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War
(Hardcover)
Bob Woodward
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.
War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power.
With unrivaled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden’s approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III.
The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president.
War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate.
Woodward’s reporting once again sets the standard for journalism at its most authoritative and illuminating.
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Unleashed
(Paperback)
Boris Johnson
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Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial,
untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming
Britain’s prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist,
two terms as London’s mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and
acting as foreign secretary. He won the largest Tory majority since
1987 when he went to the polls in December 2019 for a mandate to ‘Get
Brexit Done’ – only to have his administration hit by the global Covid
pandemic and toppled in a Tory putsch.
Unleashed is his account of his time in politics, and a book that
shatters the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir. Written in
his inimitable style, it is honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing
about the politician who has dominated our times.
This is his story of the fifteen years since he trounced Ken
Livingstone at the polls to become mayor of London. Riots, tackling
knife crime, bikes, buses, the London Olympics, and so much more. He
writes about his role in Brexit, takes readers through all the big
decisions and his reasons for taking them, and describes how he nearly
died from Covid.
Underlying everything in the book is his view that the UK is an
extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future. These are
the reflections of a political leader who believes fundamentally in
levelling up – that there are millions of people in Britain who do not
have the present they need or the future they deserve, and that it is
the first job of politicians to put this right.
It is all here. From soup to nuts, warts and all. As a journalist he
was famed as a blurter of unsayable truths, and he has drawn again on
this quality for the book. About people, policies, mistakes and
triumphs. This is it – the reality as he saw it: unvarnished, unlocked,
unleashed.
Tuiskokke Isabella Niehaus en Louis Jansen van Vuuren span weer saam om
uitsonderlike publikasie van vegan geregte saam te stel.
Nadat hulle die Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in 2023 gewen het met
Daar’s Vegan op my Verandah as die beste vegan kookboek in die wêreld
kom hulle nou met splinternuwe plantgebaseerde kosboek, Skepselkos wat
ook in Engels beskikbaar is as Earthling Food.
Met hierdie unieke boek is dit nie net die twee glanssjefs wat hul
kragte saamspan nie, maar hulle word ook bygestaan deur tien vriende
wat almal bekende sjefs en kundiges op kosgebied is. Hierdie gesprekke
tussen die skrywers en hul vriende skep besondere agter-die-skerms
situasie wat kyk na die inspirasie en kreatiwiteit agter Suid-Afrika se
plantgebaseerde koservaring.
Lesers sal geïnspireer word deur die stories en resepte wat
waardering skep vir plantgebaseerde kos. Die resepte is toeganklik met
alledaagse bestanddele wat maklik beskikbaar is. Met
Skepselkos/Earthling Food nooi Isabella en Louis jou uit om op
uitsonderlike kulinêre avontuur te gaan. Hierdie boek bied iets vir
almal, of jy nou ervare sjef of nuweling in die kombuis is. Dit is
meer as net kookboek – dit neem jou op reis van geur, kultuur en
kreatiwiteit wat blywende indruk sal laat en jou ook sal inspireer om
met plantgebaseerde disse te eksperimenteer.
From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story
that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era
Italy to the present day.
It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola
Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the
island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with
glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her
father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her
work supports the Rosso family fortunes.
Skipping like a stone through the centuries, in a Venice where time
moves as slowly as molten glass, we follow Orsola and her family as
they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a
plague devastating Venice to Continental soldiers stripping its
palazzos bare, from the domination of Murano and its maestros to the
transformation of the city of trade into a city of tourists. In every
era, the Rosso women ensure that their work, and their bonds, endure.
Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is as
inventive as it is spellbinding: a mesmerizing portrait of a woman, a
family, and a city as everlasting as their glass.
Join actress, activist, and New York Times bestselling author Pamela Anderson on a deeply personal culinary journey that harmonizes style, compassion, and the pleasures of plant-based cooking.
In a career spanning fame and activism, Pamela Anderson has ventured from a humble upbringing to the forefront of Hollywood—and has always been a passionate cook and gardener. Now, she invites you into her kitchen to share 80 delicious recipes that nourish the soul.
