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By: Edward de Bono

ISBN: 9780140287769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What we have not sufficiently developed is the thinking concerned with what can be. This is thinking that is creative and constructive, and which seeks to solve conflicts and problems by designing a way forward. This title emphasises on thinking that is on design and not judgement.


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By: Penelope Lively

ISBN: 9780140064810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1984
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Run by Toby and Paula, the centre offers ordinary people a chance to learn from professional artists skilled in poetry, sculpture, ceramics, and the like. Artists like Greg, the New England poet, whose works are strangely absent; or Bob the lascivious potter who sells his Toby jugs to department stores.


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By: Helen Callaghan

ISBN: 9781405935593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Rob Thurman

ISBN: 9780241956632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Cal Leandros is 19. He eats junk food, he doesn't clean up after himself and fights with his half brother Niko. Cal's father has been after him for the last four years. And given that he's a monster whose dark lineage is the stuff of nightmares they really don't want him and his entire otherworldly race catching up with them.


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By: William Trevor

ISBN: 9780241969519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In a small town in Ireland middle-aged Harry looks back on his wartime adolescence when he fetched and carried for beautiful young English woman who had taken over the big stone house with her older German husband. But Frau Messinger's health is failing, and her husband decides to build a cinema in the town to honour her.


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By: Robert Dallek

ISBN: 9780141018140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Probes the lives and times of two leaders whose partnership dominated the world stage and changed the course of history. Tapping into a wealth of documents and tapes, this book uncovers details about Nixon and Kissinger's personal relationship and the extent to which they struggled to outdo each other in the reach for foreign policy achievements.


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By: Sophie Morgan

ISBN: 9781405912822
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sophie Morgan is a submissive. An ordinary, successful young woman who in private surrenders her body and mind to a dominant man. Some of these relationships have been loving, others casual, one just cruel. But what happens when she meets the dominant man of her dreams When they move in together When life, love and play collide


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By: Emily Christie

ISBN: 9780141040899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Emily Christie grew up surrounded by relatives whose job it was to protect her. Her father was a hard-working policeman, her grandad was a respected paramedic; they were the perfect family. Evil lurked beneath the surface. When she was just five years old, Emily's beloved grandad started grooming her, calling her his 'special little girl'.


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By: James Baldwin

ISBN: 9780140184471
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 29th August 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Contains essays that describe what it means to be black in America. This book describes the tragedies that are inflicted by racial segregation and presents a poignant account of the author's first journey to 'the Old Country', the Southern states.


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By: James Attlee

ISBN: 9780141039312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For many of us the moon, and the chill light it casts, are things we either ignore or take for granted. From Normandy to Naples, Wales to Arizona, Las Vegas to Japan, this title explores moonlight's many moods and meanings.


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By: Jose Rizal

ISBN: 9780143039693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Noli, as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism. This title tells a love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder.


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By: Sean Naylor

ISBN: 9780141014579
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At dawn on March 2, 2002, the first major battle of the 21st Century began. Over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into Afghanistan's Shahikot valley - and into the mouth of a buzz-saw. This book is suitable for fans of Black Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty, Chris Ryan, and Andy McNab.


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By: Felicity Lawrence

ISBN: 9780241967829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 2004 the author published her book, Not on the Label, where, in a series of undercover investigations she provided a shocking account of what really goes into the food we eat. When the horsemeat scandal hit the headlines in 2013, her book seemed prescient once again. In this work, she uncovers how British public ended up eating horses.


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By: Ben Masters

ISBN: 9780241955383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As Eliot and his friends wave goodbye to University - their education done with, the world calling - they must make a reckoning with everything that has gone by. Here it comes: the pints, the shots, the pubs, the clubs, the jokes, the 3AM hard truths, the bubble bursting, the tearing up of everything, the start and rush of the rest of your life.


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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780141189024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Joey Robinson visits the farm where he grew up and where his mother now lives. Accompanied by his newly acquired second wife, Peggy, and an eleven-year-old stepson, Joey spends three days reassessing and evaluating the course his life has run. But for Joey and Peggy, the delicate balance of love and sex is threatened by a dangerous awareness.


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By: Malidoma Some

ISBN: 9780140194968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1995
UK Publication Date: 28th September 1995
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, being harshly indoctrinated into European ways of thought and worship. This title tells the story of his return to his people, his hard initiation back into those people, which lead to his desire to convey their knowledge to the world.


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By: Upton Sinclair

ISBN: 9780143137443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"By turns an ardent family saga, scintillating potboiler, and anti-capitalist tirade, Oil! ranks among the most important critiques of fossil energy ever printed. This edition features a contextual introduction by Michael Tondre, which will illuminate the novel's urgent timeliness in our warming world"--


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By: Merle Miller

ISBN: 9780143106968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A book about being homosexual in the United States.


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By: Damon Runyon

ISBN: 9780141184234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of the stories of Damon Runyon who presents the 1950s world of guys and dolls on Broadway.


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By: Kerry Egan

ISBN: 9780241297292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gilbert Gardiner

ISBN: 9780140440096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. As regards his method of dealing with his material and shaping it into mould, he stands even higher than as a pure creator.


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By: John Steinbeck

ISBN: 9780141186320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in England, Africa and Italy this collection of Steinbeck's World War II news correspondence was written for the New Yolk Herald Tribune in the latter part of 1943.


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By: Mike Bayer

ISBN: 9780593296035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dan Hodges

ISBN: 9781405924405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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10 PM, on the 7 May. The exit poll predicting the result of the 2015 General Election is announced. In that instant three lives are changed for ever. David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were three very different men, from very different backgrounds. But they shared one ambition. To lead their country. This book deals with this campaign.

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