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Life - A User's Manual
This marvellous book is one of the most ingenious works of modern fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives ...
Father Christmas's Last Present
A wonderful Christmas story, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Julien...
Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewi...
The Little Coffee Shop Of Kabul
"[Deborah] Rodriguez paints a vivid picture of Afghan culture. . . . As if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner."--Kirkus Reviews After hard luck and heartbreak, Sunny finally finds a place to call home--in the middle of an Afghanistan war zone. There, the thirty-eight-year-old serves up her America...
Three Novels of New York
This title includes three beloved novels by Edith Wharton, in a couture-inspired Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition designed by a fashion illustrator for Alexander McQueen. This edition celebrates the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth in 2012. "The House of Mirth": Nineteen year old Lily Bart is i...
Hope Abandoned
'Mrs Mandelstam's bitter reminiscences read like unvarnished reality itself... her descriptions of events and circumstances and situations carry total conviction. In this respect the work seems to me literally unique' - Isiah BerlinHope Against Hope recounted the last four years in the life of the great...
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heave
Corey Taylor has seen a lot of unbelievable things. The Grammy Award-winning singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour's curiosity has drawn him into situations that would've sent most people screaming scared and running for the hills. Corey's ballsy enough to go into the darkness and deal with the consequences...
In a Dark, Dark Wood
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERWhat should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.Sometimes the only thing to fear...is yourself.Leonora (Lee to some,...
A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World
With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be Russia and China who now define the rules of global politics? From Syria to the South China Sea, each has become much more assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence in world affairs. Y...
The Little Town of Marrowville
In a town surrounded by deadly mist, and filled with oddities, two young siblings become orphans. And that's the best thing that's happened to them all day. Howard Howard was a Wrecker (a brute and bully by profession) who was brutal and bullish to his children - Aubrey and Aubrey's Sister. Howard Howar...
Arabel and Mortimer Stories
When Arabel's father drives his taxi home late one night he comes across 'a large black bird, with a hairy fringe around its beak.' He takes it home and, from that moment on, life is never the same again for the Jones family. Arabel's raven is called Mortimer - and he's one in a million. 'Nevermore!' h...
Berlin Finale
Heinz Rein; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
'A wonderful rediscovery. . . human, suspenseful, shot through with hard-earned wisdom' - Lee Child One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set against the downfall of the Third Reich April 1945, the last days of the Nazi ...
Super Nature (LEGO)
Discover the natural world with LEGO® bricks! Did you know there's a plant that eats insects? And a mammal that can fly? LEGO® Super Nature is packed full of fascinating facts from the natural world, all illustrated with LEGO builds. Best of all, the book comes with bricks to make four exclusive LEGO mi...
Chosen: Lost and Found between Christianity and Judaism
'Absorbing, fascinating, arresting' The Observer 'Intensely moving, luminous and rather magnificent' The Times It was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London. In 2011, the Occupy movement set up camp around St Paul's Cathedral. Giles Fraser, who was Canon Chancellor of the...
Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (When Everything Feels Like Too Much)
Twelve practical strategies to experience more joy and feel less guilt as a working parent, drawn from ACT, the groundbreaking therapy technique that has helped countless people.Dr. Yael Schonbrun calls out the myth of the work-life balance and offers practical strategies that can help us reframe our ap...
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