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Tom Gates 15: What Monster?
The bestselling, fully illustrated tom gates series is back! winner of the roald dahl funny prize. this book contains: – monsters – mystery – a music festival – missing stuff – me and marcus (not necessarily in that order). and a very strict supply teacher – but don’t let that put you off!
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Paper Towns
Who is the real margo? quentin jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous margo roth spiegelman from afar. so when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life – dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge – he follows. after their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, q arrives at school to discover that margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. she has disappeared. q soon learns that there are clues in her disappearance . . . and they are for him. trailing margo’s disconnected path across the usa, the closer q gets, the less sure he is of who he is looking for.
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The Person Controller
From the author of the parent agency comes a thrilling, funny and touching new adventure.
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The Little Shop Of Happy Ever After
Nina is a bookworm who dreams of running her own little bookshop. but real life is a bit trickier than the stories nina loves, as she discovers when she moves to the beautiful wild highlands of scotland to turn her dreams into reality.
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Force Of Nature
From the author of the sunday times top ten bestseller, sunday times crime book of the year and cwa gold dagger winner, the dry. jane harper’s new novel, the lost man, is out now. five went out. four came back… is alice here? did she make it? is she safe? in the chaos, in the night, it was impossible to say which of the four had asked after alice’s welfare. later, when everything got worse, each would insist it had been them. five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. only four come out the other side. the hike through the rugged landscape is meant to take the office colleagues out of their air-conditioned comfort zone and teach resilience and team building. at least that is what the corporate retreat website advertises. federal police agent aaron falk has a particularly keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing bushwalker. alice russell is the whistleblower in his latest case – and alice knew secrets. about the company she worked for and the people she worked with. far from the hike encouraging teamwork, the women tell falk a tale of suspicion, violence and disintegrating trust. and as he delves into the disappearance, it seems some dangers may run far deeper than anyone knew.
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March Hares And Monkeys’ Uncles
Why is a march hare mad? why do we sometimes call ourselves a monkey’s uncle? what are people really doing when they go and see a man about a dog? and what is the original meaning of flying by the seat of your pants? while we might choose our words carefully, we rarely think about the origins of the many phrases, place names, and expressions we use every day. yet, behind these words lie marvelous stories, steeped in the weird and wonderful traditions of everyday life. from names of streets and public houses to the names of countries, seas, and oceans, this book answers the questions you’ve always had about the language we all use.
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Where Rainbows End
‘where rainbows end’ is a bittersweet tale of childhood friends rosie and alex whose relationship must survive many trials and tribulations, not least the discovery of their true feelings for one another.
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Nicholas Nickleby
I went down into yorkshire before i began this book, in very severe winter time which is pretty faithfully described herein. as i wanted to see a schoolmaster or two, and was forewarned that those gentlemen might, in their modesty, be shy of receiving a visit from the author of the _pickwick papers, _ i consulted with a professional friend who had a yorkshire connection, and with whom i concerted a pious fraud. he gave me some letters of introduction, in the name, i think, of my traveling companion; they bore reference to a supposititious little boy who had been left with a widowed mother who didn’t know what to do with him; the poor lady had thought, as a means of thawing the tardy compassion of her relations in his behalf, of sending him to a yorkshire school; i was the poor lady’s friend, traveling that way; and if the recipient of the letter could inform me of a school in his neighborhood, the writer would be very much obliged. i went to several places in that part of the country where i understood the schools to be most plentifully sprinkled, and had no occasion to deliver a letter until i came to a certain town which shall be nameless. the person to whom it was addressed, was not at home; but he came down at night, through the snow, to the inn where i was staying. it was after dinner; and he needed little persuasion to sit down by the fire in a warm corner, and take his share of the wine that was on the table. i am afraid he is dead now. . . . — charles dickens
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Nostromo
“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
Tessa 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
Rachel 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
Orphaned 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.
