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Art of Seduction
Which sort of seducer could you be: Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, and indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. In part II, immerse yourself in the twenty four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to ‘Choose the Right Victim’, ‘Appear to Be an Object of Desire’ and ‘Confuse Desire and Reality’. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we’ve become – or hope to win over. “The Art of Seduction” is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history’s greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip.
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The Bumper Book Of Blackboard Blunders
Category:Humor
Publisher:?Summersdale Publishing?|?ISBN:?9781786855435 |?Pages:?320 -
Born Lippy: How To Do Female
Category:Humor
Publisher:?John Murray Uk?|?ISBN:?9781473687738 |?Pages:?304 -
Sophie’s Big Busy Play Book: Sophie la Girafe: Lots for Baby to Explore with Peepholes, Tactiles and Flaps
Babies and toddlers can have hours of fun exploring Sophie’s Big Busy Play Book. Inside, there are ten big bright pages, showing familiar things little ones will love, from animals and toys to vehicles, colours, and shapes. Large patches of touch-and-feel appear throughout, from squishy foam on a bath duck to fluffy fur on a rabbit, as well as sparkly foil, glitter, and bumpy embossed details. In addition, there are intriguing, different-shaped holes that peek through to the next page, and surprise flaps to lift. With so much to explore, Sophie’s Big Busy Play Book will delight and stimulate babies and toddlers.Age Range- 0 – 1 Sophie la girafe. Mod le depose / Design patent
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The Cubs and Other Stories
The Cubs and Other Stories is Mario Vargas Llosa’s only volume of short fiction available in English. Vargas Llosa’s domain is the Peru of male youth and machismo, where life’s dramas play themselves out on the soccer field, on the dance floor and on street corners.The title work, The Cubs, tells the story of the carefree boyhood of PP Cuellar and his friends, and of PP’s bizarre accident and tragic coming of age.In a candid and perceptive foreword to this collection of early writing, Vargas Llosa provides background to the volume and a unique glimpse into the mind of the artist.
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The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied throughout the world.
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Operation Shylock: A Confession
‘Subtle, funny and furious’ ObserverWhat if a lookalike stranger stole your name, hijacked your biography, and went about the world pretending to be you? Startlingly, Philip Roth meets a man in Jerusalem called Philip Roth who has been touring Israel – riding high on the author’s reputation – preaching a bizarre reverse-exodus of the Jews, encouraging them to return to their ancestral homes in Europe. Roth decides to stop him, even if that means impersonating the impersonator.Operation Shylock is at once spy story, political thriller, meditation on identity and unfathomable journey through a volatile, frightening middle-east.
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A Landing on the Sun
Ever since an obscure Civil Servant called Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project. Now, as a television company reinvestigates the case, the Cabinet Office feels it may be prudent to make a reassessment of its own, in case of any sudden alarm at Number Ten. ‘Comedy creeps up on A Landing on the Sun like bindweed, transforming what starts out as a thriller into a small masterpiece of the absurd.’ Financial Times
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Justine (Alexandria Quartet)
The time is the eve of the Second World War. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world’s greatest library and whose inhabitants are still dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed and purblind characters in this mesmerizing first novel of the Alexandria Quartet, the pursuit of knowledge leads to no library, only to the bedrooms in which each seeks to know – and possess – the other. Since its publication in 1957, “Justine” has inspired an almost religious devotion among readers and critics. It is not so much a book as it is a self-contained universe, constructed by one of the most elegant and formidably intelligent minds in contemporary fiction.
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Doctor Faustus
A portrayal of genius possessed, through the biography of the composer Adrian Leverkuhn, narrated by his friend Zeitblom in the years 1943-45, as Germany faces ruin.
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust
THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONTime Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war’s end, Proust’s narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature – his past life. This edition includes the indispensable A Guide to Proust, compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised by Joanna Kilmartin.
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 2
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham’s most famous tales; ‘Flotsam and Jetsam’, the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; ‘The Man with the Scar’, and notably the opening story ‘The Vessel of Wrath’, a tale of the unexpected love that grows between a devout missionary nurse and a drunken reprobate. In this second volume of his collected stories, Maugham illustrates his characteristic wry perception of human foibles and his genius for evoking compelling drama from an acute sense of time and place.
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Midnight All Day
The stories in Midnight All Day show a contemporary master at the top of his form, acclaimed by one reviewer for his depiction of ‘a lost generation of men: those shaped by the sixties, disoriented by the eighties and bereft of a personal and political map in the nineties’.We are unerring in our choice of lovers, particularly when we require the wrong person. There is an instinct, magnet or aerial which seeks the unsuitable. The wrong person is, of course, right for something – to punish, bully, or humiliate us, let us down, leave us for dead, or, worst of all, give us the impression that they are not inappropriate, but almost right, thus hanging us in love’s limbo. Not just anyone can do this.In this astonishing collection of stories, Hanif Kureishi confirms his reputation as Britain’s foremost chronicler of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters in Midnight All Day are familiar to all of us: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty, and, if necessary, willing to break the constraints of an old life to make way for the new.
