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The Last Good Kiss

The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley

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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Andrew Harvey, Patrick Gaffney, Sogyal Rinpoche

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In this major and comprehensive work, Buddhist meditation master and international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche brings together the ancient wisdom of Tibet with modern research on death and dying and the nature of the universe. With unprecedented scope, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" clarifies the majestic...
 
The Road to Wellville

The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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The hilarious account of Dr John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the cornflake and peanut butter. The author talks about Kellogg's profligate, degenerate and opportunistic son and the birth of America's first health fanatics.
 
Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy

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The Coroner's Lunch

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill

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Laos,1976. The monarchy has been deposed, the Communist Pathet Lao have taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but Dr Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor remains. And so this 72-year-old physician is appointed state coroner, despite having no training, equipment, experience or even inclination for the...
 
The Girls of Slender Means

The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

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This is London 1945, when all nice people are poor. Muriel Spark sets us down among the girls of good family but slender means as they fight it out, from their Kensington hostel to the last clothing coupon until this charmingly light-hearted period in their lives descends into horror and tragedy.
 
Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom, Derek Strange

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This is a series of simplified stories, designed as an introduction to literature. The series offers classics, best-sellers, film-titles and original stories. Each book has extensive exercises, a detailed introduction and information about the syllabus. They are published at six levels: level 1 - beginner (300...
 
The Borrowers

The Borrowers by Judith Elkin, Julia Eccleshare, Sian Bailey, Mary Norton

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The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They own nothing, borrow everything, and think that human beings were invented just to do the dirty work. Arrietty's father, Pod, was an expert Borrower. He could scale curtains...
 
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Michael Hague

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By falling down a rabbit hole, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters.
 
God's Own Country

God's Own Country by Ross Raisin

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In one of the most celebrated debut novels of recent years, Ross Raisin tells the story of solitary young farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his extraordinary battle with the world. Expelled from school and cut off from the town, mistrusted by his parents and avoided by city incomers, Marsdyke is a loner until he meets...
 
Tar Baby

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

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Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his...
 
Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham

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Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal to the...
 
Dead Aim

Dead Aim by Thomas Perry

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"Perry succeeds with Dead Aim on all fronts. It's both chilling and absorbing, the right mix in a thriller."-New York Daily News Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful, carefully constructed...
 
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake

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The Shining

The Shining by Stephen King

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In the exciting build-up to publication of Stephen King's new mainstream novel, LISEY'S STORY, Hodder are launching their King Classics Campaign -- starting with 6 of the most popular titles, CARRIE, THE SHINING, BAG OF BONES, CHRISTINE, THE STAND, MISERY. These titles will be published for the first time in...
 
Ravelstein

Ravelstein by Saul Bellow

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Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously - and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the...
 
The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat published by HarperCollins Publishers

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To accompany the release of the live action movie of The Cat in the Hat, starring Mike Myers, HarperCollins are proud to present Dr. Seuss's original, classic tale of the coolest, hippest cat in history! When the Cat in the Hat steps in on the mat, Sally and her brother are in for a roller-coaster ride of havoc...
 
Jitterbug Perfume

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

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A story beginning in the forests of ancient Bohemia and ending at nine o'clock tonight, Paris time. The hero is a janitor with a missing bottle which is embossed with the image of a goat-horned god and is said to contain the remaining drops of the secret essence of the universe.
 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

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A lavish full-colour 40th anniversary gift edition of this bestselling story with coloured backgrounds on every page, illustrated by Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator.
 
Stupid White Men: .and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

Stupid White Men: .and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore

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Michael Moore sizes up the new century - and that big, ugly special-interest group that's laying waste to the world as we know it: stupid white men. Whether he's calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of...
 
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