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Adam Rapp / Know Your Beholder (Hardback)

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom.As winter deepens in Pollard, Illinois, 30-something Francis Falbo is holed up in an attic apartment, recovering from a series of...

Robert Heller / In search of European excellence: The 10 key strategies of Europe's top companies (Hardback)

A far-reaching analysis of the key strategies with which Europes most successful companies are leading the field.In business, Europe appears to have lagged behind America and Asia. But Europes business leaders are now restructuring, expanding, and...

Mindy Kaling / Why Not Me? (Hardback)

In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it’s falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight...

Nona Kilgore Bauer / Golden Retriever (Hardback)

The world’s friendliest dog is the Golden Retriever, also counted among the most talented and popular dogs in America. Renowned for his lustrous golden coat, his buoyant personality and his lusty desire to hunt, the Golden Retriever makes an ideal...

Bruce H. Wilkinson / Secrets of the Vine : Breaking Through to Abundance (Hardback)

In this powerful follow-up to his bestseller The Prayer of Jabez, Dr. Bruce Wilkinson explores John 15 to show readers how to make maximum impact for God. Dr. Wilkinson demonstrates how Jesus is the Vine of life, discusses four levels of "fruit bearing"...

Mary Flanagan / The blue woman and other stories (Hardback)

A collection of short stories by the author of Bad Girls, Trust, and Rose Reason. Stories featured include a wedding day which becomes the occasion for sartorial outrage, and a soap-opera style romance which erupts at a laundrette for an...

Alice Thomas Ellis / Fish, Flesh and Good Red Herring : A Gallimaufry (Hardback)

From the cooking methods of Ulysses to Victorian nursery fare, from Biblical food facts to modern food fads, Alice Thomas Ellis takes delight in all things gastronomical, and generously seasons her gallimaufry with anecdote and wit. Fish, Flesh and Good...

Marshall Ulrich / Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America (Hardback)

117 marathons, 52 days, 32 pairs of shoes, 57 years A fascinating glimpse inside the mind of an ultramarathon runner and the inspirational saga of his phenomenal journey running across America.The ultimate endurance athlete, Marshall Ulrich has run more...

Timothée de Fombelle / Toby and the Secrets of the Tree (Hardback)

The second and final part of the thrilling adventure of heroism and friendship in an unforgettable miniature world. Toby's world is under greater threat than ever before. A giant crater has been dug right into the centre of the Tree, moss and lichen...

Alan Macfarlane / Letters to Lily : On How the World Works (Hardback)

What is love? Why are families so difficult? How do we get justice? Who is God? What makes us individuals? And why are we here in the first place? In responding to his granddaughter’s challenging questions, social anthropologist Alan Macfarlane...

Richard Nelson Bolles / What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (Hardback)

What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the bestselling job-hunting book in the world for more than three decades, in good times and bad, and it continues to be a fixture on best-seller lists, from New York Times to BusinessWeek. It has sold more...

Joan Brady / Death Comes for Peter Pan (Hardback)

Alice Kessler is a fighter and when she is told that her husband only has a few months left to live, she refuses to accept it. Instead Alice searches relentlessly for a doctor willing to offer a better prognosis and when she fails to find one in England,...

Justina Robson / Down to the Bone (Hardback)

Lila Black faces her greatest challange yet as she takes herself, her dead lover and the AI in her head into death's realm. The Quantum Gravity series, set in a world where our reality mixes with other dimensions that are the homes to Faeries, elementals...

David Housewright / Like to Die (Hardback)

A seemingly simple investigation, done as a favor for a friend, takes McKenzie down a dark and twisted path in the next mystery in David Housewright's award-winning series.Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become an...

Nathan Filer / The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia (Hardback)

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, originally published as The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia, presents a balanced summary of the controversy around the biological model of mental ill health, along with the model's...

V.A. Howard / Seasons of Learning: Talks to Graduates on Life After College (Hardback)

The first in-depth treatment of the school/work transition, this book raises the level of discussion above simple how to strategies. Howard considers the values, choices, responsibilities, and challenges facing the student leaving college or...

Georgina Harding / The Gun Room (Hardback)

A powerful novel about the memory of war, and how people bring that memory back to the world of peace, from Orange-prize shortlisted author Georgina Harding.Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war...

