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Killing Time by Murray Smith.

 

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James Gant is selected to join the British Secret Intelligence Service and is to be trained under the auspices of David Jardine.

At the same time, a cruel trial initiation ceremony is taking place for Zina Faouche to test her readiness to be part of the Iranian Intelligence Bureau.

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New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology

by Felix Guirand & Robert Graves.

 

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*****big coffee table book*****

 

Here, in all their wonder and splendor, are the Mythologies of Mankind, from pre biblical Egypt and pre Homeric Greece to the farthest researches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific and the Americas.

All gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated with an incomparable scope and beauty, and illustrated with an incomparable assemblage of authentic paintings, sculpture, symbols, idols, ritual and sacrificial objects, many rarely seen by modern Western eyes.

 

This monumental work is the first complete encyclopedia of world anthology.

Originally published in France by the famous house of Larousse, it contains of course all the well loved myths of Classical Antiquity.

But more than half the book is devoted to the strange and unfamiliar mythologies of civilizations...from Peru to Persia, from Tahiti to Togoland.

 

With nearly 600 Illustrations.

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Equal Rites: by Terry Pratchett.

 

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There are some situations where the correct response is to display the sort of ignorance which happily and wilfully flies in the face of the facts.

In this case, the birth of a baby girl, born a wizard, by mistake. Everybody knows that there's no such thing as a female wizard.

But now it's gone and happened, there's nothing much anyone can do about it.

Let the battle of the sexes begin...

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Leadbelly: The Inside Story of an Underworld War

by John Silvester & Andrew Rule.

 

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For the last 10 years, a war has raged on once safe suburban streets that has stunned the world.

The killings have been particularly callous and brutal: mothers gunned down with their babies sleeping beside them, fathers killed in front of their children, and couples shot down in cold blood.

This is true crime at its most bloody, surreal, and terrifying.

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Battlefield 3: The Russian by Andy McNab and Peter Grimsdale.

 

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As bullets whiz by, walls crumble, and explosions throw you to the ground, the battlefield feels more alive and interactive than ever before.

In Battlefield 3, players step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines where they will experience heart pounding missions across diverse locations including Paris, Tehran and New York...

 

Since 2002, EA's series of Battlefield games have set the standard for realism and ambition.

And in Autumn 2011, with the global release of the hotly anticipated Battlefield 3, they're raising the bar even higher. Battlefield 3 will be the most authentic, vivid, all action first person shooter ever.

 

To be published alongside the game, Battlefield 3: The Russian is also best in class, the first time that a game's publisher has worked so closely with an internationally bestselling author.

 

Never before has a tie-in book benefitted from this level of collaboration from the creative team behind the game itself. Nor has it been written by a thriller writer with such a strong track record and reputation.

 

Displaying all of McNab's trademark grit, authenticity and insight, Battlefield 3: The Russian is a scorching top-of-the-line military thriller and a heart-stopping race against time.

 

Prepare to be blown away...

 

ANDY MCNAB joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was 'badged' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, 'will remain in regimental history for ever'. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in three books: the phenomenal bestseller Bravo Two Zero, Immediate Action and Seven Troop.

 

He is the author of the bestselling Nick Stone thrillers.

Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK.

He is a patron of the Help for Heroes campaign.

www.andymcnab.co.uk

 

PETER GRIMSDALE is a multi-award-winning television producer with a raft of major documentaries to his credit.

He is married to the writer Stephanie Calman and lives in south London.

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Egypt Myths and Legends by Lewis Spence.

 

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Egypt: Myths and Legends

A complete reference for Egyptian religious stories and customs.

Includes information on the major deities and magical myths.

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Fitness for Sport (The Skills of the Game) by Rex Hazeldine.

 

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For everyone who takes their sport seriously and who wants to safely achieve the most from their bodies.

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101 Places to Have Sex Before You Die

By Marsha Normandy and Joseph St. James.

 

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Stuck in a rut?

Feeling adventurous?

Moderately flexible?

Spice up your sex life by luring your partner out of the bedroom?

 

There's a saying: Everyone remembers their first, and everyone remembers their worst.

And there should definitely be some special moments in between.

That's where 101 Places to Have Sex Before You Die comes into play.

This fun, portable workbook provides a list of everyday places where venturesome people can have sex, without too much difficulty.

Each location features:

 

- a difficulty rating (cakewalk to sexperts only)

 

- helpful icons to indicate certain hazards or special considerations for each place (for instance, if there's a chance you might get arrested; if there are time constraints; if there's a risk of embarrassment; if any special equipment is needed, etc.)

 

- a box to check once you've successfully completed the deed

 

- a place to mark whether or not it's worth a repeat performance

 

Whether you're feeling romantic, adventurous, sporty, lazy, or just plain naughty, 101 Places to Have Sex Before You Die is a must-have for anyone who enjoys a good roll in the hay (or on a floating dock, or even in the reptile house at the zoo).

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Practical Home Improvement Mike Lawrence.

 

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Essential Step by Step Handbook for Maintenance, Repairs and Decorating Projects Around the House.

