 |
| White Egret Hyaluronic Acid Intensive Hydrating Formula-8 oz Bottle |
| $21.59 (Retail $28.75) |
| From the Manufacturer:MoisturizeTightenFirmProtectIntensive Hydrating Formula. [Read More] |
 |
| "Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Meet Maggie Moran Nearing fifty and married with two children she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day During the course of the journey with its several unexpected detours into the lives of old friends and grown children Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLDShe's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor One of my favourite authors ' Liane MoriartyShe spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita ShreveMy favourite writer and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks Tyler is not merely good she is wickedly good' John UpdikeI love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner Her fiction has strength of vision originality freshness unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Thyme Out by Katie Fforde (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Love can grow on you or can it? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love A French Affair and The Perfect Match When Perdita Dylan delivers her baby vegetables to a local hotel and finds that her unpredictable ex-husband Lucas has taken over the kitchen she is horrified - particularly when she discovers he's being groomed as the latest celebrity chef and needs her picturesque if primitive cottage and her in supporting roles Her life is further complicated when Kitty her 87-year-old friend has a stroke Perdita needs someone to lean on - and Lucas seems so keen to help that she starts to wonder if he's really such a villain Can she cope with all this alone? Or should she face up to the fact that 'You can't cuddle lettuces'?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House - setting the tone for a collection shot through with Vonnegut's acrid wit and his bewilderment at the corruption of humanity From riffs on country music George Bush and his mother's midnight mania to a bittersweet tribute to a dead friend Palm Sunday demonstrates why Kurt Vonnegut is equally well known as an essayist and commentator as he is a novelist This caustic funny and poignant collection resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath' Whether contemplating a fine cheese a hungry gecko a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Men In Love" |
| "This is a book about men who love women But it is not a collection of love stories It is a study of the secret erotic fantasies that men have always kept hidden a taboo-shattering investigation that reveals the deepest most conflicting feelings that men have about women men and their own sexuality Men in Love goes beyond the socio-sexual cliche of woman seen as either madonna or whore to reveal the conflict of love and rage at the centre of men's emotions and erotic desires Based on thousands of candid responses from men ranging from their teens to their sixties Men in Love - startling and shocking - will change men's deepest feelings about their sexuality and make the women who care about them understand them as never before"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Social Intelligence : The New Science of Human Relationships" |
| "Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than 5 million copies worldwide Now once again Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science revealing that we are 'wired to connect' and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect our lives Far more than we are consciously aware our daily encounters with parents spouses bosses and even strangers shape our brains and affect cells throughout our bodies down to the level of our genes - for good or ill In Social Intelligence Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world Its most fundamental discovery we are designed for sociability constantly engaged in a 'neural ballet' that connects us brain-to-brain with those around us Goleman explains the surprising accuracy of first impressions the basis of charisma and emotional power the complexity of sexual attraction and how we detect lies He describes the 'dark side' of social intelligence from narcissism to Machiavellianism and psychopathy He also reveals our astonishing capacity for 'mindsight' as well as the tragedy of those like autistic children whose mindsight is impaired In this book Daniel Goleman delivers his most heartening news with powerful conviction we humans have a built-in bias toward empathy cooperation and altruism - provided we develop the social intelligence to nurture these capacities in ourselves and others"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDSAs his tale begins Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court By the close he will have transformed into a modern thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Reynolds and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor The White Guard takes place in Kiev 1918 a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city It tells the story of the Turbins a once-wealthy Russian family as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime"
Price: 6.99 |
| "A Blunt Instrument by Georgette Heyer (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study everyone is shocked and mystified Ernest was well-liked and respected so who would have a motive for killing him?Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who with consummate skill begins to uncover the complexities of Fletcher's life It seems the real Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be There is in fact no shortage of people who wanted him dead Then a second murder is committed with striking similarities to the first giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The perfect gift for Valentine's DayWuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children Emily Bronte's novel is a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Complete Novels Of Kafka" |
