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Tender is the Night
Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star, who is instantly attracted to them,...
Kilo Class
It's one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built . . . silent at under five knots, and capable of a massive nuclear warhead punch. It's the weapon every Third World dictator covets. It's the 240-foot long Russian Kilo Class submarine and Russia seems perfectly willing to sell i...
The Glass Menagerie
Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura...
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...
So Long, See You Tomorrow
In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and up...
Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7)
'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.' Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse - and indeed treasury - is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to hon...
All the Bright Places
The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill hi...
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...
Create A Gender Balanced Workplace
Equality at work expert Ann Francke reveals how to understand and tackle the damaging consequences of gender imbalance in the workplace Gender balance is first and foremost a business issue. McKinsey estimates we could add 28 trillion to global GDP if we achieved gender equality everywhere - that is mo...
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Penguin Green Ideas series)
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a w...
Q IS FOR QUOKKA
The latest title in DK's new alphabet series, Q is for Quokka features quokka-related words that begin with the letter q. Take a first look at the fascinating world of quokkas in this beautifully illustrated nonfiction picture book for babies and toddlers. Part of DK's illustrated animal alphab...
The Partisan
'Remarkedly assured debut ... the advent of a real talent...One to watch' Sunday Times'Immersive, intriguing, and intelligent - incredibly impressive, up there with the best in the genre' Lee Child________________________It is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ...
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