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The Human Body

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:45:20 PST

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The Human Body provides a spectacular visual explanation of the human body and how it works. The book is organised according to different body systems. Expert text combined with superb cutting-edge imagery make The Human Body the definitive home reference for all the family, as well as a beautiful giant-size companion for anyone embarking on, or involved in, a medical career doctors, nurses, phys ...

Life class

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:45:17 PST

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Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'. In a celebration of her life and writing, "My Lives" brings together four of her best-loved memoirs in one volume, spanning her very English childhood, her life and loves during World War II, her publishing career at A ...

Are We Related? The New Granta Book Of The Family

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:45:14 PST

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Granta magazine has published some of the best writing about family relationships in the English language. Over the years its writers have dealt with the most difficult, the most important and the most personal relationships of their lives. Granta Books' publication, in 1993, of Blake Morrison's "When Did You Last See Your Father" heralded the huge rise in popularity of the literary memoir, and s ...

Coda

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:45:10 PST

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During a holiday with his wife in Crete, the celebrated diarist and playwright SimonGray gives a moving and often painfully funny account of what he refers to ...

Plot Biography of An English Acre

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:45:07 PST

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On a remote edge of the North York moors, where a grassy hillside overlooks the Vale of York, there is a secluded acre of land, edged by woods, called Scotch Corner. A mysterious war memorial chapel stands there, a simple stone building, decorated with bold carvings. Madeleine Bunting's father - an artist and visionary, but also a fiercely conservative man, with romantic, old-fashioned views abou ...

Balti Britain

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:45:04 PST

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Weaving an informative travelogue with an illuminating autobiography, this account combines the history of Asians in Great Britain with the author's ...

Sleepers Wake

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:45:00 PST

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One When I woke up they had to remind me that I had been in an accident. A week has now passed since I returned home from hospital. ...

How to Drink

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:56 PST

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In the past few decades many of us have become foodies, but our new focus on flavour has been dominated by what we eat. In "How to Drink" Victoria Moore aims to redress the balance, by explaining how to drink well at all times of day, on all occasions, and across every season. Here are recipes for mint juleps in the spring, sloe gin in the autumn, hot buttered rum in the winter; and year round sh ...

Very Thought of You

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:54 PST

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England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate which has been opened up to evacuees by Thomas and Elizabeth Ashton, an enigmatic childless couple. Soon Anna get ...

Ten Technologies to Save the Planet

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:53 PST

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Black Water Rising

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:52 PST

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Reminiscent of early John Grisham and Walter Mosley, this taut, fast-paced novel heraldsan exciting and powerful new voice in fiction.

Jealousy

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:50 PST

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If The Sexual Life of Catherine M seemed to disregard emotion, Jealousy is its radicalcomplement: the paradoxical confession of a libertine, who succumbs to ...

It's a Don's Life

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:48 PST

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"While many scholars build careers through increasingly elaborate reconstructions of the ancient world, [Mary] Beard consistently stresses the limits of our ...

A Lucky Child

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:43 PST

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At the age of ten Thomas Buergenthal arrived at Auschwitz after surviving the Ghetto ofKielce and two labour camps, and was soon separated from his parents.

Diaghilev

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:41 PST

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Diaghilev (1872-1929) is a character on the scale of myth. Growing up in a minor noble family in remote Perm, as a very young man he became an influential art historian and publisher in St Petersburg. Moving soon onto a bigger stage, he became a central figure in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Rome, Berlin and Madrid during the golden age of modern art. He lived through bankruptcy, war, re ...

Time

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:38 PST

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Time is the one dimension of experience we cannot elude. But the nature of lived time ischanging dramatically.

Exit Wound

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:36 PST

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Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai...For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they're double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down...As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone's q ...

Letters To My Grandchildren

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:34 PST

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As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made. Certainly at my age I have learned an enormous amount from the stu ...

Utterly Exasperated History/Mod Brit CD

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:32 PST

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Meltdown

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:30 PST

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For amiable city trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab. But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so instead of burning out, his star just burned brighter than ever. Rich, pampered and successful, Jimmy, Mon ...

I Alex Cross CD

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:27 PST

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Lustrum

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:24 PST

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The year is 63 BC. In an age of political titans, Cicero stands supreme: the senior consul of the Roman republic. But jealous rivals are determined to destroy him and seize control of the state. To thwart them will take all his guile - and will lead him, and Rome, to the brink of destruction. Robert Harris' "Lustrum" is a page-turning thriller that pitches the reader into the power struggles and ...

Small memories

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:22 PST

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' The Book of Exhortations Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga,Jos Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and ...

Filthy English

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:19 PST

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When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language and its three-decade journey from the fringes of decency to the working centre of a more linguistic ...

