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The Joy Luck Club

Tue, 4 Jan 2011 6:13:27 PST

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"Brilliant....Each story is a fascinating vignette, and together they they weave the reader through a world where the Moon Lady can grant any wish, where a child, promised in marriage at two and delivered at 12, can, with cunning, free herself; where a rich man's concubine secures her daughter's future by killing herself, and where a woman can live on, knowing she has lost her entire life." WASH ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 3:40:44 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 , ...

Thud!

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 3:39:17 PST

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"It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win ... It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium ... It's the unsettling sound of history about to repeat itself ... THUD! It's the most extraordinary, outrageous, provocative, insightful, and keenly cutting flight of fancy yet from Discwor ...

Wolf Hall

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 3:38:34 PST

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to gr ...

The Handmaid's Tale

Sat, 13 Nov 2010 6:48:39 PST

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One of the New Windmills series for schools, this is the story of Offred, one of the few women in the Republic of Gilead left with functioning ovaries, whose only function it is to breed. If she deviates, she will be hanged as a dissenter. But Offred is determined to find a way out.

Catch-22

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 4:26:18 PST

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At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.

Lustrum

Sat, 9 Oct 2010 17:42:48 PST

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Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, Clodius an ambitious playboy. The stories of these real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals, their cruelties and seduct ...

The Hills are Stuffed with Swedish Girls

Mon, 4 Oct 2010 2:19:46 PST

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...you remember we used to joke how in the next glen we were going to come across some mythically hot European birds, all lost and sweaty and lovely? Well, pack your bags cos I ve just found out they really do exist. ...Coming from your best friend, this sounds wonderful. Now that the love of your life has left and you got fired, some boys-in-the-hills-action is just what you fancy. But t ...

The Ghost

Mon, 4 Oct 2010 2:16:09 PST

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Britain's former prime minister is holed up in a remote, ocean-front house in America, struggling to finish his memoirs, when his long-term assistant drowns. A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project - a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders. The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past ...

Rebecca

Mon, 4 Oct 2010 2:13:11 PST

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"Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again." So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Win ...

Imperium

Mon, 4 Oct 2010 2:10:36 PST

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When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Cicero, a brilliant young lawyer and spel ...

Transition

Mon, 4 Oct 2010 2:10:17 PST

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A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible ...

Agent Zigzag

Mon, 4 Oct 2010 2:07:44 PST

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Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational ...

Mockingbird

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 4:38:42 PST

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Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose a quick suicide rather than slow extinction. Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to live, and a man and a woman who must discover love, hope, and dreams of a world reborn.

Anansi Boys

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 4:17:10 PST

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Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the kids. When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life. Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-look ...

Pompeii

Tue, 4 May 2010 5:17:57 PST

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A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in the world - the mighty Aqua Augusta - has sudde ...

A Most Wanted Man

Tue, 4 May 2010 5:17:53 PST

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A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her ow ...

Touching the Void

Sat, 1 May 2010 4:52:07 PST

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The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film. Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award. Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bit ...

Temeraire

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 5:47:55 PST

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Naomi Novik's stunning series of novels follow the global adventures of Captain William Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire as they are thrown together to fight for Britain during the turbulent time of the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Will Laurence has been at sea since he was just twelve years old; finding a warmer berth in Nelson's navy than any he enjoyed as the youngest, least important s ...

The White Tiger

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 5:45:46 PST

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Winning the Man Booker prize is something that most authors dream of, although -- ironically -- the reputation of the prize itself was under siege a few years ago. Books that won the award were acquiring a reputation of being difficult and inaccessible, but those days appear to be over -- and unarguable proof may be found in the 2008 winner, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Apart from its consid ...

The Book of Bunny Suicides

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 4:36:09 PST

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This is dark humour at its best - a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons which will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side.

Hogfather

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 4:35:52 PST

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ITS THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET. Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker... Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again... The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but w ...

The Behaviour of Moths

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 4:35:26 PST

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From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left, forty-seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive moth expert, has rarely ventured outside it. But with Vivien's arrival, dark, unspoken secrets surface. Told in Ginny's unforgettable voice ...

Disgrace

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 4:34:26 PST

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After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a ...

Memoirs of a Master Forger

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 6:14:43 PST

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William is a dissolute book-forger. A talented writer in his own right he would rather scribble poems anonymously for an asian friend (who is becoming increasingly successful as a result), and create forgeries of Jane Austen first editions to sell to gullible collectors. He's not all bad. The money from the forgeries goes straight to homeless hostel and William's crimes don't really hurt anyone. ...

The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 20

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 1:49:46 PST

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Replay

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 1:49:25 PST

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At forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ...But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that. Until Jeff wakes up in his eighteen-year-old body, all his memories of the next twe ...

