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Sex And The City
'Bushnell's beat is that demi-monde of nightclubs, bars, restaurants and parties where the rich come into contact with the infamous, the famous with the wannabes and the publicity-hungry with the gossip-peddlers' EVENING STANDARD Wildly funny, unexpectedly poignant, wickedly observant, SEX AND THE CITY blazes a glorious, drunken cocktail trail through New York, as Candace Bushnell, columnist and social critic par excellence, trips on her Manolo Blahnik kitten heels from the Baby Doll Lounge to the Bowery Bar. An Armistead Maupin for the real world, she has the gift of assembling a huge and irresistible cast of freaks and wonders, while remaining faithful to her hard core of friends and fans: those glamorous, rebellious, crazy single women, too close to forty, who are trying hard not to turn from the Audrey Hepburn of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S into the Glen Close of FATAL ATTRACTION, and are - still - looking for love.
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The Bin Ladens
The Bin Ladens are shrouded in secrecy, living in one of the most closed, unaccountable countries on earth. Little has been known about the world that created Osama - until now. In this gripping account prizewinning journalist Steve Coll has interviewed those closest to the family who rose from Yemeni peasants to jetsetting millionaires in two generations. In doing so, he reveals a Saudi Arabia torn between religious purity and the temptations of the West, telling a story of oil, money, power, patronage and dangerous cultural extremes
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One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
It was shortly after his 12:30 appointment that Dr. Morley was found with a bullet through his right temple and gun on the floor. The authorities thought it was suicide. All Poirot has is a hunch, too many clues, and a killer who was not done yet.
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Isaac's Storm
September 8, 1900, began innocently in Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteoroligist for the U.S Weather Bureau, failed to grasp the meaning of the deep-sea swells and winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself engulfed by a monster hurricane that destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural in American history and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the uncontrollable force of nature. "Erik Larson's accomplishment is to have made this great storm story a very human one...without ignoring the hurricane itself" -The Boston Globe-
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Storming Heaven
Punished for his maverick Ways, FBI agent mark Beamon has been exiled from Washington, D.C. to a sleepy southwest office where he's got one last chance to play by the rules. But that's not going to happen, not when he's on a case that may be too hot even for his unorthodox talents to handle. A local millionaire and his wife are brutally murdered Jennifer, their teenage child and sole heir, is the prime suspect and she's gone missing. Beamon sets off on a trail that takes him from the Utah Mountains, through the labyrinthine headquarters of a cult-like Church, into the shadowy, interlocking boardrooms of a powerful high-tech communications empire
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Intimate Knowledge
Grace has lived in her mother's shadow all her life. Inheriting her voluptuous body, and sultry voice hasn't prepared Grace for the undercover assignment that will make her career with the FBI. Unlike her mother, Grace has never learnt the art of seduction. An art that she's going to need to know to pull off her assignment; bring down a crime lord before he takes his operation coast to coast. Since his rookie partner got killed on their first assignment together, Logan's worked alone. When his boss asks him to work with Grace and teach her everything she's going to need to know to gain access to Mitchell's records, he doesn't want any part of it. But there's Grace, this woman hiding behind baggy clothes, blushing like a virgin, and chasing after him to prove she's got what it takes. Logan wants nothing more than to scare Grace off this assignment, but the more he teaches her the more he's learning to like having a partner again. This is Ms. Miller's first Blaze and I've really enjoyed it. I think we can all find a little bit of Grace in ourselves. She's this shy naive woman wanting to shine for her own sake, not for her body or because she's her mother's daughter. Logan's the perfect teacher to show her her potential, only he's not supposed to get emotionally involved. I love how Ms. Miller gives us his thoughts and we see just how much Grace in effecting him. I recommend reading this one on a chilly night; this one will heat you up from the inside out! I've always enjoyed Ms. Miller's Intrigues and I'm very pleased to see that she brings her remarkable talents to Blaze. I'm really looking forward to digging out her other Blazes from my TBR pile. This winter may just be a toasty one
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Sold And Seduced
Lydia Veratia made one mistake - and now her freedom is forfeit to the man who all Rome knows as the Sea Wolf. Sold into marriage, the one thing over which she still has control is her own desire. So when Fabius Aro offers her a wager for her own independence - Lydia thinks it will be easily won.
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Intent To Seduce
If Dr MacKenzie Lloyd gets married, she'll want it to be forever. So she's decided to learn everything about the art of pleasuring a man. She's a sex goddess in theory - now all she has to do is put her learning into practice... CEO Lucan Wainwright thinks he can handle anything - until he's propositioned by this incredibly sexy woman! Mac makes his every erotic fantasy come true, yet she's also intriguingly innocent, and Lucas knows that its far more than just sex between them. But does his seductive scientist realise that 'for ever' should be with him?
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Hearts In Atlantis
Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
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Fade
A secret wing of US Homeland Security is recruiting agents to work undercover in the Middle East, and the director wants his second-in-command, Matt Egan, to bring aboard an old friend. Salam Al Fayed - 'Fade' - is perfect. An ex-Navy Seal, he is the son of immigrants and speaks Arabic like a native.
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Prisoner Of Tehran
An international bestseller, PRISONER OF TEHRAN is the astonishing, true account of one woman's remarkable courage in the face of unbelievable terror. Brought up a Christian, Marina's childhood in Tehran was shattered when the Iranian Revolution ushered in Islamic rule. After complaining about her Maths lessons being replaced by Koran study, Marina was arrested and imprisoned, suffering daily torture. Aged sixteen, she was sentenced to death. Her prison guard snatched her from death but exacted a shocking price in return - marriage to him and conversion to Islam. Marina lived out her prison days as his secret bride but struggled to reconcile her hatred towards Ali with the fact that he had saved her life. At last she was able to return home, but the regime kept her under surveillance. Marina's world had been changed forever and she questions whether she will ever escape Iran or her memories.
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The Winner Stands Alone
The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman. His wife Ewa left him two years ago and Igor has never really come to terms with their break up, especially as Ewa is now remarried to a famous fashion designer, Hamid Hussein. Igor is insanely jealous and when Ewa left him he told her that he would destroy 'whole worlds' in order to get her back, and he intends to keep his promise! Igor has followed Ewa and her new husband to Cannes and his plan is to cause as much violence and destruction as possible until Ewa realises how much he loves her and comes back to him. Ewa loved Igor but she was absolutely terrified of him. She knows that Igor has killed people in the past when he was a soldier, but she also knows a dark secret - that he once cold bloodedly murdered a beggar who was bothering them in a restaurant. Igor is clearly unhinged and he will stop at nothing to regain her love and so he goes on a ruthless killing spree until he tracks down Ewa...The star-studded film festival acts as a backdrop to Igor's maniacal murdering spree and we are ntroduced to various characters along the way, all of whom are desperately trying to get their big break in the shallow world of show business; Gabriela a young and naive actress who is being exploited by her agent and Jasmine a troubled young Rwandan refugee working as a model. The Winner Stands Alone is a gripping, fast-paced thriller, and Coelho cleverly weaves in elements of social satire, poking fun at our celebrity and money obsessed culture. Top page