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  Burden of Service -...

  Mohammed Bello Adoke

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  In 2011, the Nigerian government brokered a $1.3 billion deal between Royal Dutch Shell, Eni S.p.A. of Italy and Malabu Oil & Gas Ltd of Nigeria for one of Africa's richest oil fields ("OPL 245"). The transaction—finalised after thirteen years of mutual suspicion, bitter litigation, emotional blackmail and dirty intrigues—has caught global attention and attracted criminal proceedings. The middlemen are now in jail and officials of the international oil companies are facing trial in an Italian court over alleged corruption. Mohammed Bello Adoke was the Nigerian Attorney-General who gave the legal advice on the complicated transaction. He saved his country from an impending $2 billion award in favour of Shell by the International Centre for the Settlement of International Disputes (ICSID), an organ of the World Bank. But he has been hounded, victimised, scandalised and forced into exile for his service to his fatherland. In recounting his five-year experience in government, Bello Adoke reveals the details of the billion-dollar oil deal and unveils the web of local and international intrigues, deceit, lies and conspiracy around an avoidable scandal. 

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  50 Classic Horror Short Stories...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  CONTENTS: 01. A Suspicious Gift [Algernon Blackwood]02. Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp  [Algernon Blackwood]03. The Wood of the Dead  [Algernon Blackwood]04. A Baby Tramp [Ambrose Bierce]05. The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce]06. Dagon [H.P Lovecraft]07. The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle]08. The_Descendant [H.P Lovecraft]09. The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft]10. The Evil Clergyman [H.P Lovecraft]11. He [H.P Lovecraft]12. The Book  [H.P Lovecraft]13. In the Vault [H.P Lovecraft]14. Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft]15. Death and the Woman  [Gertrude Atherton]16. The Striding Place [Gertrude Atherton]17. Hop-Frog [Edgar Allan Poe]18. The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]19. The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe] 20. Shadow [Edgar Allan Poe] 21. The Beast in the Cave [H.P Lovecraft]22. The Doom That Came to Sarnath [H.P Lovecraft]23. The Vampire Maid [Hume Nisbet] 24. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Edgar Allan Poe]25. The Demon Spell [Hume Nisbet] 26. Out of the Earth [Arthur Machen] 27. The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens]28. The Colloquy of Monos and Una [Edgar Allan Poe]29.  Demons of the Sea [William Hope Hodgson]30. Glámir [Sabine Baring-Gould] 31. Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story [Sabine Baring-Gould] 32. Tales of Secret Egypt [Sax Rohmer]33. Some Words with a Mummy  [Edgar Allan Poe]34. In the Dark  [Edith Nesbit]35. The Sea Raiders [H. G. Wells] 36. The Baron of Beauguard [Gilbert Parke]37. The Vampire [Jan Neruda]38 .A Journey of Little Profit [John Buchan]39. The Keeper of Cademuir [John Buchan] 40. Dickon the Devil [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]41. The Child That Went With The Fairies   [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]42. Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling  [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]43. Two Doctors Montague [Rhodes James]44. A School Story Montague [Rhodes James]45. The Diary of Mr. Poynter Montague[ Rhodes James]46. In the Forest of Villefére by [Robert Robert E. Howard]47. The Dream Snake [Robert E. Howard]48. The Thing On the Roof [Robert E. Howard]49. The Imp of the Perverse [Edgar Allan Poe] 50. The Devil in the Belfry [Edgar Allan Poe]

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  Jimmy Reid - A Scottish...

