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The Facts Of Life
₱70.00Spanning three generations, an exploration of family ties and the nature of survival, rich in evocative historical and contemporary detail.
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Akame Ga Kill!, Vol. 7
₱230.00The teigu showdown between night raid and the jaegers begins, with the battle between sisters akame and kurome taking the explosive center stage! but a clash of teigus never ends without casualties…
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The Artist’s Secret: The New Gripping Historical Novel With A Shocking Secret From The Bestselling Author Of The Paris Model And The Royal Corr
₱99.00The sweeping new saga of strong heroines and family secrets from the bestselling author of the paris model. while searching for her lost sister, art historian wren summers takes on the glittering world of new york’s auction houses. a missing girl, a hidden masterpiece, and the search for the truth 1965: after escaping from anti-war turmoil and the suffocating weight of family expectations, a beautiful young couple embrace a life free of materialism and tradition by a sapphire lake in italy. but the past does not always let go so easily … 1987: when talented art historian wren summers lands her dream job at the sydney art museum, it seems she can finally leave her wildly unconventional background behind – until a treacherous act threatens everything she has strived for. the revelation of a monstrous family secret sees wren head to new york, compelled to find the missing girl who holds the key to this shocking mystery – and to make a fresh start in the glittering realm of international art auctions. as she struggles to fulfil her quest, can she navigate this new, high-stakes world of swirling temptation, romance and deceit, danger and betrayal, while staying true to what she knows is right? praise for alexandra joel: ‘a mesmerising storyteller’ the australian ‘exceptional research and great storytelling … she has that rare flair for drawing the reader into sumptuous worlds from glamorous bygone eras’ better reading
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Truckers
₱180.00The nomes are devastated when they hear that the store, their home, and whole world, is to be demolished. and it’s up to masklin to mastermind an escape plan that will take all the nomes into the dangers of the great outside.
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Four Blondes
₱170.00Four blondes charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful b-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but can’t get what she wants; a high-powered magazine columnist’s floundering marriage to a literary journalist is thrown into crisis when her husband’s career fails to live up to her expectations; a ‘cinderella’ records her descent into paranoia in her journal as she realises she wants anybody’s life except her own; an artist and aging ‘it girl’ – who fears that her time for finding a man has run out – travels to london in search of the kind of love and devotion she can’t find in manhattan… studded with her trademark wit and stiletto-heel-sharp insight, four blondes is dark, true, and compulsively readable.
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Don’t You Want Me?
₱70.00Sex. there’s a lot of it about. and stella is definitely not getting her fair share. she’s got a few handicaps: she’s the wrong side of thirty, she’s a single mum (to the adorable honey), and her french hot-bloodedness is liable to turn grown men pale. mind you, the men she meets are either perma-tanned, tight-trousered smoothies with strangely white teeth or – easy, tiger – balding, poorly socialized podgers. one lot have black satin sheets; the other lot have, well, wives. what’s a girl to do? dividing her time between london’s most pc playgroup (most popular children’s names: ichabod and perdita) and lessons on the art of pulling from housemate frank, stella is seriously starting to wonder if she’ll ever have sex again.
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Dowsing The Dead: The Shapeshifter 4
₱150.00The fantastic shapeshifter series continues with dax and his friends settling into their new secret hideaway in the lake district. the whole place has been fortified so that the children of limitless ability won’t ever be under threat again. after dodging death once too often for his liking, dax is looking forward to a quieter time – building a treehouse in the grounds and shifting to a fox or a falcon and exploring the countryside. but all is not well in the spirit world – strange messages are coming through and dax, gideon, lisa and mia must once again join forces. could the messages be coming from luke and catherine, gideon’s dead brother and sister? perhaps they’re even still alive? in which case, they have to rescue luke from catherine’s evil clutches – but is dax really a match for her?
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Hybrids
₱150.00Johnny online and kestrella are hybrids – victims of “creep”, a pandemic sweeping the country which causes sufferers to merge with items of technology.
