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Man Who Loved Islands

Hailed as the freshest new voice in Scottish literature, David F. Ross returns with the third instalment of the critically acclaimed Disco Days Trilog

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Man Who Loved Dogs

RUSSIA UNDER STALIN, THE MEXICO OF FRIDA KAHLO, TROTSKY'S ASSASSINATION, AND CONTEMPORARY CUBA, ALL IN A PRIZE WINNING HISTORICAL NOVEL.

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Man Who Loved Libraries

A beautifully illustrated picture book telling the amazing life story of Scottish born Andrew Carnegie, and his legacy of over 2500 public libraries.

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Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins

Acclaimed travel and nature writer Anthony Ham spotlights the world's largest rainforest in this unique combination of international politics, conserv

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Man Who Loved Only Numbers

The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too.

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Man Who Loved Books Too Much

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Man Who Loved Kuras and Other Stories

Howell's much-celebrated stories interweave elements of the commonplace with darkness, subterfuge and sheer weirdness, all realised with natural narra

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Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children: Bookmarked

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Man Who Loved Islands: Sixteen Stories (riverrun editions) by D H Lawrence

A beautifully produced assortment of Lawrence's intimate and exquisite stories.

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The Invisible Man (Collins Classics) - Herbert George Wells

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>“I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man – the mystery, the power, the freedom.”</p> <p>Griffin, a stranger, arrives at the local inn of an English village, entirely shrouded in bandages. ...

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The Chestnut Man : The gripping debut novel from the writer of The Killing - Sveistrup Soren

Anotace: `A full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson, drenched in atmosphere and charged with adrenaline. I loved this book` A. J. Finn, author of The Woman In The Window THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE CREATOR AND WRITER OF HIT TV SHOW THE KILLING As the leaves fall, he`s coming for you. . . One October morning in a quiet suburb, the police make a terr...

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The Chestnut Man : The gripping debut novel from the writer of The Killing - Soren Sveistrup

<p>'A full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson, drenched in atmosphere and charged with adrenaline. I loved this book' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman In The Window THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE CREATOR AND WRITER OF HIT TV SHOW THE KILLING As the leaves fall, he's coming for you. . . One October morning in a quiet suburb, the police make a...

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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - Saunders George

Anotace: `One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far` SFX Review `Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best` Anne Enright, Guardian `A triumph of storytelling` i paper`A joy. `Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart` Daily Mail____________The first short story collection ...

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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - George Saunders

<p>'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart' Daily Mail ____________ The first short story collec...

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Persuasion

Tells the story of Anne Elliot, who, persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough, has never forgot

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Wuthering Heights (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)

Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her s

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His Bright Light

Sharing tender, painful memories, Steel brings us a haunting duet between and singular young man and the mother who loved him - and a harrowing portra

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Superman: Funeral for a Friend

After Superman sacrificed his life to stop Doomsday, the world and those who loved him must learn how to continue on without the Man of Steel. Heroes

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Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

Features the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. This title expresses the author's belief that humanity

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Elizabeth's Women

Elizabeth I is often portrayed as a ruthless 'man's woman', who derided her own sex - and loved to flirt with the young men at her court. Yet she was

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Oryx and Crake (0349004064)

Kniha - autor Margaret Atwood, 448 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons.A man, once named Jimmy, now calls himself Snowman and lives in a tree, wrapped in old bed sheets. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake ...

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BOOTH: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - Fowlerová Karen Joy

Anotace: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 OPEN BOOK `Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln`s assassin` Sunday Times Book of the MonthIn 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and ...

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Bohemian Rhapsody : The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury - Lesley-Ann Jonesová

Anotace: This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury, written by award-winning rock journalist Lesley-Ann Jones, who toured widely with Queen and formed lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining band members and those who were closest to Freddie from childhood to death, Lesley-Ann has written the most in-depth account of one o...

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Elvis and Me

The New York Times bestseller that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it.Decades after his death, millions of fans continue to worship Elvis the legend. But very few knew him as Elvis the man. Here in her own words, Priscilla Presley tells the story of their love, revealing the details of their first meeting, the...

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Sense and Sensibility - Austenová Jane

Anotace: Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Two sisters of opposing temperam...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Art Book The Ultimate Visual Histor

Discover the complete story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the first time--from their humble beginnings in black-and-white comics created in a home studio in Dover, New Hampshire, to their multimillion-dollar breakout success, and their position as four of the best-loved characters of all time.Featuring interviews with every key figure in the Turtles' evolution, ...

