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By: H. P. Lovecraft

ISBN: 9780142437957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A man plagued by nightmarish visions seeks help in Miskatonic University's library of forbidden books, where, in the dreaded Necronomicon, he finds clues in legends of elder magic in "The Dreams in the Witch House," the title story in an anthology containing more than twenty chilling tales of terror


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By: Jeannette Jackson

ISBN: 9781405909334
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers you 'Intelligent Nutrition' that combines foods with minimal calories but with maximal nutritional value to blast the pounds away and make you look and feel amazing. In this title, the author helps you to work with your body, leaving you vibrant, energised and radiant from the inside out.


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By: James Marrison

ISBN: 9781405916936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A man is found dead near his home with a pitchfork through his neck. When DCI Guillermo Downes is called to the scene he realizes the victim is well known to him. A decade earlier, Downes made a promise to the families of two missing girls that he would find their daughters.


By: Jonathan Coe

ISBN: 9780241967737
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an unpressed record. Secondly, there's Madeleine, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical followed by a doorstep peck on the cheek.


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By: mile Zola

ISBN: 9780140443875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1980
UK Publication Date: 26th June 1980
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of the local Fouan family. But, in a community where land is everything, sibling rivalry quickly turns to brutal hatred, as Buteau declares himself unsatisfied with his lot.


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By: Beechy Colclough

ISBN: 9780140266641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An alcoholic until the age of 34, he then became a highly trained counsellor on addiction and runs the Prom recovery centre in Kent, where he treats alcoholics, drug addicts and people with eating disorders. Thus he would say he's been in the business of alcoholism for 43 years - only the first 43 he was all for it.


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By: Jack Shenker

ISBN: 9780718193126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Paul Theroux

ISBN: 9780141029580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the shifting stories of those who come to India in search of that elusive something - and of how they react when the country and people they encounter are altogether foreign to their expectations.


By: Lila Azam Zanganeh

ISBN: 9781846143687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak, Memory, Ada, or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita, this title seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time, memory, sexual passion, nature, loss, love in all its forms, language in all its allusions. It explores his Russian childhood, his European sojourns, and more.


By: Hanna Rosin

ISBN: 9780241964422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers an explosive argument for why women are winning the battle of the sexes and why men are no longer top dog, for lovers of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman. This title reveals how this has come to pass and explains its implications for marriage, sex, children, work, families and society.


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By: David Kessler

ISBN: 9780141047812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores how modern food manufacturers have hijacked the brains of millions by turning our meals into perfectly engineered portions of fat, salt and sugar, turning us into addicts in the process. With a focus on the problems in the UK and Europe, this title lays out a plan and tools for reclaiming control over our cravings.


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By: James Mitchie

ISBN: 9780140443509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1979
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Martial was born in Bibilis, Spain, probably around 38-41 AD. His poems are definitely modelled off of Catullus' epigrams and elegiac verses, although they are different in meaning and theme. These poems are hilarious and audacious, cruel, lewd, charming, spiteful, and creative; and they bring to life the social and political milieu of Rome.


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By: Bernard Mandeville

ISBN: 9780140445411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 27th April 1989
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705".


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By: Alistair Horne

ISBN: 9780141030630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. People everywhere saw Paris as the centre of Europe and the hub of culture, fashion and invention. This book tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany


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By: Lawrence Stone

ISBN: 9780140137217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1990
UK Publication Date: 29th November 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.


By: Abraham H. Maslow

ISBN: 9780140194708
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science and the aesthetics of philosophical inquiry. With essays on biology, synergy, creativity, cognition, self-actualization, and the hierarchy of needs, this posthumous work is a synthesis of Maslow's ideas.


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By: Andrea Bettridge

ISBN: 9780141017013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Fat Ladies Club met at antenatal classes and became firm friends. This book shares their experiences of first-time pregnancy.


By: Mark Bostridge

ISBN: 9780670919222
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, broke out when people were least prepared for it. A theatrical diva prepares to shock her audience, while an English poet in the making sets out on a midsummer railway journey that result in the creation of a poem that remains loved and widely known to this day. This book deals with this topic.


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By: John Gribbin

ISBN: 9780141015705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a method of thinking based on proof and experiment. This is account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the impact of the Royal Society.


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By: Jennifer McVeigh

ISBN: 9780670920907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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South Africa - a land torn apart by greed... Frances Irvine, left penniless after her father's sudden death, is forced to emigrate to the Cape. In this barren country, she meets two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by ideals.


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By: Thomas Hardy

ISBN: 9780140439007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Contains stories that include "The Melancholy Hussar", "A Tragedy of Two Ambitions", "The First Countess of Wessex", "Barbara of the House of Grebe", "For Conscience' Sake", "The Son's Veto", "On the Western Circuit", "An Imaginative Woman", "A Changed Man", and "Enter a Dragoon".


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By: Jihan El-Tahri

ISBN: 9780140268270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, the region has been the scene of fierce power struggles, injustice and tragic events. This book presents an insiders account of war and peace in the Middle East.


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By: William Hazlitt

ISBN: 9780140436136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2000
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Hazlitt is one of the greatest masters of English prose style. This title demonstrates the variety and richness of his writing. It includes classic pieces of drama and literature criticism, such as his essays on Shakespeare and Coleridge, as well as material from his social and political journalism.


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By: Jess Walter

ISBN: 9780241969441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Matt Prior is about to lose his job, his house, his wife, and maybe his sanity too. Financial journalist Matt quit his job to set up a website which couldn't fail. Only now he's woken up to the biggest crisis since the Great Crash, and it has. He's got six days to save his house.

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