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Whisper

Noni, Lynette2018
“Lengard is a secret government facility for extraordinary people,” they told me. “It’s for people just like you.” I believed them. That was my mistake. There isn’t anyone else in the world like me. I’m different. I’m an anomaly. I’m a monster. For two years, six months, fourteen days, eleven hou...
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The hustler

Tevis, Walter S.2025
The novel that inspired the legendary Paul Newman film, The Hustler tells the story of Fast Eddie Felson, a young pool player who hustles suckers in small towns, looking for stake money so he can reach his goal: a marathon match in Chicago against Minnesota Fats. A classic of American fiction, T...
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Onyx storm

Yarros, Rebecca2025
After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to know who to trust. Now ...
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Lost souls meet under a full moon

Tsujimura, Mizuki, 1980-2025
Is there anyone you wish to see? So asks the smart young man, Ayumi, to his clients who have come to him for a reunion with the person who once changed their life. But it is no ordinary reunion. The people they ask to see have passed away. Calling himself the go-between, Ayumi lays down strict ru...
List view record 5: Take flight : incredible stories of Australian women who reach for the skyList view anchor tag for record 5: Take flight : incredible stories of Australian women who reach for the sky
List view record 6: Whose language is English?List view anchor tag for record 6: Whose language is English?
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Whose language is English?

Kiaer, Jieun2024
Whose language is English? Although we often think of it as native to one place, today there are many Englishes. About seventy-five countries are now using English as their official or first language, and the number of people speaking it around the world continues to rise. But the makeup of the E...
List view record 7: To the limit : the meaning of endurance, from Mexico to the HimalayasList view anchor tag for record 7: To the limit : the meaning of endurance, from Mexico to the Himalayas
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To the limit : the meaning of endurance, from Mexico to the Himalayas

Crawley, Michael (Marathon runner)2024
So many of us are embracing endurance sports -- whether it is running an ultra-marathon, taking on long-distance cycling events or even climbing Mount Everest. But what is it that makes us voluntarily do exhausting things? When we lace up our running shoes or jump on our bike, are we embracing fr...
List view record 8: The sinners all bow : two authors, one murder, and the real Hester PrynneList view anchor tag for record 8: The sinners all bow : two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne
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The sinners all bow : two authors, one murder, and the real Hester Prynne

Dawson, Kate Winkler2025
On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Cornell was found hanging in a barn, four months pregnant, after a disgraceful liaison with a charismatic Methodist minister, Reverend Ephraim Avery. Some (Avery's lawyers) claimed her death was suicide... but others weren't so sure. Determined to uncover the r...
List view record 9: Does my dog love me? : understanding how your dog sees the worldList view anchor tag for record 9: Does my dog love me? : understanding how your dog sees the world
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Does my dog love me? : understanding how your dog sees the world

Hall, Graeme2025
Our dogs mean the world to us and as owners we do our best to make sure they feel happy and loved, whilst also keeping them in line when needed. But wouldn't it be so much easier if we spoke the same language and could ask what they were thinking or feeling? In his latest book, top dog trainer, G...
List view record 10: Nation, memory, myth : Gallipoli and the Australian imaginaryList view anchor tag for record 10: Nation, memory, myth : Gallipoli and the Australian imaginary
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Nation, memory, myth : Gallipoli and the Australian imaginary

Vizard, Steve2025
In Nation, Memory, Myth, Steve Vizard brings an original perspective to the foundational myth of Gallipoli as a sacred bearer of Australian national values and identity. In this scrupulously researched close reading of the Gallipoli mythology, Vizard dissects the elements common to all national m...
List view record 11: Australian Alps : Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National ParksList view anchor tag for record 11: Australian Alps : Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks
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Australian Alps : Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks

Slattery, Deirdre2025
"Australian Alps" is a guide to Australia's highest mountains and the extraordinary diversity, rich heritage and precious resource of the Australian Alps National Parks. Covering Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks, Slattery explores the stories of the First Peoples, scientists, histori...
List view record 12: The introvert's guide to leaving the house : solid advice for introverts, awkwards, sociophobes and stand-offishesList view anchor tag for record 12: The introvert's guide to leaving the house : solid advice for introverts, awkwards, sociophobes and stand-offishes
List view record 13: 38 Londres Street : on impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in PatagoniaList view anchor tag for record 13: 38 Londres Street : on impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
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38 Londres Street : on impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia

Sands, Philippe, 1960-2025
The house at 38 Londres Street is home to the legacies of two men whose personal stories span continents, nationalities and decades of atrocity: Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, and Walther Rauff, a Nazi SS officer responsible for the use of gas vans. On the run from justice at the end of th...
List view record 14: The story of stuff : how our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, our communities, and our health - and a vision for changeList view anchor tag for record 14: The story of stuff : how our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, our communities, and our health - and a vision for change
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The story of stuff : how our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, our communities, and our health - and a vision for change

