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Lost and Found Sisters: The holiday read you've been searching for! Jill Shalvis Headline Eternal
Lost And Found Sisters is the new novel from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis, a story of friendship, love, family and sisterhood, for fans of Susan Mallery, Kristan Higgins and Robyn Carr.Life can change in an instant... After losing her sister in a devastating car accident, LA chef Quinn Weller seems to be getting her life back on track. So why does she feel so empty, like she\'s looking for a missing piece she can\'t find?The answer comes when a lawyer appears, revealing a bombshell secret and mysterious inheritance in the small town of Wildstone, California. On impulse, Quinn heads up the coast and finds herself drawn to Wildstone\'s simple pleasures...and the handsome, dark-haired stranger who offers friendship with no questions asked.But there\'s another surprise to come. The inheritance is something earthshattering, that will make Quinn question everything she knows about herself and her family. Now with a world of possibilities opening up, Quinn must decide if this new life is the one she was always meant to have - and could finally give her the fulfillment she\'s searched so long for.Check out Jill\'s warm, funny Heartbreaker Bay novels, visit gorgeous Cedar Ridge, spellbinding Lucky Harbor or experience some Animal Magnetism in Sunshine, Idaho in Jill\'s other unforgettable series. Σελίδες: 400, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0620, Διαστάσεις: 14.7x14.7cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Children's and Young Adults books > Children fiction
Bunny vs Monkey and the Human Invasion (a Phoenix Comic Book, from the million-selling Jamie Smart, Illustrator of the Year) David Fickling Books
Since he crash-landed to Earth in a rocket, Monkey has been causing absolute mayhem! Bunny and the gang (Squirrel, Pig [the Pig], Action Beaver, and Skunky the Inventor) have almost had enough. In this rollicking comic extravaganza, the pint-sized friends must tackle a helliphant, rocket-powered hot air balloons, and the most mind-boggling creatures of all . . . hew-mans . . . Jamie\'s art and storytelling fizz with exuberance - the pages turn themselves in this addictive collection of stories. Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 14x14cm
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Just One Evil Act: An Inspector Lynley Novel: 18 Elizabeth George Hodder Paperback
When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl\'s father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her mother, nothing can be done. Five months later, Hadiyyah is kidnapped from an open air market in Lucca, Italy, and this triggers an investigation in the full glare of the media spotlight. Barbara\'s clever manipulation of the worst of London\'s tabloids forces New Scotland Yard to become involved. But rather than Barbara herself, her superior officer DI Thomas Lynley is assigned to handle a situation made delicate by racial issues, language difficulties, and the determination of an Italian magistrate to arrest and convict someone - anyone - for the crime. Σελίδες: 720, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0408, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm
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Walk the Wire: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller David Baldacci Pan Books
Remember his name: FBI Agent Amos Decker is back in a thrilling memory man investigation. From the number one bestselling author of The 6:20 Man, David Baldacci.A town with a secret.A lone hunter discovers the remains of a woman in North Dakota’s Badlands. She appears to have had a post-mortem performed on her, reminiscent of those only seen on TV shows – but there is no slab, morgue or camera in sight. A victim without a past.The FBI decide to investigate Irene Cramer\'s death, as key questions surface around her mysterious past. Little is known about this school teacher, where she came from or her true identity. But she clearly had something to hide.A hero with a unique skill.FBI investigator Amos Decker and his colleague, Alex Jamison, are summoned to seek answers. They travel to the local community of London, North Dakota – a town which sits at the very heart of the fracking industry. Enriched with oil money, jealousy and a deep-set rivalry lie beneath a veneer of glitz and opulence.Decker soon realizes that the nearby ‘eye in the sky’, the Air Force Station, may hold the vital clues. And that this town holds secrets so explosive, they could destabilize the entire country . .Walk the Wire by David Baldacci is the sixth book in the Amos Decker series. Continue the investigative thrillers with Long Shadows.Once read, never forgotten. Σελίδες: 624, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1027, Διαστάσεις: 13.1x13.1cm
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The Saint in London Leslie Charteris Mulholland Books
