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The Underside of Joy

Halverson, Sere Prince
The Underside of Joy
[An] exquisite debut . . . moving and hopeful." -People Style Watch To Ella Beene, happiness means living in the Northern California river town of Elbow, California, with her husband Joe and his two young children. But one summer day Joe drowns, leaving Ella alone with Annie and Zach-until his ex-wife, Paige, shows up at the funeral. For three years, Ella believed that Paige had selfishly abandoned her family. Yet-as the custody fight between ...

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How It All Began

Lively, Penelope
How It All Began
A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively-a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect Look out for Penelope Lively's new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories.When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels after an illicit love affair is revealed through an errant cell ph...

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Crossed Blades

McCullough, Kelly
Crossed Blades
A new series filled with multifaceted characters, layered plots, and the type of quixotic scenarios that only the imagination of Kelly McCullough could possibly create…Brilliant!"-Huntress Book ReviewsFor six years, former temple assassin Aral Kingslayer has been living as a jack of the shadow trades, picking up odd jobs on the wrong side of the law. But the past is never dead, and Aral's has finally caught up to him in the beautiful, dangerou...

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Vanished Kingdoms

Davies, Norman
Vanished Kingdoms
From the bestselling author of Europe: A History comes a uniquely ambitious masterpiece that will thrill fans of lost civilizationsWhile Germany, Italy, France, and England dominate our conceptions of Europe, these modern states are relatively recent constructs. In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction, Norman Davies brings back to life the long-forgotten empire of Aragon, which once controlled the Western Mediterranean, the Grand D...

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In Praise of Love

Badiou, Alain / Bush, Peter
In Praise of Love
In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen only as a variant of desire and hedonism, Badiou believes that love is under threat. This is the celebrated French philosopher's passionate treatise in defense of love.

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The Sum of Her Parts

Foster, Alan Dean
The Sum of Her Parts
In this thrilling science fiction adventure-the triumphant conclusion to the Tipping Point trilogy-New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to a near future in which genetic manipulation and extreme body modification have changed profoundly what it means to be human. Dr. Ingrid Seastrom was once a respected American physician. Whispr, whose body has been transformed to preternatural thinness, was once a streetwise thief. Now,...

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Drive Me Wild: A Novel of the Others

Warren, Christine
Drive Me Wild: A Novel of the Others
Drive Me WildChristine Warren Tess Menzies can work a spell with a few blinks of her baby blue eyes. But this dedicated witch can't summon up a single good reason she's been made an envoy between her kind and Manhattan's fiercest were-creatures. The two sides haven't spoken in four hundred years, and she'll need every miracle in the book to broker any kind of truce. And that means outwitting Council of Others leader Rafael De Santos whose tant...

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Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 19...

Street, Sarah
Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-55
How did the coming of colour change the British film industry? Unlike sound, the arrival of colour did not revolutionise the industry overnight. For British film-makers and enthusiasts, colour was a controversial topic. While it was greeted by some as an exciting development - with scope for developing a uniquely British aesthetic - others were deeply concerned. How would audiences accustomed to seeing black-and-white films - which were common...

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The Architecture of the Barnes Foundation

Williams, Tod / Tsien, Billie / Frampton, Kenneth
The Architecture of the Barnes Foundation
A comprehensive description and behind-the-scenes look into the architectural evolution of the Barnes Foundation's new building in downtown Philadelphia. In 2007, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects received the commission to design the new Barnes Foundation building, an enviable project that was surrounded both by controversy and the excitement of increasing access to one of America's premier collections of post-impressionist art, amassed by...

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True Betrayals

Roberts, Nora
True Betrayals
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers a thrilling story of family secrets and unexpected passions, set against the high-stakes world of championship thoroughbred racing… Kelsey Byden always believed that her mother was dead. But now, after all this time, she has discovered the truth: Naomi Chadwick is still alive-after spending years in prison for the murder of her lover. Now, at Naomi's Virginia horse farm, Kelsey is tryi...

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Socrates

Johnson, Paul
Socrates
Spectacular . . . A delight to read.”—The Wall Street Journal From bestselling biographer and historian Paul Johnson, a brilliant portrait of Socrates, the founding father of philosophyIn his highly acclaimed style, historian Paul Johnson masterfully disentangles centuries of scarce sources to offer a riveting account of Socrates, who is often hailed as the most important thinker of all time. Johnson provides a compelling picture of Athens in ...

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Third Reich

Bolaño, Roberto
Third Reich
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceOn vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent his summers as a child. There, they meet another vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker side of the resort town's life. Soon Udo is enmeshed in a round of the Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, with a shadowy local called ...

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OPUS by Berkeley Breathed: The Complete Sunday Strips fro...

Breathed, Berkeley
OPUS by Berkeley Breathed: The Complete Sunday Strips from 2003-2008
It's Berkeley Breathed's final spin around the dance floor with his most quirky and endearing character-Opus. The Pleasant penguin has long been the moral center of the Berkley-verse, and nowhere is that as abundantly clear as in his own self-named book. Aside from our waddling friend, this book contains numerous characters readers will fondly remember from the days of Bloom County.This volume collects the entire run of Berkeley Breathed's Opu...

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Wire Dog - Storybook 1 (Black and White)

Walters, David Clyde
Wire Dog - Storybook 1 (Black and White)
Black and white version of character building stories that hold children spellbound as they listen. Each story teaches a good life lesson. The stories also promote imagination, creativity and art, as kids are encouraged to draw and paint their own Wire Dog scenes. When Ellen's parents wouldn't let her have a real dog, she made a little dog out of bent wire. Wire Dog stories encourage creativity and imagination as well as teach valuable life le...

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Catholics in the American Century

Appleby, R. Scott / Cummings, Kathleen Sprows
Catholics in the American Century
R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation and "Church and Age Unite!": The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism. Kathleen Sprows Cummings is Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Associate Professo...

CHF 43.50