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A young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't belong. This is the chronicle of resilience and despair, broken layers of memory and the terrible forces of history.

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Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England - that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch himself, Charles II.

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1735 - London. Haytham Kenway has been taught to use a sword from the age he was able to hold one. When his family's house is attacked - his father murdered and his sister taken by armed men - Haytham defends his home the only way he can: he kills. With no family, he is taken in by a mysterious tutor who trains him to become a deadly killer.

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Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, this work recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimlessly studying in Europe at his family's expense returns to Shanghai armed with a bogus degree from a fake university. On the liner back, Fang's life becomes deeply entangled with those of two Chinese beauties.

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This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.

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Tells the story of the summer author spent caddying for Scottish golfer Ross Drummond, ranked over 400 in the world, on the European Tour. This title also presents the inside story of the geniuses, the cheats, the gurus and the hangers-on that make up the golf scene.

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The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. This title contains four tragedies.

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Rebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married Isabel and, for twenty years, they have been inseparable. But all that is about to change... When Alex walks out on Isabel, Rebecca thinks things can't get any worse.

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A selection of writings including a description of a meeting between two legends, Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali; a dissection of the offices of Vogue magazine; an account of travelling to Ireland with hellraiser Peter O'Toole; and, a profile of fading baseball star Joe DiMaggio, which turns into a immaculately-crafted meditation on celebrity.

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In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship ...and horror.

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In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness.

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When your work resonates with purpose, you jump out of bed every morning, excited by the possibilities the day holds for you. This book reminds you that you are fantastic and have the ability to do amazing things. It shows you that work is your slave, not the other way round.

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Is there really such a thing as free will How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws In this title, the author provides a defense of free will.

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When world economy went into freefall, so too did our unquestioning faith in markets. But what happens now Are bailouts and stern lectures enough, or do we need a rethink of our entire financial system This book shows why far radical reforms are needed to avoid future crises, and how we now have opportunity to create a new global economic order.

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Features recipes drawn from across the regions of France. Showing how each area has a particular and flavour for its foods, derived as they are from local ingredients, this title explores the astonishing diversity of French cuisine.

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Elizabeth David aims to make people want to use each recipe as soon as it is read, describing recipes like "pot au feu" in their simplicity. She presents cooking without fuss. She also explains the choice of the tools that would always be needed in any kitchen.

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When a bloated corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at least sure that identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around the dead man's wrist is a hospital band. On it are the words Dr F Klein... But psychotherapist Frieda Klein is very much alive.

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Prew won't conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but he chooses the life of a straight soldier in Hawaii under the fierce tutelage of Sergeant Milt Warden. When he refuses to box for his company for mysterious reasons, he is given 'The Treatment', a relentless campaign of physical and mental abuse.