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  It's Not Me It's You - An...

  Charlotte Bigland

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  The last man I dated... ended up dead. Jen is a normal, single woman living in a big city. By day, she's a receptionist and by night, she goes on dates. Lots of dates. Because Jen knows if she is going to find true love, it's a numbers game. All of Jen's dates end with the same crushing sense of disappointment and she finds herself silently uttering those five familiar words: 'It's not me, it's you.'But now it seems Jen is more than just unlucky in love. The police have knocked on her door with some questions for her. The last five people she went on dates with have been murdered. And Jen is their prime suspect. As she fights desperately to prove her innocence, she must ask herself, who would have a motive to kill those five people? And if the only thing connecting them is her, will she be next?An absolutely gripping and addictive psychological thriller with a killer twist you won't see coming. Fans of K.L Slater, Sue Watson and Netflix's You will be totally hooked from the first page until the final, breath-taking conclusion.

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  On This Day: May 13

  Emily Goldstein

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  On This Day: May 13. Daily podcast of historical and noteworthy activity on this calendar day. Pope John Paul II is shot; Dr. Joyce Brothers wins The $64K Question; birth of Stevie Wonder, Dennis Rodman, Stephen Colbert, Lena Dunham, and Richie Valens

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  Writings From Prison - Bobby Sands

  Bobby Sands Trust

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  In this book the author chronicles the abuse by the British state of emergency laws: harassment and intimidation of civilians; injuries and deaths caused by rubber and plastic bullets; collusion between British security forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by the security forces; excessive punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons – abuses ignored by all but a handful of individuals and civil rights organisations.

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  RD Burman - The Man The Music...

  Balaji Vittal, Anirudha...

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  Winner of the National Award for Best Book on Cinema in 2011 
  To a nation fed on classical music, the advent of Rahul Dev Burman with his repertoire of Western beats was a godsend. RD revolutionized Hindi film music in the 1970s, and with his emphasis on rhythm and beats, this Pied Piper of Hindi film music had young India swinging to his tunes. At the same time, this genius proved his many detractors who criticized him for corrupting popular taste wrong by composing some of the most influential raga-based songs in Hindi cinema and showing an immense comfort with all kinds of music, including Indian folk. RD: The Man, The Music looks at the phenomenon called R.D. Burman and how he changed the way Indians perceived Hindi film music. Through anecdotes and trivia that went into the making of Pancham's music - the many innovations he introduced, like mixed rhythm patterns, piquant chords and sound mixing - and through interactions with the musicians who were part of RD's team, the authors create a fascinating portrait of a man who, through his music, continues to thrive, even fifteen years after his death.  
  This book provides a fascinating portrait of R.D. 
  Burman and his impact on Hindi film music, featuring anecdotes and trivia from his career and interactions with his team of musicians. 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  Da Vinci's Ghost - Genius...

  Toby Lester

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  Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da 
   Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a  
  square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur  
  of art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human  
  spirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on coffee  
  cups, on corporate logos, even on spacecraft. It has, in short, become  
  the world's most famous cultural icon—and yet almost nobody knows about  
  the epic intellectual journeys that led to its creation. In this modest  
  drawing that would one day paper the world, da Vinci attempted nothing  
  less than to calibrate the harmonies of the universe and understand the  
  central role man played in the cosmos.Journalist and storyteller 
   Toby Lester brings Vitruvian Man to life, resurrecting the ghost of an  
  unknown Leonardo. Populated by a colorful cast of characters, including  
  Brunelleschi of the famous Dome, Da Vinci's Ghost opens up a  
  surprising window onto the artist and philosopher himself and the  
  tumultuous intellectual and cultural transformations he bridged. With  
  sparkling prose, Lester  
  captures the brief but momentous time in the history of western thought  
  when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance, art and science and  
  philosophy converged as one, and all seemed to hold out the promise that 
   a single human mind, if properly harnessed, could grasp the nature of  
  everything.

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  Murder on the Florida Frontier -...

  Andrew Fink

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  This historical true crime reveals the story behind a sensational murder trial in 19th century Florida—and the local legend of a headless ghost.  Sanford, Florida, 1880. As the United States recovered from the horrors of the Civil War, settlers, swindlers, and former soldiers from both sides decended on Florida in droves. Among these newcomers was Archie Newton, a young Englishman seeking refuge from his past. Newton hoped to forge a new life on the Florida frontier—and he set his sights on the fertile soil of Sanford.    Samuel McMillan was a miserly Sanford bachelor who carried large sums of "greenbacks" and trusted no one. The ambitious Newton made no secret of his plan to buy McMillan's profitable orange grove. But on his way back from Newton's home one evening, McMillan disappeared without a trace. He wasn't seen again until his headless corpse was pulled from a nearby lake.    Though there was no direct evidence linking Newton to the murder, he was immediately suspected. The trial was sensational and the evidence gruesome. To this day, local legends tell of a headless ghost rising from the lake. In Murder on the Florida Frontier, Andrew Fink chronicles the twists and turns of this shocking true story

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