Milk, Sulphate, and Alby Starvation

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 7:19:39 PST

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His small stake in the amphetamine market in Brixton is being threatened by a mysterious Chinese man. And the Milk Marketing Board has taken out a contract ...

The Graveyard Book. Adult Edition

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:09:33 PST

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The Demolished Man

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 21:07:56 PST

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In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that... Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate, has devised the ultimate scheme to eliminate the competition and destroy the order of his society. The Demolished Man is a masterpiece of ...

Thief of Time

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:30:42 PST

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"Thief of Time" is the 26th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth horseman of the apocalypse (who left before they became famous).

Year's Best Sf: 6

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:26:06 PST

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Get Ready To Expand Your Mind...Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction."Year's Best SF 6" includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers -- galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul.Here are ...

Aunts aren't Gentlemen

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:25:54 PST

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Wooster withdraws to the village of Maiden Eggesford on doctor's orders to 'sleep the sleep of the just and lead the quiet Martini-less life'. Only the presence of the irrepressible Aunt Dahlia shatters the rustic peace as an 'imbroglio' develops -destined to be famous down the long years as the 'Maiden Eggesford Horror' or 'The Case Of The Cat Which Kept Popping Up When Least Expected'. For howe ...

Ender's Game

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:25:41 PST

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In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training progr ...

The Audacity of Hope

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:24:36 PST

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This title presents Barack Obama's political vision for the future of America.If Barack Obama is successful in his quest to become President of the United States, he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world.In this bestselling book, Obama discusses the importance of empathy in politics, his hopes for a different America with different policies, and how the ideals o ...

The Kite Runner

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:24:19 PST

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Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting toumament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him? for he always helps Amir? but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage a ...

Going Postal

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 3:48:05 PST

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Terry Pratchett puts his stamp on the new Discworld novel. Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he’s got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of th ...

Kim

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:14:38 PST

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Kim tells the story of Kimball O'Hara, an orphaned Irish boy growing up in late nineteenth-century India, and his quest for identity as he strives to reconcile his Western inheritance with the Indian life he has always known. This edition sets the novel in the context of the historical period and addresses Kipling's ambivalent relationship with India, the Empire's treatment of the "other" cl ...

In Xanadu

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:14:05 PST

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One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years. At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan's stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the width of Asia, along dusty, forgotten roads, through villages and cities full of unexpected h ...

The Death of Grass

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 2:27:10 PST

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A post-apocalyptic vision of the world pushed to the brink by famine, John Christopher's science fiction masterpiece The Death of Grass includes an introduction by Robert MacFarlane. At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it t ...

A Burnt-out Case

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 3:54:19 PST

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN. Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as h ...

World War Z

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:39:25 PST

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“Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming a ...

How to Publish in Biomedicine

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 4:09:08 PST

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Getting published is crucial for success in biomedicine. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced writer, you will find this book has fresh, practical tips on everyday issues. Based on the author's renowned courses at the University of Oxford, this book answers the questions writers actually ask, in a clear, concise and easy-to-read style. It comprehensively covers: * What to write * ...

A Wild Sheep Chase

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:59:22 PST

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His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not be runni ...

The State of the Art

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:59:08 PST

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The first ever collection of Iain Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bea ...

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:55:20 PST

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It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because ...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:54:44 PST

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince brings us Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil.

The Knight

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:54:11 PST

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A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Abel and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become ...

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 3:27:18 PST

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Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientifi ...

Elephants on Acid

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 3:26:52 PST

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When Tusko the Elephant woke in his pen at the Lincoln Park Zoo on the morning of August 3, 1962, little did he know that he was about to become the test subject in an experiment to determine what happens to an elephant given a massive dose of LSD. In "Elephants on Acid", Alex Boese reveals to readers the results of not only this scientific trial but of scores of other outrageous, amusing, and pr ...

The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:58:41 PST

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This is a complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: "Over To You", "Kiss Kiss", "Someone Like You", "Switch Bitch" and eight further stories: "The Umberella man"; "Mr Botibol"; "Vengeance in Mine inc"; "The Butler"; "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life"; "The Bookseller"; and, "The Hitchhiker, The Surgeon".

Quantum of Solace

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 13:54:20 PST

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To celebrate the release of the new James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace", all Ian Fleming's short stories are being published in one volume for the first time. From a "View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico The Hildebrand", "Rarity Octopussy", "The Living Daylights", "The Property of a Lady", and "007 in New York".

Making Money

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 5:10:51 PST

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It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the ...

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 3:43:10 PST

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This is the international bestseller - reissued and with a new introduction. A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. When social histories come to be written of the first decade of the 21st century, people will note a turning point in 2003 when declining standards of punctuation were reversed. Linguists will record Lynne Truss ...

