\"About a Boy\" is Nick Hornby\'s comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller. \'How cool was Will Freeman?\' Too cool! At thirty-six, he\'s as hip as a teenager. He\'s single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He\'s also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents\' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.

\"#1 NEW YORK TIMES \"BESTSELLER A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including \"Olive Kitteridge \"and\" The Burgess Boys, \"have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in \"My Name Is Lucy Barton, \"this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all the one

Once it seemed being immortal was a gift to Ever Bloom - now it\'s a curse. And she\'s a danger to herself. Ever has been dabbling in Magyck - seeking to explore her own powers, hoping to find a future for her relationship with Damen. But she\'s not in control - in fact, the magyck has bound her eternally to her immortal enemy, Roman. Whenever he\'s near, she feels his heartbeat, his breath, his blood

Vitale combines principles of spiritual self-discovery with proven marketing principles to show how anyone can live a happy life in and outside of business. This updated second edition provides worksheets, tip sheets, suggestions, and goal planning i deas, all to help readers achieve their dreams.

It is the twenty-fourth of December. Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold office shouting \'Bah! Humbug!\' at anyone who dares wish him a Merry Christmas. But that night the miser has a terrifying visitor. Marley, his dead business partner who must wander the earth for ever to pay for his sins, comes with a warning. Scrooge will be haunted by three more spirits. The ghosts of Christmas

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century

... there is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson\'s masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nine teenth century. At the centre is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town\'s `grotesques\' - solitary figures unable to

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Edward Lincoln has scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases and defeated scores of assassins. As a movie action man he\'s even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors. After finishing his latest film, he\'s asked to visit South Africa to discover why a dying friend\'s horses are suddenly failing on the race track. Unfortunately, Lincoln\'s attempt to help a friend soon puts him

The stunning new summer besteller from Freya North. Vita\'s nursing a broken heart. Oliver\'s heart belongs to the past. They should be perfect for each other. But will they chance it? Vita\'s gift shop would do better if she ran it as a business, not as somewhere to daydream. But she\'s not one to tell herself off: she leaves that to Tim, her ex. Active and outdoorsy Oliver runs his tree-surgery business

The seventh installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward, his son, reigns as king. Wessex survives, but peace cannot

A superb new Joe Pike/Elvis Cole novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Robert Crais...

Has Laura found her leading man? This is a wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match. With the bookshop where she works about to close, hopeless romantic Laura Horsley, in a moment of uncharacteristic recklessness, finds herself agreeing to help organise a literary festival deep in the heart of the English countryside.

This takes the form of Tom\'s battered homework diary - crammed with his doodles and stories. \"Exciting News! Mr Fullerman announces that class 5F are going on an \'Activity Break\'! Which should be fun. As long as I don\'t get stuck in a group with anyone who snores or worse still with ...Marcus Meldrew. Delia is already threatening to paint my room funny colours while I\'m away. Which is annoying.

The rediscovery of the city that has been evident recently has by no means superseded the human desire for nature. On the contrary, the goal has been finding urban solutions that do justice to these growing needs and do so in ways that meet the requi rements for design, ecology, sociology, and economy. This publication addresses the subject of designing inner-city spaces. It documents twenty recently

During the Great Depression in the United States, and after the loss of their farm in Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a journey of more than one thousand miles to California in search of a better life. Can hope defeat poverty, illness, hunger, and even death as they follow their dream?

Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean’s life is changed forever when he discovers love. He spends the rest of his life helping people, like himself, who have been victims of poverty and social injustice – ‘les misérables’.

Director no more, Nick Fury is a plain ol\' Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. - but that won\'t stop him from calling the shots! And there are plenty to be fired, because Baron Strucker has a new vision for Hydra...and S.H.I.E.L.D. As Strucker strikes and Nick Fury faces treachery and betrayal from within his own ranks, he reunites with the Howling Commandos and Captain America - as well as a few faces he never