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 Whitehall Palace, London, March 1543
There has been a late snowfall and the covered turrets of ...
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 If there is no dignity in death, then there is even less dignity in deciding who should be apportioned the most amount...
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An afternoon meeting with Colin Beswick. Afterwards Henry walked with Nellie in the garden. At the back of the...
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 After Beth left, Al got up, closed the door, and leaned her back against it, rolling her bottom lip between her teeth...
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 I was born in Africa with a wind in my head . . . a wind which held in its breath the knowledge of all life since the...
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 As I am getting out of the lift the next morning my cellphone rings. It is Dr James. His calm warm voice is reassuring...
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 P R O L O G U E
At the Airport
An airport scene
■ Why study traditional societies?
■ States
■ Types...
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PART ONE
FANTINE
BOOK ONE
An Upright Man
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Monseigneur Myriel
In the year of 1815 Monseigneur Charles-...
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 CHAPTER TWO
The man the Americans had dubbed Target One sat at his regular bistro table at the sidewalk café...
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October 1943
The Indian Ocean
The light of a half-moon shimmered off the restless sea like a streak of flaming...
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 I. HOW TO LOVE THE WIND
Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.
Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos:...
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 In this sneak preview from Chapter One of Jack of Diamonds, the new – and final – book by Australia's...
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 Find out how Eva and Gideon's relationship develops in Reflected in You - the second scorching title in the...
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 CONTEMPORARY AFRICA
Nigeria, Zambia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique, once among Africa’s...
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There is a sense of entitlement in the assertion that those who sacrificed their youth to the armed struggle...
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I wouldn’t mind – I mean, this is the sheer irony of the thing
– but I’m the...
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Five assassins find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo competing for a suitcase full of money. Who will get to...
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EXTRACT
His forehead is slick and his face is stiff from being held in its grimace. And...
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IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MURDER...
Pensioner Felix Pink is about to find out that it's never too...
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his...
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