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FIVE LITTLE PIGS
Agatha Christie?s ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.
Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried ?wee wee wee? all the way home.
It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can?t get that nursery rhyme out of his mind?
Agatha Christie’s book ‘Marple’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 12-09-2022.
ISBN: 9780007527519
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Subtitle: A CLASSIC HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY
Author: AGATHA CHRISTIE -
THE DAILY LAWS
From the world?s foremost expert on power and strategy comes a daily devotional designed to help you seize your destiny.
Robert Greene, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, has been the consigliere to millions for more than two decades. Now, with entries that are drawn from his five books, plus never-before-published works, The Daily Laws offers a page of refined and concise wisdom for each day of the year, in an easy-to-digest lesson that will only take a few minutes to absorb. Each day features a Daily Law as well?a prescription that readers cannot afford to ignore in the battle of life. Each month centers around a major theme: power, seduction, persuasion, strategy, human nature, toxic people, self-control, mastery, psychology, leadership, adversity, or creativity.
Who doesn?t want to be more powerful? More in control? The best at what they do? The secret: Read this book every day.
?Daily study,? Leo Tolstoy wrote in 1884, is ?necessary for all people.? More than just an introduction for new fans, this book is a Rosetta stone for internalizing the many lessons that fill Greene?s books and will reward a lifetime of reading and rereading.
ISBN: 9781800816282
Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS
Subtitle: 366 MEDITATIONS ON POWER, SEDUCTION, MASTERY, STRATEGY AND HUMAN NATURE
Author: ROBERT GREENE -
WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK
?It?s perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . One of the best books I?ve ever read.? ?Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author
New York Times bestselling author Gillian McAllister has created a thriller unlike any other in this endlessly clever, twisty story of a mother who must move backward through time to prevent tragedy from striking at the heart of her family.
Can you stop a murder after it?s already happened?
It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the darkness. As Jen watches through the window, she sees her funny, seemingly happy teenage son stab a total stranger.
She doesn?t know who the victim is, or why Todd has committed such a devastating act of violence. All she knows is that her life, and Todd?s, have been shattered.
After her son is taken into custody, Jen falls asleep in despair. But when she wakes up?it is yesterday. The murder has not happened yet?and there may be a chance to stop it. Each morning, when Jen wakes, she is further back in the past, first weeks, then years, before the murder. And Jen realizes that somewhere in the past lies the trigger for Todd?s terrible crime?and it is her mission to find it, and prevent it from taking place.
Both the story of a mother?s love and the sacrifices she will make for her child, and a thriller with a brilliant twist, Wrong Place Wrong Time is a one-of-a-kind novel that begs to be read in one sitting.
ISBN: 9780063252356
Publisher: WILLIAM MARROW
Subtitle: A NOVEL
Author: GILLIAN MCALLISTER -
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
J.K. Rowling’s screenwriting debut is captured in this exciting hardcover edition of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay.
When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt’s fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. Featuring a cast of remarkable characters, this is epic, adventure-packed storytelling at its very best.
Whether an existing fan or new to the wizarding world, this is a perfect addition to any reader’s bookshelf.
ISBN: 9781338109061
Publisher: ARTHUR A. LEVINE BOOKS
Subtitle: THE ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (HARRY POTTER)
Author: J. K. ROWLING -
THE BELL JAR
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther’s life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women’s aspirations seriously.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel is partially based on Plath’s own life and has become a modern classic. The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and a razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide.
ISBN: 9780571308408
Publisher: FABER AND FABER
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Author: SYLVIA PLATH -
1Q84 – A NOVEL
ISBN: 9780307476463
Publisher: VINATGE INTERNATIONAL
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Author: HARUKI MURAKAMI -
RICH DAD’S GUIDE TO INVESTING
Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing is a roadmap for those who want to become successful investors and invest in the types of assets that the rich do. Whether your goal is to become financially secure, comfortable, or rich this book is your guide to understanding the asset classes and investment strategy. Robert explains his basic rules of investing, how to reduce your risk and Rich Dad’s 10 Investor Controls as well as ways to convert your earned income into passive portfolio income.
