Desperate to resurrect his career, after succumbing to the lure of Hollywood, Gideon Zadok travels to Israel, determined to find material for a new book. Once there, he finds Natasha Solomon, a survivor of the Holocaust, & her disturbed passion for him unleashes his own smouldering desires. Then, on the eve of the '56 Sinai War, he abandons her & joins the Israeli forces & is parachuted to the key junction of Mitla Pass, deep behind enemy lines. Amid the sounds of battle, Gideon wages a war no less violent within himself, as he strives to come to grips with the frightening power of love-hate.

Breathtaking in scope & painfully human, Mitla Pass is the masterwork of a great novelist.

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When the Germans arrived on the Channel Islands after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940, they & the islanders agreed that it would be a ' Model Occupation'. But as the war dragged on & Britain appeared to abandon the islands to their fate, so features of Nazi occupation already widespread throughout Europe emerged. There were love affairs between island women & German soldiers, betrayals & black marketeering, individual acts of resistance, feats of courage & endurance. Every islander was faced with uncomfortable choices: where did patriotism end & self-preservation begin? What moral obligation did they have to the thousands of emaciated & ill-treated slave labourers the Nazi's brought among them to build an impregnable ring of defences around the islands? ...

Paganism means living in harmony with nature & respecting all that nature has to offer. It is a sustainable way of life that has existed in the British Isles for thousands of years & that has survived secretly among scattered households throughout the UK. Although it is not a religious path (true pagans do not worship deities), paganism will appeal to anyone who cares about the environment, who is interested in maintaining an organic lifestyle or who believes in respecting their roots whilst catering for the future. Paganism may be thousands of years old, but it is particularly suited to meeting our twenty-first century concerns.

In The Modern Pagan, Brian Day explains how to live in a way that honours the land & its inhabitants. There is advice on celebrating seasonal festivals, on cultivating a true pagan garden, on creating delicious food & drink from hedgerow fare, on herbal medicine, on the importance of pagan parenting & family values, on living in harmony without prejudice & discrimination & much more. The core principles of Modern Paganism will make sense to anyone who is tired of the hustle & bustle of our polluted lifestyles, & who is looking for a way to live that is in balance with our fellow human beings & the natural world.

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When David Lines first heard This is the Modern World by The Jam, it sparked off a love affair that continues to this day. ...

In a bar in the Buenos Aires suburb of Villa Crespo our narrator recalls his encounters with an old man of Lithuanian descent, Samuel Warschauer, whom he came to know shortly before the man died. Among his papers, he found the script of a curious play entitled The Moldavian Pimp, performed in Yiddish in the poor, Jewish area of the city in 1927-28. The play concerned young Jewish girls from the Ukraine recruited by Jewish pimps to go to Argentina on the promises of freedom & a new life, only to find themselves sold into prostitution.

Set in the Argentine capital & Paris, & ranging in time from the 1920s to the present day, Edgardo Cozarinsky

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Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful middle age. Living a very private life in Maine
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Chester Royde, an American millionaire, travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie & sister Myrtle, to find out more about Carrie's Scottish ancestry. Their new 'relatives' turn out to be a little more authentically Scottish than they bargained for. Ben Nevis, Laird of Glenbogle Castle, is fiercely protective of his lands & the Macdonald clan spirit, but being cash-strapped he's not above attempts to marry heiress Myrtle to one of his many brawny sons. However, Ben Nevis is distracted when a group of hikers stumble on his moor & spoil a days hunting...sparking all-out war between gentry & commoners. ...

Sally Denton & Roger Morris make clear how & why Las Vegas became the greatest 'business success story' of the twentieth century, & how the rest of America ensured this success by contributing capital as well as customers. Headquarters of a trillion-dollar worldwide empire, the site of unprecedented political & economic power, Las Vegas is by no means an aberrant sin city. Denton & Morris demonstrate how it has grown out of, & reflects, a corruption & a worship of money that have crept into American life since Prohibition. They trace the original funds for the founding of the Las Vegas we know today to nationwide narcotics trafficking. They show how deeply a multiethnic criminal syndicate, in part feeding off gambling profits & the skim in Las Vegas, came to influence American politics & the larger society, & how pervasively its 'style of business' has penetrated the entire nation. Denton & Morris detail the amazing rise & reach of Meyer Lansky
- the mind that ran the city; exactly how criminals, politicians, & businessmen worked together to control Las Vegas; the curious interplay of the city with the fates of Joseph, John F., & Robert Kennedy; how Mormon bankers & Wall Street financiers have bankrolled & profited from casinos ruled by organised crime; how a handful of dedicated journalists & law enforcement officers were destroyed before they could expose the city's secrets. The Money & the Power is a detailed & illuminating chronicle of an extraordinary place & time
- & a provocative reinterpretation of twentieth-century American history.

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Sally Denton & Roger Morris make clear how & why Las Vegas became the greatest 'business success story' of the twentieth century, & how the rest of America ensured this success by contributing capital as well as customers. Headquarters of a trillion-dollar worldwide empire, the site of unprecedented political & economic power, Las Vegas is by no means an aberrant sin city. Denton & Morris demonstrate how it has grown out of, & reflects, a corruption & a worship of money that have crept into American life since Prohibition. They trace the original funds for the founding of the Las Vegas we know today to nationwide narcotics trafficking. They show how deeply a multiethnic criminal syndicate, in part feeding off gambling profits & the skim in Las Vegas, came to influence American politics & the larger society, & how pervasively its 'style of business' has penetrated the entire nation. Denton & Morris detail the amazing rise & reach of Meyer Lansky
- the mind that ran the city; exactly how criminals, politicians, & businessmen worked together to control Las Vegas; the curious interplay of the city with the fates of Joseph, John F., & Robert Kennedy; how Mormon bankers & Wall Street financiers have bankrolled & profited from casinos ruled by organised crime; how a handful of dedicated journalists & law enforcement officers were destroyed before they could expose the city's secrets. The Money & the Power is a detailed & illuminating chronicle of an extraordinary place & time
- & a provocative reinterpretation of twentieth-century American history.

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