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| "Snow Like Ashes : 1" |
| "A striking fantasy tale of dark magic dangerous politics and discovering your true self-perfect for fans of Game of Thrones An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and RosesSixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved leaving them without magic or a monarch Now the Winterians' only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter's magic and rebuild the kingdom ever sinceOrphaned as an infant during Winter's defeat Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee Training to be a warrior-and desperately in love with her best friend Winter's future king-she would do anything to help Winter rise to power againSo when scouts discover the location of the ancient locket that can restore Winter's magic Meira decides to go after it herself-only to find herself thrust into a world of evil magic and dangerous politics-and ultimately comes to realize that her destiny is not never has been her own"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Dear Chairman : Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism" |
| "A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism's longest running tensions-the conflicts of interest among public company directors managers and shareholders-told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most legendary and controversial investors and activistsRecent disputes between shareholders and major corporations including Apple and DuPont have made headlines But the struggle between management and those who own stock has been going on for nearly a century Mixing never-before-published and rare original letters from Wall Street icons-including Benjamin Graham Warren Buffett Ross Perot Carl Icahn and Daniel Loeb-with masterful scholarship and professional insight Dear Chairman traces the rise in shareholder activism from the 1920s to today and provides an invaluable and unprecedented perspective on what it means to be a public company including how they work and who is really in controlJeff Gramm analyzes different eras and pivotal boardroom battles from the last century to understand the factors that have caused shareholders and management to collide Throughout he uses the letters to show how investors interact with directors and managers how they think about their target companies and how they plan to profit Each is a fascinating example of capitalism at work told through the voices of its most colorful influential participantsA hedge fund manager and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School Gramm has spent as much time evaluating CEOs and directors as he has trying to understand and value businesses He has seen public companies that are poorly run and some that willfully disenfranchise their shareholders While he pays tribute to the ingenuity of public company investors Gramm also exposes examples of shareholder activism at its very worst when hedge funds engineer stealthy land-grabs at the expense of a company's long term prospects Ultimately he provides a thorough much-needed understanding of the public companyshareholder relationship for investors managers and everyone concerned with the future of capitalism"
Price: 14.49 |
| "The Jungle Book (Illustrated with Interactive Elements)" |
| "For fans of all ages legendary British writer Rudyard Kipling's complete collection of enchanting fables set in India-the basis of the beloved animated Disney film and a modern cinematic retelling from director Jon Favreau-now available in a deluxe four-color illustrated collectible edition The Jungle Book features stunning artwork and nine 3-D interactive elements crafted by MinaLima Design the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise and the illustrated classic Peter PanSince its publication in 1894 Rudyard Kipling's beloved masterpiece The Jungle Book has been celebrated by generations of readers Composed of seven tales each one accompanied by a poem The Jungle Book is a coming of age fantasy that introduces a lush colorful world full of adventure and danger The first three tales include some of the most charming and unforgettable characters in literature-the man-cub Mowgli the black panther Bagheera the wise brown bear Baloo the ruthless tiger Shere Khan and the hypnotic python Kaa The other four tales each tell the story of a different animal such as the travels of the white seal Kotick; the battle between the courageous mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the deadly cobra Nag; Toomai and the elephant dance; and the camp animals of the queen's guardThe second volume in Harper Design's newest series of deluxe reimagined children's classics this beautiful unabridged edition takes readers deep into the heart of the Indian jungle with specially commissioned four-color illustrations and nine exclusive interactive features that will delight readers including a map of the lost Indian city where Mowgli is taken by the monkeys; a trifold detailing the Laws of the Jungle; a spinning dial of the elephant dance; and a map of Kotick's route to find a new homeBeautifully designed this keepsake illustrated edition will be treasured by readers of all ages"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Journey to the Heart : Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul" |
| "Melody Beattie gives you the tools to discover the magnificence and splendor of your being -Deepak Chopra author of Jesus and Buddha Beattie author of Codependent No More Beyond Codependency and Lessons of Love writes with the same warmth honesty and compassion in this collection helping readers chart a new path toward spiritual growth and renewal Journey to the Heart will comfort and inspire us all as we begin to discover our true purpose in the world and learn to connect even more deeply with ourselves the creative force and the magic and mystery in the world around and within us"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Cartoon Guide to Statistics" |
