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That's Another Story:
The Autobiography
by Julie Walters
Julie Walters has been delighting audiences on screen and on stage for more than 25 years, and has been described as Britain's most popular actress and comedienne. Now she tells us her own story, in her own words. She was born in 1950s Birmingham, daughter of an austere Irish Catholic mother, and was sent to college in a convent. She wanted to be an actress from a young age, but to appease her mother she first went into nursing—that didn't last for long, and she soon joined Liverpool's Everyman Theatre. West End success followed, and she quickly replicated her success on film, earning an Academy Award nomination for her role in Educating Rita. Julie's collaborations with her close friend Victoria Wood have given audiences many unforgettable characters, and she's recently charmed a new generation of fans playing Mrs. Weasley in the Harry Potter films, alongside Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia!, co-starring with Helen Mirren in Calendar Girls, and co-starring in Billy Elliot. A natural writer with an instinctive sense of timing, Julie's memoirs are warm, moving, painfully felt, fiercely intelligent—and totally entertaining.
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American Crisis:
Leadership Lessons from
the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Andrew M. Cuomo
Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward.
“An impressive road map to dealing with a crisis as serious as any we have faced.”
—The Washington Post
When COVID-19 besieged the United States, New York State emerged as the global “ground zero” for a deadly contagion that threatened the lives and livelihoods of millions. Quickly, Governor Andrew Cuomo provided the leadership to address the threat, becoming the standard-bearer of the organized response the country desperately needed. With infection rates spiking and more people dying every day, the systems and functions necessary to combat the pandemic in New York—and America—did not exist. So Cuomo undertook the impossible. He unified people to rise to the challenge and was relentless in his pursuit of scientific facts and data. He quelled fear while implementing an extraordinary plan for flattening the curve of infection. He and his team worked day and night to protect the people of New York, despite roadblocks presented by a president incapable of leadership and addicted to transactional politics.
Taking readers beyond the candid daily briefings that became must-see TV across the globe, and providing a dramatic, day-by-day account of the catastrophe as it unfolded, American Crisis presents the intimate and inspiring thoughts of a leader at an unprecedented historical moment. In his own voice, Andrew Cuomo chronicles the ingenuity and sacrifice required of so many to fight the pandemic, sharing the decision-making that shaped his policy as well as his frank accounting and assessment of his interactions with the federal government, the White House, and other state and local political and health officials. Real leadership, he shows, requires clear communication, compassion for others, and a commitment to truth-telling—no matter how frightening the facts may be.
Including a game plan for what we as individuals—and as a nation—need to do to protect ourselves against this disaster and those to come, American Crisis is a remarkable portrait of selfless leadership and a gritty story of difficult choices that points the way to a safer future for all of us.
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Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English author and former politician.
He was a Member of Parliament and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, and became a life peer in 1992. His political career, having suffered several controversies, ended after a conviction for perverting the course of justice and his subsequent imprisonment. He is married to Mary Archer, a scientist specialising in solar power. Outside politics, he is a novelist, playwright and short story writer.
JEFFREY ARCHER BOOKS #1
Kane and Abel series
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1) Kane and Abel
Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. These two men -- ambitious, powerful, ruthless -- are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fuelled by their all-consuming hatred. Over 60 years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have.
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2) The Prodigal Daughter
HER FUTURE IS AMBITION.
With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel’s daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more: to be the first female president.
HIS FUTURE IS WEALTH.
Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world―with the woman he loves.
BUT THEIR PAST HOLDS A SECRET…
With Florentyna’s ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of betrayal and deception reaches out from the past―a blood feud between two generations that threatens to destroy everything Florentyna and Richard have fought to achieve.
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3) Shall We Tell the President?
After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane’s has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life.
The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy—in less than one week? The race to save the first woman president begins now…
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JEFFREY ARCHER BOOKS #2
The Clifton Chronicles Series
1) Only Time Will Tell
Only Time Will Tell is the first in the thrilling Clifton Chronicles series, beginning with the birth of Harry Clifton in the backstreets of Bristol in 1919. The man Harry believes to be his father was a war hero, but it will be 21 years before Harry discovers how he died, and if he was indeed his father. Only Time Will Tell follows Harry from the horrors of the Great War to the Second World War, when Harry must decide between a place at Oxford or joining the fight against Hitler.
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2) The Sins of the Father
In New York, 1939, Tom Bradshaw has been arrested for the murder of his brother. Penniless, he has little choice but to accept the help of Sefton Jelks, a respected Manhattan lawyer, but after Tom is tried and found guilty, Jelks disappears. The only way for Tom to prove his innocence is to reveal his true identity, something he has sworn not to do to protect the young woman he loves. A young woman who is on her way to New York . . .
