Home alone on the night of her twenty-fifth birthday US Air Force sergeant Christine Canady yearns for something to cure her loneliness. After drinking too much champagne she recites a divine invocation to revive her humdrum life. But how is she to know the spell actually works? When her plane crashes into the ocean CC's life changes forever. She awakens bewildered to find herself in a legendary time & place ruled by magic
- & in the body of the mythical mermaid Undine. But danger lurks in the water ready to swallow CC whole. Taking pity on her the goddess Gaea turns CC into a damsel so that she might seek shelter on l&. When a dashing knight comes to CC's rescue instead of falling for this dream-come-true she aches for the sea & the darkly sexy merman who's stolen her heart...
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Goddesses Hera Athena & Venus have had it up to here with the Trojan War. So much devastation
- all because of male egos. The worst
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Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance
- in a novel full of power passion revenge & the raging family dynamics of the Santangelo
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Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance
- in a novel full of power passion revenge & the raging family dynamics of the Santangelo
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Owner of the luxurious & exclusive Keys complex in Las Vegas Lucky Santangelo comes up against Armet Askarani a ruthless billionaire ...

' What is a self & how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. Linking together the music of J.S. Bach the graphic art of Escher & the mathematical theorems of Godel as well as ideas drawn from logic biology psychology physics & linguistics Douglas Hofstadter illuminates one of the greatest mysteries of modern science: the nature of human thought processes. ' Every few decades an unknown author brings outa book of such depth clarity range wit beauty & originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event. This is such a work'
- Martin Gardner.
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The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete begins the final chapter of Mario Puzos The Godfather" until a year of delicate manoeuvring established Michael Corleone as the most powerful Family chief in the United States. " The Godfather: The Lost Years" takes place in the years 1955-65 but it is built upon the story of that year of delicate political manoeuvring
- & how in winning the battle of that year Michael Corleone set the stage to lose the war: the war to make the Family legitimate the war to keep the Corleones supremely in power the war to stay true to his fathers wishes the war to give not just his Family but his family a safe & happy life. " The Godfather: The Lost Years" is not just a sequel. A magnificent novel in its own right by an acclaimed young American novelist it traces the nexus of ambitious audacious decisions that Michael Corleone implements their ultimate failure & after the Familys literal & figurative years in the wilderness (of Las Vegas) Michaels literal physical return to New York & his attempts to regain control there."
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Tyrant blackmailer racketeer murderer
- his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone a friendly man
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Tyrant blackmailer racketeer murderer
- his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone a friendly man
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Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is summoned to investigate the most shocking murder of his career. Solving it could mean a promotion but still reeling from a personal tragedy Sonchai is more interested in Tietsin an exiled Tibetan lama living in Kathmandu. But there are obstacles in Sonchais path to enlightenment. Police Colonel Vikorn & Army General Zinna are at war again for control over Bangkoks network of illegal enterprises
- & Tietsin has forty million dollars worth of heroin for sale. With his life in increasing danger Sonchai is put to the extreme test in John Burdetts most inventive darkly comic & wickedly entertaining novel yet.
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