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New Title: Where The Bodies Are Buried

Title: Where the Bodies are Buried   Author:  Chris Brookmyre  Hardcover:304 pages Publisher:Little, Brown & Company (2 Jun 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:140870269X ISBN-13: 978-1408702697 Product Description Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge. They do can't-miss-whodunit. It's a lesson that [...]

Great Book: Whoops Why Everybody Owes Everyone

Title: Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay Author: John Lanchester Paperback:256 pages Publisher:Penguin (7 Oct 2010) LanguageFrench ISBN-10:014104571X ISBN-13:978-0141045719 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm Product Description We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're all [...]

Book Recommendation: The Ghost of White Hart Lane

Title: The Ghost of White Hart Lane: In Search of My Father the Football Legend Authors: Julie Welch and Rob White Hardcover:304 pages Publisher:Yellow Jersey (10 Mar 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:022408299X ISBN-13:978-0224082990 Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.6 x 3.4 cm Product Description 'Had John lived, he could have been one of the greatest footballers of all [...]

New Title: Private London

Title: Private London Author: James Patterson Hardcover:368 pages Publisher:Century (9 Jun 2011) ISBN-10:1846058317 ISBN-13:978-1846058318 Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.2 x 3.1 cm Product Description SOMETIMES WHEN THE NIGHTMARE ENDS – THE TERROR IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when [...]

Great Book: The Checkout Girl

Title: The Checkout Girl   Author:  Tazeen Ahmad  Paperback:272 pages Publisher:The Friday Project (6 Aug 2009) ISBN-10:0007327722 ISBN-13:978-0007327720 Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 2.4 cm Product Description How much do you know about what really goes on at your local supermarket? We see them every week and they are privy to some of our [...]

Book Recommendation: A Paramedics Diary

Title: A Paramedic's Diary: Life and Death on the Streets: Life and Death in London Author: Stuart Gray Paperback:254 pages Publisher:Monday Books (13 Dec 2007) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:9780955285493 ISBN-13:978-0955285493 ASIN:0955285496 Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm Product Description Stuart Gray is a paramedic dealing with the worst life can throw at him. A Paramedic's [...]

Great Book: The Greatest Trade Ever

Title: The Greatest Trade Ever: How One Man Bet Against the Markets and Made $20 Billion   Author:  Gregory Zuckerman  Paperback:304 pages Publisher:Penguin (29 July 2010) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:0141043156 ISBN-13:978-0141043159 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm Product Description Autumn 2008. The world's finances collapse but one man makes a killing. John Paulson, a softly [...]

Book Recommendation: The Girl In The Painted Caravan

Title: The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood Author: Eva Petulengro Paperback:320 pages Publisher:Pan; 1st Edition edition (18 Feb 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:0330519999 ISBN-13:978-0330519991 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.3 cm Product Description Born into a Romany gypsy family in 1939, Eva Petulengro's childhood seemed to her to be idyllic in [...]

Great Book: The Proscratination Theory

Title: The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done Author: Dr Piers Steel Paperback:317 pages Publisher:Prentice Hall Life; 1 edition (16 Dec 2010) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:027372326X ISBN-13:978-0273723264 Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.7 x 2 cm Product Description Procrastination – or at least lack of motivation – is endemic. A massive [...]

Book Recommendation: In Cold Blood

Title: In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences (Penguin Magnum Collection)   Author:  Truman Capote  Paperback:352 pages Publisher:Penguin; Re-issue edition (7 May 2009) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:0141043083 ISBN-13:978-0141043081 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm Product Description Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a [...]