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A story of innocence existing within the most terrible evil, this is the fictional tale of two young boys caught up in events entirely beyond their control. Berlin 1942 When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences. 12 years+
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A long, dark night of the soul as a bed-ridden middle-aged man contemplates his past and tries to find a meaning for his life - and that of his daughter and granddaughter - in a violent, chaotic world. In his warmest and most compelling novel for some time, Paul Auster addresses today's most controversial issues - from Iraq to Bush's regime - through the story of these three characters, united by grief in the family home, but searching for hope.
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Lexi wakes after a car accident, thinking it´s 2004 and her love life is a disaster. But to her disbelief, she learns it´s 2007 and she´s married to a millionaire! What happened to her? Will she ever remember and what will happen when she does?
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Lola Daly has just found out that her boyfriend – gorgeous, charming and powerful politician Paddy de Courcy – is getting married. To someone else. Heartbroken, Lola flees Dublin to a cottage in the countryside. Can a new set of friends help her to get over him?
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Swinging to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of beat.
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When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. His baffling conclusion: that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years.