New Paperback Books

Carolina Maria de Jesus / Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, 50th Anniversary Edition

  This authentic example of literature-truth emerged from the diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus, which recounts the sad and cruel daily life of a woman who survives as a paper taster in the face of everything to scare away children and raise her...

Christmas Carol Kauffman / Not Regina

"The 1500's were stirring times in Europe. Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to a church door in Germany, exploding a powder keg of unrest that seethed for decades. Against this background Regina Strahm found herself caught between two religious...

Celia Harwood / Widow's Peak

In May 1920, Major Edward Giffard, DSO, still recovering from war injuries, is convalescing in the spa town of Buxton accompanied by his wife, Isabel. He receives an anonymous letter advising him to enquire into his father’s Will.The Major has not...

Joseph M. Marshall III / The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living

  Joseph M. Marshall’s thoughtful, illuminating account of how the spiritual beliefs of the Lakota people can help us all lead more meaningful, ethical lives.Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of...

Paul Cooke / German Expressionist Films

Introducing readers to one of the must influential film movements of the 20th century, responsible for such widely-known classics as Nosferatu, Metropolis and The Blue Angel, this Pocket Essential travels all the way from Germany in the swinging Twenties...

Paul Ormerod / Why Most Things Fail

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David Thomson / Suspects

  Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime—these are a few of nearly 100 names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts to compose short biographies of some of the most famous characters in the history of film noir. He...

Sue Monroe / The Magnificent Moon Hare

I am the Moon Hare! I'm off on a dangerous quest to rescue King Winston from having his head chopped off! P.J. is coming and so is a dragon who's called Sandra (even thought he's a boy). And there are bits about marzipan and secret tights and games and...

Pádraic Ó Conaire / The Finest Stories of Padraic O Conaire

This collection, the first representative translation of his work, contains 15 of his greatest short stories including M'Asal Beag Dubh, beloved of generations of schoolchildren.Padraic 6 Conaire was born in Galway in 1882, brought up in the Connemara...

Randall Munroe / How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong...

Monica Butterfield / Stories for 8 Year Olds

Read about a school for witches, a pig who wants to fly and the boy trapped inside Ben's Computer Game! This Marvellous mixture of hugely entertaining stories will provide hours of reading fun to delight every 8 year old.   This book is second hand,...

Norman Hunter / The Peculiar Triumph of Professor Branestawm

He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. He's the craziest genius you'll ever meet and he's about to cause havoc in Pagwell with his wild inventions . . . The lovable Professor Branestawm, with his five pairs of spectacles and his pockets full of all manner...

Christopher Isherwood / The Condor and the Cows

A South American Travel DiaryIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and his lover Bill Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. Isherwood's account...

Tom O'Malley / Marvel Heroes

"Marvel Comics and Top Trumps" have been brought together to create another exciting addition to the "Haynes Top Trumps" books series. This pocket-sized guide features 45 key heroes and villains from the Marvel universe, all illustrated using Marvel's...

Christopher Milne / The Enchanted Places

Millions of readers throughout the world have grown up with the stories and verses of A. A. Milne; have envied Christopher Robin in his enchanted world; laughed at Pooh—a bear of very little brain—and worried about Piglet and his problems...

Diana Wynne Jones / Black Maria

On the surface, Aunt Maria seems like a cuddly old lady, all chit-chat and lace doilies and unadulterated NICEness!When Mig and her family go for a short visit, they soon learn that Aunt Maria rules the place with a rod of sweetness that’s tougher...

John Mortimer / Rumpole Rests His Case

RUMPOLE RESTS HIS The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he...

Robin Wall Kimmerer / Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

'Kimmerer blends, with deep attentiveness and musicality, science and personal insights to tell the overlooked story of the planet's oldest plants' Guardian'Bewitching ... a masterwork ... a glittering read in its entirety' Maria Popova,...

Katharine Corr / The Witch’s Tears

Can true love's kiss break your heart...?It's not easy being a teenage witch. Just ask Merry. She's drowning in textbooks and rules set by the coven; drowning in heartbreak after the loss of Jack. But Merry's not the only one whose fairy tale is over...

Francine Pascal / The Twins Get Caught

Against their better judgement...Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield can't wait until Saturday night. Their friend Aaron Dallas is throwing "the party of the year" at a new teen club called the Hangout. Everyone from their class will be there -...

Angela González Hevia / Teach Yourself Get Started in Spanish

The emphasis of this course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in Spanish. It provides extensive vocabulary, grammar tips and tests that help you...

Steve Hare / Crikey I'm... a Dad!

  This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain from doing...

Charles Johnson / Pirates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates

A facsimile edition of a classic source for the history of piracy, as used by Robert Louis Stevenson in the writing of Treasure Island. Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the best-selling books of 1724, when it was first...

Patricia St. John / In Her Words

Patricia St John was a master storyteller and her books continue to captivate readers even today, but her personal story is no less exciting than one of her fictional tales.It is full of adventure, larger-than-life characters and exotic destinations. But...

Max Porter / The Death of Francis Bacon

A great painter lies on his deathbed. In seven extraordinary written pictures, untethered from reality, Max Porter translates the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Duncan J. Watts / Six Degrees : The New Science of Networks

  'Six degrees of separation' is a cliche, as is 'it's a small world', both cliches of the language and cliches of everyone's experience. We all live in tightly bonded social networks, yet linked to vast numbers of people more closely than we...

