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A father sets out to save the Islamic world.A daughter sets out to save herself.Najwa's father left when she was four years old. Now, upon her mother's death, she cannot live alone in the Islamic society of Jordan. She must find her father. Her search takes her through...
Editeur :
Heron Books
Parution :
2014-03-06
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Own fifteen of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's beloved books as ebooks, in the first Penguin Marquez ebook library.Includes:Memories of My Melancholy WhoresLove in the Time of CholeraOne Hundred Years of SolitudeThe Story of a Shipwrecked SailorChronicle of a Death ForetoldThe...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. 'An ash-grey...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
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A linguistic professor arrives in Ain Tadouirt seeking to study the local dialects. Confident, condescending and culturally aloof, he is led that night to a quarry and left there. He begins to descend. Met with horror upon horror as his journey continues, he is stripped...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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"I Bought a Little City [is] a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story - playing god, in a certain way." Donald Antrim, novelist. 'Got a little city, ain't it pretty'. Galveston, Texas, has been bought. It suits its new owner just fine. So he starts to...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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A CLASSIC STORY OF ENDURING LOVE FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR'One of the greatest love stories I have ever read' Oprah, featured in Oprah's Book Club_______________________________'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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A glass mountain sits in the middle of a city and at the top sits a 'beautiful, enchanted symbol'. Seeking to disenchant it, the narrator must climb the mountain. Confronted by the jeers of acquaintances, the bodies of previous climbers and the claws of a guarding eagle...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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In the Circular Valley lives a spirit, a mute presence: Atlajala. Thirsting for sensation, this spirit enters a moth, a panther, an eel, and feels what they feel - the cool darkness of water, the pleasure of a kill. Centuries old and indifferent to time, it enters man...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
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'She arrives at 7.40, ten minutes late...' She babysits for Mr and Mrs Tucker. She has left a boyfriend alone for the evening. From this seemingly simple start Robert Coover masterfully explores the subtle barrier between 'reality' and thought. As the babysitter...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude. 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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An ambitious SF novel that is at once post-cyberpunk and post-modern. Complex, multi-layered, it combines hard science, tarot and images of late 20th-century Europe to make something utterly original. And introduces a memorable new heroine to the genre ...Malise has a...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2014-02-27
ePub
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Dori’s father has gone travelling in South America and, suffering from some kind of breakdown, following the death of his wife, he goes missing. Dori sets out to find him, leaving his wife and young son at home in Israel.Inbar is escaping from her life – from the grief...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-02-27
ePub
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The beautifully lyrical retelling of the Norse myths, told from the captivating point of view of the trickster god LokiThe novel is a brilliant first-person narrative of the rise and fall of the Norse gods - retold from the point of view of the world's ultimate...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2014-02-13
Collection :
Runes Novels
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Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2014-02-06
ePub
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'Who wants to be the same as everyone else? You don't want to be ordinary, do you?' Tom always imagined he was adopted. At 17, he flees ordinariness in small-town Australia for Melbourne and a run-down block named Cairo. There he meets Max Cheever. Enigmatic, artistic,...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2014-01-30
ePub
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Motherless Alathea Sawneyford, her charms grown disturbing as she rebels against her father, has made the city's streets her own, while Annie Cantabile is constrained, by her own disfigurement and her father, to his pianoforte workshop under the shadow of Tyburn gibbet....
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2014-01-16
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In the tradition of THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sweeping historical novel that spans three generations, telling the dark secrets of a family torn apart.Larkswood House. The very name suggests birdsong, peace and elegance. It is home to the Hamilton children - Edward, Cynthia...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2014-01-16
ePub
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The new novel from Simon Ings is a story that balances on the knife blade of a new technology. Augmented Reality uses computing power to overlay a digital imagined reality over the real world. Whether it be adverts or imagined buildings and imagined people, with...
Editeur :
Gollancz
Parution :
2014-01-16
ePub
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Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book AwardWinner of the inaugural Voss Literary PrizeJoint winner of the Barbara Jefferis AwardIn an isolated house on the New South Wales coast, Ruth, a widow whose sons have flown the nest, lives alone. Until one day a stranger bowls...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2014-01-16
ePub
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On a radiant day in Sydney, four people converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Each of the four is haunted by secrets from the past: Ellie is preoccupied by her sexual experiences as a girl, James by a tragedy for which...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-12-31
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