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Fans of More Happy Than Not, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and It's Kind of a Funny Story will cheer for Adam as he struggles with schizophrenia in this...

Fans of Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie will enjoy Rabbit and Pig's clever back-and-forth which shows the funny ways friends bounce ideas and feelings off each other. Rabbit just adores...

Here is the first book all the great sauces of practical, workable system. Raymond Sokolov, the widely admired former Food Editor of The first to point out that the hitherto...

A new volume of three novels-previously published separately by Anchor-by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn...

A fun collection of more than 30 original poems featuring 35 different friends from the Island of Sodor. Travel all over the island, at all times of year in this...

Since she first burst onto the international music scene, Melissa Etheridge has released seven albums that have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide, garnering not only public adoration for...

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now, we approach our destination. A new home. Aurora. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, AURORA is the work of a writer at the...

Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble in the air is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on...

The fierce secrecy surrounding the corps of the Queen's messengers has been somewhat relaxed recently, but the "silver greyhounds" are still bound by the Official Secrets Act. This is the...

It is a great truth of modern life that businessmen today are the world's most accomplished travellers. Like Marco Polo, the business traveller has a purpose; he is a man...

Are you prepared to be scared? This superbly illustrated book contains ten terrifying tales: five retold classic ghost stories such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ; and five original...

The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment in American history, and one with truly global resonance. Until now, no journalist...

NOW A MAJOR BBC SERIES "From the incomparable Winston Graham... who has everything that anyone else has, then a whole lot more" The Guardian The Four Swans is the sixth...

NOW A MAJOR BBC SERIES "From the incomparable Winston Graham... who has everything that anyone else has, then a whole lot more" The Guardian Bella Poldark is the final instalment...

When scriptwriter Jane Bussmann (South Park, The Fast Show, Brass Eye and Smack the Pony) moved to Hollywood, it was supposed to be the start of something better. But a...

A gripping and vivid novel of childhood and family feuding in the tradition of Kate Atkinson and Seamus Deane'Vivid, moving, alive: The Hiding Place opens up ordinary-looking doors to let...

Bad language. Scatalogical humour. Razor wit. Convoluted plot. High readability. It's the new Christopher Brookmyre thriller. Jack Parlabane is dead. Or is he? In an unlikely twist of the democratic...

In "Winter Solstice" Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.... Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in...

For many, the Christian life looks like this: You call out to God. Your problems get worse. You suffer and wait. Nothing changes. Author John S. Dickerson knows the feeling....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Here is the beloved, bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck at her funniest, wisest, and best , taking a hilarious look at the past...

Of all the giants of twentieth-century art, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was the most prolific writer. Here, available for the first time in paperback, are all of Kandinsky's writings on art,...

A committed Communist and a tireless con-man, Lenin's friend and the Soviet Union's most persuasive myth-maker, Willy Munzenberg changed the course of European history Willy Munzenberg-an Old Bolshevik who was...

The art of the Venetian Renaissance, with its chromatic richness, its emphasis on light and landscape, is quite distinct from that of Florence and Rome. This book considers what contributed...

Romance, luxury, and secrets abound in this thrilling new story collection that take readers deeper into the world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games series Inheritance Games series. There is...

Secrets. Lies. Super-bad choices. Witchcraft . . . A gripping mystery crossed with a pitch-dark tale of modern-day witchcraft. IN OUR FAMILY, MAGIC RUNS DEEP, BUT SECRETS RUN DEEPER. Ivy's...

Things My Sons Needs To Know About The World is a moving collection of stories about one of life's most daunting experiences; parenthood. 'You can be whatever you want to...

Jerusalem, 586BC, the Kingdom of Judah is on the verge annihilation by the Babylonians. In the chaos the Prophet Jeremiah rushes to save the sacred Ark of the Covenant. As...

Written by a dedicated selenophile (a person who loves the Moon), this guide to Earth's celestial companion is a non-technical narrative that quickly elevates the lunar novice to lunar authority....

The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a...

Death, for bacteria, is not inevitable. Protect a bacterium from predators, and provide it with adequate food and space to grow, and it would continue living--and reproducing asexually--forever. But a...

This delightful anthology is a treasure-house of England's heritage of popular verse, written by long forgotten local poets whose surviving work enriches our understanding of local customs and attitudes in...

How do you keep your head in the game when someone wants you gone? When those dearest to you are far away and the future is so uncertain . ....

From the New York Times -bestselling author of the Dante Club , the story of an epic literary heist by a forgotten class of consummate criminals book ' a-neer' (book...

A new edition of Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of country town life Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is...

A superb, gripping and sweeping piece of writing by a great narrative historian The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men...

First published in 1989, this book features seven travellers who write about different journeys: Colin Thubron on China's Silk Road, Naomi Jones on the Polynesian Islands, Hugo Williams on the...

THE WEATHER PROPHET is a much-needed book, the first account of this fascinating and culturally complex region of the world since Patrick Leigh Fermor's THE TRAVELLER'S TREE in the 1950s....

A sequel of sorts to the Booker-shortlisted THE SHADOW KING. This is an epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in...

A major book by Susan Jeffers on love, developing the theme of the phenomenally successful Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway has...