Kinley Roby / Death In a Hammock (Hardback)

Nonfiction author Kinley Roby makes an assured mystery debut with this powerful novel, in which a retired Florida park ranger gets drawn into a tangled Southern mystery of lies and murder.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Kate Thompson / Wanted! (Hardback)

Marcus is a young baker in Ancient Rome, living with his family in the shadow of the murderous Emperor Littleboots. When a slave boy shoves the reins of a sleek, beautiful horse into Marcus's hands seconds before he is killed by a soldier, Marcus knows...

S.L. Grey / The Mall (Hardback)

Dan is an angsty emo-kid who works in a deadly dull shopping mall. He hates his job.Rhoda is a junkie whose babysitting charge ran off while she was scoring cocaine. She hates her life. Rhoda bullies Dan into helping her search, but as they explore the...

Susan Cooper / Victory (Hardback)

  Two children cross an ocean, two hundred years apart. One is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard H.M.S.Victory, the ship in which Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The other is Molly Jennings, a present-day...

James W. Robinson / Excel Phenomenon: The Astonishing Success Story of the Fastest-Growing Communications Company -- and What It Means to You (Hardback)

How It Happened, Where It's Going,and Why It Matters to YouThis is the story of a remarkable business opportunity, one that is open to all and is as simple to grasp as a telephone handset. It's about good old American ingenuity. It's about offering...

Alan Philps , John Lahutsky / The Boy From Baby House 10: How One Child Escaped The Nightmare Of A Russian Orphanage (Hardback)

Vanya is bright, inquisitive four-year-old with tousled black curls and a permanent grin. He doesn't know what the sun is. But Vanya is not stupid. He has not been beyond the four bare walls of his dormitory in a Russian orphanage for two years. During...

Fiona Walker / Lucy Talk (Hardback)

'This morning, a lime-green plastic ghoul fell out of my Honey Puffs cereal packet and I had the most brilliant idea. A Halloween party at Burr Cottage - theme, Come As Your Favourite Creep "Greg won't need to dress up, then," said Jane. Jane is...

John Callahan / The King of Things and the Cranberry Clown (Hardback)

A poem about power and freedom, featuring a king who wants to control everything with strings, and a clown who is tied up in strings but can still choose to experience life     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Who in the World Am I?: Mystery Celebrity Quiz (Hardback)

A small, fun guessing game in book form! Answers are included.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may...

The Ultimate Football Quiz (Hardback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Harry J. Gensler / Formal Ethics (Hardback)

Formal Ethics is the study of formal ethical principles. The most important of these, perhaps even the most important principle of life, is the golden "Treat others as you want to be treated". Although the golden rule enjoys support amongst different...

Patrick Conlon / The Essential Hospital Handbook: How to Be an Effective Partner in a Loved One's Care (Hardback)

Hospitalization is often as dismaying and frightening for family members as it is for the patient. And despite a heartfelt desire to understand what is happening and to comfort a sick or injured loved one, too often relatives and friends feel helpless...

Diana Wynne Jones / Conrad's Fate (Hardback)

Narrator Conrad is tricked into leaving school at 12, by his stingy uncle Alfred. To cure his bad karma, he must kill an aristocrat at the Stallery estate. But who? Fellow page Christopher is an aggravatingly dapper and over-confident 15, a powerful mage...

Alex Morgan / Breakaway: Beyond the Goal (Hardback)

Get inspired to be your best—in sports and in life—with this uplifting memoir from star soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan that includes eight pages of full-color photos as well as book jacket that doubles as a poster!As a...

Jerry Spinelli / Maniac Magee (Hardback)

  When Jeffrey Lionel Magee, a scruffy 12-year-old kid, wanders into Two Mills, Pennsylvania, a legend is in the making.   All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in...

Patrick Moore / Venus (Hardback)

Recent orbiting spacecraft with radar imaging systems are turning up new, intriguing, even disturbing information about our nearest neighbor. In age, size, density, and volume, Venus is most similar to our home planet. But there the similarity ends, as...

Dominique La Pierre / A Thousand Suns - Witness to History (Hardback)

Dominique Lapierre was one of the pioneers of the subjective news story, a man who was never afraid to put himself, both physically and emotionally, at the heart of his reports. It is a style that has often been imitated, but as A Thousand...

