Formerly Jailed Congressman Discusses Boehner & Others in New Book Out of the ashes of the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal rises Bob Ney the former Congressman of Ohio who went to prison for his role in the event. In his new book Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill (Changing Lives Press; March 2013) Ney shares his side of the story naming names along the way & explaining why the US Congress hasnt learned any lessons from the scandal. In 2006 Ney pled guilty to federal charges of corruption & falsification of federal documents in connection with Jack Abramoff a Washington super lobbyist-turned criminal. As a six-term member of congress Ney found himself caught up in a culture of greed backstabbing & corruption that eventually destroyed his career. In Sideswiped Ney recounts the events leading up to his resignation his own guilt & how a powerful member of congress & the Bush Administration officials played leading roles in both the Abramoff scandal & Neys own downfall. One such figure is current Speaker of the House John Boehner who Ney says persuaded Ney to step down as Congressman in exchange for a comparable job" & legal defense money offers that Ney says were never fulfilled." ...

Midsummer approaches & Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life hopeful that his wayward daughter & his ageing father will cope without him. But his summer is ruined when a girl commits suicide before his eyes & a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallanders hunt for the girls identity & his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him & those he loves most into mortal danger. ...

Midsummer approaches & Inspector Kurt Wallander prepares for a holiday with the new woman in his life hopeful that his wayward daughter & his ageing father will cope without him. But his restful summer plans are thrown into disarray when a teenage girl commits suicide before his eyes & a former minister of justice is butchered in the first of a series of apparently motiveless murders. Wallander's desperate hunt for the girl's identity & his furious pursuit of a killer who scalps his victims will throw him & those he loves most into mortal danger. This title is the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. ...

Why does elf + elf = fool? How many meals will Miss Mush the lunch teacher have to cook for the food to taste as bad as it smells? These Sideways Arithmetic problems may look puzzling at first but you can use real maths to solve them & the answers are right there in the book. There are lots of clues & hints; plus all the answers are in the back of the book. Best of all all the kids you read about in the other books about Wayside School are here to help you! Try solving this & more than fifty other maths brainteasers along with the kids from Mrs Jewlss class. Youll learn a lot about maths but youll be laughing too much to notice! ...

There has been a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to have been built with thirty classrooms all next to each other in a row. Instead it was built with the thirty classrooms all on top of each other
- thirty storeys high! That may be why all kinds of strange stuff happens at Wayside School. Especially on the thirtieth floor. It is a school full of unusual characters too. Mrs Gorf the meanest teacher in the world. Terrible Todd who always gets sent home early. John who can only read upside down. It is a crazy mixed-up school brilliantly brought to life by the irresistible Louis Sachar.
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Sidney Chambers the Vicar of Grantchester is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall with dark brown hair eyes the colour of hazelnuts & a reassuringly gentle manner Sidney is an unconventional clergyman & can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Years Eve dinner party the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter & a shocking art forgery the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective like being a clergyman means that you are never off duty. Nonetheless he manages to find time for a keen interest in cricket warm beer hot jazz & the works of Tolstoy & Shakespeare
- as well as a curious fondness for a German widow three years his junior. From the son of the former Archbishop of Canterbury this is the first of The Grantchester Mysteries six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history
- from the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 to the wedding of Charles & Diana in 1981
- featuring the unforgettable vicar & sleuth Sidney Chambers.


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Sidney Chambers the Vicar of Grantchester is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional clergyman & can go where the police cannot. Together with his roguish friend Inspector Geordie Keating Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor a scandalous jewellery theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party the unexplained death of a well-known jazz promoter & a shocking art forgery the disclosure of which puts a close friend in danger. Sidney discovers that being a detective like being a clergyman means that you are never off duty... ...

Glamour & suspense in the bestselling Sidney Sheldon novel from the international superstar Tilly Bagshawe. Grace Brookstein is the beautiful young & naive wife of financial superstar Leonard Brookstein. In 2009 the US stock market goes into a terrifying freefall & the public want someone to blame. Oblivious & seemingly unscathed Grace continues her charmed life until the death of Lenny in a tragic accident forces her to face reality. His financial affairs unravel revealing expensive crimes & now Grace is in the frame. Exposing a spiralling web of vicious lies & well-planned deceit she soon puts her own life in danger. Grace is alone angry & desperate for revenge. ...

The master storyteller's legacy continues. An elusive & shadowy killer is on the prowl codenamed the Angel of Death. When an elderly multimillionaire is found brutally murdered in Hollywood & his young wife raped & beaten the police assume the motive is robbery. A decade later in different cities around the globe
- St Tropez London & Hong Kong
- three almost identical killings take place within 5 years of each other. In all cases the victim is male wealthy elderly & newly married & his wife is found at the scene either raped or assaulted. It soon becomes clear that this is one killer. Codenamed Angel of Death by the police is she avenging some long-forgotten misdeed or does she have other motives? Who will be her next victim & how can the Angel of Death be prevented from striking again?

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The spellbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon's MASTER OF THE GAME one of the most glamorous & suspenseful tales ever told... It began with Jamie Mac Gregor stealing diamonds in Africa. It continued with his daughter the powerful Kate Blackwell who grew her father's company into a world wide conglomerate. Now the story passes to the next generation. Spanning the decades & picking up exactly where Sidney Sheldon's bestselling Master of the Game finished Mistress of the Game follows the Blackwell family as they love lose scheme & murder through the 80s up until the present day. Heart-stopping & glamorous tense & provocative Mistress of the Game is the sequel that Sheldon fans have been waiting for... ...