| "In America Karl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation Here ordinary immigrants are also strange and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be Kafka a Czech writing in German never acutally visited America; so as Max Brod commented 'the innocence of his fantasy gives this book if advanture its peculiar colour'Both Joseph K in The Trial and K in The Castle are victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control Both are atomised estranged and rootless citizens decieved by authoritarian power Whereas Joseph K is relentlessly hunted down for a crime that remains nameless K ceaselessly attempts to enter the castle and so belong somewhere Together these novels may be read as powerful allegories of totalitarian government in whatever guise it appears today"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Norman Conquest" |
| "An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history Assessing the original evidence at every turn Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror's attack Why the Normans in some respects less sophisticated possessed the military cutting edge How William's hopes of a united Anglo-Norman realm unravelled dashed by English rebellions Viking invasions and the insatiable demands of his fellow conquerors This is a tale of powerful drama repression and seismic social change the Battle of Hastings itself and the violent 'Harrying of the North'; the sudden introduction of castles and the wholesale rebuilding of every major church; the total destruction of an ancient ruling class Language law architecture even attitudes towards life itself were altered forever by the coming of the Normans Marc Morris author of the bestselling biography of Edward I A Great and Terrible King approaches the Conquest with the same passion verve and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story a pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation"
Price: 8.49 |
| "American Tabloid" |
| "The first novel in Ellroy's extraordinary Underworld USA Trilogy as featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read 1958 America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power men allied to the makers and shakers of the era Pete Bondurant - Howard Hughes's right-hand man Jimmy Hoffa's hitman Kemper Boyd - employed by J Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan Ward Littell - a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy's drive against organised crime The festering discount of the age that burns brightly in these men's hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity the Mob clamours for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963"
Price: 8.49 |
| "A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication A Single Man is the story of George an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim With devastating clarity and humour Christopher Isherwood shows George&39;s determination to carry on evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul&39;s ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation"
Price: 6.49 |
| Damned |
| "'Are you there Satan? It's me Madison'Meet Madison whip-tongued daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire abandoned at a Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off adopting more orphans Madison dies of a marijuana overdose and awakes to find herself in Hell sharing her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that's almost too good to be true Welcome to the afterlife as only Palahniuk could imagine it - he makes eternal torment well simply divine"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Cross Fire : (Alex Cross 17)" |
| "Detective Alex Cross is planning his wedding to the woman he loves Brianna Stone But this blissful existence begins to unravel when Cross is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington DC's most corrupt and publically hated political figures As more crooked politicians are picked off with similar long-range shots public opinion is divided - is the marksman a vigilante or a hero?Media coverage of the case explodes and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation As Cross and Siegel battle over jurisdiction Alex receives a call from his deadliest adversary Kyle Craig The Mastermind is in DC and will not stop until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Myth of the Strong Leader : Political Leadership in the Modern Age" |
| "CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders' dominant individual wielders of power are the most successful and admirable Within authoritarian regimes a collective leadership is a lesser evil compared with a personal dictatorship Within democracies although strong leaders' are seldom as strong or independent as they purport to be the idea that just one person is entitled to take the big decisions is harmful and should be resisted Examining Franklin D Roosevelt and Mikhail Gorbachev Deng Xiaoping and Nelson Mandela Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair amongst many others this landmark study pinpoints different types and qualities of leadership Overturning the popular notion of the strong leader it makes us rethink preconceptions about what it means to lead"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Miss Pym Disposes" |
| "Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there But she had to admit that the health and vibrant beauty of the students made her feel just a little inadequate Then there was a nasty accident - and suddenly Miss Pym was forced to apply her agile intellect to the unpleasant fact that among all those impressively healthy bodies someone had a very sick mind"
