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Clean Paleo Comfort Food Cookbook - 100 Delicious R
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Raw & Free - Plant-Based Living for Health and Happ
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Be More Vegan
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New Zealand Wines 2021
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Guinness Down Under
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Wine Revolution: The World's Best Organic, Biodynam
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An Illustrated Guide to Cocktails: 50 Classic Cockt
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Cocktails
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Whiskies Galore - A Tour of Scotland's Island Disti
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Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal i
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Australian Food
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The Burger Book
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Recipes from an Italian Butcher: Roasting, Stewing,
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The Irish Cookbook
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Whole Food Cooking Everyday
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The Dead of Winter
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Cutting Edge: Noir Short Stories by Women
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The Safety Net
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Post Mortem (#2 Elliot Rook, QC)
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Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3)
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Broken Harbour (Dublin Murder Squad #4)
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The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5)
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The Trespasser (Dublin Murder Squad #6)
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Tell Me Lies
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Murder in the Crooked House
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Playback - A Philip Marlowe Mystery
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Murder, She Said - The Quotable Miss Marple
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Death in the East (#4 Wyndham and Bannerjee)
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Cover Her Face
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The Murder Room
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Devices and Desires
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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
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Doom Creek
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Absolute Friends
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Black Hands
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Charles Darwin (Little People, Big Dreams)
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Prince (Little People, Big Dreams)
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Hijack (#5 Special Forces Cadets)
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Atlas of Great Journeys
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100 Cats
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar's First 100 Words
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The Ship of Shadows
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Peppa's Mermaid Friends (Peppa Pig)
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Where's Mrs Tiger?
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My Book of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life
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George's Tractor (Peppa Pig)
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Busy Busy People
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The Inquisitor's Tale (Or, the Three Magical Childr
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Children's Picture Atlas
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How to Raise a Man - The Modern Mother's Guide to P
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The Bird Atlas
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752 Rabbits
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My Little Book of Big Questions
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The Forger's Daughter
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The Rich Man's House
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The Foundling
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Dimension of Miracles
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The Burning Girls
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The Push
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Girls Against God
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Fragile Monsters
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Two Women and a Poisoning
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Such a Fun Age
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The Best of Me: Ultimate Short Story Collection
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Under a Dark Angel's Eye: The Selected Stories of P
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Camino Winds (#2 Camino Island)
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The Singapore Grip
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Soledad
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Wow
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Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa Ne
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Motherless Brooklyn (FTI)
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House of Gold
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Emma (Clothbound Classic)
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Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without G
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Lost Cat
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Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in
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Where There's a Will - Hope, Grief and Endurance in
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Crown Lynn Collector's Handbook
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How to Walk a Dog (PB)
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The Look of the Book - Jackets, Covers, and Art at
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New Zealand's Great Walks: The Complete Guide
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The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life
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Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the Engli
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mort
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Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, And An Ep
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The Lost Boys
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Featherhood
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The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of
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Conversations with RBG - Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Lif
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Thomas Potts of Canterbury - Colonist and Conservat
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Me, According to the History of Art
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Nature Stilled
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Northern Lights (His Dark Materials #1)
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Hawk (Maximum Ride)
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The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine's Pecul
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Gone to the Woods: A True Story of Growing up in th
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We Were Liars
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Impostors (#1)
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Burn
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Brasswitch and Bot (#1 Rise of the Remarkables)
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Goodbye, Perfect
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The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow
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Lion: A Long Way Home (Young Reader's Edition)
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A Song Only I Can Hear
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Catch Me If I Fall
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Guardians of Magic (The Cloud Horse Chronicles #1)
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Eventide
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Max (Maximum Ride #5)
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Ali Cross
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The Final Warning (Maximum Ride #4)
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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Category: General Crime/Mystery | Reading Level: near fine

'A little beacon of pleasure...SUCH FUN!' KATE ATKINSON -  THE FIRST BOOK IN THE GRIPPING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on t heir very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?    ...Show more

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Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

