A memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O' Kelly, completed in the three & a half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer & his death in September 2005. It offers a glimpse of the strategies Gene embraced to accept & live the final stages of his life with vibrancy & calm
- & what his preparations for death taught him about life.
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Two childhood friends from small-town Wales meet in Miami for a summer road trip they've always dreamed of: to chase the swell of Hurricane Dean all the way up the US East Coast in search of once-in-a-lifetime surf. They embark on a hilarious journey of self-discovery & a travel experience like no other. ...

Monsieur Degas likes to paint the students while they practice in ballet class, they've inspired many of his beautiful paintings. But one day he mistakenly leaves his bag of paints in the dance studio & takes a young ballerina's bag instead, which contains her new tutu for the evening's recital. ...

Welcome to Sunshine Island
- where the beaches are golden, the lifestyle perfect & anything is possible... Jax Hudson doesn’t
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The fifth book in Stacia Kanes gripping & gritty DOWNSIDE GHOSTS urban fantasy series, perfect for fans of Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton & Kim Harrison. A DEADLY HIGH Magic-wielding Churchwitch & secret addict Chess Putnam knows better than anyone just how high a price people are willing to pay for a chemical rush. But when someone with money to burn & a penchant for black magic starts tampering with Downsides drug supply, Chess realizes that the unlucky customers are paying with their souls ? & taking the innocent with them, as the magic-infused speed compels them to kill in the most gruesome ways possible. As if the streets weren?t scary enough, the looming war between the two men in her life explodes, taking even more casualties & putting Chess squarely in the middle. Downside could become a literal ghost town if Chess doesn?t find a way to stop both the war & the dark wave of death-magic, & the only way to do that is to use both her addiction & her power to enter the spell & chase the magic all the way back to its malevolent source. Too bad that doing so will probably kill Chess ? if the war doesn?t first destroy the man whos become her reason for living. ...

For decades Sierra Leone & Liberia have been too dangerous for the outsider to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which have sprung many of Africa's cruellest contemporary icons
- child soldiers, prisoner mutilation, blood diamonds. Chasing the Devil tells the story of Tim Butcher's audacious expedition from Freetown at the mouth of the Sierra Leone river overland through forest-covered mountains & malarial plains to the coast of Liberia. His journey follows the route trekked by Graham Greene in 1935 & immortalised in his travel classic Journey Without Maps. As a journalist in Africa between 2000 & 2005 Tim came to know both countries well although reporting was restricted mostly to the capital cities. Now he ventures deep into areas not visited by outsiders for years, just as the terrible deadweight of conflict is being lifted. Both nations are on a developmental cusp & Tim explores whether national & international attempts to chase away the devil of war can succeed. & there are other 'devils' that he is in search of.. . Rural communities in both countries have a tradition of sorcery & spiritualism based around the idea of a community devil, a masked figure who comes out at night inducting adolescents into society's ancient rules. & there are the far more sinister 'devil societies', run by local warlords like Charles Taylor, which carry out acts of ritual murder in rural Liberia today. Tim tracks down these rural devils, both good & bad, to see what role they play in these changing countries. A dramatic travel book through one of the most fraught parts of the globe at a unique moment in its history. Weaving history & anthropology with personal narrative it is as exciting as it is enlightening.
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Books Crime Books Would you risk your life for a woman you've never met? A thriller about a simple wrong number that opens a line into terror.  Henry Pierce has a whole new life
- new apartment, new telephone, new number. When he checks his machine, he discovers messages for a woman named Lilly, & she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, & it's unlike any world he's ever known. It is a night-time world of escort services, websites, sex & secret identities. Pierce tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met. Pierce traces Lilly's last days, but every step into her past takes him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy
- & a decision that could cost him everything he owns & holds dear... Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781409116813 •†Author: Michael Connelly •†Publisher:   Orion •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 368 •†Dimensions:†12.6 x 2.8 x 19.6 cm

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Diana's life was in a rut
- she hated her job, she was perpetually single, & she needed a place to live. But then the perfect
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Details: Private Investigator Nikki James is in San Francisco at the request of her business partner & best friend, Jake.
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Olivia & her twin brother Aidan are heading alone back to Earth following the virus that wiped out the rest of their crew, & their family, in its entirety. Nathan is part of a community heading in the opposite direction. But on their journey, Nathan's ship is attacked & most of the community killed. Only a few survive. ...