This cookbook began as a box of recipe cards: a housewarming gift for her sons inspired by homegrown traditions and world travel. It grew to become her gift to you, showing how romantic, comforting, and indulgent it can be to cook only with vegetables.
At Pamela’s down-to-earth fairy kingdom on Vancouver Island, you’ll join her on the dock for chicory dandelion coffee and whipped cranberry porridge, for picnics in the forest with a green goddess mason jar salad and tomato galette, and at the dinner table for her anti-inflammatory lentil soup, minty pea-potato pierogis, and more.
She also shares her love affair with bread, from maple-glazed cinnamon rolls to rustic sourdough loaves and fougasse dipped in herby pistou, alongside insights into life, love, entertaining guests, and preserving nature’s bounty.
Exclusive Edition including the short story, 'Colour & Light',
exclusive endpapers - a Standard Edition is also available
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem
to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and
apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s
medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships
with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and
Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always
seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib
elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets
Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and
their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new
interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to
find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
Surviving a helicopter crash in the Vietnamese Highlands is only the
start of the challenges facing Jack Ryan, Jr., in the latest propulsive
thriller of this #1 New York Times bestselling series.
The vibrant economy of the new Vietnam is a shiny lure for Western
capital. Companies are racing to uncover ideal opportunities. Not
wanting to be left behind, Hendley Associates has sent their best
analyst, Jack Ryan, Jr., to mine for investment gold. And he may have
found some in a rare earth mining company, GeoTech.
But a trip with a Hendley colleague to observe the company's operations
takes a treacherous turn when their helicopter is shot down. Some
things haven't changed, and Vietnam is still the plaything of powerful
neighbours. The Chinese are determined to keep Jack from finding the
truth about what exactly is being processed at the isolated factory.
Now Jack is in a race for his life. He's got to stay one step ahead of
a pack of killers while supporting his wounded friend. And he'll get no
help from the government, because in the jungle, it's the shadow state
that rules.
IN COLD CASES,
IT'S NOT THE HOPE THAT KILLS YOU.
IT'S THE WAITING.
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard gets a DNA hit in a case that has gone
unsolved for twenty years. A recently arrested man is genetically
related to a serial rapist who terrorised the city of angels.
But when the relative is revealed, it is the last person you want to
accuse unless the evidence is watertight...
With the help of the newest volunteer to the cold case unit - patrol
officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter - Ballard finally has another
badge on the team. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access
to the city's library of souls.
Because some crimes have been waiting to be solved longer than others...
An electrifying and authoritative page-turner from one of the greatest
crime writers of all-time - the author behind Amazon Prime's Bosch and
Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer.
'What will we find in the uncut grass?'
'It depends on what we’re looking for.'
From Trevor Noah, the author of the #1 bestselling memoir Born a Crime,
comes a gorgeously illustrated fable in the tradition of The Boy, the
Mole, the Fox and the Horse about a young child’s journey into the
world beyond the shadow of home, a magical landscape where he discovers
the secrets of solidarity, connection, and finding peace with the
people we love.
Infused with Trevor’s signature wit and imagination, in collaboration
with visionary artist Sabina Hahn, it's a tale for readers of all ages
– to be read aloud or read alone.
In The Syndicate of Twenty-two Natives Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo offers an
elegy to her father, the late Professor Stan Sangweni, which explores
the personal saga of a family’s lineage rooted in eZuka on Suspence
Farm, Newcastle, in what is now northern KwaZulu-Natal.
In turn, Prof Sangweni opens a window into a past where his
grandfather, with foresight and ingenuity, became part of The Syndicate
of Twenty-two Natives, a group that secured land for their families,
including his family of seven wives, and for succeeding generations at
a time when Black people in South Africa were being systematically
dispossessed of their land.
