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The Campaigns of Alexander (Penguin Classics)
Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt, revised by J. R. Hamilton. 'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian's o...
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
From the universally praised "New York Times" science writer George Johnson comes an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science - moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a crisp, unambiguous reply. Contents: Chapt...
Great Expectations (Vintage Classics)
Charles Dickens; F. W. Pailthorpe (Illustrator)
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H...
That Old Cape Magic
Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. Cracks are beginning to show in Jack's peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He's driving round with his father's ashes in an urn in the boot of his car, haunted by memories of bitters...
Fifty Shades Freed: The #1 Sunday Times bestseller
THE OFFICIAL MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION. Based on volume three of the phenomenal #1 New York Timesbestselling trilogy with more than 150 million copies sold worldwide.When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair...
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 1: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument - from specialist John Romer. This exceptional book draws on a lifetime of research and thought to recreate the previously untold story of how a civilization which began with h...
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel
"A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure." --"Publishers Weekly, "Starred Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He's being hunted by Fish...
The Knowledge Gap
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it...
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