Madam Verona Comes Down the Hill

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:16 PST

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Poignant, precise and perfectly structured, this is a story of one woman's tenderand enduring love - as a wife, and as a widow.

Genesis

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:13 PST

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Someone had spent time with her someone well-practised in the art of pain.

The Rehearsal

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:10 PST

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The Smoking Diaries

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:09 PST

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When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. The smoking diaries is the result, in which one of Britain's most amusing and original writers reflects on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (sto ...

Last Cigarette

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:09 PST

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This is the final volume of the trilogy that began with "The Smoking Diaries". Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken ...

Somewhere Towards the End

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:09 PST

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Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs, now aged ninety, and freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have ta ...

Hoard of Mathematical Treasures

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:09 PST

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Howards End is on the landing

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:09 PST

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How to Make a Tornado

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:09 PST

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Corvus: A Life with Birds

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:09 PST

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Sixteen years ago, Esther Woolfson’s daughter rescued a fledgling rook. That rook, named Chicken, quickly established herself as part of the family, and other birds, including an irascible cockatiel and a depressive parrot, soon followed. But it was the corvids – members of the crow family – who amazed Woolfson with their personality and their capacity for affection. This beguiling blend of memoi ...

Time Out Londoners Through a Lens

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:09 PST

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I Drink Therefore I Am

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:09 PST

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Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a headymix of humour and philosophy.

The Ghosts of Belfast

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:08 PST

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Perfumes

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:08 PST

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Too Big to Fail

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:08 PST

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The Snow Tourist

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:08 PST

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Breakfast with Socrates

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:44:08 PST

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What does it mean to be awake? What exactly is therapeutic about retail therapy? And what are you really working on when you're at your desk, in the gym, or having dinner? From getting ready in the morning, through heading to work, going to a party, having sex and falling back to sleep, "Breakfast with Socrates" provides an hour-by-hour commentary on what history's greatest philosophers have said ...

Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:40 PST

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This important new book picks up where Dr Deepak Chopra left off in his pioneering workAgeless Body, Timeless Mind.

Hero of the Fleet

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:38 PST

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Having witnessed many of the significant events of his era, this is his astonishingstory.

There goes the bride

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:35 PST

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Agatha's former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha decides she has fallen for Sylvan, a Frenchman she met at James' engagement party. To distract her still further she decides upon a holiday and flies to Istanbul, where unfortunately she bumps into James and his fiancee not once bu ...

No More Dying

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:32 PST

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' Charles Osborne, author of The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie'This is awitty and meticulous recreation of the class- ridden middle England of the 1930s_ ...

Agatha Raisin and a Spoonful of Poison

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:30 PST

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Cranky but lovable sleuth Agatha Raisin's detective agency has become so successful that she wants nothing more than to take quality time for rest and relaxation. But as soon as she begins closing the agency on weekends, she remembers that when she has plenty of quality time, she doesn't know what to do with it. So it doesn't take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help pub ...

Clint Eastwood

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:28 PST

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But this is the first full biography for 15 years, and the first to be neitherhagiography or hatchet-job.

Scotland's Mountains

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:25 PST

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With a careful eye and masterful appreciation of the properties of light andcomposition, Scotland's national treasures are documented in a fascinating visual ...

Reference Classic

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:21 PST

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Myths of the World

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:17 PST

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Written in a lively and contemporary style, "Myths of the World" presents the best of the great mythologies that have enthralled listeners and readers across the centuries. It is organised by region into 18 myth-making cultures - read about the quests of Gawain in the ancient forests of Britain and the legendary heroism of El Cid in Spain; learn how the Spider Women in North America used her gift ...

Speak, Nabokov

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:15 PST

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On the eve of the controversial, posthumous publication of The Original of Laura , Michael Maar follows his critically acclaimed The Two Lolitas with a ...

Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:13 PST

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... Crossesand has since gone on to appear in 17 books and numerous short stories. For more than 20 years these critically acclaimed novels have delighted ...

Gamp VC

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:36:06 PST

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Rear Admiral Anthony Miers VC – nicknamed 'Gamp' – was one of the Royal Navy's most controversial submarine commanders of the Second World War.

2012 and Beyond

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:56 PST

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The 21st December 2012 is the end of a 26,000-year astronomical period and the beginning of a new one.

1001 Movies 2009

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:54 PST

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Packed with vital statistics, and a few facts that may surprise you, this is acollector's must for the bookshelf as well as an entertaining read for all those ...

The Pyramids

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:49 PST

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By one of the world's leading Egyptologists, The Pyramids sets our knowledge ofthese unique, haunting and perennially fascinating edifices into the context of ...

