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Bridget Jones’s diary: A novel
Bridget Jones wants to have it all – and once she’s given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will.
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Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language
‘No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.’
Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun.Join Gyles Brandreth – wit and word-meister, Just A Minute regular, One Show reporter, denizen of Countdown’s Dictionary Corner, founder of the National Scrabble Championships, patron of The Queen’s English Society, QI, Room 101, Have I Got News For You and Pointless survivor – on an uproarious and unexpected magic carpet ride around the awesome world of words and wordplay.
Puns, palindromes, pangrams, Malaprops, euphemisms, mnemonics, acronyms, anagrams, alphabeticals, Tweets, verbiage, verbarrhea – if you can name it, you should find it here, along with the longest, shortest, wittiest, wildest, oldest, latest, oddest, most interesting and most memorable words in the English language – the richest, most remarkable language ever known.
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Chomsky, Noam New Edition
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky’s talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions??”published here for the first time??”Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America’s imperialistic foreign policy and social inequalities at home, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take towards social change.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Vintage Classics)
Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing sea monster. However, he discovers that the beast is metal – it is a giant submarine called the Nautilus built by the renegade scientist Captain Nemo. So begins an underwater adventure that takes them from the South Pole to the submerged lost city of Atlantis.
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The Tropez Lonely Hearts Club
Having recently ended an abusive marriage, the beautiful and filthy rich Contessa Carlotta di Ponti looks to find true love on the beautiful French beaches of the Côte d’Azur. And what better place to find love than the playground of the wealthy and beautiful, the exquisite enclave of St. Tropez.
With the annual party season kicking into high gear at billionaire Harry Silver’s palatial mansion, tragedy soon strikes paradise. Among the high fashion, nude sunbathing and heavy drinking a bad oyster, a fatal wasp sting, and a faulty cliff railway have changed the mood of the party-goers. Death is in the air and these appear to be no accidents. Is there something far more sinister coming down upon the wealthy party-goers of the usually festive St. Tropez?
The gorgeous detective Gabrielle Poulpe makes it her mission to save the day, as well as the financial security of the town, and find the murderer in their midst. Otherwise, life in this sanctified corner of France could change forever. Can Gabrielle find the suspect before they strike again? St. Tropez is known as the ultimate playground of the rich and famous and thrives on the mega-money spent here, but now, it’s riddled with threats from within which is scaring everyone away…
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta’s family did not learn of her ‘immortality’ until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . .
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The Gut Makeover: 4 Weeks to Nourish Your Gut, Revolutionise Your Health and Lose Weight
‘THE MOST PAINLESS DIET EVER’ Daisy Goodwin, Daily Mail
‘I DROPPED A DRESS SIZE. I feel mentally clearer, far less emotional, have got rid of an ongoing chest infection and sleep better on a regular basis than I have in months.’ Caroline Sylger Jones, The Times
‘LIFE-CHANGING. The most practical gut guide.’ BBC’s Dr Rangan Chatterjee
‘The Gut Makeover transformed me and changed my life. I also lost 18 pounds.’ Tim Arthur, BBC Radio London
Transform your body shape with this 4-week health plan for a healthier mind and body. This is more than another fad diet. This is a lifestyle you’ll want to adopt for life.
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The Dukan Diet: The French medical solution for permanent weight loss
UK Book. Devised by Dr Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight permanently, The Dukan Diet is the culmination of thirty-five years’ clinical experience. Without any of the usual marketing hype, The Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by the people who had successfully lost weight following the diet.
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THE WIZARD OF OZ – VOLUME 3
Oz, the Complete Collection
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Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who
This is the most comprehensive book ever written on one of the world’s greatest, and most explosive, rock bands: The Who. Organized by year, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere presents in diary fashion exactly what The Who were doing, where they were doing it, and with whom from 1958-1978.
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Switch: How to change things when change is hard
We all know that change is hard. It’s unsettling, it’s time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback.
But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightful book. They argue that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour.
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Taking Control of OCD: Inspirational Stories of Hope and Recovery
OCD affects between 1 and 2 per cent of the UK population, causing terrible distress to hundreds of thousands. A serious mental illness, it affects people in different ways from well-known rituals such as obsessive hand-washing and checking, to lesser known symptoms such as disturbing intrusive thoughts and hoarding. Those affected typically suffer for a number of years before seeking help and receiving professional treatment.
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Sex Fantasies by Women for Women
This collection of real women’s sexual fantasies makes for a hot read and a unique insight into the desires of today’s women.
Compiled by New York magazine Journalist, Lisa Sussman, Hot Sex Fantasies By Women For Women is a provocative collection of erotic fantasies, day dreams and confessions from anonymous women on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Sugar Money
Set in 1765 on the Caribbean islands of Grenada and Martinique, Sugar Money opens as two enslaved brothers – Emile and Lucien – are sent on an impossible mission forced upon them by their masters, a band of mendicant French monks.
The monks run hospitals in the islands and fund their ventures through farming cane sugar and distilling rum. Seven years earlier – after a series of scandals – they were ousted from Grenada by the French authorities, and had to leave their slaves behind. Despite the fact that Grenada is now under British rule, and effectively enemy territory, the monks devise an absurdly ambitious plan: they send Emile and Lucien to the island to convince the monks’ former slaves to flee British brutality and escape with them.₦5,500 -
Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.
The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, Power Systems shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian.₦2,500 -
Naomi’s Room
Tormented by grief after his four-year-old daughter is murdered, Charles hears sinister whispers as he tries to discover the truth about Naomi’s death. But long-buried secrets threaten to take Charles to a place where he could lose his very soul. Aycliffe is a pseudonym for Daniel Easterman, the bestselling author of Brotherhood of the Tomb.
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Memoirs of a ‘Lazy Korfa’
Even if you do not have a clue about about NYSC, you will discover in this entirely relatable story what can happen when one person ventures into the amazing, challenging unknown – and the strange adventure that unfolds.
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How to Solve Cryptic Crosswords
Crosswords
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How To Talk: Siblings Without Rivalry
From the widely acclaimed HOW TO TALK series, discover how to cope with – and deflect – sibling rivalry.
Full of humour and compassion, SIBLINGS WITHOUT RIVALRY challenges the idea that constant conflict between siblings is natural and unavoidable.
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Death Comes to Pemberley
The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James.
The year is 1803, and Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth’s beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable.
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Confessions: The Paris Mysteries
After investigating multiple homicides and her family’s decades-old skeletons in the closet, Tandy Angel is finally reunited with her lost love in Paris. But as he grows increasingly distant, she is confronted with disturbing questions about him, as well as what really happened to her long-dead sister.
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Motivate Me!
So, how do you get motivated when everything around you isn’t working? How do you go from frustration to motivation? How do you actually start, get things done and pull through to attain that goal?
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Collins Scrabble Dictionary
Containing all the words of up to nine letters in length from ‘Collins Scrabble Words’, this dictionary allows players to settle disputes over the eligibility of words and is useful for Scrabble players.
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101 Things to Do When You’Re Not Drinking
Feeling a bit woozy? Had a few too many at karaoke night? Sometimes we could all do with taking a break from the drinking life.
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