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Dogs of Summer: A sultry, simmering story of girlhood and an international sensation
Author: Andrea Abreu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Translated by Julia Sanches. It is June and Shit is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood...
The Liar's Knot: Rook and Rose, Book Two
Trust is the thread that binds us . . . and the rope that hangs us. In Nadezra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor...
The Interpretation of Dreams
By a detailed investigation of dreams Freud discovered a way of exploring the unconscious, recognized that dreams, like neurotic symptoms, are products of a conflict and compromise between conscious and...
A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back
David Hallberg, the first American to join the famed Bolshoi Ballet as a principal dancer and the dazzling artist The New Yorker described as "the most exciting male dancer in...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of post-modern America: reality TV,...
Home-alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Wonder Drugs, and
Why are there so many troubled kids these days, diagnosed with learning disabilities or behavioral problems? Why is child obesity out of control? Why are teenagers contracting herpes and other...
Danse Macabre
An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel. 'It was the middle of November, I was supposed to be out jogging, but instead I was sitting at my breakfast table talking about...
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Edward Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman...
Sandro Botticelli • The Medici Masters in Colour (No. 1)
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; 16 tipped on colour plates of paintings - identification and description of plates. Few artists in the...
All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
Ambition-the want, the hunger, the need to achieve-is woven into America's fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the "right" college...
Madeline and the Old House in Paris
In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines . . . In an old house in Paris that was...
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer 'A masterpiece' Andrew...
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United
Since the 1940s Americans and Britons have come to enjoy an era of rising material abundance. Yet this has been accompanied by a range of social and personal disorders, including...
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice
Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venice's Grand Canal, 'il palazzo non finito' was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century...
The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear
'A redeeming way to look at the condition, as not merely a burden but ultimately a blessing ... unexpectedly moving ... validating and hopeful' Guardian Anxiety. It's all in your...
NYPD Confidential: Power and Corruption in the Country's Greatest
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For years, the police commissioner and the mayor have duked it out for publicity, credit, and power. Some have translated their stardom into success after leaving office, while others have...
Court Licensed Abuse: Patriarchal Lore and the Legal Response to
This book is based on award-winning research that analyzes transcripts of intrafamilial child sexual abuse trials. Building on the contemporary focus of legal trials as hegemonic sites of storytelling from...
The Three of Us: an absolutely gripping and heartbreaking love story
'A beautiful novel about messy relationships, finding yourself and over-coming past trauma. I completely lost myself in this story' SARA JAFARI, author of The Mismatch ' I enjoyed this book...
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise
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During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can...
Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered
The inside story of how the credit crunch unfolded by the first journalist to predict it. Falling house prices. Rising energy and food prices. Job losses. Paralysis over whether interest...
Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and
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"Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime." With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich,...
Chunky: The Best Bits from Acorn Antiques to Kitty and more
'There was none like her before and there's been none like her since - she was unique.' Dawn French Victoria Wood was one of the true comedy greats of her...
Everyone Is Still Alive: The funny and moving fiction debut from the
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER HAPPILY EVER AFTER? 'I can't stop thinking about it' Elizabeth Day 'A total triumph' Nina Stibbe 'Beautiful, moving and so funny and well-observed' Philippa Perry When Juliet...
Mattering: The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Connection and
'The perfect antidote to our modern mental health epidemic' PROFESSOR TIM SPECTOR 'Wallace has a deep understanding of what matters most to us - and her book shows us how...
Influenced: The explosive and conversation-starting book club read
'Powerful. A great book club pick!' RED 'One of the best new reach reads!' THE TIMES 'Raw, honest and funny' HEAT Her life was perfect . Now she wants revenge...
Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of
What's it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What's it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and...
Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India
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In Uttar Pradesh-known as the "badlands" of India-a woman's life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after...
Joseph Andrews
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the modern novel had found its footing, Henry Fielding set the template with Joseph Andrews, a...
The Truth According to Ember: A smart and swoony rom-com delight!
'A truly funny and wonderfully heartfelt comedy of errors with a plucky, lovable heroine . . . Danica Nava is a fresh, exciting new voice in the world of romantic...
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression
A vital and searching exploration of sadness and depression in the age of anti-depressants and quick-fix solutions What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or...
Spain, Third Edition: The Root and the Flower: An Interpretation of
This is the late John A. Crow's classic study of the cultural history of Spain and its people, which he last updated in 1985 but which seems as fresh and...
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
HEADSCARVES AND HYMENS explodes the myth that we should stand back and watch while women are disempowered and abused in the name of religion. In this laceratingly honest account, Eltahawy...
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last
The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the defeat of settler colonialism, the unprecedented growth of cities from Lagos to Cairo; the African continent is booming. So why do myths...
I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity
As a connoisseur of comedy, Robin Ince has spent decades mining our eccentricities to create gags - and watching other strange individuals do the same. And for years on The...
Of Men and Angels
'Arditti is a master storyteller who uses his theological literacy sparingly to deliver a challenging but enthralling read' Guardian Award-winning, bestselling author Michael Arditti's tenth novel, documenting the history of...
Oath Breaker: Book 5
When he was outcast, Torak was the hunted one. The following spring, he becomes the hunter when he swears to avenge the killing of one of his closest friends. To...
Rivkin Unauthorised The Rise and Spectacular Fall of an Unorthodox
For the first time, the whole uncensored story of one of the financial world's most flamboyant characters. In some ways, Rene Rivkin's story was the classic tale of an immigrant...
The Reunion: the must-read enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity summer
FROM THE AUTHOR OF NETFLIX SENSATION THE KISSING BOOTH Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month June 2024! SIX OLD FRIENDS. TEN YEARS LATER. IS IT TOO LATE TO LEARN A...
This Could Be Serious: An Innocent City Boy's Romantic Journey From Slum To Splendour Along The Explosive 70's Rock 'N' Roll Highway, Through Heartbreak And Happiness ... To The Virus
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; pages can have minimal notes and/or highlighting; signed ephemera laid in. What happens when a...
These Impossible Things: An unforgettable story of love and friendship
'Captures the fierceness of female friendship' BETH O'LEARY | 'The essential book on sisterhood' NIKITA GILL Shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2023 Three women. One life-changing friendship. One chance...
Smarter: 10 lessons for a more productive and less-stressed life
WINNER OF THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARD, WORK & LIFE 2025 'A manifesto for working women' THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE 'A new practical guide and empowering manifesto for those ready to...