3) Best Kept secret
In 1945, Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington wait to find out who will inherit the Barrington family fortune. Harry promotes his latest book in America while Giles defends his seat in the House of Commons against a shocking opponent, and in 1957 Harry’s son Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge. But after he is expelled he gets caught up in an international incident that could put his life in jeopardy . . .
4) Be Careful What You Wish For
The fourth novel in the Clifton Chronicles series begins with Henry and Emma Clifton desperate to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, involved in a horrific car accident. Emma fights for control of the family firm, the Barrington Shipping Company, while their daughter becomes engaged to a fellow art college student. Both families look forward to the wedding, until a face from the past pays a visit.
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5) Mightier than the Sword
A shocking IRA attack on the MV Buckingham’s first voyage leaves Emma Clifton fighting for her position as chairman of Barrington Shipping, and Lady Virginia Fenwick will do everything she can to bring her down. Meanwhile, Harry campaigns for the release of author Anatoly Babakov who has been imprisoned in Siberia, and may put his life in danger in the process . . .
6) Cometh the Hour
While Giles Barrington decides whether to give up politics for love and try to rescue Karin from behind the Iron Curtain, Harry continues campaigning for the release of Anatoly Babakov. Elsewhere, Harry’s son Sebastian’s personal life is thrown into turmoil when he falls for Priya. The problem is, her parents have already chosen the man she will marry . . .
7) This Was a Man
The final instalment in the Clifton Chronicles series opens with a gunshot and ends with tragedy. Giles Barrington learns the truth about his wife, Harry sets out to write his greatest book, and his wife Emma receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher.
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JEFFREY ARCHER BOOKS #3
Novels
Not a Penny More,
Not a Penny Less (1976)
The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe!!
A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man.
With nothing left to lose four strangers are about to come together-each expert in their own field. Their plan: find Harvey, shadow him, trap him, and penny-for-penny, destroy him. From the luxurious casinos of Monte Carlo to the high-stakes windows at Ascot to the bustling streets of Wall Street to fashionable London galleries, their own ingenious game has begun. It's called revenge-and they were taught by a master.
First Among Equals (1984)
Playing for the highest stakes of all . . .
In the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions of the race for power with their wives and families, men and women caught up in a dramatic game for the higest stakes of all. But only one man can gain the ultimate goal - the office of Prime Minister.
A Matter of Honour (1986)
It seems innocent enough. A disgraced British colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. But the moment Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, he sets into motion a deadly chain of events that threatens to shake the very foundations of the free world.
Within days, Adam's lover is brutally murdered and he's running for his life through the great cities of Europe, pursued not only by the KGB, but by the CIA and his own countrymen as well. Their common intent is to kill him before the truth comes out. While powerful men in smoke-filled rooms plot ever more ingenious means of destroying him, Adam finds himself betrayed and abandoned even by those he holds most dear.
When at last he comes to understand what he is in possession of, he's even more determined to protect it, for it's more than a matter of life and death-it's a matter of honor.
As the Crow Flies (1991)
Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow. That day comes suddenly when his grandfather dies leaving him the floundering business. With the help of Becky Salmon, an enterprising young woman, Charlie sets out to make a name for himself as "The Honest Trader". But the brutal onset of World War I takes Charlie far from home and into the path of a dangerous enemy whose legacy of evil follows Charlie and his family for generations.
Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century.
Honour Among Thieves (1993)
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As the countdown to Independence Day begins, two agents stand in the way of his nearly flawless plan: Scott Bradley, a rising star in the CIA who is desperate to prove his patriotism, and Hannah Kopec, the stunning Mossad operative who has already lost o much that she fears nothing and trusts no one. Their unrelenting quest to prevent what would undoubtedly be the most humiliating day in U.S. history takes them across four continents and climaxes in a dramatic, triple-twist ending.
Ingeniously plotted and as up-to-the-minute as today's headlines, Honor Among Thieves resonates with the brilliant pace that is the trademark of master storyteller Jeffrey Archer.
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JEFFREY ARCHER BOOKS #4
Novels
The Fourth Estate (1996)
Lubji Hoch survived World War II on luck, guts, and ruthlessness. At the war's end, renamed Richard Armstrong, he buys a floundering newspaper in Berlin and deviously puts his competitors out of business. But it isn't enough. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Keith Townsend, the Oxford-educated son of a millionaire newspaper owner, takes over his family's business. His energy and brilliant strategic thinking quickly make him the leading newspaper publisher in Australia. Still, he longs to move on to the world stage.
