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Ubik

Tue, 4 Sep 2012 7:02:51 PST

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Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out. If it hasn't already.

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 7:33:17 PST

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They called him the 'angriest black man in America' ...Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equality and respect denied them by their white neighbours, Malcolm X inspired as many people in the United States as he caused to fear him. His remarkable autobiography, completed just before his murder in 1965, ranges f ...

Pavane

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 6:56:45 PST

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1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin's bullet. Within the week, the Spanish Armada had set sail, and its victory changed the course of history. 1968: England is still dominated by the Church of Rome. There are no telephones, no television, no nuclear power. AS Catholicism and the Inquisition tighten their grip, rebellion is growing.

Foundation

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 6:55:28 PST

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For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and bri ...

Prelude to foundation

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 6:41:25 PST

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Sun-Tzu

Thu, 9 Aug 2012 4:47:42 PST

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Sun-Tzu is a landmark translation of the Chinese classic that is without a doubt one of the most important books of all time. Popularly known as The Art of War, Sun-Tzu is one of the leading books on strategic thinking ever written. While other books on strategy, wisdom, and philosophy come and go, both leaders and gentle contemplators alike have embraced the writings of Sun-tzu.Sun-Tzu is not si ...

Fool Moon

Sun, 5 Aug 2012 20:26:30 PST

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Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Business has been slow lately for Harry Dresden. Okay, business has been dead. Not undead - just dead. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in ...

JIM BUTCHER'S THE DRESDEN FILES- STORM FRONT

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 5:59:37 PST

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A graphic novel based on the bestselling Harry Dresden books by Jim Butcher! If circumstances surrounding a crime defy the ordinary and evidence points to a ...

Somme

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 5:57:55 PST

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This book looks at the Battle of the Somme, which was planned as "The Big Push" that would at last break the long stalemate on the Western Front in World War I. However the 18 divisions that went over the top between Arras and St-Quentin on the morning of 1 July 1916, walked into a battle that has gone down in the annals of human conflict as the slaughterhouse of a generation. The author has writ ...

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 5:14:02 PST

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The Idiot

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 6:12:00 PST

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'Only beauty can save the world', proclaims the hero of "The Idiot", perhaps Dostoevsky's most personal and intense work of fiction. But in the brutally materialistic world of late nineteenth-century Petersburg, infested with greed and vulgarity, Prince Myshkin's naive beliefs can only be the subject of mockery and ultimately lead to failure and tragedy. Populated by an unforgettable cast of char ...

Boy Racer

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 6:27:38 PST

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This title now contains a brand new chapter detailing Mark's record breaking 2009 Tour. "Boy Racer" steps behind the scenes of the Tour de France. It unmasks the exotic, contradictory, hysterical and brutal world of professional cycling from the compellingly candid viewpoint of someone right in the thick of it. Written off as 'fat' and 'useless' in his youth, Mark Cavendish is now cycling's brigh ...

Red Planet

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 6:26:45 PST

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Young Mars colonist Jim Marlowe leaves his home in South Colony to attend a school at the Martian equator, and brings along his round, furry Martian friend Willis. When the friendly creature is captured and held hostage by the militaristic headmaster, Jim and his buddy Frank mount a rescue operation to save Willis--and stumble upon a terrible secret that threatens the survival of the Red Planet c ...

Lance Armstrong

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 2:20:55 PST

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Famous for his bravery in conquering cancer to become a champion again, cyclist Lance Armstrong rewrote the record books again in 2004 when he won the Tour de France for a sixth time. This book follows his progress, and those of his rivals, throughout a fascinating season of racing. The world's most challenging athletic endeavour is also one of the biggest and most popular annual sports events i ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 2:20:55 PST

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Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or ...

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Sat, 7 Jul 2012 7:57:56 PST

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:12:00 PST

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Signature Edition

Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 4:02:11 PST

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Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter. He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter. His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty. But all is not well. The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure. The spark has fizzled out of his marriage. His mother is threatening to write her autobiography (A Gi ...