Three more stories of Saintly adventure show Simon Templar interpreting the law to his own advantage. In The Simon Templar Foundation, a poisonous legacy from his enemy Rayt Marius gives him the opportunity to make a great deal of money - if he can survive equally great danger. The Higher Finance puts him up against the police, a reclusive millionaire, and the wild beast that roams his mansion at night. And in The Art of Alibi, he faces the most impudent opponent of all: someone who is stealing his symbol, and committing crimes in his name. Σελίδες: 288, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0813, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Tell Me What I Am: 'Beautiful, haunting.' LOUISE KENNEDY Una Mannion Faber & Faber
WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGERSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARDFrom the internationally bestselling author of A Crooked Tree\'Beautiful, haunting.\' LOUISE KENNEDY\'Vividly real . . . There\'s love here as well as pain.\' MARIAN KEYES\'Deeply moving.\' OBSERVER\'A sure-footed and emotionally complex novel . . . absorbing.\' IRISH TIMES\'I loved it.\' LIZ NUGENTPlease don\'t hang up. I don\'t know if you remember. You used to live with me. You and your mother.Ruby lives with her father in an old farmhouse at the end of a dirt road. He teaches her to hunt, to forage for mushrooms, to gut a fish. She learns to tiptoe around his temper - and never to ask about her absent mother.Ruby has no idea that, hundreds of miles away, a woman she barely remembers is desperate to answer those same questions. Captivating, tender and deeply moving, Tell Me What I Am is an unforgettable portrait of the indelible bonds of family - and how far we will go for the ones we love.\'Haunting and deeply moving.\' OBSERVER\'Propulsive and richly atmospheric.\' IRISH INDEPENDENT\'An engrossing, deftly-told story with an aching secret at its heart, this is a profoundly moving novel of family and women standing strong together.\' LISA BALLANTYNE\'Sharp, poignant, thrilling and moving.\' CHRIS WHITAKER\'Compelling . . . Mannion writes with a lyrical economy that stands out, and always shows a deep empathy for her well-drawn characters.\' IRISH EXAMINER\'A wrenching portrait of the umbilical bond between mother and child and, more powerfully still, an icily persuasive account of the subtle dark arts of male coercion and abuse.\' DAILY MAILWHAT READERS ARE SAYING:\'A brilliantly told story, engrossing, with love, pain, heartbreak and darkness. The characterisation was excellent and the plot was moving and gently woven.\' 5* reader review\'I raced through... Well-written, incredibly tense and chilling in parts.\' 5* reader review\'A book to savour and appreciate as well as enjoy.\' 5* reader review\'This is such a powerful story of love and family. It kept me awake desperate to find out what had happened to affect them all so badly.\' 5* reader review\'This is a beautifully written novel with powerfully drawn characters.\' 5* reader review\'Had me hooked... Loved it.\' 5* reader review\'Wow what a book!\' 5* reader review**Una Mannion\'s first novel, A Crooked Tree, is available now** Σελίδες: 336, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham Vintage Classics
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham\'s most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham\'s novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates. Σελίδες: 352, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Hazardous Spirits: Shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland's National Book Awards 2024 Anbara Salam Baskerville
Shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at Scotland\'s National Book Awards 2024\'An exquisitely written work of Caledonian gothic\' Francine Toon, author of Pine\'A darkly sparkling jewel of a book\' Kirsty Logan, author of Now She is WitchEdinburgh, 1923.Evelyn Hazard is a young woman living a comfortable and unremarkable middle-class life. One day, her quiet existence is shattered when her steady, reliable husband Robert makes a startling announcement: he can communicate with the dead.As the couple are pulled into the spiritualist movement that emerged following the mass deaths caused by the First World War and the Spanish Flu, Evelyn\'s life becomes increasingly unsettled as dark secrets from her past threaten to surface.Faced with the prospect of losing all that is dear to her, Evelyn finds herself asking: is the man she loves a fraud, a madman or - most frighteningly - is he telling the truth?A gothic literary mystery, written in sparkling prose, Hazardous Spirits evokes the spirit of 1920s Edinburgh, in all its bohemian vibrancy.\'With the literary lyricism and precise historical detail of a Sarah Waters novel . . . Salam injects a wry humour into this tale of secrets, lies, and the power of the ghosts of our pasts\' Entertainment Weekly\'Full of heart and strangeness\' Nell Stevens, author of Briefly, A Delicious Life\'A riveting exploration of the unknowable\' Tara Isabella Burton, author of Social Creature Σελίδες: 384, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0114, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Silverthorn (The Riftwar Saga, Book 2) Raymond E. Feist HarperVoyager
