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The Secret Mulroney Tapes is an outrageous and intimate portrait of a Canadian prime minister, as told in his own words. There has never been a political book like this, and there will almost certainly never be another.

Peter C. Newman, the author of books about John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, as well as 2004’s number-one bestselling memoir, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power, has done it again. He has written twenty-two books that have sold two million copies, and earned him the title of Canada’s “most cussed and discussed” political commentator. Here, his no-holds-barred profile of Canada’s most controversial – and most reviled – prime minister breaks new ground.

Compiled from years of candid, taped conversations with Mulroney and the people closest to him while he was in power, the sometimes uproarious and often disturbing interviews – 7,400 pages of transcripts totalling 1.8 million words – have been sealed until now. Stunningly indiscreet and savagely frank, Mulroney is the first prime minister to be so nakedly outspoken. Yet he is also revealed as a witty Irish charmer, ready with a quick line to raise a laugh, no matter how impudent or profane, a man as warm in private as he was defensive in the public eye.

Mulroney names the names and spills the beans about what really goes on in Ottawa, which he describes as a “sick” city that runs on “goddamned incest”: “They’re all married to one another. They’re shacked up with one another. Their wives are on the payroll of the CBC. It’s just awful.” Lucien Bouchard, his one-time soulmate, he calls “bitter and profane” and “extraordinarily vain.” He writes off his constitutional foe, former Newfoundland premier Clyde Wells, as an “unprincipled son of a bitch.” His disgust for the press is as monumental as his sense of being misunderstood, and in his eyes the Ottawa press corps are “a phony bunch of bastards” who don’t give him credit even when the world applauds him for being “one of the three men who played the most important role in the collapse of the Berlin Wall.”

Out of The Secret Mulroney Tapes emerges a startling picture of the politician whose reign shocked and appalled and yet also revolutionized this country. No other prime minister in Canadian history aroused a stronger emotional response than Brian Mulroney. This book provides Canadians with a unique insight into the bold politician who changed their country like no other..
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With terrorism as a consistent threat, Americans have begun to scrutinize the effects of rising immigration and porous borders. Unguarded Gates examines America's history of immigration pressures, policy debates, and choices. In assessing the past, present, and future of immigration, Graham shows that the failure to control the influx of foreigners is leading America toward further security risks, unsustainable population growth, imported workers competition with American labor, and ultimately, social fragmentation..
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Unprecedented look at one of the most colorful presidents in American History..Ronald Regan..
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Unguarded Moment

Arthur Fordyce is an ordinary man blessed with a budding career, a lovely fiancee, and a sunny future. He is hardly a criminal-until he finds a wallet stuffed with money at the racetrack In one "unguarded moment," he removes the cash and throws the billfold away-unaware that he is being watched by a petty crook named Bill Chafey. Unscrupulous and conniving, Chafey approaches Fordyce to demand a payoff. And Arthur Fordyce, frightened and guilty, takes his first step toward a downward spiral of violence, duplicity, and near ruin.


Horse Heaven

When Jim Locklin pays his brother George a visit, he finds George missing, his horse ranch taken over by his brother's estranged wife, and a shifty gambler named Chance Varrow who seems to have become a permanent visitor.

As Jim's suspictions build, they center on one person – Varrow, whose relationship with George's wife, Amie, is a little too close for comfort. Taking matters into his own hands, Jim vows to find out the truth, no matter what the cost. In the end, it will all come down to just two men – and only one will walk away..
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In 1919, a closet door slammed shut. Before it opened, Cornelis de Boer had tumbled past the unguarded edge of untamed desires into lost dreams and broken relationships

In 1929, a schoolhouse door opens and Cornelis meets the one person in Dutchville, Iowa, who knows much and suspects more about his past: Lena Stryker, the teacher to whom he must entrust his children.

Harboring a decade's bitterness, Lena faces haunting questions: When a wayward son returns home, can all be forgotten? Must all be forgiven?

In working her way toward mercy, Lena risks hurting Brigetta and Bram...two who have suffered enough. For it was Brigetta, Lena's niece, who was trapped in that closet with Cornelis, Bram's brother. Despite Lena's best intentions, forgiving and forgetting could shatter two families again. For the slope is slippery along the unguarded edge of loving a renegade..
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From the unique perspective of his forty years in NBA arenas, Basketball Hall of Fame player and coach Lenny Wilkens examines the growth and changes in basketball -- and American life -- in this thoughtful and revealing memoir. Today basketball is arguably America's favorite pastime, with its massive fan base, marketing juggernaut, and young players who earn eight figure salaries. And Lenny Wilkens watched it grow nearly every step of the way, first as an unstoppable point guard and now as the winningest coach in NBA history and one of the few to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice -- as both a player and a coach. When Lenny Wilkens entered the NBA upon graduation from Providence College in 1960, professional basketball (and America) was almost unrecognizable compared to the high-decibel game played today in hyper-modern arenas. During training camp trips, the team would sometimes stop at segregated restaurants where Wilkens and his one black teammate could only be served at the kitchen door. Wilkens nonetheless became a team leader, and ultimately became one of the first African-American head coaches in any sport. Featuring candid revelations, including thoughts on his experience coaching multimillion-dollar players less schooled in fundamentals than the college players in Wilkens' prime, Wilkens and award-winning sportswriter Terry Pluto take readers on a journey of astonishing change, relating the secrets of survival in this most turbulent sport. Unguarded is the most thoughtful book from inside professional basketball since Bill Bradley's Life on the Run..
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