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Peter Straub / The Throat (Blue Rose Trilogy #3)

Peter Straub’s chilling Blue Rose Trilogy comes to an astonishing close—secrets unearthed, demons revisited, and mysteries solved.Tim Underhill, now an acclaimed novelist, travels back to his hometown of Millhaven, Illinois after he gets...

Lyn Andrews / Goodbye, Mersey View

author Lyn Andrews evokes the ups and downs of life in the back streets of 1930s LiverpoolLiverpool, World War II. Monica Eustace and Joan McDonald met as next-door-neighbours living in Mersey View in Liverpool. Their friendship is a close as ever,...

Rosie Goodwin / Crying Shame (Claire McMullen #2)

Claire Nightingale is haunted by the memory of childhood abuse and the painful choices she was forced to make. Longing to find peace, she knows she must first confront her demons.Moving to Solihull with her adopted daughter Nikki, she tries to make...

W. Somerset Maugham / Up at the Villa

In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy.On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard demurs and...

John Sandford / Deadline (Virgil Flowers #8)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes a brand new Virgil Flowers thriller that will keep you gripped until the very last page. "Barns, the chairman, looked around the room and said, 'Okay. We can do this. Let's see a show of hands. It's...

W. Somerset Maugham / Liza of Lambeth

Maugham's first published novel - a vividly realistic portrayal of slum life. Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she has found an adoring if conventional beau in Tom...

Anthony Horowitz / Close to Death: How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive?

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fifth literary whodunnit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case—a gruesome murder in an idyllic...

Rosie Goodwin / Our Little Secret (Claire McMullen #1)

At just twenty years old, Claire McMullen is the new owner of the Seabourne Hotel. She's a mystery to everyone around her - and that's how she wants to keep it. Abused as a child and forced to sell her body to survive, Claire has built a barrier around...

Alice Walker / The Color Purple

Life wasn't easy for Celie. But she knew how to survive, needing little to get by.Then her husband's lover, a flamboyant blues singer, barreled into her world and gave Celie the courage to ask for more - to laugh, to play, and finally - to love...

Camilla Lackberg / Cult (Mina & Vincent #2)

Efter ”Box” kommer ”Kult” – andra delen i Läckberg Fexeus spänningsserie om det udda utredarparet Vincent och Mina. När en liten pojke försvinner från en förskola på Södermalm i...

Kieron Connolly / There is a House

There is a house. It is old now, the memories of generations past long gone, memories which have escaped into the ethereal domain of winter's gloom. Once so grand and imposing, the structure is now a corpse, its skeletal remains having long since...

Benjamin Ferencz / Make it Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man’s 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

What a century of life experience can teach us about happiness, ambition, courage, love and how to make the most of the lives we've been given.How many people do you know grew up as a poor immigrant in America during the Great Depression, won a...

d h lawrence / Selected Stories

This collection of short stories traces D. H. Lawrence's development as a writer. His early tales often draw on personal experiences, as in 'Odour of Chrysanthemums', a work he described as 'full of my childhood's atmosphere', while the horror of the...

Helena Dixon / Murder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay #2)

Summer 1933. Fresh from the discovery that she has family living nearby, Kitty Underhay has packed her carpet bag, commandeered a chambermaid and set off on a visit to stately Enderley Hall. She’s looking forward to getting to know her relatives,...

Peter Brandvold / Rogue Lawman: A Classic Western

Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk was respected throughout the Territory as a lawman of principle--until Three Fingers Ned Meade threw him a curve. Meade killed Hawk's ten-year-old boy, and the grisly act drove Hawk's grief-stricken wife to hang...

Ferdinand von Schirach / Terror

Guilty or not guilty?Enter the courtroom, hear the evidence, make your judgement.A hijacked plane is heading towards a packed football stadium. Ignoring orders to the contrary, a fighter pilot shoots down the plane killing 164 people to save 70,000.Put...

Frank Kermode / Not Entitled: A Memoir

Frank Kermode has been known for decades as one of the great critics of English literature. Now his subtly nuanced attention turns to a different kind of the experiences of his own life.Throughout his luminous, witty memoir, Kermode touches on deeper,...

Cory Bell / Modern Art: A Crash Course

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Emma Hardy / Pret a Manger Salads and Sandwiches: How to Make Them at Home

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Katherine Duncan Jones / The Arden Shakespeare Book of Quotations from Songs & Sonnets

If you love the beauty of Shakespeare's poetryIf you are looking for the right thing to write to a special personIf you are looking for that perfect phrase that expresses your thoughts better than you canThen The Arden Shakespeare Book of Quotations...

James Peters / Very Simple Arabic

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Geographers' A-Z Map Company / A-Z Handy Guide and Atlas of London

Want to find your way around London? Look no further than London's best selling Atlas - London AZ. The new 2004 edition of this super scale central London atlas includes clear detailed maps covering the central area, one way streets, an index to over...

Paul Muldoon / New Selected Poems 1968-1994

Between New Weather (1973), which Seamus Heaney said marked its author as 'the most promising poet to appear in Ireland for years', and The Annals of Chile, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize for the best book of poems of 1994, Paul Muldoon...

