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Nostromo
₱150.00“nostromo offers an intensely pessimistic portrayal of morally empty politicians in a fictional south american nation called costaguana. wracked by greed and materialism, conrad”s characters have good intentions that give way to unchecked self-interest. it”s monumental in scope, adventurous in spirit, and crammed with surprisingly progressive details and insights.
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Now Is Good
₱140.00Tessa is sixteen. tessa is dying. but before that moment comes, she has an awful lot of living to do…. so she makes a list of everything she wants to do before she dies. number one is sex. starting tonight. heartbreaking, devastating, yet sparkling with life, this internationally bestselling novel celebrates what it is to be alive by confronting what its really like to die.
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Deception Point
₱170.00Rachel sexton works for the national reconnaissance office as an intelligence officer. she is also the daughter of a senator currently running for president. her father s main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent president is to attack
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Jane Eyre
₱180.00Orphaned jane eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty. this troubled childhood strengthens jane’s natural independence and spirit – which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at thornfield hall. however, when she finds love with her sardonic employer, rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. should she stay with him and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving the man she loves? a novel of intense power and intrigue, jane eyre (1847) dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman’s search for equality and freedom.
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Carpe Jugulum
₱160.00Mightily oats has not picked a good time to be priest. he thought he d come to lancre for a simple ceremony. now he s caught up in a war between vampires and witches. there s young agnes, who is really in two minds about everything. magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, nanny ogg … and granny weatherwax, who is big trouble. and the vampires are intelligent. they ve got style and fancy waistcoats. they re out of the casket and want a bite of the future. mightily oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe. carpe jugulum is terry pratchett’s twenty-third discworld novel – but the first to star vampires.
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His ‘n’ Hers
₱120.00From their first meeting at the student union over a decade ago, jim and alison successfully navigated their way through first dates, meeting parents, moving in together and more… then they split up and divided their worldly goods (including a sofa, a cat and their flat) into his ‘n’ hers. now, three years on and with new lives and new loves, they couldn’t be happier. until a chance encounter throws them back together, and causes them to embark on a journey through their past to ask themselves the big question: where did it all go wrong, and is it too late to put it all right?
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Soul Music
₱160.00Other children get given xylophones. susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. yes. there’s a death in the family. it’s hard to grow up normally when grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe – especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the tooth fairy. and especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered discworld. it’s lawless. it changes people. it’s called music with rocks in. it’s got a beat and you can dance to it, but… it’s alive. and it won’t fade away.
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The Distance Between Us
₱120.00Gripping, insightful and deft, maggie o’farrell’s third novel is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives. it won the somerset maugham award. on a cold february afternoon, stella catches sight of a man she hasn’t seen for many years, but instantly recognises. or thinks she does. at the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of chinese new year revellers, jake realises that things are becoming dangerous. they know nothing of one another’s existence, but both stella and jake flee their lives: jake in search of a place so remote it doesn’t appear on any map, and stella for a destination in scotland, the significance of which only her sister, nina, will understand.
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Omertà
₱160.00Omertà, the sicilian code of silence, has been the cornerstone of the mafia’s sense of honour for centuries. born in the sicilian hills, omertà carried the mafia through a century of change, but now at the century’s end it is becoming a relic from a bygon
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The Host
₱180.00Melanie stryder refuses to fade away. the earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. wanderer, the invading ‘soul’ who has been given melanie’s body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories. but there was one difficulty wanderer didn’t expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. melanie fills wanderer’s thoughts with visions of the man melanie loves – jared, a human who still lives in hiding. unable to separate herself from her body’s desires, wanderer yearns for a man she’s never met. as outside forces make wanderer and melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.
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Drawing Is Fun
₱185.00Perfect for aspiring young artists, this book provides a fantastic way to get kids drawing. simple, step-by-step illustrations are accompanied by clear instructions, helping children to progress from sketching basic outlines to creating detailed, colourful drawings.
