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Noah Boyd – Agent X Publisher: Harper; Reprint edition (July 26, 2011) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0061827037 | EPUB + MOBI | 480 pages | 1.2 mb + 0.5 mb Steve Vail, once an ace FBI agent, now a bricklayer (The Bricklayer, 2009), arrives in Washington to take Kate Bannon, the bureau’s assistant director, to an embassy soiree. But his romantic mission is sidelined by an urgent summons from the bureau: a Russian embassy staffer, code-named Calculus, is offering to name Americans feeding sensitive information to Russian intelligence. But no sooner than the bureau accepts the Russian’s terms, he is spirited off to Moscow, presumably to be tortured into admitting what he has done. Steve and Kate must identify the moles and reel them in before the Russians snuff them.
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Ninni Holmqvist – The Unit Publisher: Other Press (June 9, 2009) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 1590513134 | EPUB + MOBI | 272 pages | 1.9 mb + 0.5 mb One day in early spring, Dorrit Weger is checked into the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material. She is promised a nicely furnished apartment inside the Unit, where she will make new friends, enjoy the state of the art recreation facilities, and live the few remaining days of her life in comfort with people who are just like her.
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Nina LaCour – Hold Still Publisher: Dutton Juvenile; 1 edition (October 20, 2009) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0525421556 | EPUB + MOBI | 304 pages | 5 mb + 5 mb After losing her best friend, Ingrid, to suicide, Caitlin is completely immobilized. Unable to function, and refusing to visit a therapist, she begins the long journey to wellness alone. During this year of heart-wrenching, raw emotion, Caitlin finds Ingrid’s journal, which not only reveals her descent into irreversible depression, but also serves as Caitlin’s vehicle for renewed hope in the future. The book is written with honesty, revealing one’s pain after the loss of a loved one. Caitlin learns, with the help of new friends and her parents, that there is life after Ingrid.
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Nicole Richie – Priceless: A Novel Publisher: Atria; Reprint edition (May 10, 2011) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 1439166161 | EPUB + MOBI | 304 pages | 0.6 mb + 0.3 mb Tall, blond, and willowy, this twenty-two-year-old seems to have everything going for her—she’s rich and gorgeous, a talented singer, and has just returned to her Park Avenue penthouse after a year studying in Paris. But since her mother’s tragic death years ago, her father, an extremely successful financier, has been her only family—and if she’s being honest, her only true friend.
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Nicole Mones – The Last Chinese Chef Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (June 6, 2008) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0547053738 | EPUB + MOBI | 304 pages | 0.2 mb + 0.4 mb A recently widowed American food writer finds solace and love—and the most inspiring food she’s ever encountered—during a visit to China in Mones’s sumptuous latest. Still reeling from husband Matt’s accidental death a year ago, food writer Maggie McElroy is flummoxed when a paternity claim is filed against Matt’s estate from Beijing, where he sometimes traveled for business.
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Nicole Mones – Lost in Translation Publisher: Delta (May 11, 1999) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0385319444 | EPUB + MOBI | 384 pages | 0.4 mb + 0.6 mb Nicole Mones doesn’t waste any time getting to the heart of the matter in her first novel, Lost in Translation. Within the first 10 pages we discover that protagonist Alice Mannegan, an interpreter based in Beijing, has a yen for sex with Chinese men. By the time we reach page 20, we’ve learned that Alice is in full flight from her father, a racist U.S. congressman, and about to start working for Adam Spencer, an American archeologist on the hunt for the missing bones of one of the century’s biggest scientific finds: Peking man. Having set the stage, Mones steps back and lets her characters do the work as she proceeds to spin a tale that is part mystery, part love story, and part cultural exchange.
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Nicola Keegan – Swimming Publisher: Knopf (July 14, 2009) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0307269973 | EPUB + MOBI | 320 pages | 1.9 mb + 0.5 mb Keegan takes on death, religion, relationships and coming-of-age in her gorgeously stylized and irreverent debut about a rising Olympic swimming star. Not even a year after Philomena Pip Ash is born in 1960s Middle America, her parents put their rambunctious infant in a pool and watch the remarkable sight of a nine-month-old gliding through the water. With some help from Olympic Supercoach Ernest K. Mankovitz, Pip becomes a mercenary swimming machine who wins an unprecedented collection of gold medals in three Olympic games. Though Pip’s connection with water is preternaturally intense, she can’t relate to people, a dilemma heightened by early encounters with death and her innate awareness of loathsome pain and insecurities.
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Realizing the Root of Consciousness by David Hawkins Publisher: Hawkins 2004 | ASIN: n/a | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/128Kbps | 293 MB This is the audio track of the all-day seminar “Realizing the Root of Consciousness: Meditative and Contemplative Techniques” by David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D…
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Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin, “The Hot ‘Cold War’: The USSR in Southern AfricaSouthern ” Publisher: Pluto Press | 2009 | ISBN: 074532472X | PDF | 320 pages | 1.9 MB
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Researching Learning in Virtual Worlds Springer; 1st Edition | February 19, 2010 | ISBN-10: 1849960461 | 193 pages | PDF | 4.57 MB Most of the chapters in this book are extended papers from Research Learning in Virtual Environments (reLIVE08), an international conference held by the UK Open University in Milton Keynes in November 2008.
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