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The Black Echo
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LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must walk the line between criminals and crooked cops following the death of an old war buddy.Bosch stared at the photograph until fatigue and alcohol pulled him down......
Pink
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A fresh and lively ride on the chaotic rollercoaster of love, friendship, musical theatre and the back stage crew, from one of the brightest voices in YA fiction.The pink jumper was practically glowing...
Unity
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In his first novel since the best-selling Easter, Michael Arditti explores the personalities and politics involved in the making of a lost film about the relationship between Unity Mitford and Hitler,...
McQueen's Agency
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Molly McQueen needs a new challenge. Her move to Australia hasn't worked out and now she's back home and ready to start her new venture, McQueen's Agency. But Molly soon finds that hiring temps out to...
Write Your Life Story
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Biographies are not just for celebrities. 'Normal' people's lives - your own, in fact - can be much more fascinating and interesting. The aim of this book is to help you celebrate your life - and those...
Queen of the Flowers
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Our utterly delightful heroine make a very welcome appearance as St Kilda's Queen of the Flowers. But when a body washes up on the beach, she must leave the carnival and find the killer.With more than...
Brother of the More Famous Jack
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Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the centre of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane...
In a Moment
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Adam & Emma are a couple being torn apart by their past. Their relationship is only held together by a thread. As their marriage disintegrates around them, Adam tries desperately to salvage it – while...
Peerless Flats
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Sixteen-year-old Lisa has high hopes for her first year in London. But squeezed into a temporary council flat with her bohemian mother and a little brother obsessed with foxes, she is not off to the...
Queen of the Night
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In the sequel to the Text Prize-winning This Is Shyness, the dark is dangerous. So are your dreams. For six months Nia has tried to forget Wolfboy, the mysterious boy she met in Shyness. The boy who...
Every Secret Thing
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'No one lives for ever. But the truth survives us all'Kate Murray is deeply troubled. In front of her lies a dead man, a stranger who only minutes before had approached her wanting to tell her about a...
Bad Traffic
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'THIS MAN HAVE COME FROM CHINA TO FIND HIS DAUGHTER WHO HAVE SOME TROUBLE. HE DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH'Inspector Jian is a Chinese cop from the Siberian border who thinks he's seen it all. But his search...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits him is full of danger, not only for him, but for anyone close to him – and Harry has...
Linger
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In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her...
How to Succeed at Interviews
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The new edition of this best-selling book tells you how to:Give impressive answers to over 200 interview questionsDeal with interview nerves and project total confidencePass psychometric tests,...

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The three friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione, are soon immersed in the daily round of Potions, Herbology,...
Rat Race
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Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. He'd done it all. From big jets to flying in supplies to war zones. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England's race courses he might be...
When the Sleeper Wakes
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Graham, an 1890s insomniac, took a powerful sleeping medication and awoke two hundred years later, in a twentieth-century world of great marvels and scientific achievement where he is the sole owner of...
Thief of Hearts
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Reformed cat burglar Clea Rice has witnessed enough crimes to put her on the straight and narrow. But little does she suspect that her search for justice will land her in the arms of wealthy English...
Brief Encounter
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Jenny Seagrove and Nigel Havers star in this BBC Radio 2 production of Noël Coward's classic tale of forbidden love.Laura Jesson is a happily married woman until a chance encounter in a train station...
The Winslow Boy
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A BBC Radio 4 production of Terence Rattigan's famous play about an innocent boy unjustly accused'It is easy to do justice - very hard to do right.'When he is accused of stealing a five-shilling postal...
The Vampire Hunt
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There's nothing that vegetarian vampire Count Alucard would sooner sink his teeth into than a fresh juicy peach, washed down with a glass of tomato juice. He wouldn't hurt a fly - but sadly the...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The story of respectable Dr. Jekyll's association with "damnable young man" Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling...
The Borrowers Aloft
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The Borrowers have found the perfect place to live—a complete model village! But their life is disturbed once again when Mr. Platter, who has a rival scheme, decides he wants some live...
Au Revoir Liverpool
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Liverpool, 1937. Jessica is married to Bertie, a mean, patronising man who she has stayed with purely for the sake of her two young children. To make up for the love and passion that is missing from...
The Lovers of Pound Hill
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When city girl Molly Bonner arrives in the village of Lufferton Boney, she creates quite a stir. With her determined manner and alluring looks, she sets off a wave of intrigue that ripples through the...
Stories about the Special Bond between Mothers and Daughters
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How often have you seen a teenage girl pretend to be perturbed, but secretly smile, when she is told that she acts or looks just like her mother? Fathers, brothers, and friends shake their head in...
Untold Story
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What if Princess Diana hadn't died?Diana's life and marriage were both fairy tale and nightmare. Adored by millions, in her personal life she suffered heartbreak and betrayal. Within a life of...
The Bad Kitty Lounge
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Michael Wiley's first novel, The Last Striptease, was nominated for a Shamus Award and hailed as "riveting" (Chicago Tribune), "delightful" (Toronto Globe and Mail), and "hard-boiled fiction with...
Babe, The Sheep-Pig
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Farmer Hoggett wins a piglet at the fair. It should fatten up nicely. However Fly, the sheep-dog trains Babe, the piglet, to herd sheep, making Babe an indispensable sheep-pig.

