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In the Eyes of Mr Fury by Philip Ridley

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This is a first novel, about growing up in London, which centres round the moment when the local boogeyman, who the children have been terrified of, dies.

His death releases passions that have been suppressed in the street for many years.

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The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Pamela Kaufman...

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One of history’s greatest women, celebrated by her contemporaries, descendants, and biographers, now comes to life in this mesmerizing new novel by bestselling author Pamela Kaufman. In 1137, fifteen-year-old Eleanor became Duchess of Aquitaine, a wealthy and powerful province in the south of France.

Rich and influential in her own right, her tumultuous marriages thrust Eleanor into the political and cultural spotlight, where she would remain for more than half a century. Still in her teens, young Eleanor of Aquitaine married Louis VII of France, a sickly religious fanatic so obsessed with fears of adultery that he kept his beautiful wife under lock and key, even forcing her to go on a long and dangerous crusade with him.

But Eleanor was delighted by the freedom of the crusader’s life. Her handsome Aquitanian knights, her deeds on horseback, and her scandalous attire were the talk of Europe; it soon became clear that Louis’s young wife was more than he could handle.

A lifelong rebel, Eleanor would defy her husband and the Church, and eventually strong-arm the Pope into annulling her unhappy marriage. Once free of Louis, Eleanor thought to marry Baron Rancon, her childhood love, but found herself forced into another political marriage, this time with a younger and more dangerous husband—Henry II of England, a ruthless soldier known throughout Europe as “the red star of malice.”

In Henry Eleanor found a man whose iron will and political cunning matched her own, but the marriage was a bitter and brutal one, which escalated into open warfare when Eleanor backed their sons in an armed rebellion against Henry.

Vowing revenge, he imprisoned her for fifteen years, hoping she would die in obscurity. But Eleanor would not go quietly. In prison, she wrote her memoir; this is Eleanor’s book.

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Jack Charlton: The Autobiography by Jack Charlton & Peter Byrne. . . .

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'I know who you are: you're The Boss.' The words of His Holiness John Paul II, on meeting Jack Charlton and his Republic of Ireland team before the 1990 World Cup finals,

Indeed, Jack Charlton is The Boss - a man whose strength of character has driven him to achievements beyond the scope of his own natural talents or those of the teams who have played under him.

As a player, he touched the pinnacle in England's legendary 1966 World Cup winning team.

As a manager, he dragged the Republic of Ireland team from the backwaters of the international football to compete with the world's best.

As a man, he is noted for his forthright personality - one whose views are as honest as they are respected.

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The Flames of Rome by Paul L. Maier..
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A madman who murders his way into power lusts for ever-greater glory and domination. 
A capital city awash with corruption, sensuality, and political intrigue is at the flash point and caught between the crushing currents of history are a new but growing religious group known as the followers of The Way.

Award-winning historian and best-selling author Paul L. Maier has created a compelling style of documentary fiction, using only known historical events and persons to bring to life first-century Rome in all its excess, treachery, and insanity. 
This is the Rome that the apostle Paul visits, where he’s placed on trial, and which is forever changed by his testimony and witness. 
Maier takes readers into the courtroom of imperial justice and into the homes of the people struggling with the new faith they’ve encountered to answers questions such as:

-How did Christianity first reach Rome?
-Why did Paul have to wait two years for trial and was he condemned or set free?
-Why does the New Testament account in Acts end so abruptly?
-Who set fire to Rome and why did Nero persecute Christians so horribly?

Following the family of Flavius Sabinus, mayor of Rome under Nero Maier captures all the drama and tension of the political conflicts that precede and follow the Great Fire of Rome, and the epic political and religious clashes of the world’s capital. 
This is the sensational story of pagans at their worst and Christians at their best. 

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The Lost Kings by Bruno Hare. .

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London, 1893. Mild-mannered watchmaker Cyril King harbours a secret wish to be an explorer.

When he acquires a mysterious timepiece from a notorious criminal, Cyril gets his heart's Desire, the clues he finds propelling him halfway around the world on the trail of a fabulous treasure.

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Alexander: Child of a Dream (Alexandros #1 & 2) by Valerio Massimo Manfredi,

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Before his birth, omens foretold that Alexander, son of the warrior-king Philip of Macedonia, was destined for greatness.

From boyhood, the prince was trained by the finest scholars and mightiest soldiers to attain extraordinary strength of body and spirit.

A descendant of Heracles and Achilles, Alexander aimed to surpass his ancestors' heroism and honor, and his chosen companions strove to be worthy to share his godlike fate. Even as a youth, Alexander's deeds were unequaled.

In a single day, he tamed the fierce steed Bucephalus. In his first battle, his troops defeated the invincible Sacred Band.

