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The dramatic tiered centerpieces of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are coming back into favor. Today, the term epergne designates both the tiered, ornate silver and glass centerpieces of the...

This is a magnificent book, a story of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance. It is full of sparely depicted but fully fleshed characters and...

An abundantly illustrated, cross-cultural exploration of a near-universal category of mythical beings. The alluring mermaids sighted by lonely mariners. The winged angels, by turns avenging and comforting, that abound in...

A Psychological Biography of Elvis Aaron Presley On the twentieth anniversary of his death, a new look at elvis from a psychological point of view. The only elvis psychobiography published...

Ben Dafoe, a young emergency-room doctor and part-time crime-scene consultant for the Seattle Police Department, is haunted by addiction. Two years earlier, a cocaine and crystal-meth habit claimed the life...

When Millicent Fairweather boards the Opportunity to journey to America, she's confident a better life awaits. Before she knows it, she's taken out of steerage to be a nanny to...

Visual hijinks abound as a nervous witch gets swept away with trying to tidy up before company comes-only to discover that being with friends is what really matters. Tick, tock!...

From field to stable, from rest to riding, poet Michael J. Rosen captures the nature of horses with spare and graceful haiku. Filled with Stan Fellowss evocative artwork, this collection...

The very act of reading it makes you feel happier. - A.J. Jacobs A bad breakup. A serious illness. The loss of a job. Life has a habit of throwing...

The Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose is a brilliantly original and poignant novel for our time. Harriet Rose, like any other teenager, is naive, overconfident and has always felt she...

Henrietta Tate has always taken her role as a full-time mother and home-maker very seriously. She s never had time for anything else. But now she and her family have...

Zoya grew up during the wars that ravaged Afghanistan and escaped to Pakistan as a teenager, devastated after the disappearance and death of her parents. There, she joined the Revolutionary...

Dave Robicheaux left his drinking days behind him many years ago, but he still feels guilt over a tragic event he wasn't sober enough to prevent. Dallas Klein, a gambling...

This beautiful, haunting novel begins as Niska is reunited with her nephew, Xavier, after he returns from the horrors of the First World War. As she slowly paddles her canoe...

Just days before an international medical convention begins, terrorists abduct a leading scientist from the Centers for Disease Control, the shadowy laboratories that serve as America's first line of defense...

Megan and Cisco Flynn are back in town. Nobody had ever been caught for the Klan murder of their father, Jack, and Detective Dave Robicheaux knows that trouble cannot be...

The name Titanic has become synonymous with catastrophe, the story of this luxurious liner legendary. Wrecked after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage, the loss of around 1,500...

Ella and Micha have been best friends since they were kids. But one tragic night shatters their friendship and their lives forever. Ella used to be a rule-breaker with fiery...

Beck Hardin returns to his Texas hometown - and his estranged father - after the death of his wife leaves him with two children to raise. The town is still...

This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how philosophical discussion can...

Don Schmidt knows his name has changed from Stanley, and he believes he had a sister and she died of scarlet fever when she was fifteen but these and other...

In the past few years the reading group phenomenon has swept the country and more and more people are becoming interested in either becoming a member of one or setting...

On the night the Used Women's Book Club meet to swap novels the husband of one of its members is being brutally murdered. It isn't the first time Rob has...

Amelia Lindsey is an exceptional young woman. She shares her days between a grandmother whom she loves, a mother whom she tolerates with patient fortitude, and Gerald. They had fallen...

A compulsive tale of betrayal and its impact upon a group of flatmates and lovers, Maggie O'Farrell's second novel does not disappoint. With the sensuality, passion and emotional acuteness which...

In 1998 and 1999 legendary explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell led one of the most ambitious expeditions since Thor Heyerdahls Kon-Tiki. This is the account of an amazing adventure which provided...

A bright new edition of this complete collection of First Experiences, introducing young children to situations they might find themselves in for the first time. Features Stephen Cartwright's gently humorous...

As a discerning reader of nineteenth-century American fiction, Englishman Colin Ware is familiar with the tradition of transcending disastrous love affairs by booking the next ocean liner to Europe. Now...

With more than 10 million books in print and more than 9.5 million calendars sold, DILBERT is the voice for the embattled cubicle dwelling Everyman. With best friend Dogbert and...

This off-beat Easter story about a chick discovering when Easter will be is bound to bring a smile. Hilda the Hens beautiful egg doesnt hatch. Instead the talking egg asks:...

By the bestselling authors of The Glass House , Anne Buist & Graeme Simsion, comes the second novel in the groundbreaking Menzies Mental Health series Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright...

we are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man...

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." Since time immemorial, humans have been captivated by water. No wonder: it's the most omnipresent substance on...

Like A YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING this powerful and touching book is both an inspirational read and a comfort to those who are looking for help in overcoming loss. The...

All of the apparent accidents and mysterious coincidences that led me, an ordinary Australian girl, to a life in Africa happened for a good reason. I m not sure what...

Colin Thompson's first, highly autobiographical, adult novel. He has created an intense, moving, yet funny story about losing and then retrieving sanity. It is the story of a young man...

The first title in Robert Hood's gripping new series about creatures from the Shadow Realm - teenagers who were once taken out of their time and place by a sinister...

The Wanton Bride by Mary Brendan Mark Hunter managed to vex her at every opportunity - and seemed to enjoy doing so. Though to prevent a family scandal, Emily Beaumont...

Champion swimmer, trailblazer and film idol - the adventurous life of our first Hollywood superstar, by the bestselling author of Sister Viv , Mrs Kelly , Hudson Fysh , Banks...

Teachers are all around us -- it's time to give them a gold star! The new bestseller from the creators of IF I WAS PRIME MINISTER. School teachers teach us...