Dust to Dust (9780345547385)

"[Tami Hoag] demonstrates just why she has become one of the hottest names in the suspense game. Bottom line: Leaves competition in the dust."--People Sorry. The single word is written on a mirror. In front of it hangs a Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic? Either way, it wasn't murder. At least not according to the powers that be. But veteran homicide detective Sam Kovac and his wisecracking, ambitious partner, Nikki Liska, think differently. Together they begin to dig at the too-neat edges of the young cop's death, uncovering one motive--and one suspect--after another. The cloud of suspicion falls not only on the city's elite, but over the very heart of the police department. Someone wants the case closed--quickly and forever. But even with their careers and their lives on the line, neither Kovac nor Liska will give up. As they unearth a connection between a two-month-old murder case and one that has been closed for twenty years, they find themselves chasing a killer who will stop at nothing to keep a dark and shattering secret. "Without a doubt, one of the most intense suspense writers around."--Chicago Tribune

"Tami Hoag is the queen of the crime story."--New York Post

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• Format Paperback | 512 pages
• Dimensions 192 x 202 x 31mm | 286g
• Publication date 28 May 2013
• Publisher Bantam
• Publication City/Country New York
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 0345547381
• ISBN13 9780345547385
• Bestsellers rank 367,703

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The Gospel in Brief : The Life of Jesus (9780061993459)

The four Gospels that begin the Bible's New Testament tell the life of Jesus. But each Gospel relates a slightly different version of events. Some stories appear only in one Gospel, while certain other stories are different in each. What Leo Tolstoy sought to do in "The Gospel In Brief" was to apply his tremendous skills as a writer to tell the life of Jesus in one seamless narrative, thus integrating the four Gospels. The result is a work that reads like a novel, complete with twelve chapters. The project was very important to Tolstoy. With "The Gospel In Brief", he sought to democratize access to the Gospel, making the life of Jesus accessible to everyone. (He particularly had in mind the Russian peasantry.) Tolstoy based his translation on his study of the original Greek versions of the Bible. Unfortunately the Russian Orthodox Church viewed the book as sacrilegious. How dare he re-write the sacred texts? The Church worked to suppress "The Gospel In Brief", and in 1901, it permanently excommunicated Tolstoy, Russia's greatest novelist.

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• Format Paperback | 224 pages
• Dimensions 127 x 181 x 14mm | 166g
• Publication date 01 Mar 2011
• Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint HarperPerennial
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 006199345X
• ISBN13 9780061993459
• Bestsellers rank 103,771

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Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work : Seven Spiritual Practices for a Scientific Age (9781948626194)

We are in the midst of a spiritual revival. This book is an essential guide.

"Wonderfully clear and inspiring... I regard this as one of the most important books of our generation." --Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind

"... a rare and needed voice in an apocalyptic time like ours. The practices he espouses do not take us out of the world but put us back in." --Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing

"An affable, erudite manual..." --The Times Literary Supplement

To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm where we finally find life's meaning.

Scientist and spiritual explorer Rupert Sheldrake looks at seven spiritual practices that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. He combines the latest scientific research with his extensive knowledge of mystical traditions to show how we may tune into more-than-human realms of consciousness through psychedelics such as ayahuasca, and how everyday activities can have mystical dimensions, including sports and learning from animals. He discusses traditional religious practices such as fasting, prayer, and the celebration of festivals and holy days.

Why do these practices work? Are their effects solely inside our brains and essentially illusory? Or can we really make contact with forms of consciousness greater than our own?

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of more than ninety technical papers and fourteen books, including Science Set Free. After studying at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, he worked in Hyderabad, India, as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, and lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Father Bede Griffiths. From 2005 to 2010, he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge.

He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon, UK. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons.

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• Format Hardback | 338 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 22mm | 662g
• Publication date 09 Sep 2019
• Publisher Monkfish Book Publishing
• Language English
• ISBN10 1948626195
• ISBN13 9781948626194

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Science and Spiritual Practices : Reconnecting through direct experience (9781473630093)

In this pioneering book Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which all religions are built, and which are part of our common human heritage:

* Meditation
* Gratitude
* Connecting with nature
* Relating to plants
* Rituals
* Singing and chanting
* Pilgrimage and holy places.

The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people happier and healthier.
Rupert Sheldrake summarizes the latest scientific research on what happens when we take part in these practices, and suggests ways that readers can explore these fields for themselves. For those who are religious, Science and Spiritual Practices will illuminate the evolutionary origins of their own traditions and give a new appreciation of their power. For the non-religious, this book will show how the core practices of spirituality are accessible to all, even if they do not subscribe to a religious belief system.

This is a book for anyone who suspects that in the drive towards radical secularism, something valuable has been left behind. Rupert Sheldrake believes that by opening ourselves to the spiritual dimension we may find the strength to live more wholesome and fulfilling lives.

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• Format Paperback | 256 pages
• Dimensions 155 x 199 x 19mm | 184g
• Publication date 26 Jun 2018
• Publisher HODDER & STOUGHTON
• Imprint Coronet Books
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 1473630096
• ISBN13 9781473630093
• Bestsellers rank 23,139

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Oh, Play That Thing (9780099477655)

It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe.

Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America...

Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music.

Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.

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• Format Paperback | 384 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 24mm | 266g
• Publication date 01 Sep 2006
• Publisher Vintage Publishing
• Imprint VINTAGE
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 0
• ISBN10 0099477653
• ISBN13 9780099477655
• Bestsellers rank 147,385

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Black and Blue : A Doug Brock Thriller (9781250133144)

Doug Brock hasn't had it easy since his getting shot in the line of duty as a New Jersey state police officer. Between the amnesia and having to solve two murder cases, it hasn't been the most restful recovery.

Now, the cold case department is checking evidence from a murder case Doug was investigating before the accident, but the DNA points to a man Doug eliminated as a suspect and he remembers none of it. Doug begins to reinvestigate what turns out to be a series of unsolved killings and must retrace his steps to discover why he would have let the suspect go free. What he uncovers may be more dangerous than any case he's faced yet.

With Fade to Black, nationally bestselling author David Rosenfelt continues his thrilling new series featuring Doug Brock.

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• Format Hardback | 336 pages
• Dimensions 164 x 242 x 28mm | 483g
• Publication date 26 Mar 2019
• Publisher Minotaur Books,US
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 1250133149
• ISBN13 9781250133144
• Bestsellers rank 1,217,986

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One Dog Night (9781250160355)

For six years Noah Galloway has lived with a horrible secret and the fear that his rebuilt life could be shattered at any moment. Now his dread has become a certainty, and he has been arrested for the arson murder of twenty-six people.

What he needs now is defense lawyer Andy Carpenter, who most definitely is not in the market for a new client. So Noah plays his hole card: a shared love for Andy's golden retriever, Tara, and the knowledge of what her life was like before Andy rescued her. Because Andy wasn't her first owner--Noah rescued Tara first, and when he wasn't able to care for her any longer, he did everything in his power to make sure that she was placed in the right home: Andy's.
With that knowledge, Andy has little choice but to take Noah on, and he soon learns that the long-ago event that may destroy Noah's life is only the beginning of an ongoing conspiracy that grows more deadly by the day. Andy will have to pull out all of his tricks to get to the bottom of this cold case turned white hot in One Dog Night, the latest in David Rosenfelt's popular mystery series.

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• Format Paperback | 416 pages
• Dimensions 137 x 208 x 30mm | 358g
• Publication date 05 Dec 2017
• Publisher Minotaur Books
• Publication City/Country New York
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 1250160359
• ISBN13 9781250160355
• Bestsellers rank 55,793

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