ISBN: 9781612680217
Publisher: PLATA PUBLISHING
Subtitle: WHAT THE RICH INVEST IN, THAT THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS DO NOT
Author: ROBERT T. KIYOSAKI -
MASTERY
The ultimate form of power is mastery. Robert Greene has spent a lifetime studying the laws of power: now he shares the secret path to greatness travelled by history’s most powerful people. Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master if we choose to follow them along a challenging but clear course that is described here for the first time.
ISBN: 9781781250914
Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS
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Author: ROBERT GREENE -
THE ART OF HAPPINESS
In this unique and important book, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, one of the world’s great spiritual leaders offers his practical wisdom and advice on how we can overcome everyday human problems and achieve lasting happiness.
The Art of Happiness is a highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the Dalai Lama’s eastern spiritual tradition with Dr Howard C. Cutler’s western perspective. Covering all key areas of human experience, they apply the principles of Tibetan Buddhism to everyday problems and reveal how one can find balance and complete spiritual and mental freedom.
For the many who wish to understand more about the Dalai Lama’s approach to living, there has never been a book which brings his beliefs so vividly into the real world.
ISBN: 9781529352795
Publisher: YELLOW KITE
Subtitle: A HANDBOOK FOR LIVING – THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – – 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Author: THE DALAI LAMA -
DANCE DANCE DANCE
Dance Dance Dance a follow-up to A Wild Sheep Chase is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through Murakami’s Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.
As Murakami’s nameless protagonist searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, he is plunged into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread. In this propulsive novel, featuring a shabby but oracular Sheep Man, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work today fuses together science fiction, the hardboiled thriller, and white-hot satire.
ISBN: 9780679753797
Publisher: VINATGE INTERNATIONAL
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Author: HARUKI MURAKAMI -
THE GOLDEN ROAD
A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast
‘Richly woven, highly readable … Written with passion and verve’ Spectator
‘Dazzling … Not just a historical study but also a love letter’ Guardian
‘An outstanding new account … The most compelling retelling we have had for generations’ Financial TimesIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient world
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.
William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India’s oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of China, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world – and our world today as we know it.
ISBN: 9781408864425
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Subtitle: HOW ANCIENT INDIA TRANSFORMED THE WORLD
Author: WILLIAM DALRYMPLE -
THE LIFE IMPOSSIBLE
What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don?t understand yet . . . When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics, Grace searches for answers about her friend?s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
ISBN: 9781838855581
Publisher: CANONGATE
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Author: MATT HAIG -
THE ARCHITECTURE OF MODERN EMPIRE
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back
?I try to create links, to join the dots, to tell politics like a story, to make it real??
Over a lifetime spent at the frontline of solidarity and resistance, Arundhati Roy?s words have lit a clear way through the darkness that surrounds us. Combining the skills of the architect she trained to be and the writer she became, she illuminates the hidden structures of modern empire like no one else, revealing their workings so that we can resist.
Her subjects: war, nationalism, fundamentalism and rising fascism, turbocharged by neoliberalism and now technology. But also: truth, justice, freedom, resistance, solidarity and above all imagination ? in particular the imagination to see what is in front of us, to envision another way, and to fight for it.
Arundhati Roy?s voice ? as distinct and compelling in conversation as in her writing ? explores these themes and more in this essential collection of interviews with David Barsamian, conducted over two decades, from 2001 to the present.
ISBN: 9781405966818
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
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Author: ARUNDHATI ROY -
BROKEN THREADS
An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain?s four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empire, war and partition.
In this narrative odyssey that traces the complexities of her own ancestry, Mishal Husain sheds incredible light on a landmark historical period. Mary, a devout Catholic of Anglo-Indian parentage, leaves a struggling family to train as a nurse. Tahirah was born to middle-class Muslim parents and grows up with an emphasis on education and aspiration. Mumtaz steps away from everything and everyone he knows to train as a doctor, while Shahid finds purpose and success as a Sandhurst cadet.
This gripping family history follows a nation becoming ever more divided in the face of social inequality, civil disobedience and the Second World War. Two centuries of British rule in South Asia come to a bloody end with the birth of independent India and the new state of Pakistan, dividing families and communities while leaving a legacy of distrust, tension and conflict that endures today.
In constructing a warm and vivid portrait of an exceptional family, Broken Threads confronts the acute sense of loss brought on by partition, the rupturing of cross-border relationships, and the resulting shift in identities.
