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3 Private Eye Mysteries you don't want to miss!BUY NOW!A Very Private WomenAn Invitation Like No Other. Sister Rivalry. A Very Private Woman.Nothing is as it seems.Private Eye Bettie English receives a visitor. She hears a top-secret job offer. Bettie knows something is afoot.Bettie needs to find the truth.The Russian CaseA Strange Invitation. A World In Danger. A Russian Case.Bettie solves cases.When Private Eye Bettie English receives a strange...
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A Case Most PersonalAn Attack Close To Home. Police Corruption. A Case Most Personal.Bettie helps innocent people.Private Eye Bettie English sees her nephew stabbed. She rushes to help. Bettie investigates.Scots, Trains and Private EyesAmazing Scots. A Secret Train. Reader's Favourite Private Eye.Private Eyes always work.Private Eye Bettie English holidays in Scotland. She meets MI5 Agent Carter. She accepts a dangerous job.A nation's future depends...
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Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926), the author of more than fifty books on classics, theology, history, and Shakespeare, was headmaster of the City of London School and one of the leading educators of his time. Thomas Banchoff is professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown University and author of Beyond the Third Dimension.
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical...
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Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what it...
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Ashley Smith, an American art student in London for her junior year, was planning on spending Christmas alone, but a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall, country residence of the Chapman family. The Cotswold manor house, festooned in pine boughs and crammed with guests for Christmas week, is a dream come true for Ashley. She is mesmerized by the cozy, firelit house, the large family, and the charming...
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"Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn't easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their limited resources to stabilize the world. Warner has his sights set on more than just politics. Since he proposed to Juliette two weeks ago, he's been eager to finally marry her, the person he loves more than anything and has endured so much to be with. But with so much chaos...
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A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature
In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume—Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling
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It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the...
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"Death in Venice is Thomas Mann's novella concerning Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous middle-aged author who in order to alleviate a terrible case of writer's black decides to go on holiday. Gustav first travels to the coast of Austria-Hungary but soon is overcome with the feeling that he is meant to travel to Venice. On Lido Island he takes up residence in a suite at the Grand Hotel des Bains. During dinner one evening at the hotel he sees a family...
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"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder.”
—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery
Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds...
—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery
Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds...
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"The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer, newly retranslated and in one English-language volume for the first time, with a new introduction by the author. These first major works of fiction by Haruki Murakami center on two young men--an unnamed narrator and his friend and former roommate, the Rat. Powerful, at times surreal, stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism, these novellas bear...
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A collection of three novellas by acclaimed author Jim Harrison. The Ancient Minstrel: An aging writer in Montana indulges his lifelong dream of raising pigs, struggles to write the "big novel" he's rashly promised his editor, and attempts to rekindle the long marriage that has sustained him. Eggs: A Montana woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents, and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child,...
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"Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. Features four novellas from the captivating world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series--two of which appear here in print for the first time--as well as exclusive, never-before-seen...
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To the short list that includes Jules Verne and H.G. Wells as founding fathers of science fiction, the name of the Belgian writer J.-H. Rosny Aîné must be added. He was the first writer to conceive, and attempt to narrate, the workings of aliens and alternate life forms. His fascination with evolutionary scenarios, and long historical vistas, from first man to last man, are important precursors to the myriad cosmic epics of modern science fiction.
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Beginning with a visceral description of the society and politics of Paris, The Girl with the Golden Eyes considers the sex life of the upper class by its raw depiction of the underside of Parisian life. Henri de Marsay is a young, rich man who is nearly devoid of morals and virtue. After he meets Paquita Valdes, a mysterious and beautiful woman, he becomes infested with a deviant lust for her. When his plan to seduce her succeeds, Henri and Paquita...
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A continuation from the first in the Master Darcy series, Obeying Mr. Darcy...Elizabeth is coming to learn what it means to give herself over to Mr. Darcy in all ways, but her defiant and outspoken nature keeps trying to shine through.With everything resting on her ability to make Mr. Darcy happy, will Elizabeth Bennet be able to control her own natural instincts, or will she let her desire to put Mr. Darcy in his place ruin herself and her family?Other...
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Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy have parted under the most uncomfortable of circumstances. Released from her contract as Mr. Darcy's mistress, Elizabeth is on her own, thrown to the London ton.
Much to her distress, she has realized that her feelings for Mr. Darcy run deeper than the superficial. Armed with a new confidence, Elizabeth decides to chase after her heart's desire: she may no longer be Mr. Darcy's mistress, but she wishes to be his wife.
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The Maze in the English Park, a historical crime novella, spans two centuries, and ties two worlds of people who will be unknowingly brought together in an unexpected drama of lost identities, love, and death.
It is in 19th century Prague where the path of an ambitious actor and a Viennese aristocrat cross. Karel is the rising star of the Prague National Theatre. Josef is the undisputed heir to his assassinated father's political legacy. Both young...
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Amazing Scots. A Secret Train. Reader's Favourite Private Eye.Private Eyes always work.Private Eye Bettie English holidays in Scotland. She meets MI5 Agent Carter. She accepts a dangerous job.A nation's future depends on Bettie.If you enjoy suspenseful gripping private eye mysteries. You need to read this great book!
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