Barry Maitland / The Chalon Heads (Hardback)

When Sammy Starling, a former London gangster with a passion for collecting, discovers his beautiful young wife is missing, he calls DCI David Brock for help. Ten years ago Starling’s evidence for Brock in a case of police corruption put a couple...

Vic Darkwood / The Gentleman's Guide to Travel (Hardback)

The lost art of traveling in exquisite style. The advantages of travel are it broadens the mind as well as helps one to avoid the iniquities of a less-than-perfect married life. Those of an expeditionary bent will find this guide full of timely and...

Elizabeth Laird / Jake's Tower (Hardback)

Jake wishes for the protection of a castle tower and moat while having to endure the wrath of his mother's boyfriend, as well as the sadness associated with a non-existent father.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Janet Evanovich , Lee Goldberg / The Pursuit (Hardback)

  THE PURSUIT by Janet Evanovich is an action-packed adventure featuring FBI agent Kate O'Hare and her secret partner, fugitive Nicolas Fox. Janet Evanovich's novels 'Pithy, witty and fast-paced' ( The Sunday Times ); 'Non-stop laughs with plenty of...

50 Of the Finest After Dinner Games (Hardback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Melvin Burgess / Kite (Hardback)

Imagine being a boy who collects birds' eggs, and discovering that an extremely rare and endangered red kite is nesting in the woods by your own house! This is just the beginning of Taylor's story. The kite is "vermin," as far as malevolent landowner Mr...

Neal Griffin / By His Own Hand (Hardback)

It looks like suicide.The body of a young man has been found in the woods outside Newberg, dead from a close-range shotgun blast. The gun―his own―lies beside the body.Certain things don’t add up for Detective Tia Suarez. Where did the fat envelope...

Alan Ford / Thin Ice (Hardback)

Charles Harwood is an out-of-work actor, but fill-in jobs aren't for him. He doesn't want to drive a minicab, deal dope or have 'another string to his bow' - he's a purist. And without any acting to do, the main event of his day is an audition for an...

John Corbett , Bill Findlay / Serving Twa Maisters: Five Classic Plays in Scots Translation (Hardback)

  This collection contains five classic works translated into Scots from the heart of post-war Scottish tradition: Let Wives Tak Tent by Robert Kemp from Molière (1948); The Burdies by Douglas Young from Aristophanes...

Linda Buckley-Archer / Time Quake (Hardback)

The Tar Man's employer, Lord Luxon, steals the time machine and travels to 19th century New York - just in time to sabotage the American War of Independence...     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown...

Amos Oz / Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (Hardback)

In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange...

Carter Coleman / Cage's Bend (Hardback)

Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s American South, three archetypal sons witness the unraveling of their tight-knit family as they struggle with ambitions, tragic death, and mental illness. By the author of The Volunteer.     All of our books...

Gerald Hammond / The Dirty Dollar (Hardback)

In an attempt to break into the male-dominated world of engineering, Jill Allbright takes a cleaner's job at Oltrech, a global oil company. By chance, she finds herself thrust into the high-powered, ruthless world of the oil business, attempting to...

A Housemate / Wit And Wisdom Of Reality TV (Hardback)

A collection of hilarious, unbelievable, outrageous and truly unforgettable quotes from six years of reality TV can they really be that daft?.THE WIT AND WISDOM OF REALITY TV will include the famous and, more importantly, the infamous quotes from six...

Neil Tonge / The Survivors: Broken Lives: a Victorian Mine Disaster (Hardback)

It is the 1840s in a northern England mining town, where disaster is about to strike. For young John Elliot and his family, life in the shadow of the grinding colliery wheel has always been hard, but they have no alternative. The physical risks are great...

Chris Mason / Little Book of Discover Your Family History (Hardback)

Discover Your Family History is written by genealogy enthusiast Chris Mason. A fantastic guide to researching your own family history, this book gives you hints and tips including useful website references and other useful addresses. Written from a...

Fiona Maazel / Last Last Chance (Hardback)

Last Last Chance , Fiona Maazel’s first novel, is one of the most distinctive debuts of recent a rollicking comic tale about (in no particular order) plague, narcotics recovery, and reincarnation.A lethal strain of virus vanishes from a lab in...

Sergei Lukyanenko / The Last Watch (Hardback)

When a Russian tourist is murdered while visiting the Edinburgh Dungeons, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton is detailed to the investigation, but on arriving in Scotland begins to realise that there is...