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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:38:09 PST

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Literary Theory

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:12:19 PST

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Literary Theory: An Anthology is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary statements in the field of literary theory and criticism. It is an invaluable resource for students who wish to familiarize themselves with the most recent developments in literary theory and with the traditions from which these new theories are derived. The anthology represents all the major schools and method ...

The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:11:57 PST

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This anthology is in many was a 'best of the best', containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover ...

On Histories and Stories

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 4:44:55 PST

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As novelists become increasingly interested in history as fiction and fiction as history, this study is designed to redraw the map of the boundaries of modern fiction. In her opening essays - "Fathers", "Forefathers" and "Ancestors" - the author considers the renaissance of the historical novel. She discusses in particular the novel of wartime experience; the surprising variety of distant pasts t ...

Gone for Good

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:06:31 PST

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When suspected of a young woman's brutal murder, Will Klein's older brother vanishes.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:06:01 PST

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The Marriage Plot

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:05:33 PST

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The Dead Republic

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:05:05 PST

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We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. The Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford's latest film, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous directo ...

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:04:37 PST

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The best-selling author of Myron Bolitar series edits a latest collection of the genre's finest stories, including contributions by top authors. Original.

Knots and Crosses

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:10:59 PST

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The very first Rebus novel from No.1 bestselling author of EXIT MUSIC.

U is for Undertow

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:10:40 PST

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In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned ...When the case is reopened after twenty years, a man - Michael Sutton - contacts private detective Kinsey Millhone for help. He claims to have recalled a strange and disturbing memory which just might provide the key to the mystery. He may have stumbled across the kidnappers burying Mary Claire Fitzhugh's body ...But Mic ...

E is for Evidence

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:10:23 PST

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Anyone who knows me will tell you that I cherish my unmarried state. I'm female, twice divorced, no kids and no close family ties. I'm perfectly content to do what I do. It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn't made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly ever ...

A is for Alibi

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:10:10 PST

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'My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator, licensed by the state of California. I'm thirty-two years old, twice divorced, no kids. The day before yesterday I killed someone and the fact weighs heavily on my mind ...' When Laurence Fife was murdered, few cared. A slick divorce attorney with a reputation for ruthlessness, Fife was also rumoured to be a slippery ladies' man. Plenty of ...

N is for Noose

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:09:58 PST

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Sometimes I think about how odd it would be to catch a glimpse of the future, a quick view of events lying in store for us. Some moments we saw would make no sense at all and some, I suspect, would frighten us beyond our endurance ...Early spring in the Sierra Nevada, bringing the usual driving sleet and snow. PI Kinsey Millhone is on her way west when she detours into Nota Lake (pop. 2356) to ch ...

J Is for Judgement

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:09:44 PST

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'On the face of it, you wouldn't think there was any connection between the murder of a dead man and the events that changes my perceptions about my life...' For Kinsey Millhone, the investigation started with a surprise visit from an ex-colleague at California Fidelity - the company that had fired her nine months previously. Fives hours later she was on a plane to Mexico, hot on the trial of a s ...

L is for Lawless

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:09:32 PST

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It was the week before Thanksgiving when Kinsey Millhone first heard the sad story of the late Johnny Lee, the World War II fighter pilot of whom, rather mysteriously, the military authorities have no record. His family are concerned -- perhaps Kinsey could make a few calls, straighten things out? Then Johnny's apartment is ransacked. In the debris a hidden safe is uncovered -- and in that safe i ...

D is for Deadbeat

Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:09:18 PST

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'My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator...female, single and self-employed, with a constitutional inability to work for anyone else. I'm a purist when it comes to justice, but I'll lie at the drop of a hat. Inconsistency has never troubled me...' It was late October, the day before Halloween. He introduced himself as Alvin Limardo. The job he hired Kinsey to do seemed easy enough. ...

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 2:25:13 PST

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This classic of economic thought is a scathing critique of American snobbery and wastefulness. Chief among the practices that Veblen so wittily satirizes is 'conspicuous consumption', a pattern of behaviour that still flourishes among us.

