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Dombey and Son
A darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father's prideTo Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares for is his frail son, grooming ...
Things Fall Apart
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w...
At the Same Time
The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post-9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag's life and work, revealing why she re...
Ways of Seeing
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi...
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms-chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can't get enough of these rich, delicate morsels. With updated production techniques for home and commercial cultivation, detailed growth parameters for 31 mushroom species, a trouble-...
Are You My Mother?
Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home", her remarkable graphic memoir about her father, established itself immediately as a classic of the genre, being chosen as "Time" Magazine's Best Book of the Year for 2006, while "The Times" called it 'a profound and important book'. Now Bechdel has written another memoir, eq...
Mindfulness - 25 Ways to Live in the Moment through Art
'Everything about this book is exquisite...I wholeheartedly recommend it' Mark Williams Mindfulness Is a uniquely beautiful work. Illustrated in full colour throughout, this bestselling book draws upon art as a source of inspiration. Expert practitioner Christophe Andre invites us to consider paintings...
Surveys - A Novel
One day, I was not famous, the next day, I was almost famous and the temptation to go wide with that and reject my past was too great. When I was legit famous, it was hard to tell when the change had occurred...If I had been born famous, the moment I would have started engaging in social media, I would ...
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Winner of the "Journal of the American Revolution" Book of the Year Award Finalist for the George Washington Book Priz...
Connected World
The world as we know it is changing. Driverless cars, drone deliveries and autonomous weapon systems are no longer the stuff of science fiction. But what's next for technology and business, and how will it impact our society? In Connected World, Philip Larrey of the Vatican University explores the conse...
Secret Diary & Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new double edition, featuring the first two books in the hilarious collection and see life through the spectacles of a misunderstood boy growing up in the early 1980s. Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at t...
Shard Cinema
Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady world. With a range that spans film, games, software, architecture, and military technologies, the book c...
Les Misérables
It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to liveAccompanying a 6-part series on BBC One from the makers of War and Peace, and starring Dominic West, Lily Collins, David Oyelowo and Olivia Coleman, this edition of Les Miserables also has a foreword from screenwriter Andrew Davies (War and Peace, Pride an...
Bad Behavior
A young woman anxiously waits for her date on a street corner in New York City; he sits in a pizza parlour across the street, watching her discomfort. A middle-aged woman returns to a New York that is haunted by the passion and intensity of her former relationship with her estranged best friend. A secre...
Return to Zero (#3 Lorien Legacies Reborn)
Set in the pulse-pounding world of I Am Number Four, this fast-paced action-packed thriller follows the gifted students of The Human Garde Academy. When teenagers around the globe develop new superpowers - new Legacies, the Garde create an Academy where they can develop their gifts safely and a group o...
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier
'Just incredible' NAOMI KLEIN**New York Times Bestseller**The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas.The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet.Too big to police, and under no clear in...
Bible Stories the Illustrated Guide: From the Creation to the Resurrection
Revisit the most important Bible stories with this comprehensive visual guide covering every major covenant, prophecy, miracle, and parable in the Old and New Testaments.Richly illustrated, this sumptuous and accessible new version of DK's Illustrated Bible is packed with maps, archaeological sites, his...
The Tea Gardens
A heartbreaking story about the pursuit of passion by the bestselling author of The Chocolate Tin.Spirited doctor Isla Fenwick is determined to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to life as a dutiful wife. With hopes of making a difference in the world, she sails to Calcutta to ...
The Fear
Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestsellers The Twin and The Lake, the undisputed queen of YA thrillers is back. Don't be afraid. Be terrified. It's just a stupid meme that's going around their small fishing town in the dead of winter-people reposting and sharing their biggest fear. But when her ...
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion
An inspiring picture book biography which tells the world-famous deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.This inspiring picture book tells the true story of world-famous deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.This is a story of music.Of obstacles.Of strength and hard work.Of all you can accomplish when y...
Murtagh (#5 Inheritance Cycle)
An epic new fantasy from the internationally bestselling author of ERAGONMaster storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle. The world is no longer safe for the Dr...
The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain
A spectacular biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, from acclaimed historian and director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the best of his age. From his kilns ...
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