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By: His Holiness The Gyalwang Drukpa

ISBN: 9780241960080
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A guide to finding happiness by taking in the beauty right in front of you. It walks with you along your path and teaches you that: there is peace in recognizing that we are all connected; positive influences are closer than you think; in order to inspire others, you need to find inspiration in your life; what we think, we become.


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By: Zo Heller

ISBN: 9780141039992
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The women in Willy Muller's life are trouble. His mother insists he eat tofu. His dopey girlfriend, Penny, wants him to overcome his personal space issues - while Karen, his other, even dopier, girlfriend, just wants more sex. Meanwhile, his oldest daughter, Sophie, wants him to finance her husband's drug habit.


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By: Alejo Carpentier

ISBN: 9780143133889
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th February 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Miss S

ISBN: 9781405911634
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Having left behind sauna where she was top girl, the author moves to London to start work as a stripper. But after one of other dancers burns her in back with a cigarette, she decides to try her hand at something new. This title offers true stories of what really goes on behind scenes in sex industry, including fetish clubs and swinging parties.


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By: Hermann Palsson

ISBN: 9780140445305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 26th January 1989
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society.


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By: Lia Mills

ISBN: 9780241964729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Katie Crilly gets the news she dreaded: her beloved twin brother, Liam, has been killed on the Western Front. A year later, when her home city of Dublin is suddenly engulfed by the violence of the Easter Rising, Katie finds herself torn by conflicting emotions and loyalties.


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By: Anita Brookner

ISBN: 9780241977811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anita Brookner

ISBN: 9780241977781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 30th September 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Deborah Cohen

ISBN: 9780141048574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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On a Liverpool railway platform a mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption... A vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his longing for other men... This book explores the extraordinary choices British families made in the past to protect their good name.


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By: Iris Jones Simantel

ISBN: 9780718198947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, the author spent her early years playing in the rubble of bombed buildings in Dagenham by day and cowering in a dusty shelter at night. But the hardships of poverty and the dreaded Blitz could not match the pain she felt at her parents' indifference. This book tells her story.


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By: William Boyd

ISBN: 9780241957264
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Featuring sixteen short fiction works, this collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles.


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By: Ovid

ISBN: 9780140446906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's design was to study the calendar in the light of old annals, and to show what events are commemorated on each day and the origins of the various events.


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By: Chris Mooney

ISBN: 9780718197919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Fear grips a town in Colorado as a murderer targets entire families in their own homes. As police and the FBI struggle to contain the situation, they bring in forensic investigator and serial killer expert Darby McCormick. What she finds is a brutal and elusive predator who stays one step ahead of their investigation.


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By: Will Self

ISBN: 9780140290554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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During the turbulent years of 1995-2000, the author surfed the great wave of olive oil which nearly swept British metropolitan culture away, and produced a series of restaurant reviews for "The Observer", whose coruscating criticality led to a cabal of restaurateurs plotting his contract killing.


By: J.M.G. Le Clzio

ISBN: 9780141191423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th November 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales such as "The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain", "Fever", and "A Day of Old Age". It portrays the landscape of the human consciousness.


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By: Jessica Herrin

ISBN: 9780241250914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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States that you don't need to have it all to live an extraordinary life - you need to have what matters most to you. In this book, the author shows how the classic traits of successful entrepreneurs are ones each one of us can develop - and use not only to create a company, but also to create an extraordinary life.


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By: Shiva Naipaul

ISBN: 9780141197234
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Khojas who are rigidly orthodox, presiding over acres of ill-kept sugarcane and hoards of jewellery enthusiastically guarded by old Mrs Khoja, seem to have triumphed more by default than by anything else. Only Baby Khoja, who is parcelled off into an arranged marriage with a blustering bus driver, proves an exception to this rule.


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By: Ivan Turgenev

ISBN: 9780140443356
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
UK Publication Date: 30th November 1978
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the young woman already has many admirers and as she plays her suitors against each other, Vladimir's unrequited youthful passion soon turns to torment and despair.


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By: Thomas Middleton

ISBN: 9780140432190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1988
UK Publication Date: 30th June 1988
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Thomas Middleton was one of the most prolific playwrights of the Jacobean era. This collection comprises five of his powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, "A Trick to Catch the Old One", and "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside", to his later tragedies "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling". Also included is "The Revenger's Tragedy".


By: Emma Smith

ISBN: 9780141192277
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Malcontent Vindice unleashes an escalating orgy of mayhem on a debauched Duke for his bride's murder, in a ferocious satire reflecting the mounting disillusionment of the age.


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By: Edwin Abbott

ISBN: 9780140435313
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 25th February 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A work that poses provocative questions about perception and reality. It is a parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. It provides an overview of this world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs.


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By: Gustave Flaubert

ISBN: 9780140435825
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1996
UK Publication Date: 27th June 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describes the bazaars and brothels of Cairo and down the Nile to the Red Sea.


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By: Luiza Sauma

ISBN: 9780241978146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Roy Porter

ISBN: 9780140167351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The culmination of a lifelong interest in the metaphysics of the body by the premier social historian of medicine. How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves in a new light

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