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Margery Benson's life ended the day her father walked out of his study and never came back. Forty years later, abandoning a dull job, she advertises for an assistant. The successful candidate is to accompany Margery on an expedition to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may n ot exist. Enid Pretty is not who she had in mind. But together they will find themselves drawn into an adventure that exceeds all Margery's expectations, eventually finding new life at the top of a red mountain. This is a story that is less about what can be found than the belief it might be found; it is an intoxicating adventure story and it is also a tender exploration of a friendship between two unforgettable women that defies all boundaries.     ...Show more

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Charred: The Complete Guide to Vegetarian Grilling and Barbecue by Genevieve Taylor

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The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in cooking over fire, with cooks all over the world seeking to get elemental in their cooking. But fire and smoke doesn't always have to be about hunks of meat. Chargrilling and barbecue are a fantastic way of getting the maximum flavour out of versa tile vegetables. If you're bored of beefburgers, or if you're vegetarian and want more than scorched sweetcorn and chewy halloumi, then Charred offers up over 70 original, exciting recipes to cater for all your veggie BBQ needs. With sections on Stuffed and wrapped veg, Burgers and fritters, Kebabs, Low, slow and smoked, and Sharing Platters, the vegetarian dishes will be the highlight of every meal, with the likes of whole roast cauliflower drenched in spiced garlic butter, griddled radicchio with burrata and figs, or corn on the cob with Cambodian coconut, lime and chilli. Live-fire and BBQ expert Genevieve Taylor has developed these inventive, sensational dishes so that they can just as easily be cooked in a grill pan or conventional oven, year-round. Celebrate the magic that happens when glorious veg meet flame!   ...Show more

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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: Adult

Booker Prize Winner 2020. It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abando ned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother's sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no' right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara. It is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist with a powerful and important story to tell.   ...Show more

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Animalphabet by Julia Donaldson

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Winner of the 2018 Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award for Best Picture Book of the YearA hugely entertaining animal ABC guessing game with stunning peep-through pages and fold-out flaps, by bestselling author Julia Donaldson and award-winning illustrator Sharon King-Chai. Now availabl e in paperback.Can you guess who has more legs than a butterfly? And who is wrinklier than a hedgehog?Each page draws you further into a beautifully vibrant world of huge elephants, slithery snakes and growling tigers, inviting you to compare one animal to another and learn comparison words and adjectives from the natural world.With vivid, eye-catching artwork and an exotic array of animals to marvel over, Animalphabet is a gorgeous book to treasure and read over and over again. ...Show more

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Ottolenghi FLAVOUR by Yotam Ottolenghi; Ixta Belfrage

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Flavour-forward, vegetable-based recipes are at the heart of Yotam Ottolenghi's food. In this stunning new cookbook Yotam and co-writer Ixta Belfrage break down the three factors that create flavour and offer innovative vegetable dishes that deliver brand-new ingredient combinations to excite and inspir e. Ottolenghi FLAVOUR combines simple recipes for weeknights, low effort-high impact dishes, and standout meals for the relaxed cook. Packed with signature colourful photography, FLAVOUR not only inspires us with what to cook, but how flavour is dialled up and why it works. The book is broken down into three parts, which reveal how to tap into the potential of ordinary vegetables to create extraordinary food: Process explains cooking methods that elevate veg to great heights; Pairing identifies four basic pairings that are fundamental to great flavour; Produce offers impactful vegetables that do the work for you. With surefire hits, such as Aubergine Dumplings alla Parmigiana, Hasselback Beetroot with Lime Leaf Butter, Miso Butter Onions, Spicy Mushroom Lasagne and Romano Pepper Schnitzel, plus mouthwatering photographs of nearly every one of the more than 100 recipes, Ottolenghi FLAVOUR is the impactful, next-level approach to vegetable cooking that Ottolenghi fans and vegetable lovers everywhere have been craving.     ...Show more

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The Winter Agent by Gareth Rubin

