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OSCAR WILDE

Fiction

Description: Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing skill in a range of literary styles. The stories include: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire" and "The Happy Prince", "Nightingale and the Rose".

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SHAKESPEARE SECRET, THE

JENNIFER LEE CARRELL

Fiction

Description: On a June day in 2004, at London's rebuilt Globe theater, Rosalind Howard, flamboyantly eccentric Harvard Professor of Shakespeare, gives her friend Katharine Stanley, who's directing a production of Hamlet at the Globe, a small gold-wrapped box. That evening, a fire damages the Globe, where Roz is found murdered in the same manner as Hamlet's father. Roz's mysterious gift, which contains a Victorian mourning brooch decorated with flowers associated with Ophelia, propels Kate on a wild and wide-ranging quest that takes her to Utah; Arizona; Washington, D.C.; and back to London.

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ULYSSES

JAMES JOYCE

Fiction

Description: Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly.

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ABOUT A BOY (FILM)

NICK HORNBY

Fiction

Description: Will is 36 and doesn't really want children. But then he comes across 12-year-old Marcus and it's pretty clear that Marcus would like a dad. The trouble is, Marcus is weird - a boy who prefers Joni Mitchell to Nirvana. He also knows something about Will that he can definitely use.

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FLOOD, THE

J M G LE CLEZIO

Fiction

Description: After hearing a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide, Francoise Besson's thoughts eventually lead to violence.

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ANYBODY OUT THERE?

MARIAN KEYES

Fiction

Description: Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. She's covered in bandages and she's lying in her parents' Good Front Room dreaming of leaving Dublin and getting back to New York, to her friends, to the most fabulous job in the world - and most of all, back to her husba

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ON BEAUTY

ZADIE SMITH

Fiction

Description: In the mould of novels of E.M.Forster, and filled with crackling dialogue, broad comedy and an exceedingly warm heart, ON BEAUTY takes us from East Coast USA to London, from the trauma of adolescence to mid-life crisis, and from the irritations of family life to the power of beauty.

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn’t like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering Professor at Wellington, a New England Liberal Arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was.

Their three children passionately pursue their own paths; Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.

Then Jerome, Howard’s oldest son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps. Increasingly, the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, then an unexpected legacy set in motion a chain of events which sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions that underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what are the really beautiful things in life - and how far will you go to get them?

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SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE, THE

SUE TOWNSEND

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Description: In this painfully honest (and secret) diary, teenager Adrian Mole writes candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, and his life as a tortured poet and "misunderstood intellectual".

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SPANISH PARALLEL TEXTS 2 (LAWAETZ ED)

Fiction

Description: This second volume of short stories contains writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Many of the writers are Latin American. Carlos Fuentes is Mexican, Norberto Fuentes is Cuban, and other writers have their roots in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia and the Argentine.

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TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

ROALD DAHL

Fiction

Description: A collection of short stories with a twist, taken from Roald Dahl's books "Kiss Kiss" and "Someone Like You".

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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Fiction

Description: Holly Golightly is generally up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She hasn't got a past. She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone, not even to her one-eyed rag-bag pirate of a cat. One day Holly might find somewhere she belongs.

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IN COLD BLOOD

TRUMAN CAPOTE

Fiction

Description: Agent Al Dewey has a crime to solve - the slaughter of an entire family of god-fearing farming folk. All Agent Dewey has are two footprints, four dead bodies and a whole lot of questions, none with easy answers.

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MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER, THE

KIM EDWARDS

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Description: On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by David Henry's fateful decision that long-ago winter night.

A rich and deeply moving page-turner, The Memory Keeper's Daughter captures the way life takes unexpected turns and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets burst into the open. It is an astonishing tale of redemptive love.

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BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, THE

JUNOT DIAZ

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Description: Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he´s sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú- the curse that has haunted his family for generations.

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

HARPER LEE

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Description: "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of the story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the 1930s. 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

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DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Fiction

Description: In this book Hemingway shares his passion for bullfighting. The technical skills are described and explained, with chapters on individual bullfighters and the bulls. This work also contains a number of short stories inspired by the intense life and inevitable death of those violent afternoons.

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FIESTA

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Fiction

Description: Hemingway's first novel, set in 1920s Paris, a city of Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with the aristocratic, beautiful and sensuous Brett Ashley, and the couple are drawn towards the dazzle and excitement of the Spanish fiesta.

