W świetle ostatnich doniesień o korupcji w FIFA, polecamy maszynopis bestsellerowej książki Declana Hilla. Książka zostałe przetłumaczona na 15 języków.
Declan Hill - kanadyjski dziennikarz, aktor, naukowiec i konsultant. Jeden z czołowych ekspertów w zakresie korupcji i ustawiania meczów w międzynarodowych rozgrywkach sportowych. W 2008 roku uzyskał doktorat z socjologii na Uniwersytecie w Oksfordzie. Jego książka "The Fix: Organized Crime and Soccer", wydana w piętnastu językach, wskazała na nowe zagrożenia dla międzynarodowego sportu związane z globalizacją rynku hazardu, w tym ewentualnego handlu meczami na najwyższym poziomie zawodowej piłki nożnej. Badał też m.in. udział rosyjskiej mafii w organizacji imprez sportowych.
Hill came face-to-face with the multi-billion dollar illegal Asian gambling industry. Over four years, he interviewed more than two hundred people, including professional gamblers, Mafia hitmen, undercover cops, top-level international soccer players, referees, and officials. He met men who claim they have bribed their way into fixing the results of some of the biggest matches in the sport. Initially very sceptical, Hill travelled across four continents to corroborate their stories. He found soccer leagues where mobsters have fixed more than eighty per cent of the games. But most chilling, he met and then was adopted by a small group of match-fixers.
In The Fix, Hill explains the structure and mechanics of illegal gambling syndicates, what soccer players and referees do (or not do) to affect the outcome of their games, why relatively rich and high-status athletes would fix games, how and why club officials would bribe the opposition and how they get referees "on their side." Perhaps most shocking is Hill's discovery that gambling fixers have successfully infiltrated the game, all the way to the top international matches.
The book, however, is not just about match fixing in soccer, the world's most popular sport. Throughout the text, Hill uses examples from other sports - tennis, hockey, even rowing - to show that the credibility of professional sport now lies on a fragile foundation, and it provides enough hints to suspect that all sports above amateur level should look nervously over their shoulder.
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DEATH CANYON is definitely a different kind of thriller giving the reader a thorough excursion into fly-fishing and the bliss of lonesome life in America’s countryside.
The first in a debut thriller series featuring attorney-turned-fishing-guide Jake Trent, whose idyllic life is upended when he finds himself at the center of a series of grisly murders set around picturesque Jackson Hole.
It’s early summer in Jackson, Wyoming, and former east coast prosecutor and now fishing guide Jake Trent is wading through a mess of political turmoil, introspection, and tragedy. Three seemingly unrelated deaths have occurred in one day—unheard of in the scenic valley of Jackson Hole. A skier perishes in a freak late-season avalanche. A French couple is discovered mutilated on a remote trail in Grand Teton National Park—presumably by a bear. On the river, Jake himself finds the body of a tourist fisherman. Meanwhile, a series of small earthquakes—not to mention a bitter dispute between land developers and a cultish group of environmentalists—has left the townspeople uneasy.
Before long, the plausible explanations for each death dissolve. Could there be a sinister connection behind them? When fresh evidence points to him as a suspect, Jake Trent is put on the defensive. Is someone out to frame him? Can Trent keep his past demons at bay while he tries to discover the truth behind the mysterious deaths? Defying the police, Jake teams up with renegade park ranger Noelle Klimpton to get to the bottom of this series of disturbing events. But what they discover will put all their lives at risk…
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Set in a Colorado ski town, Kaya McLaren's "How I Came To Sparkle Again" is a remarkable breakout novel that chronicles three people and their journey from loss to love...
Three people at the crossroads of heartbreak and healing.
Three lives that will be changed one winter in Sparkle.
One tender, funny, tear-jerking novel you won’t soon forget.
Jill Anthony spent her young adulthood in the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado. But more than a decade has passed and Jill is no stranger to tragedy. When, only weeks after a very late miscarriage, she finds her husband in bed with another woman, she flees Austin, Texas for the town she knows: Sparkle.
Lisa Carlucci wakes up one morning after another night of meaningless sex, looks in the mirror and realizes that she no longer wants to treat her body like a Holiday Inn. She’s going to hold out for love. The only problem is, love might come in the form of her ski bum best friend, who lives next door with his ski bum friends in a trailer known as “the Kennel.”
Cassie Jones, at age ten, has lost her mother to cancer and no longer believes in anything anymore. She knows her father is desperately worried about her, and she constantly looks for messages from her mother through the heart-shaped rocks they once collected in the streams and hills of Sparkle.