Quirkology

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 3:25:57 PST

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Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected? You need some Quirkology in your life. While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems, Richard Wiseman has been busy uncovering the secret ingredients of charisma, exploring how our personalities are shaped by when we are born and examining why people usually miss the obviou ...

Never Let Me Go

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 3:23:09 PST

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Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there? It is only years later that Kathy, now aged 31, finally allows herself to yield to the ...

The Business

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 3:22:52 PST

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Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wan ...

Cooking for Friends

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 1:46:43 PST

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TV's most popular chef, Gordon Ramsay, bridges the gap between his famous chef's table (situated in the white heat of his restaurant kitchen) and his table at home with Tana and their young family. His latest cookbook is packed with simple, seasonal, modern British recipes. Gordon lives life in the fast lane, travelling the world to foster his many hugely successful business enterprises and to fi ...

The Hobbit

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 1:44:11 PST

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Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin and piercing ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance... Whisked away from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves, B ...

The Earthsea Quartet

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 6:28:24 PST

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Matter

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 5:32:31 PST

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In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned fo ...

High Stakes

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 5:31:34 PST

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With a glass of champagne in one hand and binoculars in the other, the world of racing could seem a very cosy and civilized hobby. Especially when your horse has just sprinted past the winning post. But the pleasure of a day at Sandown is spoiled for Steven Scott when he sacks the trainer of his horses, a man he once thought of as a friend. For although on the surface Jody Leeds is a bright young ...

Proof

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 5:31:13 PST

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Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun's over when a team of hit men crash the party...literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion--and sets off a mystery that's an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue, and murder.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 5:30:12 PST

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Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell whose displays of magic send a thrill through the countr ...

Banker

Sat, 4 Oct 2008 4:50:37 PST

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Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, invests only in sure things. Now he is about to involve it in a #5 million stallion. Top breeders reckon it's the safest bet in racing, but racing is riddled with dubious dealmakers - people to whom no bet is safe until it's paid in blood.

The Steep Approach to Garbadale

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 3:17:12 PST

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Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and persuded to attend the fort ...

Norwegian Wood

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 5:09:15 PST

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When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between t ...

The Fahrenheit Twins

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 4:03:24 PST

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Deft and lyrical, this paperback edition of Michel Faber's new collection of stories is his first since his auspicious debut, "Some Rain Must Fall". It has sealed his reputation as one of Britain's most daring and original authors. Acclaimed for his pitch-perfect prose and brilliant characterisation, Faber is also celebrated for his mastery of contrasting styles. From achingly sad lost lives, thr ...

The Player of Games

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 6:43:33 PST

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In The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks presents a distant future that could almost be called the end of history. Humanity has filled the galaxy, and thanks to ultra-high technology everyone has everything they want, no one gets sick, and no one dies. It's a playground society of sports, stellar cruises, parties, and festivals. Jernau Gurgeh, a famed master game player, is looking for something mor ...

Unbelievable!

Fri, 4 Jul 2008 2:53:26 PST

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Believe it or not ...a kid can grow younger; birds can bury you; ghosts have exams; there are eyes in the milk. This is a brilliant collection of funny, weird and wacky short stories from Paul Jennings.

Grass

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 4:47:36 PST

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What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets -- and nothing will ever be the same again . . .

American Gods

Mon, 9 Jun 2008 1:17:36 PST

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Shadow is a man with a past and wants nothing more now than to live a quiet life with his wife. When his wife is killed in a terrible accident, Shadow flies home for the funeral. As a raging storm rocks the plane, the strange man in the seat next to Shadow introduces himself as Mr. Wednesday. He knows more about Shadow than is possible--and he warns Shadow an even bigger storm is coming.

Lord of Light

Mon, 12 May 2008 23:11:50 PST

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Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.

A Quiet Belief in Angels

Sat, 10 May 2008 18:50:57 PST

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Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from the predations of the killer. Despite banding together with his friend ...

The Blind Assassin

Wed, 7 May 2008 3:37:24 PST

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Winner of the Booker Prize 2000, The Blind Assassin is a spellbinding novel that spans the decades between the First World War and the present, offering the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as ...

The Gathering

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 3:37:49 PST

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The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. "The Gathering" is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in ...

To Kill a Mockingbird

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 4:57:44 PST

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The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Moc ...

Boy

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 4:57:10 PST

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"'I am only eight years old,' I told myself. 'No little boy of eight has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.'" So thought Roald Dahl in 1924 when his plan to get revenge on the mean and disgusting candy-store owner Mrs. Pratchett seemed to have worked all too well. Writing about this and other boyhood adventures, the author has recalled only those that stand out as spectacular. "Some are f ...