As both Armstrong and Townsend seize control of everything they see, their ambitions collide on a global scale. But suddenly they both find themselves threatened by finicial disaster and enormous debt. Frantic to save his crumbling empire, each man turns desperate. One's quest will lead to triumph, the other's will end in tragedy in this awesome tale of wealth and corruption, desire and destruction.
The Eleventh Commandment (1998)
![[Image: IMG-20201111-022734.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/dfPYJTZ/IMG-20201111-022734.jpg) Connor Fitzgerald is a professional's professional. Holder of the Medal of Honor. Devoted family man. Servant of his country. But for the past twenty-eight years, Fitzgerald has been leading a double life as the CIA's most deadly assassin. And only days before his retirement from the CIA, he comes across an enemy who, for the first time, even he cannot handle. The enemy is his own boss - Helen Dexter - the director of the CIA. Dexter's stranglehold on the agency is threatened by one decision, and her only hope of survival is to destroy Fitzgerald. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a formidable new foe is threatening the United States: a ruthless hard-line Russian president, who is determined to force a new military confrontation between the two superpowers.
From emergency meetings in the Oval Office to a Russian mafya boss's luxurious hideaway outside St. Petersburg, The Eleventh Commandment sweeps readers off their feet from the first paragraph. As in Jeffrey Archer's previous bestsellers, The Eleventh Commandment features enough plot-twisting ingenuity, exotic characterization, and narrative surprise to take the art of thriller writing to a new level. In his latest novel, Jeffrey Archer is at the peak of his page-turning powers.
Sons of Fortune (2002)
![[Image: IMG-20201111-022631.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/h9g823v/IMG-20201111-022631.jpg) It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny.
In the late 1940's in Hartford, Connecticut a set of twins is parted at birth. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a collegeteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher Andrew Davenport, the only son of a multi-millionaire and his society wife.
During the years that follow, the two brothers grow up unaware of each other's existence. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam. He returns a war hero, finishes college and becomes a successful banker. Fletcher, meanwhile, has graduated from Yale University and distinguishes himself as a criminal defense lawyer before he is elected to the Senate.
Even when Nat and Fletcher fall in love with the same girl they still don't meet. They continue on their separate paths until one has to defend the other for a murder he did not commit. But the final confrontation comes when Nat and Fletcher are selected to stand against each other for governor of the state.
In the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, Sons of Fortune is as much a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of two remarkable men and how, eventually, they come to discover the truth - and its extraordinary consequences...
False Impression (2005)
When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her and the possible motive for her death – a priceless Van Gogh painting. It’s a young woman in the North Tower when the first plane crashed into the building who has the courage and determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady’s death.
Anna Petrescu is missing, presumed dead, after 9/11 and she uses her new status to escape from America, only to be pursued across the world from Toronto to London, to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest, but it is only when she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds. Why are so many people willing to risk their own lives and others' to own the Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear?
Jeffrey Archer, one of the greatest popular novelists of our generation, delivers a truly page-turning thriller.
A Prisoner of Birth (2008)
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If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe his side of the story?
Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped.
However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny's determination to seek revenge, and Beth's relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives.
Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters that will remain with you long after you've turned the last page.
And if that is not enough, prepare for an ending that will shock even the most ardent of Archer's fans
Paths of Glory (2009)
![[Image: IMG-20201111-022539.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/BN9v1qj/IMG-20201111-022539.jpg) Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. People like Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong—their unparalleled success has made their stories into legend.
But what if one man had such a dream, and once he’d achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition?
Jeffrey Archer’s new novel, Paths of Glory, is the story of such a man—George Mallory. Born in 1886, he was a brilliant student who became part of the Bloomsbury Group at Cambridge in the early twentieth century and served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I. After the war, he married, had three children, and would have spent the rest of his life as a collegeteacher, but for his love of mountain climbing.
Mallory once told a reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, “because it is there.” On his third try in 1924, at age thirty-seven, he was last seen four hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999, and it remains a mystery whether he and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, ever reached the summit.
In fact, not until you’ve turned the last page of Archer’s extraordinary novel will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to that list of legends, while another name would have to be removed. Paths of Glory is truly a triumph.
Heads You Win (2018)
This program is read by Richard Armitage.
With a final twist that will shock even his most ardent listeners, Heads You Win is #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel.
Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America, or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to the toss of a coin . . .
In a single moment, a double twist decides Alexander’s future. During an epic tale of fate and fortune, spanning two continents and thirty years, we follow his triumphs and defeats as he struggles as an immigrant to conquer his new world. As this unique story unfolds, Alexander comes to realize where his destiny lies, and accepts that he must face the past he left behind in Russia.
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JEFFREY ARCHER BOOKS #5
Short stories/collections
A Quiver Full of Arrows
(including "Old Love") (1980)
Ordinary Heros,
Extraordinary Deeds
The bestselling author of Kane & Abel, The Prodigal Daughter and Honor Among Theives once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies his legions of fans.
From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from the gloom of oppression. Fortunes are made and squandered, honor betrayed and redeemed, and love lost and rediscovered.
Embracing the passions that drive men and women to love and to hate, the short stories in A Quiver Full of Arrows will captivate the hearts and souls of readers of everywhere.
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A Twist in the Tale (1988)
No one can weave a web of suspense, deliver a jolt of surprise, or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. From Africa to the Middle East, and from London to Beijing, Archer takes us to places we've never seen and introduces us to people we'll never forget.
Meet the philandering husband who thinks he's committed the perfect murder; the self-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higher than cash; and the finance minister who needs to crack the secrets of a Swiss bank. Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget.
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Twelve Red Herrings (1994)
Jeffrey Archer, the internationally bestselling author of Honor Among Thieves, As The Crow Flies, and Kane & Abel, now serves up this inventive new collection of a dozen short stories -- with a twist. Cleverly styled, with richly drawn characters and ingeniously plotted story lines, each of the twelve pieces ends with a delightfully unexpected turn of events.
An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive....A female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle....A young artist gets the biggest break of her career....A restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration....An escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list pays an involuntary visit to his homeland. In each tale, human beings are given an opportunity to seize, a crucial problem to solve, or a danger to avoid. How will they react? How would you? Capping off the collection are two additional rewards. In the final story, Archer offers a choice of four endings. And buried in each story is another diversion -- a red herring which Archer challenges his readers to uncover.
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To Cut a Long Story Short (2000)
From the master storyteller comes a masterful collection of fourteen riveting tales of elaborate confidence tricks, political chicanery, immoral behavior, and dangerously illicit affairs, rendered with the breathtaking narrative twists that have become the Jeffrey Archer hallmark.
Here are all new stories that will engross and astonish, peopled with a rich assortment of truly memorable characters: the intoxicating woman who appears to her lover only once every six years; the British diplomat who employs his rather creative -- if not entirely ethical -- financial talents for a greater good; the millionaire who declares himself bankrupt to test the love and loyalties of those closest to him.
This is Jeffrey Archer at the top of his form, as he offers us unique fables of our time and civilization, each one shining a harsh yet hypnotic light on that fascinating, complex being called "human."
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Cat O'Nine Tales (2006)
While incarcerated for two years in five different prisons, Jeffrey Archer picked up several ideas for short stories. They range from a tale of ‘The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office’, to the story of a company chairman who tried to poison his wife while on a trip to St Petersburg – both with unexpected consequences.
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JEFFREY ARCHER BOOKS #6
Other Short Stories/collection
And Thereby Hangs a Tale (2010)
Jamwal and Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi…thus begins one of the 15 short stories Jeffrey Archer has gathered from around the globe during the past five years in this, his sixth collection, of enthralling short stories.
From Germany comes Masterpiece, the tale of a priceless oil painting that has remained in the same family for over 200 years, until…
To the Channel Islands, and Members Only, where a golf ball falls out of a Christmas cracker and a young man’s life will never be the same again…
To Italy, where a young man trying to book a hotel room ends up in bed with the receptionist, unaware that she…
To England, where, in High Heels, a woman explains to her husband why a pair of designer shoes couldn’t have gone up in flames because…
Some of these stories will make you laugh. Others will bring you to tears. And once again, every one of them will keep you spellbound.
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The New Collected Short Stories (2011)
Collects To Cut a Long Story Short,
Cat O'Nine Tales, and
And Thereby Hangs a Tale
Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service - but for a good cause. In 'Caste-Off', Jamwal & Nisha fall in love while waiting for a traffic light to turn green in Delhi, and in 'Don't drink the water', a company chairman tries to poison his wife while on a trip to St.Petersburg - with unexpected consequences...
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In the Eye of the Beholder:
A Short Story (2011)
Previously published in the anthology Cat O'Nine Tales, this is the story of a star athlete who has a fateful run-in with a three-hundred pound woman.
