http://www.thenile.com.au/ Books from The Nile http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Matthew-Reilly/Six-Sacred-Stones-The/9781405038522/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9781405038522 Description: For Jack West Jr and his loyal team of heroes, the challenge now is to set six legendary diamonds known as "the Pillars" in place at six ancient sites around the world before the deadline for global destruction arrives. The location of these sites, however, can only be revealed by the fabled Six Sacred Stones. Their quest will involve the death-defying hijack of a mountaintop railway in China... A midnight expedition to Stonehenge... A headlong chase across the deserts of Egypt... And a trek into the dark realm of an African tribe forgotten by time... With only the riddles of ancient writers to guide them, and time rapidly running out, Jack and his team must fight their way past traps, labyrinths and a host of deadly enemies – knowing that this time they cannot, will not, must not fail. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Dave-Stern/Wolverine-The-Nature-Of-The-Beast-wolverine/9781416510772/ Price: $13.49 ISBN: 9781416510772 Description: He was the best at what he did: a born fighter, a mutant whose uncanny speed and strength, augmented by the best technology money could buy, made him close to unstoppable. He had an indestructible skeleton, cast from the hardest metal on the planet. Razor-sharp claws that could cut through steel like butter. He was Wolverine. Member of the mutant Super Hero group X-Men. Then everything changed. Now, with the adamantium ripped out of his body -- with his healing factor reduced to a fraction of what it once was -- the man known only as Logan finds himself racing to defeat a deadly conspiracy that threatens all of mutantkind, a conspiracy that stretches across both time and space, from the ice-capped peaks of Tibet to the neon jungles of Las Vegas, from his days as an agent of the Canadian government to his years as a member of the most unusual Super Hero group of all time... Here now is Wolverine, bloodied but unbowed, facing long-forgotten foes from out of his past -- and unexpected challenges from his future... http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Owen-Sheers/Resistance/9780571229642/ Price: $21.49 ISBN: 9780571229642 Description: In the months afterwards all of the women, at some point, said they'd known the men were leaving the valley . . . 1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, a German counter-attack lands on British soil. Within a month, half of Britain is occupied. Sarah Lewis, a 26-year-old farmer's wife, wakes to find her husband Tom has disappeared. She is not alone, as all the women in the isolated Welsh border valley of Olchon wake to find their husbands gone. With this sudden and unexplained absence they regroup as an all-female community and wait, hoping for news. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of their mission a mystery. When a severe winter forces the two groups into co-operation, a fragile mutual dependency develops. Sarah begins a faltering acquaintance with the patrol's commanding officer, Albrecht Wolfram. But with the threat of the war that surrounds them pressing in, how long can the valley's delicate state of harmony survive? Imbued with immense imaginative breadth and confidence, Owen Sheers' debut novel unfolds with the pace and intensity of a thriller. A hymn to the glorious landscape of the border territories and a gripping portrait of a community under siege, Resistance is a first novel of considerable grace and power. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Bennett-Ronan/Zugzwang/9780747587293/ Price: $21.49 ISBN: 9780747587293 Description: St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the forces - political, historical, sexual - that are holding him in their grasp. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Sun-Shuyun/A-Year-In-Tibet/9780007288793/ Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9780007288793 Description: Sun Shuyun grew up in China and has always been fascinated by Tibet and Buddhism. Now, accompanied by a television crew of Chinese and Tibetans, she spent a year in a remote town in the Tibetan mountain area and recorded what life is like for the people there. After half a century of Communist rule, Gyantse, once celebrated by early twentieth–century British explorers, has like the rest of Tibet seen the return of religion and much of the traditional way of life–but for how long? Sun Shuyun explores the intimate details of the lives of a shaman and his family, or monks, a village doctor, a Party worker, a hotel manager, and a rickshaw driver. Through them she captures the tensions between Chinese and Tibetans, between an ancient and an alien culture, faith and science, continuity and modernisation. This is a book with a difference: unusually, a realistic Chinese voice is calling for better understanding of a people who try to carve out the path they desire, often against the odds, often with joy and hope. Vivid, fascinating and visually brilliant, a Year in Tibet provides a rare insight into a Tibetan community under the pressure of change: from centuries of isolation through a difficult past to an uncertain present. