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The Demonologist

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:03:36 PST

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Professor David Ullman is among the world's leading authorities on demonic literature. Not that he's a believer. He sees what he teaches as a branch of the imagination and nothing more. So when offered a luxury trip to Venice to consult on a 'phenomenon', he accepts, taking his 11-year-old daughter Tess with him. Amidst the decadent splendour of the city, David makes his way to the address he's ...

All Good Things

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:41:21 PST

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For many people, finding the love of your life and moving to Paris would come pretty close to having it all. Having shared her story in the bestselling Almost French, Sarah Turnbull seemed to have had more than her fair share of dreams come true. But there was still one dream she was beginning to fear might be impossible. Then out of the blue an opportunity to embark on another adventure offers ...

Life After Life

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:58:42 PST

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances ...

Ready Player One

Wed, 1 May 2013 17:29:58 PST

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It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of te ...

The Breakfast Bible

Wed, 1 May 2013 17:27:50 PST

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When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books, a delectable selection of recipes, advice, illustrations and miscellany. The recipes in the robust volume begin with the iconic full English - which can mean anything as long as there are eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, black pudding, bread, potatoes and beans involved - before moving confidently o ...

The Quantum Thief

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:35:01 PST

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. .The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the farfuture - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very ...

The Song of Achilles

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:34:58 PST

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Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, 'best of all the Greeks', is everything Patroclus is not - strong, beautiful, the child of a goddess - and by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day, Achil ...

The Wildfire Season

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:37:27 PST

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Haunted. Scarred. Alone. And the nightmare’s just beginning… The Wildfire Season is a remarkable tour de force – an edgy psychological thriller, a supernatural chiller, a terrifying tale of untamed nature and a poignant love story. The vast tracts of wilderness of the Canadian north are beautiful but dangerous – a place to lose yourself, or hide your secrets. For fire-fighter Miles McEwan, sca ...

A Spy by Nature

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:36:06 PST

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For all fans of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY comes this masterclass in suspense about a spy caught up in his own web of deception… Alec Milius is young, smart and ambitious – with a talent for deception. When a chance encounter opens the door to a career with MI6, he is desperate to make his mark. But life as a spy begins to take a terrible toll on himself and those around him, and soon Alec is ch ...

Embassytown

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:35:41 PST

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Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe. Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet. Here on Arieka, humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with the natives, the enigmatic Hosts - who cannot lie. Only a tiny cadre of unique human Ambassadors can speak Lan ...

Timoleon Vieta Come Home

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:30:38 PST

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Meet the mongrel. Timoleon Vieta. A deeply loyal, undemanding and loving companion . . . with the most beautiful eyes. He's living an idyllic existence in the Italian countryside with Cockroft, a composer in exile. Until, that is, the mysterious and malevolent 'Bosnian' comes to stay. How will the stranger affect the bond between dog and master? Timoleon Vieta Come Home is a free-wheelin' take on ...

The Five Love Languages

Tue, 9 Apr 2013 19:43:49 PST

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Blessed Days of Anaesthesia

Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:35:12 PST

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Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer us a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the discovery of anaesthesia. Now considered to be one of the greatest inventions for humanity since the printing press, anaesthesia offered pain-free operations, childbirth with reduced suffering, and instant access to the world beyond consciousness. And y ...

American Gods

Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:35:11 PST

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First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic—an intellectual and artistic benchmark from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction, Neil Gaiman. Now discover the mystery and magic of American Gods in this tenth anniversary edition. Newly updated and expanded with the author’s preferred text, this commemorative volume is a true celebration of a modern masterpiece ...

The Red Circle

Wed, 3 Apr 2013 15:35:11 PST

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Yet it is Webb's distinguished second career as a lead instructor for the shadowy "sniper cell" and Course Manager of the Navy SEAL Sniper Program that trained some of America's finest and deadliest warriors - including Marcus Luttrell and Chris Kyle - that makes his story so compelling. Explosive, revealing, and intelligent, "The Red Circle" provides a uniquely personal glimpse into one of the m ...

