Line Of Vision by David Ellis

 

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David Ellis’ Line of Vision has won the 2002 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author!

Marty Kalish has been accused of murdering his lover's husband.

He had a motive.

He was at the scene of the crime.

He manipulated evidence to hide his guilt.

He even confessed.

But that's not the end of the story.

That's only the beginning.

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The Quest (Ancient Egypt #4) by Wilbur Smith.....

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Wilbur Smith returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock. The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural.

Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa from where the mighty river springs. In desperation Pharoah sends for Taita, the only man who might be able to win through to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes. None of them can have any idea of what a terrible enemy lies in ambush for The Warlock in those mysterious lands at the end of their world.

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On 09/04/2019 at 14:10, Daveo said:

Rooms available...

Hi i can't find our treat.want have the room 6B for 4 month from may be 6 nov to the 9 of march next year.Please tell me on my e mail. [email protected]. Thank you mate.

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Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag.....

 

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Marissa Fordham is dead, but her daughter is found at the crime scene, injured but alive.

Now sheriff's detective Tony Mendez and child advocate Anne Leone begin to peel back the layers of Marissa's life.

And the shocking truth they discover puts them directly in the sights of a killer with a stunning secret to keep; because Marissa Fordham never existed...