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The latest brilliant novel in the D.D. Warren series from Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner. IN FOUR DAYS SOMEONE IS GOING TO KILL ME... At 8pm on 21st January twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered & she wants Boston's top homicide detective D.D. Warren to handle her death investigation. Confronting D.D. at her latest crime scene Charlie lays her cards on the table. For each of the last two years one of her childhood friends has been murdered leaving Charlie as the only one of the three friends to remain alive. But as D.D. delves deeper in to the details of Charlie's case she begins to question the young woman's story. Because Charlie can now outfight & outrun anyone she meets & D.D.'s instinct is that she's hiding a secret. A secret so explosive that Charlie herself may turn out to be the biggest danger of all...BUT THE SON OF A BITCH HAS GOT TO CATCH ME FIRST. ...

Frank W. Abagnale alias Frank Williams Robert Conrad Frank Adams & Ringo Monjo was a daring conman forger impostor & escape artist. In his brief but notorious career Abagnale donned a pilots uniform & co-piloted a Pan Am jet masqueraded as a member of hospital management practised law without a licence passed himself off as a college sociology professor & cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks all before he was 21. Known by the police of 26 foreign countries & all 50 US states as The Skywayman" Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the run
- until the law caught up with him. Now recognized as a leading authority on financial foul play Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious stranger-than-fiction international escapades & ingenious escapes
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- make " Catch Me If You Can" an irresistible tale of deceit. Abagnales story has now been made into a film starring Tom Hanks & Leonardo Di Caprio."


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Unleashed by Hitler in 1942 the German Tiger tank was by far the most powerful tank ever built at the time. The 60-ton monster could destroy any Allied tank from more than a mile away & it soon became the most feared tank in the world. Desperate to discover the secret technology used in the Tiger's manufacture Winston Churchill close a brilliant young army engineer Major Doug Lidderdale as his special agent. In a late-night briefing in the subterranean War Rooms under Whitehall he ordered him: ' Go catch me a tiger'. Doug did not hesitate & by February 1943 was facing Rommel's desert army. After several unsuccessful & hair-raising efforts to bag a Tiger on the battlefields of Tunisia Doug & his team put their lives on the line in a terrifying close-hand shoot-out with the five-man crew of a Tiger capturing the tank intact. The morale boost to the Allies was such that both Churchill & King George VI flew to Tunis to examine the Tiger first h&. But the Germans were not finished with Doug. They did not want the secrets of the Tiger benefitting the Allies' sabotage attempts & constant attacks by the Luftwaffe & U-boats pursued Doug & his men on every step of the journey back to Engl&. But eventually by October 1943 the Tiger
- number 131
- was delivered to London & gifted to Churchill who had it placed on London's Horse Guards Parade. Lidderdale went on to use some of the Tiger technology to develop war machines for the D-Day landings & was promoted to Colonel. Tiger 131 is now kept at Bovington Tank Museum & is the only working Tiger in the world.

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Many students now start life & medical science degrees lacking some of the core background knowledge which underpins their studies. Catch Up books are written to bring these students up to speed quickly & easily enabling them to better understand & follow their university courses. The books are presented in an easy-to-use format with a wealth of examples relevant to biology & medicine. Written in a simple clear & logical manner they help the reader get to grips with the subject quickly & easily. The books are now widely recommended on undergraduate courses in the life medical & biomedical sciences & Catch Up Maths & Stats has also found favour with Ph D students researchers & academics who need a quick primer in the subject. ...

Explosive subversive wild & funny 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic & furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem is not the enemy
- it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy & doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane & has to. That's some catch...
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At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel first published in 1961 is a satirical indicement of military madness & stupidity & the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. ...

The Catcher in the Rye" is J. D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society & the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Written with the clarity of a boy leaving childhood behind " The Catcher in the Rye" explores the world with disarming frankness & a warm affecting charisma which has made this novel a universally loved classic of twentieth-century literature. J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 & died in January 2010. He grew up in New York City & wrote short stories from an early age but his breakthrough came in 1948 with the publication in The New Yorker of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". " The Catcher in the Rye" was his first & only novel published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated taught & reprinted texts & has sold some 65 million copies. His other works include the novellas " Franny & Zooey" " For Esme with Love & Squalor" & " Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters published with Seymour
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