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Fight Club
The book that was made into the highly succesful movie Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward NortonEvery weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as t...
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
This work provides an analysis of the influence of the classic myth on the study and execution of artistic and scientific endeavours throughout the ages. It summarizes all the myths and legends of the lesser Gods and heroes, and traces their origins in historical fact or religious myth....
The Owl and the Pussycat
Lear's nonsense classic about the unlikely romance between a pussycat and an owl. "Galdone uses his imagination to extend Lear's ideas, creating a memorable version suitable for the youngest." -- Kirkus Reviews...
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)
A newly updated edition of the landmark translation by one of our greatest religious scholarsSince its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical expert Geza Vermes's translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls has established itself as the authoritative standard. The original manuscripts, discovered in the Judean ...
Strictly Bipolar
Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the 'Age of Anxiety' and the 1980s and '90s the 'Antidepressant Era', we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults and children alike,...
Beautiful Mutants and Swallowing Geography: Early Levy
Early Levy comprises two pioneering early works by Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy. Beautiful Mutants - Lapinski, a manipulative and magical Russian exile, summons forth a number of highly contemporary urban pilgrims. Through them, Levy explores broken dreams and self-destructive desires in a...
Wicked
Wicked: showcases some of the best erotic writing from both sides of the Atlantic, bringing together a collection of unashamed, wildly entertaining fantasies all on the theme of holiday romances and sensual encounters. It includes Magic Fingers by the international bestselling author Sylvia Day, author ...
The Divorce Papers
Sparkling and sophisticated, this sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking debut novel tells the story of a very messy, very high-profile divorce and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it. Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate a...
Useful
Sullivan Moss is useless. Once a charming underachiever, he's now so hopeless that he even fails his attempt to end it all. Waking up in hospital after falling the wrong way on a rooftop, he comes to a decision. After a life of regrets, Sully wants to do one useful thing. If he can't make something of h...
Vision in Silver: A Novel of the Others
Follow New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop to a "stunningly original"(Kirkus Reviews) world of magic and political unrest--where the only chance at peace requires a deadly price--in the third Novel of the Others. The Others freed the blood prophets to protect them from exploitation, but th...
Blue Dog
'The kind of book that changes readers for the better' Guardian When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle station is a tough place for a child, where nature is brutal and the men must work hard in the hea...
Anna and the Swallow Man
Anna and the Swallow Man is a stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel that tells a new WW2 story. Krakow, 1939, is no place to grow up. There are a million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. And Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father and suddenly, sh...
Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
This is New York Times Best-seller. An adrenaline-fuelled expose of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising our world. Written by startup CEO and in...
The Nowhere Man (#2 Orphan X)
He was once called Orphan X. As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from a children's home, raised and trained as part of a secret government initiative buried so deep that virtually no one knows it exists. But he broke with the programme, choosing instead to vanish off grid and use his formidable skill set to ...
The Night Of Wishes: Or The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion
It's 5pm on New Year's Eve in the Villa Nightmare, and as Shadow Sorcery Minister Beelzebub Preposteror's thumb-striking clock counts down each hour with an "Ouch!", Minister Preposteror draws closer to missing his midnight deadline for fulfilling his annual quota of evil deeds and being "foreclosed". U...
An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Mini Modern Classics)
Ryszard Kapuscinski; William Brand
Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland....
In Extremis
In Extremis is one of the most implacable, but also one of the funniest, novels about death and family you will ever read.Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he have the courage to say what he couldn't say before? His pho...
Eureka
Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film - Eureka - is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss. The screenwriter, Nat Fane, would do anything for a hit but can't see straight for all the acid he's dropping. Fledgling actress...
Trapped! a Whale's Rescue
Robert Burleigh; Wendell Minor (Illustrator)
In the icy waters of the Pacific, a massive humpback whale unexpectedly finds herself tangled in a net abandoned by fishermen. When a rescue boat and a convoy of divers arrive to help the struggling humpback, a realistic and moving encounter bridges the human and aquatic worlds....
Unbelievably Boring Bart
James Patterson; Duane Swierczynski
There's more than meets the eye in James Patterson's newest middle grade novel-a book so fun kids will actually put down their games to listen to it Invisible creatures are attacking the school, and 12-year-old Bartholomew Bean is the only one who can stop them Okay, so maybe Bart is only a hero in t...
Petra's Garden Note Cards - Nordic-Inspired Note Cards and Envelopes
A box of stylish note cards featuring Nordic art The format includes 12 beautifully printed cards in a keepsake box with tinted envelopes. Note cards, envelopes, and box will be covered with Petra Borner's bright, graphic shapes and rich natural colors....
Alice-Miranda 3 in 1 Movie Tie-in: The First Three Books in the Bestselling Series
Go back to where it all began with Alice-Miranda at School, Alice-Miranda on Holiday and Alice-Miranda Takes the Lead.Includes a full-colour picture section with scenes from the animated telemovie, plus a special note from Jacqueline Harvey describing how the books were turned into a movie.The Alice-Mir...
The Art of Life Admin - How to Do Less, Do It Better, and Live More
This is the book you think you don't have time to read . . .Life admin gets in the way of your life. Appointments, birthdays, dates, bills - they pile up, stress you out, probably cost you money and sleep, and definitely take up too much time. But spending a few precious hours reading this book will cre...
Maoism: A Global History
"Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" --The Times (London). For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authorit...
Ask Again, Yes
Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie cops in the NYPD, live next door to each other outside the city. What happens behind closed doors in both houses--the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come. "A beautiful ...
The Warehouse
'Engrossing ... Big Brother meets Big Business - that pretty much nails it' Stephen King 'A gripping read, a literary blockbuster with brains. Horribly compelling' The Observer 'A triumph' The Guardian ___________________ In a world ravaged by bankruptcy and unemployment, Cloud is the only company left ...
On Beauty
Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - bo...
Lost in the Clouds
Children find grief difficult and understanding where a loved one has gone, can be a tricky topic to explain... Billy misses his mummy very much. She lives in the clouds. Some days the sun is shining and Mummy's clouds are nowhere to be seen. Those are Billy's favourite days. He and Daddy would play in ...
Sensehacking - How to Use the Power of Your Senses for Happier, Healthier Living
How can the furniture in your home affect your well-being? What colour clothing will help you play sport better? And what simple trick will calm you after a tense day at work? In this revelatory book, pioneering and entertaining Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our senses change how we think an...
The Hong Kong Diaries
The diaries of the last British Governor, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not - as other British colonies over the decades - for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, fr...
Five Bush Weddings
As a photographer, Stevie's been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When's it going to be all about her? With her ex soon to be married, her mum back on the dating scene, and her best friend threatening to settle down with the Most Boring Man Alive, Stevie is feeling left behind. To top it off,...
Train Like a Bodybuilder at Home - Get Lean and Strong Without Going to the Gym
Learn how to get strong and lean without ever setting foot in a gym again!Everyone who strength trains wants to get strong, lean, and ripped, but not everyone wants to go to a gym to do it--gyms are expensive, crowded, and dirty. In today's world, people are seeking a safer, simpler, more practical way ...
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