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Great Book: Silent Mercy

Title: Mercy (Alexandra Cooper 13)   Author: Linda A. Fairstein Hardcover:400 pages Publisher:Little, Brown (17 Mar 2011) ISBN-10:9781408702413 ISBN-13:978-1408702413 ASIN:140870241X Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 3.8 cm Product Description When the burnt headless body of a young woman is found on the steps of a Baptist Church in Harlem, Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper is [...]

Book Recommendation: Chicken, Mules And Two Old Fools

Title: Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools Author: Victoria Twead Paperback:196 pages Publisher:New Generation Publishing (3 Oct 2009) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:9781906558352 ISBN-13:978-1906558352 ASIN:1906558353 Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm  Product Description Perhaps if Joe and Vicky had known what relocating to a tiny village, tucked in the Alpujarra mountains, would really be like, they [...]

New Title: Prophecy

Title: Prophecy Author: S. J. Parris Hardcover:416 pages Publisher:HarperCollins (3 Mar 2011) ISBN-10:0007317719 ISBN-13:978-0007317714 Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 4.1 cm Product Description The second in a major new series of historical thrillers featuring Giordano Bruno, philospher, scientist and heretic, for all fans of C.J.Sansom and The Name of the Rose. Autumn, 1583: Queen [...]

Great Book: Small Is Beautiful

Title: Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered    Author: E F Schumacher   Paperback:272 pages Publisher:Vintage; New Ed edition (4 Aug 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:9780099225614 ISBN-13:978-0099225614 ASIN:0099225611 Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.4 x 2.2 cm Product Description Small is Beautiful is E F Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of world economies. [...]

Book Recommendation : Sick Notes

Title: Sick Notes   Author: Tony Copperfield Paperback:320 pages Publisher:Monday Books (12 May 2010) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:9781906308148 ISBN-13:978-1906308148 ASIN:1906308144 Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2 cm Product Description The hilarious, shocking and occasionally tragic truth about the working life of a British GP, written for the lay reader. Dr Tony Copperfield is an average GP [...]

New Title: The Payback

Title: The Payback Author: Simon Kernick Hardcover:368 pages Publisher:Bantam Press (17 Feb 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:9780593062883 ISBN-13:978-0593062883 ASIN:0593062884 Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm Product Description Dennis Milne is a man with a past, and a past that involves murder. A former cop, he's earned his living killing the bad guys – drug-dealers, corrupt [...]

Great Book: Britian's War Machine

Title: Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War Author: David Edgerton Hardcover:464 pages Publisher:Allen Lane (31 Mar 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:9780713999181 ISBN-13:978-0713999181 ASIN:0713999187 Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 4.4 cm Product Description The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking [...]

Book Recommendation: No Easy Road

Title: No Easy Road   Author:  Patsy Whyte  Paperback:260 pages Publisher:Kailyard Publishing (15 Sep 2009) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:0956356605 ISBN-13:978-0956356604 Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm Product Description Patsy Whyte was one of a family of ten traveller children who grew up in a children's home in Aberdeen during the 1950s and 60s. Scarred by [...]

New Title: Dead Man's Grip

Title: Dead Man's Grip Author: Peter James Hardcover:544 pages Publisher:Macmillan (3 Jun 2011) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:0230747256 ISBN-13: 978-0230747258 Product Description I WANT THEM TO SUFFER, AND I WANT THEM DEAD …   Carly Chase is traumatised ten days asfter being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news [...]

Great Book: The Shock Doctrine

Title: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism   Author:  Naomi Klein Paperback:576 pages Publisher:Penguin; Reprint edition (1 May 2008) LanguageEnglish ISBN-10:0141024534 ISBN-13:978-0141024530 Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 3 cm Product Description Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing [...]