Leviathan

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:31:09 PST

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The story of a man's obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey -- from his childhood to his fascination with Moby Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London's Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales have a mythical ...

Now Wait for Last Year

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:29:01 PST

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First, Gino Molinari was assassinated by a political Rival. Then he died of a heart attack. But now he is back, younger and more vigorous than ever, giving Earth new hope of survival in the war against the alien reegs. But is this really Molinari, or a robant masquerading as Earths overlord? Whatever the truth, only he can save the Solar System if he can stay alive long enough, or at least ...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

Wed, 23 May 2012 1:21:35 PST

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Salander is plotting her revenge against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.

The Remains of the Day

Tue, 22 May 2012 6:26:14 PST

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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

Star Maker

Thu, 17 May 2012 3:07:23 PST

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One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun. Even Stapledon's other great work, LAST AND FIRST MEN, pales in ambition next to STAR MAKER, which presents nothing less than an entire imagined history of life in the universe, encompassing billions o ...

The North will rise again

Thu, 10 May 2012 4:02:50 PST

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The Buzzcocks. Joy Division. The Fall. The Smiths. The Stone Roses. The Happy Mondays. Oasis. Manchester has proved to be an endlessly rich seam of pop-music talent over the last 30 years. Highly opinionated and usually controversial, stars such as Mark E. Smith, Morrissey, Ian Brown and the Gallagher brothers have always had plenty to say for themselves. Here, in John Robb's new compilation, Man ...

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Wed, 2 May 2012 6:04:53 PST

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Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe the police. Using all his magazine sta ...

The Big Blowdown

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 1:58:12 PST

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For Joey Recevo and Pete Karras, two kids from one of Washington's rougher neighborhoods, the easiest work to find after the War is all criminal---providing a little muscle for a local boss. But Karris is soft on his fellow immigrants, and the boss can't let his mob get soft, so one of his boys gives Karras a painful lesson. Three years later, it's the same mob that figures big Nick Stefanos's gr ...

The Giles Wareing Haters' Club

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 3:11:12 PST

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Giles Wareing has started telling people he's forty, even though he's actually thirty-nine years and eleven months. It's supposed to help him conquer the fear, but in fact he has only given the fear a four-week head start. Giles is a freelance writer of amusing articles for a national newspaper. One day, feeling particularly fortyish, he happens to type 'Giles Wareing+unfunny' into a search engin ...

The Variable Man

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 6:13:05 PST

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The Discovery of France

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 5:03:15 PST

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Illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, The Discovery of France is a literary exploration of a country few will recognize; from maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it's a book that reveals the 'real' past of France to tell the whole story -- and history -- of this remarkable nation. 'With gloriously apposite facts and an abundance of quirky anecdotes and thumbnail sketche ...

The Grifters

Mon, 9 Apr 2012 20:38:15 PST

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Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral con man. Lily, his mother, works for the mob. Moira Langtry, Roy's mistress, is always looking for the main chance, and so is Carol Roberg, the nurse brought in to look after Roy when a bad choice of mark means he has an unfortunate encounter with a baseball bat and a bad case of internal bleeding. Togethe ...

Diaspora

Tue, 3 Apr 2012 1:37:44 PST

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Behold the orphan.Born into a world that is not a world.A digital being grown from a mind seed, a genderless cybernetic citizen in a vast network of probes, satellites and servers knitting the Solar System into one scape, from the outer planets to the fiery surface of the Sun.Since the Introdus in the 21st century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the ...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Sun, 1 Apr 2012 3:18:12 PST

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Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Communist Germany and betray his country, a job that he will do with his usual cynical professionali ...

Point Counter Point

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 5:54:19 PST

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Huxley's fourth novel is both a portrait of the brilliant and frivolous intellectual and artistic circles of the 1920s, and an examination of the eternal question, "what is the happy, healthy life?" It contains portraits of D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell and Huxley himself.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:45:32 PST

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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Saland ...