  Kenny MacAskill

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  Jimmy Reid's funeral in 2010 was attended by Gordon Brown the former Prime Minister, Alex Salmond the First Minister and other leading politicians. Eulogies were given by his friends Sir Alex Ferguson and Billy Connolly. Crowds lined the streets for the funeral cortege. The Daily Telegraph described Reid as the 'greatest MP Scotland never had' in its obituary.
  Yet to date there has been no biography of the man who was an iconic figure in Scotland and hugely popular both as a politician and then as a TV and media commentator. Written with the approval and input of his family and friends it provides an insight into the man and his life.
  MacAskill's biography describes Jimmy Reid's rich and varied life from his upbringing in Govan, a senior full time official for the Communist Party of Great Britain, as well as his role in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilder's work-in which ran for 16 months from June 1971 to October 1972. He was active in the trade union movement, and his political career took him from the CPGB to the Labour Party and eventually to the SNP and the cause of Scottish independence. The biography also covers his later career in the media as an acclaimed newspaper and magazine columnist and gifted television presenter.
  Underpinning the personal story is Scotland's changing political landscape, transforming a land of council housing and manufacturing industry to owner occupied and financial services.

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  Confessions of a Funeral...

  Caleb Wilde

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  A sixth-generation funeral director and writer of the popular ""must read"" (Time magazine) blog Confessions of a Funeral Director reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. 
  Death. It happens to everyone, yet most of us don’t want to talk about this final chapter of existence. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde intimately understands this reticence and fear. The son of an undertaker, he hesitated to embrace the legacy of running his family’s business. Yet he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones profoundly changed his faith and his perspective on death—and life itself. ""Yes, death can be bad. Yes, death can be negative,"" he acknowledges, ""but it can also be beautiful. And that alternate narrative needs to be discussed."" 
  In Confessions of a Funeral Director, he talks about his experiences and pushes back against the death-negative ethos of our culture, opening a thoughtful, poignant conversation to help us see the end of life in a positive and liberating way. In the wry, compassionate, and honest voice that has charmed his growing legions of blog readers, Wilde offers an intimate look inside his business, offering information on unspoken practices around death such as the embalming process, beautiful and memorable stories about families in the wake of death, and, most importantly, a fresh and wise perspective on how embracing death can allow us to embrace life. 
  Confessions of a Funeral Director is the story of one man learning how death illuminates and deepens the meaning of existence—insights that can help us all pursue and cherish full, rich lives.

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  Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise:...

  Andrew M. Crusoe

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  Five months on the Big Island can change you forever. Visiting the fiery home of Madame Pele? Getting scared half-to-death by a UFO hovering over a lava field? And manifesting a blue feather out of thin air? That'll do it. 
  Yet Andrew’s most powerful transformation was still ahead. 
  A routine hitchhiking trip into town brings a new person into Andrew’s life that just might have the perfect opportunity for him. His new friend is a volunteer at a Vipassana meditation center. She invites him to join her on a 10-day silent meditation course and then live near the meditation center afterward, doing a very different kind of work-trade than he’s ever done. 
  Andrew accepts and plunges into an intense experience, delving deeper into his mind and body than ever before, unearthing trauma that he thought he had healed long ago. In the process, a profound realization hits him and propels him into a new chapter of his life. 
  Ten Thousand Hours in Paradise is a 3-volume true story about the consciousness shift that happens when you embrace Hawaii. In Volume 2: Tribulations, Andrew dives deep into a life-changing Vipassana meditation course, gains a new perspective on unrequited love, and is wished “Happy Birthday” from a man beyond the grave.

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  With This Ring? - A Novella...

  Melissa Jagears, Karen...

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  Humorous Historical Romance Novella Collection Offers Love and LaughsFour top historical romance novelists team up in this new collection to offer stories of love and romance with a twist of humor. In Karen Witemeyer's "The Husband Maneuver," Marietta Hawkins decides to grab the reins when the ranch foreman she loves seems to be leaving forever. Regina Jennings offers "Her Dearly Unintended," where friends stranded by a rising river pretend to be newlyweds when a dangerous stranger arrives. Mary Connealy's "Runaway Bride" finds a Texas ranger getting more than he expected when he rescues a young woman fleeing a dangerous arranged marriage. And Melissa Jagears' "Engaging the Competition" finds a young woman forced to assist the man she's sparred with for so long after an accident leaves him helpless. Each tale is a fun blend of history and romance that will delight readers.

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