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January, 1944. A bitter winter grips occupied France, where Marc Reece leads an SOE circuit facing deadly risks, operating in secret to sabotage the German war effort. But Marc has a second mission, secret from even his fellow agents - including Charlotte, the woman with whom he has ill-advisedly fallen in love. Everyone knows that D-Day is coming, and that the hours following the Allied landings will decide the war - and every last scrap of information he can provide might make all the difference in the fate of the western world. But when the circuit is ambushed - with deadly consequences - Marc realises there may be a spy in their ranks, putting at risk everything they've been fighting for. Then Charlotte goes missing. Marc faces an awful question - is she in peril, or has he been betrayed by the only woman he was sure he could trust? And if he risks everything in order to find her, what will become of his mission, and of the lives that depend on it? Gripping and atmospheric, this is the story of a man operating in the darkest of circumstances, and the unimaginable sacrifices war demands of those who fight it. ...Show more

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The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals by Sami Bayly

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Dangerous animals get a bad rap, but this beautifully illustrated encyclopaedia helps us appreciate the incredible features of some of our more hair-raising animal species. With more than sixty of the most deadly and dangerous animals from across the world to explore, every page of this beautifully ill ustrated volume is more eye-opening than the last. You will learn interesting facts about these fascinating species, (many of which you won't have even known were deadly) such as how they have adapted to survive and whether we should be threatened by these animals or appreciate them for their incredible features. Children and adults alike will pore over the breathtaking scientific illustrations of unusual animals from the Cone Shell to the Wolverine and the Irukandji Jellyfish to the Slow Loris, debating their relative dangerous features, learning about science and nature along the way.  This gorgeous hardcover book is illustrated in exquisite detail by award-winning author and illustrator, Sami Bayly. A brilliant companion to The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals. ...Show more

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Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre

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In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w as racing through the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific intelligence from one of the country's most brilliant nuclear physicists. Secrets that she would transmit to Soviet intelligence headquarters via the radio transmitter she was hiding in her outdoor privy. Far from a British housewife, Mrs Burton - born Ursula Kuczynski, and codenamed 'Sonya' - was a German Jew, a dedicated communist, a colonel in Russia's Red Army, and a highly-trained spy. From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, and helping the Soviet Union build the atom bomb, Sonya conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century. Her story has never been told - until now. Agent Sonya is the exhilarating account of one woman's life; a life that encompasses the rise and fall of communism itself, and altered the course of history. ...Show more

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The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku

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Category: Biographies

Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom and living his best possible life. He now believes he is the 'happiest man on earth'. Published as Eddie turns 100, this is a powerful, heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful memoir of how happiness can be found even in the darkest of times.                 ...Show more

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The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

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Category: Picture and Board Books | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) is the charming story of a toy rabbit's quest to become real through the love of his owner. This short novel has been a favourite of children and their parents since 1922. Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.   ...Show more

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Your Mind Is Like the Sky by Bronwen Ballard

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Category: Picture and Board Books

Your mind is like the sky. Sometimes it's clear and blue - but sometimes a raincloud thought comes along and makes everything seem dark. So what can we do about rainclouds? This beautiful picture book, written by child psychologist Bronwen Ballard and illustrated by award-winning artist Laura Carlin, sh ows children that worries and negative thoughts are normal and helps them develop healthy thinking habits. Tips on mindfulness and extra resources for parents are included at the back of the book. ...Show more

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Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks

$40.00 NZD

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Category: Travel Writing

Forty years ago, Tim Parks made the bel paese his home. Italian Life is his reckoning with his adopted country, an attempt to get to the core of it, to make sense of it, to fold others' stories in with his own experience - now that he is, in his own words, 'to some degree Italian' himself. The result i s an arresting, on-the-ground account of 21st century Italy told through the eyes of a rich cast of characters, among them students from poverty-stricken Basilicata trying to start new lives in the wealthy gloom of Milan, a priest, a poet, a young professor from Padua, and an Englishman who refuses to toe the line.  At the book's centre is a story of corruption and power. But it is also a celebration of culture and history, fact and fable, sacred and secular, ancient and modern- a thought-provoking, surprising, entertaining and even definitive account of how Italy actually happens.   ...Show more

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The Moving Finger - Miss Marple by Agatha Christie

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Category: Classic Crime | Series: Miss Marple Ser.

