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Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew
2014 marks the hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars. And while the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry – words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets – many of whom were killed – show not only the war’s tragedy but the hopes and dis…
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- 9781447241997
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- 336 pages, Hardcover
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- 821.912 MAX s
Stranger Than Kindness
STRANGER THAN KINDNESS is funny, poignant, intelligent and compelling.I believe books are like stepping into little alternative worlds floating in your mind and this world was one I wanted to stay in much longer.' Jo Brand. It is 1989 and Community Care is about to reboot the industry of psychiatry. In a soon-to-be-closed asylum a bruised nurse, Adam Sands, is feeling less like a purveyor of ki…
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- 9780957549739
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- 823 MAR s
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Snow White's stepmother looks like a pussycat compared to the monster under which Adeline Yen Mah suffered. The author's memoir of life in mainland China and--after the 1949 revolution--Hong Kong is a gruesome chronicle of nonstop emotional abuse from her wealthy father and his beautiful, cruel second wife. Chinese proverbs scattered throughout the text pithily covey the traditional world view …
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- 9780140265989
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- 823 ADE f
News of a Kidnapping
Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Madellín cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts.
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- 9780241980415
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- 291 pages
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- 823 GAB n
1Q84
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostw…
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- 9780307476463
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- 1157 pages, Paperback
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- 823 MUR1
The Witch of Portobello
How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of whom we are? That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well—or hardly at all.
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- 9780061349959
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- 268 pages
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- 823 COE t
Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories
Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori's 'The Vampyre' and James Malcolm Rymer's 'Varney, the Vampyre', a tale which held readers in thrall whe…
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- 9781840225464
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- 256 pages
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- 823 DAV c
Beautiful You
Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, aka "Climax-Well," a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny…
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- 9780224099066
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- 222 pages, Paperback
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- 823 CHU b
Explorers
From Caldecott Medalist Matthew Cordell, Explorers is a new picture book about an extraordinary trip to a museum. When a family goes to a local museum, a boy notices a homeless man sitting outside, making brightly colored origami birds. He convinces his dad to buy a bird the man makes just for him. Once inside the museum, his little sister takes the bird and launches it into the air. Is i…
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- 9781250174963
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- 40 pages, Hardcover
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The famous escapades of the young, energetic and inventive dare-devil Tom and his companion Huckleberry Finn are told with lively humour, but also darker episodes of social satire, in Mark Twain’s classic. Robert Ingpen brings the characters and their adventures to life and recreates the atmosphere of the American South in the 1840s in this richly illustrated edition.
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- 9781913519513
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