In 2000 Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollars of it-in a phone booth. He has lived without money-and with a newfound sense of freedom & security-ever since. The Man Who Quit Money" is an account of how one man learned to live sanely & happily without earning receiving or spending a single cent. Suelo doesnt pay taxes or accept food stamps or welfare. He lives in caves in the Utah canyonlands forages wild foods & gourmet discards. He no longer even carries an I.D. Yet he manages to amply fulfill not only the basic human needs-for shelter food & warmth-but to an enviable degree the universal desires for companionship purpose & spiritual engagement. In retracing the surprising path & guiding philosophy that led Suelo into this way of life Sundeen raises provocative & riveting questions about the decisions we all make by default or by design about how we live-and how we might live better." ...

For almost a decade psychic medium Joe Power has used his extraordinary powers to investigate high-profile unsolved murder cases around the world including most recently the disappearance of Shannon Matthews. But it wasnt always this way. Joe had denied his psychic abilities until the day his brother was found dead. Then messages from the spirit world led him to see the shocking truth behind the tragedy.. .his brother had been murdered. Joe realized he could no longer ignore the startling visions & voices in his head. He vowed to use his psychic gift to help solve the murder cases that were leaving detectives baffled & loved ones without closure. In The Man Who Sees Dead People" he tells the astonishing story of his life for the first time." ...

After killing a man in the line of duty Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his father's suspicious death. Kurt doesn't want to know. But then his friend is found shot dead. Against his better judgment he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer somebody is on the trail of Wallander & closing in fast. ...

Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died Kurt doesn't want to know. But when his former friend turns up dead shot three times Wallander realises that he was wrong not to listen. Against his better judgment he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. An enigmatic big-business tycoon seems to be the common denominator in the two deaths. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer somebody is on the trail of Wallander & closing in fast... Over 35 million copies of the Kurt Wallander series sold worldwide. ...

After killing a man in the line of duty Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his fathers suspicious death. Kurt doesnt want to know. But then his friend is found shot dead. Against his better judgment he returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case. But while Wallander is on the trail of the killer somebody is on the trail of Wallander & closing in fast. ...

The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls but has never seen the point of his gift given the general availability of doors. One day however his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate creative measures; he develops a taste for intra-mural travel & becomes something of a show-off. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime? Aymes genius lies in the practical unfolding of bizarre & difficult situations. In each story comedy is balanced by a serious streak & then unbalanced once more.. . ...

At the end of a holiday in Bali Julian an unhappy schoolteacher decides to visit a renowned local healer Samtyang in search of guidance. During daily sessions at the wise mans house Julian begins to identify the source of his unhappiness through a series of simple questions & answers that point to his own limiting beliefs & fears. Day after day their dialogue is punctuated by real-life situations & challenges that Julian is asked to experience on the islands mainland & its surroundings. As his journey unfolds Julian begins to understand how he can make his dreams become a reality & find his very own way to true happiness. From international bestselling author Laurent Gounelle The Man Who Wanted to be Happy" explores the world of new possibilities that opens up to us when we discover how to break free of what prevents us from living a life full of joy." ...

After a period following the Iraq War when the reputation of Britains spooks has hit an all-time low John le Carres intellectual hero George Smiley has come to be seen as the perfect spy a man who would never allow secret intelligence to be misused for political purposes. Le Carre revealed shortly before the Iraq War that the model for Smiley was the author & MI5 officer John Bingham the 7th Baron Clanmorris. Michael Jagos brilliant account of Binghams life is not just the story of a perfect spy it is also of a writer whose thrillers transcended the genre exploring the emotions behind the darkest human behaviour. As an intelligence officer the bespectacled Bingham had a deep influence on Le Carre then a junior colleague in MI5. Like Smiley Bingham was an expert interrogator. His understanding of the human psyche demonstrated so brilliantly in his seventeen novels persuaded his subjects to give up the intelligence they were holding deep inside. He took part in many of MI5s greatest wartime & Cold War operations from the Double Cross operation that ensured the success of D-Day through the tracking of Soviet spies in Cold War Britain to the monitoring of Lord Lucan & others planning a right-wing coup in the 1970s. As le Carre said Nobody who knew John & the work he was doing could have missed the description of Smiley in my first novel. ...

One morning Mr Gaskitt puts on all his clothes Mrs Gaskitt picks up a robber in her taxi Gus & Gloria have trouble with a teacher Horace the cat goes to a friends house to watch TV & the car radio gets things wrong. What happens next is an action-packed farcical romp that interweaves all the different plots & ends in a thrilling car chase with Mr Gaskitt saving the day! ...

In June 1805 a 56-year-old Italian immigrant disembarked in Philadelphia carrying only a violin. Before dying in New York 23 years later he would find New World respectability as the first Professor of Italian at Columbia University. For now he set up shop as a grocer. There was always an air of mystery about the Abbe Lorenzo da Ponte. A scholarly poet teacher & priest with a devoted wife he also had a reputation as a womanizer. Da Ponte charmed all he met pioneering the place of Italian music in American life. But his self-assurance also excited mistrust. When the first Italian opera was performed in New York in 1825 he had the nerve to claim he had written it. Like the memoirs he had recently written to pay off more debts the old man was so full of tall stories... The many lives of Lorenzo da Ponte
- librettist of Mozarts three great operas The Marriage of Figaro Don Giovanni & Cosi Fan Tutte
- begin in Venice linger in Vienna & London & ends in New York where today he lies buried in an unmarked grave in the worlds largest cemetery.

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