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Brittany Newell Oola ENOOLA is a very different kind of love story. Oola and Leif meet at a party in East London, two Americans at a loose end. The insouciant music school dropout and aimless young writer fix on one another, grab hands and fall head-first down love’s rabbit hole. Leif’s summer plans soon become Oola’s too and the pair find themselves mansion-sitting their way across the States, drinking the liquor cabinets dry and…
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OPEN An Autobiography: Andre Agassi ENExpected to be one of the big books this Christmas, the publishers are keeping most of the details about this book under wraps. However, it has been revealed that it will look at his career - both the highs and lows - and his private life, including his marriage to Brooke Shields and his soul mate Steffi Graf, as well as his charity work. His recent appearance at the Wimbledon Centre Court roof opening ceremony…
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Andre Agassi OPEN An Autobiography: Andre Agassi (paperback) ENHe is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court - but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game. Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in grade school, Agassi resented the constant pressure even as he drove himself to become a prodigy, an inner conflict that would define him. Now, in…
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Agatha Christie Ordeal by Innocence ENEvidence that clears the name of a boy sentenced for killing his adopted mother arrives too late to save his life – so who did kill her? Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family. A year before, the matriarch of the family was murdered and a son, Jack, was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.Throughout the trial Jack had…
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Virginia Woolf Orlando ENWritten for her lover Vita Sackville-West, ‘Orlando' is Woolf's playfully subversive take on a biography, here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando. As the novel spans centuries and continents, gender and identity, we follow Orlando's adventures in love – from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London. First published in 1928, this tale of unrivalled imagination and wit quickly became the…
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Nora Roberts Ostrovy splněných snů CZZtracené poklady Čtyři roky se neviděli. Kate se vrací na ostrov, kde prožila první, ale i poslední lásku svého života. Opustila Kye proto, že jí otec připomínal její závazky na univerzitě. Po otcově smrti zjistila, že pátral poblíž ostrova po vraku staré lodi, která měla převážet náklad zlata. Kate se rozhodne splatit otci poslední dluh a dokončit jeho pátrání po pokladu. Potřebuje zkušeného potápěče, a tak jí…
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William Shakespeare Othello ENO, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.Dramatic and powerful in its scope, Othello explores the perils of suspicion and jealousy and the ensuing breakdown of relationships and disaster that can arise from such emotions. Othello, a revered soldier, secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of a Venetian senator, but is led to believe that she has been…
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Peter Godfrey-Smith Other MindsWhat if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? ...
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Claudia Carroll Our Little Secret ENA sparkling story about what happens when you let someone into your life… but they turn out to want more than you’d bargained for! Sarah Dee has the perfect life. A high-flying job in a law firm, a beautiful daughter and a house to die for. So how does she find herself looking in through the kitchen window while another woman enjoys it all? When Sarah takes pity on a struggling young graduate who can’t get a job,…
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Michael Wood Outside Looking In ENThe second book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling new crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. When elderly George Rainsford goes to investigate a suspicious noise one night, the last thing he expects to find is a bloodbath. A man has been killed and a woman brutally beaten, left for dead. The victims are Lois Craven and Kevin Hardaker – both…
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Cecelia Ahern P.S. I Love You ENLife is for living, she realises - but it always helps if there's an angel watching over you.Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. They were childhood sweethearts - no one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other. Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms Holly discovers that Gerry has left her a bundle of…
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Paddington ENThis is the official novelisation of the amazing new movie story. Follow the action and fun as Paddington arrives in London, meets the Brown family and gets involved in lots of exciting adventures. The original story of the movie is retold by the brilliant children's author Jeanne Willis.
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Michael Bond Paddington at the Circus ENThe circus has come to town, and Paddington and the Browns have front row seats! But Paddington becomes anxious when he looks up and sees a man dangling from a rope by his ankles. Always ready to lend a paw, he rushes off to save the trapeze artist and as a result the circus is turned upside down! Paddington, however, comes out on top as the star of the show.
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Michael Bond Paddington at the Zoo ENA funny story about the irresistible, classic bear from Darkest Peru - soon to be a major movie star! When Paddington visits the zoo, he takes enough marmalade sandwiches with him to last all day. However, he is none too pleased when he realises how popular they are with the zoo's inhabitants!
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John Milton Paradise Lost And Paradise Regained ENIn Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of…
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Agatha Christie Parker Pyne Investigates ENA collection of short stories featuring the ‘heart specialist’, Parker Pyne. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: ‘ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE’. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the world’s most…
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Agatha Christie Passenger to Frankfurt ENA middle-aged diplomat is accosted in an airport lounge and his identity stolen. Sir Stafford Nye's journey home from Malaya to London takes an unexpected twist in the passnger loungs at Frankfurt – a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. Yet their paths are to cross again and again – and each time the mystery woman is introduced as a different person. Equally at home in any guise in any…
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Cathy Kelly Past Secrets ENKeep a secret too long and it will creep out when you least expect it! Behind the shining windows and rose-bedecked gardens of Summer Street, there are lots of secrets. There's the one that hard-working single mother, Faye, hides from her teenage daughter, Amber. And, there's the one that thirty-year-old Maggie hides from herself.
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Tom Clancy Patriot Games ENWhen Jack Ryan foils an Ulster Liberation Army terrorist attack on the Prince of Wales, his courageous actions win him not only the admiration of an entire nation, but also the enmity and hatred of of the ULA.
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Sara Pennypacker Pax ENA moving story of the extraordinary friendship between a boy and his fox, and their epic journey to be reunited. Beautifully illustrated by multi-award winner, Jon Klassen. Pax was only a kit when his family was killed and he was rescued by his boy’, Peter. Now the country is at war and when his father enlists, Peter has no choice but to move in with his grandfather. Far worse than leaving home is the fact that he…
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Cecelia Ahern PerfectThe thrilling, shocking and romantic sequel to the bestselling YA debut Flawedis finally here. When we embrace all our flaws, that’s when we can finally become Perfect...
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Lauren DeStefano Perfect Ruin ENFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy: On the floating city of Internment, you can be anything you dream. Unless you approach the edge. Morgan Stockhour knows getting too close to the edge of Internment, the floating city in the clouds where she lives, can lead to madness. Even though her older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan vows never to end up like him. If she ever wonders…
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Agatha Christie Peril at End House ENCollins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.
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Sally Butcher Persepolis ENThe part-time vegetarian who was identified in Sally s first book, Veggiestan, has become a thing. Great swathes of the population are now eschewing meat for the best part of the week in favour of healthier, vegetable based alternatives. The appetite for new ways to brighten your broccoli, add sparkle to your spinach and titillate your tomatillos has never been greater. Since opening her vegetarian café within her…