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Paul Arden God Explained in a Taxi Ride ENAdvertising and design legend Paul Arden takes an exciting, visually creative, and thoroughly digestible approach to a subject of enormous proven interest and relevance. Using a series of poignant, contemporary vignettes, God Explained in a Taxi Ride analyzes and explores the questions that have persisted since mankind's earliest days. This brilliant little gem of a book compels readers to scratch their heads as it…
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears ENThis title is based on the classic fairy tale. While the three bears are out for a walk, naughty little Goldilocks comes calling and tries out their porridge, chairs and beds to see which are just right. But then the three bears come home... Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve…
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David Bell Gone for Good ENElizabeth Hampton has not spoken to her mother in weeks when she gets the phone call. Her mother has been found dead under suspicious circumstances. But who would want to kill a kind old woman who stayed at home to care for her son Ronnie's special needs? And why did her mother recently change her Will? The police tell Elizabeth that this is not only a murder investigation - her brother Ronnie is the prime suspect.…
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Paul Shipton Good Day, Bad Day ENKerry is visiting her brother, Mike, for the first tme in his new home. She sees a sign for a fortune teller. Mike doesn't believe in fortune tellers, but he goes, too. What does Rosie say to him? And is she right?
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Tammara Webber Good for You ENIt is the third book in an irresistible Mature Young Adult series about hot teen actors by Tammara Webber, author of the New York Times - bestseller Easy. The follow-up to Between the Lines and Where You Are will be loved by fans of Slammed by Colleen Hoover and Breathe by Abbi Glines. Teen screen idol Reid is in deep trouble.When Dori, the community service supervisor who is determined to set him a good example,…
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Ali Land Good Me, Bad MeFOR ANYONE WHO IS YET TO DISCOVER THE MUST-READ PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER. When Annie hands her mother over to the police she hopes for a new start in life - but can we ever escape our past? ...
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Fumio Sasaki Goodbye, Things ENFumio Sasaki is a writer in his thirties who lives in a tiny studio in Tokyo with three shirts, four pairs of trousers, four pairs of socks and not much else. A few years ago, he realised that owning so much stuff was weighing him down - so he started to get rid of it. In this hit Japanese bestseller, Sasaki explores the philosophy behind minimalism and offers a set of straightforward rules - discard it if you haven…
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Roy Goode Goode on Commercial Law ENThis is the fifth, fully updated edition of Roy Goode's seminal work Commercial Law, covering the area's theoretical framework as well as its application. This classic work lays out both the theoretical framework of commercial law and the application of fundamental principles to typical business and financial transactions, explaining complex ideas with great clarity. With its unique combination of theory and…
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Gopher, Pooh and Friends ENLearning at home with Christopher Robin, Pooh and friends is both fun and educational. Designed to give children a head start on learning, the carefully planned activities aim to develop important pre-reading number, language and fine motor skills.
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Jane Fallon Got You Back ENA husband. A wife. A mistress. And the ultimate plan for revenge...The husband James never intended to lead a double life - with a wife in London and a mistress in the country, it's exhausting. But that's all about to change...The wife Stephanie isn't really snooping when she finds a text message from a strange woman on her husband's mobile. But now she's found it, how can she ignore it? It's time to track the woman…
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Mark Mazower Gowerning the World ENFrom the acclaimed, award-winning author of Dark Continent and Hitler's Empire, comes a visionary, far-reaching history of two centuries of international government that also goes to the heart of current world crises. In 1815 the shocked and exhausted victors of the decades of fighting that had engulfed Europe for a generation agreed to a new system for keeping the peace. Instead of independent states changing sides…
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Kalayna Price Grave Visions ENGrave Visions by Kalayna Price is the much-anticipated fourth instalment in the kick-ass urban fantasy series about Alex Craft, a grave witch who can communicate with the dead. If you want to hear voices from the dead in Nekros City, you call Alex Craft. She's a Grave Witch with reasonable rates and extraordinary powers, who specializes in revealing the secrets of the dead. But now she's the one fighting to keep her…
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Caleb A. Scharf Gravity's Engines ENWe have long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it comes to an end - mysterious chasms so destructive and unforgiving that not even light can escape their deadly power. Recent research, however, has led to a cascade of new discoveries that have revealed an entirely new, and crucially important, side to black holes. Super- sized versions, often billions of times more massive than…
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John Gray Gray's Anatomy ENWhy is progress a pernicious myth? Why do beliefs that humanity can be improved end in farce or horror? Is atheism a hangover from Christian faith? John Gray, one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time, smashes through civilization's long cherished beliefs, overturning our view of the world and our place in it. 'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' - Pankaj Mishra, Financial Times.
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John Gray Grays Anatomy ENUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing. Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do beliefs that humanity can be improved end in farce or horror? Is atheism a hangover from Christian faith? John Gray, one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time, smashes through civilization's long cherished beliefs, overturning our view of the world and our place in it.
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Charles Dickens Great Expectations ENA mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. His expectations prove to be unfounded, however, and he must return home penniless.
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Franz Kafka Great Wall of China ENUnpublished during his lifetime, the novels of Franz Kafka are now regarded as among the greatest works of early twentieth-century literature. His most famous and influential work, Metamorphosis, depicting a man who wakes up to discover he has been turned into an insect, was first published by Penguin in 1961. These lucid stories and brief fables describe the cruel absurdities he believed dominate human life.
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Melissa Lane Greek and Roman Political Ideas ENWhat is politics? What are the origins of political philosophy? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? In Greek and Roman Political Ideas, acclaimed classics scholar Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans, who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing the origins of political…
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Eliza Granville Gretel and the Dark ENVienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin, head shaved, she claims to have no name, no feelings - to be, in fact, not even human. Intrigued, Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance. Years later, in Germany, we meet Krysta. Krysta's Papa is busy working in the infirmary with the 'animal people', so little…
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Julia Samuel Grief WorksDeath is the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. So many of us feel awkward and uncertain around death, and shy away from talking honestly with family and friends. Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will ...
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Philip Pullman Grimm Tales ENIn this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.From the quests and romance of classics such as Rapunzel, Snow White and Cinderella to the danger and wit of such lesser-known tales as The Three Snake Leaves, Hans-my-Hedgehog and…
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Brothers Grimm Grimms' Fairy Tales ENMerry, dark or magical, these classic tales never fail to inspire and enthral. From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of entrancing folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magic beasts and cunning boys. From favourites such as The Frog-Prince and Hansel and Gretel to the delights of Ashputtel or Old Sultan, all are…
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Angela Duckworth GritAngela Duckworth’s seminal work on why passion and perseverance matter more than anything. Why do naturally talented people frequently fail to reach their potential while other far less gifted individuals go on to achieve amazing things? ...
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Sue Townsend Growing Pains of Adrian Mole ENThe troubled teenager continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life. In between the ups and downs of his relationship with the divine Pandora and worrying that his genius is going unrecognized, Adrian Mole chronicles the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.