Barbarians in the Middle Kingdom: Whitlam Talks with China, 1971

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:03:39 PST

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Perdido Street Station

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:35:15 PST

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The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and artists, spies, magici ...

The Woman Before Me

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:17:39 PST

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They came for me, just like I knew they would.

Shift

Sat, 2 Mar 2013 5:52:13 PST

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In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us. They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will take us below ground. The history of the silo is ...

Gone Girl

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:15:03 PST

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THE ADDICTIVE No.1 US BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police ...

A Memory of Light

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:25:24 PST

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'And it came to pass in those days, as it had come before and would come again, that the Dark lay heavy on the land and weighed down the hearts of men, and the green things failed, and hope died.' - From Charal Drianaan te Calamon, The Cycle of the Dragon. In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join behind Rand al'Thor, or to stop him from his plan to break the seals on the ...

Wool

Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:26:25 PST

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'The next Hunger Games' The Sunday Times 'Well written, tense, and immensely satisfying, Wool will be considered a classic for many years in the future.' WIRED 'Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian fiction's masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World.' Daily Express 'Howey's Wool is an epic feat of imagination. You will live in this world.' ...

I Remember You

Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:26:15 PST

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This horrifying thriller, partly based on a true story, is the scariest novel yet from an international bestseller. The crunching noise had resumed, now accompanied by a disgusting, indefinable smell. It could best be described as a blend of kelp and rotten meat. The voice spoke again, now slightly louder and clearer: Don't go. Don't go yet. I'm not finished. In an isolated village in the ...

Mossad

Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:26:07 PST

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For information address HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York , NY 10022. FIRST EDITION ISBN 9780062123404 Epub Edition© NOVEMBER 2012ISBN: 9780062123442 12 13 14 1516 OV/RRD 1098 7 6543 2 1 About the ...

The Day is Dark

Sat, 8 Dec 2012 17:27:15 PST

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When all contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the northeast coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate. Is there any connection with the disappearance of a woman from the site some months earlier? And why are the locals so hostile? Already an international bestseller, this fourth book to feature Thora Gudmundsdottir ('a delight' - Guard ...

Tales from the Political Trenches

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:38:15 PST

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The Alloy of Law

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:37:18 PST

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The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:35:29 PST

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Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not ...Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely jo ...

Broken Harbour

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:52:44 PST

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In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his chi ...

The Secret Keeper

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:50:00 PST

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1961: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything. 2011: Now a much-loved actress, ...

Bring Up the Bodies

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:46:03 PST

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In Bring Up the Bodies, sequel to the Man Booker Prize- winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn.

My Soul to Take

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:45:14 PST

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If I die before I wake ...A grisly murder is committed at a health resort situated in a recently renovated farmhouse, which turns out to be notorious for being haunted. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is called upon by the owner of the resort - the prime suspect in the case - to represent him. Her investigations uncover some very disturbing occurrences at the farm decades earlier - things that ha ...

All That I Am

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 10:33:37 PST

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Gripping, compassionate, and inspiring, this remarkable debut novel reveals an uncommon depth of humanity and wisdom.

Ashes to Dust

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:29:50 PST

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Thora peered at the floor, but couldn't see anything that could have frightened Markus that much, only three mounds of dust. She moved the light of her torch over them. It took her some time to realize what she was seeing-- and then it was all she could do not to let the torch slip from her hand. 'Good God,' she said. She ran the light over the three faces, one after another. Sunken cheeks, empty ...

Last Rituals

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:29:14 PST

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A young man is found brutally murdered, his eyes gouged out. A student of Icelandic history in Reykjavik, he came from a wealthy German family who do not share the police's belief that his drug dealer murdered him. Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is commissioned by his mother to find out the truth, with the help - and hindrance - of boorish ex-policeman Matthew Reich. Their investigations into his ...

Prisoner of the State

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:28:10 PST

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How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? Prisoner of the State is the first book to give readers a front row seat to the inner workings of China. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to that nation and who, at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, tried to stop the massacre and was dethro ...

Life of Pi

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:06:27 PST

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Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, an astonishing work of imagination that will delight and stun readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God. After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wide, wild Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a ...