Agatha Christie's famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note said 'I can't go on'. Only Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner? ...Show more

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Pasta Grannies: The Secret's of Italy's Best Home Cooks (HB) by Vicky Bennison

$45.00 NZD

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Category: Italy | Reading Level: 5 Cooking

"When you have good ingredients, you don't have to worry about cooking. They do the work for you." - Lucia, 85 Inspired by the hugely popular YouTube channel of the same name,Pasta Grannies is a wonderful collection of time-perfected Italian recipes from the people who have spent a lifetime cooking for love, not a living: Italian grandmothers. Featuring over 80 easy and accessible recipes from all over Italy, you will be transported into the very heart of the Italian home to learn how to make great-tasting Italian food. Pasta styles range from pici - a type of hand-rolled spaghetti that is simple to make - to lumachelle della duchessa - tiny, ridged, cinnamon-scented tubes that take patience and dexterity. More than just a compendium of dishes,Pasta Grannies tells the extraordinary stories of these ordinary women and shows you that with the right know how, truly authentic Italian cooking is simple, beautiful and entirely achievable. ...Show more

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I Want My Hat Back (PB) by Jon Klassen

$20.00 NZD

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Category: Picture and Board Books | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011! A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. Features an audio read-along! The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, wh ether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear begins to despond, a deer comes by and asks a simple question that sparks the bear's memory and renews his search with a vengeance. Told completely in dialogue, this delicious take on the classic repetitive tale plays out in sly illustrations laced with visual humor-- and winks at the reader with a wry irreverence that will have kids of all ages thrilled to be in on the joke. ...Show more

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Down South: In Search of the Great Southern Land by Bruce Ansley

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Category: Non Fiction

In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his beloved South Island. From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu, visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south's famous character. Not so very long ago, the South Island had most of New Zealand's people and just about all of the money. Gold miners found fortunes in the hills and rivers, sheep barons straddled mountains, valleys and plains. Wealthy southerners ruled the government. Where now lies the South Island's golden fleece? And what is its future? ...Show more

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Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards

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Category: Classic Crime

'Superb' LEE CHILD. ****************************************** ENGLAND, 1930.Grieving widows are a familiar sight on London's Necropolis Railway. So when an elegant young woman in a black veil boards the funeral train, nobody guesses her true purpose. But Rachel Savernake is not one of the mourners. She hopes to save a life - the life of a man who is supposed to be cold in the grave. But then a suspicious death on the railway track spurs her on to investigate a sequence of baffling mysteries: a death in a blazing car; a killing in a seaside bungalow; a tragic drowning in a frozen lake. Rachel believes that the cases are connected - but what possible link can there be? Rich, ruthless and obsessed with her own dark notions of justice, she will not rest until she has discovered the truth. To find the answers to her questions she joins a house party on the eerie and remote North Yorkshire coast at Mortmain Hall, an estate. Her inquiries are helped - and sometimes hindered - by the impetuous young journalist Jacob Flint and an eccentric female criminologist with a dangerous fascination with perfect crimes... Mortmain Hallis at once a gripping thriller and a classic whodunit puzzle: a Golden Age Gothic mystery, the finest novel yet from a modern master of crime writing. ***************************************** Reviews for Martin Edwards: 'Edwards has managed, brilliantly, to combine a Golden Age setting with a pace that is bang up-to-date. A great sense of the era observed through a cut-throat-sharp eye, every page dripping with brilliant period authenticity' Peter James. 'A ripping tale of retribution and rough justice, set against a finely realised 1930s London. It reads as if Ruth Rendell were channelling Edgar Wallace' Mick Herron. 'Gripping' Peter Robinson. 'Superb - a pitch-perfect blend of Golden Age charm and sinister modern suspense, with a main character to die for. This is the book Edwards was born to write' Lee Child. ...Show more

