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The Eitingons
Author: Mary-Kay Wilmers
ISBN: 9780571234721
Format: Hardback Book
Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer. Max Eitingon was a colleague of Freud's. Motty Eitingon was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the world. The author, who began looking into aspects of this family, also throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century.
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The Legacy
Author: Kirsten Tranter
ISBN: 9780732290801
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Ingrid inherits a fortune, leaves Australia and her friends and lover, to marry Gil Grey and set up home amid the New York art world. At 9 am on September 11 2001, she has an appointment downtown, and is never seen again. A year later, searching for clues about Ingrid's life, her friend Julie uncovers layers of mystery and deception ...
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The Pregnant Widow
Author: Martin Amis
ISBN: 9780224084369
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Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends. The sexual revolution may have been a velvet revolution (in at least two senses), ...
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Author: William Shawcross
ISBN: 9781405048590
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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August, 1900. It might reasonably have been expected that she would lead a life of ease and privilege but few could have imagined the profound effect she would have on Britain and its people. Her life spanned the whole of the twentieth century and this official biography tells not only her story but, through it, that of the country she loved so devotedly. Drawing on her private correspondence a ...
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Civilising Globalisation
Author: David Kinley
ISBN: 9780521716246
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Economic globalisation and universal human rights both have the aspiration and power to improve and enrich individuals and communities. However, their respective institutions, methods, practices and goals differ, leading to both detrimental clashes and beneficial synergies. David Kinley analyses how human rights intersect with the trade, aid and commercial dimensions of the global economic relations, taking the view that, while the global economy is a vitally important civilising instrument, it ...
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The Promised World
Author: Lisa Tucker
ISBN: 9780731814466
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When Lina Cole's twin brother, Billy, points a rifle from a hotel window and commits suicide by police, a multitude of painful questions comes to the fore. She discovers that her once brilliant but troubled twin was not only estranged from his wife, but charged with endangering the life of his son.
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Judgment and Wrath
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Mathilda Savitch
Author: Victor Lodato
ISBN: 9780007322213
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A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a girl with a sharp and mischevious voice of her own -- and her quest to discover the truth about her sister's death
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Long Time Coming
Author: Robert Goddard
ISBN: 9780593060261
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A classic thriller with Goddard's trademark plot twists.
In Antwerp in 1939, a Jewish diamond trader flees Nazi Europe, leaving his priceless collection of Picasso paintings and diamonds with a friend who takes them to London. The boat he flees on sinks, leaving no survivors. Fast forward to 1976 when his penniless family tries to track down the missing paintings. A classic thriller with Goddard's trademark plot twists.
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Sydney Harbour
Author: Ian Hoskins
ISBN: 9781921410161
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In 1925 DH Lawrence described a huge, restless, modern Sydney, whose million inhabitants seem to slip like fishes from one side of the harbour to the other. What was true then had been the case for centuries before, and decades since. Sydney Harbour has been a defining element for the people who have lived around it since the time of the harbour clans a means of communication, a barrier, a resource to be exploited, a place of beauty, spirit and meaning. Sydney Harbour: A History explores the sto ...
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Author: Sir Ranulph Fiennes
ISBN: 9780340925034
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Sir Ranulph Fiennes, described as 'the world's greatest living explorer' by the Guinness Book of Records, takes a personal journey around his eccentric family tree
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Merlin
Author: Stephen Thomas Knight
ISBN: 9780801443657
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Takeover Target
Author: Lyndall Crisp
ISBN: 9781741668971
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How a thoroughbred named Takeover Target blazed a path through racing's history books, became a darling of the turf, and earned over $6 million, more than any other Australian sprinter.
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Author: Ian J. Bickerton
ISBN: 9781861895271
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The proclamation of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948 was an epochal event in the history of Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and its impact resounded not only across the Middle East but also throughout the world. The resulting conflict between Arabs and Israelis for sovereignty over Palestine has been one of the most bloody, intractable, and drawn-out of modern times. In this timely volume, noted military historian Ian J. Bickerton examines this struggle in detail, describing its beginnings with ...
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The Blasphemer
Author: Nigel Farndale
ISBN: 9780385617802
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On holiday in the Galapagos Islands, two things happen to zoologist Daniel Kennedy. When the small aircraft carrying him and Nancy, the mother of his little girl, crashes into the sea he is confronted with a stark Darwinian choice: should he save himself, or the woman he loves?
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You are Not a Gadget: a Manifesto
Author: Jaron Lanier
ISBN: 9781846143427
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What if, despite Web 2.0, despite OpenSource, and the wisdom of crowds, only people are meaningful? What if, by devaluing individuals, we are deadening creativity, risking weaker design in engineering and science, losing democracy, and reducing development? Jaron Lanier delivers a searing manifesto in support of the individual.
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