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Lonely Planet / Lonely Planet Irish Language & Culture

"Bejaysus and begorrah!" The next best thing for anyone not blessed with the "gift of the gab" a grand tour through the language, lilt and laughter of Ireland old and new. So join in the "craic," forget the Blarney Stone and wrap your tongue around...

Donald R. Gallo / No Easy Answers: Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices

This anthology features stories about individuals who find themselves in situations that test their strength of character. They are called upon to make moral choices, face the consequences of their actions, and consider what it means to "do the right...

Alexander Yates / Winter Place

When a mysterious stranger and his brown bear show up on the same day that Axel and Tess's father dies in an accident, Axel fears he might be going crazy, especially as only he can see them. However, the strange duo are quickly forgotten when Axel and...

Hans Rosling / How I Learned to Understand the World

"This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meetings with people who opened my eyes." - Hans Rosling. It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made Hans Rosling the most...

Danielle Star / The Ice Enchantment

A chapter book series about four pegasus friends learning to use their magical powers. The Melowies finally start the Art of Powers class which teaches them to strengthen the power they were born with. Clio, having been left at Destino when she was born,...

Andrew Matthews / Shadow of the Ninja

Young samurai Jimmu puts his life on the line when he sets out to rescue his master's daughter from a rival warlord. Jimmu cannot save Takeko alone, so when he meets a band of ninja warriors, he is tempted to enlist their help. Will Jimmu join forces...

Brian Boone / I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Except When I Hate It)

Music breeds duality. We enjoy the music we love-listening to it, talking about it, reading about it. But it's just as fun to passionately revel in mocking the music we hate. Fortunately, musicians make this two-lane path very easy to follow. Half the...

Simon Edge / The Hopkins Conundrum

Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated "mystery" about Gerald Manley Hopkins, who composed "The Wreck of the Deutschland" nearby. Blending the real...

Tera Lynn Childs / Fins Are Forever

When Lily's human-hating cousin Dosinia is exiled from Thalassinia and send to land, Lily is faced with the huge task of keeping her on the straight and narrow. As if her bratty cousin weren't enough to handle, the reappearance of a merboy from Lily's...

Danny Sugerman / The Doors

There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the Doors' Jim Morrison What set the Doors' music apart? The passionate, dark brilliance of their lyrics is apparent in this collection compiled by bestselling biographer and novelist...

Nina Lugovskaya / I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia

Recently unearthed in the archives of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD, Nina Lugovskaya’s diary offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin’s Russia—when fear of arrest was a fact of daily life. Like Anne Frank,...

Holly Webb / The Missing Bunny

  Can Annie find her missing bunny before it's caught by the neighbourhood fox? A gentle and heartwarming animal story from worldwide bestseller Holly Webb.Annie is really excited about her new pet rabbits and can't wait to welcome them into the...

W. Bruce Cameron / Molly's Story

Welcome to the world of A Dog’s Purpose, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron. Ellie's Story, Bailey's Story, Molly's Story, and Max’s Story are four heartwarming novels for young readers inspired by A...

Damien Wilkins / Max Gate

  "A witty and sentient writer"—LA Times"Wilkins can command a breathtakingly supple literary style"—The New York Times1928: Thomas Hardy is dying in the upstairs room of Max Gate, the house he built in his beloved Dorset...

Michael Robotham / Lying Beside You

The thrilling next instalment in the award-winning Cyrus Haven series sees Cyrus reckoning with his own dark and shocking past . . .When a man is murdered and his daughter disappears, forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven must decide if Maya Kirk is running,...

Catherine Brereton / Amazing Facts Every 7 Year Old Needs to Know

Bursting with fascinating facts for impressing friends, parents, grandparents and teachers – perfect for curious children everywhere! Wow your friends! Amaze your teachers! Astonish your family! Find over 120 mind-boggling facts and sensational...

Miroslav Krleža / On the Edge of Reason

During his long and distinguished career, the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleza (1893-1981) battled against many forms of tyranny. In On the Edge of Reason, his protagonist is a middle-aged lawyer whose life and career have been eminently respectable...

Dubravka Ugrešić / Fording the Stream of Consciousness

  Ironic, playful, and multilayered, winner of three major prizes for the best Yugoslav novel of 1988, this beguiling novel-about-a-novel is set at an international literary conference in Zagreb. It begins with the death of an anti-Franco poet who...

David Albahari / Words Are Something Else

David Albahari is one of the most prominent prose writers to come out of the former Yugoslavia in the last twenty years. His short stories, which developed largely outside the canon of Serbian literature, have influenced a generation of Balkan writers...

Max Frisch / Homo Faber

Walter Faber is an emotionally detached engineer forced by a string of coincidences to embark on a journey through his past.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

Miljenko Jergović / Sarajevo Marlboro

Sarajevo Marlboro is Miljenko Jergovic's remarkable debut collection of stories. Jergovic is a child of Sarajevo who remained in the city throughout the war. A dazzling storyteller, he brings a profoundly human, razor-sharp -understanding of the...

Josef Hiršal / A Bohemian Youth

Winner, 1998 PEN Center USA West Award for TranslationJosef Hir š al's experimental novel is a Dada-like romp through the life of a young man born into a Bohemian peasant family. Told in five parts, A Bohemian Youth begins with a word to the wise,...