While packing up her father’s study as her parents prepare to move from
their home after 27 years, Lindiwe and her father uncover his lifelong
collection of documents and pictures that detail the intricacies of his
life as a devoted family man, an ANC veteran and anti-apartheid
activist, a pioneer of public service excellence in post-apartheid
South Africa and an inveterate stickler for detail in every aspect of
his life. Inspiring, often humorous, occasionally cataclysmically
disruptive and generally victorious, this memoir is a tribute and a
testament to the enduring legacy of those who pave the way amidst the
trials of history for future generations.
The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a moving novel about a pianist in Berlin on the cusp of WWII and the choices she makes that echo across time and continents.
Berlin, 1938. Against the backdrop of pre-WWII Berlin, British pianist Audrey James and her best friend Isle face the imminent threat of Nazi oppression. When Ilse's family disappears and Nazi officers confiscate their home, Audrey becomes their housekeeper and Ilse is forced into hiding in the attic-a prisoner in her own home. As borders close and rumours of death camps swirl, Audrey makes the life-changing decision to join the covert resistance and risk everything to protect her loved ones.
Alnwick, 2010. After a tragic accident, Kate Mercer packs her things and moves to work at a guest house near the Scottish border. Instead of finding solace, Kate becomes entangled in the secrets of her mysterious elderly proprietor...
Inspired by true stories of courageous women and the German resistance during WWII, this is a captivating story about the unbreakable bonds of friendship and family.
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Lucky Day
(Paperback)
Beth Morrey
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A fierce, joyful and uplifting novel about putting life on pause, pleasing yourself, and getting your own back. Whatever it takes.
After a morning that starts with a terrible migraine, an accidentally strong concoction of painkillers, and a bump on the head, Clover Hendry is not quite herself. And as she walks out of work at 9.47am, for once Clover isn't worrying about anything. She is taking some much-deserved me-time, and everyone else had better get out of her way.
As she crashes from once incident (a deliciously illicit swim) to the next (art theft), Clover is on a one-woman mission to do exactly as she pleases – consequences are for tomorrow!
It's a day of joyful recklessness, but behind the chaos, a plan is afoot. Will her new-found freedom uncover long-buried secrets?
A euphoric, raging, galvanizing story about putting life on pause, pleasing yourself, and getting your own back – whatever it takes.
The latest race-against-time instalment of the award-winning Grace
series, now a major ITV show.
Hunting him would be murder . . .
When James Taylor arrives late for a funeral, he has to stand at the
back of the small church. But, as the service progresses, Taylor
notices a man six rows in front of him. At first he thinks he must be
mistaken, but the more he looks at the man, the more convinced Taylor
becomes that this is his old schoolfriend Rufus Rorke.
Except it couldn’t be him, could it? Because two years ago Taylor
attended Rufus Rorke’s funeral. He even delivered Rufus’s eulogy.
On the other side of Brighton, at Police HQ, Detective Superintendent
Roy Grace has been alerted to a number of suspicious deaths that he
can’t get out of his mind. But how are they linked? And how could they
possibly be connected to Rufus Rorke?
Roy Grace is about to find out just how dangerous a dead man can be.
FAMILY COMES FIRST. NO MATTER THE COST.
Brothers Carl and Roy Opgard have succeeded in life. Or at least
they’ve had as much success as is possible in a small town like Os,
where they've killed their way to the top. Carl manages the swanky spa
hotel, while Roy has made ambitious plans for an amusement park.
Life’s good at the top. But the local sheriff is looking to bring them
down.
Sheriff Kurt Olsen believes he has new evidence that will prove the
brothers’ involvement in several past murders – but Carl and Roy are
used to covering their tracks, and they're not afraid to get their
hands dirty.
The body count in Os is about to get even higher.
Blood Ties is an explosive suspense novel about family, loyalty, and
the lengths someone is willing to go to for both, from crime writing's
king of the cliffhanger.
Detective Ruben Ellis wants to die. The only reason he hasn’t killed
himself is because he first needs to hunt down the man who kidnapped
and murdered his daughter.