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LAST SECRET OF THE TEMPLE, THE

PAUL SUSSMAN

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Description: When the body of an aged hotel owner is discovered amidst the ruins of a rarely-visited archaeological site by the Nile, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police expects it to be an open-and-shut case. But, the more he finds out about the dead man, the uneasier he becomes. It reminds him of an earlier death - the brutal murder of an Israeli woman for which he always suspected they'd convicted the wrong man. What begins as a routine investigation rapidly turns out to be anything but...Forced into an uneasy alliance with a hard-drinking Jerusalem detective and a campaigning Palestinian journalist, Khalifa enters a murky, murderous world of greed, duplicity, intrigue and revenge as he goes in search of an elusive 2000 year-old mystery with the power, if it fell into the wrong hands, to plunge the Middle East into all-out war...Spanning the millennia - from ancient Jerusalem and the Crusades to the Holocaust and the modern-day no-man's landof the Gaza strip, from Cathar heretics to coded medieval manuscripts and long-lost Nazi treasure - "The Last Secret of the Temple" is a thrilling, rollercoaster adventure.

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SNOW

ORHAN PAMUK

Fiction

Description: After twelve years in political exile, the poet Ka returns to Istanbul and takes a commission to report on the municipal elections in Kars. There he discovers a dangerous atmosphere, with tensions running high between the political Islamists and the "enlightened, pro-Western" Turkish military. Pamuk brilliantly explores such themes as politics, love, ethics, religion and poetry, as we gradually discover the real truth concerning the poet and the snow-covered old-world city of Kars.

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REMAINS OF THE DAY

KAZUO ISHIGURO

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TRUE TALES OF AMERICAN LIFE

PAUL AUSTER

Fiction

Description: Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the 20th century. The requirement for selection was that each of the stories should be true, and each of the writers should not have been previously published. The collection that has emerged provides a richly varied and authentic voice for the American people, whose lives, loves, griefs, regrets, joys and sense of humour are vividly and honestly recounted throughout, and adeptly organised by Auster into themed sections. The section composed of war stories stretches as far back as the Civil War, still the defining moment in American history; while the sequence of 'Meditations' conclude the volume with a true and abiding sense of transcendence.

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BETRAYAL

HAROLD PINTER

Fiction

Description: Part of a collection of Harold Pinter's works, this is a comedy of sexual manners in which Pinter captures the psyche's sly manoeuvres for self-respect with sardonic forgiveness. Written in 1978 by the author of "The Caretaker", "The Lover", "The Homecoming" and "The Birthday Party".

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BLACK BOOK, THE

ORHAN PAMUK

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Description: Galip is an Istanbul lawyer whose wife has vanished. Could she be hiding out with her brother? And if so, why isn't anyone in his flat? Playing the part of private investigator, Galip assumes the brother's role. But the amateur sleuth soon finds himself descending deeper and deeper into an extraordinary mystery. Richly atmospheric, 'The Black Book' is a labyrinthine novel suffused with the sights, sounds and scents of contemporary Istanbul.

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OLD MAN AND THE SEA, THE

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Fiction

Description: The story of an old man's tragic fishing-trip, following the original publication of which Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

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POE SHADOW, THE

MATTHEW PEARL

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Description: Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, even Poe’s family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who died a drunkard. But none of this deters a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who risks his own career and reputation in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe’s. Clark discovers that Poe’s last days are riddled with vital unanswered questions. The police, it seems, may be concealing things. But just when Poe’s death looks destined to remain a mystery Quentin realises he must find the one person who can solve this strange case: the real-life model for Poe’s brilliant fictional detective character, C. Auguste Dupin, the hero of ingenious tales of crime and detection. Clark successfully recruits the man he believes to have inspired Poe’s Dupin only to be confronted by another claiming to be the true model and a dangerous race between the two master detectives begins, each seeking to prove he is the real ‘Dupin’ by solving the mystery of Poe’s death. In short order, Clark finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving international political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade and the lost secrets of Poe’s final hours. With his own future hanging in the balance, he must turn master investigator himself to unchain his now imperiled fate from that of Poe. The Poe Shadow is a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense which opens a thrilling new window on the truth behind Poe’s demise, literary history’s most persistent enigma.

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CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT (ADULTO)

MARK HADDON

Fiction

Description: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

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UNCOMMON READER, THE

ALAN BENNETT

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Description: The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world, and loses patiece with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.

