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fatboy77

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Wish Me from the Water

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wish-Me-Water-R-Swirsky-ebook/dp/B00B6SSBHO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394618628&sr=1-1&keywords=wish+me+from+the+water

Two teenage hockey players brutally murder their parents in an unexpected altercation after a close friend and teammate commits suicide. The town's people believe the suicide was another tragic result of bullying, but the two boys have learned the true reason their friend took his own life, and decide to take matters into their own hands.

Detective Dean Daly is called in to investigate the brutal murders and believes there is much more to the murders than first appears.
Not far away, a young housewife, Sarah, is in a very bad place. Her husband Gerald finally crosses the line from verbal abuse to physical abuse and breaks her arm. She takes flight in the middle of the night, and Gerald vows he will track her down to the ends of the ends of time, and insists she can never leave him.

Detective Daly soon becomes involved in both events, not knowing that he will soon be caught in the middle as the two stories collide.

This is a story about courage, strength, and standing up for what you believe

Kerry77

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the Richest, Most Powerful Criminal in History by Mark Bowden 99p


Amazon.co.uk Review
Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden's intoxicating account of the turbulent life of Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar and his inevitable demise, relates in riveting detail the cataclysmic effect one man can have on the world economy. Finally tracked down and killed in 1992 after a 15-month intense manhunt that had resulted in hundreds of casualties on both sides, Escobar was, ironically, that archetypal American hero, the outlaw, siding with "ordinary people" against the ruling oligarchy (although at his peak Forbes magazine listed him as the seventh-richest person in the world). His break came when the American drug of choice changed from dope to cocaine, a golden, or perhaps powdered, egg exploited by Escobar with resourceful manipulation of officials and politicians--he would offer the classic choice of his silver or his lead. Even when incarcerated at La Catedral prison on a smuggling charge, he turned it into a state within a state. The guards, the army and the police all fell within his pay and he led his operation with a quiet, well-mannered ruthlessness. Until, that is, the Americans took an interest.
Bowden is well-equipped to describe the drawn-out campaign by the intelligence services to assassinate Escobar, having already covered similar territory in the superb Black Hawk Down, which chronicled the disastrous 1993 American operation in Mogadishu. His descriptions of the electronic surveillance that finally ensnared the hounded Don and the shady mutual interests of civilian militia group Los Pepes, the Colombian government forces and the US Delta unit that wore him down, are taut, dramatic and deeply thrilling. While he stops short of claiming that the Americans were present or active in the killing, he admits that Delta knew roughly where Escobar was and were dismissive of the electronic wizardry, pointing out that Escobar was eventually spotted by the naked eye. Though Escobar died, the circumstances he seized upon would be harder to expunge. --David Vincent


How Do We Fix This Mess?: The Economic Price of Having it all, and the Route to Lasting Prosperity by Robert Peston & Laurence Knight £1.49

Review
Robert Peston's compelling account of global financial meltdown is a must-read... His discursive, conversational but entrancingly fact-studded trip around the disaster zone ought to be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to have a voice in where we go from here. (Observer)

HOW DO WE FIX THIS MESS? is the book of the film and more... brought to life by war stories from the BBC, simple analogies and colourful language... he does know how to elucidate apparently impenetrable issues, and he guides us intelligently and entertainingly... readable and thought-provoking. (Financial Times)

Robert Peston is not so much a journalist as a phenomenon... And now he has managed to fit in a book... that displays his gargantuan appetite for facts, numbers and economic and financial history... Peston's range is dazzling.... Peston is a BBC treasure - one of the journalists who justify the licence fee. If, every few years, he needs to breathe out and write a long book, we should encourage it. As they used to say in the pre-Twitter age, he knows his stuff. (New Statesman)

Kerry77

Raven Black (Shetland) by Ann Cleeves 59p

The current series of Shetland on BBC1 is based on this book. Lots of good reviews on Amazon.

sexyboy

I was searching on Amazon USA which lists the Ten thousand quiz book for $7.00
The UK edition is currently listed as £1.09.

I'm not sure how much that is per question. is it 100 for 1p? ish

I'm happy with it for that price (don't think it'd be worth £7) and has mixed reviews
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00A323AJI

asayer

Thanks for some of the above suggestions!!

melanie-dorian

Morning all,

Not sure if this has been found before but just found a section on Amazon with nothing but free Sci-Fi books. Seems pretty epic!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-Science-Fiction/zgbs/digital-text/362827031/ref=zg_bs_fvp_p_f_362827031?_encoding=UTF8&tf=1

Not sure how good the books are but a few looked alight and I'd heard of a few of the authors or read them before:

The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-Science-Fiction/zgbs/digital-text/362827031/

Tethered Twins: (Mike Esex): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tethered-Twins-Mike-Essex-ebook/dp/B00AWX69S2/

The Death Bundle (3 books!): http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Death-Bundle-Books-1-3-ebook/dp/B00AX19UG6/

Open Minds: (Susan Kaye Quinn) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Minds-Book-Mindjack-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B005Z1RRUU/

If you spot any other good ones on there add them below:

lewt

8 books and a short story for 99p, seems like a good deal.