The Dark Tower, Book 6

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 4:11:30 PST

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The Dark Tower, Book 7

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 4:11:30 PST

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The Dark Tower, Book 4

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:24:38 PST

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The Dark Tower beckons Roland, The Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road.

The Dark Tower, Book 5

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:24:38 PST

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Vurt

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:24:38 PST

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Take a trip in a stranger's head. Along rainshot streets with the stash riders, a posse of hip malcontents, hooked on the most powerful drug you can imagine ...Vurt feathers ...But as the Game Cat says, Be careful, be very careful. This ride is not for the weak ...Scribble isn't listening. He has to find his lost love. A journey towards the ultimate, perhaps even mythical, Vurt Feather ...Curious ...

Battlefield Earth

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:24:38 PST

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The Stars Tennis Balls

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 6:23:58 PST

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For Ned, 1980 seems a blissful year. Handsome, charming, popular and talented, his life is progressing smoothly, effortlessly, happily. And when he meets the lovely Portia Fendeman his personal jigsaw appears complete. But timing is everything in life, and his life is about to change for ever. Things are going to get very bad indeed for innocent young Ned. A promise made to a dying teacher and a ...

The Dark Tower, Book 3

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:46:17 PST

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Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King's epic work of fantasy-what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus-has spanned a quarter of a century. Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King's ...

The Dark Tower, Book 2

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:45:28 PST

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The Dark Tower, Book 1

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:58:54 PST

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"An impressive work of mythic magnitude. May turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) "Brilliant, fresh, and compelling...will leave you panting for more." (Booklist)

Punk Fiction

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:51:15 PST

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Punk Fiction is an anthology of short stories, poems and illustrations submitted by an impressive line up of contributors. Each piece of work shares one unifying theme -- everything included in this collection will be inspired by a punk rock song. The book will open with a foreword by former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Contributors have been hand-picked from the generations that followed the pu ...

Don Quixote

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:27:30 PST

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Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, "Don Quixote" was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction and notes by John Rutherford. "Don Quixote" has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cu ...

The Single Girl's To-do List

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:22:10 PST

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A hilarious and romantic standalone novel from the bestselling author of the I Heart series Rachel Summers loves a to-do list: * Boyfriend * Flat * Great job NOT on the list: * Being dumped Best friends Emelie and Matthew ride to her rescue with an entirely new kind of list -- The Single Girl's To-Do List. Rachel doesn't know it, but it will take her on all kinds of wild adventures -- and get her ...

When God Was a Rabbit

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:20:54 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 ...

Farewell Summer

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:18:54 PST

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A poignant and brilliant sequel to Dandelion Wine from the author of Fahrenheit 451 In Green Town Illinois, Douglas Spaulding is in the midst of a small civil war with the old pitted against the young in this, the second book in Bradbury's semi-fictionalised account of his childhood. As the school board's figure of authority Mr Calvin C. Quartermain attempts to outwit the boys at every turn, thei ...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:15:47 PST

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It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is counting the days: there are new spells to be learnt, more Quidditch to be played, and Hogwarts castle to continue exploring. But Harry needs to be careful – there are unexpected dangers lurking… J.K. Rowling continues to surprise and delight with the power of ...

The Liar

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 5:38:44 PST

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Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprep ...

High Fidelity

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 3:58:24 PST

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Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, and men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So it's ha ...

This Charming Man

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:34:01 PST

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'Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard Paddy de Courcy was getting married' But for four women in particular, the big news about the gorgeous politician is especially momentous... Stylist Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying - because although she's his girlfriend, she definitely isn't the bride-to-be. Heartbroken, she flees the city for a cottage by t ...

Republic

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:30:50 PST

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This is a completely new translation of one of the great works of Western political thought. In addition to Tom Griffith's vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, this edition is suitable for students at all levels. It contains an introduction that assesses the cultural background to the Republic, its place within political philosophy, and its general argument; succinct notes in ...

The House of the Dead

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:29:17 PST

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Labyrinth

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:26:39 PST

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In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of ...