The second volume in Raymond E. Feist’s highly acclaimed epic fantasy Riftwar Saga With the Kingdom of the Isles at peace, Prince Arutha can at last look forward to marrying the Princess Anita in the city of Krondor. But the capital in the west harbours many shadows. When Jimmy the Hand, a young thief in the Guild of Mockers, upsets an assassination attempt on Arutha, a sinister plot is uncovered. As the dead rise and assassins stalk the darkness, Arutha must rally the Kingdom forces swiftly if he is to save his beautiful princess felled by a poisoned arrow on her wedding day, and prevent a madman from destroying Midkemia. Σελίδες: 400, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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The Edge Jessie Keane Pan Books
The unstoppable Ruby Darke returns as old enemies threaten her family in The Edge, a gripping gangland thriller from top ten bestselling author Jessie Keane.With a mind sharper than a razor blade it was only a matter of time before Ruby Darke fought her way to the top. From humble beginnings she became the queen of London’s retail, but she didn’t get there by obeying the law.Now with her son Kit and daughter Daisy finally by her side she’s ready to start a new chapter in her life, but, unknown to all of them, enemies are circling.There aren’t many who threaten Ruby Darke and live to tell the tale. But this time, she may just have met her match.If you live on the edge, you may just die on it . . .This heart-racing series starts with Nameless and Lawless. Σελίδες: 464, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0723, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Pocket Rough Guide Weekender Oxford: Travel Guide with eBook Rough Guides Rough Guides
This compact, pocket-sized Oxford travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on weekend trips or shorter breaks in the UK. It includes ready-made walking and driving itineraries that allow you to organise your visit to Oxford without losing time planning. The Oxford guidebook covers: The Heart of the University; Around New College; Where Town Meets Gown; Quads, Meadows and Gardens; The High Street; From Carfax to the River; West of the City Centre; Jericho and St Giles\'; St John\'s and the North; Port Meadow and Beyond; Excursion to Boars Hill; Excursion to Woodstock.Inside this Oxford travel book you will find: - 12 ready-made walks and tours - easy-to-follow walking and driving tour itineraries featuring the best places to visit, as well as what to do and where to eat along the way- Walks and tour highlights - shortlists highlight the best of each walk or tour- Things not to miss in Oxford - Magdalen College, Punting on the Thames, Ashmolean Museum, Bodleian Library, Port Meadow, Sheldonian Theatre, Botanic Garden, University Museum of Natural History, Christ Church, Covered Market - Curated recommendations of places - main attractions, off-the-beaten-track adventures, child-friendly family activities, chilled-out breaks in popular tourist areas- Rainy day recommendations - plenty of options, whatever the British weather throws at you- Insider recommendations - tips on how to beat the crowds, save time and money and find the best local spots- Historical and cultural insights - learn more about Oxford\'s rich history with fascinating cultural insights.- Trip tips - outdoor activities and themed holidays- Practical information - how to get there and how to get around, facts for visitors - Handy mapping - practical full-colour maps, with clearly numbered sights relating to major points of interest in the main text- Free download of the eBook - available after the purchase of the printed guidebook Oxford - Fully updated post-COVID-19 Σελίδες: 128, Διαστάσεις: 11.6x11.6cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Science > Medicine
Care Homes: The One-Stop Guide: When, Why and How to Choose a Care Home June Andrews Souvenir Press Ltd
Choosing a care home is one of the more emotional and expensive decisions that anyone ever has to make. You may be unprepared, inexperienced, under time pressure and in an emotional whirlwind. This book is designed to cut through this noise and offer clear, practical advice for anyone who has to make this crucial decision. Professor June Andrews looks at everything that you need to know, from first deciding whether care is needed for someone, to choosing a care home, to what happens next. She offers honest and sensible information about costs, quality of care and accommodation, and examines the finer details of what you might consider, such as food, décor, medical services and religious arrangements. A good care home is a reward for a life well spent, and providing that care is a joy for the people who do it well. Avoiding the pitfalls, and finding the right place is the first step. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0813, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm
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All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu Sceptre
LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015Two young friends join an uprising against Uganda\'s corrupt regime in the early 1970s. As the line blurs between idealism and violence, one of them flees for his life. In a quiet Midwestern town in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, an African student falls for the woman who helps him settle in. Prejudice overshadows their relationship, yet it is equally haunted by the past.Both men are called Isaac. But are they one and the same? Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0101, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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The Cloisters Katy Hays Penguin (Transworld)