| "Updated version featuring all new materialIf you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on People's Court or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the road to statistical literacyThe Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics the summary and display of data probability in gambling and medicine random variables Bernoulli Trails the Central Limit Theorem hypothesis testing confidence interval estimation and much more-all explained in simple clear and yes funny illustrations Never again will you order the Poisson Distribution in a French restaurant!"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Materials Selection in Mechanical Design" |
| "Materials Selection in Mechanical Design Fifth Edition describes the procedures for material selection in mechanical design in order to ensure that the most suitable materials for a given application are identified from the full range of materials and section shapes available Extensively revised for this fifth edition the book is recognized as one of the leading materials selection texts providing a unique and innovative resource for students engineers and productindustrial designers"
Price: 48.49 |
| "The Thousand Names" |
| "In the desert colony of Khandar a dark and mysterious magic hidden for centuries is about to emerge from darkness Marcus d'Ivoire senior captain of the Vordanai Colonials is resigned to serving out his days in a sleepy remote outpost when a rebellion leaves him in charge of a demoralised force in a broken down fortress Winter Ihernglass fleeing her past and masquerading as a man just wants to go unnoticed Finding herself promoted to a command she must rise to the challenge and fight impossible odds to survive Their fates rest in the hands of an enigmatic new Colonel sent to restore order while following his own mysterious agenda into the realm of the supernatural"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The New Atkins Made Easy : The faster, simpler way to lose weight and feel great - starting today!" |
| "Atkins remains the world's most famous diet and for good reason the Atkins high-protein low-carb plan has helped millions of people around the world lose weight and keep it off In The New Atkins Made Easy this amazing lifestyle plan has been further simplified to guarantee quicker weight loss with even less hassle Alongside simple straightforward guidelines you'll find o tips and advice for keeping on track with your dieto budget-friendly meal plans and recipes for the whole familyo low-carb grab-and-go food optionso solutions to common dieting problemso inspirational case studiesSimpler than ever before The New Atkins Made Easy is your key to guaranteed weight loss"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Discovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler (Hardback, 2014)" |
| "Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress beyond 1979 The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum In Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard and everyone has to be in bed by 8 pm because they are perpetually running a slight feverPart-comedy part-horror part-satire Discovering Scarfolk is the surreal account of a family trapped in the town Through public information posters news reports books tourist brochures and other ephermera we learn about the darker side of childhood school and society in Scarfolk A massive cult hit online Scarfolk re-creates with shiver-inducing accuracy and humour our most nightmarish childhood memories FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE RE-READ"
Price: 9.99 |
| "A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Four members of the Coverdale family - George Jacqueline Melinda and Giles - died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February St Valentine's Day Eunice Parchman the illiterate housekeeper shot them down on a Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television Two weeks later she was arrested for the crime But the tragedy neither began nor ended there"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Death Of The Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "'One of the last century's greatest woman writers' GuardianWhen sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home There she encounters the attractive cad Eddie To him Portia is at once child and woman and he fears her gushing love To her Eddie is the only reason to be alive But when Eddie follows Portia to a sea-side resort the flash of a cigarette lighter in a darkened cinema illuminates a stunning romantic betrayal - and sets in motion one of the most moving and desperate flights of the heart in modern literature"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN MEDCALFWhen Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries What kind of crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a brooding spell? And is her employer Hannah an innocent victim a guilty woman a lunatic or a witch?"
Price: 7.98 |
| Theatre |
| "Julia Lambert is in her prime the greatest actress in England On stage she is a true professional in full possession of her emotions Off stage however she is bored with her husband less disciplined about her behaviour She is at first amused by the attentions of a shy but ambitious young fan then thrilled by his persistence - and at last wildly but dangerously in love Although Maugham is most celebrated as a novelist and short-story writer it was as a playwright that he first knew success Theatre is both a tribute to a world from which he had retired and a persuasive testimony to his enthusiasm for drama and the stage"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Reunited for the summer the Swallows and Amazons with Dick and Dorothea launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold mine of the high hills above the lake But the mining camp runs into all sorts of trouble not only the danger of fire in the drought ridden countryside but also scary encounters with unsafe tunnels Worst of all is the sinister Squashy Hat who appears to be a rival prospector and who's certainly a spy - how can they keep working without him discovering what they've found?"