Collected Poems 1956-1998

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:47 PST

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As Joseph Brodsky said of Herbert's Selected Poems, this definitive collection is'bound for a much longer haul than any of us can anticipate'.

Watching the door

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:43 PST

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Published to rave reviews in hardback, this exhilarating, savagely funny account of Northern Ireland's bloody civil war in the 1970s is now in paperback."Watching the Door" is the memoir of an ordinary young man who drifted into a war zone, made it his home and, somehow, emerged unscathed. After Kevin Myers graduated from university in 1969, a chance job application landed him a position as a jou ...

In Defence of the Enlightenment

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:39 PST

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In this book, Todorov shows that we cannot learn lessons from the past unless we knowhow to relate them to the present.

Paying Back Jack

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:36 PST

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But they're not really on a mercenary mission: they're 'paying backJack', doing a favor for a man in need.

To Sea and Back

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:32 PST

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Above all, To Sea and Back is the story of Richard Shelton's lifelong passion forthe sea and his attempt to solve the perennial enigmas of the salmon's secret ...

The Reinvention of Ivy Brown

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:29 PST

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'What a fabulous book!

A German Wedding

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:27 PST

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A darkly funny, daring, and operatic novel that's one part "The Corrections," one part "The Producers" When Jacob and Maria welcome their future family members to their wedding at a gaudily decorated provincial hotel in an old-fashioned Dutch seaside town, they spare no expense. It's shaping up to be the party of the century, but almost immediately the edifice begins to crumble. Ludo has caught ...

The Gilded Stage

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:24 PST

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However, as Daniel Snowman reveals, the world of opera has always known crisis anduncertainty - and the resulting struggles have often proved every bit as ...

Splendour and Squalor

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:19 PST

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They were the black sheep of aristocracy and this is their story.

The Book of Senior Jokes

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:16 PST

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Ageing is one of those unavoidable facts of life, and what more can you do about it than laugh (admittedly, slightly defensively)? Just why fading physical and mental faculties should be so funny is something of a mystery, but they are and with "The Book of Senior Jokes" you can laugh off your forgetfulness, fading physique and new penchant for the afternoon nap. This book - and do, please, try t ...

Brian and Me

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:13 PST

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This is the autobiography of Charles Collingwood, also known as Brian Aldridge, the charming, roguish serial philanderer of The Archers, the world's longest-running and much loved soap opera. Charles's instantly recognizable voice has made his alter ego a household name all over the world. Brian and Me is the wonderfully funny and vibrant memoir of an all-round entertainer.

Battenberg Britain

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:09 PST

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When convenience took precedence over nutrition and '5 a day' was yet be dreamt up, packaged food reigned supreme. Wasn't it wonderful to create great ...

The Office Book

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:06 PST

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The office worker's day can be long and dull, broken up only by the odd tea break or snippet of office gossip heard round the water cooler. "The Office Book" is the essential companion for any discontented employee. Covering the numerous facets of working life, from office politics and pulling a convincing sickie to lunching 'al desko', it's guaranteed to banish boredom and entertain throughout t ...

The Weather Book

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:03 PST

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"The Weather Book" is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form. It includes: weather systems - electrical storms, heat waves, hail, cyclones and the good-old British drizzle; weather tales - from raining frogs in Sussex, to ball lightning and sand sto ...

The Nature Book

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:35:00 PST

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There is so much to know about the ever changing natural world, but it's impossible to remember everything we have ever learnt about the range of subjects encompassed by the term 'nature'. "The Nature Book" is a great guide to the natural world, both for the beginner and those who want to relearn the most important and interesting facts about our fascinating environment, including: identifying ro ...

Aunt Epp's Guide for Life

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:59 PST

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Elspeth Marr (1871-1947) - also known as Aunt Epp - was the great-great-aunt of acclaimed author Christopher Rush, who only knew her for two brief years before her death. Long after Aunt Epp passed away Christopher's mother discovered the boxes of papers and diaries written by Aunt Epp to an unnamed 'young girl' in her life, which now make up "Aunt Epp's Guide For Ladies". Aunt Epp penned her lif ...

More Senior Moments

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:57 PST

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"More Senior Moments" (The Ones We Forgot) is the hilarious follow-up to the bestselling "The Book of Senior Moments", containing all those pearls of wisdom that slipped our minds the first time. If long-term memory means the ability to recall where you put your glasses for longer than thirty seconds, and a keen sense of observation is the realization that they are, in fact, perched on the end of ...

THE LITTLE BOOK OF SENIOR MOMENTS

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:55 PST

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For those who have trouble remembering their best friend's name and have difficulty putting on matching socks in the morning, help is at hand in this pocket-sized guide to dealing with your dotage. If you are among the many people afflicted by senior moments, those mental blips that are liable to waylay us at the most inconvienient times, let "The Little Book of Senior Moments" be your guide. Thi ...

