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The Talisman by Lynda La Plante. . .

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From the goldmines of South Africa to the boardrooms of the City of London, from the risks of the casinos to the heady glamour of the London fashion world, the author continues the saga of a family's fortunes.

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The Reckoning by John Grisham....

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October 1946, Clanton, Mississippi Pete Banning was Clanton, Mississippi's favorite son - a decorated World War II hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church.

Then one cool October morning he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed his pastor and friend, the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder weren't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his lawyers, to the judge, to the jury, and to his family - was: "I have nothing to say."

He was not afraid of death and was willing to take his motive to the grave. In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with Secrets to the Clanton courtroom where Pete's defense attorney tries desperately to save him. Reminiscent of the finest tradition of Southern Gothic storytelling, The Reckoning would not be complete without Grisham's signature layers of legal suspense, and he delivers on every page.

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Campaign by Des Wilson. . . .

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A Unique & frightening Political Thriller..

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In Place of Death by Craig Robertson..

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A man enters the culverted remains of an ancient Glasgow stream. Deep below the city it is decaying and claustrophobic, and gets more so with every step.

As the ceiling lowers to no more than a couple of feet above the ground, he finds his path blocked by another person. But the person is has been murdered. DS Narey leads the investigation to find who the victim is and who killed him.

Photographer Winter begins an investigation of his own, through the shadowy world of urbexers, people who pursue a dangerous and illegal hobby, a world that Winter knows more about than he lets on. Meanwhile, DI Derek Addison is trying to prevent an escalating drugs war which has already left several casualties in its wake among the city's rival gangs.

A new face in town is upsetting the established order. Against a backdrop of hauntingly atmospheric and dangerous buildings, the tangled links between the gangs and the urbexers who have strayed unwittingly into deadly territory draw all three investigations together.

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U.S.S. Seawolf by Patrick Robinson

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Armed with stolen U.S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry, led by the ICBM submarine Xia III - a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U.S. fleet, the 9,000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf, deep into the dark, forbidden waters of the South China Sea.

But then the unthinkable happens: Seawolf, collides with a Chinese destroyer and falls into enemy hands.

A team of cunning Navy SEALs - the biggest Special Forces assault group assembled since Vietnam - is sent in to free the captive Seawolf, crew and bring them home. The American Eagle confronts the Chinese Dragon with the balance of world power on the line. Failure is not an option...

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The Innocent (Will Robie #1) by David Baldacci....

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America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career...

It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.

Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home.

But she isn't an ordinary runaway - her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her.

Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power.

Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life... and perhaps his own.

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Flight of the Old Dog by Dale Brown

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Flight of the Old Dog is the runaway bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Dale Brown.

It is the riveting story of America's race for technology, overtaken by our greatest enemies mastery of "Star Wars." The U.S. arsenal of nuclear missiles has been neutralized. America's only hope:

The Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with modern hardware and equipped with the deadliest state-of-the-art armaments known to man...

When the Soviet Union masters "Star Wars" technology, rendering the U.S.'s arsenal of nuclear missiles impotent, America's only hope lies in The Old Dog Zero One - a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with enough weaponry and stealth hardware to earn it the nickname, "Megafortress."

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GAMES PROSTITUTES PLAY by David Farer...

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What prostitutes do, how they do it, and the many roles prostitution plays in their lives.

Each woman has her own approach. This book assumes that prostitutes are people who have dignity and feelings, and that they are neither stupid nor pitiful.

They speak here as individuals who suffered greatly as children, but who view themselves as fighting back and dominating men as prostitutes.

Role-playing is central to prostitution, for prostitutes and their clients.

A lonely, boring man can become a hero, and an ordinary woman plays his love goddess, or his psychiatrist. Each prostitute has her own chapter; other chapters explain brothel-management, describe the brothel's owner, and demystify prostitutes' sexual techniques.

This book is a direct, no-nonsense look at prostitution. Some parts will make you laugh; others can bring tears from a rock.

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The Blue Noon by Robert Ryan

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Paris, 1945.

A manhunt is raging across the liberated city. Airey Neave, head of Room 900, the ultra-secret M19 department, is desperate to track down Harry Cole. Harry is a rogue.

He's an East End charmer and as sharp as a switchblade. But traitor?

He did break a few rules and hearts along the way... but that was before he met French nurse Odile.

Together they are the best clandestine operatives in northern France, heroes of the Resistance, rounding up downed pilots and ferrying them to safety.

The beautiful Odile nurtures Harry's talents for the greater good.

His mistake is to try and make a little money on the side. And when he gets in the way of M19, Airey Neave has a very good reason to want him silenced...