ISBN: 9780008531690
Publisher: 4TH ESTATE
Subtitle: MY FAMILY FROM EMPIRE TO INDEPENDENCE
Author: MISHAL HUSAIN -
DEAR MR JINNAH
Islamabad: A new 432 pages book titled ?Dear Mr Jinnah? – 70 years in the life of a Pakistani civil servant by Salman Faruqui, a former high-ranking civil servant, offers a unique perspective on Pakistan?s history since independence.
The memoir blends Faruqui?s personal reminiscences with eye witness accounts of key political developments in the country?s history from 1947 when he and his family were abruptly uprooted during the Partition, and till 2017, when he completed his tenure as the Federal Ombudsman of Pakistan.
Faruqui served in the secretariats of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Prime Minister Junejo, and held some of the top civil service positions in the country, including Ambassador At Large, Secretary General to the President of Pakistan, and Deputy Chairman Planning Commission. This memoir provides a rich tapestry of anecdotes that illuminate Pakistan?s tumultuous political landscape. ?Dear Mr Jinnah? acts as both a tribute to the nation?s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and a reflection on the hopes and disappointments of a seasoned civil servant. The book delves into the challenges, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted roadblocks that Pakistan has faced over its seventy years as a nation. Faruqui?s insightful and thought-provoking insider perspective sheds light on the complexities of Pakistani politics.
With a memorable line ?nothing moves with a clear destination within Pakistan, except the mighty Indus.? Pakistan?s historian Professor wrote ?There is much here for students of history and a general readership to learn and benefit from?.
ISBN: 9789697162932
Publisher: LIGHTSTONE PUBLISHERS
Subtitle: 70 YEARS IN THE LIFE OF A PAKISTANI CIVIL SERVANT
Author: SALMAN FARUQUI -
WHY WE SLEEP
A neuroscientist shows how a good nights shuteye can make us cleverer, more attractive, slimmer, happier, healthier and ward off cancer. Its probably a little too soon to tell you that it saved my life, but its been an eyeopener, Uplifting Walker is in love with sleep and wants us to fall in love with sleep, too.
ISBN: 9780141983769
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Subtitle: THE NEW SCIENCE OF SLEEP AND DREAMSAuthor: MATTHEW WALKER
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SOMEONE I LOVED
How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them? When Chloe’s husband leaves her and their children for another woman, she is devastated. Unexpectedly, it’s her usually distant father-in-law who comes to Chloe’s aid, both with practical help and his personal wisdom on life and love.In this beautifully crafted novella, Anna Gavalda poignantly explores the fragility of human relationships.
ISBN: 9781908313485
Publisher: GALLIC BOOKS
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Author: ANNA GAVALDA -
THE NIGHT CIRCUS
The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads:
Opens at Nightfall
Closes at DawnAs dusk shifts to twilight, tiny lights begin to flicker all over the tents, as though the whole circus is covered in fireflies. When the tents are aglow, sparkling against the night sky, the sign lights up:
Le Cirque des R?ves
The Circus of DreamsThe gates shudder and unlock, seemingly by their own volition.
They swing outward, inviting the crowd inside.Now the circus is open.
Now you may enter.
ISBN: 9781784871055
Publisher: VINTAGE
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Author: ERIN MORGENSTERN -
SCHADENFREUDE
In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions on the way – she reveals how everyone, babies, nuns, your most trusted friends, are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an emotional glitch, she argues, Schadenfreude can reveal profound truths about our relationships with others and our sense of who we are.
Frank, warm and laugh-out-loud funny, Schadenfreude makes the case for thinking afresh about this much-maligned emotion – and perhaps, even, embracing it.
ISBN: 9781781259108
Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS
Subtitle: WHY WE FEEL BETTER WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO OTHER PEOPLEAuthor: TIFFANY WATT SMITH
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A TOUCH OF MALICE
Persephone and Hades are engaged. In retaliation, Demeter summons a snowstorm that cripples New Greece, and refuses to lift the blizzard unless her daughter calls off her engagement. When the Olympians intervene, Persephone finds her future in the hands of ancient gods, and they are divided. Do they allow Persephone to marry Hades and go to war with Demeter, or prohibit their union and take up arms against the God of the Dead?
Nothing is certain but the promise of war.
ISBN: 9781728258478
Publisher: BLOOM BOOKS
Subtitle:Author: SCARLETT ST. CLAIR