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By: Wyndham Lewis

ISBN: 9780141187648
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Discusses the fraudulence and feeble-mindedness of life in the Britain of the 1930s.


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By: H. G. Wells

ISBN: 9780241976760
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sets some ideas instrumental in the creation of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the EU's European Convention on Human Rights and the UK's Human Rights Act.


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By: Plutarch

ISBN: 9780140449754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As well as providing an illuminating picture of the first century AD, the author depicts complex and nuanced heroes who display the essential virtues of Greek civilization - courage, patriotism, justice, intelligence and reason - that contributed to the rise of Rome.


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By: Margaret Visser

ISBN: 9780241293645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Tricia Wastvedt

ISBN: 9780241963920
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1958, in a small Devon village, two children are drowned. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are overcome with grief. Thirty years later, Anna comes to the village hoping to start afresh - and, without telling anyone she is pregnant, goes to live with Isabel. But the baby's arrival causes powerful feelings of loss and heartbreak to surface.


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By: Ngugi wa Thiong'o

ISBN: 9780141187037
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and 'magical' customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some fellow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity while others proudly pursue tribal independence.


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By: Fatima Bhutto

ISBN: 9780241347010
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Adrian d'Hage

ISBN: 9780143799511
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Anton Gill

ISBN: 9780241950661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Constantinople, 1204: the holy city is razed to the ground by Crusaders. Modern day Istanbul: an elite group of archaeologists uncover the grave of Enrico Dandolo, once Doge of Venice, and leader of the bloodthirsty Fourth Crusade. They seek a set of documents that reveal the truth behind Dandolo's rumoured secret links to the Templar knights.


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By: Selma Lagerlf

ISBN: 9780143105909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in 1820s Sweden, this title tells the story of a defrocked minister named Gosta Berling.


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By: Robertson Davies

ISBN: 9780241952634
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. There's the Salterton Little Theatre Company, in which professional director Valentine Rich is tormented by the amateurish efforts of his actors.


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By: Susan Hayes

ISBN: 9781844883288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Helps you: understand why you haven't made more money by now; learn tried and tested techniques to raising new revenues; choose the best way to put your money to work for you; and find out who can help you get to your income goals.


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By: Susan Hayes

ISBN: 9781844882908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Do you have a nagging sense that you're not in charge of your money and that your future financial well-being is beyond your control Are you stressed about money that you cannot even begin to see a way out of your situation In this title, the author gets to the heart of why you might be having problems and comes up with solutions.


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By: Joanna Rossiter

ISBN: 9780241964156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Yesterday was Alice's wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from the home she is so desperate to leave, on the southernmost tip of India, when she wakes in the morning to see a wave on the horizon, taller than the height of her guest house on Kanyakumari beach. Her husband is nowhere to be seen.


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By: Christopher Dolley

ISBN: 9780241955437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents short stories that offer gems from some of the masters of the genre. Whether it is the lyrical prose of Thomas Hardy or the irreverent wit of Kingsley Amis, the monologues of Virgina Woolf or Muriel Spark, this title demonstrates that the vitality of the form remains as compelling today as when these stories were originally published.


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By: Pippa Croft

ISBN: 9781405917049
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It's the beginning of a new term at Wyckham College, Oxford, and a fresh start for Lauren Cusack. Her fingers were badly burnt when a whirlwind romance with gorgeous English aristocrat, Alexander Hunt, became too hot to handle - and now she's determined to keep her distance.


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By: Deborah Johnson

ISBN: 9780241968932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1946, Regina Robichard is a rarity. A young New York civil rights lawyer, working for Thurgood Marshall, Reggie stumbles across a letter asking her boss to investigate the case of a young black soldier whose body has been found floating in the river in Mississippi. It fires her zeal. For Reggie, justice is not the only draw to this case.


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By: Kim Edwards

ISBN: 9780141034577
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the obstacles of time, place and circumstance in our quest for love, happiness and acceptance.


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By: Sabi Hilmi

ISBN: 9780718157012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows you how to channel your angels and gain strength and guidance from them.


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By: Sinad Moriarty

ISBN: 9780241969403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Devlin sisters rely on each other - but some things are just too painful to share, even when your sisters are your best friends... Mum-of-four Julie thought that if her family had more money, life would be easier. But now that they've inherited a fortune, her problems are only starting.


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By: John Sviokla

ISBN: 9780241246993
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Scores of billionaires worked for established corporations before they struck out on their own. Billionaires aren't necessarily luckier, smarter or harder working than the rest of us - and they rarely build something brand-new. The key difference is their mindset. This book breaks down the five critical habits of massive value-creators.


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By: Fatima Bhutto

ISBN: 9780241965627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Friday morning in Mir Ali, a small town in Pakistan's Tribal Areas close to the Afghan border. Three brothers meet for breakfast. Soon after, the eldest, recently returned from America, hails a taxi to the local mosque. The second, a doctor, goes to check in at his hospital. His troubled wife does not join the family that morning.


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By: Stewart Binns

ISBN: 9781405915175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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June 1914. The beginning of another long, prosperous summer for Britain. But beneath the clear skies, all is not as it seem - as the chill wind of social discontent swirls around this sceptred isle. Shots ring out in a distant European land - the assassination of a foreign aristocrat. This title tells the story of five British communities.


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By: M.G. Gardiner

ISBN: 9781405913942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sarah Keller is a young single mother living in Oklahoma with her five-year-old daughter, Zoe. Her day job is to hunt out people on the run and bring them to justice. So imagine how it looks when a school bus accident sends Zoe to the ER and tests reveal Sarah can't be Zoe's mother.

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