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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamb...
Maximum Ride: Manga Volume 2
"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it s like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the 'Flock' Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel are just like ordinary kids only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can mor...
Dracula
Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and the blood of the innocent prized above all. Young Jonathan Harker approaches the gloomy gates with no idea what he is about to face . . . And back in England eerie incidents are unfolding as strange puncture marks appear ...
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable....
The Book on the Bookshelf
A fascinating history of two related common objects - perhaps the greatest technological advances of the last two thousand years- the making and storing of books - from papyrus scrolls to precious medieval codices to the book as we know it, from the great library at Alexandria to monastic cells to the L...
Northanger Abbey (Penguin English Library)
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'. During an eventful season at Bath, yo...
Berserk Volume 32
Guts, the Black Swordsman, joins forces with a most unlikely ally, the fiendish Nosferatu Zodd, in a desperate attempt to defeat the Kushan emperor's malevolent astral form. But Griffith, Guts' former commander and friend reborn as a demonic lord of the Godhand, has plans of his own for the emperor, and...
Eileen
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD DAGGER AWARD 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 inThe Times, Observer and Daily Telegraph. Fully lives up to the hype - a taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black...
Attack on Titan (#20)
In this post-apocalyptic sci-fi story, humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as The Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming mankind. Seemingly unintelligent, they have roamed the world for years, killing everyone they see. For the...
Outlandish Knight - The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman
In his enormously long life (he was born in 1903 and died in 2000), Steven Runciman managed not just to be a great historian of the Crusades and Byzantium, but Grand Orator of the Orthodox Church, a member of the Order of Whirling Dervishes, Greek Astronomer Royal and Laird of Eigg. His friendships, cur...
The Inner Life of Animals - Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
FROM THE AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREESMother deer that grieve?Horses that feel shame?Squirrels that adopt their grandchildren?We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's...
Meditations
A classic collection of excerpts from one of the great spiritual leaders of the twentieth century--now in the newly designed Shambhala Pocket Library series. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) went from his origins in a small south Indian village to become one of the great spiritual teachers of the twen...
Simply Vibrant
A colorful take on whole foods cooking--everyday dishes that are seasonal, clean, and nourishing, from the author of The Vibrant Table.Cooking vibrant, healthy vegetarian dishes doesn't need to be time-consuming. These simple, everyday recipes are in the same signature style of cooking that Anya Kasoff ...
Arifureta: from Commonplace to World's Strongest ZERO (Light Novel #2)
Ryo Shirakome; Takaya-ki (Illustrator)
A PIRATE'S LIFEHoping to recruit the fabled Saint of the Western Seas, Miledi leads the party to the island city of Andika. There, they encounter pirate queen Meiru--at the same moment that the Holy Church sends a force to the island to exterminate Meiru's crew Tension sparks as three different factions...
In Love with the World What a Buddhist Monk Can Teach You about Living from Nearly Dying
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Beyond Burnout - How to Spot It, Stop It and Stamp It Out
Burnout is costing us. There are the personal costs to health and finances, organisational costs in lost productivity and sick leave, and national costs when it comes to healthcare services and similar. Following her own first-hand experience, as well as the countless similar scenarios she's seen in her...
A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are
Johannes Krause; Thomas Trappe
Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving...In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future.Marshalling unique in...
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most: The Instant New York Times Bestseller
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ESSENTIALISM COMES A GUIDE TO MAKING THE MOST IMPORTANT TASKS EFFORTLESS The intricacy of modern life has created a false dichotomy between things that are 'hard and important,' and those that are 'easy and trivial.' Everything has become so much harder tha...
Daddy
The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and present. 'Taut, beautiful and savage' GuardianA man travels to his son's school to deal with the fallout of a viol...
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