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    The Smartest Guys In The Room

    What went wrong with American business at the end of the 20th century?

    Until the spring of 2001, Enron epitomized the triumph of the New Economy. Feared by rivals, worshipped by investors, Enron seemingly could do no wrong. Its profits rose every year; its stock price surged ever upward; its leaders were hailed as visionaries.

    Then a young Fortune writer, Bethany McLean, wrote an article posing a simple question – how, exactly, does Enron make its money?

    Within a year Enron was facing humiliation and bankruptcy, the largest in US history, which caused Americans to lose faith in a system that rewarded top insiders with millions of dollars, while small investors lost everything. It was revealed that Enron was a company whose business was an illusion, an illusion that Wall Street was willing to accept even though they knew what the real truth was. This book – fully updated for the paperback – tells the extraordinary story of Enron’s fall.

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    The Submission By Amy Waldman

    A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous winner’s name – and discover he is an American Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam.

    The memorial’s designer is Mohammad Khan, an enigmatic, ambitious architect. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole widow, the mediagenic Claire Burwell. But when the news of his selection leaks to the press, Claire finds herself under pressure from outraged family members and in collision with hungry journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors, and Khan himself. All will bring the emotional weight of their own histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember, and understand, a national tragedy.

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    Perfect By Cecelia Ahern

    The thrilling, shocking and romantic sequel to the bestselling YA debut FLAWED is finally here. When we embrace all our flaws, that’s when we can finally become PERFECT…

    Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine’s life has completely fractured – all her freedoms gone.

    Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with the complicated, powerfully attractive Carrick, the only person she can trust. But Celestine has a secret – one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground.

    Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. With tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save only herself, or risk her life to save all the Flawed. And, most important of all, can she prove that to be human in itself is to be Flawed…?

    Cecelia Ahern’s book ‘In a Thousand Different Ways’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-04-10.

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    SAS Rogue Heroes By Ben Macintyre

    In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it – from behind their own lines. Despite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find.

    And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organization in the world: the SAS. With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force, and the immense cost of making it a reality.

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    Trespassing By Uzma Aslam Khan

    Back in Karachi for his father’s funeral, Daanish, a Pakistani student changed by his years at an American university, is entranced by the gazelle-eyed girl in the traditional dupatta who appears one day at the house of mourning. But the dupatta is Dia is the modern daughter of a mother who, as the owner of a silk farm and factory, has achieved a degree of freedom rare among Pakistani women. It will take a handful of silkworms, fattened on mulberry leaves, to bring Daanish and Dia together. But their union will forever rupture the peace of two households and three families, destroying a stable present built on the repression of a bloody past.” In this novel of modern Pakistan, Uzma Aslam Khan takes us deep into a world of radical contrasts, from the stifling demands of tradition and family to the daily oppression of routine political violence, from the gorgeous sensual vistas of the silk farms to the teeming streets of Karachi – stinking, crumbling, and corrupt.

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    The Delinquent (Pacesetters) By Mohammed Sule

    Alhaji Abubakar’s household does follow the traditional pattern established in the settlement of Alaika. Although, as wealthy and as respected a figure as his neighbors, he has only one wife, Ramatu, and only one child, Sale.

    As his son grows into rebellious manhood, the structure of Abubakar’s life is shaken and he has reason to fear not only for Sale’s future but for the fate of his whole family and way of life.

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    a dream called september (Pacesetters)

    Thinking her dream can never come true, Tasmil reluctantly joins Wayne on his quest to find his ancestral roots. Intrigue deepens with each step they take.

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    For Better For Worse By Osman Pius Conteh

    The love between Makalay and Yankuba is fiery and unpredictable. Yankuba has also caught the attention of the unscrupulous village priest. Can the two young people thwart Pa Adekali and manage to live their lives for better, or worse.

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    Circle of Betrayal (Pacesetters) By James Irungu

    Could Wahomeh, the man who saved Njeri’s father from ruin and then became guardian to his orphaned children, really be a cheat after all? Njeri cannot bring herself to believe it in spite of the sinister events which pile up the suspicion against him. When the realization of the strength of her feelings for Wahomeh dawns, Njeri is faced with an agonizing choice.

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    The Lost Generation By James Irungu

    Country-bred Mbatha and Rabeka are childhood sweethearts and seemed destined for each other. Illness takes Rabeka to hospital in Nairobi, and while she is recuperating she meets the sophisticated Mawa with dramatic consequences for all of them.

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    The Last Aloe By Rita Wooding

    Pacesetters’ The Last Aloe By Rita Wooding

    Product details
    Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan Education (21 December 1998)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0333680847
    ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0333680841
    Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 110 g
    Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11 x 0.8 x 17.8 cm

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    To Have And To Hold By Shelley Davidow

    To the modern, freedom-loving Phindile it seemed impossible that anyone, least of all a man, could make her compromise her independence. But then she had not reckoned with the determination of the lizard-like Mr. Takawira or the charms of the persistent Kudzi.

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