How do you bring down a President who will stop at nothing to stay in power?Ruslan sets out on his most ambitious and most dangerous quest, a campaign to depose the strongman who rules his post-communist homeland.He quickly assembles a fractious coalition of rivals and former enemies. But they must confront some very dangerous people: men with blood on their hands who know they can never allow their grip on power to slip.Ruslan discovers that he has placed himself and his family in the firing line in an increasingly desperate fight to the finish. It is a case of destroy or be destroyed, and both sides know it.Praise for the previous Ruslan Shanidza novelsThe Price of Dreams'...will keep you turning the pages...Prepare to be sucked in with gripping characters and political intrigue until the very end.' OnlineBookClub.org Official Review'Highly enjoyable, gripping page turner, solid story... Views: 102
Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India—from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj—and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India.In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation.British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift'—from the railways to the rule of law—was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile... Views: 102
I have been sleuthing my mother's symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for justice, is her illness an unsolved crime? If so, who is the villain and who is the victim? Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother's unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints, but utterly relieved to be called to abandon her own disappointing fledgling adult life. She and her mother travel to the searing, arid coast of southern Spain to see a famous consultant--their very last chance--in the hope that he might cure her unpredictable limb paralysis. But Dr. Gomez has strange methods that seem to have little to do with physical medicine, and as the treatment progresses, Sofia's mother's illness becomes increasingly baffling. Sofia's role as detective--tracking her mother's symptoms in an attempt to find the secret motivation... Views: 102
Billy England and his sister Girl are clever, stylish and damaged. Billy is a teenage "catastrophe theorist" which is handy since their mother has gone missing, and when they last saw their father his Elvis hair was in flames. Girl has a mission. She knocks on a door of a selected house and pretends any Prozac woman who answers is her mother. It is through one of these tranquilised women that Girl discovers 'Freezer World', a superstore on the edge of the motorway. This gives her an idea. Why don't they sell the pain of their childhoods to the American chat shows? Views: 102
SUMMARY:A genius, a great mathematician once said, performs magic, does things that nobody else could do. To his scientific colleagues, Richard Feynman was a magician of the highest caliber. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic critic of the space shuttle commission, Nobel Prize winner for work that gave physicists a new way of describing and calculating the interactions of subatomic particles, Richard Feynman left his mark on virtually every area of modern physics. Originality was his obsession. Never content with what he knew or with what others knew, Feynman ceaselessly questioned scientific truths. But there was also another side to him, one which made him a legendary figure among scientists. His curiosity moved well beyond things scientific: he taught himself how to play drums, to give massages, to write Chinese, to crack safes. In Genius, James Gleick, author of the acclaimed best-seller Chaos, shows us a Feynman few have seen. He penetrates beyond the gleeful showman depicted in Feynman's own memoirs and reveals a darker Feynman: his ambition, his periods of despair and uncertainty, his intense emotional nature. From his childhood on the beaches and backlots of Far Rockaway and his first tinkering with radios and differential equations to the machine shops at MIT and the early theoretical work at Princeton - work that foreshadowed his famous notion of antiparticles traveling backward in time - to the tragic death of his wife while he was working at Los Alamos, Genius shows how one scientist's vision was formed. As that vision crystallized in work that reinvented quantum mechanics, we see Feynman's impact on the elite particle-physicscommunity, and how Feynman grew to be at odds with the very community that idolized him. Finally, Gleick explores the nature of genius, our obsession with it and why the very idea may belong to another time. Genius records the life of a scientist who has forever changed science - and changed what it means to know something in this uncertain century. Views: 101
'WOW! WOW! WOW! What a read!' NetGalley reviewer 'The blockbuster of the summer!' NetGalley reviewer 'THAT twist. I did not see it coming!' NetGalley reviewer You're looking over your shoulder, thinking someone's watching. You're checking the doors are locked, spooked by a noise. You're running through the woods, convinced you're being followed. You're being stalked. And they won't stop until you're theirs. If you enjoy reading twisty psychological thrillers that leave your heart racing, then you'll love The Stalker, perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Harlan Coben. Readers love The Stalker: 'Wow!! What an ending!... Suspense, intrigue, and lots of twists and turns!... Then BAM! I did not see that ending coming at all!!... Wow, what a crazy good book!' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'What a book. Couldn't put it down, had me reading in into the night.' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Had me on the edge of my seat... I did not expect the twists and turns throughout this book at all!...... Views: 101
Ten years ago, I walked away from Bonne Terre. No explanations. No good byes. Leaving behind Juliette Tremblant who had no business giving her heart to the likes of me. Now, I'm coming back to town a rich man to try and repair the mistakes I've made. Juliette is not the heart-broken girl I left behind. She's Chief of Police and, she's in trouble – real trouble. And I'm the only one who can help her. She might be immune to my wealth and my charm, but she can't resist my touch. The fire that burned between us is as hot and sweet as it ever was. Can I convince her that gambling on us is a safe bet? Or am I all out of luck? Views: 101
Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery — of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before.Safari in Swahili simply means "journey", and this is the ultimate safari. It is Theroux in his element — a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival times are an irrelevance, and where contentment can be found balancing on the top of a truck in the middle of nowhere.Praise for Paul Theroux:'Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged' Observer'One... Views: 101
Kata, a ninja, embarks on her first solo mission to enter a warlord’s castle and make sure that a certain sleeping occupant never awakens. When Kata discovers that her target is a young boy and that her new accomplice is that boy’s slightly older sister, she suddenly realizes her mission is much more complicated than she thought. Faced with taking someone’s life or confronting the dire consequences of failure, Kata must make a hard choice, one that leads her into a more dangerous battle than she ever expected. In this coming-of-age novel, Kata discovers that while a ninja must always act alone, humanity requires accepting the trust and friendship of others. Views: 101
Mykel LeKym is a crippled librarian, stuck in a medieval-era kingdom where strength is valued over intelligence.
While other boys learn swordplay, Mykel is in his home’s library, learning and reading. When he finally comes of age,
he is given over to his godfather Lazarus as an apprentice. One day they are on route to the capital to deliver books when everything changes.
The demonic entity Sutyr. John Jekai, a mage-slayer with an unknown grudge against Mykel. Lazarus himself, guardian to eldritch knowledge. These men converge on an unholy vigil for one purpose: The mystical weapon Ifirit. Sutyr wants it, but Mykel bonds to it first, and in doing so activates a secret so deeply buried that its existence has faded to myth. Thus a crippled librarian’s world is turned on its head . . . and the fate of existence itself hangs in the balance. Views: 101