Meanwhile, another victim is being held captive in a twisted
underground dystopia. But does Ruben have enough will left to find her
in time? Can his partner, Zander, and his brilliant therapist, Melissa,
help him unravel a mystery as dark and unseen as the gold mines that
run deep beneath the streets of Johannesburg? And will they discover
the mind-bending truth about Thing – the deeply troubled figure in the
basement?
Now You Suffer is a chilling and wholly unforgettable thriller – the
first in bestselling author Gareth Crocker’s riveting new Ruben Ellis
series.
Johnny Davids word groot op die Kaapse vlakte. As jong seun besluit hy
hy het genoeg mishandeling gehad en loop weg. In Walvisbaai kry Johnny
kans om heel te word. As jong volwassene skryf hy en sy sangmaat Vivian
in vir 'n sangkompetisie, hulle wen en so skop sy TV-loopbaan
af. Vandag is Johnny 'n suksesvolle televisie- en
sportaanbieder. Sy verhaal gee aan elkeen van ons krag om aan te
gaan en om te droom dat dinge vir ons kan beter wees.
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Playground
(Paperback)
Richard Powers
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Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where
they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up
for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd’s work will lead
to a startling AI breakthrough.
Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in
Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs; Ina Aroita
grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.
All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in
French Polynesia, marked for humanity’s next great adventure: a plan to
send floating, autonomous cities out into the open sea. As the
seasteaders close in, how will Evie play the ever-unfolding oceanic
game? Will Ina engage in acts of destruction? Todd and Rafi, now
estranged, still find themselves in competition: Todd unravels while
working on an idea to redraw the boundaries of human immortality, while
Rafi and the residents must decide if they will greenlight the new
project on their shores and change their home forever.
Set in the world’s largest ocean, Playground explores that last wild
place we have yet to colonize and interweaves profound themes of
technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared
humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.
In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller
transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the
sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, as an
accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession.
Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a tragedy: every
night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in
flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer,
capturing the changing landscapes in the grip of the Cold War. When
he’s offered the chance to interview a political figure, his ambition
leads him unwittingly into a web of duplicities and betrayals.
As Gabriel’s reluctant initiation takes hold, he is drawn deeper into
the shadows. Falling under the spell of Faith Green, an enigmatic and
ruthless MI6 handler, he becomes ‘her spy’, unable to resist her
demands. But amid the peril, paranoia and passion consuming Gabriel’s
new covert life, it will be the revelations closer to home that change
the rest of his story. . .
Everyone needs a hobby...
Things haven't been going well for Beth. Her husband has left her for one of her friends. Her fellow school mums judge her for swearing too much and not shifting the baby weight. And now she's stuck in A&E after her son fell off the climbing wall on the first day of school.
In fact, things haven't been going well for Beth since Charlotte died - her best friend, a favourite at the school pick-ups and the only person to ever run an interesting PTA meeting. But after being hit by a car while on an ill-timed evening jog, Charlotte is no longer there to help Beth pick up the pieces of her increasingly difficult life.
That is, until Beth discovers that Charlotte left her toddler alone in the house during that fatal run. The Charlotte she knew would never do something so irresponsible, and suddenly Beth is questioning whether Charlotte's death was really an accident. With a newfound purpose and a glass of wine in hand, it's time for Beth to uncover what really happened to her best friend. And what better place to start than the circle of chatty school mums, who can't be as perfect as they pretend.
But which of them is hiding something? Beth's determined to find out. Once she's put the kids to bed, of course...
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Close Knit
(Paperback)
Jenny Colgan
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Everyone knows her life story.
But who will win her heart?
Gertie has always had her head in the clouds, wondering what her life
might be like if she could only pluck up the courage to leave the
remote Scottish island where she was born.
It's the only place she knows, but you can't do anything there without
everyone knowing - the glue of this close-knit community is the
Knitting Circle, a group of strong, capable and frankly nosy women who
work hard, gossip, knit and support each other through thick and thin.
At the centre of this sisterhood is Gertie's mum Jean and her
grandmother Elspeth, and the three generations of women live together,
surrounded by wool, in one small cottage.
