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Red Cavalry and Other Stories | Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of visio

The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales | Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through

Bend Sinister | The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with

Martin Chuzzlewit | 'Among the most powerful things Dickens ever did in fiction' Guardian Greed has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and na

The Push | Blythe and Violet. Mother and daughter. It's a bond like no other. But what if your little angel is a monster? And what if no one sees it but you? None. Категория: Книги/Книги на иностранны

Some Kind of Wonderful | When the love of your life says you're not The One . . . what next? After celebrating a decade together, everyone thinks Lizzy and Ian are about to get engaged. Including Lizz

Middlemarch | George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea B

Behind the Door | 'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding... Not now. Not ever.' School is a place of unspoken hierarchies and rivalries fo

Company Commander | Six months in Helmand, under constant attack, 200 men relying on you 24/7. What would you do? In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the Briti

Rooted. How regenerative farming can change the world | When barrister and author Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of farming. It was not how s

Interpreting Dreams | By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and

The Emperor's Babe | A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and transformative. Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living

Humboldt's Gift | For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however

Persuasion | Jane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she was persuaded

Crossing the Mangrove | 'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the mountains...' Francis Sancher always said he would com

The Flint Anchor | Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brand

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by

A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart | 'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating love as strength and

Tomorrow | Valentyne has lived many lives - physician, philosopher, soldier - but his defining work has been his ability to stop the clock. He has lived for centuries, as has his dog, Tomorrow. Insepa

The Jungle Books | Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. The story of Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungl

Anecdotes of the Cynics | 'It's you who are the dogs...' What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficie

Soul Music | 'This didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.' Being sixteen is always difficult, but it's even more so when there's a Death in the family. Susan hasn't

The Spy | The Spy is the third of Clive Cussler's brilliant historical thrillers. 1908, and American engineering geniuses are being killed off one by one... When a brilliant battleship gun engineer co

Not That Kind of Girl | Settle into this intoxicating and tantalising romantic comedy from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer and A Rural Affair A girl can get into all kinds of trouble just b

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By | A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces. 'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ... disturbed him whenever he saw a train go

Harrow Lake | It's an old-fashioned puppet. The details are hard to make out in the dim light, but it looks like the puppet's neck is broken. It's a sad-looking thing, trapped there in its cage. Maybe

In The Dark | Do you know what they're hiding in the house next door? A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive. No one knows who they are - the woman can't speak, and there

The Shadow Friend | The victim was your friend It was just a silly game to start with. Paul never really believed in it. He never dreamed Charlie would take it so far. So was the murderer For twenty y

A Breath of French Air | 'I should like to go to France,' said Ma. 'God Almighty,' Pop said. 'What for?' 'For a holiday of course,' Ma said. 'I think it would do us all good to get some sun.' And so a

The Shadow Friend | If it had happened to you, you would have run away too. Twenty-five years ago, Paul's friend Charlie Crabtree brutally killed their classmate - and then vanished without a trace. P

The Girl on the Via Flaminia | A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to See Rome, 1944. Robert is a lonely American soldier looking for a girl. L

Tom Clancy's Shadow of the Dragon | A global race against the clock... The Chinese Navy is gaining power. With quieter submarines carrying ballistic missiles, they pose a critical threat to President

Zen: The Art of Simple Living | The new take on an ancient concept that will bring peace, tranquillity and happiness to everyday life Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with t

The Game of Our Lives. The Meaning and Making of English Football | In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' Sherlock Holmes, scourge of crimin

The Lady in the Lake | 'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it rather well by now. Murder-a-day Marlowe, they ca

Searching for Tilly | Can revelations from the past help them start a new life? Three women came to the remote Cornish cottage that summer: Jenna, only twenty-six and grieving for the loss of the love

Fall of the Roman Republic | Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the gr

Poems and Readings for Weddings | Words of joy, love, devotion and celebration Deciding how to express your feelings on one of the most important days of your or your loved one's life can be overwhelm

The Moon is Down | Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a s

The Futurological Congress | Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment o

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense. Collected Poems | 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabb

Courage of the Railway Girls | The seventh heart-warming, uplifting instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series is available to pre-order now! Manchester, 1943 Emily is enjoying her new job as a

My Oedipus Complex and Other Stories | The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentfu

You've Got This | You can live the bold, exciting life you want, but fear and anxious thoughts may be holding you back. Anxiety serves a purpose; it's a powerful too when managed properly. It can help

All the Rage | The first girl came back. The next might not be so lucky... A girl is taken from the streets of Oxford. But it's unlike any abduction DI Fawley's seen before . . . Faith Appleford was a

My Life had Stood a Loaded Gun | 'It's coming - the postponeless Creature' Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. On

Life in Space. Level 2 +audio | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exerc

Dynasties. Chimpanzees. Level 3 | Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exe

Banker | Tim Ekaterin has a lot of money. Unfortunately, it belongs to other people, and it is his job to invest it wisely, or get fired. And right now he's taken a big risk: using ?5 million to stud

On Heroes and Tombs | 'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood...' One June day in 1955 Alejandra, last of a noble yet decaying Argentinian dyn

The Runaways | On the cusp of adulthood, three young people are about to make the most momentous decision of their lives. Anita lives in Karachi's slums - fearful that her fate is to serve the rich, u

Pride and Prejudice | Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Few have

Without Prejudice | A gripping, propulsive courtroom drama following a barrister as she uncovers the dark secrets of London's obscenely rich Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a working-

The 5th Wave | The 5th Wave is the first book in the bestselling series from award-winning Rick Yancey. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze Runner After the1st wave, only darkness

Discourse on Method and the Meditations | Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathe

The Age of Innocence. Level 4 | Newland Archer is going to marry the sweet, pretty May Welland. Everyone thinks that they are perfect together. Then, May's beautiful cousin, the Countess Ellen Olenska

Batman. Nightwalker | The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world's greatest super hero: BATMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Returning home from his lavish eight

Everything is Figureoutable | Do you ever have trouble finishing what you start? Do amazing ideas come to you all the time but after the initial excitement wanes you struggle to follow through? If you

Act of Oblivion | 'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son

Old Man Goriot | Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysterious

Are You Watching? | A page-turning new YA thriller for the social media age, perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and One Of Us Is Lying. Ten years ago, Jess's mother was murdered by the

Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new generation of revolutionary intellectuals threatene

Zero History | Hubertus Bigend, the Machiavellian head of global ad-agency Blue Ant, wants to uncover the maker of an obscurely fashionable denim that is taking subculture by storm. Ex-musician Henry