One of the author's own personal favorites, In the Eye of the Beholder is Jeffrey Archer at his best—witty, suspenseful, sad, surprising, and unforgettable.
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Four Warned (Quick Reads, 2014)
Four shorts stories,
all previously published
(in Twelve Red Herrings,
Cat O'Nine Tales and
And Thereby Hangs a Tale)
These four short stories from a master storyteller are packed full of twists and turns.
In Stuck on You, Jeremy finds out exactly the best way to steal the perfect ring for his fiancée.
Albert celebrates his 100th birthday, and is pleased to be sent The Queen's Birthday Telegram. He is, however, confused . . .
In Russia, businessman Richard plots the ideal way to murder his wife. He begins to have a clever idea when his hotel warns him: Don't Drink the Water from the taps.
And as Diana, a busy single mother, drives to have dinner with friends, she realises that a black van is following her. Soon terrified for her life, she does whatever it takes to stick to the warning given to drivers: Never Stop on the Motorway . . .
Every reader will have their favourite story – some will make you laugh, others will bring you to tears. And, as always, every one of them will keep you spellbound.
Quick Reads is a World Book Day initiative.
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The Collected Short Stories
This book is an amazing collection of 36 shortstories from a master storyteller combining romance, history, danger, twists, international intrigue, and domestic angst.
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JEFFREY ARCHER BOOKS #7
'A Prison Diary' Book series
A Prison Diary is a series of three books of diaries written by Jeffrey Archer during his time in prisons following his convictions for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
Each volume is named after a part of Dante's The Divine Comedy. The volumes become progressively longer due to his stay being longer and longer at each prison in which he was confined.
Volume 1
Belmarsh: Hell
DAY 5 MONDAY 23 JULY 2001 5.53AM
The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting – his first offence, not even convicted – and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.
On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain ‘s most violent criminals. This is the author's daily record of the time he spent there.
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Volume 2
Wayland: Purgatory
On August 9, 2001, 22 days after Archer--now known as Prisoner FF8282--was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from a maximum security prison in London to HMP Wayland, a medium security prison in Norfolk. For the next 67 days, as he waited to be reclassified for an "open," minimum security prison, he encountered not only the daily degradations of a dangerously overstretched prison system but also the spirit and courage of his fellow inmates.
Purgatory: A Prison Diary, Volume 2, is Archer's frank, shocking, sometimes humorous, sometimes horrifying account of those 67 days.
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Volume 3
North Sea Camp: Heaven
Heaven, Jeffrey Archer's final volume in his trilogy of prison diaries, covers the period of his transfer from a medium security prison, HMP Wayland, to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration there, and also shines a harsh light on a system that is close to its breaking point.
Told with humor, compassion, and honesty, the diary closes with a thought-provoking manifesto that will be applauded by reform advocates and the prison population alike.
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JEFFREY ARCHER BOOKS #8
Detective William Warwick Series
New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer introduces William Warwick with the words:
“This is not a detective story, this is a story about a detective.”
BOOK 1:
Nothing Ventured
![[Image: IMG-20201119-001737.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/hBdS3fk/IMG-20201119-001737.jpg) Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . .
William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father’s dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London’s Metropolitan security officer Force.
After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case as a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard’s arts and antiquities squad. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with, even as Beth guards a secret of her own that she’s terrified will come to light.
While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece, he comes up against suave art collector Miles Faulkner and his brilliant lawyer, Booth Watson QC, who are willing to bend the law to breaking point to stay one step ahead of William. Meanwhile, Miles Faulkner’s wife, Christina, befriends William, but whose side is she really on?
This new series introduces William Warwick, a family man and a detective who will battle throughout his career against a powerful criminal nemesis. Through twists, triumph and tragedy, this series will show that William Warwick is destined to become one of Jeffrey Archer’s most enduring legacies.
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BOOK 2:
Hidden in Plain Sight
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William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Khalil Rashidi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London.
As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from his college days, now a street dealer who he convinces to turn informer; and financier Miles Faulkner, who makes a mistake that could finally see him put behind bars. Meanwhile, William and his fiancée Beth enjoy making preparations for their upcoming wedding, though an unpleasant surprise awaits them at the altar.
As William’s team closes the net around a criminal network like none they have ever faced before, he devises a trap they would never expect, one that is hidden in plain sight . . .
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BOOK 3:
Turn a Blind Eye
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Turn a Blind Eye is the third installment in the gripping story of Detective Inspector William Warwick, by the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles.
Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan security officer Force. Along with detectives Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers.
Meanwhile, notorious drug baron Ahmed Rashidi goes on trial, defended by Booth Watson QC, while William's father Sir Julian and sister Grace lead the prosecution case. And William's wife Beth, now a new mother to twins, makes a surprising new friend in Christina Faulkner--the ex-wife of William's former rival, criminal financier Miles - who has not only turned over a new leaf, but also has a new-found source of income when Faulkner dies suddenly of a heart attack and she stands to be sole inheritor of his estate.
As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes that the corruption may go deeper still, and more of his colleagues than he first thought might be willing to turn a blind eye.
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Troubled Blood (15 Sept. 2020)
[Cormoran Strike Series #5]
Novel by J. K. Rowling
(Pseudonym : Robert Galbraith)
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough — who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.
As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . .
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Travel Gods Must Be Crazy
by Sudha Mahalingam
Ever suffered the collective flatulence of eighty co-passengers while sailing on a serene Asian river? Or called out for rescue in true Bollywood style while locked up in a minaret in Persia? Or had to cross a pack of hyenas en route to the loo?
Dreaming of glorious sunrises and architectural marvels in exotic places, Sudha often landed up in situations that were uproariously bizarre or downright dangerous. Tongue firmly in cheek, she recounts her journeys through the raw wildernesses of Borneo and the African savannah, into the deserts of Iran and Uzbekistan, and up the Annapurna and the Pamirs, revealing the quirky side of solo travel to side-splitting effect. Punctuating her droll stories with breathtaking descriptions and stunning photographs, Sudha invites readers on an unexpected and altogether memorable tour around the world!
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Barney White-Spunner
Berlin: The Story of a City
Telling the story of its people and its rulers, from its medieval origins up to the present day, Berlin is a fascinating and informative history of an extraordinary city from the author of the international bestseller Partition.
Berlin is Europe’s most fascinating and exciting city. It is and always has been a city on the edge – geographically, culturally, politically and morally. The great movements that have shaken Europe, from the Reformation to Marxism have their origins in Berlin’s streets. The long-time capital of Prussia and of the Hohenzollern dynasty it has never, paradoxically, been a Prussian city. Instead it has always been a city of immigrants, a city that accepts everyone and turns them into Berliners. A typical Berliner, it is said, is someone who has just arrived at the railway station.
With its unique dialect, exceptional museums, experimental cultural scene, its liberated social life and its open and honest approach to its history, with monuments to the Holocaust as prominent as its rebuilt royal palace, it is as challenging a city as it is absorbing. And it has always been like that, since its medieval foundation as twin fishing villages. Too often Berlin is seen through the prism of Nazism and its role on the front line in the Cold War. Important, frightening and interesting as those periods are, its history starts much further ago than that.
As approachable for the casual visitor to Berlin as it is informative for those who enjoy reading history, Berlin: The Story of a City is as fascinating as its subject.
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A Suitable Boy (1993)
Novel by Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find—through love or through exacting maternal appraisal—a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.
The novel is divided into 19 parts with, generally, each part focusing on a different subplot. Each part is described in rhyming couplet form on the contents page. A sequel, to be called A Suitable Girl, was due for publication in 2017. As of 2020 this was still unpublished though Seth confirmed in a 2018 interview that he was still working on the book as well as more material in the A Suitable Boy universe to be collectively called A Bridge of Leaves.
A six-part series adapted from the novel and titled A Suitable Boy, directed by Mira Nair, written by Andrew Davies and starring Tabu, Ishaan Khatter, Tanya Maniktala and Rasika Dugal, among others, is broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from Sunday, 26 July 2020.
