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Jay Asher 13 Reasons Why ENRead this sensational mystery bestseller before you watch the 13-part Netflix series, executive produced by Selena Gomez. This special edition is complete with exclusive behind-the-scenes content including a 16-page full-colour photo insert featuring scenes from the show, and interviews with the cast and crew. You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.…
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J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey ENFranny and Zooey is composed of two sections, which were originally published in the New Yorker magazine as two separate short stories. The first story or section, Franny, was published in the New Yorker in January 1955. In Franny, Franny Glass meets her boyfriend Lane Coutell for a football weekend at his college. They do not get to join many of the festivities, though, because during their first lunch together,…
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Leonard Cohen Book of Longing ENBook of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and the present, and also includes his wonderfully witty and sensuous illustrations, including numerous playful self-portraits. The illustrations interact with, and complement, the poetry in unexpected and fascinating ways. Book of Longing demonstrates…
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Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics ENn Freakonomics Steven Levitt asks a series of provocative and profound questions about contemporary living and helps us to see the familiar world through a completely original lens. He examines everything from education to traffic jams, from food to guns, from sports to getting elected, from betting to parenting, pushing back the boundaries of economics along the way. Levitt turns conventional economics on its head,…
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John Green Let It SnowSoon to be a major Netflix film! It's Christmas Eve and the worst blizzard for fifty years has blanketed Gracetown. But as well as snowflakes, love is in the air - and appearing in the most unexpected ways...
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John Green Paper Towns ENWho is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climb into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at scholl to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery.…
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Michael Moore Idiot Nation ENMultimillion-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, performer, activist and scourge of political hypocrites everywhere, Michael Moore is nothing less than a global phenomenon. Stupid White Men was published by Penguin in the UK in 2002 and has since sold well over 1.5 million copies. These hilarious and scorching extracts show exactly why Moore is the man that everyone has an opinion on.
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Nick Hornby Juliet, NakedJuliet, Naked is bestselling author Nick Hornby's moving, funny account of life's second chances. Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she'd like her money back, please...
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J.D. Oswald Dreamwalker ENIn a small village, miles from the great cities of the Twin Kingdoms, a young boy called Errol tries to find his way in the world. He's an outsider - he looks different from other children and has never known his father. No one, not himself even has any knowledge of his true lineage. Deep in the forest, Benfro, the young male dragon begins his training in the subtle arts. Like his mother, Morgwm the Green, he is…
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William Gibson, Neil Gaiman Neuromancer ENBefore the Internet was commonplace, William Gibson showed us the Matrix a world within the world, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace. Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street…
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Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other<i>Girl, Woman, Other</i> follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic...
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Leigh Bardugo Wonder Woman: WarbringerShe will become one of the world's greatest heroes: WONDER WOMAN. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning. Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law—risking exile—to save a mere mortal. Even worse, Alia Keralis is no ordinary girl and with this single brave…
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Jojo Moyes The One Plus One ENFollowing two Top Ten bestsellers in comes the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel from Jojo Moyes. Suppose your life sucks, Your husband has done a vanishing act, your stepson is being bullied and your daughter has a once in a lifetime opportunity... that you cna't afford to pay for.
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Jennifer Niven All the Bright PlacesThe compelling and beautiful story of a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die. Coming to NETFLIX, starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom...
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George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London ENGeorge Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a…
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Jojo Moyes After You ENLike how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change. Then, one night, it does. But…
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Roald Dahl The Best of Roald Dahl ENVýber toho najlepšieho z tvorby Roala Dahla, ktorá neučarovala len deťom... Each of his stories is so clever and has such a startling twist at the end of it that it leaves the reader gasping. The ten stories in this book may depict human nature at its darkest, but they are also brilliantly funny and completely unforgettable.
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Christina Dalcher VoxSet in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. On the day the government decrees that women are no ...
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Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera ENThe ghastly, masked Erik in love with beautiful songtress Christine is familiar to theatre and cinema audiences but the original thriller that inspired the 1922 movie and later Andrew Lloyd Webber, remains largely unread. Written in 1911 it has all the markings of a sensational novel. In the opening pages the stage-hand Buquet is found swinging silently from a rope between two panels of scenery; the dancers twitter…
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Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange ENFifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean? A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Skin in the GameFrom the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility...
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Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray ENUpon seeing his own striking portrait Dorian Gray is bewitched and offers his soul if only the painting will age while he remains eternally youthful.
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John Green Turtles All The Way Down ENIt all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. In his long-awaited return, John Green shares Aza's story with shattering,…
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R. J. Palacio WonderAugust Pullman has been home-schooled all his life. Now he is starting fifth grade at a New York City middle school. He doesn't want to draw attention to himself, but that isn't easy when he looks like he does.Penguin Readers is a series of the best...