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Colleen-Mccullough/Antony-And-Cleopatra/9780732283216/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9780732283216 Description: The epic story of two of the world's most famous lovers – and the forces of politics, intrigue and ambition that shaped them – told as only Colleen McCullough can. Brutus and Cassius are dead at Philippi, leaving two Roman men to inherit the world. One is the twenty–year–old Octavian, whose brilliance, subtlety and political cunning give the lie to his small, sickly appearance. The other is Mark Antony, a man in his prime – lusty, Herculean, hedonistic, proven on the battlefields of war, politics and love. At first glance, it seems no contest: Antony is the certain winner. But in Alexandria sits Egypt's queen, Cleopatra, mourning the death of Julius Caesar, yet utterly focused on attaining world power for her only son, Caesarion. In order to achieve this, she must seduce and hold in thrall either Octavian or Antony. Her choice is Antony. Antony and Cleopatra compellingly chronicles the events that inexorably led this star–crossed pair to their fate. Passion and power, love and death, fortune and fate collide in a mighty conflict that shaped the world for centuries to come. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Nicholas-Sparks/Lucky-One/9781847441133/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9781847441133 Description: Is there really such a thing as a good luck charm? Ex-soldier Logan Thibault thinks he just might have found one. Haunted by memories of the friends he lost in Iraq, Logan knows how fortunate he is to be home. He believes that a photograph he carried with him, a picture of a smiling woman he's never met, kept him safe. Even though he knows nothing about this woman, he hopes she might hold the key to his destiny. Resolving to find her, Logan embarks on a journey of startling discovery. Beth, the woman whose picture he holds, is struggling with problems of her own: her volatile ex-husband won't accept their relationship is over and threatens anyone who gets too close to her. And, despite a growing attraction between them, Logan has kept one explosive secret from Beth: how he came across her photograph in the first place ... http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Camilla-Nelson/Crooked/9781863256056/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9781863256056 Description: Set against the backdrop of the Askin government, with events revolving around notorious crime identities Dick Reilly, Lennie McPherson and Johnny Warren, Crooked reveals the dark underbelly of Sydney during the late 1960s. Gus Finlay is a fresh-faced young detective who is transferred to the criminal investigation branch after his partner has been exposed as running crooked. Sydney is a savage place. A series of violent killings escalate with a spectacular execution-style murder. When a black book with the names of prominent politicians and members of the police force is discovered among the dead man's belongings, the case is blown wide open, and someone will have to pay... http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Anita-Shreve/Wedding-In-December/9780349117997/ Price: $22.49 ISBN: 9780349117997 Description: At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Avery, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ago, has made a life for himself in Toronto with his wife and two sons. Agnes, now a history teacher at Kidd is a woman who longs to tell a secret she cannot reveal to the others, a secret that would stun them all. Bridget, the mother of a fifteen-year-old boy, has agreed to marry Bill, an old high school lover whom she has recently remet, despite uncertainties about her health and future. Indeed, it is Bill who passionately wants this wedding and who has brought every one together for an astonishing weekend of revelation and recrimination, forgiveness and redemption. This is Anita Shreve's most ambitious and moving novel to date, probing into human motivation with extraordinary grace and skill. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/J-K-Rowling/Harry-Potter-And-The-Deathly-Hallows/9780747595823/ Price: $20.49 ISBN: 9780747595823 Description: Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him . . . In this final, seventh instalment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, reread and read again. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Sun-Tzu/The-Art-Of-War/9780140455526/ Price: $17.99 ISBN: 9780140455526 Description: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Simon-Thomsen/Sydney-Morning-Herald-2009-Good-Food-Guide/9780143005889/ Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9780143005889 Description: For more than two decades, The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide has provided expert advice on negotiating the minefield that is the Sydney restaurant scene, keeping residents and visitors in touch with the best, the most interesting, and the most innovative places to dine in the city and suburbs, and further afield in regional New South Wales. For the 2009 edition, food connoisseurs Simon Thomsen, Joanna Savill and their team have visited over 400 restaurants, and numerous bars and cafes, setting down their impressions with the flair, insight and razor-sharp wit for which the guide has become known. In one of the most anticipated events of Sydney's gourmet calendar, the Good Food Guide 2009 will announce a list of award-winners in various categories, restaurants that will go on to set the standards by which others are judged in the coming year. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Gwynne-Dyer/Climate-Wars/9781921372223/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9781921372223 Description: The core problem with climate change is not sea level rise or biodiversity; it is food supply. We are just barely able to feed the current six-and-a-half billion people on the planet. At 2 degrees hotter, many hundreds of millions are at risk but, with global cooperation and a switch away from meat production (let people eat the grain, not cows), they wouldn't have to starve. At 5 degrees hotter, there are no good options left. What makes this a political and potentially a strategic issue is the fact that the misery will not be equally shared. As rainfall patterns shift, some countries lose most of their best croplands while others come through the change unharmed or even gain new food-growing areas in the sub-Arctic. There is a bitter irony here, for the list of beneficiaries includes most of the countries that industrialised early and caused the problem to grow to its current size. There is also huge scope for conflict, including armed conflict, because nobody will sit quietly and watch their children starve when any alternatives remain, including violent ones. Some of those watching their children starve will have the resources and technology to threaten those who still have food (but just enough food). The only way to avoid this future, if it can be avoided, is to get greenhouse gas emissions down drastically in the next 10-15 years. But making the deal that would mandate and enforce those deep cuts in emissions, especially the part of the deal that brings the 'new' industrialising countries into the effort, is ferociously difficult politically, and there is no guarantee that it will happen in time. If it doesn't, the next few generations are in for a wild ride. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/John-Lethlean/The-Age-Good-Food-Guide-2009/9780143005902/ Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9780143005902 Description: There has been extensive action in the Melbourne restaurant scene over the past 12 months and The Age Good Food Guide 2009 has kept track of it all. Whatever the occasion – or even if there's no occasion – the Guide provides all the information you need to choose just the right venue in and around Melbourne, or in the country. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Joanne-Horniman/Candlelight-Novel/9781741754858/ Price: $15.99 ISBN: 9781741754858 Description: 'I am a reading girl, with a pale face, and glasses. People who become enthralled by the world of books, as I am, are often thought to have dull lives, but I feel that my own life is made of the stuff of myth. Or anyway, I intend to make it so. So this is my story. It will be about birth & death and love & sex. I will make it something after my own heart, tender and dark, a little candlelight novel, started this late summer night...' Joanne Horniman's characters live and breathe and find their way into your imagination to make you look at life afresh. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/David-Francis/Stray-Dog-Winter/9781741755404/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9781741755404 Description: Enthralling, atmospheric and suspenseful, Stray Dog Winter is at once an unconventional Cold War thriller and an original, unforgettable love story set in 1980s Moscow. With Stray Dog Winter , David Francis has entered Graham Greene territory, placing a naive hero in the center of political intrigue and betrayal at the end of the Cold War. Written with a stark, haunting beauty, this novel is pure Soviet noir, a remarkable tale of love, passion, politics, identity, and espionage. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Garrison-Keillor/Pontoon/9780571217250/ Price: $21.49 ISBN: 9780571217250 Description: In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who wishes for her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake. Meanwhile, a wedding between a veterinary aromatherapist and her boyfriend Brent is set to take place aboard a pontoon boat. A delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark has come to town, and there's Raoul of the cigars and tinted shades, come to visit his elderly lover. All is in readiness for the wedding - the French champagne, the flying Elvis, the giant duck decoys - and then something quite unexpected happens. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Andrew-Sean-Greer/The-Story-Of-A-Marriage/9780571241200/ Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9780571241200 Description: It is 1953, and America is still haunted by the war. Pearlie and Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland's elderly aunts, the family have no regular visitors. That is until one day, a neat and elegantly dressed gentleman named Buzz appears at their door. The Story of a Marriage portrays three people trapped by the restrictions of their era, and reveals how we can never truly know the ones we love. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Nesser-Hakan/The-Minds-Eye/9780230706996/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9780230706996 Description: Janek Mitter stumbles into his bathroom one morning after a night of heavy drinking, to find his beautiful young wife, Eva, floating dead in the bath. She has been brutally murdered. Yet even during his trial Mitter cannot summon a single memory of attacking Eva, nor a clue as to who could have killed her if he had not. Only once he has been convicted and locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane does he have a snatch of insight – but is it too late? http://www.thenile.com.au/books/John-Hamilton/Gallipoli-Sniper/9781405038652/ Price: $31.49 ISBN: 9781405038652 Description: The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers. Scrub, cliffs, spurs and hills meant that both Anzac and Turkish positions often overlooked one another. The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both sides, and