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER . . . IN HARDBACK AND NOW IN PAPERBACK!The Secret History meets Ninth House . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within a close-knit circle of researchers at New York\'s famed Met Cloisters museum.-------\'Glamour, power, seduction, ambition – The Cloisters has it all. I adored this deliciously gothic, beautifully written novel.\' LOUISE O\'NEILL,\'Dark and enigmatic . . . a story of academic obsession, Renaissance magic and the ruthless pursuit of power. Captivating in every sense.\' SARAH PEARSE\'Elegant and atmospheric and suffused with brooding menace.\' LUCY CLARKE\'Sultry and sinister . . . teems with sexual tension, the secrets of divination, and scholarly obsessiveness . . . jaw-dropping.\' SARAH PENNER‘Beguiling and atmospheric, an entrancing and gripping tale.’ KATE MOSSE-------Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its collection of medieval and Renaissance art.Drawn into a small circle of charismatic but enigmatic researchers, Ann happy to indulge some of their more outlandish theories, including the museum\'s curator who is fixated on tarot and the real possibility of predicting the future.But when Ann discovers a mysterious, once-thought lost deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards she finds herself at the centre of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship and ambition.And as the game being played within the Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide who she trusts . . .Instant Sunday Times bestseller, February 2024 Σελίδες: 416, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Out Of This World Graham Swift Scribner UK
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner In 1972, Robert Beech, First World War veteran and prominent figure in the arms industry, is killed by a car bomb. The event cuts short the career of his son Harry, a news photographer, and comes close to destroying his granddaughter Sophie. Ten years later, Harry, now working in aerial photography, and Sophie, visiting an analyst in New York, remain scarred and divided by the event. Around their broken relationship and Harry’s memories of his truncated career and his father, the novel builds a story that is acutely private yet sweepingly public, at the heart of which lies Harry’s lifelong dedication of the camera.Out of This World spans many of the twentieth century’s scenes of conflict, but also contains some of Graham Swift’s most achingly intimate scenes of personal confrontation—scenes that, powerful and haunting as photographs can be, no photographs can capture.‘Deserves to be ranked in the forefront of contemporary literature’ New York Times‘Superb, profound’ Sunday Times Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0711, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm
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The Jealous One: 'Irresistible.' (Val McDermid) Celia Fremlin Faber & Faber
A classic psychological thriller from author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Uncle Paul: \'Britain\'s Patricia Highsmith\' and the \'grandmother of psycho-domestic noir\' (Sunday Times)\'Brilliant ... So witty and clever.\' Elly Griffiths\'Fremlin packs a punch.\' Ian Rankin\'Irresistible.\' Val McDermid\'Splendid ... Got me hooked.\' Ruth Rendell\'A master of suspense.\' Janice HallettLindy had a lovely voice. It rose into the summer darkness clear and true as a nightingale; or was it, rather, like a bird of prey?Rosamund wakes up from her mid-morning nap to find, to her delight, that she is running a temperature. Surely that explains her blinding headache, and the weird, delirious dream in which she had murdered her overly seductive neighbour - the Other Woman - in a vengeful act of jealousy? A great relief, then, to find this was merely the nightmarish work of a fevered imagination. Until her husband exclaims, \'Rosamund! Have you any idea what\'s happened to Lindy? She\'s disappeared!.\' Σελίδες: 272, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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No Great Mischief Alistair MacLeod Vintage
In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in \'the land of trees\', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan: red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identity, its own history.It is the 1980s by the time our narrator, Alexander MacDonald, tells the story of his family, a thrilling and passionate story that intersects with history: with Culloden, where the clans died, and with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was \'no great mischief if they fall\'. Σελίδες: 272, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm
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The Royal Show: A brand new series from the nation’s favourite entertainer, Anton Du Beke Orion
