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Kagame The President of Rwanda Speaks
Brief summary
For many, Paul Kagame is the man who produced the Rwandan Miracle.
But this former refugee, now the president of a country that experienced the worse genocide in recent times, also has fierce enemies.
Twenty years after the genocide of Rwanda, Paul Kagame candidly reveals himself for the very first time.
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ISBN:9781936274772
Author:François Soudan
12th of Never
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Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby daughter is born! While Lindsay and Joe are at home in bliss, San Francisco gets hit with multiple killings. An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a murder that he claims is real. No one believes him-until a vicious shooting fits the man's description to the last detail.
Then the girlfriend of a star player for the San Francisco 49ers is found dead in her car, making the athlete the prime suspect. This seems like an open-and-shut case-until the body inexplicably vanishes from the morgue. When the desperate chief of police calls for help, Lindsay is forced to return to work after only one week at home with her newborn.
But all the crimes in the world will seem like nothing when she suddenly faces the most devastating loss of her life. With heart-pounding emotion and suspense, 12TH OF NEVER is James Patterson's most shocking and sensational Women's Murder Club novel yet.
ISBN:9781455515790
Author:James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
The Parsifal Mosaic
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Michael Havelock's world ended on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He stood by and watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karas, double agent, was coldly and efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There's nothing left for Havelock but to get out, quit the game.
Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railway platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. She's alive - and suddenly Havelock is a marked man, on the run from both US and Russian assassins. A massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist - Parsifal...
ISBN:9780752858531
Author:Robert Ludlum
First Sight
Brief summary
First Sight is as complex and compelling as modern life itself. Careers, families, histories, losses, duty, obligation, and fear of losing control and getting hurt. It is a tale of daring to take risks, and losing control just enough to have a life, when the opportunity presents itself.
When two very different worlds and strong-willed people collide, everything changes in an instant, as they confront the age-old question of whether to lay oneself bare and risk intimacy—or not. Are they brave enough to face what comes next? And will they do it together or apart?
ISBN:9780385338301
Author:Danielle Steel
Killer
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After thirty-five riveting, internationally acclaimed novels of psychological suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman returns with his most stunning thriller to date. Killer is a mesmerizing L.A. noir portrayal of the darkest impulses of human nature carried to shocking extremes.
The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend.
And when the court battle between the Sykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number of victims, Alex knows he’s been snared in a toxic web of pathology.
Nothing would please Alex more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as Sykes v. Sykes. But then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears and Alex knows he must work with longtime friend Detective Milo Sturgis, braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving jurists in order to save an innocent life.
ISBN:9780345505750
Author:Jonathan Kellerman
The Fear The Last Days of Robert Mugabe
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‘A brave, sensitive and observant account of Zimbabwe’s tragedy, exposing the cruelty of Mugabe’s regime and the remarkable courage of those who have defied it’ Financial Times
In mid-2008, after thirty years of increasingly tyrannical rule, Robert Mugabe lost an election. Instead of conceding defeat, his supporters launched a brutal campaign of terror – Zimbabweans called it, simply, The Fear.
Peter Godwin travels, at considerable risk, to see the havoc raging at the heart of his country, but what emerges from the brutality are the heartbreaking tales of resistance and survival, the astonishing moments of humor and goodwill, and the unforgettable characters who will not be subdued.
‘A beautifully written chronicle of his journey through his ravaged but still achingly beautiful homeland’ Independent
‘An important book detailing the violent realities, the grotesque injustices, the hunger, the sadness, and a portrait of Mugabe, the tyrant who is the cause of it all’ Paul Theroux
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ISBN:9780330507776
Author:Peter Godwin
The Whistler
Brief summary
We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity and impartiality are the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the orderly and efficient flow of justice.
But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe? It’s rare, but it happens.Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption.
But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims to know of a Florida judge who has stolen more money than all other crooked judges combined. And not just crooked judges in Florida. All judges, from all states, and throughout U.S. history.
