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The sleep revolution : transforming your life, one night at a time
by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
The editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and best-selling author of Thrive evaluates the role of sleep as a cultural and historical unifier, the impact of sleep deprivation on health and the science community's recommendations for how to achieve more restorative sleep.
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The Rabbi's Daughter
by Reva Mann
An edgy memoir about growing up in the world of ultra Orthodox Judaism describes one young woman's struggle to reconcile her spiritual longings with a desire for a fully experienced sensual life, recalling her early rebellion, her experimentation with sex and drugs, and the mystical experience that transformed her life and led to marriage to a devout Torah scholar.
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Bob: no ordinary cat
by James Bowen
We are all given second chances every day of our lives, but we don't usually take them. Then I met Bob.' James Bowen was a homeless musician, busking on the streets of London to survive. But the moment he met an injured stray cat with ginger fur and big green eyes, his life began to change. Together James and Bob the cat faced the world - and won. A purrfectly true 'tail' of love and friendship to make you smile!
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My father's island : a memoir
by Adam Dudding
"Adam Dudding examines his father's public achievements, and also writes frankly and movingly about what it was like to grow up the son of a famously painstaking worker who struggled to provide for his family of six children, and who increasingly isolated himself from the literary world that wanted to embrace him, and behaved in his marriage in ways that are distressingly typical of a generation of men who felt sidelined by social change"
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Behind the Tape : Gripping, Real-life Stories from New Zealand's Top Police Crisis Negotiator
by Lance Burdett
New Zealand's top police crisis negotiator reveals the everyday drama of being a cop: the lives saved, the lives lost, and the extreme pressure to perform in tough and confronting circumstances. Lance Burdett was in the police force for 22 years, in a variety of high-level roles: head of the negotiation team; running the 111 call centre; intelligence management; protection squad; and emergency responders. He worked on some of New Zealand's best-known cases, such as the Jan Molenaar case, where Lance was flown in to head the negotiation team, and the George Baker prison hostage negotiation with the man who murdered Liam Ashley. His daily police life included frequent suicide interventions in high-profile cases, which were common call-outs for the negotiation team. Lance talks about the different negotiation styles and challenges these cases demanded. He was involved in Australia/New Zealand anti-terrorism training, and played the role of terrorist over several days on-site. His story shows how quickly you can become indoctrinated and 'hate' your 'enemies'. Lance also underwent FBI training in Washington where he found that New Zealand's negotiation skills held up well. Behind the Tape tells what it's really like to be a cop: the fear, the excitement, the stress, the everyday drama, the skills developed, the lives saved, the lives lost. It's gritty, tough and confronting...
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Jack of Diamonds
by Bryce Courtenay
Bryce Courtenay's new - and final – book. If poker was an addiction then music was an overwhelming obsession; one could never replace the other in my life. During the Great Depression there was little hope for a boy born into the slums of Cabbagetown, Toronto. But Jack Spayd is offered a ticket out in the form of a Hohner harmonica, won by his brutal drunken father in a late-night card game. Jack makes music as a way of escaping his surroundings, and his talent leads him to a jazz club and, eventually, to the jazz piano. Jack is a virtuoso and hits the road, enchanting audiences in Canada, wartime Europe and Las Vegas, where he is caught up in the world of elite poker and falls under the spell of his boss, the enigmatic Bridgett Fuller. Vegas is a hard town ruled by the Mafia, but Jack prospers, until his luck turns bad and he falls foul of the Mob. Forced to run for his life from Vegas, he must also leave the woman he adores. His adventuring takes him to the far reaches of Africa, to a rare and valuable bird that may seal his fate - and to the love of a very different woman. Set across three continents, Jack of Diamonds is a spellbinding story of chance, music, corruption and love.
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Small great things : a novel
by Jodi Picoult
Hesitating to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple who has demanded that a white nurse assist them, a black nurse is placed on trial in the tragic aftermath and is aided by a white public defender with whom she begins questioning their beliefs as the case becomes more racially charged. By the #1 best-selling author of Leaving Time.
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Three sisters, three queens
by Philippa Gregory
Brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, Katherine of Aragon forges a unique sisterhood with the king's sisters, Margaret and Mary, that is shaped by rivalries, wars, betrayal, widowhood, motherhood, passion and secrets. By the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.
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Nutshell : a novel
by Ian McEwan
The Whitbread Award-winning author of Atonement presents a classic story of murder and deceit from the perspective of an unconventional narrator.
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Trust me, I'm lying
by Mary Elizabeth Summer
Orchestrating petty scams at an exclusive Chicago private school where her grifter father would have her mingle with the privileged elite, Julep teams up with a hacker sidekick and her school's most popular boy to rescue her father when he disappears. A first novel.
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The seventh plague
by James Rollins
When a British archaeologist who had been missing for two years reappears and dies amid findings that his body was being mummified while he was still alive, Sigma Force must stop an ancient plague with ties to some of history's most innovative minds.
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