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By: Clark Ashton Smith

ISBN: 9780143107385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a collection of authors tales and poems. This volume allows readers to encounter his visionary of phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention and terror.


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By: G.W. Dahlquist

ISBN: 9780141027548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2010
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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On a barren coast, young heiress Miss Temple awakes from a fever to discover herself friendless, alone - and having shot her fiance stone dead. Fleeing from suspicious villagers and attacks by 'wolves', Miss Temple finds herself with a most unlikely travelling companion in the shape of the seductive and deadly Contessa di Lacquer-Sforza.


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By: Chris Mooney

ISBN: 9781405913805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A dead murderer. A living lie. A mother and her son have been executed in their home. Fingerprint matches reveal their murderer died twenty years ago. Crime Scene Investigator Darby McCormick must solve this disturbing puzzle. But the deeper she digs the more horrors come to light. What is the dark, long-held secret linking these sinister crimes


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By: Hannah Beckerman

ISBN: 9780718178147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Rachel, Max and their daughter Ellie had the perfect life - until the night Rachel's heart stopped beating. Now Max and Ellie are doing their best to adapt to life without Rachel, and just as her family can't forget her, Rachel can't quite let go of them either.


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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Recounting the final days of Arthur and set in a world of fading chivalric glory, this title depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights.


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By: Chris Kuzneski

ISBN: 9780141044330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The New World, 1545... Vanquished by the Spanish Empire, little remains of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities, a unified legend emerges: the Christians who conquered them possessed a mysterious object, an artifact so powerful - so deadly - that it was known throughout the Americas as 'the death relic.'


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By: mile Zola

ISBN: 9780140442809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1973
UK Publication Date: 27th March 1975
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate.


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By: M. J. Carter

ISBN: 9780241966884
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jim Crace

ISBN: 9780140276411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A cumulative novel in 64 parts, all on the subject of food. Readers learn that little is to be trusted about food from these subversive ingredients, but there is also a touching patchwork portrait of a community where meals are served with passion and recipes come spiced with challenge and hope.


By: Juan Mascar

ISBN: 9780140442847
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 1973
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of aphorisms that illustrate the moral teachings of Buddha, the spiritual path to the supreme Truth. It contains the verses arranged according to theme, covering ideas such as self-possession, good and evil, watchfulness and endurance and describe how an individual can attain the enlightenment of Nirvana, the supreme goal of Buddhism.


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By: George Grossmith

ISBN: 9780241956861
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, young clerks and wayward friends And what is he to do about his son Lupin's distinctly unsuitable choice of bride However hard he tries, life piles its little mishaps on his head - but he's not about to give up.


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By: Sophie Morgan

ISBN: 9781405910637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sophie Morgan is an independent woman in her thirties with a successful journalism career. Intelligent, witty and sarcastic, she could be the girl next door. But it isn't until she meets James that her boundaries are really pushed. As her relationship with him travels into darker and darker places the question becomes: where will it end


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By: Joshua Ferris

ISBN: 9780241979983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Savanna Fox

ISBN: 9781405911900
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Georgia Malone is widowed at the age of 25, her world falls apart. Three years on, and she has thrown herself completely into her job, leaving no time for love. But this suits her just fine - she'd prefer to read about fictional romances than face the real thing.


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By: Henry Kamen

ISBN: 9780141016887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Spain has had a long history of exiles. Since the destruction of the last Muslim territories in Granada in 1492, wave after wave of its people have been driven from the country. This title paints a picture of Spain's diverse exiles, from Muslims, Jews and Protestants to Liberals, Socialists and Communists, artists, writers and musicians.


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By: Thomas Hardy

ISBN: 9780140431247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1979
UK Publication Date: 25th October 1979
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dante Alighieri

ISBN: 9780142437223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of hell. It re-creates for the modern reader the meanings that the poem had for Dante's contemporaries.


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By: Dante Alighieri

ISBN: 9780140444438
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1986
UK Publication Date: 31st July 1986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive commentary, a glossary and bibliography, this translation seeks to clarify the theological themes and make Dante accessible to the English-speaking public.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Dante Alighieri

ISBN: 9780140444421
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1985
UK Publication Date: 30th May 1985
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, this work relates his ascent to the Mount of Purgatory. Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a better man. The second part of an epic poem, it is a Christian allegory of sin, redemption and enlightenment.


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By: Andrew Tierney

ISBN: 9780241979099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jack Livings

ISBN: 9780241970126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A wealthy factory owner - once a rural peasant - refuses to help the victims of an earthquake until his daughter starts a relief effort of her own; a powerful Uyghur gangster clashes with his homosexual grandson; and a man struggles to undertake a physically impossible task - constructing a giant crystal sarcophagus for the dead leader.


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By: Suzanne Berne

ISBN: 9780241962664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Littlefield, Massachusetts: home to psychologists, college professors and their over-achieving children, and recently lauded as one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America. If happiness had a home it would be here. Then the first dog is poisoned. At first, there is shock and disbelief: who would commit such a cruel act - and why


By: Jorge Amado

ISBN: 9780143106364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Olga Grushin

ISBN: 9780141024400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Stepping out into the dusk of an warm evening, esteemed art critic Sukhanov feels on top of the world. But the year is 1985 and the air is heavy with change. His future is haunted by doubt. Beset by visions of a past he gave up, he questions his choices: in swapping a life as a brilliant underground artist for comfort did he betray his dreams

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