 

A home improvers' manual, offering advice on the main decorating skills, from painting and paperhanging to maintenance and repairs.

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Winston Churchill As I Knew Him by Violet Bonham Carter.

 

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Lady Violet Bonham Carter was the daughter of HH Asquith and his first wife.

She got to know Churchill soon after his marriage in 1906 and became his confidant on matters political for the rest of his life, although she remained a staunch liberal and was made a life peer in 1970.

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Mountbatten: The Official Biography by Philip Ziegler.

 

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A rounded, sympathetic and yet wholly undeceived portrait of the man and the many facets of his character.

From his christening, which Queen Victoria attended, to his days as Supreme Commander in South East Asia during World War II, to India where he oversaw the move to independence, to the Suez crisis, we discover a man who, for all the glitter and the gold, was nothing if not human.

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Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre.

 

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A famous, major work on Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Admiral Lord Mountbatten, and the partition of India.

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Paris.

 

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Newly revised, updated, and redesigned.

Experience the best of Paris with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Paris.

This newly updated travel guide for Paris will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer, whether you are planning visits to the Louvre and other museums of Paris, a climb up the Eiffel Tower, or just want to go shopping.

 

Expert travel writers have fully revised this edition of DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Paris.

 

Themed itineraries help plan trips to Paris by length of stay or by interest.

Improved neighborhood walking maps now include restaurant locations by area.

Completely new hotel and restaurant listings now include DK Choice special recommendations.

New typography and fresh layout throughout.

You'll still find DK's famous cutaway illustrations of major architectural and historic sights, museum floor plans, and 3-D aerial views of key districts to explore on foot, along with in-depth coverage of the city's history and culture.

A pull-out city map is marked with sights from the guidebook and includes a street index, a Paris Metro map, and a chart showing the walking distances between major sights.

 

With hundreds of full color photographs, hand drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Paris truly shows you this city as no one else can.

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Step by Step Thai Cooking (Step by step cooking)

by Carol Bowen.

 

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Leith's Fish Bible - Hardcover -

by C.J. Jackson & Caroline Waldegrave.

 

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Leiths Fish Bible is the only fish cookbook you will ever need. With innumerable recipes from all over the world, it has something for every occasion from a simple supper to an elegant dinner.

As with every book from the classic Leiths series, all recipes are fool-proof, easy to use with an emphasis on proper technique.

Here are many of the classics, dishes such as Sole Meuniere, Risotto Nero, Lobster Thermidor and Deep-fried Cod in Beer Batter, alongside the contemporary, Mackerel, Rice Noodle and Peanut Salad, Noisettes of Salmon with Cucumber and Fennel Salsa and the exotic, Braised Octopus in Rioja, Seafood Laksa and Sushi Nigiri.

Chapters are divided by fish groups (with alternative fish given for every recipe) with an extensive chapter on Shellfish as well as Preserved Fish.

There is also detailed information on methods of preparation and cooking techniques such as filleting and boning, alongside preparing shellfish and home-smoking.

It is an essential book for every kitchen.

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Jamie's Dinners: The Essential Family Cookbook, Hardcover

by Jamie Oliver.

 

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Cooking sensation Jamie Oliver returns with a cookbook designed to delight the entire family?

Bestselling cookbook author Jamie Oliver takes his signature fresh, fun cooking style into new territory by putting his focus on the family.

Designed to encourage us to eat healthier meals at home and enjoy our time spent in the kitchen, Jamie's Dinners features over 100 new and simple recipes for easy to afford, easy to prepare gourmet dinners that will get even the busiest of families back into the kitchen.

Jamie's pared down style and inventive use of fresh, uncomplicated ingredients will ensure that even novice chefs can cook up delicious dinners with confidence and ease using accessible, stylish recipes that the whole family will love, such as Farfalle with Carbonara and Spring Peas and Japanese Style Saturday Night Steak.

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The Great Moghuls by Bamber Gascoigne.

 

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The history of the six Moghul emperors who ruled India for nearly two hundred years.

Contains 52 colour pages and 78 black and white illustrations.

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Wine Lover's Guide to France - Hardcover

by Michael Busselle.

 

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The Happy Face Killer by Jack Olsen.

 

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In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested John Sosnovske and Laverne Pavlinac for the vicious rape and murder of 23-year-old Taunja Bennett.

Pavlinac had come forth and confessed, implicating her boyfriend and producing physical evidence that linked them to the crime. Authorities closed the case.

There was just one problem.

They had the wrong people...Keith Hunter Jesperson was a long haul truck driver and the murderer of eight women, including Taunja Bennett.

He began a twisted one-man campaign to win the release of Sosnovske and Pavlinac.

To the editors of newspapers and on the walls of highway rest stops, Jesperson scribbled out a series of taunting confessions.

At the end of each, he drew a happy face, earning for himself the grisly nickname 'The Happy Face Killer'.

Based on access to interviews, diaries, court records, and the criminal himself, this is Jesperson's horrific story.