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A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk,

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A Strangeness In My Mind is a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza seller Mevlut, the woman to whom he wrote three years' worth of love letters, and their life in Istanbul. In the four decades between 1969 and 2012, Mevlut works a number of different jobs on the streets of Istanbul, from selling yoghurt and cooked rice, to guarding a car park. He observes many different kinds of people thronging the streets, he watches most of the city get demolished and rebuilt, and he sees migrants from Anatolia making a fortune; at the same time, he witnesses all of the transformative moments, political clashes, and military coups that shape the country. He always wonders what it is that separates him from everyone else - the source of that strangeness in his mind. But he never stops selling boza during winter evenings and trying to understand who his beloved really is. What matters more in love: what we wish for, or what our fate has in store? Do our choices dictate whether we will be happy or not, or are these things determined by forces beyond our control? A Strangeness In My Mind tries to answer these questions while portraying the tensions between urban life and family life, and the fury and helplessness of women inside their homes.

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1963: A Slice of Bread and Jam: One boy’s year of adventure, crippling poverty, abuse and an encounter with The Moors Murderers by Tommy Rhattigan....

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A raw and often funny snapshot of 7-year- old Tommy’s brutal young life. He moves us through his daily struggle with poverty and neglect in 1960's Manchester like it’s the most natural thing in the world. Tommy lives at the heart of a large Irish family in derelict Hulme, ruled by an abusive and alcoholic father and a drunk, negligent mother. Alongside his siblings he begs - or steals - a few pennies to bring home to his parents to avoid a beating, while looking for something to eat and a little adventure along the way. With an unlikely sense of fun and a huge dose of good humour, Tommy introduces us to his foul-mouthed and chaotic family members. Deeply flawed they may be, but amongst the violence, grinding poverty and distinct lack of hygiene and morality lies a strong sense of loyalty and, above all, survival.  During this single year - before his family implodes and his world changes forever - young Tommy almost falls foul of the school welfare officers, the nuns, the police and Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.

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Deborah Harry: The Biography by Cathay Che. . . .

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Written with Deborah Harry's cooperation, this biography has been fully revised and updated to include new studio and live albums, numerous world tours, and Blondie's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

"I was hugely influenced by Debbie Harry. . . . I thought she was the coolest chick in the universe."  —Madonna

"For me, you are the most legendary woman in rock." - Lady Gaga to Deborah Harry

The Blondie frontwoman has remained a lasting icon of cool, synonymous with New York City attitude and the intersecting worlds of punk, rock, rap, art, film, and fashion. This book celebrates the life of the original rock goddess as boldly as she's lived it. 

With three exclusive interviews with Deborah, as well as contributions from her friends, fans, and contemporaries, this book is as close to official as it gets, and is a tribute to a truly unconventional pop star who is still influencing a new generation of female pop icons.

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SAS Italian Job: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress by Damien Lewis

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An impossible mission in wartime Italy: the next explosive bestseller from Damien Lewis. In the hard-fought winter of 1944 the Allies advanced northwards through Italy, but stalled on the fearsome mountainous defences of the Gothic Line. Two men were parachuted in, in an effort to break the deadlock. Their mission: to penetrate deep into enemy territory and lay waste to the Germans' impregnable headquarters. At the eleventh hour mission commanders radioed for David 'The Mad Piper' Kilpatrick to be flown in, resplendent in his tartan kilt. They wanted this fearless war hero to lead the assault, piping Highland Laddie as he went - so leaving an indelible British signature to deter Nazi reprisals. As the column of raiders formed up, there was shocking news. High command radioed through an order to stand down, having assessed the chances of success at little more than zero. But in defiance of orders, and come hell or high-water, they were going in.

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Coming soon - Ground floor apartment - ideal, cannot climb stairs - disabled plus Carer, all set up for disabled person with wheeled commode for the shower, toilet frame and raiser etc.

Full kitchen - 2 TV's & DVD players lots of DCD's - A/C - fan - large double bed, sofa bed - table/chairs etc.

should be complete mid December, more photos to follow.

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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan...

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From the bestselling author of The Map and the Territory and Capitalism in America .. The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure.

Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of The Age of Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour d’horizon of the global economy.

The distillation of a life’s worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan’s personal and intellectual legacy.

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A World for Julius: A Novel by Alfredo Bryce Echenique....

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Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome.

Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather’s ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures.

But Julius’s father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children’s lives like an ephemeral shooting star.

Despite the soft shelter of family and money, hard realities overshadow Julius’s expanding world, just as the rugged Andes loom over his home in Lima.  This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. In this postmodern novel Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family faced with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950's

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Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud...

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Nathaniel 17 treats Bartimaeus worse than ever. The long-suffering djinni is weak from too much time in this world, near the end of his patience.

