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41) Roux Morgue
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Regency London knows Constance Tyrone as the conspicuously celibate founder of the St. Catherine Society, dedicated to helping poor women. One wet November evening a carriage mows down Constance outside her office.
Curiously, while her corpse's one foot is bare, the other is shod in a clean satin slipper despite the muddy road. Why was a gentlewoman abroad in the night? And if she died under the wheel, whose hands bruised her neck and stole her monogrammed...
42) Six moon summer
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(Sara Marie),Seasons of the Moon volume 1
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Rylie's been bitten. She's changing. And now she has three months to find a cure before becoming a werewolf... forever. Rylie Gresham hates everything about summer camp: the food, the fresh air, the dumb activities, and the other girls in her cabin. But the worst part is probably being bitten by a werewolf. Being a teenager is hard enough, but now she's craving raw flesh and struggles with uncontrollable anger. If she doesn't figure out a way to stop...
43) Trust No One
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A timely and topical thriller which looks at the seedy back dealings of criminals and the police. An addictive read for fans of P.J. Tracey and Peter Robinson .A terrifically fast-paced novel that has you hooked from the first chapter with a captivating central female lead who you can't help rooting for. Join Marie Donovan as she races for the truth...As a covert officer specialising in 'deep cover' operations, Marie Donovan works amongst the most...
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Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth about Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint's acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie-the story switching deftly between first- and third-person as the narrator continues to drift through life, and Marie does her best to get on with hers. Like all of Toussaint's novels, The Truth about Marie's plot matters far less than its...
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The shadows of war are drawing over the ancient city of Fez, and Holmes badly wants the wisdom and courage of his wife, whom he's learned, to his horror, has gone missing. As Holmes searches for her, and Russell, suffering a temporary memory loss, searches for her"self," each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before it's too late for them, for Africa, and for the peace of Europe.
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A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author's much-praised debut novel 'Mary George of Allnorthover'. 'An Irresponsible Age', Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but the country unwilling to 'abandon an idea just because it proved to be a bad one'. In these hesitant times we follow the life of Juliet Clough and her three siblings, all of them interdependent in a not-quite...
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Lavinia Greenlaw's mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-'70s Essex. Lavinia Greenlaw puts before us the monochrome, immemorial middle England of the 1970s in all its dowdy glory, and has us see through the mercurial, bewitching Mary George's eyes how a seemingly static landscape is suddenly illuminated by the most vivid bursts of energy, colour and drama. Punk's torch flares into life and singes the fringes of England....
48) Nowhere To Hide
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They're above the law and they're watching her every move... A compulsively readable thriller, perfect for fans of Mark Billingham and Peter Robinson. The lines between good and bad are indistinguishable... On the North Wales coast two people traffickers are brutally murdered; a drug dealer is mown down in inner-city Stockport and in a remote Pennine cottage a police informant is shot dead. Seemingly random, these murders are the work of one professional...
49) Altered
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Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Agency, along with the four teen boys the Agency had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.
50) Another Sun
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The sun-drenched Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is technically part of France, subject to French law and loyal to the French Republic. But in 1980, the scars of colonialism are still fresh, and ethnic tensions and political unrest seethe just below the surface of everyday life. French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud relocated to this beautiful Caribbean island confident that she could make it her new home. But her day-to-day life is filled with...
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Being Mary Jane volume 1
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Mary Jane Paul (Gabrielle Union) is a single woman with style, class and a high-powered career as a host of a popular news program. On paper, she has it all, except one thing...love. Tune in to find out what it's like 'Being Mary Jane'.
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Major Robert Kurland has returned to the quiet vistas of his village home to recuperate from the horrors of Waterloo. However injured his body may be, his mind is as active as ever. Too active, perhaps. When he glimpses a shadowy figure from his bedroom window struggling with a heavy load, the tranquil facade of the village begins to loom sinister. Unable to forget the incident, Robert confides in his childhood friend, Miss Lucy Harrington. As the...
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¡Una nueva edición del clásico en Español-Inglés!
Anita la Mariquita encuentra una caja de pinturas y comienza a pintar puntos por doquier. Pero nadie quiere los puntos de Anita. Así que, muy triste, se va en busca de un nuevo hogar. ¿Encontrará Anita un lugar donde pueda pintar sus puntos?
Nominado al Premio de Europa como mejor audioproducción infantil.
New release of the classic in Spanish-English!
Ladybird Marie paints all the animals...
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¡Una nueva edición del clásico en Español-Inglés!
Hugo, el pequeño gavilán, no quiere cazar ratones. Prefiere jugar con ellos.
A sus padres eso no les gusta nada.
Pero entonces la familia de gavilanes se ve amenazada por unos cuervos.
New release of the classic in Spanish-English!
The story of the little Buzzard Ben who doesn't like to catch mice.
He prefers to play with them. His parents don't like this!
But then the buzzard family...
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Una nueva edición del clásico en Español-Inglés.
La mariquita Anita encuentra a la pequeña golondrina Lucía. Nadie quiere escuchar ya las canciones de cuna de Lucía, que va cantando todo el día.
Por eso Lucía está muy triste. Cuando su familia se dispone a volar hacia el sur, Lucía se queda con su amiga Anita que está enferma.
New release of the classic in Spanish-English!
Ladybird Marie meets little swallow Olivia. Nobody wants to...
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Una nueva edición del clásico en Español-Inglés.
Anita la Mariquita está muy preocupada porque no puede pintar.
Se ha lastimado su mano y su ala; pero la libélula Lolita, que siempre ayuda a los otros animales, la cura.
Ahora, cuando termina el verano Lolita se siente muy débil.¿Quién vendrá en su ayuda?
New release of the classic in Spanish-English!
Ladybird Marie is sick. She can no longer paint. Her hands and wings are in splints....
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Una nueva edición del clásico en Español-Inglés.
En busca de una cerda de jabalí, Anita la Mariquita conoce a Max, un jabato que piensa que el barro y la suciedad son repugnantes. Él no quiere ensuciarse. Todos los animales se ríen de él y piensan que es aburrido.
Un día una amiga de Max está a punto de ahogarse en un estanque. ¿Podrá Max salvarla?
New release of the classic in Spanish-English!
On her search for a bristle Ladybird...
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For lovers of Marion Lennox and Fiona Lowe comes a sweet, touching novel about secret desires and second chances, set in the intriguing world of sleep medicine.
Dr. Cameron Lewis has been running from his past for a long time, so when a career opportunity opens up in his hometown of Brisbane, he takes it as a sign to move home and pick up the pieces of his life. But, his vow to never have a child remains steadfast, it's the one thing he can't compromise...
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HISTORICAL ROMANCEMary Margaret Harwell never dreamed she would move to Little Rock, Arkansas, just as she never dreamed she would marry a Yankee. As her radically Republican husband, Thomas, enters the politics of reconstructing Arkansas after the Civil War, Maggie soon discovers that although the war is over, the bitterness of the loss has not diminished.As Tom and Maggie settle into their new life in Arkansas, she busies herself painting artwork...
60) Natural Symbols
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Works volume 3
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2013.
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First printed in 1970, Natural Symbols is Douglas' most controversial work. It represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society. This work focuses on the ways in which cultures select natural symbols from the body and how every natural symbol carries a social meaning. She also introduces her grid/group theory, which she sees as a way of keeping...
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