No player has been more synonymous with the glory years of Manchester United Football Club over the past two decades than right-back Gary Neville. An Old Trafford regular since he attended his first match at the age of six captain of the brilliant 1992 FA Youth Cup-winning team that became known as Fergies Fledglings outspoken representative of MUFC Neville is the ultimate one-club man. He has been at the heart of it all & at the end of an amazing career is now ready to tell it all. Authoritative insightful fearless & never less than 100 percent honest no-one has better credentials for documenting the story of United under Sir Alex Ferguson. Neville reveals the behind-the-scenes secrets of his early days with the likes of Giggs Scholes & his best mate David Beckham; what it was like to play with Cantona Keane & Ronaldo; the Treble in 1999; & of course an entire career of playing for the greatest manager in the game. Then there are all his experiences with England from being the youngest starter at Euro 96 when football came home to the ups & downs of five major championships & seven managers
- Venables Hoddle Wilkinson Keegan Eriksson Mc Claren & Capello. There are opinions & analysis on Gazza Rooney WAGs & the true story of the FA & Rio Ferdin&. For twenty glorious years Gary Neville has worn his heart on his sleeve. This is his story.
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Oswald T. Campbell aged fifty-two down-&-out in a Chicago winter is given only months to live unless he moves South. He finds himself in the small town of Lost River Alabama where the residents are friendly if feud-prone & eccentric to a fault. One of them Roy keeps a red cardinal a once wounded bird called Jack in the village store. Patsy a sad sweet little kid with a crippled leg from the trailer park up in the woods takes to dropping by the store
- & falls in love with Jack. Flagg takes us on an emotional roller-coaster ride through the lives & hearts of an engaging crew of misfits fixers & ordinary good-hearted folk set against the vivid natural backdrop of a mellow Alabama winter along the riverside where birds & fish abound. Her enchanting story culminates at Christmastide with surprises & a magical redbird moment.
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Not all angels are heaven sent. I am one such angel & I have come to pass judgement on the living & the dead...A report of a rare & unusual gun
- a type favoured by assassins
- being smuggled into the country sparks Detective Harry Hole's interest. Then a former WW2 Nazi sympathizer is found with his throat cut. Next Harry's former partner is murdered. Why had she been trying to reach Harry on the night she was killed? As Harry's investigation unfolds it becomes clear that the killer is hell-bent on serving his own justice. & while the link between the cases remains a mystery one thing is certain: he must be stopped.

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Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates.. .A mystery from the past. A deadly secret in the present. The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny Cooper that all the evidence points to a horrific if routine suicide. Then an enigmatic young priest Father Lucas Starr arrives on Jenny's doorstep entreating her to hold an inquest into the death of Eva Donaldson a high profile political campaigner whose past life continued to haunt her. A young man Paul Craven has recently been sentenced for Eva's brutal murder. But despite Craven's conviction & the evidence against him Father Lucas is convinced of the man's innocence. Jenny's lone quest for justice will take her to the dark heart of an establishment who wish to silence her & on an inner journey to confront ghosts that have haunted her for a lifetime. For Jenny Cooper answers to no one but the dead.. . ...

OVER 9 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN. TO KILL... It is a freezing December night & Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a Salvation Army carol concert. Then a shot rings out & one of the singers falls to the floor dead. Detective Harry Hole & his team are called in to investigate but have little to work with
- there is no immediate suspect no weapon & no motive. But when the assassin discovers he's shot the wrong man Harry finds his troubles have only just begun.
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The world has moved on in the advanced economies where credit based financial systems coupled with malleable accounting systems disconnect capitalization & wealth accumulation from GDP trajectories & financial surplus. This the book argues is the product of economic financial & cultural imperatives that privilege & encourage financial leverage for wealth accumulation. This text re-works business models for a financialized world & presents a distinctive insight into the way in which national corporate & focal firm business models have adapted & evolved. It also shows how in the current financial crisis financial disturbances can be amplified transmitted & made porous by accounting systems threatening economic stability. By making visible the tensions & contradictions embedded in this process of economic development the authors have constructed a loose business model conceptual framework that is also grounded in accounting. This is a valuable resource for practitioners academics & policy makers with an interest in management accounting & economic policy. ...

Ryan Drake is a man who finds people who don't want to be found. Once a soldier in the British Army he now works for the CIA leading an elite investigation team that tracks down missing agents. But his latest mission
- to free a prisoner codenamed Maras & bring her back onto US soil within forty-eight hours
- is more dangerous than anything his team has attempted before. Despite the risks the team successfully completes their mission but for Drake the real danger has only just begun. Faced with a terrible threat he is forced to go on the run with Maras
- a veteran agent scarred by years of brutal imprisonment. Hunted by his former comrades & those willing to do anything to protect a deadly secret Drake is left with no choice but to trust a dangerous woman he barely knows. For he has only one chance to save those he loves & time is running out...


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THE REDEMPTION opens in the world's most oppressive & isolated totalitarian state: Albania in the 1970s. A prisoner suspected of being an enemy agent is held by state security. An unsettling presence he maintains an eerie silence though subjected to unimaginable torture. He escapes
- & on the way to freedom completes a mysterious mission. The prisoner is Dimiter the American 'agent from hell'. The scene shifts to Jerusalem focusing on Hadassah Hospital & a cast of unusual characters. All become enmeshed in a series of baffling inexplicable deaths until events explode in a surprising climax. Told with unrelenting pace THE REDEMPTION's compelling page-turning narrative is haunted by the search for faith & the truths of the human condition.
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The Inhibitors are back & Humanity is doomed! Many many millennia ago the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life
- & then to suppress it. But after hundreds of millions of years the machines started to fail & intelligent cultures started to emerge. Then Dr Dan Sylveste & the crew of Infinity discovered what had happened to the long-vanished Amarantin race.. .and awakened the Inhibitors. On Yellowstone where no one is quite who they appear the Inquisitor & the planets Most Wanted War Criminal are watching as the Inhibitors turn a small group of planets into raw materials. Whatever they are building with those materials is not going to be good for Humanity. Once again Al Reynolds has produced a stunning universe-spanning space opera of mind-blowing proportions. Big in size big in concepts REDEMPTION ARK will leave you gasping at its audacity & breathless at its conclusion. This is British SF at its absolute best.
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Paama who is a great cook has returned to her family after 10 years of marriage to the gluttonous Ansige but two years later he hires the master tracker Kwame to find her. Kwame needs the money to finance his own wanderlust & reluctantly takes the job. These events draw the attention of Chance the Indigo Lord one of the powerful spirits called Djombi. The Indigo Lord once wielded the power of Chaos imbued within the Chaos Stick but to punish him it was taken from him & given to Paama. Now he wants it back & he has all sorts of elaborate schemes planned to induce Paama to give him back the Chaos Stick. The narrator sometimes serious & often mischievous spins delicate but powerful descriptions of locations emotions & the protagonists great flaws & great strengths as they interact with family poets tricksters sufferers of tragedy &
- of course
- occasional moments of pure chaos.

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