` Nelson De Mille is a true master` Dan Brown Strap in for the ride of a lifetime with the blistering new novel from America`s greatest living thriller writer, Nelson De Mille. Daniel ` Mac` Mac Cormick has a good life. Aged thirty-five & a decorated US Army veteran, he whiles away his life in stunning Key West, Florida, running a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat The Maine. A ladies` man & rule-breaker, Mac has it all
- apart from the money to hold on to his beloved boat. Then Mac is approached by a hotshot Miami lawyer called Carlos with an apparently irresistable offer: a fee of $2 million to run the boat into Havana & smuggle out $60 million from a stash hidden from the Castro government
- cash once owned by the family of a beautiful Cuban-American woman named Sara Ortega. With the political ` Cuban Thaw` underway, it`s only a matter of time before someone finds the stash. But Mac knows if he accepts this job, he`ll walk away rich...or not at all. Punchy, witty & rammed with action, legendary international 1 bestseller Nelson De Mille once more shows he`s a true master of the genre.

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The Cuban Table is a comprehensive, contemporary overview of Cuban food, recipes & culture as recounted by serious home cooks & professional chefs, restaurateurs & food writers. Cuban-American food writer Ana Sofia Pelaez & award-winning photographer Ellen Silverman travelled through Cuba, Miami & New York to document & learn about traditional Cuban cooking from a wide range of authentic sources. Cuban home cooks are fiercely protective of their secrets. Content with a private kind of renown, they demonstrate an elusive turn of hand that transforms simple recipes into bright & memorable meals that draw family & friends to their tables time & again. More than just a list of ingredients or series of steps, Cuban cooks` tricks & touches hide in plain sight, staying within families or being passed down in well-worn copies of old cookbooks largely unread outside of the Cuban community. Here you`ll find documented recipes for everything from iconic Cuban sandwiches to rich stews with Spanish accents & African ingredients, accompanied by details about historical context & insight into cultural nuances. More than a cookbook, The Cuban Table is a celebration of Cuban cooking, culture & cuisine. With stunning photographs throughout & over 110 deliciously authentic recipes this cookbook invites you into one of the Caribbean`s most interesting & vibrant cuisines. ...

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, & calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran
- wounded both physically & psychologically
- & his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get
- & the closer he gets to terrible danger.. .A gripping, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London
- from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho
- The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is a classic crime novel in the tradition of P. D. James & Ruth Rendell, & marks the beginning of a unique series of mysteries.




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When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, & calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran
- wounded both physically & psychologically
- & his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model`s complex world, the darker things get
- & the closer he gets to terrible danger.. .A gripping, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London
- from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho
- The Cuckoo`s Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.




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Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, & calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran
- wounded both physically & psychologically
- & his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model`s complex world, the darker things get
- & the closer he gets to terrible danger... A gripping, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London
- from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho
- The Cuckoo`s Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.




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Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as `definitive & harrowing`, this is the final volume of ` The People`s Trilogy`, begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao`s Great Famine. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 & 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation & eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment & torture. Young students formed Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. When the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the marked & hollow out the party`s ideology. In short, they buried Maoism. In-depth interviews & archival research at last give voice to the people & the complex choices they faced, undermining the picture of conformity that is often understood to have characterised the last years of Mao`s regime. By demonstrating that decollectivisation from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges & entrenched fear, Frank Dikotter casts China`s most tumultuous era in a wholly new light. Written with unprecedented access to previously classified party documents from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, this third chapter in Frank Dikotter`s extraordinarily lucid & ground-breaking ` People`s Trilogy` is a devastating reassessment of the history of the People`s Republic of China. ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2017 After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 & 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation & eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment & torture. Young students formed Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. When the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the marked & hollow out the party`s ideology. In short, they buried Maoism. In-depth interviews & archival research at last give voice to the people & the complex choices they faced, undermining the picture of conformity that is often understood to have characterised the last years of Mao`s regime. By demonstrating that decollectivisation from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges & entrenched fear, Frank Dikotter casts China`s most tumultuous era in a wholly new light. Written with unprecedented access to previously classified party documents from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, this third chapter in Frank Dikotter`s extraordinarily lucid & ground-breaking ` People`s Trilogy` is a devastating reassessment of the history of the People`s Republic of China. ...

Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized & virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences & decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. When you have Americans who precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, & Germans who get straight to the point (”your presentation was simply awful”); Latin Americans & Asians who are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians who think the best boss is just one of the crowd--the result can be, well, sometimes interesting, even funny, but often disastrous. Even with English as a global language, it`s easy to fall into cultural traps that endanger careers & sink deals when, say, a Brazilian manager tries to fathom how his Chinese suppliers really get things done, or an American team leader tries to get a handle on the intra-team dynamics between his Russian & Indian team members. In The Culture Map, Erin Meyer provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business. She combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice for succeeding in a global world. ...

Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized & virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences & decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. When you have Americans who precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, & Germans who get straight to the point (”your presentation was simply awful”); Latin Americans & Asians who are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians who think the best boss is just one of the crowd--the result can be, well, sometimes interesting, even funny, but often disastrous. Even with English as a global language, it`s easy to fall into cultural traps that endanger careers & sink deals when, say, a Brazilian manager tries to fathom how his Chinese suppliers really get things done, or an American team leader tries to get a handle on the intra-team dynamics between his Russian & Indian team members. In The Culture Map, Erin Meyer provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business. She combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice for succeeding in a global world. ...

Foxy Du Bois is on a mission to get rich quick. Only one thing stands in her way
- Alphonso the Alligator! Can Foxy`s hair-brained
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