Jack Olsen lets the killer tell his story in his own words, offering unprecedented insight into the twisted thought process of a serial murder.

This book is based on scores of interviews with the killer and his family.

True crime continues to be one of the bestselling genres on the market and Jack Olsen is a world renowned true crime writer.

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Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity

by David Bodanis.

 

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In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world’s most famous equation. Now, in Electric Universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universe and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its Secrets.

 

For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790's.

Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation that ignited an explosion of knowledge and invention.

The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the structure of the atom to the functioning of our brains.

In harnessing its power, we have created a world of wonders complete with roller coasters and radar, computer networks and psychopharmaceuticals.

 

A superb storyteller, Bodanis weaves tales of romance, divine inspiration, and fraud through lucid accounts of scientific breakthroughs.

The great discoverers come to life in all their brilliance and idiosyncrasy, including the visionary Michael Faraday, who struggled against the prejudices of the British class system, and Samuel Morse, a painter who, before inventing the telegraph, ran for mayor of New York City on a platform of persecuting Catholics.

Here too is Alan Turing, whose dream of a marvelous thinking machine what we know as the computer was met with indifference, and who ended his life in despair after British authorities forced him to undergo experimental treatments to “cure” his homosexuality.

 

From the frigid waters of the Atlantic to the streets of Hamburg during a World War II firestorm to the interior of the human body, Electric Universe is a mesmerizing journey of discovery by a master science writer.

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One Man's View of the World by Lee Kuan Yew.

 

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Born in 1923, Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has spent a lifetime being intimately involved in international affairs.

He has met every major Chinese leader from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping and hobnobbed with American presidents from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama.

In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on today's world and what it might look like in 20 years.

This is no dry geopolitical treatise.

Nor is it a thematic account of the twists and turns in global affairs.

Instead, in this broad-sweep narrative that takes in America, China, Asia and Europe, he parses their society, probes the psyche of the people and draws his conclusions about their chances for survival and just where they might land in the hierarchy of tomorrow's balance of power.

What makes a society tick?

What do its people really believe?

Can it adapt?

In spare, unflinching prose that eschews political correctness, he describes a China that remains obsessed with control from the centre on its way to an unstoppable rise; an America that will have to share its pre eminence despite its never say die dynamism; and a Europe that struggles with the challenges of keeping its union intact.

His candid and often startling views, on why Japan is closed to foreigners, why the Arab Spring won't bring one man, one vote to the Middle East, and why preventing global warming is not going to be as fruitful as preparing for it, make this a fresh and gripping read.

Lee completes the book by looking into the future of Singapore, his enduring concern and by offering the reader a glimpse into his personal life and his view of death.

The book is interspersed with a Q&A section in each chapter, gleaned from conversations he had with journalists from The Straits Times.

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An American Life by Ronald Reagan.

 

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The former president relates the story of his public and private life from his modest beginnings in the Midwest, through a distinguished film career, to a second career in politics.

Ronald Reagan’s account of that rise is told here with all the uncompromising candor, modesty, and wit that made him perhaps the most able communicator ever to occupy the White House, and also with the sense of drama of a gifted natural storyteller.

 

He tells us, with warmth and pride, of his early years and of the elements that made him, in later life, a leader of such stubborn integrity, courage, and clear-minded optimism. Reading the account of this childhood, we understand how his parents, struggling to make ends meet despite family problems and the rigors of the Depression, shaped his belief in the virtues of American life, the need to help others, the Desire to get ahead and to get things done, the deep trust in the basic goodness, values, and sense of justice of the American people, virtues that few presidents have expressed more eloquently than Ronald Reagan.

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The Lost Executioner: A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields by Nic Dunlop.

 

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In Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, some two million people died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.

Twenty years later, not one member had been held accountable for the genocide.

Haunted by an image of one of them, Comrade Duch, photographer Nic Dunlop set out to bring him to life, and thereby to account.

"I needed to understand how a movement that laid claim to a vision of a better world could instead produce a revolution of unparalleled ferocity; how a seemingly ordinary man from one of the poorer parts of Cambodia could turn into one of the worst mass murderers of the twentieth century:"

Weaving seamlessly between past and present, Dunlop unfolds the history of Cambodia as a lens through which to understand its tragic last forty years.

He makes clear how much responsibility the United States must share, through failed political alliances and the illegal bombing of Cambodia, for the bloodshed that followed. Guided by witnesses, Dunlop teases out the details of Duch's transformation from sensitive schoolchild and dedicated teacher to the revolutionary killer who later slipped quietly back into village life.

From the temples of Angkor to the prisons of Pol Pot's regime, to his unexpected meeting with Duch himself, Dunlop's special vision as a photographer enlarges our own.

The Lost Executioner is a blend of history and testimony and a reminder that, whether in the killing fields of Cambodia or the deserts of Darfur, if we turn our backs on genocide, we must bear a collective guilt.

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.

 

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"They all crossed into forbidden territory.

They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how.

And how much."

 

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family.

Their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu, (who loves by night the man her children love by day), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt).

When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that things can change in a day, that lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river..