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

Joel C. Rosenberg

• The Last Jihad (2002)
• The Last Days (2003)

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Val McDermid - "A Place of Execution" (1999)

Val McDERMID grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three years as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester.

Val McDermid is the highly acclaimed author of The Mermaids Singing and The Wire in the Blood, tense psychological thrillers featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill. The Mermaids Singing won the 1995 Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

She has also written six crime novels featuring Manchester P I Kate Brannigan, and the latest in this much-praised series, Star Struck, won the Grand Prix des Romans d'Aventure in France.
A further five novels feature journalist sleuth Lindsay Gordon.

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Trevanian - "The Summer of Katya" (1983)

I wasn't expecting what I got when I randomly picked up this book that proclaimed itself a psychological thriller. The characters contained therein were very memorable and provided haunting images. I'm not quite sure why I never heard of this book before but I'm just glad I stumbled across it. Although it isn't a very short book, it was a fast read because I just couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next. The unanticipated ending was poignant. The author has provided a well written and plotted story and presented it in an almost lyrical fashion. This love story is set in the pre-WWI french countryside and certainly provides the taste and feel of that time and culture. (Reader's review)

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Andrew Leigh & Michael Maynard - "Dramatic Success - Theatre Techniques to Transform and Inspire Your Working Life" (2004)

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Khaled Hosseini - "A Thousand Splendid Suns" (2007)

It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini's compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope.

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Vince Flynn - "Protect and Defend" (2007)

The eighth book in the Mitch Rapp series

New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn returns with his most explosive political thriller yet. A tour de force of action-packed suspense, Protect and Defend delivers an all-too-realistic and utterly compelling vision of nations navigating the minefield of international intrigue. A true heavyweight in the political thriller arena (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Vince Flynn has created a flesh-and-blood hero that readers can cheer for and a finger-blistering page-turner they won t dare put down.

In Protect and Defend, the action begins in the heart of Iran, where billions of dollars are being spent on the development of a nuclear program. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel launches one of the most creative and daring espionage operations ever conceived. The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran s second largest city. An outraged Iranian government publicly blames both Israel and the United States for the attack and demands retribution. Privately, Iran's bombastic president wants much more. He wants America and Israel to pay for their aggression with blood.

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Nora Roberts - "Blood Brothers" (2007)

The first book in the Sign of Seven Trilogy series

In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse.

Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. With the clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an interest in the town's folklore. Quinn is a well known scholar of local legends, and despite Cal's protests, insists on delving in the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months early, it's not only the town Cal tries to protect, but also his heart.

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Greg Iles - "The Third Degree" (2007)

From New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes his latest tour de force thriller -- an unforgettable plunge into a world of sex, violence, marital betrayal, medical malpractice, and Southern intrigue...all of which takes place in the span of one furious, terrifying day.

In Third Degree, Greg Iles takes us to the idyllic town of Athens Point, Mississippi, to probe beneath the surface of the modern American marriage -- where the appearance of perfection conceals a soul-searing conflict of unnerving intensity and violent possibility. Packed with the storytelling brilliance and twisting suspense that mesmerized readers of True Evil, Turning Angel, and Blood Memory, Iles's newest novel delivers a powerful, revelatory reading experience.

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Play Games With English - Book 2

40 pages of pure fun for pre-intermediate level

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Anthony Horowitz

Alex Rider
1. Stormbreaker (2000)
2. Point Blanc (2001)
3. Skeleton Key (2002)
4. Eagle Strike (2003)

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Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole
1. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (1985)
2. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984)
3. The True Confessions of Adrian Mole (1989)
4. The Wilderness Years (1993)
5. The Cappuccino Years (1999)
6. Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004)

Novels
Number Ten (2002)

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