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Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
'We cannot expect our old customs to remain forever . . .' It's 1911 and Ailin is living in a time of great change in China. A headstrong, determined child, Ailin rebels against the horrifying ancient tradition of having her feet bound. As a result, the family of her future husband immediately breaks of...
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon
Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's "Lady Susan", "The Watsons" and "Sanditon" is edited with an introduction by Margaret Drabble in "Penguin Classics". These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different litera...
The Very Busy Spider (PB)
What better way to celebrate Eric Carle's The Very Busy Spider's 20th year in publication than to issue a Spanish-language version? This colorful, touch-and-feel story of an industrious spider is an Eric Carle classic, and now Spanish-speaking children can add it to their bookshelf of childhood's most c...
La Vie En Bleu
Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars - the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968, as well as exploring the special worlds of the workplace, immigration, minorities, the role of women, and the politics of everyday ...
Selected Poems: Milton
John Milton; John Leonard (Introduction by); Christopher Ricks (Editor)
An authoritative new edition of Milton's essential verse John Milton, who abandoned early plans of becoming a clergyman to become a poet, was a master of almost every type of verse-from the classical to the religious, from the lyric to the epic. His writing reflected his radical views and his profou...
Candide, or Optimism
Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece. With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of...
Graham Greene - Collected Essays
Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is eclectic and stimulating; his subjects brought vividly t...
Underground Man
When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder. While forest fires rage in the hills around Los Angeles, threatening the homes of some of the city's wealthi...
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti...
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts : Little Black Classic
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically e...
The Copper Gauntlet (#2 Magisterium)
From Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes the second entry in the global bestselling series that defies what you think you know about the worlds of good and evil....
Space Dog
Spacedog's lonely mission is nearly over, and it's nearly time for him to go home. But one perilous rescue attempt later, and he finds himself with an Astrocat aboard his ship. But everyone knows Spacedogs and Astrocats are sworn enemies...aren't they? And then they encounter a Moustronaut in peril, in ...
Peppa Pig Wipe-Clean Dot-to-Dot
Join Peppa and George in this fantastic dot-to-dot activity book with a wipe clean pen! Little ones will love practising their writing and counting while exploring Peppa Pig's world....
Absolute Friends
The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West.The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties an...
Bubbles
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Bubbles is a clear, surprising and entertaining introduction to the science of bubbles. Bubbles are beautiful, ephemeral, fun, fragile, jolly and slightly unpredictable. We're all familiar with them, but we don't often ask what they actually are. The great scien...
The Con Artist
Fred Van Lente; Tom Fowler (Illustrator)
This illustrated mystery will appeal to comic book fans and anyone who appreciates an unconventional whodunit. Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, seeking sanctuary with other fans and creators--and maybe to reunite with his ex--but when his rival is found murdered, he becom...
Jamie's Dinners
Jamie revolutionises delicious healthy family meals by going back to basics in the kitchen. In this beautiful reissue here, you'll find everything you need to make cooking inspiring and accessible to everyone. In 'Family Tree' he takes recipes several different ways, giving you confidence whilst at the ...
Losing You
Losing Youis a nail-biter of a thriller from the bestselling author, Nicci French The clock is ticking - and the search hasn''t even begun . . . Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes...
The Sky is Falling!: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism
A Sunday Times (London), Best Book of 2018 "A thoughtful, entertaining, and occasionally profound critical study of the texts that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us."--The Spectator (London) "A bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the role pop culture has played in the rise of Amer...
Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics)
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England...
Embrace Your Body: From the 2023 Australian of the Year
Based on the #1 hit children's song, this picture book encourages everyone to love who they are, inside and out. Taryn Brumfitt is the fiercely passionate thought leader behind the Body Image Movement and director of Embrace the documentary. She is determined to inspire everyBODY to celebrate their body...
Ladybird Readers Level 3 - Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (ELT Graded Reader)
Charlie wants to find a Golden Ticket inside a chocolate bar. Then, he can visit Mr. Wonka's famous chocolate factory. Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second lang...
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversat...
How Not To Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind
"There's no point having a mind if you never change it." In How To Be Right, James provided an invigorating guide to how to talk to people with bad opinions. And yet the question he always gets asked is 'If you're so sure about everything, haven't you ever changed your mind?' In an age of us vs. them, t...
The Shepherd's Crown (#33 Discworld, #5 Tiffany Aching)
The fifth and final book in the Tiffany Aching series - five Discworld novels by master-storyteller Terry Pratchett. Tiffany Aching has finally got her wish. She is a witch (and a respected one, at that). Overworked and underpaid, that's for certain, but a witch nonetheless. Help is at hand th...
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