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Sylvia Day Crossfire Series - Box Set ENThe bestselling erotic romance series of the year, now available in one complete box set.Bared to You:Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness - beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life.Reflected in You: Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright,…
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Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ott (ilustrácie) We Have Always Lived in the CastleTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate...
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Brené Brown Daring GreatlyEvery time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel uncertain and exposed. We feel vulnerable. Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect. In a powerful new
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Emily Brontë Wuthering HeightsIt is winter in the wild English countryside. A man caught in a snowstorm finds shelter at a remote manor called Wuthering Heights. He learns about Cathy, who lived in the house many years before, whose story is one of love, heartbreak and revenge...
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Conn Iggulden The Falcon of SpartaIn the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. 401 BC. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects...
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Zadie Smith NW ENZadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londomers - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they're left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can…
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Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl Beautiful Darkness ENThe second bewitching instalment in the bestselling love story Beautiful Creatures - a romance that is bound to capture the hearts of Twilight fans everywhere. Some loves are meant to be. Others are cursed... One night in the rain, Ethan Wate opened his eyes and fell in love with Lena Duchannes. His life would never be the same. Lena is a Caster and her family is locked in a supernatural civil war: full of darkness…
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J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye ENThe Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls…
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John Grisham The Client ENMark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it's better not to tell. But it's just as dangerous if you don't. So Mark needs help fast...because there isn't much time.
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Lynn Barber An Education ENLynn Barber's true story is now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby. At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life. Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, revealing how it left her with an abiding…
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Simon Sinek Together is Better ENA team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other. 'We'd achieve more if we chased the dream instead of the competition. Every day, hundreds of thousands of fans eagerly wait on social media for Simon Sinek's aphorisms on leadership, teamwork and motivation. Now he has collected his best axioms and anecdotes into a small, beautifully illustrated book. Tackling the…
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Niall Ferguson The House of Rothschild: Moneys Prophets 1798 - 1848 ENIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family's vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age. And he tells a family saga, tracing the…
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Niall Ferguson Civilization ENWinner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013 Niall Ferguson's Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power is a vital, brilliant look at the winning tools of power. In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. So how did the West come to dominate the Rest?
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Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow ENThe New York Times Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co- author Steven D. Levitt, Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nudge co- author Richard Thaler, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions. Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why…
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Tom Hodgkinson The Idle Parent ENIn The Idle Parent Tom Hodgkinson provides a revolutionary and wholly sensible approach to childcare, based on the idea of D.H. Lawrence and many others that the best thing we can do for children is to leave them alone. Of course, this doesn't mean that we should completely neglect them, but rather that we should provide them with the space and time to grow up self-reliant, confident, happy and free. To do so we…
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Philip Pullman Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm ENThe acclaimed retelling of the world’s best-loved fairy tales by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golden Compass—now in paperback, and with 3 new tales! Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first volume of fairy tales. Since then, such stories as Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Hansel and Gretel have become deeply woven into the Western imagination. Now Philip Pullman, the…
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Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days ENOne night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing…
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Roberto Calasso Ka'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through Roberto Calasso's retelling of the stories of the minds...
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol ENPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality and threw not one but two Christmas dinner…
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Rick Riordan Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian ENMost people get presents on their sixteenth birthday. I get a prophecy that could save or destroy the world. That's how it is when you're the son of Poseidon, God of the Sea. According to an ancient prophecy, bad things will happen when I turn sixteen - because I'm the one who gets to decide the fate of the entire world. But no pressure. This is the one where Kronos, Lord of the Titans, is beginning his attack on…
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Sue Townsend The Woman who Went to Bed for a YearThe day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she's wanted to yell at the world, 'Stop! I want to get off'. Finally, this is her chance...
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Jorn Lier Horst The Katharina CodeA gripping thriller from the international bestselling author Jorn Lier HorstTwenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper...
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Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind ENWhy Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. In The Righteous Mind, psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationships: Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different things to different people? Why is it so hard to see things from another…