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A Scandalous Man
₱150.00His near death made all the news channels despite the fact that the prime minister had called an election on that very day. the prime minister regarded him as the hard man, and depended on him because he brought solutions, not problems. but the political deals he had to do had their price and someone, sometime was going to have to pay it.
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Fingers In The Sparkle Jar
₱150.00Voted the uk’s favourite nature book the memoir that inspired chris packham’s bbc documentary, asperger’s and me every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn’t do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a kestrel, a real live kestrel, my own real live kestrel on my wrist! i felt like i’d climbed through a hole in heaven’s fence. an introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, chris packham only felt at ease in the fields and woods around his suburban home. but when he stole a young kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. in his rich, lyrical and emotionally exposing memoir, chris brings to life his childhood in the 70s, from his bedroom bursting with fox skulls, birds’ eggs and sweaty jam jars, to his feral adventures. but pervading his story is the search for freedom, meaning and acceptance in a world that didn’t understand him. beautifully wrought, this coming-of-age memoir will be unlike any you’ve ever read.
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Dockside At Willow Lake
₱85.00From the award-winning author of “summer at willow lake” comes an unforgettable story of a womans emotional journey from the heartache of the past to hope for the future. the perfect summer read.–debbie macomber. original.
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One Enchanted Evening
₱120.00Prepare to be swept off your feet by the romantic and irresistible debut novel from anton du beke. london, 1936. inside the spectacular grand ballroom of the exclusive buckingham hotel, the rich and powerful, politicians, film stars, even royalty, rub shoulders with raymond de guise and his troupe of talented dancers from all around the world, who must enchant them, captivate them, and sweep away their cares. accustomed to waltzing with the highest of society, raymond knows a secret from his past could threaten all he holds dear. nancy nettleton, new chambermaid at the buckingham, finds hotel life a struggle after leaving her small hometown. she dreams of joining the dancers on the ballroom floor as she watches, unseen, from behind plush curtains and hidden doorways. she soon discovers everyone at the buckingham–guests and staff alike–has something to hide… the storm clouds of war are gathering, and beneath the glitz and glamour of the ballroom lurks an irresistible world of scandal and secrets. let’s dance…
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The Burning Answer
₱180.00Our civilisation stands on the brink of catastrophe. in three generations we have consumed half the world’s oil produced over eight million generations. with threats from global warming, fossil fuel depletion and nuclear disaster, we are running out of options. solar power, keith barnham argues, is the only solution. he explains how einstein’s famous equation e=mc2 led to the widespread use of nuclear energy, while another of einstein’s equations, one that has given us the laptop and the mobile phone, has been largely overlooked. it is this equation that holds the key to exploiting energy generated by the sun. a fascinating guide to renewable technology and a critique of the energy industry, the burning answer is, above all, an impassioned call-to-arms to join the solar revolution now, before it’s too late.
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Timeriders (book 1)
₱99.00Liam o’connor should have died at sea in 1912. maddy carter should have died on a plane in 2010. sal vikram should have died in a fire in 2029. yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, ‘take my hand . . .’ but liam, maddy and sal aren’t rescued. they are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose – to fix broken history. because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. that’s why the timeriders exist: to protect us. to stop time travel from destroying the world . . .
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The Help
₱99.00Jackson, mississippi, 1962. black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver. some lines will never be crossed. aibileen is a black maid: smart, regal, and raising her seventeenth white child. yet something shifted inside aibileen the day her own son died while his bosses looked the other way. minny, aibileen’s best friend, is by some way the sassiest woman in mississippi. but even her extraordinary cooking won’t protect minny from the consequences of her tongue. twenty-two-year-old skeeter returns home with a degree and a head full of hope, but her mother will not be happy until there’s a ring on her finger. seeking solace with constantine, the beloved maid who raised her, skeeter finds she has gone. but why will no one tell her where? seemingly as different as can be, skeeter, aibileen and minny’s lives converge over a clandestine project that will not only put them all at risk but also change the town of jackson for ever. but why? and for what? the help is a deeply moving, timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we won’t. itis about how women, whether mothers or daughters, the help or the boss, relate to each other – and that terrible feeling that those who look after your children may understand them, even love them, better than you . . .
