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Neil MacGregor's radio series 'A History of the World in 100 Objects' has been a unique event that has set a benchmark for public service broadcasting in the UK and across the world. This book is the tie-in to that event, reproducing the scripts describing the objects that made us who we are.
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In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron's evil dominion. Thus begins J. R. R. Tolkien's classic tale of adventure, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
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In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare's universe and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I.
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"To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language."—Ben Schott
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. When Aunt Dahlia demands that Bertie Wooster help her dupe an antique dealer into selling her an 18th-century cow-creamer. Dahlia...Author
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Hercule Poirot volume 13
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There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught — until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans ...
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"The story is disarmingly simple: the author and his young son take a motorcycle trip across America. Their experiences become the springboard from which Robert Pirsig dives into his brilliant, often beautiful meditations on the concept of value -- and finally, on the author's own troubled past. Few books invite comparison with Moby Dick, but since Mr. Pirsig's book appeared nearly 20 years ago, critics have found the analogy unavoidable. Like Ishmael's...
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 11
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Married at last, Lord Peter and Harriet find their honeymoon interrupted by a killer. It took several near-death experiences for Lord Peter Wimsey to convince Harriet Vane to be his wife, but she has finally relented. When the dapper detective marries Britain's most popular mystery author, just a few short years after rescuing her from the hangman's noose, the press could not be more excited. But Lord Peter and his bride have no interest in spending...
12) Robinson Crusoe
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
13) Moby Dick
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American writer Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851 but it took decades before finally it was regarded as a great American novel, and worthy of its place amongst the greatest texts of humankind. It recounts the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of a whaling ship seeking vengeance on Moby Dick, the white whale that had bitten off Ahab's leg on a previous voyage.
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The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Buck is a dog born to luxury, but his life changes dramatically when he is sold to be a sled dog in the Yukon Terrority. He earns a reputation for his strength and courage, and is rescued from a series of bad owners by John Thornton, who teaches him to love. When John is...
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2018.
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Taken from the acclaimed BBC Radio 6 Music show, The First Time invites you inside the lives of some of the music world's most notable legends. From Alice Cooper to Yoko Ono, Courtney Love to Elton John, follow their lives and careers starting with their first musical memories, first records, and first gigs, finding out the songs that have shaped them along the way. With 40 compelling interviews, specially commissioned collage illustrations, and a...
16) Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and...
18) Complete Miss Marple collection: Volume 4,The moving finger.Sleeping murder.They do it with mirrors
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2006.
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The moving finger. In the quiet town of Lymstock, a brother and sister receive a harassing letter. They soon discover other town residents have received similar letters and when one recipient commits suicide, Miss Marple helps cast light on the matter. Sleeping murder. When Gwenda Reed finds a house for her and her husband in the town of Dillmouth, she experiences a strange sense of déjà vu. MIss Marple realizes that an unsolved murder is behind...
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2005.
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A pocket full of rye. Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. Miss Marple soon discovers a murderer is dispatching his victims on the basis of the children's nursery rhyme. Murder at the vicarage. The most detested man in a small English village is shot in the head at the vicarage. Only Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues. A Caribbean mystery. On the island of St. Honoré, old Major Palgrave tells...
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2005.
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The body in the library. Who is the strange young blonde lying strangled on the library floor at Gossington Hall? Miss Marple must piece the clues together. A murder is announced. A murder is announced to take place at Little Paddocks. Is it a game? Miss Marple finds out. The mirror crack'd from side to side. When former film star Marina Gregg and her husband throw a benefit party for a local hospital, the day ends in tragedy when a guest has a...
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