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Digging to America
Friday August 15th, 1997 - The night the girls arrived, two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that l...
Fingersmith
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby's household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves -- fingersmiths -- for whom t...
Donkeys
The first book - an international award-winner - from NZ's Gecko Press, which aims to bring the best European children's literature to speakers of English.Donkeys is about a couple who have been together for years but have had a silly argument. Beautiful, engaging, witty and acclaimed; aimed at ages 4-6...
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing
Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer. Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Pa...
Dotter of her Fathers Eyes
Part personal history, part biography, "Dotter of Her Father's Eyes" contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitions ...
Oh Baby: Birth, Babies & Motherhood Uncensored
Much-recommended by new mothers, this is the only book you'll need for the best baby advice. Now completely revised and updated.Refreshingly honest, openly frank and candidly blunt, this book has been written by a mother (who is also an experienced midwife) for other mothers. It oozes warm fuzzies, exud...
Sisters: Vintage Minis
Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be your fiercest competitor or closest co-conspirator, but she'll always share with you a totally unique bond. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four of the most fa...
Psychedelics: Vintage Minis
Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transform...
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril.Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking i...
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
The ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world, for fans of The Magicians, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and The Invisible Library. For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control:...
Journeys in the Wild - The Secret Life of a Cameraman
Gavin Thurston; Sir David Attenborough (Foreword by)
'Gavin's book is extraordinary: his easy prose and gasp-making encounters make for a gripping and very funny read. It's a rollercoaster ride with a complete professional. I loved it.' JOANNA LUMLEY' Gavin is] a great cameraman with infinite patience, but also a writer with great powers of observation an...
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life
A playful yet profound examination of what cats can teach us about life and how to live it. 'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne There is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather it seems that at some point cats ...
Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Deco)
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. ...
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