Conspicuous Consumption

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:18:32 PST

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilizati ...

Human documents of the Victorian golden age, 1850-1875

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:03:58 PST

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Man Alone with Himself

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:51:56 PST

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Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's 'will to power'. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed t ...

Decline of the English Murder

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:51:44 PST

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In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transform ...

Night Walks

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:51:34 PST

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Charles Dickens describes in "Night Walks" his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness, and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety and cruelty. Great ideas. Throughout history, some books have changed the world ...

Why Look at Animals?

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:51:22 PST

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John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transf ...

The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:51:07 PST

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A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired deb ...

Some Thoughts on the Common Toad

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:50:54 PST

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In this collection of witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dalì. Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights of English cooking and a shocking account of killing an elephant in Burma.

On the Suffering of the World

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:50:43 PST

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, ...

An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:50:29 PST

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Whether calling for an end to the capitalist system, addressing the crowds after the Russian Revolution, or attacking Stalin during his years of exile, Trotsky's speeches give an extraordinary insight into a man whose words and actions determined the fates of millions. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have ...

On Power

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:50:16 PST

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This work includes Shakespeare's writing on power: in love, war, government and the family. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now "Penguin" brings you th ...

The Grand Inquisitor

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:50:00 PST

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Vividly imagining the second coming and capture of Christ during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, this parable recounted in "The Brothers Karamazov" is a profound, nuanced exploration of faith, suffering, human nature and free will. Included here too are Dostoyevsky's powerful and disturbing writings about his time in exile at a Siberian prison camp. Throughout history, some books have change ...

And So It Goes

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:31:46 PST

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In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer"). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelled by a passion for his subject, and already deep into his research, Shields wrote again and th ...

The Door

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:31:28 PST

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THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. As the New ...

Wisconsin Death Trip

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 0:42:00 PST

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First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van Schaik. A shocking portrait of a small town crumblingsocially, morally, physically and emotionallyunder the impact of the great depression of th ...

Negotiating With the Dead

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 0:41:39 PST

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What is the role of the Writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain--or excuse!--their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes u ...

Murder in the Dark

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 0:41:13 PST

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These short fictions and prose poems are beautifully bizarre: bread can no longer be thought of as wholesome comforting loaves; the pretensions of the male chef are subjected to a loght roasting; a poisonous brew is concocted by cynical five year olds; and knowing when to stop is of deadly importance in a game of Murder in the Dark. * 'Direct, unpretentious, humorous' SUNDAY TIMES

The World Within the Word

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:13:32 PST

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William H. Gass, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds, examines literature, culture, writers, and the nature and uses of language and the written word. In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included ar ...

The Edible Woman

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:12:43 PST

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Marian has a problem. A willing member of the consumer society in which she lives, she suddenly finds herself identifying with the things being consumed. She can cope with her tidy-minded fiancé, Peter, who likes shooting rabbits. She can cope with her job in market research, and the antics of her roommate. She can even cope with Duncan, a graduate student who seems to prefer laundromats to women ...

The Tent

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:12:19 PST

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One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has written a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her previous books, "Good Bones" and "Murder in the Dark". Chilling and witty, prescient and personal, delectable and tart, these highly imaginative tales tackle a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-ed ...

Novel History

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:22:13 PST

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Historical fiction is a contradiction in terms. History is what happened; fiction, what did not. Yet great novelists have often disregarded this logical difficulty, taking up the tools of the historian to explore the shadowy recesses of the past. Their labors have brought forth many literary treasures. But how accurately do these masterpieces of the imagination reflect the past? In Novel Histor ...

The Condition of the Working Class in England

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:13:29 PST

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In Rough Country

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:29:09 PST

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Acclaimed for her novels and short stories, Joyce Carol Oates is also an unparalleled literary critic whose insights and commentary have graced the pages of such publications as the "New York Review of Books", the "Times Literary Supplement", and the "New York Times Book Review". This new collection brings together some of her most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of sub ...

