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Thomas L. Friedman Thank You for Being LateWe all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is dizzying. Here Thomas L. Friedman reveals the tectonic movements that are reshaping our world, how to adapt to this new age and why, sometimes, we all need to be late.
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Kingsley Amis That Uncertain Feeling ENIn That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is married to a member of the local Council. Pursuing an affair with her whilst keeping his job prospects alive is John's predicament, as he finds himself…
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Jancis Robinson The 24-Hour Wine Expert ENFrom the world's most respected wine critic, the essential guide to wine in 100 pages. Wine is now one of the most popular drinks in the world. Many wine drinkers wish they knew more about it without having to understand every detail or go on a wine course. In The 24-Hour Wine Expert, Jancis Robinson shares her expertise with authority, wit and approachability. From the difference between red and white, to the shape…
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Robert Greene The 33 Strategies of War ENGreene`s first two guides, The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction, espouse profound, timeless lessons from events in history to help readers vanquish an enemy or ensnare an unsuspecting victim. Now, he crafts a brilliant distillation of the strategies of battle that can help readers in the modern world.
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Robert Greene The 48 Laws of Power ENAmoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws.
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Rick Yancey The 5th Wave ENThe Passage meets The Hunger Games in a gripping new series from Carnegie-shortlisted Rick Yancey. After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave. On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the…
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John Steinbeck The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights ENSteinbeck's only work of fantasy literature in a deluxe edition with a foreword by Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr Malory s Le Morte d Arthur was the first book that John Steinbeck truly enjoyed reading as a child. Fascinated by Arthurian tales of adventure, knighthood, honor and friendship, in addition to the challenging nuances of the original Anglo-Saxon…
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Joe Dunthorne The AdulterantsFrom the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy — a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one man's valiant quest to come of age in his thirties...
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Alastair Gunn The Advent Killer ENThe Advent Killer is the electrifying début thriller from British author, Alastair Gunn. Christmas is coming. One body at a time. At first they said it was coincidence. Number one drowned; number two beaten to death. But when a third woman is murdered at exactly one a.m. on a third consecutive Sunday, DCI Antonia Hawkins finds herself on the hunt for a cold, careful killer whose victims seem to be chosen at random.…
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Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases ENFull of macabre twists and eerie settings, these tales see Holmes and Watson facing bewildered detectives, dishonest butlers and devious rogues to solve a host of cases with their inimitable powers of deduction. An engineer on a secret mission survives with his life but without his thumb; a murderer with a pince-nez vanishes without an escape route; a prize-winning horse and his owner mysteriously disappear the…
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Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases ENMany readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story - but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face and The Problem of Thor Bridge. It is just as well that in the end we do not have to choose - as if we did then there would be no doubt it should be The Adventure of Six Napoleons.
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Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ENHiding from his drunken, tyrannical father, wild boy Huckleberry Finn escapes to Jackson's Island, where he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together, they hope to escape sivilization by sailing a raft down the Mississippi in a last bid for freedom... Action packed and crammed with vibrant characters and incidents, Huckleberry Finn catches more vividly than any other novel the comedy, terror, resilience and spontaneity…
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Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ENAmid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. This book is a collection of stories, including -A Scandal in Bohemia;, A Case of Identity, The Red-Headed League and The Boscombe Valley Mystery.
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Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesAmid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. This book is a collection of stories, including -A Scandal in Bohemia, A Case of Identity, The Red-Headed League ,The Boscombe Valley Mystery. Page 302 is the last page of the novel followed by blank pages.
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Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ENTom Sawyer is disobedient, lazy and a poor scholar. His schemes to avoid work, school and punishment drive his Aunt Polly to distraction.
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Rhidian Brook The AftermathIn the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new h
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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence ENThe return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of…
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Jean-Paul Sartre The Age of Reason ENSet in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafés and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all…
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Tacitus The Agricola and the Germania ENThe Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and a succinct account of the early stages of the Roman occupation, nearly fatally undermined by Boudicca's…
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Deborah Harkness The All Souls Trilogy (Boxed Set) ENA Discovery of Witches Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life, now available in a beautiful boxed set With more than two million copies sold in the United States, the novels of the number one New York Times-bestselling All Souls Trilogy have landed on all the major bestseller lists, garnered rave reviews, and spellbound legions of loyal fans. Now all three novels are available in an elegantly designed boxed set that…
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Henry James The AmericanChristopher Newman, an American millionaire in France, falls in love with the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage...
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The Anatomy of PeaceThe Anatomy of Peace will instil hope and inspire reconciliation. Through a series of moving stories about once-bitter enemies reunited, it shows us how we routinely misunderstand the causes of conflict - and perpetuate the very problems we're trying...
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Adrian Raine The Anatomy of Violence ENWhy do people kill? Are some criminals born, not made? What causes violence and how can we treat it?In An Anatomy of Violence Adrian Raine draws on his own scientific research into the brains of murderers, psychopaths and serial killers to give a new perspective on these perennial questions. He reveals that, while anti-social behaviour is based on the complex interaction of genetics and environment, we can no longer…
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John Bradshaw The Animals Among UsThe bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why living with animals has always been a fundamental aspect of being humanIn this highly original and hugely enjoyable work, John Bradshaw examines modern humans' often contradictory ...