What’s the source of the ill-gotten gains? It seems the judge was secretly involved with the construction of a large casino on Native American land. The Coast Mafia financed the casino and is now helping itself to a sizable skim of each month’s cash. The judge is getting a cut and looking the other way. It’s a sweet deal: Everyone is making money.
But now Greg wants to put a stop to it. His only client is a person who knows the truth and wants to blow the whistle and collect millions under Florida law. Greg files a complaint with the Board on Judicial Conduct, and the case is assigned to Lacy Stoltz, who immediately suspects that this one could be dangerous.
Dangerous is one thing. Deadly is something else.
ISBN:9780385541190
Author:John Grisham
You Said Forever
Brief summary
The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of No Child of Mineand Don't Let Me Go.
Charlotte Goodman is living the dream.
Surrounded by family, friends and a stunning vineyard overlooking the ocean, it would be difficult for anyone to believe that she has a troubled past.
However, haunted by the theft of a young girl, Charlotte begins to realize the enormity of something she did many years ago, and soon finds herself having to make the most harrowing decision any woman would ever have to face.
ISBN:9781784756741
Author:Susan Lewis
The Curator
Brief summary
It's not possible to undo what happened in 1976.
In rural South Africa a family massacre takes place; a bloodbath whose only witness is the family’s black maid. Hendrik Deyer is the principal of a state-run school camp who lives nearby with his wife and their two sons, Werner and Marius.
As Hendrik becomes obsessed with uncovering what happened, his wife worries about her neighbors, a poor white family whose malign influence on her son Werner is – she believes – making his behavior inexplicably strange and hostile. One night another tragedy changes each of their lives, irrevocably.
Two decades later, Werner is living with his mother and invalid father in a small Pretoria flat. South Africa is a changed place. Werner holds a tedious job in the administration department of the local university and dreams of owning his own gallery. His father is bedridden, hovering on the edge of death, and furious, as he has been for twenty years. As Werner feels his own life slip away, and his thoughts turn to murder as a means to correct the course of all their futures. He can't undo the past, but Werner’s desperation to change his own his fate will threaten not only his own family but also those still living in the aftermath of what happened all those years ago.
ISBN:9780224101752
Author:Jacques Strauss
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Tastes of Africa
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Africa is a continent of contrasts – not just those reflected in the grandeur of its deserts, mountains, dense forests or pristine white beaches that stretch endlessly to the horizon, but in the cultural variety of its diverse people and their impact on the totality of the continent. Anthropologists tell us that it all began in Africa. And just as Africa has given to the world, so too it has accepted – a pattern reflected in the way its people eat.
In Tastes of Africa, Justice Kamanga takes you on a gastronomic safari, exploring the tastes and textures of indigenous African cuisine, as well as dishes that have been influenced or introduced by a host of foreign settlers to the continent from Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Simple in the choice of ingredients and easy to prepare, both traditional and fusion African cooking are nevertheless as intriguing in the subtle blends of flavors, colors and tantalizing aromas as the lands from which they come, where they have formed delicious and different staples for hundreds – and in some cases thousands – of years.
In order for you to organize your own African-themed lunch or dinner at home, the recipes in Tastes of Africa have been traditionally grouped, including starters, fish, meat, vegetarian, side dishes, desserts and breads, and are accompanied by authentically styled, full-color photography.
ISBN:9781770078024
Author:Justice Kamanga
Go Put Your Strengths to Work
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
Buckingham, an authority on workplace issues, provides a road map for managers to learn for themselves and then teach their employees how to approach their work by emphasizing their strengths rather than weaknesses.
He offers a six-step plan for six weeks of reading and habit-forming action for discerning strengths, along with optional tools to enhance the process such as online questions for measuring strengths and downloaded films (two of which are free).
The steps of his plan are belief that the best way to compete is capitalizing on your strengths, identifying your strengths and weaknesses, volunteering your strengths at work, lessening the impact of your weaknesses on your team, effectively communicating the value of your strengths while limiting work utilizing weaknesses, and building habits and pushing activities that play to strength. Although everyone will not agree with all the elements of Buckingham's approach, he offers valuable insight into maximizing employees' strengths rather than the more common focus on weaknesses and failure.