Full Dark, No Stars

Sat, 7 Jan 2012 20:28:42 PST

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A new collection of four never-before-published stories from Stephen King.

A High Wind in Jamaica

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 16:55:35 PST

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Set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea, "A High Wind in Jamaica" tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates. As this voyage of innocence continues the events which unfold begin to take on a savagely detached and haunting quality.

The Missing

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 1:16:12 PST

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Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as an "International Book of the Year" on its publication in Britain, The Missing is a fascinating literary meditation on missing persons by the acclaimed young Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan.

The Old Wives' Tale

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:31:15 PST

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"Every stout, ageing woman is not grotesque -- far from it! -- but there is an extreme pathos in the mere fact that that every stout ageing woman was once a young girl with the unique charm of youth in her form and her movements and in her mind. And the fact that the change from the young girl to the stout ageing woman is made up of an infinite number of infinitesimal changes, each unperceived by ...

Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:43:28 PST

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In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when Jeanette was only twenty-five, her novel went on to win the Whitbread First Novel award, become an international bestseller a ...

The Ginger Man

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:42:48 PST

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Feckless, unwashed, charming, penurious Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, Trinity College Law student, Irish American with an English Accent, maroon in the ould country and dreaming of dollars and ready women, stumbles from the public house to the pawnbrokers, murmuring delusive enticements in the ear of any girl who'll listen, in delirious search of freedom, wealth, and the recognition he feels is hi ...

The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:36:51 PST

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In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Maf. He had an instinct for the twentieth century. For politics. For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration. This is his story. Maf the dog was with Marilyn for the last two years of her life. Not only a picaresque hero himself, he was also a scholar of the adventuring rogue in literature and art, witnessing ...

De grote zaal / druk 11

Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:19:54 PST

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A Cupboard Full of Coats

Tue, 8 Nov 2011 20:16:56 PST

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It's been fourteen years since Jinx's mother was brutally stabbed to death in their home in East London. Fourteen years for Jinx to become accustomed to the huge weight of guilt and anger that has destroyed her life. Fourteen years to nurture an impossible shame. Out of nowhere, Lemon arrives on her doorstep. An old friend of her mother's, he wants to revisit the events leading to that terrible ...

Nemesis

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:14:04 PST

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Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. As pol ...

Essays

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:16:54 PST

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Freshers

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:38:57 PST

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The Elephant Keeper

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:38:50 PST

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'I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like; he replied that it was like nothing on earth.' In the middle of the 18th century, a ship docks at Bristol with an extraordinary cargo: two young elephants. Bought by a wealthy landowner, they are taken to his estate in the English countryside. A stable boy, Tom Page, is given the task of caring for them. 'The Elephant Keeper' is Tom's account of h ...

Repeat it today with tears

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:38:39 PST

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This is a transgressive love story by a singular new voice. A secretive child by nature, Susanna makes a covert list of everything she knows about her absent father, waiting for the day that she is reunited with him. Deeply unhappy at home, living with her overbearing mother and promiscuous sister, she stays out of the house as much as possible. When she finally discovers her father's name and se ...

Brooklyn

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:38:29 PST

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Colm Toibin's "Brooklyn" is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in ...

Beauty

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:38:20 PST

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Beauty--in both name and appearance--is a 20-year-old Bangladeshi, returned to England after having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Forced onto the job-hunter's treadmill and under extreme domestic pressure, she cracks and runs away. Her encounters with officialdom, fellow claimants, and strangers in the city streets, complicated by the restrictions and comfort of he ...

Whatever You Love

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:38:14 PST

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Laura's grief also re-opens old wounds and she is thrown back to the story of herpassionate love affair with Betty's father David, their marriage and his ...

Donne

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:38:05 PST

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The Girl with Glass Feet

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:37:27 PST

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A mysterious metamorphosis has taken hold of Ida MacLaird - she is slowly turning into glass. Fragile and determined to find a cure, she returns to the strange, enchanted island where she believes the transformation began, in search of reclusive Henry Fuwa, the one man who might just be able to help...Instead she meets Midas Crook, and another transformation begins: as Midas helps Ida come to ter ...

