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By: Shane Dunphy

ISBN: 9781844881604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Craig, the little boy who can't speak English, isn't allowed to use his real name and hides food around his playschool, afraid he'll be hungry again. His parents are trying to make a fresh start, but their gangland bosses are about to catch up with the family and Craig will pay a terrible price.


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By: Suzannah Olivier

ISBN: 9780140283952
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Nutrition is a key tool towards recovery - working with your doctor to build your immune system, rebalancing hormones, increasing your well-being during treatment, and helping your body thrive again without the disease recurring. This book gives practical advice on various aspects of nutrition relating to breast cancer.


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By: Barbara Vine

ISBN: 9780140252804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
UK Publication Date: 30th January 1997
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband...


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By: Allan Ahlberg

ISBN: 9780241965665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author was adopted as a baby. In 1938 he was picked up in London by his new mother and taken back to Oldbury in the Black Country. This title tells his story.


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By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

ISBN: 9780670921010
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Stephen Dobyns

ISBN: 9781405915274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The sleepy community of Brewster, Rhode Island, is just like any other small American town. It's a place where most of the population will likely die blocks from where they were born; where gossip spreads like wildfire, and the big entertainment on weekends is the inevitable fight at the local bar.


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By: M.G. Gardiner

ISBN: 9781405919418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Harper Flynn nearly died when gunmen attacked the L A club where she worked. A year later, Harper tries to rebuild her life - but is failing. Because not only is she convinced there was a third gunman who escaped, but she also believes that he is targeting the survivors.


By: H. P. Lovecraft

ISBN: 9780141182346
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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H. P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the twentieth century. Discarding witches and ghosts, he envisaged mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi makes his selection from the early tales of nightmares and madness to the cosmic terror of 'The Call of Cthulhu'.


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By: Henry Dudeney

ISBN: 9780718187088
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN: 9780140424454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A selection of the "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" that provides an introduction to one of the cornerstones of English literature. It offers character sketches of the colourful band of pilgrims who gather at a London inn on their way to Canterbury. It contains an introduction examining Chaucer's life and work and the literary influences on the Tales.


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By: Geoffrey Chaucer

ISBN: 9780140434095
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Few students read the whole of "The Canterbury Tales, but "Fragment I", which contains the general prologue, "The Knight's Tale", "The Miller's Tale", "The Reeve's Tale" and "The Cook's Tale", raises many of the topics that arise from studying the tales as a whole.


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By: Louisa Hall

ISBN: 9780241962855
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Elizabeth, Diana and Izzy, three sisters who have lived a privileged life in suburban America are the pride and joy of their father William. All three were tennis prodigies as children, popular, and successful at school: they seemed destined for greatness.


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By: Ray Russell

ISBN: 9780143107279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By the 20th century, the centuries-old Roman Catholic exorcism ritual for combatting demonic possession was all but dead, eviscerated by the ascent of modern science and rationalism. But Ray Russell's 1962 novel, The Case Against Satan, set the stage for a proliferation of exorcisms on page, screen, and even bizarrely, in real life.


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By: Elizabeth Garver Jordan

ISBN: 9780143137603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Karen Joy Fowler

ISBN: 9780241973462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things, car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own.


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By: Geoffrey Robertson KC

ISBN: 9780241953846
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 8th September 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished This book delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world.


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By: Julia Cresswell

ISBN: 9780141025162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores cliches and contains famous (and infamous) quotations and memorable information.


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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780141189048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life.


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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780140023404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1978
UK Publication Date: 26th October 1978
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life.


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By: Jean Lartguy

ISBN: 9780143107446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offering a military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency, this wartime novel is about controversial tactics in hot spots around the world.


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By: Patrick Wall

ISBN: 9780140256703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1996
UK Publication Date: 27th June 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Pain has many valuable functions. It can be a warning or force us to rest our bodies. This book examines various facets of pain: the psychological and clinical aspects, the physiological evidence, the major theories of pain and the developments in its control.


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By: Dr Geza Vermes

ISBN: 9780140265248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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During his life Jesus did not view himself as divine, nor did his disciples. This title intends to reveal the true, historical figure of Jesus hidden beneath the Gospels.


By: G.W. Dahlquist

ISBN: 9780670921669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Miss Temple, young, wealthy and far away from home, never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fiance is dead, her companions slain and her nemesis, the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza, escaped.


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By: Barbara Vine

ISBN: 9780241963579
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. They've always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music. There's one thing they've forgotten though: what if one of them wants to bring a lover into the house

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