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In Praise of the Stepmother
In Praise of the Stepmother is the story of Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucrecia, and his son, Alfonso. Their family life together seems to be a happy one. Rigoberto, an insurance company manager, spends his time preening himself for his wife and collecting erotic art. But while Lucrecia is devoted to him, she has her own needs, and soon finds herself the object of young Alfonso’s attention.With meticulous observation and seductive skill, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mysterious nature of happiness. Little by little, the harmony of his characters is darkened by the shadow of perversion.If you enjoyed In Praise of the Stepmother, you might also like Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto.
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The Mighty Walzer
From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural – at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not so adept, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis Team and stalwart of the Kardomah coffee bar, his game improves.Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize.
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics)
‘We don’t live alone … We are responsible for each other’A policeman interrupts a rich family’s dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, ‘An Inspector Calls’, J. B. Priestley’s most famous play, shows us the terrible consequences of poverty and inequality. The other powerful plays in this collection – ‘Time and the Conways’, ‘I Have Been Here Before’ and ‘The Linden Tree’ – explore time, fate, free will and the effects of war. ‘A vastly talented and exceptionally versatile and wise writer’ Iris Murdoch’Priestley was volcanic, fertile … and never dull’ Anthony BurgessIf you enjoyed An Inspector Calls, you might like Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Woman of the Inner Sea
A young woman once told Thomas Keneally her life story. It was to lodge in his mind and haunt his imagination, becoming the kernel for this enthralling and emotive novel. It tells of a marriage that becomes a nightmare, of a distraught woman’s flight, actual and symbolic, into the Australian interior, a story of pursuit, tragic accident and a final, strange catharsis.
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The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets
“Poets live the lives all of us live, ” says Bill Moyers, “with one big difference. They have the power–the power of the word–to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen.”In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, “The Language Of Life” celebrates language in its “most exalted, wrenching, delighted, and concentrated form, ” and its unique power to re-create the human experience: falling in love, facing death, leaving home, playing basketball, losing faith, finding God. Listening to Linda McCarriston’s award-winning poems about a child trapped in a violent home, or to Jimmy Santiago Baca explaining how words changed his life in prison, or to David Mura describing his Japanese American grandfather’s experience in relocation camps, or to Sekou Sundiata stitching the magic of his childhood church in Harlem to the African tradition of storytelling, or to Gary Snyder invoking the natural wonder of mountains and rivers, or to Adrienne Rich calling for honesty in human relations, all testify to the necessity and clarity of the poet’s voice, and all give hope that from such a wide variety of racial, ethnic, and religious threads we might yet weave a new American fabric.”‘Listen, ‘ said the storytellers of old, ‘listen and you shall “hear,”‘” explains Bill Moyers. “The Language Of Life” is a joyous, life-affirming invitation to listen, learn, and experience the exhilarating power of the spoken word.
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Lord of All the Dead
“A remarkable act of personal history: brave, revelatory and unflinchingly honest” WILLIAM BOYD
Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas’ family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents’ village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas’ mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain’s history.
Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment to the author, or a young idealist who happened to fight on the wrong side? And how should we judge him, as grandchildren and great-grandchildren of that generation, interpreting history from our supposed omniscience and the misleading
perspective of a present full of automatic answers, that fails to consider the particularities of each personal and family drama?Wartime epics, heroism and death are some of the underlying themes of this unclassifiable novel that combines road trips, personal confessions, war stories and historical scholarship, finally becoming an incomparable tribute to the author’s mother and the incurable scars of an entire generation.
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Friday Black
The instant New York Times bestseller
‘An unbelievable debut’ New York TimesRacism, but “managed” through virtual reality
Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng
Happiness, but pharmacological
Love, despite everything
A Publisher’s Weekly Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2018
Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explores the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In the first, unforgettable story of this collection, The Finkelstein Five, Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unstinting reckoning of the brutal prejudice of the US justice system. In Zimmer Land we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. And Friday Black and How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all.
Fresh, exciting, vital and contemporary, Friday Black will appeal to people who love Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad, the TV show Black Mirror, the work of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders, and anyone looking for stories that speak to the world we live in now.