Living, Thinking, Looking

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:03:50 PST

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The book is divided into three sections: the essays in Living draw directly from Hustvedt's life; those in Thinking explore memory, emotion, and the imagination; and the pieces in Looking are about visual art.

Black Rain

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:01:51 PST

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|Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering caused by the atom bomb. The life of Yasuko, on who ...

Into the Darkest Corner

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:59:38 PST

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Catherine has been enjoying the single life for long enough to know a good catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic, spontaneous - Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. And her friends clearly agree, as each in turn falls under his spell. But there is a darker side to Lee. His erratic, controlling and sometimes frightening behaviour means that Catherine is increasingly isolated. Driven ...

The Emperor of All Maladies

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:57:54 PST

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　The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s ...

The Redbreast

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:56:30 PST

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The Redeemer

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:54:52 PST

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The Redeemeris the fourth in the Harry Hole series to be translated into English.

The Leopard

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:53:34 PST

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A heart-stopping thriller from the bestselling author of the The Snowman, The Leopard isan international phenomenon that will grip you until the final page.

The Second World War

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:51:48 PST

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The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, B ...

Headhunters

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:49:14 PST

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Phantom

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:47:47 PST

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The Bat

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:45:51 PST

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Before Harry took on the neo-Nazi gangs of Oslo, before he met Rakel, before The Snowman tried to take everything he held dear, he went to Australia.

少女

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:38:23 PST

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少女的微笑是可愛還是邪惡？少女的報復是天真還是殘酷？　　《告白》、《贖罪》名家最冷冽的剖白、最衝擊的震撼！　　死亡是怎麼一回事？我好想知道。　　但是，我不想自己嘗試，　　我只想親眼見到人「死亡的瞬間」，　　幫助我，活下去…… 　　最好的朋友之間，也有不能說出口的秘密…… 　　由紀和敦子從小就是最要好的朋友，曾經偷偷交換著無數的小秘密，只是，如今那些都已經過去了。長大以後的秘密，總是比小時候複雜得多，而當秘密越難開口、越積越多，曾經的死黨也會越來越陌生，就像由紀和敦子。　　高二放暑假前夕，兩人從轉學生紫織口中聽見一件很震撼的事──原來，紫織曾經目擊好友自殺！她那感傷中又摻著興奮的口吻彷彿在炫耀「我和妳們不一樣」，令由紀和敦子好羨慕。她們也好想看看，一個人呼吸驟止的那瞬間是什麼表情？更重要的是，看過了之後，自己會不會也變得「不一樣」？不約而同地，兩人決定了暑假計畫：她們要看自 ...

The Pledge

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:37:54 PST

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Set in a small town in Switzerland, "The Pledge "centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim's mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer--with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. H ...

Crossing to Safety

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 9:06:20 PST

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A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.

The snowman

Fri, 7 Sep 2012 17:52:05 PST

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The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf. Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance a ...

Longitude

Thu, 6 Sep 2012 11:18:46 PST

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"The longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day in the 18th century. It meant that, unable to measure their longitude, sailors were lost as soon as they lost sight of land. This book tells the story of John Harrison, an Englishman who imagined a mechanical solution.

The Devil's Star

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:05:19 PST

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN - OVER 9 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE THE MARK OF THE DEVIL, THE SIGN OF A KILLER... A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is found behind her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case, alongside his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is alr ...

Nemesis

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:01:03 PST

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OVER 9 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE. How do you catch a killer when you're the number one suspect? A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with no memory of the past 12 hours. Then the girl is found dead in mysterious circumstances and he beings to receive threatening emails: is someone ...

HHhH

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:14:05 PST

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HHhH blew me away. Binet's style fuses it all together: a neutral, journalistic honesty sustained with a fiction writer's zeal and story-telling instincts. It's one of the best historical novels I've ever come across.' Bret Easton Ellis. Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission ...

Stalingrad

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:09:55 PST

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This is a timely analysis and re-creation of the turning point of World War II. In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote "Stalingrad is no longer a town...Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure". The battle became the focus of Hitler and Stalin's determination to win the gruesome, vicious war on the eastern front. The citizens of Stalingrad endured unim ...

