The Crossover Year

Meet Sri Anuprabha, aka Anu, a twenty-nine year-old banker who is terrified of entering her thirties. She dreams of quitting her job at the bank, sporting yoga pants and traipsing around the world. Her world turns upside down when things go awry and she is faced with the prospect of spending her days watching Tamil serials. She comes up with a five-point plan for reclaiming her life back before she hits the big 30. But things are never as simple...

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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime...

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Twelve Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave is a riveting true account of a free man captured and sold into slavery in the pre–Civil War South. Solomon Northup’s narrative explores one of the darkest times in American history and captures in vivid detail the unimaginable realities of slavery.In 1841, the educated musician Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York who is cruelly deceived by the promise of a job in Washington, is drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery. Once Solomon arrives in New Orleans, he is given a slave name and soon realizes that any mention...

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The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful Wall Street career. But while traveling he met a young boy begging on the streets of India, who after being asked what he wanted most in the world, simply...

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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent...

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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets....

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How To Write Your Own Book: Anyone can become a successful writer!

Yоu knоw уоu саn wrіtе. Mауbе уоu'rе еvеn mаkіng money writing. But аrе уоu making еnоugh mоnеу wrіtіng? Or іѕ іt juѕt a hоbbу, соѕtіng уоu mоrе іn computers, роѕtаgе аnd рареr thаn you're earning? Aссоrdіng tо wrіtеrѕ' оrgаnіzаtіоnѕ, 95 реr сеnt оf writers nеvеr mаkе еnоugh mоnеу tо quit thеіr dау job. Whаt аbоut the tор fіvе per сеnt of wrіtеrѕ --- thеу'rе mаkіng bіg mоnеу, right? A ѕmаll рrороrtіоn of the tор fіvе реr cent ѕurе are. Thеу'rе...

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Take a Breath

A young woman vanishes into the cold Glaswegian night. Nine years later, one man is forced on a journey into his buried past to reveal the truth behind her mysterious disappearance.Take a Breath is set in gangster-ridden Glasgow. With razor-sharp pace and authentic urban grit, it charts the relationship of Paul and Lena, mining the darker side of love, as time and again they engage in a grim, obsessive dance. From their first tumultuous meeting,...

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Street Food around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture

Street foods run deep throughout human history and show the movements of peoples and their foods across the globe. For example, mandoo, manti, momo, and bāozi: all of these types of dumplings originated in Central Asia and spread across the Old World beginning in the 12th century. This encyclopedia surveys common street foods in about 100 countries and regions of the world, clearly depicting how "fast foods of the common people" fit into a country...

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Indie Author Insider: Denise Grover Swank

Denise Grover Swank, author of the Rose Gardner Mystery series and Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes, talks about her path to independent publishing and how she fulfilled her dream of becoming a full-time writer while raising six children....

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Inside the Wardrobe of Anne Boleyn

In this book, we examine Anne Boleyn’s wardrobe in relation to the chronology of her lifetime because—luckily for us—we have records of Anne's clothes at every stage of her life. From her glittering debut in the Chateau Vert pageant to her final walk to the scaffold, everything is right there in the historical record. We may never know what Anne Boleyn truly looked like, but we can peek into her coffers and chests to admire her furs, velvets, satins...

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Baby Girl Book 2: Moonlighting in Paris

Follow Cleo as she transforms into the glamorous Justine and falls into a life of unimaginable wealth when Didier the owner of a hotel empire is beguiled by her mysterious and naïve charms. Her life becomes one of luxury and fame beyond anything she could have ever imagined. Remnants of her past continue to haunt her and a new threat appears; is her latest peril related to her past or someone else’s, someone who has become a large part of her new...

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Space! A Kids Book About Space

Space!  Outer Space!Written and published by Brian G. Johnson, "Space! A Kids Book about Space - Fun Facts & Pictures about Outer Space Exploration, Famous Astronauts, Space Ships & More" is a nonfiction marvel that's filled with brilliantly colorful photographs that look amazingly good on Kindles, iPads, PCs and many other tablet devices.Beside the great visual effects that Mr. Johnson delivers in his "Space ... " book, he also brings...

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India For Kids: Amazing Facts About India

"India For Kids: Amazing Facts About India" is one of my own books. The book is designed for children of all ages particularly of reading age of 7 upwards. I wrote this book for my own children and while I was doing so realised that it would useful to children around the world.Children can use this book to learn more about India, its culture, its people, its festivals, Indian Gods and a host of other things. This is a one stop book to learn everything...

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The Magpies

Meet the neighbours from hell, in the gripping thriller that reviewers and readers describe as "fast-paced," "chilling," and "impossible to put down.”When Jamie and Kirsty move into their first home together, they are full of optimism. The future, in which they plan to get married and start a family, is bright. The other residents of their building seem friendly too, including the Newtons, a married couple who welcome them to the building with open...

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Essential India Travel Guide: Travel Tips And Practical Information

I have published another book in the travel genre that goes well with the rest of my other travel books. This book is called, "Essential India Travel Guide: Travel Tips And Practical Information". The book covers the issues faced by foreign tourists coming to India. Some of which include; what to eat, what to wear, how to deal with beggars, travelling during the Indian monsoons, safety for women and so on. I have also included a chapter full of Hindi...

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Forehead Wrinkles No More: The breakthrough method to a beautiful, wrinkle-free forehead

In her early twenties Lena Mayer had enough and started to take the fight of her deep forehead wrinkles in her own hands - with success. In this over 55 page guide Lena Mayer shares exactly what she did to finally smooth out her forehead wrinkles with easy to follow action steps and highly effective exercises - including pictures so you know exactly what to do. You will also get background information to understand what is happening on...

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