Paul Bailey
1) Uncle Rudolf
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The haunting novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize.
At the age of seventy, Andrew Peters looks back across the years to remember life with his doting Uncle Rudolf, who rescued him from fascist Romania as a child. Vivid, often hilarious, stories of Rudolf's brilliant but blighted singing career are intertwined with the slow unfolding of secrets that have shadowed Andrew's otherwise happy life. Told in matchless...
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'Superhero Syndrome' is a heroic romantic horror that is centered in Freeport, New York. A village on the south shore of Long Island. Robert Smith, a 27 year old man who works behind the customer service counter of a local grocery store 'Cheep prices' is immensely depressed of his life. Although he passionately hates his job, after 8 years he still could not find the motivation to get up, search for better opportunity, and leave. He was trapped, and...
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A story of love and sorrow spanning from London to Romania, from a prize-winning novelist.
Kitty Crozier first laid eyes on Virgil Florescu, a dissident poet who swam across the Danube to escape Ceausescu's Romania, in the hospital. She woke up after surgery to find a stranger sitting beside her bed gazing at her. He just smiled, then stood and left the room.
She next sees him in London's Green Park picking up litter from the grass with a long spike....
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Paige Decker has a fantastic career unraveling the mysteries of her patients' DNA-until a man named Carl Parker, who claims he has been falsely convicted of murder, asks her coworker Leo Cunningham to help investigate.
Delving into the savage killings and burials of three women in a nearby state park, Leo requests new DNA analysis. When the results come back, they reveal startling discoveries that ultimately lead to his murder. Against the advice...
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At some point in our lives, regardless of our age, gender, race, title or ability, we all must rise up and strive to capture the vision of success. This is not an easy task to undertake -- the path to success is fraught with challenges to our body, mind and spirit. If we truly long for personal and organizational achievement, we must first pave that path with the principles and processes of excellence. In this book, the seeds of achievement are planted...
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TWENTY MILLION people have walked the acres of Knott's Berry Farm at Buena Park, California. Its chicken dinners, its wild west atmosphere, its "Ghost Town," are familiarly known to travellers from every part of the world. Less known, perhaps, is the remarkable story of Walter Knott and his family, who have built their strange enterprise into one of the wonder of the west. Here is the story of how a once penniless sharecropper parlayed ten acres of...
8) Toxic Mayhem
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This is Vinson Chard's second book recounting stories about his time working as a Chemical Engineer. He 'spills the beans' on all the shenanigans perpetrated in the world of hazardous waste. The stories are of his hazardous and light-hearted misadventures while on these excursions and the colourful characters he meets along the way, with curious incidents like being shown some of the seedier areas of a Yorkshire city.
There are stories of political...