The Finest Type of English Womanhood

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:37:17 PST

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It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents slip further into isolation. A chance encounter with Paul Lovell offers her the chance to alter the course of her destiny - and to embark on a new life in South Africa. Many miles north, sixteen-year-old Gay Gibson is desperate to escape Birkenhead. When the girls' pat ...

Samuel Pepys

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:37:07 PST

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Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London. This diary lies at the heart of Claire Tomalin's biograp ...

For the Sake of Elena

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:43:29 PST

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Elena shocked anyone meeting her for the first time. In her skimpy dresses and bright jewellery, she exuded intelligence and sexuality, challenging all preconceptions. Until one morning, while out jogging, she is bludgeoned to death. Detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers investigate.

A Suitable Vengeance

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:41:15 PST

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Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. ...

Henderson the Rain King

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 3:32:24 PST

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Bellow's glorious, spirited story of an eccentric American millionaire who finds a home of sorts in deepest Africa.

Tinkers

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:50:07 PST

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An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet dow ...

Reading Like a Writer

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:49:57 PST

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In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart—to take pleasure in the long ...

Fall of Giants

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:49:26 PST

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This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulric ...

Every Last One

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:49:13 PST

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The Lathams seem to have it all: health, wealth and a vibrant family life. As Mary Beth Latham contemplates a life built around home, friends and community, she has every reason to feel fulfilled and content. Then, for one of her sons, a process of unravelling begins. Mary Beth starts to focus on him, only to find that the comfortable life she has spent years carefully constructing is shattered i ...

Boxer, Beetle

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:49:04 PST

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This is a novel for people with breeding. Only people with the right genes and the wrong impulses will find its marriage of bold ideas and deplorable characters irresistible. It is a novel that engages the mind while satisfying those that crave the thrill of a chase. There are riots and sex. There is love and murder. There is Darwinism and Fascism, nightclubs, invented languages and the dangerous ...

Parrot and Olivier in America. Peter Carey

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:48:55 PST

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Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: In this vivid and visceral work of historical fiction, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey imagines the experiences of Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French political philosopher and author of Democracy in America. Carey brings de Tocqueville to life through the fictionalized character of Olivier de Garmont, a coddled and conceited French aristo ...

The Summer Without Men

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:34:03 PST

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After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up (briefly), rages (deeply), then decamps to her prairie childhood home. There, gradually, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother's circle of feisty widows; the young woman next door; and the diabolical teenage girls in her poetry c ...

Afterwards

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:33:54 PST

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There is a fire and they are in There. They are in there ...Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one mother, Grace, sees the smoke and runs. She knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning building to rescue her. Afterwards, Grace must find the identity of the arsonist and protect her family from the person who's still intent on destroying them. ...

When God Was a Rabbit

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:33:46 PST

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1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly's world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but maddeningly distractible parents; a best friend who smells of chips and knows exotic words like 'slag'; an ageing fop who tapdances his way into her home, a Shirley Bassey impersonator who tra ...

Lucky Break

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:30:22 PST

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It is their first day at Drama Arts, and the circle of huddled, nervous students are told in no uncertain terms that here, unlike at any other drama school, they will be taught to Act. To Be. To exist in their own world on the stage. But outside is the real world - a pitiless, alluring place in which each of them in their most fervent dreams, hopes to flourish and excel. Nell, insecure and dumpy ...

If the Dead Rise Not MMP

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:30:13 PST

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A Quiet Flame

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:30:06 PST

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Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie's final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve. ...

Field Grey

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:29:59 PST

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A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.' So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful companion and quits the island. But the US Navy has other ideas, and soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar - a prison cell. Afte ...

The Girl with Glass Feet

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:28:47 PST

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Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St Hauda's Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around icy bogland; albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods; jellyfish glow in the ocean's depths...And Ida MacLaird is slowly turning into glass. A mysterious and frightening alchemical metamorphosis has befallen Ida Maclaird - she is slowly turning into glass, f ...