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కొమరం భీము
(జీవితం - పోరాటం)
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కాసుల ప్రతాపరెడ్డి
కొమురం భీమ్, (అక్టోబర్ 22, 1901 - అక్టోబర్ 27, 1940) హైదరాబాదు విముక్తి కోసం అసఫ్ జహి రాజవాసానికి వ్యతిరేకంగా పోరాడిన ఆదిలాబాద్ జిల్లాకు చెందిన గిరిజనోద్యమ నాయకుడు. ఇతను ఆదిలాబాద్ అడవులలో, గోండు ఆదివాసుల కుటుంబంలో జన్మించారు. గిరిజన గోండు తెగకు చెందిన కొమరం చిన్నూ- సోంబారు దంపతులకు ఆదిలాబాద్ జిల్లా, ఆసిఫాబాద్ తాలూకాలోని సంకేపల్లి గ్రామంలో 1901 సంవత్సరంలో జన్మించాడు. పదిహేనేళ్ల వయసులో అటవీశాఖ సిబ్బంది జరిపిన దాడిలో తండ్రి మరణించగా, కొమరం కుటుంబం కరిమెర ప్రాంతంలోని సర్ధాపూర్కు వలస వెళ్లింది. కొమరం భీమ్ నిజాం ప్రభుత్వానికి వ్యతిరేకంగా గెరిల్లా శైలిలో పోరాడాడు. ఇతను అడవిని జీవనోపాధిగా చేసుకొని, అన్ని రకాల నిజాం అధికారాలను (అనగా న్యాయస్థానాలు, చట్టాలు) తోసిపుచ్చాడు. అతను నిజాం నవాబ్ సైనికులకు వ్యతిరేకంగా ఆయుధాలు తీసుకున్నాడు. పశువుల కాపర్లపై విధించిన సుంకానికి వ్యతిరేకంగా ఉద్యమించి వీరమరణం పొందాడు.
డౌన్లోడు లింక్ — కొమరం భీము
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Hi vikatakavi gaaru,
మీ e books collection అమోఘం. Rgv గారు రాసిన నా ఇష్టం బుక్ లింక్ పెట్టండి సార్ ప్లీస్.
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నవల - ప్రజలు
[Navala - Prajalu]
Author: Ralph Fox
Translation : Pallampati Venkatasubbiah
రష్యాలోనూ, తూర్పు యూరోపియన్ దేశాల్లోనూ మార్క్సిజం శాశ్వతంగా కూలిపోయిందని చాలా మంది భావిస్తున్న ఈ తరుణంలో రాల్ఫ్ఫాక్స్ను అనువదించటమేమిటని కొందరు ఆశ్చర్యపోవచ్చు. కానీ రాల్ఫ్ఫాక్స్ను అనువదించటానికి ఇదే సరైన సమయమని నేను భావిస్తున్నాను. అతడు రాసిన "నవల - ప్రజలు” అన్న ఈ పుస్తకమూ, ఇతర సాహిత్య, రాజకీయ వ్యాసాలూ ఈనాడు మరింత శ్రద్ధగా చదవాల్సిన అవసరం ఉంది. తూర్పు యూరోపియన్ దేశాల్లో జరిగిన పరిణామాలు తప్పుదారి పట్టిన మార్క్సిస్టు రాజకీయాలను మన దృష్టికి తీసుకువచ్చినట్టే మార్క్సిస్టు సాహిత్య విమర్శలో జరిగిన, జరుగుతూ ఉన్న తప్పిదాలను రాల్ఫ్ఫాక్స్ మన దృష్టికి తీసుకువస్తాడు. అతని అభిప్రాయాలతో మనం ఏకీభవించినా, ఏకీభవించకపోయినా సాహిత్య మేధావులందరూ రాల్ఫ్ఫాక్స్ రచనల్ని శ్రద్ధగా అధ్యయనం చేయవలసిన అవసరం ఉంది.
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నా ఇష్టం [Naa Istam]
బై
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చొప్పదంటు ప్రశ్నలు
by మహీధర నళినీమోహన్
తుమ్ములు ఎందుకు వస్తాయి ?
గబ్బిలాలు తలకిందులుగా ఎందుకు వేలాడుతాయి ?
మేఘాలు ఎందుకు ఉరుముతాయి ?
ఆవులు ఎందుకు నెమరు వేస్తాయి ?
చీరండలు ఎందుకు అరుస్తాయి ?
చలికాలంలో తెల్లారకట్ట నోట్లోంచి ఆవిరి ఎందుకు వస్తుంది ?
సాలీడు గూడు దేనితో ఆల్లుతుంది ?
సాయంత్రం సూర్యుడు ఎర్రగా ఎందుకుంటాడు ?
జంతువులకీ భాషలున్నాయా ?
స్తంభం కనిపిస్తే కుక్క ఉచ్చ పోస్తుంది ఎందుకు ?