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Level 5: Gulliver´s Travels - Crook Marie

Anotace: This is the story of Gulliver, a clever man who loved adventures. This is his greatest adventure! When his ship hits a rock, Gulliver swims to an island called Lilliput. There, he meets a group of tiny people - the Liliputians. But Lilliput is in danger. Will Gulliver help the Liliputians win their war with the Blefuscans? Will the Lilliputians help Gulliver get...

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Kniha Split

THE CHILLING AND GRIPPING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK SHE'LL NEVER STOP RUNNING. BUT HE'LL NEVER STOP LOOKING. A year ago Felicity Lloyd fled England to South Georgia, one of the most remote islands in the world, escaping her past and the man she once loved. Can she keep running her whole life? Freddie Lloyd has served time for murder - and now he wants her back. W...

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PEKR | Level 5: Gulliver´s Travels - Marie Crook

<p>This is the story of Gulliver, a clever man who loved adventures. This is his greatest adventure! When his ship hits a rock, Gulliver swims to an island called Lilliput. There, he meets a group of tiny people - the Liliputians. But Lilliput is in danger. Will Gulliver help the Liliputians win their war with the Blefuscans? Will the Lilliputians help Gulliver get ...

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Bohemian Rhapsody

This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury. Written by an award-winning rock journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones toured widely with Queen forming lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining band members and those who were closest to Freddie, from childhood to death, Lesley-Ann has written the most in depth account of one of music's bes...

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BOOTH: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - Karen Joy Fowler

<p>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 OPEN BOOK 'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin' Sunday Times Book of the Month In 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm...

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Brida, 1. vydání - Paulo Coelho

<p>The spellbinding novel from one of the world's best-loved authors, Paulo Coelho, recounting the story of Brida, and her pursuit of wisdom. This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic, and has taken courses in astrology, tarot, and numerology, but is sear...

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The Split - Bolton Sharon

Anotace: THE CHILLING AND GRIPPING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKSHE`LL NEVER STOP RUNNING.BUT HE`LL NEVER STOP LOOKING.A year ago Felicity Lloyd fled England to South Georgia, one of the most remote islands in the world, escaping her past and the man she once loved. Can she keep running her whole life?Freddie Lloyd has served time for murder - and now he wants her back...

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James Bond Collection - Exclusive Trailer Selection - DVD /plast/

The World Is Not Enough / Goldfinger / Thunderball / Dr No / From Russia With Love / On Her Majesty's Secret Service / Live And Let Die / You Only Live Twice / The Man With The Golden Gun / Goldeneye / The Spy Who Loved Me / Tomorrow Never Dies. DVD Review s hrdostí představuje tuto exkluzivní sběratelskou edici disku obsahující výběr těch nejlepších upoutávek na Jamese ...

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Persuasion - Austenová Jane

Anotace: Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, who as a teenager, was engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engagement. When they are reacquainted eight years later, the...

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Last of the Mohicans

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.' Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper's story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are try...

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A Treasury of Songs : Book and CD Pack - Donaldson Julia

Anotace: As well as being the UK`s most successful picture book author, Julia Donaldson is a gifted songwriter for children. A Treasury of Songs contains over twenty of her songs, including fun-filled action rhymes, Aesop`s fables, and songs based on Julia Donaldson`s best-loved picture books, including Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale, The Stick Man, and The G...

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Meditations - Antoninus Marcus Aurelius

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>Our life is what our thoughts make it</p> <p>The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher, have for centuries been praised for their wisdom, insight and guidance by lea...

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The Split - Sharon Bolton

<p>THE CHILLING AND GRIPPING RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK SHE'LL NEVER STOP RUNNING. BUT HE'LL NEVER STOP LOOKING. A year ago Felicity Lloyd fled England to South Georgia, one of the most remote islands in the world, escaping her past and the man she once loved. Can she keep running her whole life? Freddie Lloyd has served time for murder - and now he wants he...