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is desperate to find out why his friends, Ron and Hermione, have been secretive all summer. But before he...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley, who make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. Then Harry starts receiving mysterious...
Death of a Cad
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When Priscilla Halburton-Smythe brings her London playwright fiancé home to Lochdubh, everyone in town is delighted... except for love-smitten Hamish Macbeth. Yet the affairs of his heart will have to...
Gratitude
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For most of us, gratitude comes easy when things are going well. But putting it into practice when life throws you a curve ball is another story. On Gratitude: The Essential Practice for Happiness and...
Drop Dead Gorgeous
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Where is love when you really need it? Certain that she will depart this world at the tender age of twenty-eight, Madison O'Donnell is determined to experience breathless, passionate love in the two...
The Coast Road
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Peter Corris' latest crime classic sees Private Investigator Cliff Hardy leaving the mean streets of Sydney for the Illawarra escarpment, and a gripping combination of a mysterious death, a missing...
Through the Dark Wood
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Have you ever looked at your career, your relationships, or your role in life and wondered, "Is this why I'm really here?" If so, then you are ready for your "midlife crisis"—the pivotal time when you...
Global Access French Basic Conversation
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Basic Conversation covers general social- and travel-related conversation, as well as business-oriented terms and protocals, plus practical national and cultural information.
Vlad the Drac Returns
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Vlad the Drac is on holiday in England and staying with old friends, the Stones. But what does a vegetarian vampire who loves the limelight find to do with himself all day long? Well, whatever he...
Dark Places
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Winner of the Vance Palmer Award for Fiction, Victorian Premier's Literary Prize, 1995.Albion Gidley Singer creates his world as a vast collection of facts-facts he uses to support his own power and...
Fight Club
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Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as...
Eflexx Empowerment Meditation
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The Eflexx Empowerment Mediation audio program was designed to help you visualize yourself being prosperous in the near future. It gently guides you on an energizing voyage through your home and...
The Cinderella Substitute
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In the two years since the tragic car crash that killed his fiancée, Nathanial (Nate) Mayer has successfully avoided another relationship. His family and especially his twin sister Nathalie are...
A Small Town in Germany
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You're not to disturb, annoy or offend. They're walking on a knife edge out there, anything could tilt the balance.' Missing: one junior diplomat and 43 of the British Embassy's most confidential...
Undressing Mercy
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GET NAKED FOR ME As director of a Boston art gallery, Mercy Rothell has made some hot deals in her time, but none like this. In order to sign the impossibly sexy, brilliant, and successful artist...

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The Comfort of Figs
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1939. A bridge is built, and a country town becomes a city. Three young men forge a close friendship as they labour precariously high above the river, but one slip transforms their lives. A generation...
My Shapes/Mis Formas
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Learn shapes and fun words that go with them, like circle and balloon, el circulo, el globo.Easy to understand illustrations help young children learn shapes and recognize objects made out of them - in...
Drawing Lessons
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Twelve-year-old Aurora is an artist like her father. Through a hundred drawing lessons, he has guided her hand, trained her eye, taught her how to mix colors and achieve perspective. Together they plan...
Rock, Rag, and Swing; Level 4
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John Lithgow Makes Arts and Literacy a Palooza of Fun for Kids! Take a heaping measure of fascinating information about the arts. Add a dose of laughter and creativity. What do you get? Best-selling...
The Ultimate Sales Managers' Guide
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Praise for The Ultimate Sales Managers' Guide "Klymshyn not only understands this great profession, he relates the passion and fun of managing sales people in this wonderful guide. We have waited for...
The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature
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This engaging and accessible guide covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama...
Further Adventures With Horatio Hope
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This partly illustrated story of Horatio Hope is based on the Seven Chakras in the human body and the ‘balls’ represent the energies of each. It is meant to show how hope is never lost and how...
ACT! 2007 For Dummies
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Find out how to get the most from your ACT! Manage your contacts, communicate, synchronize ACT! with Outlook, and more You have a business or organization to run. ACT! is designed to make that...
Sunday's Colt & Other Stories
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Step back into the exciting and humorous American West with several selected short stories and the novella, Sunday's Colt from award winning Old West fiction and outdoor writer Randy D. Smith. Read...
Moo-Moo Went the Tuba, Level 2
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John Lithgow Makes Arts and Literacy a Palooza of Fun for Kids! Take a heaping measure of fascinating information about the arts. Add a dose of laughter and creativity. What do you get? Best-selling...
My Teacher Glows in the Dark
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While living with aliens Peter has learned of their plans for the Earth and only he, Susan and Duncan can stop them. When Peter Thompson discovers that his newest teacher glows in the dark he's...
Fighting for the Forest
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A boy and his father like to take long hikes through an ancient forest. They enjoy watching the animals and the trees. It's a family tradition. But one day, they find blue marks on the trunks of the...
Up A Tree
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TRADE EDITION: I gave Simon a little shove, but it was enough to start him moving, then he quickly picked up speed. Too quickly. 'Slow down!' I screamed out into the Gorge. Simon and Molly would rather...
Tweet, Oompa, Bumpety-Boom!; Level 2
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John Lithgow Makes Arts and Literacy a Palooza of Fun for Kids! Take a heaping measure of fascinating information about the arts. Add a dose of laughter and creativity. What do you get? Best-selling...
Recycling
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Each year, the world's factories, mines, and farms add billions more tons of waste to the trash heap, which is colossally expensive to move and store-causing health and pollution problems. "Recycling"...
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