武林奇侠黄飞鸿正传

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:08:58 PST

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关于黄飞鸿的传奇故事玄而又玄,他留下了许多待解之谜,历史上的黄飞鸿到底是个怎样的人?本书以历史资料为依据 ...

Leningrad

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:26:14 PST

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On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two and a half years and during the 872 days of blockade and bombardment as many as two million Soviet lives would be lost. Had the city fallen, the history of the Second World War - and of the twentieth cen ...

The Dogs of Riga

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:59:48 PST

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Second in the Kurt Wallander series. On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the ability to solve a case as mysterious as it is heinous. But after the victims are traced to the Baltic state of Latvia, a country ...

Faceless Killers

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:45:11 PST

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One frozen January Morning at 5 am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he expects is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, victims of violence beyond reason. The woman supplies Wallander with his only clue: the perpetrators may have been foreign. ...

Fragrant harbour

Sun, 13 May 2012 12:04:33 PST

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In the Garden of Beasts: love, terror, and an American family in Hitler’s Berlin

Fri, 4 May 2012 13:18:10 PST

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Restless

Fri, 4 May 2012 13:17:23 PST

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What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting truth about her mother, Sally, during the long hot summer of 1976. For Sally Gilmartin is not what she seems at all. Russian by birth, she was recruited into the British Secret Service in Paris in 1939 and spent the war years as a spy ...

The Tiger's Wife

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:25:01 PST

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The Orange Prize winning debut from a truly extraordinary talent. 'Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started falling over the city and did not stop for three days. The tiger did not know that they were bombs...' A tiger escapes from the local zoo, pad ...

What the Family Needed

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:24:48 PST

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This is a story about family life. Its ups, its downs and how one family found incredible ways to get through the hard times. It all started with a question: 'Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible?' And led to thirty years of discoveries, extraordinary strengths and closely guarded secrets. It turned out to be just what the family needed. A novel ...

Ordinary Thunderstorms

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:24:32 PST

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What is the devastating effect on your life when, through no fault of your own, you lose everything - home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, money, credit cards, mobile phone - and you can never get them back? This is what happens to a young man called Adam Kindred, one May evening in Chelsea, London, when a freakish series of malign accidents and a split-second decision turns his life ...

The Prague Cemetery

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:19:18 PST

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Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. From the unificat ...

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:54:09 PST

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James Clavell's Whirlwind

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:50:31 PST

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朝花夕拾

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:40:49 PST

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他把我帶到一個華美的地方，門口停滿汽車，自落地大扇玻璃門進去，整個大廳用琉璃燈照明，這個地方的耗電量是驚人的……

野孩子

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:39:34 PST

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選載　　我叫裘哈拿。我有個孿生妹妹，叫裘馬大。我比馬大長五分鐘。　　我們的媽媽是個非常精采的人物，年青的時候，她是個經極一時的花旦，唱戲唱累了，嫁人，父親很早去世，留下一筆遺產給她，我們日子過得不壞。　　三十多歲那年，她的伶人朋友中有一位改信基督教，把她也帶成一位最佳教徒，她把一本聖經背得滾瓜爛熟，連女兒的名字都不放過，取了聖經裏的名字。　　母親的藝名，叫粉艷秋，本名叫三妹。　　她的朋友，叫她「小秋」，她的胡琴師傅，叫她「三妹姐」。　　母親已經五十多了，每當戲行裏人叫她小秋，我頭一個先忍不住笑起來，馬大很乖，馬大不笑，她通常瞪我一眼，暗示我收歛一點。　　馬大與我都廿四歲了。　　她在港大唸最後一年，讀經濟；我呢，不是唸書的材料，早已經在做事。　　馬大一向覺得萬般皆下品，唯有讀書高，認為我沒出息，我呢，看死馬大唸完偉大的經濟學，也不過是嫁人，更加沒用。　　 ...