‘An excitement and a wonder’ George Saunders
‘The writing in this outstanding collection will make you hurt and demand your hope’ Roxane Gay
‘The fiction debut of the year. Bravo young man. We await your encore’ Mary Karr
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Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 2: Volume 2 (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
Once upon a time, wizards tried to conquer the Sacred Realm of Hyrule. The Spirits of Light sealed the wizards? power within the Shadow Crystal and banished them to the Twilight Realm beyond the Mirror of Twilight. Now, an evil menace is trying to find Midna, Princess of the Twilight Realm, and the fragments of the Shadow Crystal to gain the power to rule over both the Twilight Realm and the World of Light.
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Fantasy Art In Watercolour: Painting Fairies, Dragons, Unicorns And Angels
- Series:?Fantasy Art
- Paperback:?176 pages
- Publisher: Search Press
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?1844485536
- ISBN-13:?978-1844485536
- Product Dimensions:?8.4 x 0.6 x 11.4 inches
- Shipping Weight:?2 pounds
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Watercolour
- Paperback:?208 pages
- Publisher:?Tate (July 1, 2011)
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?1854379135
- ISBN-13:?978-1854379139
- Product Dimensions:?8.5 x 0.6 x 11.2 inches
- Shipping Weight:?2 pounds
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Sword Art Online (Book 9): Light Novels
- Series:?Sword Art Online (Book 9)
- Paperback:?272 pages
- Publisher: Yen Press
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?0316390429
- ISBN-13:?978-0316390422
- Product Dimensions:?5.4 x 1 x 8.2 inche
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Sword Art Online (Book 10): Light Novels
- Series:?Sword Art Online (10) (Book 10)
- Paperback:?240 pages
- Publisher:?Yen Press; Translation edition (May 23, 2017)
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?0316390437
- ISBN-13:?978-0316390439
- Product Dimensions:?5.4 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
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Sword Art Online (Book 11): Light Novels
- Series:?Sword Art Online (11) (Book 11)
- Paperback:?208 pages
- Publisher: Yen Press
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?0316390445
- ISBN-13:?978-0316390446
- Product Dimensions:?5.5 x 0.6 x 8.2 inche
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The Crossing
- Paperback
- Publisher:?Pocket Books, Inc.; Cardinal Edition edition (2016)
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?1444753525
- ISBN-13:?978-1444753523
- Product Dimensions:?5 x 0.9 x 7.7 inches
- Shipping Weight:?8.5 ounces
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An Unsocial Socialist
- Paperback:?352 pages
- Publisher: John Murray
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?1848547293
- ISBN-13:?978-1848547292
- Product Dimensions:?5 x 0.9 x 8 inches
- Shipping Weight:?7.8 ounces
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The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
- Hardcover:?1296 pages
- Publisher: Race Point Publishing; Slp edition
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?1631060244
- ISBN-13:?978-1631060243
- Product Dimensions:?17.8 x 7.6 x 25.4 cm
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Killjoy
- Series:?Buchanan-Renard (Book 3)
- Mass Market Paperback:?464 pages
- Publisher:?Ballantine Books (July 1, 2003)
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?0345453816
- ISBN-13:?978-0345453815
- Product Dimensions:?4.2 x 1 x 6.8 inches
- Shipping Weight:?8 ounces
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High Tide
- Paperback:?311 pages
- Publisher:?Gardners Books; Regular Print/Single Titl edition (May 31, 2000)
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?0671037501
- ISBN-13:?978-0671037505
- Product Dimensions:?4.4 x 0.9 x 7 inches
- Shipping Weight:?6.4 ounces
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The Blessing
- Paperback:?316 pages
- Publisher:?Gardners Books (October 31, 1999)
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?0671033301
- ISBN-13:?978-0671033309
- Product Dimensions:?4.4 x 0.7 x 7 inches
- Shipping Weight:?6.4 ounces
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Moonlight In The Morning
- Series:?Edilean
- Mass Market Paperback:?432 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Star; Original edition
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?1416509747
- ISBN-13:?978-1416509745
- Product Dimensions:?4.2 x 1.2 x 6.8 inches
- Shipping Weight:?8.5 ounces
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Heartwishes
- Mass Market Paperback:?480 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; Reprint edition
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?1439108013
- ISBN-13:?978-1439108017
- Product Dimensions:?4.2 x 0.7 x 6.8 inches
- Shipping Weight:?8 ounces
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The Girl From Summer Hill
- Paperback
- Publisher: HEADLINE
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?1472242076
- ISBN-13:?978-1472242075
- Product Dimensions:?5.6 x 1 x 7.8 inche
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True Love: The Nantucket Brides Series (Book 1)
- Paperback
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- Language:?English
- ISBN-10:?1472211391
- ISBN-13:?978-1472211392
- Product Dimensions:?5.2 x 1.2 x 7.7 inches