The Complete Pete: The First eBookshelf - all 8 books - Pete Sortwell 2012/13

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The Diary of an Expectant Father: not only is Graham Peterson unlucky in his choice of careers, he’s also been terrible with women throughout his adult life. That changes when he meets Alison, but within a month of meeting her he gets the news that he’s about to become a father for the first time. ‘The Diary of an Expectant Father’ charts the months leading up to what should be the happiest day of a young couple’s life, but with a relationship so new and a career so bad, can Graham keep everything together for the sake of his unborn child?

The Diary of a Hapless Father: charts those first three terrifying months of parenthood. With all the angst and fear of a new father, Graham needs to pull his socks up if he’s going to become the father he always dreamed he would be. This book is for all those who have been through early parenthood or just want to know how a man deals with all those things.

Dating in the Dark: sometimes love just pretends to be blind: Jason is unhappily single and will do anything for a date. With a face not even a mother could love, he comes up with the only thing he thinks will work: dating a blind woman. However, to do that, he needs to pretend he’s blind himself. Will Jason be able to fool both his blind date and her best friend? With everything to play for, Jason faces the biggest challenge of his life, and nobody – especially not him – can see how it’ll all turn out.

Bride and Gloom: sometimes love is better off blind: in ‘Dating in the Dark’ Jason Harding fell in love with Emma and in this book, they decide to get married. But from getting a suit tailored to his short height to trying to keep a lid on his best man’s plans for a wild weekend in Liverpool, he faces a struggle if he’s going to make to the wedding without having a full nervous breakdown. Will Jason make it to the church on time, in possession of both his eyebrows and, of course, the rings?

The Village Idiot Reviews: written entirely in the form of product reviews, we guarantee you’ve never read a book quite like this before. Hilarious and wholly original, ‘The Village Idiot Reviews’ pokes gentle fun at the more obscure corners of your favourite e-commerce sites – and introduces the most bonkers set of countryside dwellers since ‘The Vicar of Dibley’.

The Office Idiot Reviews: we have to work with all sorts of idiots every day – every office has them. Read about the trials and tribulations of this idiotic workforce as they explain their recent life events through their reviews of the things they’ve bought.

The Idiot Government Reviews: we’ve all seen the news over the last few years, watching in wonder and disbelief at the situations the people entrusted to run the country get themselves into and then proceed to lie their way out of. Just imagine – and this won’t be hard – that they were so stupid that they wrote reviews of the items that got them into or out of their latest bit of trouble and posted them online.

More Village Idiot Reviews: it’s been a year since their last outing and Brian, Ethel and Father Frederick are back with more village idiocy. Catch up with the latest antics of Pete’s bonkers set of countryside dwellers, again written entirely in the form of product reviews.

Noang-Lish: is Pete’s almost award winning short story.

mooomin

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Pursuits-Quintin-Jardine-ebook/dp/B00HP4HGME/ref=pd_ts_zgc_kinc_341689031-f_10?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&pf_rd_p=476817827&pf_rd_s=right-2&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=341689031&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=13ZBJAMKF1FF1N8J9MC2

Free Quintin Jardine book - one from the Oz Blackstone series.

fatboy77

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We Won The Lottery - Real Life Winner Stories

http://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Won-The-Lottery-Stories-ebook/dp/B00B8ZF19G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1396144656&sr=1-1&keywords=lottery

Since 1994, the UK's National Lottery has created 2,300 millionaires. Expensive cars, big houses and dream holidays are all top of the wish list for those ordinary people whose lives are changed with a winning lottery ticket. But what about buying a boob job for your sister, giving away holidays to children with cancer or hiring a private helicopter for the school prom?

For the first time five winners share the details of their shopping sprees and the highs and lows of their lives once they became millionaires. "We Won The Lottery" also goes behind the scenes at the National Lottery to reveal funny facts, the luckiest numbers, the unusual purchases and exactly what happens when you win.

fatboy77

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Why I Hate The World

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-I-Hate-The-World-ebook/dp/B00B7PLY0C/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1396144840&sr=1-1&keywords=hate+the+world

Are you sick of people only ever talking about nice things? "Ooh, check me out, I had another baby and me and our Dave are getting married next year!" Who cares? Want to read the story of someone less fortunate than you, whose life has gone wrong at every turn? Then this is the place to be.

Joe Finch's tale is one of woe. Each passing year has brought more and more misery into his life and now he's bitter and twisted and doesn't care what you think of him.

Funny and sad in equal parts, "Why I Hate The World" is a book for our times, where Political Correctness has destroyed our ability to say what we think and feel. Joe says what he thinks and feels.

Not for the faint of heart, or those easily offended. It's immature and it has quite a bit of swearing in it. You've been warned.