In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in the history of the country. Grunwald’s meticulous reporting shows how the stimulus, though reviled on the right and the left, helped prevent a depression while jump-starting the president’s agenda for lasting change. As ambitious and far-reaching as FDR’s New Deal, the Recovery Act is a down payment on the nation’s economic and environmental future, the purest distillation of change in the Obama era. The stimulus has launched a transition to a clean-energy economy, doubled our renewable power, and financed unprecedented investments in energy efficiency, a smarter grid, electric cars, advanced biofuels, and green manufacturing. It is computerizing America’s pen-and-paper medical system. Its Race to the Top is the boldest education reform in U.S. history. It has put in place the biggest middle-class tax cuts in a generation, the largest research investments ever, and the most extensive infrastructure investments since Eisenhower’s interstate highway system. It includes the largest expansion of antipoverty programs since the Great Society, lifting millions of Americans above the poverty line, reducing homelessness, and modernizing unemployment insurance. Like the first New Deal, Obama’s stimulus has created legacies that last: the world’s largest wind and solar projects, a new battery industry, a fledgling high-speed rail network, and the world’s highest-speed Internet network. Michael Grunwald goes behind the scenes—sitting in on cabinet meetings, as well as recounting the secret strategy sessions where Republicans devised their resistance to Obama—to show how the stimulus was born, how it fueled a resurgence on the right, and how it is changing America. The New New Deal shatters the conventional Washington narrative and it will redefine the way Obama’s first term is perceived.

Steve Fist was the football hooligan's football hooligan and Bottle is his story, so it follows that he is now the ex-football hooligan turned writer's ex-football hooligan turned writer. Between the years 1975 and 1991, not one day went by when he didn't beat the absolute living crap out of at least one person for belonging to another team's firm, looking at him, thinking about looking at him, looking at his bird, thinking about looking at his bird, knocking over his pint or breathing. It's a story about the extreme end of extreme violence, but at the same time it's a tale about the worst excesses of brutality, sadism and senseless bloodshed. It's not for the faint-hearted or, indeed, the illiterate; in fact, it's not for anyone, really. Steve threatened the publishers with a sledge-hammer and, hey presto, the book got published, but then that's how Martin Amis started, allegedly, so who knows what it might lead to? The Booker? The Pulitzer? Or maybe even the Nobel Prize for Literature? One thing is for certain, though: it's a story that every youngster thinking about a career in violence should read or have read to them, because thinking you're hard is one thing, being hard is another, but writing a book about how hard you were - now that's hard.

'If you like Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers then you will like Kerry Kaya!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Break the rules... Harry Fletcher – Fletch to his friends – has spent his life surviving the tough streets of the East End. He knows working for notorious gangster Billy King is dangerous, and sleeping with Billy’s beautiful wife, Susan is deadly...but rules are meant to be broken. Pay the price. If Billy discovers the affair, Fletch is a dead man. But the closer he gets to Susan the more reckless Fletch becomes. And soon, Fletch realises that every one must pay the price for their actions....even him. Perfect for fans of Caz Finlay, Gemma Rogers and Emma Tallon. What readers are saying about The Price: 'If you like Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers then you will like Kerry Kaya!' 'A fantastic story from start to finish. Enthralling, exciting and a brilliant read' 'Kept me absolutely hooked throughout!' 'Could not put it down from start to finish.' 'A super fast paced and easy flowing gangland tale focusing on family and hidden secrets.'

When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language and its three-decade journey from the fringes of decency to the working centre of a more linguistically liberal nation. Silverton takes a clear, comprehensive and witty look at swearing and the impact of its new acceptability on our language, our manners and our society. He considers how we have become more openly emotional, yet more wary about insulting others. And how it's seemingly become alright to say **** and **** but not ****** or ****. This is the story of that cultural revolution, written by one who was there at the start, proudly striking some of the first blows in the long struggle for the right to reclaim filthy English and use it.

Deep in her soul, Stephanie Whitfield believes that unseen, sinister forces have been dictating her life making it a living hell. As she walks confidently into the hospital to begin her medical career, no one watching would ever suspect that this fiery, ambitious woman tasted her first blood when she was just twelve years old. Stephanie is nurturing an unconscionable quest for vengeance. Stunningly beautiful Angel Stevens is an unassuming woman with a tragic past. Now, she is consumed with morbid fear; in less than twenty-four hours, she too will be a victim her vital organs taken and shipped to save the life of an ailing politician. With no one to turn to, Angel is praying for a miracle. Retired Lieutenant Bernard Obrien has already come close to death more than once. A decorated war hero who has just awakened from a crippling depression, Obrien has no idea that death once again hovers in the shadows, threatening to seize the life he has just rebuilt. In this gripping tale, the tumultuous lives of three extraordinary individuals are about to collide and culminate in an unthinkable string of catastrophic events that stun the LAPD, the FBI, the city of Los Angeles, and even beyond.

A Special - PaperBack - Edition. This is a tripped-out story about a guy named Calvin Mayor who just graduated from High School. Things are definitely not as they seem as he finds himself being held captive in a strange facility by the even stranger "White Suits." These White Suits are desperately after one thing and one thing only - what Calvin treasures most. They have to get it before time runs out, not just for Calvin - but also for the entire world. Calvin will need to use all of his gifts, abilities, talents, and resources to deal with the White Suits and orchestrate a rescue. You will find yourself involved before you know it as Calvin reveals his innermost self and challenges you - 'The Reader' - to become - 'The Rescuer!'