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The World´s Worst Parents, 1. vydání - David Walliams

<p>Millions of young readers have loved the World's Worst Children tales and revelled in the World's Worst Teachers with their delightfully dreadful deeds - now prepare for…THE WORLD'S WORST PARENTS! From the phenomenally bestselling David Walliams and illustrated in glorious colour by the artistic genius, Tony Ross. Are you ready to meet the worst parents ever? S...

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Inspector Imanishi Investigates - Seicho Matsumoto

A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo ExpressTokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man’s body is found on the tracks. With only two leads – a distinctive accent and a single word, ‘kameda’ – senior inspector Imanishi Eitaro is called in to solve the puzzle.Setting aside his beloved bonsai and haikus, h...

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A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson

Anotace: A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd - would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather - as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. This gripping, often deliriously funny yet emotional...

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A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson

<p>WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD A God in Ruins relates the life of Teddy Todd – would-be poet, heroic World War II bomber pilot, husband, father, and grandfather – as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have. This gripping, ...

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The Courtship of Eva Eldridge : A Story of Bigamy in the Marriage-Mad Fifties - Simmonsová Diane

Anotace: Everyone Got marrIed In the 1950s, then moved to the suburbs to have the children of the soon-to-be-famous baby boom. For Americans who had survived the Great Depression and World War II, prosperous married life was a triumph. The unwed were objects of pity, scorn, even suspicion. And so in the 1950s, Eva Eldridge, no longer so young and marginally employed, was...

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Sanditon & Other Stories - Austenová Jane

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Young Charlotte Heywood arrives in Sanditon, a newly established seaside resort, with the Parkers: patrons and enthusiastic promoters of the town. Just as the town seeks to reinvent itself as a fashionable destination, Charlotte Heywood attempts to begin anew amongst its res...

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Age of Vice - Kapoor Deepti

Anotace: This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the ...

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Age of Vice

This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that ...

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Age of Vice - Deepti Kapoor

<p>This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange ser...

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Unmasked : Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer - Holes Paul

Anotace: From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America`s toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime.For a decade, from 1973, The Golden State Killer stalked and murdered Californians in the dead of night, leaving entire communities afraid to turn off the lights. Then he vanished, and...

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Unmasked

From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America's toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime. For a decade, from 1973, The Golden State Killer stalked and murdered Californians in the dead of night, leaving entire communities afraid to turn off the lights. Then he vanished, and the cas...

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Unmasked : Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer - Paul Holes

<p>From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America's toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime. For a decade, from 1973, The Golden State Killer stalked and murdered Californians in the dead of night, leaving entire communities afraid to turn off the lights. Then he vanished, an...

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Razorblade Tears - Cosby S. A.

Anotace: Ike Randolph left jail fifteen years ago, with not so much as a speeding ticket since.But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.Ike is devastated to learn his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah`s white husband, Derek. Though he never fully accepted his son, Ike is broken by his death.Derek`s father Buddy Lee was as ashamed of Derek bein...

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The Age of Innocence (Collins Classics) - Whartonová Edith

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that - categories like that - won`t exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.` ...

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Macmillan Readers My Cousin Rachel Intermediate Pack

"From the first pagethe reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca." The New York Times "From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall." Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's beautiful English estate, is crushed...

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Sorrow and Bliss - Mason Meg

Anotace: Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets.So why is everything broken? Why is Martha - on the edge of 40 - friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave?Maybe sh...

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Sorrow and Bliss

Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. So why is everything broken?Why is Martha - on the edge of 40 - friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave? Maybe she is just...

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Persuasion - Jane Austenová

<p>Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, who as a teenager, was engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engagement. When they are reacquainted eight years later, their cir...

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King of Greed (Kings of Sin 3) - Ana Huang

Anotace: He had her, he lost her . . . and he'll do anything to win her back. Powerful, brilliant, and ambitious, Dominic Davenport clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street. He has everything - a beautiful home, a beautiful wife and more money than he could spend in a lifetime. But no matter how much he accumulates, he's never satisfied. In hi...

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Ravenheart

Eight hundred years have passed since King Connavar of the Rigante and his bastard son, Bane, defeated the invading army of Stone. In that time, Connavar has become a legend, and the Rigante have lost the freedom so many gave their lives to preserve. A conquered people, they live and die under the iron rule of the Varlish, their culture all but destroyed. One woman remain...

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The Jungle Books - Rudyard Joseph Kipling

<p>Kipling's best-loved work, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The story of Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literar...

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