the sudden crack of a gunshot and instant death were an ever-present menace. The most successful and most feared sniper of the Gallipoli campaign was Billy Sing, a Light Horseman from Queensland who was almost unique among the Australian troops in having a Chinese-born father. A combination of patience, stealth and an incredible eye made him utterly deadly, with the incredible - and horrifying - figure of over 200 credited 'kills'. John Hamilton, author of the bestselling Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You, has written an extraordinary account of a hidden side of the campaign - the snipers' war. Following Sing from his recruitment onwards, Hamilton takes us on a journey into the squalor, dust, blood and heroism of Gallipoli, seen from the unique viewpoint of the sniper. Gallipoli Sniper is a powerful and very different account of war and its effect on those who fight. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/David-Gillespie/Sweet-Poison-Why-Sugar-Is-Making-Us-Fat/9780670072477/ Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9780670072477 Description: David Gillespie was 40kg overweight, lethargic, sleep-deprived and the father of four, with twins on the way. He knew he needed to lose weight fast, but he had run out of diets - all had failed. After doing some reading on evolution (why weren't our forebears fat?), David cut sugar - specifically fructose - from his diet. He immediately started to lose weight, and kept it off. Slim, trim and fired up, David set out to look at the connection between sugar, our soaring obesity rates and some of the more worrying diseases of the twenty-first century, and discovered some startling facts in the process. * Sugar was once such a rare resource that nature decided we didn't need an off-switch - in other words, we can keep eating sugar without feeling full. * In the space of 150 years, we have gone from eating no added sugar to more than a kilogram a week. * You would need to run 7km every day of your life just to no put on weight as a result of eating that much sugar. * Two decades ago 1 in 14 adult Australians were obses; that figure is now 1 in 5. * The 'natural' sugar in one glass of unsweetened fruit juie per day for a year is enough to add just over 2.5kg your waistline. * The more sugar we eat, the more we want. Food manufacturers exploit our sugar addiction by lacing it through 'non-sweet' products, such as bread, sauces, soups and cereals. Sweet Poison exposes one of the great health scourges of our time and offers a wealth of practical and accessible information on how to avoid fructose, increase your enjoyment of food and lose weight. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Agnes-Desanthe/Chez-Moi/9781846271014/ Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9781846271014 Description: How hard can it be to run a restaurant when you've fed fussy children and been a circus caterer? Myriam's sudden, characteristically impulsive decision to open a restaurant in her Paris flat transforms her life in a curious way. For the last six years, Myriam has been livving in self-imposed exile, cut off from her cool, reserved husband and from the son she found herself unable to love, and the opening night of Chez Moi is typically desolate. But little by little, Myriam's mouth-watering dishes draw people in, first the florist from across the road, followed by the school children tempted by a four-euro lunch, and then Ben, the most unflappable and devoted of waiters. As the restaurant sizzles towards success, figures and feelings from Myriam's past also being to emerge, gradually re-awakening her appetite for life, both the bitter parts and the sweet. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Andrea-Needham/Courage-At-The-Top/9780143008033/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9780143008033 Description: What makes a good leader? Is it vision? Is it knowledge? Is it people management skills? After years of working with some brilliant and some not so brilliant leaders world wide Needham has identified the one quality that is essential for effective leadership and that quality is courage. In Courage at the Top Needham defines leadership with courage, provides case-studies which reveal why courage is so essential in a good leader, and provides an action plan to achieve leadership courage. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Martin-Evening/The-Adobe-Photoshop-Lightroom-2-Book/9780321555618/ Price: $44.49 ISBN: 9780321555618 Description: While Adobe Photoshop has long been their choice for editing digital photographs, many photographers want a more focused tool. That's where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes in. Designed from the ground up with digital photographers in mind, Photoshop Lightroom offers powerful editing features in a streamlined interface that lets photographers import, sort, and organize images. This completely updated and expanded bestseller, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book, was also written with photographers in mind. Author Martin Evening describes features in Photoshop Lightroom 2 in detail from a photographer's perspective. As an established commercial and fashion photographer, Martin knows first-hand what photographers need for an efficient workflow. He has also been working with Lightroom from the beginning, monitoring the product's development and providing feedback on the public beta. As a result, Martin knows the software inside and out, from image selection to image editing to image management. The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book contains 624 pages of comprehensive and