The Tiger's Wife.

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:15:32 PST

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The End of the Wasp Season

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:15:23 PST

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When notorious millionaire banker Lars Anderson hangs himself from the old oak tree in front of his Kent mansion his death attracts no sympathy. One less shark is little loss to a world nursing a financial hangover. But the legacy of a life time of self-serving is widespread, the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. He leaves behind two deeply damaged children and ...

Snowdrops

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:15:03 PST

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Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden in the drifts by their killers. Nick has a confession. When he worked as a high-flying British lawyer in Moscow, he was seduced by Masha, an enigmatic woman who led him through he ...

Jamrach's Menagerie

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:14:54 PST

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Young Jaffy Brown never expects to escape the slums of Victorian London. Then, aged eight, a chance encounter with Mr Jamrach changes Jaffy's stars. And before he knows it, he finds himself at the docks waving goodbye to his beloved Ishbel and boarding a ship bound for the Indian Ocean. With his friend Tim at his side, Jaffy's journey will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits.

The Sense of an Ending

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:14:45 PST

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle a ...

The Sisters Brothers

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:14:36 PST

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The Glass Room

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:14:11 PST

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Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile. But the radiant honesty of 1930 that t ...

The Lock Artist

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:12:43 PST

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Michael hit the headlines once before, a seven-year-old kid the papers called The Miracle Boy on account of how he survived the terrible incident that took his parents. But although his escape was miraculous, it left him unable to speak. Taunted as a freak, school becomes a fresh nightmare, until Michael discovers he has a special talent that makes people sit up and take notice: he can open locks ...

Age of Iron

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:12:01 PST

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Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "The Life and Times of Michael K", J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his "Sunday Express" Book of the Year award-winner "Age of Iron". In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing eve ...

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:52:56 PST

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Collection of poems by Hopkins, nearly all first published after his death, by UK poet laureate Robert Bridges, whom no one today has heard of -- go figure.

Grace

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:50:25 PST

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A modern morality play featuring 85-year-old Grace and her niece Paula, both striving for a vision of the future beyond the sinister face of modern Britain - its surface vulgarity and threats of apocalypse. It is a book about personal courage and the healing power of love.

Split Second

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:49:51 PST

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"eBook Special Feature:? David Baldacci's personal thoughts on writing The Simple Truth and The Christmas Train? Includes excerpts from The Simple Truth and The Christmas Train. It was only a split second;but that's all it took for Secret Service agent Sean King's attention to wander and his "protectee," third-party presidential candidate Clyde Ritter, to die. King retired from the Service in dis ...

The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:49:20 PST

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Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas cake. "Why" indeed.

Daimyō

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:48:52 PST

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Kitchen God's Wife

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:47:45 PST

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"Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today." NEWSWEEK Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Win ...

The Sea, the Sea

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:43:30 PST

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First published in 1978, this is the story of Charles Arrowby who, retiring from his glittering London world in order to abjure magic and become a hermit turns to the sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother. But he finds his solitude is peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions,

Tropic Moon

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:28:09 PST

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Newly translated for this edition. A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. But in the oppressive heat and glare of the equator, Timar doesn't know what to do with himself, and no one seems inclined to help except Adèle, the hotel owner's wife, who takes him to bed one day ...

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:27:49 PST

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Of Simenon's many novels, certain titles stand out as classics. This terrifying reconstruction of a madman's mind is one of them. Known in the little Dutch town of Groningen as a respectable family man, Kees Popinga is the managing clerk of a reputed shipping firm. But when the company collapses under dubious circumstances just before Christmas, taking all his money with it, something snaps in Po ...

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:26:57 PST

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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locale ...

Brief History of English and American Literature

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:26:34 PST

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Introduction and Supplementary Chapters on the Religious and Theological Literature of Great Britain and the United States by John Fletcher Hurst

Pedigree

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:26:19 PST

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