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MY NAME IS RED

ORHAN PAMUK

Fiction

Description: In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner. But when one of the miniaturists goes missing and is feared murdered, their master seeks outside help.

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HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHO AD

J K ROWLING

Fiction

Description: Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. "It is time," he said, "for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything."

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RESTLESS

WILLIAM BOYD

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Description: Restless is yet another tour de force from William Boyd. Exploring the devastating consequences of duplicity and betrayal it is a thrilling novel that captures the drama of the Second World War and a remarkable portrait of a female spy. Full of suspense, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its very finest.
What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? Ruth Gilmartin discovers the strange and haunting truth about her mother, Sally, during the long hot summer of 1976.
For Sally Gilmartin is really Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian émigré. In 1939 Eva is a beautiful twenty-eight year old living in Paris. As war breaks out, she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious, patrician Englishman. Under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy: to be keen, quick, alert, and most importantly to trust no one, not even the people she most loves. Danger is everywhere.

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KITE RUNNER, THE

KHALED HOSSEINI

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Description: This is a wonderful, beautiful epic of a novel. Set in Afghanistan and the United States between the 1970s to the present day, it is a heartbreaking tale of a young boy, Amir, and his best friend who are torn apart. This is a classic word-of-mouth novel and is sure to become as universally loved as The God of Small Things and The Glass Palace.

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TELLING TALES

NADINE GORDIMER

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Description: Rarely have so many writers of such variety and distinction appeared on a contents list in the same anthology. The list includes Gabriel García Marquez, Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Hanif Kureishi and José Saramago, as well as Nadine Gordimer, who has edited and introduces the collection. Their stories capture the range of emotions and situations of our human universe: tragedy, comedy, fantasy, satire, dramas of sexual love and of war, in different continents and cultures.
Along with making music, the art of storytelling is the oldest form of enchantment as entertainment. The twenty-one stories in this anthology are written in different 'voices' - vividly individual styles - and all have come together to bring the joy of reading to whoever takes up this remarkable collection.

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BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS (7)

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

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Description: Precious Ramotswe, traditionally-built proprietor of Botswana's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, is now known to millions around the world as the heroine of Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling series of books. In the latest instalment, Mma Ramotswe contemplates the two sorts of problems that we all face in life: the major ones (such as drought), about which very little can be done, and the other sort - which people make for themselves through human weakness and an inability to resist temptation. Like the inability to resist cake, for instance. That had led to several problems for Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, especially when the cake was made by Mma Potokwane, matron of the Orphan Farm. But it is Mma Ramotswe's role in life to deal with the problems of others and provide some solution to their difficulties - a role she fulfils with her usual style in this latest bestseller.

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LADY IN BLUE, THE

JAVIER SIERRA

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LAST JEW, THE

NOAH GORDON

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Description: 1492 - the Spanish Inquisition. When all the Jews are exiled from Spain, orphaned 13-year-old, Jonah, manages to stay. In Granada he meets people of his own faith, but fate moves him on, to Gibraltar and then Saragossa, where he learns physician's skills from a mentor and discovers his calling.

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WE KNOW

GREGG HURWITZ

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Description: The brilliant new thriller from the author of I See You. A good job, a decent flat in Los Angeles, a quiet life - Nick Horrigan has finally put his traumatic past behind him. Or so it seems, until a SWAT team smashes into his place in the middle of the night. Still in pajamas, he's dragged outside to a waiting helicopter. He's told that a terrorist has seized control of a nuclear power plant and is threatening to blow it up...unless he can talk to Nick. Flown into a deadly intrigue, Nick is charged with a dangerous secret, one that will take him from the dark alleys of the city to behind the scenes of a Presidential race.

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HISTORIAN, THE

ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

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Description: Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright - a hunt for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the Dracula myth. Deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions, and evading terrifying adversaries, one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil.

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REBECCA

DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Fiction

Description: Forced by the sudden death of her father to act as paid companion to the comical - and tiresome - Mrs Van Hopper, our herione meets handsome widower Maxim de Winter on a trip to Monaco and accepts his sudden marriage proposal. But she is unprepared for the shadows cast by his past.

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HOUSE ON THE STRAND

DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Fiction

Description: Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as guinea pig for a new drug Magnus has discovered in his biochemical research; the effect of which is to transport Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th century.

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TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE (2)

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

Fiction

Description: McCall Smith's second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations... Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother's pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains.

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