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Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit
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` The bend in the road rushed towards them, just a few more seconds. Then, with a succession of jarring crashes that shook the whole body of the car, a burst of fire hit them from behind. The windscreen starred into a sheet of opaque diamond lacework, the dashboard clock exploded powdering Shermaine`s hair with particles of glass, two bullets tore through the seat ripping out the stuffing like the entrails of a wounded animal.` Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting & to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerrillas & hostile tribes that infest the l&. But there is another, even deadlier enemy -- one of his own men.. . ...

The second title in Rick Riordan`s Trials of Apollo series
- set in the action-packed world of Percy Jackson. The god Apollo,
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The second title in Rick Riordan`s Trials of Apollo series
- set in the action-packed world of Percy Jackson. The god Apollo,
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Rafik Schami’s “ The Dark Side of Love” is a story of forbidden love set against the background of Arabic culture & endless feuds between clans. On publication it became international bestseller & here has been translated by the award-winning Anthea Bell.A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul`s Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer
- & he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out to interrogate the man`s mysterious widow, the Secret Service takes the case away from him. Barudi continues to investigate clandestinely & discovers the murderer`s motive: it is a blood feud between the Mustak & Shahin clans, reaching back to the beginnings of the 20th century. &, linked to it, a love story that can have no happy ending, for reconciliation has no place within the old tribal structures.“ The Dark Side of Love” is a novel which spans a century of Syrian history in which politics & religion continue to torment an entire people, while at the same time the stories from three generations tell of the courage of lovers who risk death sooner than deny their passions.A heartfelt tribute to the author`s hometown Damascus & a great & moving hymn to the power of love.
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Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom`s upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days & nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home. These early experiences left Dom with a profound loathing for the sanitized experiences of the modern day travel industry & a taste for the darkest of places. & in this brilliantly odd & hilariously told travel memoir, Dom Joly sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would, & should, run a mile. The more insalubrious the place, the more interesting is the journey & so we follow Dom as he skis in Iran on segregated slopes, spends a weekend in Chernobyl, tours the assassination sites of America & becomes one of the few Westerners to be granted entry into North Korea. Eventually Dom journeys back to his roots in Beirut only to discover he was at school with Osama Bin Laden. Funny & frightening in equal measure, this is a uniquely bizarre & compelling travelogue from one of the most fearless & innovative comedians around. ...

Commissario Soneri returns home for a hard-earned autumn holiday, hoping to spend a few days mushroom picking on the slopes of Montelupo. This isolated village relies on the salame factory founded in the post-war years by Palmiro Rodolfi, & now run by his son, Paride. On arrival, Soneri is greeted by anxious rumours about the factory`s solvency & the younger Rodolfi`s whereabouts. Not long afterwards, a decomposing body is found in the woods. In the shadow of Montelupo, carabinieri prepare to apprehend their chief suspect
- an ageing woodsman who defended the same mountains from S.S. commandos during the war.
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Twelve-year-old Kester thought he had discovered the last wild animals in the l&. He thought his adventure was over. He was wrong. Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains: animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies. & soon Kester realises: he is the only one who can stop them. Kester Jaynes saved the animals. Can he save the humans too? ...

The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked & suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to `one true faith`. Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek & mild, going to their martyr`s deaths singing hymns of love & praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek & mild, they were violent, ruthless & fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth & the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong & had to be destroyed. From the 1st century to the 6th, those who didn`t fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial & physical. Their altars were upturned & their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces & their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written & utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian. ...