ISBN:9780743261678
Author:Marcus Buckingham
Family Houses
Brief summary
Everyone has their own opinion about how the ideal family home should look.
This difference out clearly in the various reports in this book, which range from historic country houses that have belonged to the same family for generations to distinctive, recently built homes for young families with children.
ISBN:9789077213568
Author:Wim Pauwels
Step by Step Home Design and Decorating
Brief summary
The ultimate practical reference tool for home design and decoration, Step by Step Home Design & Decorating is the only book that does everything step-by-step.
When it comes to restyling, redecorating, and sprucing up your home, the big question is where to start. From the planning stages through the finishing touches, everything you need to know to give your home a complete makeover is in Step by Step Home Design & Decorating.
Comprehensive in its scope and utterly practical, Step by Step Home Design & Decorating is an indispensable single-volume reference for anyone restyling their home.
Highlights:
• Covers color schemes, designing layouts, and choosing flooring or lighting
• Learn to make blinds, tile a bathroom, hang wallpaper, and more
• Clear instructions and photography are provided to help at every stage
• Theme tips: "5 ways with rugs" and "10 ways to refresh an old kitchen," etc.
• Includes ideas for a working with a limited budget
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ISBN:9780756689766
Author:DK Publishing
More Garden Woodwork in a Weekend
Brief summary
Richard Blizzard explains clearly and simply how to construct a whole new array of indispensable and stylish garden items using straightforward materials and techniques.
The designs are graded for difficulty and new techniques are introduced progressively so beginners can tackle the simpler projects with confidence, and increase their skills gradually.
Experienced woodworkers are not forgotten, and the more complex projects provide a satisfying challenge that can nevertheless be completed quickly and easily. Full step-by-step instructions throughout are accompanied by 'exploded' isometric drawings to show exactly how each item is constructed, and superb color photographs of the finished projects.
ISBN:9780715311936
Author:Richard E. Blizzard
Flower Arranging
Brief summary
Impressive but achievable flower arranging
Flower Arranging recognizes that we all love fresh flowers in our homes and want to keep them looking fabulous, without costing the earth or being too complicated. This book offers the solutions; with simple step-by-steps and clear photos, you can now create impressive but achievable flower arranging for all occasions - from pretty flowers in the home to striking bouquets for weddings.
Featuring over 70 arrangements, using 38 most widely available flowers. Packed with insider tips and tricks for achieving stunning results with minimum effort and for keeping your flowers fresh and beautiful for as long as possible. There are also features on weddings throughout the year, showing you how to make beautiful pew ends, buttonholes and table arrangements for each season.
While other flower arranging books look impressive, but leave you wondering just how to achieve such beautiful arrangements at home, Flower Arranging isn't just about showing off, it's about showing how.
ISBN:9781405362313
Author:Mark Welford and Stephen Wicks
Classic Kitchens
Brief summary
Classic Kitchens presents around thirty classically inspired kitchen designs, set in a contemporary context. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of photos, providing ideas for creating the classic kitchen, selecting cookers, work surfaces, floors and other features.
ISBN:9789077213667
Author:Beta Plus
Make It in Minutes Faux Flower Arrang...
Brief summary
The craft of faux flower arranging is ready for a contemporary update—and Melody Thompson, a Texas Master Florist, is just the person to do it. Founder of a successful Austin, Texas floral boutique, Melody has extensive experience creating personal and original designs for weddings and special events.
Here, she reveals her secrets for getting professional results in less than one hour. Vivid color photos display 40 beautiful and varied arrangements and styles for accents, centerpieces, wreaths, topiaries, and bouquets.
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ISBN:2030309000007
Author:Melody Thompson
Minimal Living
The Wisdom of Crowds
Brief summary
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world.
ISBN:9780385721707
Author:James Surowiecki