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On the night Malcolm & Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, knows just three things: she was one of the last people to see her parents alive. She & her brothers are the only suspects. She can't trust anyone. Having grown up under their pare ...

Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the very best in this unforgettable memoir. Gene has had everyone in the back of his cab? ? Lauren Bacall, Leonardo di Caprio, John Mc Enroe, Sean Penn & Dennis Hopper, Simon & Garfunkel, Tony Bennett, Robin Williams, Norman Mailer, Suzanne Vega, Kevin Kline, Dan Ackroyd, Diane Keaton &, yes, even Kevin Bacon. He has taken all sorts of people for a ride? ?mafiosi, hookers, the rich & famous, down & outs, young lovers, old lovers, passengers from every corner of the globe, fare dodgers, a variety of animals, tourists, lifetime New Yorkers, people in a rush & others with no particular place to go. In well over 30 years driving a cab he has collected a remarkable selection of stories & share the very best in this unforgettable memoir. So sit back & enjoy the ride? ?the meters running. ...

Thieving ninjas, racist fast-food patrons, road traffic accidents, mischievous shoplifters, sudden deaths, car chases, & domestic violence ? its all in a days work for London-based PC Matt Delito. Working at the front-line on the streets of London can be thrilling, frightening, rewarding, infuriating, & sometimes plain hilarious. In this eye-opening account of on-the-beat policing, Delito narrates some of his most interesting cases ? from working undercover in a city club to being ambushed in the London riots ? as well as taking us through the gadgets, procedures, & lingo that go with life at the other end of a 999 call. ...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves & each other. This title brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, & helped make us who we are. ...

- Are muddy carrots worth the hassle?
- Can a natural deodorant survive a salsa class?
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As an EHM in the '60s & '70s, covertly recruited by the US National Security Agency, John Perkins helped further American imperial interests in countries such as Ecuador, Panama, Indonesia & Saudi Arabia. He tried to write this book four times but was threatened or bribed each time to halt. The events of 9/11 forced him to reveal the truth. ...

In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised & expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction. The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures & pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology for the course his life had taken but often reading like a celebration of it. The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is thus both a classic of English autobiographical writing
- the prose equivalent, in its own time, of Wordsworth's The Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind
- & at the same time a crucial text in the long history of the Western World's ambivalent relationship with hard drugs. Full of psychological insight & colourful descriptive writing, it surprised & fascinated De Quincey's contemporaries & has continued to exert its powerful & eccentric appeal ever since.

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In 1831, Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, & the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. This novel is Turner's confession, made to jailers under the duress of his God. ...