Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing him into early retirement. But when an old friend calls in a career's worth of favours Paul finds himself moonlighting for the Army as he investigates a puzzling murder that took place thirty years before in the midst of the Vietnam war. Forced to return to the country that haunts him & work for the people who cast him aside Paul must engage in the battle of his life as he attempts to find justice in a world of staggering corruption. ...

Elderly Daisy cant keep up with Arthur any more & then one day she wakes up to find herself in heaven! How marvellous
- now she
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New York 1961: the dawn of the commercial Jet Age & a golden era of air travel. Betty Riegel spent her early childhood hiding in air-raid shelters as bombs dropped all around. From humble working-class roots growing up with a mother who struggled to make ends meet & a father away at war she had always dreamed of bigger things. After responding to an advert in the local newspaper she secured herself an interview for the Pan Am training programme & at just 22-years-old was selected from thousands of eager young British women to begin a career that would change the course of her life. Betty said goodbye to everything she knew & boarded a plane to New York a city full of noise towering skyscrapers & promise. Under the watchful eye of her 'housemother' Dottie Betty mastered the art of being the perfect Pan Am stewardess; everything from faultless etiquette geography & safety to seamless make-up application how to charm influential passengers & preparing five-course Parisian cuisine at 37 000 feet. But no amount of training could have prepared her for the rollercoaster of life in the air. Up in the Air charts the gruelling yet fabulous life aboard the most iconic airline there has ever been & how a young woman from Essex opened her eyes to the world & lived her dream. ...

The master of a journalistic style long vanished
- urbane lucid courteous...A masterpiece of observation & storytelling".
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Penguins Stopped Play" meets " Cool Runnings" in this hilarious & uplifting true story of footballing triumph against all the odds set on a Pacific isl&. After one too many late night discussions football journalist Paul Watson & his mate Matthew Conrad decide to find the worlds worst national team become naturalised citizens of that country & play for them
- achieving their joint boyhood dream of playing international football & winning a cap. They are thrilled when Wikipedia leads them to Pohnpei a tiny remote island in the Pacific whose long-defunct football team is described as the weakest in the world. They contact Pohnpeis Football Association & discover what it needs most urgently is leadership. So Paul & Matt travel thousands of miles leaving behind jobs families & girlfriends to train a rag-tag bunch of novice footballers who barely understand the rules of the game. " Up Pohnpei" tells the story of their quest to coach the team & eventually organise an international fixture
- Pohnpeis first since a 16-1 defeat many years ago. With no funding a population whose obesity rate is 90 percent & toad-infested facilities in one of the worlds wettest climates their journey is beset by obstacles from the outset. Part travelogue part quest " Up Pohnpei" shows how the passion & determination of two young men can change the face of football
- & the lives of total strangers
- on the other side of the world."



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Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton) & The Wharton Center for Leadership & Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that every manager must read." This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend's timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work & life by those who knew & worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people & strangle both profits & profitability. He shows a way to humanize business & a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before." ...

In this important book historians lawyers economists & writers come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish economic collapse has resulted in national humiliation renewed emigration & a decline in living standards for the majority of the population there is still hope that the country can be reformed & renewed. Irish politicians offered the now notorious blanket guarantee to all the banks which had got in over their heads during the great property bubble
- including one that had become little more than a criminal enterprise. A different set of politicians grimly enforces the consequences of that guarantee locking an entire generation of Irish men & women into paying for the mistakes of greedy bankers & their corrupt friends in government. The energy of hope has to come from elsewhere. These essays demonstrate how simple measures & different economic & social policies could release that energy & fulfil the promise of an educated literate & culturally vibrant people.
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William Shatner gets the joke about William Shatner. In fact most of the time hes the one telling it. His self-effacing attitude so perfectly parodied in the bombastic character he now plays on Boston Legal Denny Crane is one of the reasons for his huge popularity. While best known for his creation of Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek" William Shatner has been a working actor for more than half a century. He has experienced all the ups (the awards & acclaim) & the down (having to live for a time in the truck bed of his camper when he couldnt get work) that are a part of the actors world. In " Up Till Now" he tells us about his remarkable life from training as a Shakespearan actor to his time on Broadway his movie career & of course his successful tv series. He writes with glee about some of his less successful ventures including Incubus the only feature ever made entirely in Esperanto. As funny & charming as the man himself this book will delight his many fans of all ages. Crammed full of anecdotes from a long & full life & infused with a self-deprecating humour
- " Private Eye"."
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Emma is resigned to attending her cousin's wedding expecting the usual excruciating round of polite conversation & bad dancing. Instead it's the scene of a horny encounter which encourages her to behave even more scandalously than usual. When she meets motorbike fanatic Kit it's lust at first sight & they waste no time in getting each other off behind the marquee. They don't get the chance to say goodbye however & Emma resigns herself to the fact that she'll never see her spontaneous lover again. Then fate intervenes as Emma & Kit are reunited at another wedding
- & so begins a year of outrageous sex wild behaviour & lots of getting up to no good.
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Having given up a high-powered job & the lifestyle to match Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when full of optimism she fulfilled her dream of moving to rural Cornwall with her young family one September. Within months she is almost ready to return to London tail between her legs: her husband is still out of work her children are struggling in a cold damp tumbledown house & the family is running out of money
- fast. But a chance encounter in the local post office leads her to accept the unlikeliest of job offers. Up with the Larks charts Tessas turbulent first year with the Royal Mail & her transformation from outsider to Posh Postie adopted Cornishwoman & much-loved member of her new community. She starts in the bitter darkness of midwinter faced with the perils of the Christmas rush a van with a mind of its own & a host of unfamiliar routes local characters
- & their animals large & small. But day by day & month by month she meets & learns to love a wonderfully colourful cast of characters until her second Christmas in Cornwall is entirely different from the first as the community goes out of its way to thank her with small gifts & other tokens of their affection. At last she feels Cornwall is home.

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