When Cy Flood applied for work as a holiday rep his reasons were simple. He wanted to party like crazy booze like there was no tomorrow & pull like it was going out of fashion! In his ten years working for holiday companies as a rep Cy has seen it all. From Lanzarote to Ibiza from Palma to the Greek Islands there have been flying cockroaches flying televisions drunken pub crawls angry clients wild sex & a TV crew on the scene. There are tales so tall that they defy belief. As well as the sun sea sand & shameless excess a shockingly true picture of life as a travel rep is exposed; a world of violent crime corruption & drug dealing. Cy's confessions allow us to peep into a world we all see from the outside but wish we knew more about. ...

From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP. From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career
- as the only man in a gynaecology ward
- hes pretty much dealt with everything: body parts that come off in his hands; teenagers with phantom pregnancies; doctors unable to tell the difference between their left & right; violent drunks; singing relatives; sexism...and a whole lot of nudity. Confessions of a Male Nurse is a touching shocking & frequently hilarious account of one mans life in nursing.

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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
- maybe not even herself. Having grown up under their parents' intense perfectionist demands none of the Angel children have come away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to solve the crime on her own but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous game. As she uncovers haunting secrets & slowly begins to remember flashes of disturbing past events buried in her memory Tandy is forced to ask: What is the Angel family truly capable of? Returning to the genre that made him the world's bestselling author James Patterson introduces a teen detective on a mission to bring her parents' killer to justice even if it means uncovering her family's darkest secrets
- & confessing some of her own.

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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 meter's running. ...

This title was previously published as The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic". Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. Shes a journalist. She spends her working life telling others how to manage their money. She spends her leisure time.. .shopping. Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. She knows she should stop but she cant. She tries Cutting Back she tries Making More Money. But neither seems to work. The stories she concocts become more & more fantastic as she tries to untangle her increasingly dire financial difficulties. Her only comfort is to buy herself something
- just a little something.. . Can Becky ever escape from this dream world find true love & regain the use of her Switch card? Confessions of a Shopaholic.. .the perfect pick me up for when its all hanging in the (bank) balance."
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High school has always been this stressful but rarely this hilarious." --BOOKLIST (starred review) More famous than ever after hitting the silver screen the ever-dramatic Lola Cep is still in the spotlight -- vying with Born-to-Win Born-to-Run-Everything Carla Santini to snag the lead in the high school play. Can Lola survive Carlas attempts at retaliation? Once the curtain goes up which drama queen will take center stage?" ...

Part tell-all part cautionary tale this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed Superhead goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry--from the physical & emotional abuse thats rampant in the industry & which marked her own life--to the excessive use of drugs sex & bling. Once the sought-after video girl this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists such as Jay-Z R. Kelly & LL Cool J sell millions of albums with her sensual dancing. In a word Karrine was H-O-T. So hot that she made as much as $2500 a day in videos & was selected by well-known film director F. Gary Gray to co-star in his film A Man Apart starring Vin Diesel. But the film & music video sets swanky Hollywood & New York restaurants & trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of People & In Touch magazines only touches the surface of Karrine Steffans life. Her journey is filled with physical abuse rape drug & alcohol abuse homelessness & single motherhood--all by the age of 26. By sharing her story Steffans hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticised industry & help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered. If theyre already in danger she hopes to inspire them to find a way to dig themselves out of what she knows first-hand to be a cycle of hopelessness & despair. ...

This is the true story as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasnt a good" life in either sense of the word but it was an adventurous one; & the tale he has to tell presents an honest & oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate unofficial world. In his low hoarse voice he describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member & ultimately the leader of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyos liveliest entertainment area. He talks about his first police raid & the brutal interrogation & imprisonment that followed it. He remembers his first love affair & the girl he ran away with & the weeks they spent wandering about the countryside together. Briefly & matter-of-factly he describes how he cut off the little finger of his left hand as a ritual gesture of apology. He explains how the games were run & the profits spent; why the ties between members of "the brotherhood" were so important; & how he came to kill a man who worked for him. What emerges is a contradictory personality: tough but not unsentimental; stubborn yet willing to take life more or less as it comes; impulsive but careful to observe the rules of the business he had joined. & in the end when his tale is finished you feel you would probably have liked him if youd met him in person. Fortunately Dr. Sagas record of his long conversations with him provides a wonderful substitute for that meeting." ...

As an Economic Hitman (EHM) John Perkins helped further American imperial interests in countries such as Ecuador Panama Indonesia & Saudi Arabia. As Chief Economist for the international consulting firm Chas. T. Main he convinced underdeveloped countries to accept massive loans for infrastructure development & ensured that the projects were contracted to multinational corporations. The countries acquired enormous debt & the US & international aid agencies were able to control their economies. He tried to write this book four times but was threatened or bribed each time to halt. The events of 9/11
- a direct result of the activities of EHMs in the 1970s
- finally forced him to confront the role he played himself & to reveal the truth to the rest of the world. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man has become a word-of-mouth bestseller in the US. It has been called the book that finally 'connects the dots the book that best explains what is really going on in the world'.

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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 Wordsworths The Prelude or Growth of a Poets Mind
- & at the same time a crucial text in the long history of the Western Worlds ambivalent relationship with hard drugs. Full of psychological insight & colourful descriptive writing it surprised & fascinated De Quinceys contemporaries & has continued to exert its powerful & eccentric appeal ever since.

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