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Strong Medicine
I was actually surprised to find that this isn't a first title by this author. She's a doctor, and before this has written some Mills & Boon Medical romances, and her experience in medicine does show. But, this book just didn't work for me, I was constantly jarred out of the action, much of the action happens in the background, with occasional notes as to the medical procedures Dr Calista St James performed while engaging in the action. It's not a bad read, and some of it is quite believable, but Calista just didn't feel real enough for me and made me wonder how she kept herself out of jail. Yes, she's a strong, powerful character, but she and me didn't gel. Calista fights the corruption of systems that leave people dead and think about the bottom line rather than the people. While trying to heal some needy people she puts the lives of the men there to help her at risk, in fact several of them die. So when a crisis happens where she is the last best hope, they ask her to help them again.
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The Zahir
It begins with a glimpse or a passing thought. It ends in obsession. One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, as disappeared leading no trace. Though time brings more success and new love, he remains mystified-and increasingly fascinated-by her absence. Was she kidnapped, blackmailed, or simply bored with their marriage? The unrest she causes is as strong as the attraction she exerts. His search for her- and for the truth of his own life-takes him from South America to Spain, France, Croatia and, eventually, the bleakly beautiful landscape of Central Asia. More than that, it leads him into a new understanding of the nature of love, the power of destiny and what it really means to follow your heart. With The Zahir, Paulo Coelho demonstrates not just his powerful and captivating storytelling, but also his extraordinary insight into what it is to be a human being in a world full of possibility.
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How To Make Money Trading Derivatives
This is a pioneering book on trading Indian futures and options written by an expert who does so for a living. It is an insider
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The Pilgrimage
Here Paulo Coelho details his journey across Spain along the legendaryroad of San Tiago, which pilgrims have travelled since Middle Ages. On this contemporary quest, he encounters a Chaucerian variety of mysterious guides and devilish opponents and learns to understand the nature of truth through the simplicity of life. "The Pilgrimage" holds an important place in Paulo Coelho's literary canon. His first book, it not only paved the way for his phenomenal novel "The Alchemist," but it also fully expresses his humanist philosophy and the depth of his unique search for meaning.""
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The Overlook
In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor's death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city. Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only against the culprits, but also against the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI (in the form of Harry's one-time lover Rachel Walling), who are convinced that this case is too important for the likes of the LAPD. It is Bosch's job to prove all of them wrong.
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Lost Light
At the end of CITY OF BONES Harry Bosch quit the LAPD, but he's back in a new role, one that will give him more freedom to pursue the cases that compel him. When he left the LAPD Bosch took a file with him: the case of a film production assistant murdered four years earlier during a $2 million robbery on a movie set. The LAPD, now operating under post 9/11 rules, think the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim were lost in the federal zeal, and when Bosch decides to re-investigate, he quickly falls fouls of both his old colleagues and the FBI. But it's not just the case which is keeping Bosch awake at night. When the investigation enables him to meet up with an old friend, shadows from his past come back to haunt him...
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Hide And Seek
Maggie bradford is on trial for murder in the celebrity trial of the decade. As one of the worlds best loved singer-songwriters, she seems to have it all. So how could she have murdered not ust one, but two of her husbands? Will shepherd was maggie's second husband. A magnificent athlete and film star, he was just a famous but will has dark, dangerous secrets that none of his fans could have imagined.... that his own wife could never have dreamed of.
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The Midnight Club
John stefanovitch is one tough new york cop. Nobody knows the underbelly of the city like he does. Stef is out to nab alexandre st-germain, the most treacherous and powerful member of the midnight club a secret international society whose membership is limited to an elite group of ruthless crime czars, all of whom are respectable businessmen. And stef's the ideal man for the job-until he's levelled by a blast from St-germain's shotgun and left for dead. Now Stef is back, wheelchair-bound, yet sworn to destroy St-Germain. With the help of a beautiful journalist and a harlem cop. Stef is determined to crack the midnight club. And he's up against odds that are as unknown as they are deadly....
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Time Wife
Mary Duvall came back to Eastwick to claim her inheritance--not to rekindle a romantic relationship with millionaire Kane Brentwood! Years ago, she'd been content as the English lord's mistress. But when he took another woman as his wife, she swore she'd never surrender to him again.
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Hired By The Cowboy
Alexis Grayson is "good" at looking after herself-- she's been doing it all her life. So what if she's alone and pregnant? She'll cope! But gorgeous cowboy Connor Madsen seems determined to take care of her. And Alexis can help him-- he needs a temporary wife; she needs somewhere to live until the baby's born. A short-term marriage will solve all their difficulties! As Alexis gets to know the courageous, honorable Connor, she realizes that she might have made the biggest mistake of her life. Because all this wife-for-hire wants is a marriage for real!
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The Sheikh's Safety
He demanded to know her identity after she felled his attacker with deadly precision. But Dara Alexander feigned amnesia rather than reveal the truth to this blue-eyed Bedouin: she was an American soldier
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The Rich Man's Royal Mistress
A tycoon, a princess and a royal passion. Princess Melissa Considine of Illyria is instantly captivated by womanising billionaire Hawke Kennedy. His seduction leads the virginal Princess to decided that, for once, she will throw her royal caution to the tempestuous winds and let Hawke teach her how to love..and be loved. Yet Hawke is too much a man of the world for a regal princess. A fact that is confirmed when she discovers a photograph of him with her brother's ex-fiancee. Melissa knows she must put duty before their affair, but if she leaves Hawke's bed, she'll leave his life...
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Boys Of Summer
Hot, sweaty, sexy men battling it out on the pitch...what more could a girl ask for?Baseball is the sport in which the men are men...and the women like them that way! Join three of Blaze's bestselling authors to delve deeper into the men who indulge in the all-American pastime...and the women who help them indulge in other things..."In Fever Pitch", we meet Callie Andrews, a woman who can't wait to have one last chance to bat with her ex-husband...In "The Sweet Spot", Babe Bannister discovers that hitting a home run can bring her all sorts of rewards with her delicious coach...And in "Sliding Home", we meet plain Janie Nolan. She's been sitting on the bench so long, she doesn't even realise she's still in the game. That is, until a sexy pitcher tempts her to step up to the plate and take a swing...
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Beautiful Beast
Breaking in to the Home of the man Suspected Of Killing her father was reckless. But Cassy Richards Had to Confront Lieutenant Gabriel Lowe and Learn the Truth.
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A Promise To Return
Nicholas Grey, Viscount Longworth, fell in love with Lavinia Duplesse on the day she married another. Now she is a widow, and their love has a second chance.But, only days after the couple celebrate their engagement, Nicholas is sent to France on a dangerous assignment. Badly wounded, he eventually returns to London. Is happiness about to be snatched away from them again? Because Nicholas has no memory of his previous life
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CountDown
On 11 May 1998 the Indian government tested five nuclear devices some forty kilometres from Pokaran. Seventeen days later Pakistan tested nuclear devices of its own. About three months after the tests, Amitav Ghosh went to the Pokaran area, after which he visited Kashmir as part of the defence minister's entourage. He also went to the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram mountains where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have been exchanging fire since 1983. Ghosh then travelled through Pakistan and Nepal.Countdown is partly a result of these journeys and conversations with many hundreds of people of the subcontinent. In its descriptions the book is haunting and evocative; and its analyses of the compulsions behind South Asia's nuclearization, and the implications of this, are profound, deeply disturbing and, ultimately, chilling.