Price: 6.99 |
| "A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds Dorothy has walked away from a bad thirty-year marriage an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession Between her visits to the doctor and the music lessons she gives to bored teenagers she is trying to rebuild a life It's not immediately clear why her neighbour Solomon is living in the village but his African origin suggests a complex history that is at odds with his dull routine of washing the car and making short trips to the supermarket Though all he has in common with the English is a shared language it soon becomes clear that Solomon hopes that his new country will provide him with a safe haven Gradually they establish a form of comfort in each other's presence that alleviates the isolation they both feel"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Night Birds On Nantucket by Joan Aiken (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Shipwrecked Dido Twite picked up by a whaling ship finds herself many miles from home and facing deep troubles Sinister Miss Slighcarp the governess from Willoughby Chase makes a reappearance this time is cahoots with Hanoverian plotters who have a dastardly plan in mind"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind As psychiatrists their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia Moving and challenging in equal measure Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Beggar Maid" |
| "Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureBorn into the back streets of a small Canadian town Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother Flo who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick She was his Beggar Maid 'meek and voluptuous with her shy white feet' and he was her knight content to sit and adore her Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Sky Burial" |
| "As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial the tale frightened and fascinated her Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband who had been serving as a doctor in Tibet; her extraordinary life story would unravel the legend of the sky burial For thirty years she was lost in the wild and alien landscape of Tibet in the vast and silent plateaus and the magisterial mountain ranges living with communities of nomads moving with the seasons and struggling to survive In this haunting book Xinran recreates Shu Wen's remarkable journey in an epic story of love loss loyalty and survival Moving shocking and ultimately uplifting Sky Burial paints a unique portrait of a woman and a land both at the mercy of fate and politics"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Alpha Force: Red Centre : Book 5" |
| "Alpha Force - a group of five kids dedicated to fighting against injustice in the world - are in Australia helping with a TV reality show But when Paulo spots a dangerous terrorist hiding out in a nearby town events suddenly force them into a terrifying adventure as the terrorist seizes hostages and flies off into the bush Supporting the Australian SAS Alpha Force have to take action - even if it means flying into the midst of a scary bushfire-"
Price: 5.49 |
| Cotillion |
| "The three great-nephews of cantankerous Mr Penicuik know better than to ignore his summons especially when it concerns the bestowal of his fortune -- the wily old gentleman has hatched a typically freakish plan for his stepdaughter's future and his own amusement his fortune will be Kitty's dowry But while the beaux are scrambling for her hand Kitty counters with her own inventive if daring scheme a sham engagement which should keep wedlock at bay Cotillion shows what made Georgette Heyer the undisputed queen of historical romance - one of the most popular novelists of her day she is still adored by a huge readership"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Nonesuch" |
| "Sir Waldo Hawkridge -- wealthy handsome eligible illustrious and known as 'The Nonesuch' for his athletic prowess -- believes he is past the age of falling in love But when he comes North to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom Hall in the West Riding his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications Georgette Heyer won the hearts of a huge worldwide readership with her peerless novels of historical romance - a readership which continues to this day - and in The Nonesuch all her storytelling skills are in eveidence"
Price: 6.49 |
| "False Colours" |
| "The Honourable Christopher Fancot on leave from the diplomatic service in the summer of 1817 is startled to find his entrancing but incorrigibly extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social ruin - and more than alarmed to find that his twin Evelyn has disappeared without trace Christopher - Kit - is forced into an outrageous masquerade by the tangled affairs of his wayward family his rigid uncle Lord Brumby the surprisingly wily Sir Bonamy Ripple the formidable old Lady Stavely and Evelyn's betrothed Cressy But in the face of Evelyn's continues absence Kit's ingenuity is stretched to the limit In this typically wonderful and sweeping romance Georgette Heyer shows all the skill that made her the queen of historical fiction for over fifty years - and won her a huge audience that continues to this day"
Price: 7.49 |
| Masqueraders |
| "Robin and Prudence Merriot have been dissemblers since they were children And in this age of slippery politics they need to be So it is nothing for them to rescue a rich heiress from her abductor But once committed to their masquerade they must see it through For more than fifty years Georgette Heyer was the undisputed queen of historical romance And as these hugely succesful reprints have shown she still has a large devoted readership"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Folding Star : Historical Fiction" |
| "Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst"
Price: 8.49 |
| "A Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENQuerry a world famous architect is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case' a leper mutilated by disease and amputation Querry slowly moves towards a cure his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony However in the heat of the tropics no relationship with a married woman will ever be taken as innocent"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Loving, Living, Party Going by Henry Green (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKSHenry Green whom W H Auden called 'the finest living English novelist' is the most neglected writer of the last century and the one most deserving of rediscovery by a new generation This volume brings together three of Henry Green's intensely original novels Loving explored class distinctions through the medium of love and brilliantly contrasts the lives of servants and masters in an Irish castle during World War Two Living of workers and owners in a Birmingham iron foundry Party Going is a brilliant comedy of manners presenting a party of wealthy travellers stranded by fog in a London railway hotel while throngs of workers await trains in the station below"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Alpha Force: Untouchable by Chris Ryan (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Set in Scotland Alpha Force are helping out on a survival outdoors adventure holiday programme for problem youngsters when they stumble across evidence of an illegal drugs laboratory hidden high on the moors on the laird's land High-speed chases with quad bikes and 4x4 vehicles across country along with survival skills like rafting abseiling and hiking bring this l0th actionpacked adventure to the UK with a dramatic storyline focusing on one of today's major problems - designer drugs and their manufacture"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Quicksand by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Sonoko Kakiuchi is a cultured Osaka lady unfortunately widowed young But her story is unsettlingly at odds with her image it is a tale of infatuation and deceit of eliberate evil Its theme is humiliation its victim Sonoko's mild-mannered husband At is centre - seductive manipulating enslaving - is one of Tanizaki's most extraordinary characters the beautiful and corrupt art student Mitsuko"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Victoria Line, Central Line" |
| "Millions of people travel on London's tube every day yet we usually give our fellow passengers only a cursory glance But each one of these nameless passengers has their own story to tell At Notting Hill the mysterious secretary harbouring her secrets travels to work; at Highburyand Islington Adam has a sudden change of heart; and at Holborn a disastrous reunion is about to take place With her characteristic mix of compassionate humour and biting realism this vintage collection of stories is Maeve Binchy at her very best"
Price: 7.99 |