Bridget Jones's Diary

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 4:56:49 PST

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本書には、ブリジットの夢や希望だけでなく、5277本もタバコを吸い、「およそ3457単位の脂肪（どう考えてもぞっとする）」を摂取したこと、はたまたあきれるほど体重が増減したことまで、1年の生活が細かに記録されている。365日の間に体重はなんと33キロも増え、しかも32キロ減った！それに年の始めにひそかに決意したこと。それは、自分にふさわしい男性を見つけることだったのに、セクシーな不良上司と関係をもってから、ブリジットは深刻な「こんなはずじゃなかった」という状況に陥っていく。ヘレン・フィールディングの2作目となるこのとびきり愉快な小説は、出版社に勤務する自意識過剰の30代女性が、休暇後、ストレスで悩んでいるところから始まる。彼女はなんとか内面の平和を確立し、落ち着きを取り戻そうと決心する。たとえば「朝目が覚めたら、すぐに起きる」つもりだし、母親のたくらみで行くハメになったつ ...

The Tenderness of Wolves

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:56:09 PST

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1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders - but do they want to solve the crime or ex ...

An Author's Guide to Publishing

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:53:45 PST

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In the years since this standard work was last revised, many changes have taken place in the publishing world, not least the abandonment of the Net Book Agreement and the developments in electronic publishing. For this new edition of his invaluable guide, Michael Legat has rewritten the text extensively, not only to bring the book up to date, but also to present a clearer and more comprehensive c ...

The Idea of Perfection

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:52:11 PST

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'Grenville makes awkward atmospheres and fumbling encounters wonderfully vivid. Read it and cringe' The Times The Idea of Perfection is a funny and touching romance between two people who've given up on love. Set in the eccentric little backwater of Karakarook, New South Wales, pop. 1374, it tells the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, and Harley Savage, a woman al ...

The Other Boleyn Girl

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 3:17:57 PST

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Fabulous historical by No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory, the queen of Tudor novels. Set in the court of King Henry VIII, Mary Boleyn attracts the attention of the young king and becomes his mistress; when he tires of her, she sets out to school her sister, Anne, as a replacement. Politics and passion are inextricably bound together in this compelling drama. The Boleyn family is keen to rise throu ...

Complete Sonnets

Fri, 4 Apr 2008 3:02:01 PST

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Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable verse in his or her library. Includes glossary of archaic terms.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 2:38:57 PST

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Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, ...

The Yoga Deck

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 2:38:17 PST

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Now beginners, experts, and teachers alike can make rejuvenating meditations part of daily life with this beautifully illustrated deck of fifty yoga poses and meditations. Each easy-to-use card gives detailed instructions, benefits, and an affirmation. If you're short on time, you can pick just a single card, or for a more guided experience, follow one of the sequences provided. Create an exercis ...

The Line of Beauty

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 2:37:52 PST

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It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy resp ...

Be Your Own Psychic

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 5:07:07 PST

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Having used her psychic abilities to turn her own life around, journalist and psychic Sherron Mayes explains in this highly practical guide exactly how we can do the same for ourselves. A far cry from new-age, esoteric psychic books, Sherron's approach is fresh, modern and, above all, accessible. She cuts through the mysticism surrounding psychic phenomena, firmly believing that we all have the a ...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 6:05:19 PST

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This is a new edition of the famous Dahl story of Charlie Bucket and his Golden Ticket, and Willy Wonka and his amazing chocolate factory. It features a great new Quentin Blake cover as well as a whole new exciting end section about Roald Dahl and his world.

The Disappearance of the Universe

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 5:56:21 PST

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What would you do if you were sitting quietly in your living room when a mysterious couple appeared from out of nowhere - and then told you they were "ascended masters" who had come to reveal some shocking secrets of existence and teach you the miraculous powers of advanced forgiveness? Would you call the cops? Call a psychiatrist? Call out for pizza? When two such teachers appeared before Gary ...

Black and Blue

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 3:41:31 PST

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Inspector John Rebus must disinter all four cases to nail just one killer. And do it while facing the glare of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr Big, and with TV cameras at his back investigating a miscarriage of justice. One mistake is likely to mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death or, worse still, losing his job. Wit ...

Labyrinth

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 3:41:02 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 ...

The Book Thief

Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:42:46 PST

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It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Lie ...

Daily Guidance from Your Angels

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 5:04:04 PST

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Begin each morning by communing with your angels. "Daily Guidance from Your Angels" is filled with 365 channelled meditations, each page offers comforting and uplifting messages, to set a positive and healing tone for the day. The book also functions as a divination tool, as you can ask a question and open the pages to a message that gives you guidance and answers. This work is designed to help y ...

A Spot of Bother

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 3:31:18 PST

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At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he cares ...

Hana's Suitcase

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 5:48:00 PST

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In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in white paint, were these words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and Waisenkindthe German word for orphan. Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? What happened to her? They wanted Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, to find the answers. In a su ...