People are talking about How I Came to Sparkle Again:
Kristen Hannah "A gem of a novel. I loved the fresh setting and quirky, endearing cast of characters. How I Came to Sparkle Again is like a perfect run down a black diamond slope."
Susan Wiggs "This novel is filled with all my favorite things: characters who are so real you want to reach out and give them a hug, a magical setting, enough surprises to keep the pages turning, heartbreak, laughter, crying, and sighing. Not to be missed!"
Erica Bauermeister "A generous and endearing novel of loss and reconnection, of friendship and love and finding your way home, where the ski bums have big hearts and name their dogs after beer."
Susan Gregg Gilmore "McLaren weaves a wonderfully tender story of three lives in search of love and healing that will leave you crying, laughing, and wanting for more. A true page-turner."
Nancy Thayer "Both entertaining and wise... so much fun to read!"
Sarah Pekkanen "Weaves together the stories of two women and a young girl grappling with love and loss... surprisingly hilarious supporting characters... warm, satisfying, a treat."
Official website: www.kayamclaren.com
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Zachęcamy do zamawiania maszynopisu książki Jareda Cade'a "Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days". Zniknięcie Christie to mało znany fakt z jej biografii. W Hollywood powstaje film na podstawie książki.
In December 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. The discovery of the crime writer's abandoned car led to the biggest manhunt in British history for a missing person. Eleven days later she was found over two hundred miles away in a northern spa town, claiming to be the victim of amnesia.
Up till the publication of this book in 1998 none of her biographers had come up with conclusive evidence as to what she did during the first twenty-four hours after she disappeared or whether her memory loss was genuine. Although the newspaper headlines made Agatha Christie famous, the private anguish that surrounded the episode ensured she made no reference to it in her memoirs.
Jared's Cade's number one bestselling biography - on which a BBC television documentary has been based - provides the answers to the mystery, including Agatha Christie's long forgotten explanation of the notorious episode, along with startling accounts by her relatives that reveal for the first time why she staged the disappearance with the help of a co-conspirator and how it all went terribly wrong. His sympathetic investigation reveals the incidents that shaped her character and how the fall-out from the disappearance affected the rest of her life.
Illustrated with 48 photographs, many of them from private albums, this fully expanded 2011 edition draws on a newly discovered cache of family papers, diaries and letters, to which Jared Cade was given exclusive access, and reveals even more fascinating secrets about her life and works. Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days: The Revised and Expanded 2011 Edition is a must for all Christie devotees.
'Jared Cade is an authority on Christiana, and Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days has received much acclaim for its impressively detailed examination of the Queen of Crime's disappearance.' - Crime Time
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Zapraszamy do zamawiania egzemplarzy recenzenkich debiutankiej powieści Marjorie Celony. "Y" znalazla się m.in. w finale Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Y has been chosen as one of the Waterstones 11 Favourite Debuts of 2013. These titles often go on to be major bestsellers—2012's choices included The Art of Fielding, The Snow Child and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. We are also excited to share that Y has made Canada's Giller Prize longlist, and is the #1 pick for ABA’s January 2013 Indie Next List.
Collected Praise for Y:
“Celona writes movingly about basic questions of identity, questions exacerbated by the unhappy circumstances of Shannon’s birth.” — Kirkus
"[A] heartfelt first novel . . . . Ms. Celona adroitly confounds many of our expectations . . . . It's refreshing to read a novel in which questions are not so much answered as extended, and Shannon is an appealing narrator... Celona is compassionate toward even her most wayward characters, figuring wisely that the consequences of their actions will be punishment enough." —The New York Times
“Celona writes with acute sensitivity to how a child sees her world — from her hazy understanding that one adoptive father is going to hurt her, to her instinctive urge toward kindness to another foster child. She renders a character readers will love in all her glorious self-doubt.” — The Boston Globe
“Compelling…This is at once a moving coming-of-age story full of fresh starts, a haunting family story full of heavy disappointments, and an extraordinarily quiet story full of hope.” — Booklist
“This is a novel about connections and about relationships, causal and otherwise. Despite the picaresque nature of the plot, Shannon shakes off her status as a picaro by the novel’s end. It is not surprising that she is changed by the events of her life and their recounting. The real joy is that the reader may be as well.” — The Globe and Mail
“All at once a coming-of-age story and a mystery, both a fairy tale and a morality play, Y confronts the reader with a situation in which there are only difficult choices and no right answers.” — National Post
Official website: marjoriecelona.com
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