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Meditations
A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinati...
Here at the End of the World We Learned to Dance
In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step. Taking his cue from the tango, the acclaimed author of Mister Pip has written a thrilling and sensuous novel about how we fall in love. Ranging from rural New Zealand during the final days of World War I to Buenos A...
Heidi
HeidiBy Johanna Spyrithat the little body presented a shapeless appearance, as, with its small feet shod in thick, nailed mountain-shoes, it slowly and laboriously plodded its way up in the heat. The two must have left the valley a good hour's walk behind them, when they came to the hamlet known as Dorf...
Footprints in Paris: A Few Streets, A Few Lives
This unique and intensely involving book evokes the texture and atmosphere of a hidden Paris which has survived against all the odds of time and chance. Gillian Tindall is well known for her ability to breathe a passionate life into the generations of those who have walked this earth before us. Here, us...
All the Truth That's in Me
From the Printz honor winning author of The Passion of Dolssa, a mesmerizing story about fear, love, and the power of a young woman's voice. "All the Truth That's In Me is that rare magical thing--a beautiful love story told in spare, riveting prose."--The New York Journal of Books "The love sto...
Ten Little Dinosaurs
A stomping, chomping dinosaur romp from the creators of the multi-award-winning, bestselling Ten Little Pirates. Ten little dinosaurs set off in search of adventure. But what will the ten little dinosaurs do when then meet a grumpy triceratops? And a stomping diplodocus? And a HUNGRY t-rex? Meet all y...
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Read this book and you'll never smoke a cigarette again
Read this book and you'll never smoke another cigarette again.The unique method-No scare tactics No weight-gain The psychological need to smoke disappears as you read Feel great to be a non-smoker Join the estimated 25 million men and women that Allen Carr has helped set free.www.allencarr.com ...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition
The bestselling story of the young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village, now in an accessible middle grade edition. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to s...
The Soul of the Marionette - A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom
In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every actio...
How to be a Bawse
From actress, comedian and YouTube sensation Lilly Singh (a.k.a Superwoman) comes the definitive guide to being a bawse - a person who exudes confidence, reaches goals, gets hurt efficiently, and smiles genuinely because they've fought through it all and made it out the other side. Told in her hilarious...
Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Weath and Power
Requiem for the American Dream is a work of some 70,000 words based on four years of interviews with Noam Chomsky on the subject of income equality. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible, and at the same ...
Night Watch: (#29 Discworld) The City Watch Collection HC
A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel.Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all.But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck...Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly ...
The Custard Heart (Mini Modern Classics)
Only when the littler, kinder hours had succeeded noon could she bring herself to come forth and face the recurrent sorrows of living'A collection of satirical short stories set in New York from the master of scathing wit Dorothy Parker....
In the Garden of the Fugitives
Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protegees. Now Royce is ailing and Vita's career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both have reasons for want...
A Crack in Creation - The New Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer Doudna; Samuel Sternberg
Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times), explains its discovery, describes its power to reshape the future of all life and warns of its use. 'Urgent, riveting and endlessly fascinating, this book is destined to beco...
A Swift Pure Cry
Reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS series of iconic teen fiction. After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual ...
Fire and Fury
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely m...
The Rangoon Sisters - Authentic Burmese Home Cooking
'The Rangoon Sisters taught me everything I know about Burmese food. And now they can teach you too.' Grace Dent 'Amy and Emily's food is vibrant, colourful and packed with flavour. I can't wait to make everything in this book.' Melissa HemsleyLove Thai food? Addicted to Chinese and Indian? Then it is ...
The Guest List
The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller *Waterstones Thriller of the Month**A Reese's Book Club pick for 2020**The Times Best Crime Fiction of the Year pick**Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award* A gripping, twisty murder mystery thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of The Hunting Party. 'Lucy Fole...
Inside the Suitcase (Lift-the-Flap HB)
Once upon a time, in a little house behind the hills, a boy packs his suitcase for a long journey. Lift the flaps to see what he takes, and travel with him over oceans and mountains, under water and into the forest. With every step on this voyage of obstacles, the boy faces a decision that will lead to...
The Cook You Want to Be: Everyday Recipes to Impress
Be a better cook with flavour-forward everyday recipes and easy-to-understand techniques. This cookbook is for buyers of Ottolenghi Simple, Samin Nosrat's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and Molly Baz's Cook This Book.Andy Baraghani is the ex-Chez Panisse chef behind many of Bon Appetit's viral recipes - favouri...
The Only Child
Almost every graduating class had a girl who disappeared. A decades-old crime threatens to tear apart three generations of women in this unputdownable mystery that will keep you gripped until its last heart-wrenching page. 1949 It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has ever known, when a pregnant sixt...
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