Paul Stratern / Curie and Radioactivity

Revealing the intensity, dedication, and determination of one of the century's most inspiring single working mothers, Curie and Radioactivity is for anyone curious about the "female Einstein, " and even more important, for all those who want to...

Bertrand Jestaz / Discoveries: Architecture of the Renaissance

Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed,...

Kerry Barrett / Like a Charm (Could It Be Magic #1)

Esme McLeod is a high-flying lawyer in London, but her life isn't as perfect as it might seem. She is estranged from her family, in a toxic relationship with a married man, and she’s a part-time witch.As a teenager, Esme discovered that her...

Kenneth Minogue / Politics: A Very Short Introduction

The new Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects from politics to classics. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each book in the series provides trenchant, provocative, yet balanced...

collins billy / nine horses

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Helen Graham / Exercise: The Lazy Person's Guide!

Fed up with feeling guilty about not doing those regular workouts and that daily jogging you ve been promising to start? We know that exercise is good for us but why does it have to be such hard work?Finally here is someone giving us the good news...

Marguerite Duras / Summer Rain

Rootless, marginalized, and uneducated, a large immigrant family struggles to live in Paris, feeling cast off by an indifferent society yet bound together by a powerful intimacy.       This book is second hand, and while you may...

Flo Davis / Introducing Reading

A brief book, introducing English-language teachers/teacher-trainees to key concepts in the area of reading.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Liz Moore / Long Bright River

Once inseparable, sisters Mickey and Kacey are on different paths, but they walk the same streets. Mickey on her police beat and Kacey in the shadows of the city's darkest corners where the drug addicts and sex workers preside. When a string of murders...

Mike Gonzalez / Collins Pocket Diccionario Espanol-Ingles English-spanish

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Marguerite Duras / Yann Andrea Steiner

Fifty years have passed since the young girl in the autobiographical The Lover discovered passion with an older man. Now, Marguerite Duras has written a homage to a new lover, Yann Andrea, a man thirty years her junior, who over the past twelve years...

Rebecca O'Connor / Scéalta: Short Stories by Irish Women

The short story is one of Ireland's national treasures, and within these pages are some of its finest practitioners — from such established names as Julia O'Faolain, Claire Keegan and Christine Dwyer Hickey, to the exciting new voices of Judy...

Barry J. Kemp / 100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like an Egyptian

How characters used in ancient Egyptians' writing system offer a fascinating insight into their priorities, concerns, and beliefs, and entire worldview  Using a set of hieroglyphs, this book takes readers on a...

Jim Hankinson / The Bluffer's Guide to Philosophy

Be an instant expert in philosophy and bluff your way® with those who think they think they know a lot about the subject. No thoughtfulness required, just a sense of humour. The Bluffer's Guide to Philosophy thoughtfully provides everything you...

Tina Konstant / Work Smarter with Speed Reading: Teach Yourself

Work Smarter with Speed Reading is a practical guide to effective speed reading in a time-poor world. Learn about a variety of reading and memory techniques, including a five-step strategy that will enable you to read any non-fiction material easily...

Terry Johnson / Hysteria

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Yasmina Reza / The God of Carnage

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach kids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums, and tears...

James Cochrane / Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English

Between You and I is James Cochrane's bestselling guide to the falling standards of written and spoken English. It is the essential course in language detoxification - a valiant attempt to salvage some pearls of good usage from the linguistic dystopia of...

Bryan Magee / Popper

Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper's importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction...

Ruth Padel / The Poem and the Journey: And Sixty Poems to Read Along the Way

Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet who has also become renowned as an energetic, generous and thought-provoking guide to reading poetry. Her "52 Ways of Looking at a Poem", with its lively overview of contemporary writing and eye-opening readings of...

John Gray / Heresies

By the author of the best-selling Straw Dogs, this book is a characteristically trenchant and unflinchingly clear-sighted collection of reflections on our contemporary lot. Whether writing about the future of our species on this planet, the folly of...

Peter Coles / Hawking and the Mind of God

Hawking and the Mind of God examines the pseudoreligious connotations of some of the key themes in Hawking's work, and how these shed light not only on the Hawking cult itself, but also on the wider issue of how scientists represent themselves in the...

Edith Wharton / The Reckoning

'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life...

Samuel Beckett / Proust

Samuel Beckett's celebrated early study of Marcel proust, whose theories of time were to play a large part in his own work, was written in 1931. It is a brilliant work of critical insight that also tells us much about its author's own thinking and...

David Berman / Berkeley: The Great Philosophers

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Ali H. Soufan / The Black Banners

On September 11, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months earlier when it was requested the attacks on New York and Washington could have been prevented. During his time on the front lines, Soufan...

Laura McHugh / The Weight of Blood

People still whisper about Lucy Dane’s mother who vanished years ago from the town of Henbane, deep in the Ozark mountains.When one of Lucy’s friends is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost women: by the mother she never knew,...

Suzanne Selfors / Mad Love

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Chris Ryan / Black Ops (Danny Black #7)

SAS hero Danny Black returns in the seventh book in the bestselling series by SAS legend Chris Ryan.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...