` The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.` John Irving Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn`t seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, & inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she`s facing some serious charges, & she needs Samuel`s help. As Samuel begins to excavate his mother`s
- & his country`s
- history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street, back to Chicago in 1968 &, finally, to wartime Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother
- a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.


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Meet Samuel: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. He hasn`t seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, & inflames a divided America. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she`s facing some serious charges, & she needs Samuel`s help. As Samuel begins to excavate his mother`s
- & his country`s
- history, Nathan Hill`s The Nix moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street, back to Chicago in 1968. Finally we arrive in wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix. Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother
- a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she has kept hidden from the world.


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Personal finance journalist, Michelle Mc Gagh, takes on a challenge to not spend money for a whole year in an engaging narrative that combines personal experience with accessible advice on money so you can learn to spend less & live more. Michelle Mc Gagh has been writing about money for over a decade but she was spending with abandon & ignoring bank statements. Just because she wasn`t in serious debt, apart from her massive London mortgage, she thought she was in control. She wasn`t. Michelle`s took a radical approach & set herself a challenge to not spend anything for an entire year. She paid her bills & she has a minimal budget for her weekly groceries but otherwise Michelle spent no money at all. She found creative ways to live have a social life & to travel for free. She has saved money but more importantly she is happier. Her relationship with money, with things, with time, with others has changed for the better. The No Spend Year is Michelle`s honestly written & personal account of her challenge. But it is more than that, it is also a tool for life. There are top tips for your own finances including easy to understand advice on interest, mortgages, savings, pensions & spending less to help you live a more financially secure life. ...

No time? No excuses! The No Time to Cook Book contains over 100 quick & easy recipes you can cook in 20 minutes or less, from DIY sushi & stir-fry`s in no time to Vietnamese feasts. There`s no longer such a thing as having `no time to cook` as DK comes to the rescue with this innovative recipe book. Recipes are broken down into simple visuals making them as easy to understand as possible. Smart infographics, colourful pie charts & at-a-glance flow diagrams make every step clear. With over 100 recipes you`ll learn to mix the perfect salsa dips, throw together five-minute fajitas or make a curry in a hurry. Leave the takeaway menus in the drawer & take control of your meals again with these simple recipes which you can whip up in no time. ...

This completely new investigation of the fair trade phenomenon looks in depth at the emergence over the last two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. While transnational corporations engage in a race to the bottom for the cheapest suppliers, the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the producers at the start of the chain
- for the coffee producer in Colombia, the cocoa farmer in Ghana or the olive grower in Palestine. Yet even as the fair trade movement has gained momentum it has hit problems of its own
- some have been angered by the granting of a Fairtrade mark to the biggest food corporations, worried that it is becoming just another kind of promotion. Sally Blundell uncovers the origins of fair trade, looks at examples from all over the world of how it is working & asks what it is likely to become.

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Who was the first black queen? How much do you know about China`s history? Most people`s knowledge of world history is hazy & incomplete at best. This No-Nonsense Guide gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories & communities left out of conventional textbooks
- from the civilizations of Africa, Asia & Latin America to the history of women. The updated & revised edition of this best-selling No-Nonsense Guide will include a new chapter from the perspective of the end of the first decade of the 21st century &

Includes:: material on the financial crisis, the world response to climate change, 9/11, the Iraq war, corporate power & China`s headlong growth fit into the broader patterns of world history.


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Population has always been an emotive topic. Understandably
- it`s about sex, birth & death. It`s about food, money, culture
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The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander Mc Call Smith features wayward daughters, missing husbands, philandering partners & curious conmen. If you`ve got an apparently insoluble problem, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s finest
- & only
- female private detective. Her methods may be unconventional but she`s got warmth, wit & canny intuition on her side, not to mention her friend Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. Precious is going to need them all as she sets out on the pitfall-strewn trail of a missing child.

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The No.1 Ladies` detective agency series made Alexander Mc Call Smith a household name in book-reading houses the world over. Featuring Precious Ramotswe
- Botswana’s leading, & only, female private detective
- the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels have been adapted for the screen & become undisputed international bestsellers. In this series -1. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency 2. Tears of the Giraffe 3. Morality of Beautiful Girls 4. The Kalahari Typing School for Men 5. The Full Cupboard of Life 6. The Kalahari Typing School for Men 7. Blue Shoes & Happiness 8. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive 9. The Miracle at Speedy Motors 10. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

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When David Bramwell`s girlfriend left him for someone she described as `younger, but more mature than you`, & citing his endless `selfish projects` as a reason for their relationship breakdown, he decided he had something to learn about giving. So he embarked on a project. Taking a year off, he journeyed through Europe & America seeking out extraordinary communities that could teach him about how to share. Why? He had a few questions he wanted to answer: Is modern life rubbish? Why do so many of us feel lonely & unfulfilled despite a high standard of living? Are there communities out there who hold the key to happiness? & if so, why do so many of their inhabitants insist on dressing in tie-dye? Where? On his travels he visited an anarchist community in the heart of Copenhagen, had some hair-raising experiences in several free love communities, experienced an epiphany in a spiritual caravan park in Scotland & thought he`d found paradise in a Californian community dreamed up by Aldous Huxley. Most impressive of all was Damanhur, a 1000-strong science fiction-style community in the Alps with an underground temple the size of St Paul`s Cathedral, a village of tree houses & a `fully-functioning time machine`. What happened?! Inspired by the people & places he visited, he returned home with a desire to change. Not just himself but also his neighbourhood & city. Find out how he succeeded in this wry & self-deprecatingly funny spiritual journey that asks some big questions & finds the answers surprisingly simple. ...