100 Days

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:26:08 PST

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This is a reconstruction of Napoleon's 100 days between his escape from Elba and his final banishment to St Helena. All the elements of this period are recaptured: Napoleon's march through France, his ranks of loyal followers swelled every step along the way; the flight of Louis XVIII and the restored Bourbon monarchy; the fresh outbreak of the European war which culminated in the Battle of Water ...

The curious incident of the dog in the night time

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:25:17 PST

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Far from the Madding Crowd

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:23:30 PST

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Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after'. And lastly, of ...

Put Me Back on My Bike

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 3:29:24 PST

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The cyclist Tom Simpson was an Olympic medallist, world champion and the first Briton to wear the fabled yellow jersey of the Tour de France. He died a tragic early death on the barren moonscape of the Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour. Almost 35 years on, hundreds of fans still make the pilgrimage to the windswept memorial which marks the spot where he died. A man of contradictions, Simpson was ...

The Time Machine

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 3:23:11 PST

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When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realizes that these beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture—now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason t ...

Ecstasy

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 5:14:31 PST

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Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, hospital trustee, celebrity and necrophiliac, thwart those plans? Dave Thornton, soccer thug, has lost his heart to flawed beauty Samantha Worthington. Together they go in search of the man who marketed the dru ...

The Great Gatsby

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 5:12:25 PST

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With an Introduction and Notes by Guy Reynolds, University of Kent at Canterbury.Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the ""roaring twenties"", and a devastating expose of the ""Jazz Age"". Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Lo ...

His Dark Materials Trilogy

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:45:38 PST

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Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning, large-format, bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955, and has now been filmed as "The Golden Compass", the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children ali ...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 5:51:12 PST

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Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can’t wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn’t if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There’s an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of ...

The Stand

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:58:51 PST

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First came the days of the Plague...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:27:11 PST

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Lenticulars shimmer and transform like magic, and are perfect for the magical world of Harry Potter. Make images from the "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" movie transform in the lenticulars on every spread, and on the cover, of this book.

John Peel

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:50:16 PST

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When he died in 2004, John Peel was in the middle of writing his memoir, which was completed by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft, with help from their four children. His compelling autobiography details his life as the most influential DJ in rock history. At BBC’s Radio 1, Peel helmed his own show from 1968 until his death, and first introduced UK listeners to reggae, punk, and hip-hop. T-Rex, David ...

The Somme

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:14:07 PST

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In "Somme" Lyn Macdonald explores one of the most harrowing battles in British history. 'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...' The year 1916 was one of the great turning- ...

Science Fiction by the Rivals of H.G. Wells

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:06:54 PST

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Chronicles

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:01:04 PST

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This is the first spellbinding volume of the three-volume memoir of one of the greatest musical legends of all time. In CHRONICLES Volume I, Bob Dylan takes us back to the early 1960s when he arrived in New York to launch his phenomenal career. This is Dylan's story in his own words - a personal view of his motivations, frustrations and remarkable creativity. Publication of CHRONICLES Volume I is ...

Dylan on Dylan

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:00:43 PST

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'I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.'" Bob DylanDYLAN ON DYLANgathers together for the first timetwenty-nine of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, stretching over forty years from the earliest days of his career in 1962 through to 2004. Among the highlights are the seminal Rolli ...

A Clergyman's Daughter

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:17:30 PST

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Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of this title, grows up subservient to her tyrannical father. But submission has its limit and Dorothy rebels, or at least her psyche does. She blacks out and reappears as a vagrant amnesiac whose adventures show us life, such as it is, from the underside.

Coming Up for Air

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:17:18 PST

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COMING UP FOR AIR is about coping. Orwell hooks a character from among the struggling middle class and, close-up, lets us watch him wiggle. George (Tubby) Bowling is a "fat, middle-aged bloke with false teeth and a red face." He sells insurance, a task at which he grimly excels. The father of two ingrates and husband to a slattern, he dutifully makes mortgage payments on their dreary home. As the ...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:17:15 PST

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Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the “money world” of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-class British window.