Anthony Kemp / The Sas At War

This book traces the history of Stirling's creation from its birth to its untimely death and then rebirth as a territorial army unit in 1947. Using documentation as well as 100 operational files which give minute details of the regiment's sucesses - and...

Lajos Szakolczay / Give or Take a Day

An anthology of Hungarian, short fiction translated into English. Eleven stories by eleven writers living in present-day Hungary, Transylvania or the former Yugoslavia. Contributors include Peter Nadas, Mihaly Kornis, Emese Medgyesi and Laszlo Darvasi...

Istvan Lazar / Transylvania: A short history

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Larry Small / Around the Red Land

These poems span the gamut of life from love to death; a eulogy for a people, who for the most part, are no longer with us. Their evolution in rural Newfoundland has taken hundreds of years and there is a good possibility that we will never see their...

Steven Pressfield / The War of Art

Internationally bestselling author of Last of the Amazons, Gates of Fire, and Tides of War, Steven Pressfield delivers a guide to inspire and support those who struggle to express their creativity. Pressfield believes that “resistance” is the...

Billy Collins / Sailing Alone Around the Room

Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning,...

Mat Waugh / Awesome Jokes That Every 8 Year Old Should Know!

What has a bottom at the top?Your leg!What's worse than getting your hair cut by a monkey?A close shave with a gorilla!What does a man with two left feet wear?Flip-flips!If slow old men use walking sticks, what do fast old men use?Hurry-canes!Here at the...

Károly Pap / Azarel

  SET IN RURAL HUNGARY at the turn of the twentieth century and never before translated into English, Azarel chronicles the rebellious doings of young Gyuri, son of a rabbi in a modern Jewish sect. Papa Jeremiah, the paternal grandfather and an...

Parragon Books / Knock Knock Jokes

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Brenda Ueland / If You Want to Write

But we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and cheerfulness. Here lies the ability to choose the good...

Jamie Smart / Bunny vs Monkey

Get ready to enter the hilarious world of Jamie Smart's BUNNY VS MONKEY!Whether you're already a fan of this million-selling series or have yet to discover what all the crazy fuss is about - one thing's guaranteed in this special World Book Day story . ...

Miroslav Krleža / The Return of Philip Latinowicz

Philip Latinowics is a successful but disillusioned painter who returns to his hometown on Croatia's Danubian plain after an absence of twenty-three years. He hopes that revisiting his cultural roots will inspire him to create the perfect work of art and...

George Konrád / The Melancholy Of Rebirth

From the first of these essays to the last, we see how the initial euphoria at the end of Communist rule is tempered by the difficulties of reform. "Konrád is that rarity in political discourse-a fresh voice" (New Yorker). Translated by Michael...

Volodymyr Dibrova / Peltse and Pentameron

In these two novellas, Volodymyr Dibrova tells the story of how the Soviet system was sustained by individuals who never truly believed in it, but simply lacked the courage to oppose it.Peltse portrays the formation of an average apparatchik. Both funny...

Borislav Pekić / The Houses of Belgrade

Arsenije Njegovan’s portrait through his obsessive love towards houses which are in his possession. He is able to fall in love with buildings as if they were humans. Symbolically the houses here are a metaphor for mens' yearning for property and...

Sophocles / The Theban Plays. (Vintage Paperback)

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Stella Atterbury / Leave it to Cook (Vintage Paperback)

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Erich Erdstein / Inside the Fourth Reich (Vintage Paperback)

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Nevil Shute / No Highway (Vintage Paperback)

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Sean O'Faolain / The Short Story (Vintage Paperback)

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Charles Ohlrich / The Suffering God (Vintage Paperback)

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Roy D. Laird / Soviet Communism and Agrarian Revolution (Vintage Paperback)

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James Socias / Handbook of Prayers (Vintage Paperback)

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John Crisma / Verses Meditations (Vintage Paperback)

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Barry Smart / Postmodernity

At last, a short and authoritative critical introduction to one of the most talked about and most misunderstood concepts of current times. Barry Smart provides a clear and readable discussion for students which also manages to be a shrewd and stimulating...

Ivan Klíma / My First Loves

"The voice [in these stories] is clear and intelligent and brave. Mr. Klíma has climbed the mast." ― New York Times Through four sensuous tales, a young man traces his harsh coming of age in Czechoslovakia, where faith in love, country and human...

Imre Kertész / Liquidation

Imre Kertesz’s savagely lyrical and suspenseful new novel traces the continuing echoes the Holocaust and communism in the consciousness of contemporary Eastern Europe.Ten years after the fall of communism, a writer called B. commits suicide,...

Danilo Kiš / The Encyclopedia of the Dead

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern ClassicsA counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sisters...

Victor Pelevin / Omon Ra

Victor Pelevin's novel Omon Ra has been widely praised for its poetry and its wickedness, a novel in line with the great works of Gogol and Bulgakov. Omon is chosen to be trained in the Soviet space program the fulfillment of his lifelong dream...

Otto Friedrich / The Kingdom of Auschwitz

"Otto Friedrich's powerful portrayal of Auschwitz is both an extraordinary reminder of the human capacity for evil and an eloquent message to humanity never to let such things happen again." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "I know of no work which brings the...