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A story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to the halls of Eblis, or Hell, in the pursuit of knowledge. It exhibits the author's exuberant day-dreaming imagination as well as the deeply emotional, aesthetic themes and detailed physical descriptions of his writing.

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Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This book portrays one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire.

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Describes an astonishing era in which the English grew rapidly aware of the sheer size and strangeness of their world. It features the journeys of renowned adventurers with descriptions by other explorers and traders to reveal a nation beginning to dominate the seas, and is intended to assist navigation and trade.

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Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance.

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Celebrates Wales and things Welsh. This study it reflects the bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and varied landscapes, the national character and humour, the historical predicaments and the political condition of this small but extraordinary country.

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In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, they bought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners.

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Who were the men and women whose names are commemorated on war memorials around the country Where did they live - and how and why did they die This book unravels the story of one war memorial, in the Dartmoor village of Lydford.

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Buckinghamshire, 1942: in a gothic villa deep in woods near Bletchley Park, artist Vivienne Thayer paints 'Black' propaganda to demoralise the enemy. Despite government restrictions, she enjoys her work - and finds time for a lover as well as her indulgent husband - but where do acts of subterfuge end

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Gives us a glimpse into our future. This book allows the reader to understand the questions that scientists deal with at the frontiers of research. It explains the kind of problems that extra dimensions might solve and the kind of speculation that is needed even to imagine them.

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Tells the story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland.

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During the years when all seemed well with the Irish economy, a scandal bloomed in front of our faces but went mostly unnoticed: the scandal of public waste. This title shows how wide and how deep the rot runs. It also shows that every scandal has one thing in common: insiders profiting at the expense of ordinary people.

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Details the story of Guns N' Roses, a band that originated in the gutters of Sunset Strip and went on to become one of the baddest band on the planet. This book captures the birth of Guns' raw power, which - despite rape charges, drug-induced rampages and a general appetite for destruction - launched the band into the pantheon of rock gods.

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In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD.

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Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her. Her son's obsessed with the End of the World. And now her elderly neighbour Mrs Shapiro has decided they are related. Or so the hospital informs her when Mrs Shapiro has an accident and names Georgie next of kin.

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Offers a collection of stories about the American family. This book brings to life a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of personal struggles and diminished dreams, a world marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made Jess Walter one of America's most talked-about writers.

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Sportsman, Lover, Bon vivant, and Cad - Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is many things to many people. His accomplishments on the rugby field - and in the bedroom - remain the stuff of legend, but the truth about him remains hidden by the accretion of myth. This title presents an account of Ross' life.

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The streets and squares of the West End of London, some of the most famous in the world, have been home to poets and pop stars, world-renowned artists and revolutionary anarchists. They have been a playground of gangsters and gamblers, secret agents and religious visionaries. This volume recounts the exploits of these and many other characters.

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Why will there never be another Bradman How do you win 33 games in a row Why did Zidane lose his rag on the world's stage Foraying into sport's leftfield, this title intends to ask the questions we rarely ask of our teams and players. It answers questions such as when is cheating really cheating Is the free market good for sport

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From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, the author grew from an aspiring poet by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting modernist poetry around a complex system of symbolism. This volume proffers lush images of western Ireland full of faeries and otherworldly beings.

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With a homeless mother and a missing father Veronica has to grow up fast. Real life is a frightening wake-up call and as truths and tensions percolate and bubble to the surface there are devastating consequences. Can Veronica save those she thought she loved Will her best intentions lead to her worst transgressions

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Deep in the forest near Burma's border with China, a young woman sees something she wasn't supposed to see. In Portland, Oregon, a troubled young man crashes his bicycle on his way to work - and then gets fired. In New York, a famous self-help author goes on daytime TV - and suddenly conceives 'a book that would take him beyond talk shows'.

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Identifies some the most powerful people in Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era, describes how they interacted with each other to mutual benefit, and reveals who are the few to retain their power amid the debris arising from the bursting of our economic bubble.