And as he grew to manhood, surrounded by deadly plots and intrigue, his friends pledged to follow him to the ends of the world.

With the support of that loyal group of men, Alexander's might would transform dreams of conquest into reality amid the fabled cities of Persia and the mysterious East...and his destiny would carry them all to glory.

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The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone. . .

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Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams!

While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary.

To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also known as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams.

The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of "Massive Action," allowing you to blast through business cliches and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results.

Learn the "Estimation of Effort" calculation to ensure you exceed your targets

Make the Fourth Degree a way of life and defy mediocrity

Discover the time management myth

Get the exact reasons why people fail and others succeed

Know the exact formula to solve problems

Extreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action.

Instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results, take Massive Action with The 10 X Rule, remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success.

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Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout,

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As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man.

When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadfully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president.

As for Wolfe, he's playing snake charmer in a case with more twists than an anaconda - whistling a seductive tune he hopes will catch a killer who's still got Poison in his heart.

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The Lost Army of Cambyses (Yusuf Khalifa 1) by Paul Sussman

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A mutilated corpse washes up on the banks of the Nile, an antiques dealer is murdered, and an eminent British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara.

At first, the incidents appear unconnected. However, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police is suspicious. So is the archaeologist's daughter, Tara Mullray.

As they both seek to uncover the truth, they find themselves thrown together in a desperate race for survival.

From a mysterious fragment of an ancient hieroglyphic text to rumors of a fabulous lost tomb in the Theban Hills, from the shimmering waters of the Nile to the dusty backstreets of Cairo, Khalifa and Mullray are drawn deeper into a labyrinth of violence, intrigue, and betrayal.

It is a path that will eventually lead them into the forbidding, barren heart of the western desert, and to the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world.

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Death By Sheer Torture (Perry Trethowan #1) by Robert Barnard

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Inspector Perry Trethowan reads in the obituaries that his estranged father has died under peculiar circumstances: he was fooling around with a form of self-torture called strappado.

At the request of his supervisor, Peter returns to his ancestral home to determine if any of his cousins or siblings might have helped the old man to his bizarre end.

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Killing Fields Living Fields: An Unfinished Portrait of the Cambodian Church - The Church That Would Not Die by Don Cormack.

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The Cambodian Church was first planted among the rice farmers of North-West Cambodia in the mid-1920's. Growth was slow and painful, then fifty years of nearly fruitless toil culminated in the incredible decade of the 1970's, when joyous spiritual awakening was juxtaposed with indescribable devastation. Communist rule forced the massively depleted Church underground in Cambodia, drove it across into Thailand's crowded refugee camps, and scattered it across six continents.

At that time almost all the mature leadership perished under the Khmer Rouge.

The Church is free and the time is now ripe for growth and development.

In this edition you discover some of the recent developments in Cambodian story but yet it still remains the unfinished portrait of the Cambodian Church.

This book includes a timeline of History of Cambodia from 300 bc right up to 2009.

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A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley) by John le Carré.

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Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London.

The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications.

Interweaving past with present so that each may tell its own intense story, John le Carré has spun a single plot as ingenious and thrilling as the two predecessors on which it looks back: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. In a story resonating with tension, humor and moral ambivalence, le Carré and his narrator Peter Guillam present the reader with a legacy of unforgettable characters old and new.

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Bad Things by Michael Marshall Smith

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Three years ago, lawyer John Henderson watched his four-year-old son tumble from a jetty into the lake outside their Washington home. In a terrible instant, a life all too brief and innocent ended. But it wasn't drowning, the fall, or even some previously undetected internal defect that killed the little boy. Scott Henderson had simply, inexplicably...died. Today, John is a different man - divorced, living a solitary existence in a beach house in Oregon, working as a waiter in a restaurant that caters to the summer crowd. Withdrawn from a life and past too painful to revisit, he touches no one and no one touches him. Then one night he receives a short and profoundly disturbing e-mail message from a stranger. It reads: I know what happened. It's enough to pull John back to Black Ridge, the one place on earth he'd hoped never to return to - in search of answers to the mystery that shattered his world. In this small, isolated Pacific Northwest community, populated in large part by descendants of the original settlers, the shadows now seem even darker and more sinister than when tragedy first drove him away and the wind whipping down out of the primal forest can chill a man to his soul. It seems that bad things have always happened in this town of generations-old Secrets and are happening still. The deeper John digs into his own past, and into local history, the more danger he draws toward himself...and toward his estranged and helpless family. And though he doesn't know it, he's not the only one who's been called back to Black Ridge. And that's a very bad thing...

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War of the Wolf by Bernard Cornwell ...