detailed coverage of all aspects of Lightroom.In this book you'll learn how to: / Work efficiently with images shot in the raw or JPEG format / Import photographs with ease and sort them according to your workflow / Create and manage a personal image library / Apply tonal adjustments to multiple images quickly / Integrate Photoshop Lightroom with Adobe Photoshop / Export images for print or Web as digital contact sheets or personal portfolios The book structure has been organized to match a typical Lightroom workflow. The introductory chapter provides an overview of all the main Lightroom features, showing how Lightroom 2 was used on a studio photo shoot that was specially shot to illustrate the book. The following chapters cover all the essentials, such as importing photos, working with the Library module, and managing the catalog database. The biggest section of the book is devoted to working with the Develop module and provides some unique insights into working with new features such as the localized adjustment tools.There is also a whole chapter devoted to image sharpening and another on integrating Lightroom and Photoshop, where you will learn how to devise the best workflow methods for working between these two programs. This is followed by a chapter on printing and a presentation chapter on the Slideshow and Web modules. Lastly, there are two appendix chapters. One offers a complete overview of the Lightroom 2 preference settings, while the other provides some in-depth explanations and background reading on how the Lightroom program works. The book is richly illustrated, mostly using the author's own photographs, and one of the nice features of this book is the way enlarged panel views are used throughout, making it easier for readers to follow the settings used in the various step-by-step examples. There are also lots of tips that will help you take your Lightroom techniques to an advanced level. If you are looking for the most comprehensive coverage of Lightroom, written by an author who is closely involved with the development of the program, this is the book to get.About the Author Martin Evening is a London-based advertising and fashion photographer and noted expert in both photography and digital imaging. In addition to being a bestselling author, Martin is sought after for speaking and lecturing. He also works with the Photoshop and Lightroom engineering teams, consulting on new feature development and alpha and beta testing. He is one of the founding members of PixelGenius, a software design company producing automated production and creative plug-ins for Photoshop. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Matthew-Thompson/My-Colombian-Death/9780330423922/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9780330423922 Description: Kidnappings, car bombs, cocaine, paramilitaries, bullfights, the Amazon and madness. Welcome to Colombia, where life is cheap and so are the drugs. In 2006, Matt Thompson travelled to Colombia in search of the life he might have led. Born to American parents, Matt's father was offered a post which would have taken the family to Bogota, but he turned it down because it was too high risk. Instead they came to Australia – low-risk, even paradisaic – and the land that nearly drove Matt to a slow death from boredom. One day he quits his job, picks up his bag and decides to go experience life in the country that's not only the most dangerous in South America, but possibly the world. This is the story of what happened next. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Kathy-Reichs/Devil-Bones/9780434014668/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9780434014668 Description: An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint. When a careless plumber accidentally knocks through a wall, he is horrified by what he uncovers. Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. Fighting her claustrophobia, and the unmistakeable sweet, fetid odour of rotting flesh, Tempe descends the precariously steep, makeshift wooden steps. What awaits her below is a ritualistic display: slain chickens and a goat - and a skull, ghostly pale, rests on a pedestal, the lower jaw missing, the empty orbits starring back at her. The forehead is darkened by an irregular stain the exact red-brown of dried blood, and lined with remnants of desiccated tissue. Two cauldrons stand nearby, beads and antlers suspended overhead. Age, race and sex indicators confirm the skull as that of a young, black female - but how did she die, and when? Then, just as Tempe is working to determine the post-mortem interval, another body is uncovered. The corpse is headless, the torso is carved with Satanic symbols. Could there be a connection? Must Tempe face the sickening possibility that Devil-worshippers are sacrificing human victims? http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Leda-Swann/Mistress/9780061431227/ Price: $17.99 ISBN: 9780061431227 Description: She knew she was playing with fire . . . and was eager to burn. The very thought of an innocent young woman—a teacher at a fusty finishing school—modeling for a series of titillating photographs to be sold at London's bookstalls is scandalous. But orphaned Emily Clemens's destitute circumstances have left her little choice. It is all part of her plan to capture the attention of some well-heeled roué who will then make her his pampered mistress. So the untouched beauty sheds her outer garments—and her inhibitions—to strike provocative poses before the lens of handsome photographer Eric Twyford. But each seductive attitude she assumes is stoking a fire within that Emily never knew existed—and the