Over two hundred years ago Bookholm the City of Dreaming Books" was destroyed by a catastrophic firestorm. Optimus Yarnspinner who witnessed this disaster has since become Zamonia's greatest writer & is resting on his laurels at Lindworm Castle. Spoilt by his monumental success & basking in adulation he one day receives a disturbing message that finally reinvests his life with meaning: a cryptic missive that lures him back to Bookholm. Rebuilt on a magnificent scale the city is once more a vibrant literary metropolis & Mecca of the book trade teeming with book fanatics of all kinds. On the track of the mysterious letter that brought him there Yarnspinner has scarcely set foot in the city before he falls prey to its spirit of adventure. He is reunited with old friends like Inazia Anazazi the Uggly & Ahmed ben Kibitzer the Nocturnomath but he also encounters the city's new marvels which include the mysterious Biblionauts the warring Puppetists & the city's latest craze the Invisible Theatre. Yarnspinner strays ever deeper into the " Labyrinth of Dreaming Books" which seems to wield a strange power over Bookholm's destinies. He is eventually drawn into an irresistible maelstrom of events far more sensational than any of the adventures he has previously embarked upon." ...

Since they last met life has moved on for Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police & Jerusalem detective Arieh Ben-Roe. About to become a father for the first time Ben-Roi finds himself investigating a gruesome murder in Jerusalems Armenian Cathedral. The victim a journalist named Rivka Kleinberg had been researching an article into the Israeli sex-trafficking industry. When a link emerges between Kleinberg & an English engineer who disappeared from Luxor in 1931 Ben-Roi turns for help to his old friend & sparring partner Khalifa. Khalifas life too has changed although in his case not for the better. Preoccupied with personal tragedy & immersed in an investigation of his own
- a series of mysterious well-poisonings in Egypts Eastern desert
- he agrees for old times sake to do some digging for his Israeli colleague. In the process Ben-Roi might just be giving Khalifa his lust for life back. Inexorably the two investigations entwine drawing Ben-Roi & Khalifa into a sinister web of violence abuse corporate malpractice & anti-capitalist terrorism. & at the heart of the web lies the Labyrinth
- a three-thousand year-old ancient Egyptian mystery that has already taken Rivka Kleinbergs life
- & hers will not be the last...



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A journalist is murdered in Jerusalem's Armenian Cathedral & Detective Arieh Ben-Roi is spoilt for leads. But one seems out of place
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What if Jacques Lacan--the brilliant & eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst--had worked as a police detective applying his theories to solve crimes? This may conjure up a mental film clip starring Peter Sellers in a trench coat but in Lacan at the Scene Henry Bond makes a serious & provocative claim: that apparently impenetrable events of violent death can be more effectively unraveled with Lacans theory of psychoanalysis than with elaborate technologically advanced forensic tools. Bonds exposition on murder expands & develops a resolutely i ekian approach. Seeking out radical & unexpected readings Bond unpacks his material utilizing Lacans neurosis-psychosis-perversion grid. Bond places Lacan at the crime scene & builds his argument through a series of archival crime scene photographs from the 1950s--the period when Lacan was developing his influential theories. It is not the horror of the ravished & mutilated corpses that draws his attention; instead he interrogates seemingly minor details from the everyday isolating & rephotographing what at first seems insignificant: a single high heeled shoe on a kitchen table for example or carefully folded clothes placed over a chair. From these mundane details he carefully builds a robust & comprehensive manual for Lacanian crime investigation that can stand beside the FBIs standard-issue Crime Classification Manual. ...

Which one of you bitches is my mother?" Four elegant successful & sophisticated women in their forties are called to New Yorks Pierre Hotel to meet Lili
- a beautiful young & notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a reason to hate Lili & each of them is astonished to see the others. They are old friends who share a guilty secret & who have for years been doing their best to keep that secret quiet. Their lives are changed forever however when Lili suddenly confronts them. When the women refuse to answer her Lili proceeds to travel around the world through the playgrounds of the rich & famous seeking to answer the question that has obsessed & almost destroyed her. LACE Shirely Conrans frank scandalous novel follows a group of women from adolescence to adulthood as they negotiate the world of work broken engagements heartbreak & lasting friendship."
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Alice Lacey couldnt be more different from her sister-in-law Cora. Alice is married to John Cora to his hapless younger brother Billie. Both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in 1940. It is Coras jealousy & resentment that prompts her to swap her puny baby for Alices beautiful son. With Alices marriage in tatters she borrows money from Cora in order to purchase the lease of the tiny hairdresser where she works. Alice is talented; the business thrives & a chain of salons becomes Laceys of Liverpool. The relationships between the cousins Cormac & Maurice their parents Alices three girls & their eventual husbands & children combine to give a unique picture of Liverpool in the last sixty years of the twentieth century. ...

Whether you're a runner skier cyclist triathlete or rower as an endurance athlete you need to race & train as fast as possible without hitting the wall from high levels of lactic acid in your bloodstream. Elite athletes & coaches know that increasing lactate threshold is essential to success. Now you can use this knowledge to push your performance to the limit. Lactate Threshold Training" is an advanced training guide to help you improve endurance performance. This innovative book explains the theory behind the training & presents practical programs to improve your lactate threshold & race faster than ever before. The book also

Includes:: discussion on the use of EPO & the struggle against doping in endurance sports. Many elite athletes & coaches are using this innovative concept in their training. The book
Includes::
- heart-rate based training programs
- tests for self-assessment of lactate threshold
- scientific guidelines to avoid overtraining
- advice on nutrition &- workout examples of elite endurance athletes. Author Peter Janssen MD is recognized as one of the pioneers in lactate threshold training. Dr. Janssen has put together this complete & comprehensive training manual through research training & testing of elite endurance athletes. If you want to take your endurance performance to the limit this is one book you won't want to miss."






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The Lacuna" is the heartbreaking story of a mans search for safety of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico & the cold embrace of 1950s Mc Carthyite America. Born in the U.S. & reared in Mexico Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother Salome. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo & exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art & revolution. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville North Carolina he remakes himself in Americas hopeful image. But political winds continue to throw him between north & south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach
- the lacuna
- between truth & public presumption. This is a gripping story of identity loyalty & the devastating power of accusations to destroy innocent people. " The Lacuna" is as deep & rich as the " New World"."

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The Lacuna" is the heartbreaking story of a man's search for safety of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico & the cold embrace of 1950s Mc Carthyite America. Born in the U.S. & reared in Mexico Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother Salome. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo & exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art & revolution. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville North Carolina he remakes himself in America's hopeful image. But political winds continue to throw him between north & south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach
- the lacuna
- between truth & public presumption. A gripping story of identity loyalty & the devastating power of accusations to destroy innocent people. " The Lacuna" is as deep & rich as the New World."

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Meet Akhilandeswari Akhila for short: forty-five & single an income-tax clerk & a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life
- always the daughter the sister the aunt the provider. Until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car
- the ' Ladies Coupe'
- Akhila asks the five women she is travelling with the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single & be happy or does she need a man to feel complete? This wonderfully atmospheric deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women's lives in contemporary India revealing how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with husbands mothers friends employers & children are the same the world over.


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