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Bernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series—"like Game of Thrones, but real" the basis of the hit Netflix television series The Last Kingdom. His blood is Saxon His heart is Viking His battleground is England "Perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today" Bernard Cornwell has dazzled and entertained readers and critics with his page-turning bestsellers. Of all his protagonists, however, none is as beloved as Uhtred of Bebbanburg. And while Uhtred might have regained his family’s fortress, it seems that a peaceful life is not to be, as he is under threat from both an old enemy and a new foe. The old enemy comes from Wessex where a dynastic struggle will determine who will be the next king.  

And the new foe is Sköll, a Norseman, whose ambition is to be King of Northumbria and who leads a frightening army of wolf-warriors, men who fight half-crazed in the belief that they are indeed wolves.

Uhtred, believing he is cursed, must fend off one enemy while he tries to destroy the other. In this new chapter of the Saxon Tales series - a rousing adventure of courage, treachery, duty, devotion, majesty, love and battle, as seen through the eyes of a warrior straddling two worlds—Uhtred returns to fight once again for the destiny of England.

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Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia by John McBeth. . .

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Reporter is an account of John McBeth's 40-year journey through Asia,more than half of that time as a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the venerable magazine long regarded as the region's English language Bible on political and economic affairs.

While necessarily a memoir, the book is more a reflection of the lives of a small group of foreign journalists who came to Asia on a wing and a prayer and in McBeth's case by ship and stayed on as fascinated witnesses to a region going through turbulent times and historic change.

Part-history, part-analysis, part storytelling and, in a smaller way, part commentary on the salad days of print journalism and its steady decline under the onslaught of television and the Internet, Reporter introduces us to a diverse cast of journalists, diplomats, officials, politicians and generals McBeth meets and befriends along the way.

The book deals with the five coups and attempted coups McBeth covered during his 16 years in Thailand; the Khmer Rouge reign of terror; the Indochinese refugee invasion; and the dramatic democratic transitions in South Korea and Indonesia, which helped change the face of once authorian Asia.

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Vortex by Matt Carrell...

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On land or at sea the vortex is mesmerising but lethal. Andy Duncan joins an investment firm in Hong Kong and quickly discovers that the same forces apply in business. The lure of power, money and status blurs moral boundaries and for those who covet the immense rewards on offer, one illicit act can lead to another, drawing them into a spiral of deception.

Duncan frames a junior clerk to save the career of a high-flying investment manager and is rewarded with rapid promotion.

Transferred to the firm’s new Bangkok office, he is quickly embroiled in a corporate scandal and the disappearance of a beautiful teenage girl.

The only way he can hang on to his career and his new lover is to trash every moral principle he ever held dear. Prem Boonamee’s career is also on the up.

Promotion in the Thai mafia is swift for those willing to follow orders to the letter, since his first kill he has had little compunction about doing his masters’ bidding.

All that troubles him is a recurring dream, of the girl he abandoned to her fate and what would be their final bloody meeting - the future of the two men is inextricably linked, when the Thai underworld targets a major financial institution.

Duncan appears to be able to trust only his lover and her uncle, the man likely to become the next Prime Minister of Thailand.

Vortex offers an authentic insight into Thai culture and the intricacies of an industry that has a profound influence on the world economy.

As “The Wolf of Wall Street” tops the movie charts and Thailand is on the verge of political meltdown, Vortex is a fast paced, often humorous, but generally dark take on what happens when morals and avarice collide.

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The Back Passage: A Novel by Justin Cronin..

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“It happened fast - Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.” An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy - abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions.

But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her.

As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape, but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.

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Point of Contact by Mike Maden & Tom Clancy...

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Former U.S. Senator Weston Rhodes is a defense contractor with an urgent problem. His company needs someone to look over the books of Dalfan Technologies, a Singapore company - quickly.

He turns to his old friend Gerry Hendley for help. Hendley Associates is one of the best financial analysis firms in the country and the cover for The Campus, a top-secret American intelligence agency. Rhodes asks for two specific analysts, Jack Ryan Jr., and Paul Brown, a mild-mannered forensic accountant.

Both Ryan and Brown initially resist, for different reasons. On the long flight over, Ryan worries he’s being sidelined from the next Campus operation in America’s war on terror. Brown, who was never very good with people, only worries about the numbers, and finding a good cup of tea.

Brown has no idea Jack works for The Campus but the awkward accountant is hiding Secrets of his own. Rhodes has tasked him with uploading a cyber warfare program into the highly secure Dalfan Technologies mainframe on behalf of the CIA.

On the verge of mission success, Brown discovers a game within the game, and the people who now want to kill him are as deadly as the cyclone bearing down on the island nation. Together Ryan and Brown race to escape both the murderous storm and a team of trained assassins in order to prevent a global catastrophe, even at the cost of their own lives.

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Gods of War by John Toland

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The rivalry of World War II strains the close bond between the American McGlynn family and the Japanese Toda family.