By Royal invitation, join us to celebrate The Royal Show!Prodigal son and loyal daughter...The Forsyth Variety Company has been given the opportunity of a lifetime - to entertain Her Majesty at 1962\'s Royal Variety Performance.Keen to rehearse, the company heads to the Seagate Theatre under the tutelage of the company\'s owner, Ed Forsyth. This is Ed\'s last hoorah before retiring and he\'s keen to leave on a high. But his son, Cal, has absconded, leaving his twin sister, Evie, to help manage the company after their mother\'s death. Hoping to display her best trapeze performance ever, she\'s also desperate that the entire troupe should succeed. If only her father hadn\'t brought in another old-timer... Billy Rich has come all the way from Hollywood, invited to be their main star. Billy is full of bluster and ego and his much younger wife, the mysterious Magdalene, doesn\'t help.Can this troupe of old-time crooners, dancing girls and magicians possibly pull this off? Especially when they must compete with the 1960\'s rebellious new bands and revolutionary music? Abandoned by her brother, Evie has no idea if she\'ll ever be able to wrestle the troupe into a show fit for a queen.But as the theatrical group heads towards a royal deadline like no other, Cal returns out of the blue to introduce a song that could change the world. Is he here to help, or are his motivations darker? As the company descends into illicit romance, family intrigue and foul crimes, rehearsals begin to unravel. Can they really do this?Cal thinks he has the answer, if only the troupe can believe in him.Because the queen\'s show must go on... Σελίδες: 416, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1029, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Showstopper: Detective Peter Diamond Book 21 Peter Lovesey Sphere
Bath\'s top detective, Peter Diamond, doesn\'t believe in jinxes. So when he\'s asked to investigate a top TV show plagued by a series of misfortunes, Diamond is unmoved. He\'s no fan of the show - which glorifies criminals and mocks the police - and the incidents were spread across six years. It\'s clear this is the press making a sensation out of nothing. So Diamond puts the junior member of his squad on the case.But when young officer Paul Gilbert goes on location with the TV unit and witnesses another near-death incident, Diamond is forced to take an interest. To make matters worse, the press get wind of his involvement and Diamond his under pressure from all quarters. But his troubles have scarcely started. Devastating traps and surprises make this the most baffling case of his entire career. Σελίδες: 352, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0423, Διαστάσεις: 12.4x12.4cm
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Essays Michel Montaigne Penguin Classics
Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as \"On Solitude,\" \"To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die,\" and \"On Experience.\" Σελίδες: 416, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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The Mangle Street Murders M.R.C. Kasasian Head of Zeus
Fresh, funny crime series for fans of Jasper Fforde and M.C. Beaton. \'Delightful and original... A series that could well become a cult\' DAILY MAIL. 125 Gower Street, 1882. Queen Victoria may sit on the throne and Robert Peel\'s bobbies walk the street, but London is still haunted by the spectre of Spring-heeled Jack. The demons of vice and poverty rule the capital: ruffian gangs, pickpockets, prostitutes and vagrants clog the streets with their iniquity. But in one particular Gower Street residence – home to the famous personal investigator Sidney Grice – order presides. Until, that is, the arrival of his ward March Middleton and the vicious Whitechapel murder that follows hard on her heels... Set between the refined buildings of Victorian Bloomsbury and the stinking streets of London\'s East End, The Mangle Street Murders is for those who like their crime original, atmospheric, and very, very funny. Praise for THE MANGLE STREET MURDERS: \'Funny, fresh and sharply plotted... Starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson\' GOODREADS. \'Kasasian\'s sparkling debut introduces a memorable new detective duo\' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. \'Grice and Middleton promise to become a positive treat\' DAILY MAIL. Read the whole series: THE MANGLE STREET MURDERS THE CURSE OF THE HOUSE OF FOSKETT. DEATH DESCENDS ON SATURN VILLA. THE SECRETS OF GASLIGHT LANE. DARK DAWN OVER STEEP HOUSE. Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0801, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm
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Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature Paulo Coelho Penguin Classics
\'Anthology\' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring to mind the colour & fragrance of the fields, of a season. Coelho\'s anthology, therefore, is not only a collection of texts or poems, but a gift, something arranged according to his sensitivities, to give to others. The selection of books presented in this volume have been chosen as if from a vast field of flowers, stretching infinitely into time\'s horizon. Coelho\'s selection is ordered in to the four elements, symbolizing both our world on all its directions, and the way we dwell in it, the way we say it. In \'Earth\' we find writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde and D H Lawrence; in \'Air\' Nelson Mandela and Gabriel Garcia Marques; in \'Fire\' Rumi and Mary Shelley; in \'Water\' Hans Christian Anderson and Machiavelli. Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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The Binding Song: A chilling thriller with a killer ending from the author of THE WOLF DEN Elodie Harper Mulholland Books
