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Mayada : Daughter Of Iraq - One woman's survival in Saddam Hussein's torture jail
Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family. When Saddam Hussein seized power, Mayada found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced parent, earning a meagre living, until one morning when she was dragged to the notorious Baladiyat Prison, falsely accused of printing anti-government propaganda and thrown i...
The Secret History: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were...
The Dark Room
In a place and time with little tolerance for physical flaws, a photographer with a withered arm secures a chance to serve his country? As the war ends, a girl and her siblings flee to safety with a concentration camp survivor whose false papers claim he is Jewish? Half a century later a schoolteacher b...
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita, skewering the politics of academia, the struggle for interpretation, and the infinite subjectivity of human experience, published in Penguin Modern Classics. The American po...
The Roads To Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments
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How to Make Gravy
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talking', 'Dumb Things', 'From Little Things Big Things Grow'...
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits
Lewis Carroll; Oleg Lipchenko (Illustrator)
"The Hunting of the Snark" was first published in 1876, eleven years after "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and four years after "Through the Looking-Glass." It is a master-piece of nonsense and is connected to "Through the Looking-Glass" by its use of vocabulary from the poem "Jabberwocky." "The Hunt...
The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
This is an innovative and accessible guide to government, law, and power. Learning about the vast concept of politics can be daunting, but "The Politics Book" makes it easier than ever by giving you all the big ideas, simply explained. Step-by-step summaries, graphics, and quotations help even the compl...
The Little Sister
"The Little Sister" is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime. Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege....
Richard Scarry's Best Nursery Tales Ever
Richard Scarry illustrates a mix of well-known and obscure folk tales, from "The Three Little Pigs" and "Little Red Riding Hood "to "The Teeny-Tiny Woman "and "The Three Wishes." Characters from his Busy World populate these gently told stories, and children will delight in the rich, engaging scenes....
The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure
The Universe Within is a thrilling journey from today all the way back to the Big Bang, which shows the deep connections between the human body and the universe, from Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish. What links the birth of the moon to our body clocks? How did the creation of the Atlantic Ocean a...
Mistress
Between the sheets with Australia's powerful, rich and famous Since the First Fleet landed, Australian history has been littered with mistresses. Slide between the covers of this book to find a cheaters' list of those women and a star-studded hall of infamy of Australia's rich and powerful men, catching...
What If
This is a new standalone novel by the bestselling new adult author of the Breathing series. What if you had a second chance to meet someone for the first time? Cal Logan is shocked to see Nicole Bentley sitting across from him at a coffee shop thousands of miles from their hometown. After all, no one ha...
More Fool Me
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. It is a heady tale of the late Eighties and early Nineties, in which Stephen - ever more driven to create, perform and entertain - burned bright and partied hard with a host of famous and infamous friends...
Anxiety Solution
'I know what it's like to be stuck in a cycle of anxiety. I used to feel as though fear and worry were a permanent part of who I was...but I'm here to tell you that it doesn't have to be this way. The truth is, your natural state is one of calmness and confidence - and I'm going to teach you how to get ...
Once Upon A Time in the East - A Story of Growing up
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition on a diet of yam lea...
The Story of the Car: The Definitive History of Automobiles
Charting over a century of progress - from horseless carriages to driverless vehicles - this is a stunning visual celebration of the motorcar and the romance of the open road. Beginning with the birth of the internal combustion engine, The Story of the Car explores how this once rare and luxurious statu...
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