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Short Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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?We should work on something together. Pool our resources. What do you say?? I said I would enjoy that very much.? ---------------- When a young journalist, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, meets his writer hero Arthur Conan Doyle on a troop ship coming back from South Africa, he is delighted - especially when the creator of Sherlock Holmes suggests they collaborate on a ?real creeper? of a story. But the experience will prove traumatic for both of them....
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For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most dangerous. 'It wasn?t an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when words rang out more loudly than machine guns?? Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by...
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Dalai Lama's Cat volume 2
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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In this audiobook, the Dalai Lama sets for his lovable feline companion the task of investigating The Art of Purring. Whether it's the humorous insights gained from a visiting Ivy League Psychology Professor, the extraordinary research of a world-famous biologist, or the life-changing revelations of a mystical yogi, His Holiness's Cat encounters a wealth of wisdom about happiness. And what she discovers changes the way she sees herself forever. With...
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New Island Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn?s Hotel, meets young James Joyce on a summer?s day in Dublin, she is instantly attracted to him, natural and daring in his company. But she cannot yet imagine the extraordinary life they will share together. All Nora knows is she likes her Jim enough to leave behind family and home, in search of a bigger, more exciting life. As their family grows, they ricochet from European...
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1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. At the heart of this glittering world is notorious Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been...
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?Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!? Joe looked up from his comic and lifted his eye patch. There was a white pony in the yard. It was harnessed to a cart, a flat cart, with a wooden chest on it. A man was sitting at a front corner of the cart, holding the reins. His face was creased. He wore a long coat and a floppy high-crowned hat, with hair straggling beneath, and a leather bag was slung from his shoulder across his hip....
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Dalai Lama's Cat volume 1
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Not so much fly-on-the-wall as cat-on-the-sill, this is the warm-hearted tale of a small kitten rescued from the slums of New Delhi who finds herself in a beautiful sanctuary with sweeping views of the snow-capped Himalayas. In her exotic new home, the Dalai Lama's cat encounters Hollywood stars, Buddhist masters, Ivy-league professors, famous philanthropists, and a host of other people who come visiting His Holiness. Each encounter offers a fresh...
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Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society?s long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence. Restless Dolly Maunder�is a subversive, triumphant tale of a pioneering woman working her way through...
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2022
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English
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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of MALIBU RISING, DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO 'There's something about Carrie I will take forward with me in my life and be a little better for. This book comes out in a few short weeks and you should preorder it. It made me cry twice, and when I finished reading, I had to sit for a minute with the hole it left in my chest . . . just order it'...
12) Nothing else
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Heather Harris is a piano teacher and professional musician, whose quiet life revolves around music, whose memories centre on a single song that haunts her. A song she longs to perform again. A song she wrote as a child, to drown out the violence in their home. A song she played with her little sister, Harriet. But Harriet is gone ? she disappeared when their parents died, and Heather never saw her again. When Heather is offered an opportunity to...
13) Learned by heart
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Picador
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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In 1805, at a boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-old girls first meet. Eliza Raine, the orphan daughter of an Indian mother, keeps herself apart from the other girls, tired of being picked out for being different. Anne Lister, a gifted troublemaker, is determined to conquer the world, refusing to bow to society?s expectations of what a woman can do. As they fall in love, the connection they forge will remain with them for the rest of their...
14) Alias Grace
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English
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Was Grace Marks a female fiend, a femme fatale, or a weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Atwood has created a potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
15) Romantic comedy
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2023
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English
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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Reese's Book Club Pick 2023 'A hilarious, sweet, smart read that you're going to love!' REESE WITHERSPOON 'A rollercoaster of modern love and dating' STYLIST 'One of my all-time favourite authors. A brilliantly written, funny page-turner, I want to read it all again' PANDORA SYKES 'I am obsessed. A warm, wise, magnanimous and extremely funny novel. ROMANTIC COMEDY should be prescribed to anyone needing...
18) Immortal
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Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Who was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'? After Ludwig van Beethoven's death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his 'Immortal Beloved'. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer's lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth? Becoming Beethoven's pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset...
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2022
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English
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Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable....
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Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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1904. Cathie longs for adventure, and a whirlwind romance with Herbert Jackson provides what she craves. But Herbert is jealous and delusional, and romance soon turns to nightmare. A fictionalised account of Catherine Carswell's first marriage, 'What We Did in the Dark' offers new insight into this fascinating figure.
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