Leonard, Annie2010
CONSERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT. Annie Leonard, creator of the internet film sensation "The Story of Stuff", viewed over 6 million times, offers an astonishing, galvanizing book that tells the story of all the 'stuff' we use everyday - where our bottled water, mobile phones and jeans come from, h...
List view record 15: The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold : a conversation pieceList view anchor tag for record 15: The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold : a conversation piece
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The ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold : a conversation piece

Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-19662011
GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Part of the fabulous new hardback library of 24 Evelyn Waugh books, publishing in chronological order. An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinatio...
List view record 16: Geek Dad : awesomely geeky projects and activities for dads and kids to shareList view anchor tag for record 16: Geek Dad : awesomely geeky projects and activities for dads and kids to share
List view record 17: Three men in a boat : to say nothing of the dog!List view anchor tag for record 17: Three men in a boat : to say nothing of the dog!
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Three men in a boat : to say nothing of the dog!

Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-19272009
CLASSIC FICTION. What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and h...
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Moments that made the movies

Thomson, David, 1941-2013
In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span. Hailed by John Banville as the greatest living wr...
List view record 19: Upcycle : 24 sustainable DIY projectsList view anchor tag for record 19: Upcycle : 24 sustainable DIY projects
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Upcycle : 24 sustainable DIY projects

Proctor, Rebecca2015
HANDICRAFTS. In this inspirational and practical book, 24 international product designers show you how to recreate their upcycled designs. Inspired by the trend for recycling and craft, readers can follow the designers step-by-step instructions and create their very own piece of high-end upcycled...
List view record 20: Oxford dictionary of humorous quotationsList view anchor tag for record 20: Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations
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Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations

2015
DICTIONARIES OF QUOTATIONS. Writer, broadcaster, and wit Gyles Brandreth has completely revised Ned Sherrin's classic collection of wisecracks, one-liners, and anecdotes. With over 1,000 new quotations from all media, it's easy to find hilarious quotes on subjects ranging from Argument to Diets, ...
List view record 21: Sing, unburied, sing : a novelList view anchor tag for record 21: Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
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Sing, unburied, sing : a novel

Ward, Jesmyn2017
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison an...
List view record 22: 10 things you might not know about nearly everything : a collection of fascinating historical, scientific and cultural trivia about people, places and thingsList view anchor tag for record 22: 10 things you might not know about nearly everything : a collection of fascinating historical, scientific and cultural trivia about people, places and things
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List view record 23: Women & power : a manifestoList view anchor tag for record 23: Women & power : a manifesto
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Women & power : a manifesto

Beard, Mary, 1955-2017
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clint...
List view record 24: Go, went, gone : a novelList view anchor tag for record 24: Go, went, gone : a novel
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Go, went, gone : a novel

Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-2017
Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, “one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation” (The Millions). The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he live...
List view record 25: Beauty sick : how the cultural obsession with appearance hurts girls and womenList view anchor tag for record 25: Beauty sick : how the cultural obsession with appearance hurts girls and women
List view record 26: Tinkering : the complete book of John ClarkeList view anchor tag for record 26: Tinkering : the complete book of John Clarke
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Tinkering : the complete book of John Clarke

Clarke, John, 1948-20172017
This fine collection includes John Clarke's writing for radio, television, stage and screen, as well as previously unpublished pieces. The sudden death of John Clarke in April 2017 cut short the life of a man who was not only a great and much loved entertainer and satirist but a wonderful writer....
List view record 27: 50 people who messed up the worldList view anchor tag for record 27: 50 people who messed up the world
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50 people who messed up the world

Parker, Alexander2017
From drug lords, drug cheats and the morally corrupt to political despots and plain, old crackpots - the twentieth century certainly saw its fair share of villains. Be it through politics, war, sport, culture or just their general idiocy, these are men and women of infamy who have steered our goo...
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All quiet on the western front

Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898-19702025
A Vintage Classics edition of the classic German novel about World War I, in the English translation by A. W. Wheen that was first published in 1929, here with a new introduction by novelist Sebastian Faulks--
List view record 29: The wisdom of Sally Red Shoes : a novelList view anchor tag for record 29: The wisdom of Sally Red Shoes : a novel
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The wisdom of Sally Red Shoes : a novel

Hogan, Ruth, 1961-2019
They say friends make life worth living… Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, Masha's life was forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago. Unable to let go of her grief, she finds comfort in her faithful canine companion Haizum, and peace in the quiet lanes of her ...
List view record 30: The masque of Africa : glimpses of African beliefList view anchor tag for record 30: The masque of Africa : glimpses of African belief
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The masque of Africa : glimpses of African belief

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-20182019
For my travel books I travel on a theme. And the theme of this book is African belief. I begin in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, do Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and end at the bottom of the continent, in South Africa. Moving beyond travelogue, this book considers the eff...
List view record 22: 10 things you might not know about nearly everything : a collection of fascinating historical, scientific and cultural trivia about people, places and things
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