Muhammad Khan / Kick the Moon

Fifteen-year-old Ilyas is under pressure from everyone: GCSE’s are looming and his teachers just won’t let up, his dad wants him to join the family business and his mates don’t care about any of it. There’s no space in...

Benjamin Dean / This Story is a Lie

Harley Matthews is a used to fading into the background. That is until Rising Stars, the high-school programme that takes talented students and makes their dreams come true, choose him to participate for the coveted position of winner for this...

Adam Frost / The Awesome Body Book

How long are your intestines? How many mites live in your eyelashes? Do all adults wear clean underwear? And much more!Find out disgusting, hilarious, weird and wacky facts about your body with this awesome book! Are you ready for another EPIC book from...

Damien Simonis / Herbal Remedies

"Dorling Kindersley's 101 Essential Tips" series brings expert advice at an affordable price. This book breaks down the preparation and use of herbal remedies into 101 easy-to-grasp tips.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

John Brendan Keane / The Little Book of John B. Keane

The best and most humorous lines in all John B. Keane's writings, selected by himself and presented in convenient small format. The book includes the 'A play about sex in Ireland is always ahead of its time.' 'The secret of sex is not to take it...

Eric Rasmussen / Sonnets

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Marion Zimmer Bradley / The Firebrand

Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle...

Philip Ball / H2o

The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary, despite its prevalence and central importance on Earth. Whether one considers its role in biology, its place in the physical world (where it refuses to obey the usual rules of...

Reggie Nadelson / Disturbed Earth

The first novel in an exciting crime trilogy starring Russian-Jewish cop Artie Cohen (“the detective every women would like to find in her bed.” — Guardian )Reggie Nadelson’s new Artie Cohen mystery begins when a jogger finds a...

Angus J. Kennedy / The Internet and World Wide Web: The Rough Guide, First edition

This bestselling guide for PCs and Macs explains in plain English functions such as sending e-mail; browsing sports, news, and travel information; playing free music samples from thousands of bands; shopping for the best Internet deals; downloading free...

Larry Niven / Ringworld's Children

Larry Niven's sequence of Ringworld novels is one of the classic works of science fiction. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, it is a towering imaginative achievement - as extraordinary as the world on which it is set.The Ringworld is...

Jamie Thomson / The Wrong Side of the Galaxy

In space, no one can hear you laugh!Harry wished he was a million miles away, but this is getting ridiculous.Abducted by aliens, Harry wakes up on his birthday marooned on a spaceship. His only companions: two freaky princess clones, a weird...

Milla Vane / A Heart of Blood and Ashes

A generation past, the western realms were embroiled in endless war. Then the Destroyer came. From the blood and ashes he left behind, a tenuous alliance rose between the barbarian riders of Parsathe and the walled kingdoms of the south. That alliance is...

Joan Aiken / Black Hearts in Battersea

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Molly Corbally / An Armful of Babies and a Cup of Tea

A touching and warm-hearted memoir of a young health visitor in postwar England, for fans of Call the Midwife and The Language of Kindness. After serving as a nurse in WW2, Molly Corbally joined the brand new NHS and became one of the first official...

Martin Cruz Smith / Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1) / Nightwing

Gorky ParkA triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To...

Michael Kerrigan / William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, a lively personal...

Astrid Lindgren / Emil and the Sneaky Rat

There's a rat running amok in Emil's house, and he's determined to capture it. But hiding the rat trap just under his father's bed probably isn't ideal . . . That's just the start of Emil's adventures, which, once begun, never stop. Hens, dogs, little...

Paul Simpson / The Rough Guide to Kids' Movies

Kids’ Movies – where do you start? There are hundreds of them out on video and DVD, and life (or at least, childhood) is too short to discover the gems, or to endure the dross. Which is where this Rough Guide comes in, reviewing the best...

Wesley Stace / By George

Two years ago, singer-songwriter Wesley Stace blew onto the literary scene with his bold and free-wheeling Dickensian comedy Misfortune. Now, he is back with another wonderfully entertaining and inventive novel. By George is the twisting story of four...

Joseph Andras / Faraway the Southern Sky

A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh's immigration and radical life in underground Paris in the 1920sHo Chi Minh arrived in Paris as a young man, a refugee from political repression, just as World War I was sputtering to a close...

Lee Server / Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing

She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols. She was the temptress who drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide and haunted him to the end of his life. Ernest Hemingway saved one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento, and Howard...

Walt Disney Company / BIG HERO 6 - JUNIOR

"Big Hero 6" features brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of his closest companion--a robot named Baymax--Hiro...

Tracey Stewart / Payne Stewart: The Authorised Biography

Written by his wife Tracey Stewart, this is the only authorized biography of Payne Stewart. It gives the reader a detailed look into Payne’s life through the eyes of the person closest to him throughout all the triumphs and disasters of his career...

Sarah Jio / Blackberry Winter

In 2011, Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels-- The Violets of March and The Bungalow . With Blackberry Winter --taking its title from a late-season, cold-weather phenomenon--Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways...

Gerald Sparrow / Visiting Egypt

In her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the Rangeley area. Rich made time after morning chores to...