A chilling debut for fans of Mo Hayder and Sharon Bolton. Welcome to HMP Halvergate.If you\'re lucky, you\'ll get to leave. Dr Janet Palmer was glad to take a new job as lead psychologist at a remote Norfolk prison. She may live to regret it...The staff are hostile, violence can break out at any time, no one will tell her what happened to her predecessor, and there are rumours of an eyeless woman stalking the corridors, driving the prisoners to suicide. Janet is determined to find answers. But the deeper she digs, the more she realises: something is rotten in Halvergate. And it\'s nothing as simple as ghosts . . . Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0222, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Olympus, Texas Stacey Swann Weidenfeld & Nicolson
\'The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut\'Oprah Magazine\'A gorgeous debut that conjures one small town and the big emotions of its wealthiest family, the Briscoes, whose saga plays out over six days of pain, rage and love\'People, Best of Summer\'I read without breathing - OK, maybe I gasped - and I experienced the characters\' grief and regret as if they were my own\'New York Times\'The novel is based on Greek myths but you don\'t need to know your Zeus from your Apollo to enjoy this saga full of deceit and drama\'Good Housekeeping\'Beautifully written and filled with atmosphere... a hugely accomplished debut\'Prima\'Secrets, lies and deceptions with Greek myth-like undertones... A literary family saga that spans one week and packs in everything from infidelity to a shooting\'High Life\'A total page-turner\'Kirkus (starred review)\'The most wildly entertaining novel I\'ve read in a long time\'Richard Russo winner of the Pulitzer Prize for FictionWhen March Briscoe returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother\'s wife, the Briscoe family becomes once again the talk of the small town of Olympus. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms: her husband\'s own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it, perhaps, time for a change?But within days of March\'s arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of alliances are shattered. In the end, the ties that hold the Briscoes together might be exactly what drag them all down.An expansive tour de force, Olympus, Texas combines the archetypes of Greek and Roman mythology with the psychological complexity of a messy family. After all, at some point, we all wonder: what good is this destructive force we call love? Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0426, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Arts > Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts
Super Fabulous Harry Styles Coloring & Activity Book: 30+ Coloring Pages, Photo Gallery, Word Searches, Quizzes & Fun Facts Ava Moore Design Originals
Harry Styles is a multi-platinum recording artist, film actor, and a fashion icon whose rise to fame took him from a TV talent show to becoming one of the most globally recognized celebrities of his generation. Now his fans of all ages can express their creativity and put their knowledge to the test with this colouring and activity book. Commemorate Harry\'s most iconic performances and appearances in 30 amazingly realistic coloring pages. And whether your fandom alliance is with the \"Harries\" or \"Stylers\", you are sure to enjoy the challenge of solving a variety of Harry-themed games, puzzles, and quizzes including spot-the-difference, mazes, and wordsearch inspired by his legendary career. Throughout you\'ll learn more fun-facts and \"Harry-isms\" on the back of each detachable coloring page including how his song, Treat People with Kindness (TPWK) has become a movement to promote acceptance and diversity. Round out your Harry Styles experience and enjoy the array of beautiful photographs of Harry Styles through the years. Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1204, Διαστάσεις: 21.6x21.6cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Fiction > Poetry
The Whisky Muse Volume II: Scotch Whisky in Poem and Song Robin Laing Luath Press Ltd
Σελίδες: 224, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Fiction > Modern Fiction
Promising Young Women Caroline O'Donoghue Virago Press Ltd