When the chance comes to make changes - a new job working with old
schoolfriend Morag on the local airline, new friends and even a
possible new romance - a world of possibilities opens up before Gertie.
Is this the way to make her dreams come true?
Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable
world and the BRAND NEW ADVENTURE in the mega-selling Dork Diaries
series – now with over 57 million copies in print worldwide!
Lately, Nikki’s little sister has been a TOTAL BRAT! But while Brianna
is busy raiding her closet and taping a HIDEOUS drawing of Nikki on her
bedroom door, Nikki has more important things to think out. It’s the
end of summer and she has only 72 hours to completely reinvent herself
before starting at Westchester Prep…
SQUEEEEEEE!!
Nikki is determined to be the COOLEST, CUTEST, SMARTEST, MOST
INTRIGUING girl at school. But when disaster strikes and Brianna gets
hold of Nikki’s most cherished items… her phone AND her diary, her
world is turned upside down. Will an unexpected emergency ruin Nikki’s
fabulous start to the new school year or, worse, ruin her relationship
with wacky BFFs, Chloe and Zoey, and cute crush Brandon?
With a HUGE global fanbase, Dork
Diaries is the perfect series for fans of Lottie Brooks, Diary of a
Wimpy Kid and Tom Gates.
Hykie Berg, bekende akteur, topverkoperskrywer en entrepreneur, gee
praktiese riglyne oor hoe jy suksesvol kan leef. Hykie inspireer jou en
gee raad oor hoe ook jy jou drome kan waarmaak: Bou
selfdissipline; tree doelbewus; raak ontslae van verskonings; los die
slagoffermentaliteit; vind uit wat jou dryf; ontleed jou verskonings en
besef watter denkpatrone nie geldig is nie. Jy hoef nie bloot ’n
gemiddelde lewe te leef nie. Jy kan ’n uitstekende lewe leef. Dìt is
wat God vir jou wil hê.
BLOODTHIRSTY UNICORNS. UNLIKELY HEROES. A DEADLY CURSE.
The epic adventure continues.
As Skandar and his friends begin their fourth year at the Eyrie, the
Island’s unicorns are struck by a terrible curse that threatens to
change everything. Between a Commodore determined to eliminate the
spirit element for good, and a sister hellbent on revenge, nowhere is
safe for Skandar.
As more and more unicorns are affected by the curse, the clock is
ticking for Skandar and his quartet, who find themselves literally
racing for their lives. Can they stop the curse in its tracks before
the Island is lost for ever?
Get ready for unlikely heroes, elemental magic, sky battles, ancient
secrets and ferocious unicorns in this highly anticipated adventure
that will keep you reading after lights out!
Thebe Ikalafeng is a branding icon who set the agenda for the industry
at the dawn of our democracy and continues to pioneer it to this day.
As the founder of Brand Africa, the African continent is now a major
focus in his life's mission. He is The Traveller, having touched
soil on every African country. From Kimberley to the world, his mission
is impact.
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Good Boy
(Paperback)
Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen
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"We're way more than friends, Jessie."
"Blake--"
"But no worries. I'll just sit tight until you figure that out."
Hosting her brother's wedding for an MVP guest list is the challenge of
Jess Canning's life. Already the family screw-up, she can't afford to
fail at this, too. Especially after the colossal mistake she made with
the best man during a weak moment last spring. Nobody--absolutely
nobody--can find out about that, and there will not be a repeat.
Absolutely not. No matter how devastatingly sexy his smile, he's a
giant manchild who's never been serious in his life. And if Jess wants
to prove herself to her family, serious is what she has to get.
For Blake Riley, this wedding is a gift from fate itself. The girl he
has his eye on is the maid of honor, and he's the best man? Let the
games begin. So what if Jess is giving him a little--fine, a lot--of
resistance? He just needs to convince the stubborn blonde that he's
really a good boy with a bad rap. Beneath the flirty jokes and goofy
smile, he's got layers--even if Jess doesn't want to see them.
Luckily, every professional hockey player knows that you've got to make
an effort if you want to score.
And Jess is just the girl he wants to win.
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