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This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspir...9999903381259Charlie Connelly
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martes, 7 de octubre de 2025
Why Reality Matters for Feminism'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard 'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and...9999903378921Kathleen Stock
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sábado, 4 de octubre de 2025
1943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its t...9999903354154Radcliffe, Robert
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viernes, 8 de agosto de 2025
When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services...9999903335856Bainbridge, Beryl
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viernes, 27 de junio de 2025
Three NovellasIn 'Saturn Street' a disaffected screenwriter in Los Angeles volunteers to deliver lunches to homebound AIDS patients and falls in love with one of his clients. In 'The Wooden Anni...9999903328971David Leavitt
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martes, 10 de junio de 2025
An epic - yet fiercely personal - novel about Love, Literature and Lying from one of our most sophisticated and entertaining storytellers9999903328872David Leavitt
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martes, 10 de junio de 2025
New Views on the Nature of LifeFor most people cockroaches, spiders, worms, dung beetles and hyenas are not paragons of beauty in a natural world; in fact, many would prefer that they were not there at all. But ...9999903326014Angier, Natalie
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An Historical NovelThe hero is Eupolis, weary, cynical and believing only in comedy. The heroine is Athens, at the height of her schizophrenic glory. A startling mixture of comedy and tragedy, THE WA...9999903313359Tom Holt
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viernes, 9 de mayo de 2025
"Who the hell are you?" A.J. asks the baby.For no apparent reason, she stops crying and smiles at him. "Maya," she answers.That was easy, A.J. thinks. "How old are you?" he asks.Ma...9999903299899Gabrielle Zevin
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martes, 8 de abril de 2025
2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Dr King's death Compiled from his own words, this history-making autobiography IS Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child an...9780349112985Martin Luther King (Jr.)
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martes, 8 de abril de 2025
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour. The delightful result is a creation of comic genius. For in the un...9999903285137Smith, Alexander McCall
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jueves, 6 de marzo de 2025
When aristocratic Englishwoman Elinore Dubois married a handsome young Irishman, her mother warned her that he would give her ten children and leave her destitute. In fact there ar...9999903266372Clare Boylan
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jueves, 23 de enero de 2025
Memories of GirlhoodIn this memoir of perceptions and ideas, renowned feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a stirringly intimate account of growing up in the American South.[Bokinfo].9780349704968Bell Hooks
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The eighth book in the Anne Shirley series.Anne Shirley's children are almost all grown up - except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla, who is now almost fifteen years old. No one can...9999903225904L. M. Montgomery
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lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2024
The seventh book in the Anne Shirley series.'There was a little unfailing spring, always icy cold and crystal pure, in a certain birch-screened hollow of Rainbow Valley in the lowe...9999903225898L. M. Montgomery
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lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2024
The sixth book in the Anne Shirley series.'It's been lovely to be Anne of Green Gables again for a week, but it's a hundred times lovelier to come back and be Anne of Ingleside'The...9999903225881L. M. Montgomery
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lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2024
The fifth book in the Anne Shirley series.'They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that. Their happiness was in each other's...9999903225874L. M. Montgomery
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lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2024
'I love her books - particularly the Five Children and It sequence' - Neil GaimanDigging in the gravel pit on a hot summer's day, five children discover 'it': a grumpy creature wit...9999903223924E. Nesbit
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sábado, 16 de noviembre de 2024
'A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band' Neil TennantThe trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete ...9999903223504Brett Anderson
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viernes, 15 de noviembre de 2024
The Debut Novel from Liv LittleTHE HOTTEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2023 "Frank, sexy, and so tender. Little's pen shines" Bolu Babalola, author of Love in Colour "A beautifully rendered story about love's possibilities...9999903222811Liv Little
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Lt. Eve Dallas is back and this time she's investigating the death of one of her own When a retired police officer is found dead in his home, Lt. Eve Dallas and the team are calle...9999903187653J. D. Robb
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martes, 17 de septiembre de 2024
'Grace and intelligence . . . [her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' BARACK OBAMA'Radiant and visionary' SARAH PERRY, GUARDIANA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSEL...9999903178828Marilynne Robinson
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lunes, 26 de agosto de 2024
For 2,000 years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilisation's triumphs and disasters. In THE GOSPEL ACCORDI...9999903172208Norman Mailer
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A Love StoryThe eagerly-anticipated sequel to Dana Schwartz's Reese's Book Club Winter YA Pick and No.1 New York Times bestselling gothic romance, Anatomy: A Love StoryHazel Sinnett is alone. ...9999903107422Dana Schwartz
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Dick and Lily have been married for fifty years, and Lily finally believes that marriage is like an old tune you take for granted but find yourself whistling when you're happy. Unt...9999903098799Boylan, Clare
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martes, 26 de marzo de 2024
Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for WomenOn a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, d...9999903054313Sarah Helm
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