Price: 6.49 |
| "A General Theory of Oblivion" |
| "WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize On the eve of Angolan independence Ludo bricks herself into her apartment where she will remain for the next thirty years She lives off vegetables and pigeons burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo's life through snippets on the radio voices from next door glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird's foot Until one day she meets Sabalu a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Progress Of Love by Alice Munro (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThese dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial platonic sexual parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk In fact Munro's characters pulse with idiosyncratic life Under the polished surface of these unsentimental dispatches from the small-town and rural front lies a strong undertow of violence and sexuality repressed until something snaps with extraordinary force in some of the stories sadly and strangely in others"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Renegade : The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith" |
| "The only way to appreciate the legendary Mark E Smith is to encounter the man in his own words'Ranting raging burningrelentlessly splenetic a long and sustained rant may also be the funniest music book ever written' - Observer'Unutterably funny a riot of aimings and blamings and score-settlings Smith manages to have a right laff and reveal himself as a figure of dazzling sociological import' - Independent on SundayThe Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands ever their music - odd spare cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths The Happy Mondays Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand And Mark E Smith IS The Fall - 66 members came and went over the years yet he remained its charismatic leader until his death in 2018'If it's me and yer granny on bongos it's The Fall' - Mark E SmithMark was a professional outsider and all-round enemy of compromise a true enigma There have been a number of biographies of the legendary Smith but this is the first time he opened up in a full autobiography For the first time we hear his full candid take on the ups and downs of a band as notorious for its in-house fighting as for its great music; and on a life that endured prison in America drugs bankruptcy divorce and the often bleak results of a legendary thirst'Remarkable brilliant A provocative joy Smith's rant gushes like a furious fountain of razor-sharp invective over his childhood and the early days of The Fall relationships marriage the record industry musicians and his views on everything from football to mobile phones from drinking and drugs to driving from books to bankruptcy from Paul Morley to pubs Unbeatable' - Time Out 'Engrossing exhausting dense with fascinating detail As both memoir and cultural history Renegade is a remarkable achievement' - Daily Telegraph"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Darling Buds of May" |
| "Home looks nice Allus does though don't it? Perfick'And so the Larkins - Pop Ma Mariette Zinnia Petunia Primrose Victoria and Montgomery - return from an outing for fish and chips and ice cream one May evening There amid the rustic charms of home they discover a visitor one Cedric Charlton Her Majesty's inspector of taxesMr Charlton is visiting to find out why junk-dealer Pop hasn't paid his tax - but nothing's that simple at the Larkins Mariette takes a shine to Charley' - as Pop calls him - and before long the family have introduced the uncomplaining inspector to the delights of country living the lusty scents of wild flowers the pleasures of a bottle of Dragon's Blood cold cream dribbled over a bowl of strawberries and hot hot summer nights In fact soon Charley can't see any reason to return to the office at all"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers whores drunks bums and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief Lee Chong the astute owner of the well-stocked grocery store is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured &39;boys&39; call home Dora runs the Bear Flag Restaurant with clockwork efficiency and a generous heart and Doc secreted away in his home at Western Biological Laboratories is the fount of all wisdom Packed with invention and ramshackle joie de vivre Cannery Row is Steinbeck&39;s high-spirited tribute to his native California"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A masterpiece of transgressive surrealist erotica George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim Neugroschal and published with essays by Susan Sontag and Roland BarthesBataille's first novel published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch' is still his most notorious work In this explicit pornographic fantasy the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism torture orgies madness and defilement culminating in a final act of transgression Shocking and sacrilegious Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille's obsession with the closeness of sex violence and death Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth centuryThis edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art 'The Pornographic Imagination' as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'Georges Bataille (1897-1962) French essayist and novelist was born in Billom France He converted to Catholicism then later to Marxism and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism forming a secret society dedicated to glorifying human sacrifice Leading a simple life as the curator of a municipal library Bataille was involved on the fringes of Surrealism founding the Surrealist magazine Documents in 1929 and editing the literary review Critique from 1946 until his death Among his other works are the novels Blue of Noon (1957) and My Mother (1966) and the essays Eroticism (1957) and Literature and Evil (1957)If you enjoyed Story of the Eye you might like Anais Nin's Delta of Venus also available in Penguin Modern Classics'His black masterpiece a brilliant exquisitely fetishistic tale of sexual agitaion'New Statesman"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Complete Father Brown Stories" |