Burmese Days

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:17:10 PST

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U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda. It was only half past eight, but the month was April, and there was a closeness in the air, a threat of the long, stifling midday hours. Occasional faint breaths of wind, seeming cool by contrast, stirred the newly drenched orchids that hung from the eaves. Beyond the orchids one could see the dusty, cu ...

1984

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:16:38 PST

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The new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. The scene is London, where there hsa been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions. ...

The Complete Robot

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:31:01 PST

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THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future... In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind. As well as TN-3 (Tony), AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Inc., a ...

The Caves of Steel

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:29:38 PST

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Detective R. Daneel Olivaw was a robot! When Lije Baley was summoned by the police comissioner t investigate the murder of Spacetown's leading scientist, se was told his new partner would be a robot... a very special robot, created by the murdered man himself. News of the crime had to be kept secret. And it had to be solved before the hostile Spacetowners could use it to cause political upheava ...

The Man in the High Castle

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:27:17 PST

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A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle" includes an introduction by Eric Brown in "Penguin Modern Classics". Philip K. Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an alternative world - one where the Allies have lost the Second World War. In this nigh ...

Farewell to Arms

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:25:34 PST

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Published when Hemingway was just thirty, A FAREWELL TO ARMS confirmed his stature as the greatest single influence on the American short story and novel. The best American novel to emerge out of World War I, A FAREWELL TO ARMS is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his love for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love betwe ...

War Report

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:20:15 PST

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The world at war

Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:17:14 PST

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Sands of Mars

Thu, 7 Jul 2011 17:19:38 PST

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Foundation's Edge

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:40:19 PST

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Now, 498 years after its founding, the Foundation seemed to be following the Seldon Plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the Seldon Plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it!

Of Mice and Men

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:36:52 PST

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MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independ ent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cov ...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:35:39 PST

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A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan’s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to the post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where pers ...

The Three Musketeers

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:33:36 PST

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The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world's greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship. The action takes place in the 1620s at the court of Louis XIII, where the musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with their companion, the headstrong d'Artagn ...

Tales of Unease

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:32:22 PST

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This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is bound both to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by the RING OF THOTH to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in THE CAPTAIN OF THE POL ...

The Lost World & Other Stories

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:32:11 PST

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The science fiction stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stand alongside those of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. The protagonist, the 'cave-man in a lounge suit', is the maddening, irascible and fascinating Professor George Edward Challenger. In these collected tales he faces adventures such as that high above the Amazon rain forest in "The Lost World" and the challenges of "The Land of Mist".

Hound of the Baskervilles

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:31:38 PST

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The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of master mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most accomplished stories. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson confront one of their most difficult cases ever: is there truly a curse on the old Baskerville estate? Is there truly a ghostly beast lurking on the dark, eerie moors? A masterful concoction of plot and mood, this story is guaranteed to giv ...

Goodbye to All That

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:17:20 PST

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An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves' "Goodbye to All That" is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in "Penguin Modern Classics". In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his ...

Idoru

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:15:59 PST

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The New York Times bestselling author takes readers to 21st-century Tokyo after the millennial quake--where something violently new is about to erupt...

Galactic Pot-Healer

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:14:51 PST

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What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagina ...

Confessions of a Crap Artist

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:14:28 PST

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Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick's weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist -- a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen throug ...

Hello, America

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:07:34 PST

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By the year 2030 the American continent has been abandoned. On board the SS Apollo are the descendants of Americans who left their homeland when the economy collapsed. Now, a century later, an expedition from Europe reaches the Atlantic coast. A sequel to "The Unlimited Dream Company".

Miracles of Life

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:07:15 PST

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'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening chapters Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed examination of the events which would profoundly influence his work. Beginning with his early c ...

Concrete Island

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:07:08 PST

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On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as Maitland-a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe-realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, th ...

The Atrocity Exhibition

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:07:04 PST

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The Atrocity Exhibition is J.G. Ballard's most complex, disturbing work, with fabulous photos by Ana Barrado and artwork by Phoebe Gloeckner.

Fear and Loathing

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:06:06 PST

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