Rebel Kitty 18 hides, stealthily finishing her research on magic, demons, and Bartimaeus.

She has a daring plan that she hopes will break the endless cycle of conflict between djinn and humans.

But will anyone listen to what she has to say? Together the trio face treacherous magicians, a complex conspiracy, and a rebellious faction of demons.

To survive, they must test the limits of this world and question the deepest parts of themselves.

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Murph's Law: Greg Murphy - The Autobiography Greg with Paul Owen Murphy.

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The life of a Motorsport driver.

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Tall Order (Dan Shepherd #15) by Stephen Leather..

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He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists, codenamed Saladin. He plans and executes devastating attacks and then, ghost-like, he disappears. Ten years ago he blew a plane out of the sky above New York - and now he's struck again, killing dozens in a London strike. But one of the latest victims is related to the acting head of MI5, who knows exactly who she wants on the case: Spider Shepherd. Dean Martin, a psychologically damaged former Navy SEAL, is the only person in the world who can identify Saladin. But Martin was killed ten years ago - wasn't he? Shepherd must find Martin and take him back to the killing fields on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Revenge on the world's most wanted terrorist is long overdue, and Shepherd is determined to be the one to deliver it . . .

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The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

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Once I’d been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray uniforms and nearly everyone locked up was innocent.”

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera.

It is 1956 and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge.

As it happens, a local writer needs just that, someone to fill the fourth seat in a regular game that is the usual evening diversion at the Villa Mauresque.

Not just any writer. Perhaps the richest and most famous living writer in the world: W. Somerset Maugham. And it turns out it is not just a bridge partner that he needs; it’s some professional advice.

Maugham is being blackmailed - perhaps because of his unorthodox lifestyle. Or perhaps because of something in his past, because once upon a time, Maugham worked for the British secret service, and the people now blackmailing him are spies.

As Gunther fans know, all roads lead back to the viper’s nest that was Hitler’s Third Reich and to the killing fields that spread like a disease across Europe.

Even in 1956, peace has not come to the continent: now the Soviets have the H-bomb and spies from every major power feel free to make all of Europe their personal playground.

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A Perfect Spy by John le Carré

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John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. Immersing readers in two parallel dramas - one about the making of a spy, the other chronicling his seemingly imminent demise - le Carre offers one of his richest and most morally resonant novels.Magnus Pym - son of Rick, father of Tom, and a successful career officer of British Intelligence - has vanished, to the dismay of his friends, enemies, and wife.

Who is he? Who was he? Who owns him? Who trained him? Secets of state are at risk. As the truth about Pym gradually emerges, the reader joins Pym's pursuers to explore the unsettling life and motives of a man who fought the wars he inherited with the only weapons he knew, and so became a perfect spy.

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Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945 by Carlo D'Este. . .

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As riveting as the man it portrays, Warlord is a masterful, unsparing portrait of Winston Churchill, one of history’s most fascinating and influential leaders.

Carlo D’Este’s definitive chronicle of Churchill’s crucial role in the major military campaigns of the 20th century, Warlord uses extensive, untapped archival materials to provide “a very human look at Churchill’s lifelong fascination with soldiering, war, and command.”

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The Search for the Dice Man (Dice Man #3) by Luke Rhinehart............

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The sequel to the cult classic The Dice Man this book can also change your life!

Larry Rhinehart is the Son of an Infamous father - the renegade psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart.

Otherwise known as the Dice Man - Luke became a cult figure in the seventies - inspiring thousands to follow him into the anarchic world of Dice Living.

Where every decision is made not by the self - but by the roll of the dice, Larry - however is emphatically not a follower.

He has grown up to have a great respect for order and control - a wealthy Wall Street analyst - all set to marry the boss's daughter - Larry has got life where he wants it.

Until rumours begin to circulate about the reappearance of his long-vanished father - and Larry's carefully organized world begins to look a lot less certain.

By turns funny. moving and wildly erotic.

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My War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony Loyd. . . .

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Nothing can prepare you for Anthony Loyd's portrait of war.

It is the story of the unspeakable terror and the visceral, ecstatic thrill of combat, and the lives and dreams laid to waste by the bloodiest conflict that Europe has witnessed since the Second World War.

Born into a distinguished military family, Loyd was raised on the stories of his ancestors' exploits and grew up fascinated with war.

Unsatisfied by a brief career in the British Army, he set out for the killing fields in Bosnia. It was there - in the midst of the roar of battle and the life-and-death struggle among the Serbs, Croatians, and Bosnian Muslims - that he would discover humanity at its worst and best.

Profoundly shocking, poetic, and ultimately redemptive, this is an uncompromising look at the brutality of war and its terrifyingly seductive power.