| "The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth collected in one brilliant volumeShabby and lumbering with a face like a Norfolk dumpling Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth But his innocence is the secret of his success refusing the scientific method of detection he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy interpreting each crime as a work of art and each criminal as a man no worse than himself This complete edition brings together all of the Father Brown stories including two not previously available in Penguin 'The Donnington Affair' in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solving a murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton) and 'The Mask of Midas' which was found in Chesterton's papers after his death It also includes an introduction and notes by Michael D HurleyGK Chesteron was born in 1874 He attended the Slade School of Art where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown before turning his hand to journalism A prolific writer throughout his life his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) The Man Who Knew Too Much(1922) The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) and the Father Brown stories Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in 1938 Michael D Hurley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College He has written widely on English literature from the nineteenth century to the present day with an emphasis on poetry and poetics His book on G K Chesterton was published in 2011"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Keep Calm: The New Mum's Manual : Trust Yourself and Enjoy Your Baby" |
| "Keep Calm The New Mum's Manual with an introduction by Jools Oliver is the perfect antidote to inflexible guilt-inducing parenting guides Turning the tables on encyclopaedic tomes on parenthood and their often conflicting advice GP and mum-of-two Dr Ellie will empower you to relax trust your instincts and enjoy your new baby Includes Early days - looking after baby and listening to your instincts Sleeping - establishing a flexible routine that works Feeding - making the right guilt-free choices Soothing - understanding crying and settling your baby Weaning - starting with a simple action plan for success Development - identifying key milestones and not worrying Health - recognising baby illnesses and when to call the doctor Vaccinations - understanding the facts and getting them without tears This isn't a one-size-fits-all routine but a lighthearted sensible guide that is full of essential advice to build your confidence and bring back mummy power"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic The Three Musketeers Across Madrid Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil Lucas Corso solitary and obsessive is the detective hired to authenticate both texts But the further he follows the trail of devil worship the more it leads him back to Dumas He's the unwitting protagonist in someone's evil plot but is he sleuth or hero Sherlock Holmes or d'Artagnan?"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "‘The greatest wildest author of his generation’ GuardianWe could tell you the year is 1944 that the main character is called Tyrone Slothrop and that he has a problem because bombs are falling across Europe and crashing to earth at the exact locations of his sexual conquests But that doesn’t really begin to cover it Reading this book is like falling down a rabbit hole into an outlandish sinister mysterious absurd compulsive netherworld As the Financial Times said ‘you must forget earlier notions about life and letters and even the Novel’ Forty years since publication Gravity’s Rainbow has lost none of its power to enthral"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Collusion by Stuart Neville (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "GARRY FEGAN the former hit man is hiding out in New York having cut all ties wiht his old life But he made a fatal mistake he spared the life of Bull O&39;Kane a ruthless gang leader who will stop at nothing to get his revenge THE TRAVELLERa merciless assassin who kills without pity or remorse The Traveller is hired by O&39;Kane His instructions are to find - and terminate - Fegan and O&39;Kane knows the perfect bait to lure Fegan back to Belfast JACK LENNONhis family have disowned him and his colleagues don&39;t trust him But when he discovers that his ex-partner and young daughter are helpless pawns caught up in O&39;Kane&39;s thirst for vengeance Lennon must enter into a desperate alliance if he is to save them both"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "Ari is nineteen Greek gay unemployed looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne Torn between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring destructive world of clubs and drugs and anonymous sex all Ari can do is ease his pain in the only way he knows how Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap became an international bestseller and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2009 This is his sensational first novel"
Price: 6.49 |
