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  Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner Superforecasting EN

  What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. Whether buying a new house or changing job, designing a new product or getting married, our decisions are governed by implicit predictions of how things are likely to turn out. The problem is, we're not very good at it. In a landmark, twenty-year study, Wharton professor Philip Tetlock…

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  Gwenda Bond Suspicious Minds

  A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven's mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in this thrilling prequel to the hit show Stranger Things...

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  James Vlahos Talk to Me

  The next great technological disruption is coming. The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that the world will ever need. They know that whoever successfully creates ...

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  Alice Roberts Tamed

  For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals for survival. They were hunter-gatherers, consummate foraging experts, taking the world as they found it. Then a revolution occurred – our ancestors’ interaction with other species changed. They began to tame them. The human population boomed; civilisation began. In Tamed, Alice Roberts uncovers the deep history of ten familiar…

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  Dorothy Koomson That Girl from Nowhere EN

  From the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity and the meaning of family. 'Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?' he asks. 'Nowhere,' I reply. 'I'm from nowhere.' 'Everyone's from somewhere,' he says. 'Not me,' I reply silently. Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby and the only connection she has to…

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  Haley Tanner The Adventures of Vaclav the Magnificent and his lovely assistant Lena

  Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They first meet as children at their English class in Brooklyn. Vaclav dreams of becoming a famous magician with Lena his lovely assistant. But then Lena disappears; it seems that life can play...

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  Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain

  A space probe, designed to collect organisms and dust for study, falls to earth in a desolate area of north-eastern Arizona. In a nearby town, bodies lie flung about, faces frozen in surprise. The terror has begun...

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  Kathy Reichs The Bone Collection

  Dr Temperance Brennan thought she'd seen it all until she came across Bones in Her Pocket in the foothills of North Carolina. Down in the Everglades Tempe investigates Swamp Bones...

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  Eugen Ovidiu Chirovici The Book of Mirrors EN

  One Man's Truth is Another Man's Lie. When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives an unfinished manuscript entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued. The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time at Princeton in the late 80s, documenting his relationship with the famous Professor Joseph Wieder. One night in 1987, Wieder was brutally murdered in his home and the case was never solved. Peter…

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  James Robert Waller The Bridges of Madison County

  A man. A woman. The heat of an Iowa summer. And the brief encounter whose passion will last a lifetime.

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  Lisa Lynch The C-Word

  Features an humorous account of Author's battle with the breast cancer. From the good days when she could almost pretend it wasn't happening, to the bad days, when she couldn't bear to wake up...

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  James Ellroy The Cold Six Thousand

  DALLAS, NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of...

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  Daniel Coyle The Culture Code

  What do Pixar, Google and the San Antonio Spurs basketball team have in common? The answer is that they all owe their extraordinary success to their team-building skills. In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle, ...

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  Tina Brown The Diana Chronicles EN

  Twenty years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she the people's princess, who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? This book parts the curtains on Diana's troubled time in the mysterious world of the Windsors.

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  Douglas Adams The Dirk Gently Omnibus EN

  Two quirky detective stories from Britain's best sci-fi writer and author of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams. Dirk Gently is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Dirk Gently calls himself a 'holistic detective' and above all, he believes in 'the interconnectedness of all things'. Sherlock…

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  Andrew Jennings The Dirty Game

  Written in a gripping narrative, and based on years of research, this book features a portrait of the downfall of FIFA, and the men who stole football...

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  Asa Avdic The Dying Game EN

  On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the other candidates react to the news that a…

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  Mark Beeman, John Kounios The Eureka factor

  Where do great ideas come from? What actually happens in your brain during a 'Eureka' moment? How can we have more of them? The authors reveal exactly how sudden insights are formed in the brain...

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  Edward Falco The Family Corleone EN

  New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organisations will rise ...and which will face a violent end. For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important than his family's future. His youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in…

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  Candace Robb The Fire In The Flint

  Margaret Kerr of Perth is living in Edinburgh with her uncle Murdoch during the summer of 1297. She'd come to search for her long-absent husband who is in the service of Robert the Bruce. Margaret herself is still loyal to the deposed King John Balliol...

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  James Patterson The French Kiss EN

  James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. French detective Luc Moncrief joined the NYPD for a fresh start - but someone wants to make his first big case his last. Welcome to New York.

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  Stephen Clarke The French Revolution and What Went Wrong

  An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde...

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  Don Winslow The Gentlemen's Hour

  Boone Daniels, a laid-back private investigator, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific beach. There's no surf, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force regardless...

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  Robert Harris The Ghost EN

  Britain's former prime minister is holed up in a remote, ocean-front house in America, struggling to finish his memoirs, when his long-term assistant drowns. A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project - a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders. The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past that are returning…