He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
For nobody.
(From "Nowhere Man"
by The Beatles)

Douglas Robinson - "Becoming a Translator" - 2nd edition (2003)

• how to translate faster and more accurately
• how to deal with arising problems and stress
• how the market works
• includes a wide variety of lively activities and exercises to facilitate the learning of both theory and practice
• includes a detailed Teachers Guide - contains suggestions for discussion and activities and hints for the teaching of translation.

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Nora Roberts - "High Noon" (2007)

Savannah-Chatham police lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara is one of the best hostage negotiators in the business, and her latest mission involves talking down a suicidal jumper from a building owned by Duncan Smith. Impressed by her cool, courageous actions and intrigued by the sexy woman herself, Duncan charms Phoebe into meeting him for a drink. As a single mother with family demands and a career woman working in a testosterone-dominated field, Phoebe doesn't think there is any time in her busy schedule for romance, but all of her famed negotiating skills can't convince Duncan to give up on a chance for a future with her. When Phoebe becomes the target of a psychopathic killer out to destroy her professionally and personally, Duncan turns out to be just the person Phoebe wants by her side. The always reliable Roberts continues to find new and clever ways to flawlessly fuse thrilling suspense and sexy romance into captivating stories. High Noon will enthrall readers with its irresistible combination of superbly crafted characters and a danger-rich plot.

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Lisa Gardner - "The Perfect Husband" (1997)

Jim Beckett was everything Tess had ever dreamed of... But 2 years after Tess married Jim and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering 10 women. Even lockedup in a max security prison, he vowed he would come after her and make her pay. Now the killer has escaped, and Tess has got to learn to fight back. With the help of a burned out ex marine, Tess learns how to protect herself and her daughter as a gigantic manhunt , crossing 4 states, counts down to this terrifying reunion between husband and wife. A real page turne r, centring on the nightmare of discovering that the person you love and trust more than anyone else in the world is out to hunt you down.

An unforgettably evil villain and a throat-gripping climax make The Perfect Husband a real page-turner!
--Tess Gerritsen, New York Times best-selling author of Harvest

Nail-biting suspense ... a taut roller-coaster of a story that kept me up very, very late.
--Kay Hooper, Nationally best-selling author of Amanda and After Caroline.

I loved this book. I was up till 2 a.m., finishing it. 
--Karen Robards, New York Times best-selling author of Walking After Midnight and Hunter’s Moon.

A superlative read, with vivid characters, faultless procedure, and a villain who will whisper in the dark every time you turn off the light.”
--Eileen Dreyer, nationally best-selling author of Brain Dead.

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Kelley Armstrong - "Industrial Magic" (2004)

After Paige Winterbourne is ousted as leader of the American Coven of Witches, all she wants to do is hide under her duvet for a few months. Let the supernatural world manage without her, see if she cares... But fate, of course, has other plans. A murderer is on the loose - someone with superhuman skills. When Paige learns that the killer is targeting children, she realises she has to get involved in the covert investigation. And so Paige - desperate to protect those she loves - is thrown into a world of arrogant Cabal leaders, drunken necromancers, sulky druid gods and pretentious leather-clad vampires. Luckily, she has a female werewolf and a certain renegade sorcerer on her side...

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John Saul - 16 novels

• Suffer the Children (1977)
• Cry for the Strangers (1979)
• Comes the Blind Fury (1980)
• The God Project (1982) aka All Fall Down
• Nathaniel (1984)
• The Unwanted (1987)
• The Unloved (1988)
• Creature (1989)
• Sleepwalk (1990)
• Second Child (1990)
• Darkness (1991)
• Guardian (1993)
• The Homing (1994)
• Black Lightning (1995)
• The Manhattan Hunt Club (2001)
• In the Dark of the Night (2006)

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Jeffrey Archer - "The Fourth Estate" (1996)

At first glance, Richard Armstrong and Keith Tremlett seem to have nothing in common. But both of them were gamblers, and both were prepared to risk everything in their battle to control the biggest media empire in the world.

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Ian McEwan - "The Cement Garden" (1978)

In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying.

"Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."
--Washington Post Book World.

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