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Trace Elements (Brunetti #29) by Donna LEON

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Category: General Crime/Mystery | Reading Level: very good

When Dottoressa Donato calls the Venetian Questura, reporting that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague Commissario Claudia Griffoni know there is no time to waste. 'They killed him ... Bad money', are some of the siby lline words the patient Benedetta Tosi still manages to tell her visitors about her recently-deceased husband. Although the dying woman probably can't hear him, Brunetti promises to look into the woman's cryptic accusation. As so often happens, what starts as a private tragedy develops into a larger case and eventually a menace to the Veneto. In Donna Leon's superb new novel, Trace Elements, Brunetti - like the messenger of the gods - does not rest until he and his colleagues unravel the profound and perilous meaning of the dying woman's words.Donna Leon gives us rare insight into the human heart, and, together with her endearing characters, uncovers new and unforgettable facets of the human condition.     ...Show more

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Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi; Tara Wigley; Yotam Ottolenghi (foreword)

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Category: Middle East

FALASTIN is a love letter to Palestine, the land and its people; an evocative collection of over 110 unforgettable recipes and stories from the co-authors of Jerusalem, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook and SIMPLE. Travelling through Bethlehem, East Jerusalem, Nablus, Haifa, Akka, Nazareth, Galilee and the West Bank, Sami and Tara invite you to experience and enjoy unparalleled access to Sami's homeland. As each region has its own distinct identity and tale to tell, there are endless new flavour combinations to discover. The food is the perfect mix of traditional and contemporary, with recipes that have been handed down through the generations and reworked for a modern home kitchen, alongside dishes that have been inspired by Sami and Tara's collaborations with producers and farmers throughout Palestine. With stunning food and travel photography plus stories from unheard Palestinian voices, this innovative cookbook will transport you to this rich and complex land. So get ready to laden your table with the most delicious of foods - from abundant salads, soups and wholesome grains to fluffy breads, easy one-pot dishes and perfumed sweet treats - here are simple feasts to be shared and everyday meals to be enjoyed. These are stunning Palestinian-inspired dishes that you will want to cook, eat, fall in love with and make your own. ...Show more

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Hidden Planet: An Illustrator's Love Letter to Planet Earth by Ben Rothery

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Category: Non Fiction

A beautiful crossover book for all ages, this is the book natural-history illustrator Ben has wanted to read since he was a child. Simple text will provide an insight into these lesser-known birds and animals - some endangered and some less so - told from the perspective of a detail-obsessed illustrator . 'This is my love letter to Planet Earth; a celebration of her hidden species, from the bold and the beautiful to the interesting but ugly. And while not a complete list, I hope that these few give a glimpse of the outstanding diversity of nature' - Ben Rothery ...Show more

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Modern Sourdough: Sweet and Savoury Recipes from Margot Bakery by Michelle Eshkeri; Patricia Niven (By (photographer))

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Category: Baking, Bread, Desserts

In Modern Sourdough, Michelle Eshkeri reveals how mastering the art of sourdough baking can open up a world of sweet and savoury treats at home.   Michelle opened Margot Bakery in a shop in East Finchley, London in 2016. An instant hit, it became an experiment in pushing the boundaries of what a lo cal bakery could be, by specialising in sourdough leavened pastries and sweet doughs alongside more traditional breads.   Bringing together over 100 mouth-watering recipes inspired by Michelle's heritage, Modern Sourdough expands our understanding of this ancient baking technique. Featuring a step-by-step guide to making a sourdough starter, as well as methods for folding, shaping, scoring and baking, it demonstrates how you too can make Margot signature loaves, as well as naturally-leavened pizzas, challah, focaccia, French pastries, brioche and babka.   Covering bread, cakes, buns, savoury bakes and store cupboard wonders, plus a selection of non-sourdough favourites from the bakery, these are recipes you'll want to make again and again. ...Show more

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