Anything To Declare

Author : Jon Frost
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
ISBN 13 : 9781472109422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anything to Declare? written by Jon Frost and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than twenty years, Jon Frost has worked with the mad, the bad, the brave, the stupid, the spectacular and the heroic. In his time as a uniformed officer Jon seized presidential aircraft, a working tank, cars, lorries, boats and coffins; and uncovered wild animals, killer snakes, bush meat, animal porn, poisonous vodka, dodgy medicine, bootleg prescriptions, pirated pills, toxic alcohol, firearms, side-arms, swords, explosives, stolen gold, dirty money, blood diamonds, child pornography and every drug known to man and a few as yet unknown ones. And the dead? He searched them too. When you?ve confiscated everything from a suitcase full human hair to a live monkey hidden in the lining of someone?s overcoat, you know you can never return to a normal line of work. But then Jon went into undercover customs work, and things became really interesting . . .

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368459
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something to Declare written by Julian Barnes and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes's previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture. Barnes's appreciation extends from France's vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Here are the prolific and priapic Simenon, Baudelaire, Sand and Sartre, and several dazzling excursions on the prickly genius of Flaubert. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy.

Author : Julia Alvarez
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565128397
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something to Declare written by Julia Alvarez and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom.” —Los Angeles Times From the internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling novels In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes a rich and revealing work of nonfiction capturing the life and mind of an artist as she knits together the dual themes of coming to America and becoming a writer. The twenty-four confessional, evocative essays that make up Something to Declare are divided into two parts. “Customs” includes Alvarez’s memories of her family’s life in the Dominican Republic, fleeing from Trujillo’s dictatorship, and arriving in America when she was ten years old. She examines the effects of exile--surviving the shock of New York City life; yearning to fit in; training her tongue (and her mind) to speak English; and watching the Miss America pageant for clues about American-style beauty. The second half, “Declarations,” celebrates her passion for words and the writing life. She lets us watch as she struggles with her art--searching for a subject for her next novel, confronting her characters, facing her family’s anger when she invades their privacy, reflecting on the writers who influenced her, and continually honing her craft. The winner of the National Medal of Arts for her extraordinary storytelling, Julia Alvarez here offers essays that are an inspiring gift to readers and writers everywhere. “This beautiful collection of essays . . . traces a process of personal reconciliation with insight, humor, and quiet power.” —San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle “Reading Julia Alvarez’s new collection of essays is like curling up with a glass of wine in one hand and the phone in the other, listening to a bighearted, wisecracking friend share the hard-earned wisdom about family, identity, and the art of writing.” —People Julia Alvarez’s new novel, Afterlife, is available now.

Author : Jon Frost
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472109449
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anything to Declare? written by Jon Frost and published by Constable. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In more than twenty years, Jon Frost has worked with the mad, the bad, the brave, the stupid, the spectacular and the heroic. In his time as a uniformed officer Jon seized presidential aircraft, a working tank, cars, lorries, boats and coffins; and uncovered wild animals, killer snakes, bush meat, animal porn, poisonous vodka, dodgy medicine, bootleg prescriptions, pirated pills, toxic alcohol, firearms, side-arms, swords, explosives, stolen gold, dirty money, blood diamonds, child pornography and every drug known to man and a few as yet unknown ones. And the dead? He searched them too. When you?ve confiscated everything from a suitcase full human hair to a live monkey hidden in the lining of someone?s overcoat, you know you can never return to a normal line of work. But then Jon went into undercover customs work, and things became really interesting . . .

Author : Richard M. Ravin
Publisher : Richard M. Ravin
ISBN 13 : 0578722976
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing to Declare written by Richard M. Ravin and published by Richard M. Ravin. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex. Drugs. Revolution. Grilled tuna. “Nothing To Declare is truly wonderful. The searing romantic/political/artistic triangle at its center movingly evokes the strange and wonderful Santa Cruz garden of my youth. I loved it.” —David Talbot, author of The New York Times’ bestsellers, Brothers, and The Devil's Chessboard, and national bestseller Season of the Witch Jesse Kerf’s a good guy restaurant owner who’s got his life just so. Flash L.A. bistro, spiffy BMW, all-white condo with an ocean view. Then comes a bombshell. He’s been named sole heir to Marty Balakian, the wild man and con artist who used to be his best friend. Never mind they haven’t had a single word in twenty years. In the 1970s, Marty was everything Jesse wanted to be—a brilliant and fearless dreamer who let no one stand in his way. Not Jesse, and not Isabel, the dark-souled woman they both loved. Laws were there to be broken, and hearts, too. Jesse couldn’t be that hard. Until he had to. Marty’s death forces Jesse to reckon with the past he’s been running from for two decades. Between that long-ago love triangle, a trip that leads from Boston to Bali, and the burden of secrets held too long, Jesse’s got a lot to handle. Before he can get his life on track, he must figure out not just who he was, but who he wants to be from now on. Driven by a fast-moving plot, rich characters and a canny portrait of a culture in revolt, Richard M. Ravin’s Nothing to Declare is a lively and engaging novel packed with romance, humor, betrayal, and discovery.

Author : Maurice Baring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Have You Anything to Declare? written by Maurice Baring and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Powers
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061844942
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Declare written by Tim Powers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmarethat has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hale's desperate quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft -- and inexorably drives Hale, the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, and Kim Philby, mysterious traitor to the British cause, to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1H/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anything to Declare? written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating 50 years since the passage of the Customs Act of 1962, this book describes the functions of the Indian customs institution. It provides information about the role India's customs plays in facilitating international trade, enforcing prohibitions and restrictions on the import and export of goods, preventing smuggling and drug trafficking, and ensuring public health, economic security, and national safety. It also contains photographs that reveal the past, evolution, and international role of Indian customs.

Author : Joel Osteen
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 1455555231
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Declare Personal Application Guide written by Joel Osteen and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declare God's Word in your life every day with insightful reflection, relevant Scripture, and space for your own thoughts and revelations in this helpful companion guide from Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen. Words have power. Whenever we speak something either good or bad, we give life to what we are saying. In his bestselling book, I Declare, Pastor Joel Osteen reveals 31 declarations that can bring God's favor and blessing to the reader's life in a greater way. Now, Joel Osteen offers a practical tool that will help ensure that what you say about yourself and others are positive, inspiring, and encouraging. In this personal application guide, you will also see how God helps you see His favor and blessings every day. So if you want to know what life will be like five years from now, take this faithful companion in hand, and begin the next 31 days with the only One who has the power to bless the future.

Author : Freeman Wills Crofts
Publisher : House of Stratus Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781842323823
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anything to Declare written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by House of Stratus Limited. This book was released on 2000-10-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six young Englishmen contribute their various skills to the realization of a clever smuggling racket. They invite holiday makers to take a yachting cruise up the River Rhine to Switzerland. While the travellers are enjoying a few days ashore, before the return journey, illegal consignments of watches are smuggled aboard. Just as immense profits seem assured, a blackmail letter is received. To the crime of smuggling the young men then add the crime of murder, but even this proves not enough to secure their safety. It is up to Inspector French to unravel the threads with his usual flair.