Arbiter of Elegance

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:52 PST

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In this fascinating biography, Roderick Graham follows Adam's life and career from schooldays in Edinburgh through study in Italy and the establishment of his architectural practice in London. It explains his passionate ambition, not only to excel as an architect, but to be accepted as a gentleman in that most snobbish period of our history. No one contributed more to the artistic eminence of 'Ag ...

Fifty Chairs That Changed the World

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:50 PST

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Fifty Chairs That Changed the World switches the scene indoors, taking an up-close look at the chair designs-from Thonet's elegantly workaday bistro chair no. 14, of 1870, to the more outrageous creations of present-day designers-that have had the greatest impact on the look and feel of modern interiors.

101 Ways to Torture Your Husband

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:49 PST

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He forgot your birthday. He always leaves his socks on the floor. Hes glued to the tube all weekend for every game.Lets face it: Even the best of husbands ...

The new encyclopædia Britannica

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:47 PST

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Frozen

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:45 PST

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At first, the job as clinical director at Alcor Life Extension Foundation was an exciting change for veteran paramedic Larry Johnson: a well-funded research ...

Style Evolution

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:43 PST

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The author of the successful The Pocket Stylist follows up with a book that addresses the specific fashion needs of the over-forty crowd Even though women ...

The Heart of Bordeaux

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:42 PST

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With individual chapters on each of the châteaux, including Haut-Brion, Bouscaut,Olivier, Pape Clément, Smith Haut Lafitte, Domaine de Chevalier, and 10 ...

Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:40 PST

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PRAISE FOR GIULIANO HAZAN'S THIRTY MINUTE PASTA "Grazie, Giuliano, you'vemade busy weeknight dinners pasta perfect.

Fifty More Places to Play Golf Before You Die

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:37 PST

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In this beautiful guide, golf experts reveal their picks for fifty more of theworld's greatest golf courses to author Chris Santella. Book jacket.

Chrismukkah

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:33 PST

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Christmas meets Hanukkah for millions of mixed-faith families—who deck their trees with Stars of David and spin the dreidel under mistletoe.

Power of Gardens

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:30 PST

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Nancy Power is to landscape what Frank Gehry is to architecture, or Bunny Williams to interiors—a master, a visionary, a seasoned professional at the very ...

Leonardo's Notebooks

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:28 PST

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A compilation of da Vinci's most fascinating studies, this monumental volumedemystifies his insights and clearly illustrates his ideas, experiments, and ...

Cooking Well: Mediterranean

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:26 PST

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Bring the secrets of the world's healthiest diet into your very own kitchen.

Cooking Well

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:25 PST

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Delicious, healthy and easy-to-prepare gluten-free recipes. Today, living a gluten-free lifestyle is gaining popularity as more and more people around the ...

Gone to Hell

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:22 PST

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Extortion, embezzlement, drunk driving, theft, mafia ties, and even murder make up this collection of true stories of priests gone bad.

Edison's Concrete Piano

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:20 PST

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Highlighting the careers of well-known inventors, this exploration of failure amid greatness reveals the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their ...

The City of Words

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:18 PST

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In this most original and stimulating study Alberto Manguel, award winning author of AHistory of Reading, sets out to investigate the ways in which stories can ...

Brain

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:16 PST

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A vividly illustrated guide to the brain's development and functions presentsaccessible coverage of how the brain works and the latest scientific discoveries, ...

National Geographic Concise History of Science and Invention

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:14 PST

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From the ancient conquest of fire and the first turn of a wheel to the latest in scientific leaps toward the stars, this easy-access history offers a ...

Science as a contact sport

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:12 PST

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Schneider's firsthand account of a scientific and political odyssey, in which he navigates both the turbulent waters of the world's power structures and the ...

The Letter and the Scroll

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:09 PST

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A lavishly illustrated survey of archaeological finds that augment our understandings ofbiblical cultures features profiles of ancient cities, captioned ...

Second Bourne Trilogy

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:08 PST

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Spade and Archer

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:05 PST

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. . SPADE & ARCHER is a gritty, pitch-perfect, hard-boiled novel - the work of amaster mystery writer-destined to become a classic in its own right.

Christmas at Thrush Green CD

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:04 PST

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Beyond Reach

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:34:01 PST

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A young couple are mown down in a hit and run incident.

Ava Gardner

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:33:55 PST

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Ava Gardner was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. She drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide. Ernest Hemingway carried around one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento. Howard Hughes begged her to marry him: she punched out his front teeth. Her charismatic presence, jaw-dropping beaut ...