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Calm
₱450.00The follow up to the sunday times bestseller, happy: finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect ‘calm for me is less about thought and much more about feeling. it is a stillness that allows my lungs to expand like hot air balloons. it is an acceptance of the noise around me. it is a magic alchemy that might last a second or a whole day, where i feel relaxed yet aware; still yet dynamic; open yet protected . . . ‘ *** in today’s always-on world, for many of us it seems impossible to relax, take time out or mute the encircling ‘noise’. it is easy to feel trapped in this frenzied state of mind: we are surrounded by negative stories in the press, weighed down by pressures from work, family life or school and subject to constant scrutiny under the all-seeing eye of social media. as a result, mental health illnesses are on the rise in every age group, and more of us than ever before yearn for silence, peace and calm. calm is fearne’s mission to find the simple things that can inch us away from stress and over to the good stuff. including expert advice, conversations with wise friends from all walks of life, easy ideas to try, activities to complete – and the little things that have made a difference to her own, sometimes-bumpy life – this book is a friendly reminder that calm is a place that exists in us all, we just have to find our way back to it.
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Calm
₱220.00The follow up to the sunday times bestseller, happy: finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect ‘calm for me is less about thought and much more about feeling. it is a stillness that allows my lungs to expand like hot air balloons. it is an acceptance of the noise around me. it is a magic alchemy that might last a second or a whole day, where i feel relaxed yet aware; still yet dynamic; open yet protected . . . ‘ *** in today’s always-on world, for many of us it seems impossible to relax, take time out or mute the encircling ‘noise’. it is easy to feel trapped in this frenzied state of mind: we are surrounded by negative stories in the press, weighed down by pressures from work, family life or school and subject to constant scrutiny under the all-seeing eye of social media. as a result, mental health illnesses are on the rise in every age group, and more of us than ever before yearn for silence, peace and calm. calm is fearne’s mission to find the simple things that can inch us away from stress and over to the good stuff. including expert advice, conversations with wise friends from all walks of life, easy ideas to try, activities to complete – and the little things that have made a difference to her own, sometimes-bumpy life – this book is a friendly reminder that calm is a place that exists in us all, we just have to find our way back to it.
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Quiet
₱450.00This book is about taming the bad inner voice – the one that has the power to overthrow gut instinct and talk us out of new adventures. we are all brimming with inner wisdom, yet we allow negative thoughts to confuse us. we forget how capable and strong we can be. there is confidence there even if it’s hidden; there is courage, beauty, wisdom and belief – we just need some quiet to notice it. love, fearne xxx – from sunday times bestselling author fearne cotton, this is the handbook for modern life we all need. including expert advice, ideas to put into practice, adventures to complete and interviews with everyone from bryony gordon to billie piper, quiet seeks out ways to help you tune out the negative backchat that holds you back, so you can hear the positives that will guide you forwards . . . praise for fearne happy fearne’s account is wonderfully honest and relatable, and it’s also extremely comforting and reassuring too – knowing that even someone in her position is still working through certain issues – issues that a lot of us are working through too. (mind) fearne cotton’s new book is full of useful advice on how to live a happier life. (viv groskop the pool) i recommend this for anyone who’s looking to find true consistent happiness (craig david) she’s known for her fun and upbeat presenting style, but fearne cotton has also been bravely open about her struggle with depression during some darker points in her life. . . in our busy 2017 lives that are constantly fuelled by instagram envy, bad tinder dates and increasingly outrageous politicians, it’s nice to go over the basics of simply being happy. (ok!)
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The Buried Giant
₱280.00The romans have long since departed, and britain is steadily declining into ruin. but at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. the buried giant begins as a couple, axl and beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. they expect to face many hazards – some strange and other-worldly – but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.
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I Found You
₱250.00Two women. twenty years of secrets. and a man who doesn’t remember anything. or does he?_____________________’fresh and intriguing, with characters so real i ached for them. i loved i found you’clare mackintosh’i loved i found you. a proper thriller with wonderful characters’sabine durrant_____________________everyone has secrets. what if you can’t remember yours? ‘how long have you been sitting out here?”i got here yesterday.”where did you come from?”i have no idea.’lilyhas only been married for three weeks. when her new husband fails to come home from work one night, she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. alicefinds a man on the beach outside her house. he has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. against her better judgement, she invites him into her home. but who is he, and how can she trust a man who has lost his memory?
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The Paris Apartment
₱240.00The #1 new york times bestseller “told in rotating points of view, this tilt-a-whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.” — vogue “[a] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller.” — people from the new york times bestselling author of the guest list comes a new locked room mystery, set in a paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide… jess needs a fresh start. she’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. her half-brother ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from paris. only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there. the longer ben stays missing, the more jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. jess may have come to paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s ben’s future that’s in question. the socialite – the nice guy – the alcoholic – the girl on the verge – the concierge everyone’s a neighbor. everyone’s a suspect. and everyone knows something they’re not telling.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
₱450.00Alice, a novelist, meets felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to rome with her. in dublin, her best friend eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with simon, a man she has known since childhood. alice, felix, eileen and simon are still young – but life is catching up with them. they desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. they have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
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Wicked
₱250.00**pre-order elphie, the spellbinding prequel to wicked, now** the global bestseller that inspired the hit musical phenomenon. now a major movie and record-breaking box office sensation. in this classic tale of good and evil, what if we weren’t told the whole story? long before dorothy follows the yellow brick road and triumphs over the wicked witch of the west, a little girl with emerald-green skin is born in the land of oz. elphaba grows up to be smart and prickly, a lonely outsider with an extraordinary talent for magic. arriving at university, she dares to believe she might finally fit in. but oz isn’t the haven she’d dreamed of. some of its citizens are in grave danger, and elphaba is determined to protect them from the wizard’s power. and when the world declares her a wicked witch, elphaba takes matters into her own hands… fall under the wicked spell this year.
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5 Minutes Stories
₱300.00This bumper book brings together charming tales that children will enjoy. it contains more than 85 stories, each taking about five minutes to read, allowing parents to read with young children who are just beginning to recognise words.
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Red Queen
₱280.00This is a world divided by blood – red or silver. the reds are commoners, ruled by a silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. and to mare barrow, a seventeen-year-old red girl from the poverty-stricken stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. that is, until she finds herself working in the silver palace. here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. one that threatens to destroy the balance of power. fearful of mare’s potential, the silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost silver princess, now engaged to a silver prince. despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, mare works silently to help the red guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the silver regime. but this is a world of betrayal and lies, and mare has entered a dangerous dance – reds against silvers, prince against prince, and mare against her own heart . . .
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The Ocean At The End Of The Lane
₱230.00Winner of the specsavers national book awards 2013 book of the year dive into a magical novel of memory and the adventure of childhood, from one of the brightest, most brilliant writers of our generation. it began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed – within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. his only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. the youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. the oldest can remember the big bang. the ocean at the end of the lane is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac – as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly’s wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark.