THE RACHEL INCIDENT - Caroline O\'Donoghue\'s bestselling new novel* - is out nowA darkly funny novel about being a young woman in a man\'s world\'Like Nora Ephron\'s Heartburn, Promising Young Women positively thrums with relatability and honesty\' IRISH INDEPENDENTJane is twenty-six, freshly dumped, and on the bottom rung of a lacklustre marketing career. She is also moonlighting as a worldly agony aunt. When an office party goes too far, she drunkenly tries out another role: the Other Woman. As Jane\'s affair with her much older, married boss takes off, she disregards the advice her alter ego would give and dissolves into being someone else\'s dirty little secret. But she\'s not the only one at her company to have taken the wrong path. As she finds her own health and sanity disintegrating, can she discover the truth before another promising young woman is taken under his wing?\'Deeply relatable and darkly comic . . . It\'ll have you nodding with familiarity, thinking, laughing - and crying - as you race towards the end\' GRAZIA\'So brilliant, I highly recommend it\' DOLLY ALDERTON\'I loved it - whipsmart and so witty\' MARIAN KEYES\'Sharp, pithy and engaging\' IRISH TIMES\'Smart and spiky\' METROAn Post Irish Book Awards Shortlisted - Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year*The Rachel Incident was a #2 bestseller in Ireland in June 2023 Σελίδες: 352, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0730, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Fiction > Crime Fiction
If Looks Could Kill Katherine Blake Penguin Books Ltd
Σελίδες: 400, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Science > Natural history
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Universe: And Our Place Within It Professor Andrew Newsam Elliott & Thompson Limited
Everything you ever wanted to know about the universe – and our place within it – in one mind-expanding and highly accessible book. ___ What happens inside black holes? Is dark matter real? Could we do anything to prevent being wiped out by an approaching asteroid? Will our explorations of our neighbouring planets reveal life or a new place to settle? What can observations of stars reveal about our origins – and our future? Professor Andrew Newsam draws on his vast expertise to show us what’s going on beyond the limits of our planet, from our solar system to distant galaxies – and what this tells us about our own place in this vast expanse called ‘the Universe’. From glowing nebulae to the sweeping majesty of the Milky Way, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Universe will spark your curiosity and help you make sense of the amazing discoveries and fascinating mysteries of the cosmos. ‘Unpatronizing, direct and comprehensible.’ BBC Sky at Night Magazine Σελίδες: 224, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0720, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Fiction > Modern Fiction
Memorial Bryan Washington Atlantic Books
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR\'This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happy\' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We\'re Briefly GorgeousBenson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years - good years - but now they\'re not sure why they\'re still a couple. There\'s the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. But when Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation, discovering the truth about his family and his past, while back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together as unconventional roommates, an absurd domestic situation that ends up meaning more to each of them than they ever could have predicted...Funny and profound, Memorial is about family in all its strange forms, becoming who you\'re supposed to be and the outer limits of love.NAMED A BOOK TO WATCH IN 2021 BY:SUNDAY TIMES | THE TIMES | DAILY MAIL | THE TELEGRAPH | RADIO 4 | IRISH TIMES Σελίδες: 320, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Health family & life style > Family and health / Parenting
Ten Things I Hate About Me: The instant Sunday Times bestseller Joe Tracini Trapeze
\'This is a remarkable book. The honesty is startling and potent\' Dawn French \'You have to buy this book. I mean it. It\'s very funny and sad and utterly true. It\'s a life-saver\'Miriam MargolyesHi. I hope you\'re ok.My name\'s Joe, and I have one job, every day: don\'t kill myself.I live with a complex mental illness called Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). 15% of people with BPD die by suicide, and 40% try.I\'m already in the 40%. My job is to keep out of the 15%. In this book I want to try and explain what life is like when you have a brain that is essentially trying to murder you every day. It\'s a collection of the funny, sad and shocking stuff that has happened to me along the way.Writing this book has been the hardest thing I\'ve ever done. It had to be dragged into the world, with my condition telling me that every single word, sentence and chapter was terrible and would make strangers walk up to me in the street and punch me in the face.But I had run out of options. I\'d done everything I \'d been told to do and I still thought about killing myself every day. So I wrote this book to save my life. But if there is even the smallest chance that me telling you how I live with me helps you live with you; if it opens up a space for someone, somewhere to be more honest about their mental illness, it will have been worth it.Please don\'t kill yourself.Love Joe xx\'Please read this book. It will make the world a better place\' James O\'Brien\'This book will save lives\' Lorraine Kelly\'Just holding this book will make you a better person\'Paddy McGuinness Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0718, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Fiction > Crime Fiction
Treachery at Lancaster Gate (Thomas Pitt Mystery, Book 31): Anarchy and corruption stalk the streets of Victorian London Anne Perry Headline Book Publishing
