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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M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning non-criminal sociopath. She is charismatic ambitious & successful. You would be charmed by her if you met her might even be seduced by her. You would not realise that she is studying you to find your flaws that she is ruthlessly manipulative has no empathy & does not feel guilt or remorse. But she does like people
- she likes to touch them mould them & ruin them. She could be your friend or your boss. She could be you.. . Now she writes with breathtaking honesty about her life. She also draws on the latest research to explain why at least one in twenty-five of us are sociopaths
- & shows why that's not a bad thing. By turns fascinating shocking & funny Confessions of a Sociopath is a gripping insight into the mind of a self-confessed predator. ' Gripping & important.. .revelatory.. .quite the memorable roller coaster ride' Jon Ronson author of The Psychopath Test for New York Times Book Review ' Fascinating.. . That the author is female somehow makes Confessions of a Sociopath all the more chilling' Boston Globe

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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?" ...

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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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKS. Once upon a time opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter. The secret of happiness about which philosophers have disputed for so many ages could be bought for a penny & carried in the waistcoat pocket: portable ecstasies could be corked up in a pint bottle. Paradise? So thought Thomas de Quincey but he soon discovered that 'nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium'. ...

This book contains flash blokes glamorous girls expensive cars & false boobs. The tans may be fake but everything you read really happened. Becci Fox is an Essex girl through & through. She just wants to be comfortable & spoilt taken out to nice places & showered with presents. & she is. She lives in the grounds of her parents manor house drives a Mercedes SLK & had a boob job when she was eighteen. Shes ambitious working very hard during the day as a bridal buyer. & at night she plays hard clubbing at Sugar Hut & Faces mixing with celebrities & soap stars. She knows how to handle the footballers who buy you Cristal champagne & make you feel like the most special person in the room (only theyve got five other girls on speed dial). But when she falls for a sexy racing driver is she finally out of her league? Becci shares six dramatic months in her life as she & her friends have fun fall in love handle heartache & betrayal & even plan a big fat Essex wedding. ...