Description: This is an extraordinary debut novel - a riveting love story about the redemptive power of suffering and a romance that transcends the limits of time and space.

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Description: The fourth novel in the hugely popular Sunday Philosophy Club series.
Philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is about to find her Edinburgh home life profoundly altered by the birth of her baby. But this event is not universally welcomed: Cat, Isabel's niece, has her reasons for not feeling warmly disposed towards the new arrival. Isabel is nevertheless, as her profession dictates, philosophical about such difficulties. But it is her professional curiosity that draws her into the investigation of a strange affair involving a painter.

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Description: Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, the precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbour who predicts `They will come for you, man. They´ll break you out of here´. Soon Che too is an outlaw, fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, as he is pitched into a journey that leads him to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland.

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Description: This intense psychothriller-love story revolves around Jo Ellen Hathaway, her family, and cousins--who all run a hotel, Sanctuary, which belonged to Jo Ellen's mother, who disappeared years ago. Jo Ellen is being stalked by an unknown person who haunts her with photos of her mother and herself. When she escapes to Sanctuary, the stalker follows her there. Sandra Burr reads this fast-paced tale in a quiet voice that accents the terror Jo Ellen is feeling.

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Description: Presents a collection of three stories.
Nadine Gordimer illustrates the show-downs, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race.

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Description: Presents a story about young women forced into marriages with old men, about mothers and daughters, stepmothers and stepdaughters, youthful passions and the regrets of old age, about peasant communities and the way they hide their secrets.

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Description: For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years.

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Description: An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". He writes short essays on the origins of the state, on Machiavelli, on anarchism, on al Qaida, on intelligent design, on music. What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the relationship between citizen and state?

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Description: Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his companions know his feelings on the matter.

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Description: Include the tales "Bonjour Tristesse", and "A Certain Smile". "Bonjour Tristesse" tells the story of Cecile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry - with devastating consequences. In "A Certain Smile" Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways. These two acerbically witty and delightfully amoral tales about the nature of love are shimmering masterpieces of cool-headed, brilliant observation.

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Description: Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers.

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