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Dropping Out of School

A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery, #3

by Alaine Allister ...

Series Book 3 - A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery
A freak accident...or was it an accident?Clarissa Spencer’s to-do list:-Learn to make her broomstick fly (hopefully without injury)-Get her kooky Aunt Matilda to stop casting spells on her-Determine whether her boyfriend has fallen victim to a love potion-Find out who pushed the dean of Green City University out of his office windowThere’s never a dull moment in Clarissa’s life!Why, oh why can’t ... Read more

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A freak accident...or was it an accident?Clarissa Spencer’s to-do list:-Learn to make her broomstick fly (hopefully without injury)-Get her kooky Aunt Matilda to stop casting spells on her-Determine whether her boyfriend has fallen victim to a love potion-Find out who pushed the dean of Green City University out of his office windowThere’s never a dull moment in Clarissa’s life!Why, oh why can’t
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Offshore

Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime

by Alain Deneault ...

Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers—from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru— amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and multinational corporate financial holdings. Delving into the scandals, the financial structure, and the history of this hidden side of globalization, sociologist Alain ... Read more

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Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers—from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru— amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and multinational corporate financial holdings. Delving into the scandals, the financial structure, and the history of this hidden side of globalization, sociologist Alain
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Black Moses

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Translated by Helen Stevenson ...

The "heart-breaking" (New York Times Book Review), rollicking, award-winning novel that has been described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles)"One of the most compelling books you'll read in any language this year." —Rolling StoneWinner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy AwardLonglisted for the Man Booker International PrizeShortlisted for the ... ... Read more

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The "heart-breaking" (New York Times Book Review), rollicking, award-winning novel that has been described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles)"One of the most compelling books you'll read in any language this year." —Rolling StoneWinner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy AwardLonglisted for the Man Booker International PrizeShortlisted for the ...
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Healthy French Cuisine For Less Than $10/Day

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Chef Alain Braux’s approach to healthy eating is literally “down to earth” in this delightful and extremely useful guide to balanced, nutritious meals on a budget. With a passion for flavor and fresh ingredients, chef Braux takes us through an eye-opening grocery shopping experience (including the 12 most contaminated foods in the produce section, and what “natural” really means on food labels), ... Read more

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Chef Alain Braux’s approach to healthy eating is literally “down to earth” in this delightful and extremely useful guide to balanced, nutritious meals on a budget. With a passion for flavor and fresh ingredients, chef Braux takes us through an eye-opening grocery shopping experience (including the 12 most contaminated foods in the produce section, and what “natural” really means on food labels),
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Good Luck Frenchy

A Tale of RCMP Deception & Survival Through Thailand's Deadliest Prison

by Alain Olivier ...

Being mistaken for someone else, being falsely depicted as an important international heroin importer and trafficker, and being made an unwilling accessory to murder aren’t everyday occurrences. Surely this is not how the police behave to get their man?But...what if they go further?What if, with the aid of a thuggish civil agent, the RCMP implement a buy and bust operation, a Final Solution to get ... Read more

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Being mistaken for someone else, being falsely depicted as an important international heroin importer and trafficker, and being made an unwilling accessory to murder aren’t everyday occurrences. Surely this is not how the police behave to get their man?But...what if they go further?What if, with the aid of a thuggish civil agent, the RCMP implement a buy and bust operation, a Final Solution to get
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Sugar and the Silent Killer

A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery, #4

by Alaine Allister ...

Series Book 4 - A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery
Donuts! More donuts! Mmm, donuts!Sugarcomb Lake is abuzz with excitement. A new donut shop is opening! Clarissa Spencer and her insatiable sweet tooth are thrilled. But then the shop owner turns up dead.While the rest of the town gossips and speculates, Clarissa focuses on finding the killer. At the same time, she has to keep her long-distance relationship alive, try to develop her magic skills ... Read more

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Donuts! More donuts! Mmm, donuts!Sugarcomb Lake is abuzz with excitement. A new donut shop is opening! Clarissa Spencer and her insatiable sweet tooth are thrilled. But then the shop owner turns up dead.While the rest of the town gossips and speculates, Clarissa focuses on finding the killer. At the same time, she has to keep her long-distance relationship alive, try to develop her magic skills
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Happiness is a Smoking Gun

A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery, #1

by Alaine Allister ...

Series Book 1 - A Clarissa Spencer Cozy Mystery
A bossy cat. An eccentric aunt. An unsolved murder.Out of work reporter Clarissa Spencer is being stalked by a stray cat. She can't cook to save her life, her garden is an overgrown mess and her chocolate chip cookie addiction is out of control. Then to top it all off, she gets struck by lightning.Clarissa thinks she has it bad - until she learns the town mayor has been murdered. Okay, so it could ... Read more

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A bossy cat. An eccentric aunt. An unsolved murder.Out of work reporter Clarissa Spencer is being stalked by a stray cat. She can't cook to save her life, her garden is an overgrown mess and her chocolate chip cookie addiction is out of control. Then to top it all off, she gets struck by lightning.Clarissa thinks she has it bad - until she learns the town mayor has been murdered. Okay, so it could
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African Psycho

by Alain Mabanckou ...

Translated by Christine Schwartz Hartley ...

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015“The novel with which [Mabanckou] cemented his reputation as one of French-language fiction’s leading lights . . . Black as pitch and bitter as wormwood, a razor-sharp satire in which the trials of a would-be serial killer are played for laughs.” —Times Literary SupplementIts title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, American Psycho. But ... Read more

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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015“The novel with which [Mabanckou] cemented his reputation as one of French-language fiction’s leading lights . . . Black as pitch and bitter as wormwood, a razor-sharp satire in which the trials of a would-be serial killer are played for laughs.” —Times Literary SupplementIts title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, American Psycho. But
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Dealing with the Dead

A Novel

by Alain Mabanckou ...

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRFrom one of Africa’s greatest living writers, a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history"Alain Mabanckou addresses the reader with exuberant inventiveness in novels that are brilliantly imaginative in their forms of storytelling. His voice is vividly colloquial, mischievous and often outrageous as he explores, from multiple angles, the country where he ... Read more

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Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRFrom one of Africa’s greatest living writers, a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history"Alain Mabanckou addresses the reader with exuberant inventiveness in novels that are brilliantly imaginative in their forms of storytelling. His voice is vividly colloquial, mischievous and often outrageous as he explores, from multiple angles, the country where he
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Order without Design

How Markets Shape Cities

by Alain Bertaud ...

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe ... Read more

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An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe
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Shabti

by Alain Gomez ...

The son of a poor merchant, Harry Peterson has his eye on finding wealth in the Valley of the Kings. In the midst of desperately sacking tomb after tomb, Harry encounters a woman who seems to be as mysterious as she is beautiful.Short Story, approx. 2,000 words ... Read more

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The son of a poor merchant, Harry Peterson has his eye on finding wealth in the Valley of the Kings. In the midst of desperately sacking tomb after tomb, Harry encounters a woman who seems to be as mysterious as she is beautiful.Short Story, approx. 2,000 words
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The Course of Love

by Alain De Botton ...

In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children -- but no relationship is as simple as "happily ever after." The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. With philosophical insight and psychological ... Read more

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In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married, they have children -- but no relationship is as simple as "happily ever after." The Course of Love is a novel that explores what happens after the birth of love, what it takes to maintain love, and what happens to our original ideals under the pressures of an average existence. With philosophical insight and psychological
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