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The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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And like the year, it’s divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams. Phillips charts the year from winter’s Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fall’s U.S. Open.

Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis, one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of upheaval within a broader cultural and social context.

Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life. The Circuit will convince you that you don’t leave the world behind as you watch tennis you bring it with you.

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The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell - Dustin Thomason...

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An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the Secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four - a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499.

For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession, the very reason for living. But as their deadline looms, research has stalled - until a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue.

And when a fellow researcher is murdered just hours later, Tom and Paul realize that they are not the first to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia 's Secrets. Suddenly the stakes are raised, and as the two friends sift through the codes and riddles at the heart of the text, they are beginning to see the manuscript in a new light--not simply as a story of faith, eroticism and pedantry, but as a bizarre, coded mathematical maze.

And as they come closer and closer to deciphering the final puzzle of a book that has shattered careers, friendships and families, they know that their own lives are in mortal danger. Because at least one person has been killed for knowing too much. And they know even more. From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified realm of Princeton, from a shocking 500 year-old murder scene to the drama of a young man's coming of age, The Rule of Four takes us on an entertaining, illuminating tour of history - as it builds to a pinnacle of nearly unbearable suspense.

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Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica. . .

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In downtown Chicago, Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace.

A haunting letter addressed to My Dearest is found among her possessions, leaving her roommate Quinn Collins to question how well she really knew her friend.

Meanwhile, in a small town an hour outside Chicago, a mysterious woman appears in the quiet coffee shop where eighteen-year-old Alex Gallo works as a dishwasher.

He is immediately drawn to her, but what starts as an innocent crush quickly spirals into something far more sinister. As Quinn searches for answers about Esther, and Alex is drawn further under the stranger's spell, master of suspense Mary Kubica takes readers on a taut and twisted thrill ride that builds to a stunning conclusion and shows that no matter how fast and far we run, the past always catches up with us.

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Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay....

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Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom.

But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never stepping out the door.

That is until he sees something in a street view of downtown New York City.

Thomas's keen eyes have detected an image in a window...an image that looks like a woman being murdered. Thomas's brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate and increasingly paranoid theories.

When Thomas tells Ray what he has seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation.

But Ray soon realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy. And now they are in the crosshairs...

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Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess by Inge Sargent...

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Just married and returning to live in her new husband's native land, a young Austrian woman arrived with her Burmese husband by passenger ship in Rangoon in 1953. They were met at dockside by hundreds of well-wishers displaying colorful banners, playing music on homemade instruments, and carrying giant bouquets of flowers.

She was puzzled by this unusual welcome until her embarrassed husband explained that he was something more than a recently graduated mining engineer - he was the Prince of Hsipaw, the ruler of an autonomous state in Burma's Shan mountains.

And these people were his subjects! She immersed herself in the Shan lifestyle, eagerly learning the language, the culture, and the history of the Shan hill people.

The Princess of Hsipaw fell in love with this remote, exotic land and it's warm and friendly people.

She worked at her husband's side to bring change and modernization to their primitive country.

Her efforts to improve the education and health care of the country, and her husband's commitment to improve the economic well-being of the people made them one of the most popular ruling couples in Southeast Asia.

Then the violent military coup of 1962 shattered the idyllic existence of the previous ten years.

Her life irrevocably changed. Inge Sargent tells a story of a life most of us can only dream about. She vividly describes the social, religious, and political events she experienced. She details the day-to-day living as a "reluctant ruler" and her role as her husband's equal - a role that perplexed the males in Hsipaw and created awe in the females.

And then she describes the military events that threatened her life and that of her children.

Twilight over Burma is a story of a great happiness destroyed by evil, of one woman's determination and bravery against a ruthless military regime, and of the truth behind the overthrow of one of Burma's most popular local leaders.

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The Kings of Cool (Savages #1) by Don Winslow....

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In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O.

Among the most celebrated thrillers in recent memory—and now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award - winning filmmaker Oliver Stone - Savages was picked as a best book of the year by Stephen King. Now, in this high-octane prequel, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are.

Spanning from 1960's Southern California to the recent past, The Kings of Cool is a breathtakingly original saga of family in all its forms - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers.

As the trio at the center of the book does battle with a cabal of drug dealers and crooked cops, they come to learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents’ history.

A series of breakneck twists and turns puts the two generations on a collision course, culminating in a stunning showdown that will force Ben, Chon, and O to choose between their real families and their loyalty to one another. Fast-paced, provocative, and wickedly funny, The Kings of Cool is a spellbinding love story for our times from a master novelist at the height of his powers.

It is filled with Winslow’s trademark talents, complex characters, sharp dialogue, blistering social commentary that have earned him an obsessive following.

The result is a book that will echo in your mind and heart long after you’ve turned the last page.