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Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971

Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya: The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971 by Simon Karlinsky, Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov

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Simon Karlinsky has substantially expanded and revised the first edition of Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson's correspondence to include fifty-nine letters discovered subsequent to the book's original publication in 1979. Since then, five volumes of Edmund Wilson's diaries have been published, as well as a volume...
 
Pale Fire

Pale Fire by Mary Mccarthy, Vladimir Nabokov

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A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.
 
Last and First Men

Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon

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One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years. Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his work. First published in 1930, Last and First Men is full of...
 
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A masterpiece, a dazzling social satire, and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, "The Great Gatsby" peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart. Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New...
 
Pale Fire: A Novel

Pale Fire: A Novel by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabakov

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War and Peace

War and Peace by L. N. Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

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Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and...
 
Shantaram

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

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'It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.' So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is...
 
A Million Little Pieces

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

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James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises. He has no wallet and no idea of his destination. He has abused alcohol and every drug he can lay his hands on for a decade -- and he is aged only twenty-three. What happens next is one of...
 
Three Great Novels - The Bourne Trilogy: "The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy", "The Bourne Ultimatum"

Three Great Novels - The Bourne Trilogy: "The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy", "The Bourne Ultimatum" by Robert Ludlum

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THE BOURNE IDENTITY: He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was fished out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face, a Swiss bank account containing four million dollars, and a...
 
The Take

The Take by Martina Cole

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Freddie Jackson thinks he owns the underworld when he gets out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections, and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie, just wants her husband home, but she's forgotten the rows, the violence, and the girls Freddie can't leave alone. Bitter, resentful, and...
 
The Bromeliad: "Truckers", "Diggers", "Wings"

The Bromeliad: "Truckers", "Diggers", "Wings" by Terry Pratchett

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Truckers, Diggers, and Wings: To the thousands of tiny nomes living under the floorboards of a large department Store, there is no Outside. They have no day or night, no sun or rain. They're just daft old legends. Until they hear the devastating news that the Store is to be demolished...
 
Beach Road

Beach Road by James Patterson, Peter Y. De Jong

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Down-and-out Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's ship finally comes in when he's hired to defend a local man accused of the triple murder that has the East Hampton world in an uproar.
 
Under the Knife

Under the Knife by Tess Gerritsen

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For David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice. As attorney for a grieving family, he's determined to hang a negligent doctor. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, dating him to seek out the truth -- that she's being framed. First, it was Kate's career that was in jeopardy. Then, when...
 
The Jump

The Jump by Martina Cole

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Donna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is jailed for armed robbery. Georgio swears he's been set up and persuades Donna to help him escape. Implementing 'the jump' takes Donna into a twilight world she never believed existed - a world of brutal sex and casual violence. Finally, she is...
 
Peony in Love

Peony in Love by Lisa See

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"I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret." For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a...
 
Goodnight Lady

Goodnight Lady by Martina Cole

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In the sixties, Briony Cavanagh ran a string of the most notorious brothels in London. Only Briony knew what went on behind those doors, and she never opened her mouth - unless she stood to benefit. Only Briony knew the painful road she'd travelled to get there. From an impoverished childhood that ended with...
 
Panic

Panic by Jeff Benedict

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Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher - until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in wait for him. It is then he realises his whole life has been a lie. His parents are not who he...
 
Two Women

Two Women by Martina Cole

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Danger and violence have always been part of Sue Dalston's East End upbringing. Unloved by her mother, abused by her father, and brutalised throughout her entire marriage, she smashed her husband's skull in a final act of desperation. All that keeps her sane is knowing that she's done it to protect her four...
 
Exes Anonymous

Exes Anonymous by Lauren Henderson

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Exes Anonymous - Meeting Tonight at 8pm. Please Bring Your Own * Bottle * Crushed and broken heart * Snacks Rebecca broke up with Patrick five months ago. She's doing fine. Okay, so she has turned her bedroom into a sort of Patrick shrine with pictures and candles. But she's fine, honestly. She's getting over it....
 
Broken

Broken by Kelley Armstrong

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Book 6 in Kelley Armstrong's supernatural series marks the return of werewolf Elena Michaels from Bitten and Stolen. When half-demon Xavier calls in the favour Elena owes him, it seems easy enough - steal Jack the Ripper's 'From Hell' letter away from a Toronto collector who had himself stolen it from the Ripper...
 
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