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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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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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"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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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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"Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors," takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone...
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Two suspenseful stories in one volume from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Dark Room. From an acclaimed, multimillion-selling author known for her tales about seemingly normal people driven to commit the most heinous crimes imaginable, Innocent Victims collects two novellas in one volume: Chickenfeed Following young Norman Thorne and his girlfriend, Elsie, from their first meeting in chapel until Thorne is about to go on trial for killing...
18) Adore: a novella
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Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs... Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons--taboo-shattering passions that last for years, until the women end them, vowing to have a respectable old age. With Adore, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once again proves her unrivaled...
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The novella 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy was published in 1886 and is considered a masterpiece of his late period fiction. It tells the story of a high-court judge in nineteenth century Russia. He lives a simple, carefree life with his family until he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Confined to bed, he is disgusted that his family avoids the subject of his death by pretending that he is only sick and not dying. He finds comfort...
20) A simple heart
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One single noise reached her ears now, the voice of the parrot. With an attention to the details of bourgeois life considered almost scandalous at the time, A Simple Heart will remind many why Gustave Flaubert was acclaimed as the first great master of realism. But this heart-breaking tale of a simple servant woman and her life-long search for love meant something else to Flaubert. Written near the end of his life, the work was meant to be a tribute...
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