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The Hamlyn Book of Soft Furnishings: Essential Advice and Practical
Whether you're a home sewer, working with a designer, or are a designer yourself, here are inspirational ideas for curtains, pillows, loose covers, household linen, and other soft accessories. A...
The Black Candle
Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three...
You've Got Blackmail
Jaffa Cake junkie Lozzie Cracknell is a girl on the edge. She's been caught borrowing her sister Karen's stuff; her mum's possibly 'doing the do' with her worst teacher; and...
Scholar of Extortion
When Winston Lim, an incorruptible Inspector in the Hong Kong police force, receives a tip that a major act of maritime terrorism is about to happen, he races off into...
UV
It was, without doubt, the white that reassured them. When a handsome blonde stranger interrupts a family holiday to introduce himself as an old school friend of their son, Philip,...
Lizzie and the Lost Baby
Cheryl Blackford's debut novel is set in England during World War II and told from the dual perspectives of ten-year-old Lizzie, a homesick girl evacuated from bomb-blitzed Hull to the...
Journey that Saved Curious George
The dramatic story of Hans and Margret Rey's escape from Paris during WWII In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began...
Magic or Not?
When is magic not magic? Laura is a girl who goes out of her way to find adventure. So when her family moves to a house with a well in...
Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly
Seventeen-year-old Arlo Santiago lives for the "Drone Zone"-that free, joyful, antigravity feeling. He achieves the Zone with risky motorcycle stunts on New Mexico roads, or while playing his favourite video...
The Ice Child
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When Jo Harper falls in love with a maverick archaeologist, Doug Marshall, she also falls into Doug's obsession with one of history's greatest mysteries of exploration: one hundred fifty years...
Nobel Lectures
Times may change, but the dramas of existence don't. Nobel Minds attests to the power of literature to shape the world. Each year the Nobel Academy awards the Nobel Prize...
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
Global warming and the resulting climate change is one of the most serious environmental problems facing the world community. Global Warming: the Complete Briefing is the most comprehensive guide available...
Dark Princess: A Romance
Disillusioned with the United States after being expelled from medical school because of his race, Matthew Towns, a young African American man, moves to Berlin, Germany, where he meets and...
1923 Catalog Sears, Roebuck and Co.: The Thrift Book of a Nation
Step back into the roaring twenties with the iconic American retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co. This facsimile of the rare 1923 "Thrift Book of a Nation" catalog embraces the thrift...
Voyage out
This acclaimed work marked the debut of one of the 20th century's most brilliant and important authors. Virginia Woolf's captivating exploration of a young woman's growing self-awareness parallels a shipboard...
The Madness of Hallen
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Battle raged on the desert sands of the Great Depression. A land of tribal warriors, scattered and leaderless, was finally united under one mind, a man proclaimed as Husam al-Din,...
Writing the Australian Crawl
Stafford's advice to beginning poets has become a favorite text in writing programs
Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace
James Wallace brings readers up to date on the Gates saga to 1997 and reveals the inside story of the struggle to keep Microsoft on top in the World Wide...
Chromosome 6
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Mystery/Suspense Large Print Edition * A New York Times Bestseller This harrowing new bestseller by the master of medical thrillers combines the fast action of a nerve-jangling thriller with the...
The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
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Explores the style, taste, beauty, and politeness in American architecture, furnishings, fiction, and other areas after 1720, and examines how these concerns changed a large segment of the American culture.
Beyond Words
From the huge response to Lost for Words , it's clear that many of us share John's strong feelings about the use and misuse of the English language. Not because...
Visible Spirits
Set in Mississippi during the 1900s, Visible Spirits tells of two brothers, Leighton and Tandy Payne, and the haunting legacy of their tough planter father Sam. Leighton, the elder, sold...
February Flowers
An unlikely pair, seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan meet and form an immediate bond. Ming, innocent and preoccupied, lives in her own world of books, music and imagination. Yan is,...
Fear Factor: Terror Incognito
A collection of 20 unforgettable stories by well-known and emerging authors from Australia and the Indian subcontinent, including David Malouf, Salman Rushdie, Neelum Saran Gour, Tom Keneally, Rosie Scott, Jeremy...
Elixir
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When biologist Christopher Bacon traveled to the rainforests of Papau New Guinea in search of medicinal plants, he had no idea that he would bring home a flower rumored to...
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post * The Cleveland Plain-Dealer * Rocky Mountain News In this brilliant, lively, and...
Growth of the Soil
Born in 1859 in Norway, Knut Hamsun is the author of Mysteries, Victoria, The Wanderer, The Women at the Pump, Tales of Loss , and more. Growth of the Soil...
The Last Bookstore on Earth
A timely story of queer love and survival set against the backdrop of a climate change apocalypse, this book is Station Eleven and The Last of Us meets All that's...
Annelies: A Novel of Anne Frank
From the author of City of Women, a riveting new novel that asks the question, what if Anne Frank survived the Holocaust? In this unforgettable novel, David Gillham imagines Anne's...
The Desolations of Devil's Acre: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
The epic conclusion to the internationally bestselling Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series. The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he...
Elvis Remembered: Interviews With the People Who Knew Him Best
When Shelly Powers was 7, she told her mother that she'd marry Elvis Presley when she grew up. She did -- though he was an impersonator, a tribute artist she...
50 Aircraft That Changed the World
The flying machines that pushed the boundaries of aerospace development. In this book, the authors of the widely acclaimed Aviation Century series profile 50 of history's most influential aircraft, their...
One Day in a Very Long War: Wednesday 25th October 1944
This text gives an overview of a single day in World War II - 25th October 1944, as it was seen on all fronts. Through a succession of vignettes, showing...
Animal Watching: A Field Guide to Animal Behaviour
Desmond Morris draws examples from the rainforests of Australasia, the plains of Africa, the depths of the Pacific Ocean and the heart of the English countryside, identifying behaviour patterns both...
The Australian Legend
This book traces the considerable influence of nomad pastoral workers, who provided the work force in the nineteenth-century outback, on the Australian outlook and way of life.