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The Time Traveler's Wife
"This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorde...
Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood
Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph - this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung outpost of the British Empire...An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole o...
Fishing For Stars
Nick Duncan is a semi-retired, wealthy shipping magnate who lives in idyllic Beautiful Bay, Vanuatu, where he is known as the old patriarch of the islands. He is grieving the loss of his beguiling Eurasian true love, Anna, and is suffering for the first time from disturbing flashbacks to the Second Worl...
Goodbye to Berlin
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o...
Snow Country
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien ...
Where I Was from
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Co...
The Nutcracker (Little Golden Book)
Rita Balducci; Sheilah Beckett (Illustrator)
The Nutcrackeris back in print as a Little Golden Book, with all-new illustrations by Sheilah Beckett, who started illustrating Golden Books in the 1950s. This lovely retelling of the famous ballet will be a perfect holiday gift for any child who loves the ballet, Christmas stories, and fairy tales!...
Subzero : More Than a Melbourne Cup Hero
The story of Subzero, one of the most popular horses in Australian history. This is more than a racing story. Sure, there is the breeder who took a punt on an untried stallion, the owners who thought they were buying a fast two-year-old, the trainer who was breaking records and the jockey whose career w...
A Gift Of Love
'[He] inspired a generation ...He changed the course of history' Barack Obama As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in...
A Box Of Awesome Things Matching Game
Featuring the bright and simply sophisticated objects in Wee Society's An Incomplete Book of Awesome Things, this Wee Society Memory Game works kids' memories with 40 pieces featuring 20 odd and awesome things- masking tape, tunnels, lava, argyle, elbows, and more. The beautifully minimal, vibrant illus...
Me. You. Not A Diary: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller
'A mellow, gentle read with a lot of words of wisdom' Independent Me You is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket. It's a place for me and you to reflect on the patterns and changes of the year. It's full of my thoughts about the seasons, the months and what matters. It's your guide to re...
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho
Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works together weave a dense and beautiful brocade of repeated patterns and motifs, tones and textures. Here are asobi, the wandering performers who pre...
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times
'A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eventually follows' Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path 'A peaceful rebuff to life in fast-forward' Guardian Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when w...
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source.'Gripping' Economist'Jaw-dropping' Sunday Times'Riveting' Financial Times'Fascinating' ReutersThe modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the ...
I Feel That: Uplifting Quotes and Inspiring Pocket Wisdom for Every Mood
Quotes are instant sympathy. A good quote says, "I've been there, too," in just a few words. And the perfect quote in the perfect moment can be just the reminder you need that you're not alone, and you're going to get through this.That is why Christina Scotch started QuotesByChristie, her popular Instag...
Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-Realization
Everything you need to master the fundamentals of yoga, by NYT bestselling author and guru of modern meditation- Deepak ChopraA ground-breaking guide to the philosophy and practice of yoga from master of modern meditation Deepak Chopra.More than a form of exercise, yoga is a way of existing in the world...
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni...
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