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Bel-Ami
Guy De Maupassant,; Douglas Parmee (translator)
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, "Bel-Ami" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in "Penguin Classics". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist...
Bears in the Night
Illus. in full color. The Bears' adventures take them "in, out, around, " and "about." "A good job of combining words and pictures into aslapstick but cohesive story."-- "School Library Journal. "...
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen
'Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian' The TimesBritain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who began life a princess, spent her y...
Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
**Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award**Though Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was never content with being just a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become 'the everything store', offering limitles...
The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying: A Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West
25th Anniversary EditionOver 3 Million Copies Sold'I couldn't give this book a higher recommendation' BILLY CONNOLLYWritten by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the T...
Then She Was Gone: the addictive, psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Packs a huge emotional punch that will leave you winded.' CL Taylor, author of The Missing'I defy you to put this addictive book down until you reach the final heart-breaking page.'Daily Express'If you were the first of your friends to read Girl on the Train and have re...
The Natural Laws of Children - Why Children Thrive When We Understand How Their Brains Are Wired
Céline Alvarez; Sherab Chödzin
All children are born wired to learn and to love. As young children explore the world and interact with others, their brains naturally develop at an incredible rate. And yet, in spite of our best intentions, parents and educators often fail to structure homes or schools in ways that fully encourage natu...
The Secret Explorers and the Plant Poachers (#8)
Learn all about forest life and the amazing Venus flytrap in this conservation themed instalment of BK Books' new educational fiction series for children.Meet the Secret Explorers - a band of brainiac kids from all around the world. Everyone in this diverse group of young experts has a speciality, from ...
Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine
Joe Campanale, Joshua David Stein
The Italian wine bible for a new generation--a superstar sommelier and restaurateur explores the dynamic world of contemporary Italian wine. "Joe gives us the gift of learning about the ever-evolving landscape of the world's most soulful (and might I say favorite?) wine region."--Danny Meyer Acc...
The Overstory: The million-copy global bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived'An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by...
We Go High: How 30 Women of Colour Achieved Greatness against all Odds
Giftable and informative book celebrating the words and wisdom of 30 influential women of colourFollow the life lessons of 30 remarkable women of colour - past and present - who have made their mark on society and culture."When you are struggling and you start thinking about giving up, I want you to rem...
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