Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life
by Jamie Oliver
This book is very close to my heart. It's about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. When I began writing it, I didn't really know what recipes I would come up with, but something began to inspire me very quickly...my vegetable patch! I came to realise last year that it's not always about looking out at the wider world for inspiration. Being at home, feeling relaxed and open, can also offer this. I love to spend time at home in the village where I grew up, working with the boss, Mother Nature, in my garden and seeing all my beautiful veggies coming out of the ground. Inside, you'll find over 100 new recipes, plus some basic planting information and tips if you fancy having a go at getting your hands dirty as well!
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
by Susan Wise Bauer
An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.
Surrounded by more books than ever, readers today are frequently daunted by the classics they have left unread. The Well-Educated Mind, debunking our own inferiority complexes, is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to explore and develop the mind's capacity to read and comprehend the "greatest hits" in fiction, autobiography, history, poetry, and drama.
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
by Jane Dunn
This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth l and Mary Queen of Scots. Distinguished historian and biographer Jane Dunn reveals an extraordinary story of two rival queens reigning in one isle, both with a right to the throne of England, both embodying opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness and divinely-ordained kingship.
It is a story of sex and power, recklessness, passion and political intrigue in a period of history that was as dark and dangerous as it was dazzling.
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The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings [BOX SET]
by J. R. R. Tolkien
This is a boxed set containing paper editions of Tolkien's four stories of Middle-earth: The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
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Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of
stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When
Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo
ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself
alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and
Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger.
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The Best Books
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Set in Afghanistan, "A Thousand Splendid Suns" is an unforgettable portrait of a wounded country and a deeply moving story of family and friendship. It is a beautiful, heart-wrenching story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond and an indestructible love.
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
by Nancy Pearl
What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of readers with ""What If All Seattle Read the Same Book,"" has devised more than 170 thematic reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, ""chick-lit,"" and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout.
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The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
by Xinran
For seven years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone-in programme for Radio Nanjing during which she discussed women's lives, and invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast between 10 and 12 at night, "Words on the Night Breeze" soon became famous all over China for its powerful, honest discussion of what it means to be a woman in today's China. It started in 1990, a time when China seemed to be opening up, both for the Chinese and for the world. Xinran's programme revealed aspects of women's lives that had never been talked about in public before. She felt as if she was opening a tiny window into a huge fortress whose inhabitants had never before communicated with the outside world. Soon she was receiving over 200 letters a day from women telling their stories. She realised that she knew far less than she had thought about what it means to be a Chinese woman and embarked on a journey of discovery to collect their stories. The stories presented in this collection tell of almost inconceivable suffering: rape, sexual abuse, the separation of parents from their children, the suppression of human emotion in order to survive the Communist regime. And yet this book is about love - about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains.
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Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-rate traveling show. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and, ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.
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Kate Remembered
by A. Scott Berg
For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson is one of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers. In A Short
History of Nearly Everything, he takes his ultimate journey - into the most intriguing and
consequential questions that science seeks to answer. It’s a dazzling quest, the
intellectual odyssey of a lifetime, as this insatiably curious writer attempts to
understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization.
Or, as the author puts it, "how we went from there being nothing at all to there being
something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what
happened in between and since." This is, in short, a tall order.
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A Quiet Belief in Angels
by R.J. Ellory
Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from the predations of the killer.
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The Appeal
by John Grisham
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
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Duma Key: A Novel
by Stephen King
The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.
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The South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss
Arthur Agatston
Dr. Agatston is a noted cardiologist who's made many contributions, but The South Beach Diet may be his best. Importantly, this is not 'another diet book.' This is a
book about health and well-being. Dr. Agatston does an outstanding job of explaining the
importance of the types of food we eat and its impact on preventing illnesses, such as
coronary heart disease and diabetes. Not only will you feel better if you follow his diet,
but you will look and live better.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.
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The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East
by David Hirst
More than a decade before Israel's New Historians revolutionized the study of Israeli history, British journalist David Hirst wrote The Gun and the Olive Branch, a classic, myth-breaking general history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hirst, former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian, traces the origins of the terrible conflict back to the 1880s to show how Arab violence, although often cruel and fanatical, is a response to the challenge of repeated aggression. The Gun and the Olive Branch is an absorbing, potentially controversial, history of the Middle Eastern conflict that is indispensable to anyone with an interest in world politics and by partisans of both sides. This classic and controversial account of the origins of the Middle East conflict returns to print updated with a lengthy introduction that reflects on the course of recent Middle Eastern history-especially the abortive Israeli-Palestinian peace process and 9/11.
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
With breathtaking command of her shocking material and with her customary sharp wit and dark
humour, Atwood projects us into a conceivable future of our own world, an outlandish yet
wholly believable place left devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster
and populated by characters who will continue to inhabit your dreams long after the book
is closed.
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Serious: The Autobiography
by John McEnroe
Also titled You Cannot Be Serious. McEnroe at his most personal, a no-holds-barred examination of contemporary tennis, his championship seasons, his cantankerous on-court behavior, his marriage to Tatum O'Neal, his current roles as a devoted father, husband to pop star Patty Smyth, senior tennis tour player, and controversial television commentator, and much more.
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Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours.
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Not Fade Away
by Laurence Shames, Peter Barton
Some people are born to lead and destined to teach - not by precept, but by the example of living life to the fullest. Peter Barton was that kind of person.
He protested at Columbia University in the 1960s, played soul music at Harlem's Apollo Theater, spent time as a ski bum and a craps dealer, and eventually emerged from Harvard Business School to become a central figure in the creation of cable television. In the prime of his life, happily married and the father of three young children, Peter came face to face with the biggest challenge in a life filled with risk-taking and direction-changing. Diagnosed with cancer, he began a journey both frightening and appalling, yet also full of wonder and discovery.
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Life Of Mammals
by David Attenborough
David Attenborough recounts the story of 4000 species that have outlived the dinosaurs and conquered the farthest places on Earth: the mouse-sized
Pioneers who lived alongside the dinosaurs; the Insect Eaters; the tool-using Root Raiders
and Seed Stealers; and the Leaf Eaters.
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Blue Latitudes
by Tony Horwitz
Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice.
He also relives Cook's adventures by traveling in the captain's wake to such places as
Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef; along the way, he discovers Cook's
embattled legacy in the present day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of
Cook's vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also
explores Cook the man: an impoverished farm boy who broke through the barriers of his
class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history. This book bears the title "Into the Blue" in
the UK/European edition.
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