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The World’s Worst Children 3
₱200.00From the phenomenal number-one bestseller david walliams comes another collection of more hilariously horrible children! illustrated in glorious and gruesome colour by artist genius, tony ross, these stories will appal and delight young readers.
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The Forgetting Time
₱150.00‘when i wasn’t reading sharon guskin’s the forgetting time, i was itching to return to it’ jodi picoult a richard and judy book club selection noah is four and wants to go home. the only trouble is he’s already there. noah is a little boy who knows things he shouldn’t and remembers things he should have forgotten. because as well as being a four-year-old called noah, he remembers being a nine-year-old called tommy. he remembers his house. his family. his mother. and now he wants to go home. two boys. two mothers. one unforgettable story . . .
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Camino Island
₱99.00All trails became dead-ends. tips that had at first seemed urgent now faded away. the waiting game began. whoever had the manuscripts would want money, and a lot of it. they would surface eventually, but where and when, and how much would they want? the most daring and devastating heist in literary history targets a high security vault located deep beneath princeton university. valued at $25 million (though some would say priceless) the five manuscripts of f scott fitzgerald’s only novels are amongst the most valuable in the world. after an initial flurry of arrests, both they and the ruthless gang of thieves who took them have vanished without trace. dealing in stolen books is a dark business, and few are initiated to its arts – which puts bruce kable right on the fbi’s rare asset recovery unit’s watch list. a struggling writer burdened by debts, mercer mann spent summers on florida’s idyllic camino island as a kid, in her grandmother’s beach cottage. now she is being made an offer she can’t refuse: to return to the peace of the island, to write her novel – and get close to a certain infamous bookseller, and his interesting collection of manuscripts . . .
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Four
₱300.00A collection of four pre-divergent stories plus three additional scenes from divergent, all told from tobias’s point of view, that follow tobias’s transfer from abnegation to dauntless, his dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets tris prior.
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The Rosie Effect
₱280.00The rosie effect is the charming and hilarious sequel to graeme simsion’s bestselling debut novel the rosie project. until a year ago, forty-one-year-old geneticist don tillman had never had a second date. until he met rosie, ‘the world’s most incompatible woman’. now, living in new york city, they have survived ten months and ten days of marriage. but though rosie has taught him the joys of unscheduled sex and spontaneous meal planning, life is still not plain sailing for don. not least with the sudden arrival of his best friend gene, serial philanderer, who takes up residence on their sofa. then rosie drops the mother of all bombshells. and soon don must face her hormonally induced irrational behaviour as he prepares for the biggest challenge of his previously ordered life – at the same time as dodging deportation, prosecution and professional disgrace. is don tillman ready to become the man he always dreamed of being? or will he revert to his old ways and risk losing rosie forever? join don and rosie in the next chapter of their weird and wonderful journey in graeme simsion’s unmissable new novel, the rosie effect. praise for graeme simsion:’warm-hearted and perfectly pitched, with profound themes that are worn lightly, this very enjoyable read promises to put don tillman on the comic literary map somewhere between mr pooter and adrian mole.’ guardian’funny, endearing, and pure, wonderful escapism.’ independent’don tillman is one of the most endearing, charming and fascinating literary characters i have met in a long time.’ the timesgraeme simsion is a full-time writer. previously an it consultant and educator, he wrote his first book in 1994 (the standard reference on data modelling). graeme’s debut novel, the rosie project, has had phenomenal success in over forty-two countries and has sold over half a million copies to date. the rosie effect is his second novel. graeme lives in australia with his wife anne, a professor of psychiatry and published author, and their two children.
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Alias Grace
₱200.00Sometimes i whisper it over to myself: murderess. murderess. it rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.’ grace marks. female fiend? femme fatale? or weak and unwilling victim? around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, margaret atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
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First Children’s Dictionary
₱300.00Filled with useful definitions, first children’s dictionary is an ideal first reference book for children eager to expand their vocabulary. with over 3,000 entries of updated, curriculum-linked content, first children’s dictionary is an ideal starting place for young children wanting to describe the world around them. from using a dictionary to word histories that help develop an understanding of where words come from, this dictionary for kids is an essential first reference book. perfect for homework, first children’s dictionary is the ideal starting place for children aged 6 and up intrigued about where words come from.