ఈ విధంగా చురుకైన పిల్లలు పుంఖాను పుంఖంగా చేసే ప్రశ్నలకి సరియైన సమాధానాలు ఏరగని పెద్దలు “ఇల్లాంటి చొప్పదంటు ప్రశ్నలు వెయ్యకపోతే బళ్ళో చెప్పిన పాఠాలు వల్లించుకో కూడదుట్రా ? భడవకొనా ?" అని కసిరి వాళ్ళ ఉత్సాహాన్ని చప్పగా చల్లార్చేస్తూ వుంటారు ? ప్రశ్న వేయడానికి భయపడే స్థితికి తెస్తారు ఆటువంటి పిల్లల్ని అవి చొప్పదంటు ప్రశ్నలు మాత్రం కావు. వీటికి సమాధానాల కోసం హేమా హేమీల్లాంటి సైంటిస్టులు తరతరాలుగా నానా క్రమ పడుతున్నారు. కొన్నిటికి జవాబులు దొరికే కొన్ని ప్రశ్నలు ఇంకా దురవగాహంగానే మిగిలిపోయాయి.
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చంఘిజ్ఖాన్ (Genghis Khan)
by తెన్నేటి సూరి (Tenneti Suri)
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‘చంఘిజ్ఖాన్’ నవల రాస్తున్నప్పుడు తెన్నేటి సూరిని ఒక మిత్రుడు అడిగాడట: ‘‘నువ్వు వ్రాస్తున్నది చంఘిజ్ఖాన్ జీవితమా లేక వారం వారం వెలువడుతున్న వర్తమాన రాజకీయాల సమీక్షా?’’ ఈ నవల వెలువడిన కాలం 1950. నవలలో చిత్రించిన ఆసియా కుళ్లు రాజకీయాలు 12, 13 శతాబ్దాల నాటివి. కాలం తప్ప ఏమీ మారలేదు. ‘చరిత్ర పుటలు వెనక్కు తిరగబడుతున్నాయా?’ అదీ ఈ నవల ప్రాసంగికత. చరిత్రలో రాక్షసుడిగా, పరమ క్రూరుడైన హంతక నియంతగా చిత్రించబడిన చంఘిజ్ఖాన్ కాలంనాటి సామాజిక రాజకీయ పరిస్థితులను చిత్రిస్తూ, చంఘిజ్ఖాన్లోని ‘మహోన్నత మానవవాది’ని అర్థం చేయించడానికి సూరి ఈ నవలను సంకల్పించారు.
ఎవడు ఎప్పుడు మీద పడి, ఆడవాళ్లనూ సంపదనూ దోచుకెళ్తాడో తెలియని అరాచక కాలంలో మంగోలియాలో జన్మించాడు చంఘిజ్ఖాన్. అసలు పేరు టెముజిన్. అంటే ఉక్కుమనిషి అని అర్థం. మన చేతిలోని ఆయుధాన్ని నిర్ణయించేది శత్రువు చేతిలోని ఆయుధమే, అని నమ్మాడు టెముజిన్. మహత్తరమైన సైనిక శక్తిని సిద్ధం చేశాడు. ‘123 గుడిసెలు, లేక డేరాలు గల ఒక బంజారీ తండా నాయకుడు ప్రపంచంలో ముప్పాతిక వంతు వరకూ జయించి మూడు శతాబ్దాల పర్యంతం స్వర్ణయుగాన్ని అనుభవించిన ఒక మహా సామ్రాజ్యాన్ని ఎలా స్థాపించగలిగాడు?’ మానవుడిగా అతను ఎలాంటి స్వభావం కలవాడు? అతనిలో వున్న బలీయమైన గుణసంపత్తి ఏమిటి? ‘నీకున్నది మాత్రమే బలం కాదు శత్రువు నీకుందని నమ్మేది కూడా నీ బలమే!’ అన్న యుద్ధసూక్తిని అనుసరించి ఎలా శత్రువులను బోల్తా కొట్టించాడు? ఎలాంటి అనితరసాధ్యమైన యుద్ధవ్యూహాలను రచించాడు? చివరకు ప్రపంచాన్ని జయించే చంఘిజ్ఖాన్ (జగజ్జేత) ఎలా కాగలిగాడు? అన్న ప్రశ్నలకు నవల సమాధానం చెబుతుంది.
తెన్నేటి సూరి
తెన్నేటి సూరి వివిధ గ్రంథాలను, ముఖ్యంగా హెన్రీ హెచ్, హౌవర్త్ రాసిన మంగోల్ హిస్టరీని అధ్యయనం చేసి, దానికి అనుగుణంగా టెముజిన్తోపాటు, చమూగా, కరాచర్, తుఘ్రల్ఖాన్, భగత్తూర్, ‘షామాన్’, యూలన్, కూలన్ లాంటి పాత్రలకు ప్రాణప్రతిష్ట చేసిన నవల ఇది.
డౌన్లోడు లింక్ — చంఘిజ్ఖాన్
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