heat is spurring her on to ever-greater heights of sensuous abandon. Still, the devilishly desirable Eric, a consummate professional, remains unmoved by her erotic display. If Emily cannot arouse a man in the flesh, what hope does she have as a black-and-white postcard? She has already gone far beyond the boundaries of propriety. Now Emily's brazenly determined to go even farther—to seduce Eric, letting him take her to intoxicating places she has never been. But once she has reached ecstasy, will she ever be able to leave? http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Michael-Koryta/Envy-The-Night/9781741755916/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9781741755916 Description: Devin Matteson - evil man for sure - was alive and free. Cut a deal, hung Frank's father out to dry, and then walked away. No punishment, no penance, no pain. He deserved some or all of that. He damn sure deserved some pain. Envy the Night blasts into the life of Frank Temple. Frank's father was a hitman, and though Frank turned his back on his father's violent ways, he's never been able to get over his father's suicide after being turned in to the authorities by someone close to him. So when Frank learns that Devin Matteson - the man he believes betrayed his father - is heading to a lake in Wisconsin, he finds himself drawn back to the lake to confront Matteson in a final showdown ... With its excellent narrative and superb plot, Envy the Night confirms Michael Koryta's place among the top echelon of international crime writers. A moody and evocative novel, with overtones of both Michael Connelly and James Lee-Burke, it will keep you turning its pages well into the night. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Preeta-Samarasan/Evening-Is-The-Whole-Day/9780732287528/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9780732287528 Description: Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding first novel introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets. When the family's rubber–plantation servant girl is dismissed for unnamed crimes, it is only the latest in a series of precipitous losses that have shaken six–year–old Aasha's life. In the space of several weeks her grandmother died under
mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, left for Columbia University, gone forever. Circling through years of family history to arrive at the moment of Uma's departure – stranding her worshipful younger sister in a family, and a country, slowly going to pieces – Evening is the Whole Day illuminates in heartbreaking detail one Indian immigrant family's layers of secrets and lies, while exposing the complex underbelly of Malaysia itself. Sweeping in scope, exuberantly lyrical, and masterfully constructed, Preeta Samarasan's debut is a mesmerising and vital achievement. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Dean-Karnazes/50-Marathons-50-Days/9781741755596/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9781741755596 Description: The ultrarunning legend takes on the ultimate test of endurance. Men's Fitness magazine has hailed Dean Karnazes the fittest man on the planet. Time claimed that he is no mere mortal. Wired declared him the perfect human. Now, Dean proves them right - again - by conquering what no man has undertaken before: 50 marathons in 50 days. That's 2092 kilometers. And five pairs of shoes, 18 pairs of socks, 1,374,721 heartbeats, and three lost toenails. In 50 Marathons 50 Days , Dean shares his secrets for super endurance. How to adapt quickly to extreme conditions, prevent muscle cramps and overheating, pace yourself when you hit the wall, recover after a gruelling race, and how to stay motivated - against all odds. There's also expert nutrition advice, and a 26-week beginner's marathon training plan. But the essence of this book goes well beyond the incredible story of those 50 races. Above all, 50 Marathons 50 Days is a fascinating first-hand account of what it's like to push the limits of strength and motivation. It's an inspiring how-to book for anyone looking to go further than ever before towards their goals. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Salman-Rushdie/The-Enchantress-Of-Florence/9780224082433/ Price: $39.49 ISBN: 9780224082433 Description: A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar's grandfather Babar: Qara K”z, 'Lady Black Eyes', a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbek warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally becomes the lover of a certain Argalia, a Florentine soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, and much trouble ensues. The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant emperor wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire and the treachery of sons, and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture, where Argalia's boyhood friend "il Machia" - Niccol• Machiavelli - is learning, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. These two worlds, so far apart, turn out to be uncannily alike, and the enchantments of women hold sway over them both. But is Mogor's story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he's a liar, must he die? http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Thomas-H-Cook/Master-Of-The-Delta/9781847242129/ Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9781847242129 Description: "In the Mississippi Delta of 1954, Jack Branch has returned to his ancestral home, intent on an act of noblesse oblige. He decided to teach at the local high school, and designs a course called 'On Evil', one that will engage his decidedly unsophisticated students. Eddie Miller is one of those students. But he is also the son of the 'Coed Killer', a boy already well versed in the vocabulary of evil. When Branch urges Eddie to write a paper on his own father, the best of intentions go horribly wrong. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Jodie-Hedley-ward/You-Sexy-Mother/9781921497018/ Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9781921497018 Description: You Sexy Mother redefines what it means to be a stay-at-home mum today … one who is sexy, vibrant, healthy, happy and engaged in a life that has meaning and value. When she became a mother herself, Jodie Hedley-Ward failed to find any book that supported her own beliefs about what motherhood could and should be, so she set about writing one herself. In particular, she wanted to explore three key concepts: (1) The idea that being a stay-at home mum can be an exciting, fulfilling and even lucrative option. (2) To show via her own journey how it is possible to change from the stereotypical worn-out mum who is losing her sense of self, into a sexy, vibrant woman who embraces her role. (3) To provide an alternative to the traditional black-and-white options of working mother (feeling guilty/children in full-time care) versus stereotypical frumpy stay-athome mum (who attends parent groups and doesn’t bother with her appearance). You Sexy Mother offers sensible advice on self-perception, selfrespect, the importance of relationships, simplifying your life, creativity through motherhood, making use of community resources – and concludes with a transformational ten-day turnaround plan. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Daniel-Silva/Moscow-Rules/9780718154271/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9780718154271 Description: The violent death of a journalist leads agent turned art restorer Gabrial Allon to Russia. Here he finds that in terms of spycraft, the stakes are the higest they've ever been. He's playing by Moscow rules now. It is not the grim city of Soviet times, but a modern Moscow, awash in oil wealth and bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of the old enemy, the United States. One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire is a lucrative and deadly business. Kharkov is an arms dealer - and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11 - and the clock is ticking fast. Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East - and Silva's finest novel yet. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Pauline-Nguyen/Secrets-Of-The-Red-Lantern/9781740459044/ Price: $53.49 ISBN: 9781740459044 Description: Secrets of the Red Lantern is a bittersweet family saga in which treasured recipes form the threads that bind members together for life. It is a moving memoir and a dazzling collection of sumptuous Vietnamese recipes, complete with beautiful food, location and personal photography. Pauline Nguyen, along with Luke Nguyen and Mark Jensen, are the proprietors of the respected Sydney restaurant, Red Lantern. They hold in their hearts and their heads the Nguyen family’s amazing stories and food secrets. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Wayne-Webster/Peter-Brock-How-Good-Is-This/9780670071876/ Price: $44.49 ISBN: 9780670071876 Description: Brock's friend and co-driver, Wayne Webster, gives an honest account of a man with unmatched intuition in the car, a deep affection for his fans, and a less than perfect - but very human - record in his personal relationships. His death during a 2006 rally shocked the community and brought his contributions into relief. Brock's story is told through insightful interviews with friends, family and business associates, and includes details of his Bathurst victories; the 'Energy Polariser' and his split with Holden; his radical change of lifestyle; his relationship and split with Bev; and the changes in the racing industry. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Thomas-Perry/Fidelity/9781847244987/ Price: $26.99 ISBN: 9781847244987 Description: When, despite all his training and twenty five years experience as a private detective, Phil Kramer is shot dead on a quiet suburban south Californian street, his wife and partners think it had to have been a professional hit. But why target Kramer? As his wife leads the investigation into his death, she realises that Phil’s life was riddled with secrets he kept from her and his colleagues. And buried amongst them is the secret that cost him his life and now threatens hers. http://www.thenile.com.au/books/Robert-Crais/Chasing-Darkness/9780752891613/ Price: $29.49 ISBN: 9780752891613 Description: It is fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. Fire Department personnel rush to evacuate the inhabitants, and find the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered, each photograph was taken only moments after the women were killed. One murder per year for seven years, their bodies found in different parts of the city. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders. But now with the discovery of the "death album" these seven murders have been linked, and the news for Elvis Cole is bad...Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases, that being for the murder of victim #4. LAPD and the LA County District Attorney had a recorded confession by the suspect and believed him to be the murderer. But, with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole, in the end he walked free. That suspect was the suicide now discovered in the fire, Elliot Martin. Did Cole's action three years ago free a killer to commit more murders? Did Elvis cost three young women their lives?