亦舒作品系列

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:38:48 PST

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　　黄玫瑰因貌美而追求者不断．并给她带来诸多烦恼。当她将自己的感情倾注于庄国栋时．庄却绝情而去……极度悲伤的玫瑰赴美留学，并与方协文结婚。十年后，玫瑰与丈夫离，独自返港，在孤种、寂寞之中结识了了身患绝症的傅家明，三个月的热恋使柔肠断…… 　　　　几年后，玫瑰巧遇十几年来一来思念着她并己离异的庄国栋，玫瑰内心极度矛盾与痛苦，最后毅然选择了自己的归所。

我的前半生

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:37:40 PST

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喜寶

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:37:15 PST

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我有種痛快的感覺，沒有人知道我掌握著什麼，這件秘密使我身價百倍。我把手上的戒指轉過來，又轉過去。

庭院深深

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:12:54 PST

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幾度夕陽紅

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:11:36 PST

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夜風中

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:10:40 PST

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洪珊瑚對董艾雲的愛，如夜風般溫柔。然而，他倆夾著董雷文，使這對青梅竹馬的小情人，翻起了無數的波濤。

煙雨濛濛

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:09:39 PST

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月滿西樓

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:08:51 PST

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心有千千結

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:08:06 PST

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Patriot Games

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:47:56 PST

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While vacationing in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack and gains the gratitude of a nation and the ...

The Pale Criminal

Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:13:04 PST

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Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a brilliantly innovative thriller-writer, Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. In this second book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, The Pale Criminal brings back Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlinuntil he turned freelance and each case he ta ...

A German Requiem

Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:08:06 PST

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The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities ...

March Violets

Sun, 1 Apr 2012 13:57:51 PST

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Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. The first book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, March Violets introduces readers to Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlinuntil he turned freelance and each case ...

Extreme Money

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:57:59 PST

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Bestselling author Satyajit Das draws on 33 years of personal experience at the heart of modern global finance to narrate this story.

Guns, Germs and Steel

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:57:28 PST

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Life isn't fair--here's why: Since 1500, Europeans have, for better and worse, called the tune that the world has danced to. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond explains the reasons why things worked out that way. It is an elemental question, and Diamond is certainly not the first to ask it. However, he performs a singular service by relying on scientific fact rather than specious theori ...

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:56:52 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 ...

決戰前後

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:35:28 PST

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鳳舞九天

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:34:50 PST

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J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:29:20 PST

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Box set of the first four Harry Potter novels.

The Ringmaster's Daughter

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:27:37 PST

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Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he notices an amulet of amber around her neck, the same trinket he had given his own lost child, who was swept away in a torrent some sixteen years earlier. This tale is narrated by Petter, a precocious child and fantasist, and perhaps Jostein Gaarder's most intriguing character since Sophie. As an adul ...

New Spring: The Novel

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:27:21 PST

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This is the prequel to the Wheel of Time series from America's premier fantasy writer, and "New York Times" and "USA Today" #1 bestselling author of "Crossroads of Twilight." In this book, it is prophesied that an infant will change the world--an infant that has been born with enemies. [예스24 제공]

Maya

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:27:02 PST

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A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian evolutionary biologist estranged from his wife Vera; and an enigmatic Spanish couple, Ana and Jose, who are absorbed in their love for each other. Their stories are so s ...

Metamorphosis

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:26:47 PST

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In this, his most famous story, Kafka explores the notions of alienation and human loneliness. It is a work of extraordinary narrative technique and imagination. This unique edition also presents six of Kafka's lesser-known stories. Foreword by Martin Jarvis.Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a repulsive bug. Trapped inside this hideous form, his mind remains unchan ...

Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:26:15 PST

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Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realises tha ...

Pyramids (The Book of Going Forth)

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:25:14 PST

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Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi rather earlier than he expected (his father wasn't too happy about it either), but that was only the beginning of his problems...

The Color of Magic with Bonus Material

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:24:52 PST

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This special e-book edition of The Color of Magic includes an excerpt of Terry Pratchett’s latest novel, Snuff!

I Am the Messenger

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:24:31 PST

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After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, ...

Eragon

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:23:29 PST

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When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and powe ...