Thomas Pitt arrives at a devastating bombing in Lancaster Gate to find two policemen dead and three more gravely wounded. London\'s anarchists are blamed, but as Pitt and Inspector Tellman investigate they find it looks increasingly like a personal vendetta against those particular men. Did they lie about a drugs raid that went fatally wrong, and let an innocent man hang? The idea of police dishonesty cuts Tellman to the quick - he joined the force to protect society, not exploit it. But he must uncover the truth, however much he wants to resist the signs of blackmail and corruption. With the threat of further bombings, and their superiors pushing for a quick resolution, Pitt and Tellman find their every move scrutinised, and their own lives suddenly at risk...Treachery at Lancaster Gate is the exceptional new historical thriller from the master of Victorian crime. Σελίδες: 320, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0628, Διαστάσεις: 11.4x11.4cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Fiction > Modern Fiction
Moon Over Soho: Book 2 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series Ben Aaronovitch Gollancz
Book 2 in the Rivers of London series, from Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch.Body and Soul. The song. That\'s what London constable and sorcerer\'s apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho\'s 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body - a sure sign that something about the man\'s death was not at all natural but instead supernatural. Body and soul - they\'re also what Peter will risk as he investigates a pattern of similar deaths in and around Soho. With the help of his superior officer, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, and the assistance of beautiful jazz aficionado Simone Fitzwilliam, Peter will uncover a deadly magical menace - one that leads right to his own doorstep and to the squandered promise of a young jazz musician: a talented trumpet player named Richard \"Lord\" Grant - otherwise known as Peter\'s dear old dad.Praise for the Rivers of London novels:\'Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London\'NICK FROST\'As brilliant and funny as ever\'THE SUN\'Charming, witty, exciting\'THE INDEPENDENT\'An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grown-ups\'THE TIMESDiscover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. If you\'re a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams - don\'t panic - you will love Ben Aaronovitch\'s imaginative, irreverent and all-round irresistible novels. Σελίδες: 384, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1213, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Fiction > Modern Fiction
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Vintage Classics
Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF QUEENIEPecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the marigolds in her garden will not bloom, and her wish will not come true. Pecola\'s life is about to change in other painful and devastating ways.A powerful interrogation of what it means to conform to an idea of beauty, The Bluest Eye asks vital questions about race, class and gender and remains one of Toni Morrison’s most unforgettable works. Σελίδες: 240, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Health family & life style > Life style
The Fast 800 Health Journal Dr Clare Bailey Mosley Short Books Ltd
**AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4**CHANGE YOUR HABITS, CHANGE YOUR LIFE This easy-to-use, 12-week journal is the essential companion to Dr Michael Mosley\'s bestselling Fast 800 - an ideal aid for those wanting to fit the programme into busy lives.Perfectly sized so that you can keep it handy but with plenty of space to write in, this planner enables you to: - plan your meals - record your calories and factor in upcoming events - set yourself goals and reflect on the outcomes track activity levels- monitor your mood, eating and sleep habits With delicious new recipes, and packed full of motivational tips and weekly reminders, this book will keep you organised and energised on your path to better health. Σελίδες: 224, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm
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Αγγλικά Βιβλία > Fiction > Modern Fiction
Death of a Nurse M.C. Beaton Constable
James Harrison has recently moved to a restored hunting lodge in Sutherland with his gorgeous private nurse Gloria Dainty. When Hamish visits Mr. Harrison to welcome him to the neighborhood, the old man treats him very rudely. Gloria apologises for her employer\'s behavior, and Hamish takes the plunge and invites her out for dinner. On the appointed evening, Hamish waits for Gloria at the restaurant. And waits. But Gloria never shows up. Four days later, Gloria\'s body washes up on the beach near Braikie. She\'s been strangled. Now, without a date and without his former policeman Dick Fraser - who left the force to buy a bakery - Hamish must find out who killed the beautiful new resident of Sutherland, and why, before the murderer strikes again ... Σελίδες: 272, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm
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