Put the power of voodoo to work in the office--so you won`t have to! With a mini corporate voodoo doll & 32 page executive spellbook, you`re practically guaranteed to turn nasty colleagues into friendly allies. & if you`re looking for a raise or hoping for a promotion, you can hardly go wrong with this hilarious kit. ...

This carry-along version of our enormously popular Zen Gardening Kit provides a touch of tranquility on the go. Packaged with a 32page introduction to the aesthetic enlightenment of Zen gardening, it

Includes:: a tray, fine s&, decorative rocks, & miniature wooden rake.

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There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed... On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear & present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways... Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all. Does the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? & will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall? Beautiful, intoxicating & filled with heart-pounding suspense, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love & obsession, betrayal & retribution, appearance & truth. ...

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.. . On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear & present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways.. . Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all. Does the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? & will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall? Beautiful, intoxicating & filled with heart-pounding suspense, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love & obsession, betrayal & retribution, appearance & truth. ...

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed... On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear & present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist, whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways... Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household, but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all. Does the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? & will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall? Beautiful, intoxicating & filled with heart-pounding suspense, Jessie Burton`s magnificent debut novel The Miniaturist is a story of love & obsession, betrayal & retribution, appearance & truth. ...

What happens when you move to Iran, heartland of the ` Axis of Evil`, with your family in tow?
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Tanja Lucic teaches at the University of Amsterdam & lives on the edge of the city`s red light district. She & her pupils, fleeing the violent break-up of their homeland Yugoslavia, have found temporary refuge in the Department of Slavonic Languages. Desperate to make ends meet, many of the students find work at the ` Ministry`, a fetish-wear factory in North Amsterdam. Meanwhile, Tanja & her student Igor form a dangerously close relationship that threatens to unleash all the tensions of life in exile. With her sharp & melancholy observations, Dubravka Ugresic illuminates with savage compassion our shared human homelessness. ...

Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people live longer than they fear. As Argentina`s Dirty War unfolds around them, their sometimes hilarious misadventures are soon replaced by something much darker. A visit to the dreaded Ministry of Special Cases is only the start of Englander`s stunning vision of a nation in the hold of corruption & torture, a place where absurdity, despair & hope are the end products of a bureaucracy run out of control. ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1 BESTSELLER & THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER` Magnificent
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 & THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017`A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable` Guardian, Book of the Year * `A dazzling return to form` Independent THE SUNDAY TIMES 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS` An astonishing intimate epic. This is the novel one hoped Arundhati Roy would write about India` Daily Telegraph` At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard & drift across the city like smoke... ` So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy`s incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guesthouse in an Old Delhi graveyard & gathers around her the lost, the broken & the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who, although she is loved by three men, lives in a `country of her own skin`. When Tilo claims an abandoned baby as her own, her destiny & that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years & a teeming continent takes flight... ` Glorious, colourful & compelling. Roy`s second novel proves as remarkable as her first` Financial Times` The book filled me with awe. Propulsive, playful, gorgeous` New York Times Book Review` The unmissable literary read of the summer. With its insights into human nature, its memorable characters & its luscious prose, Ministry is well worth the wait` Time` Staggeringly beautiful
- a fierce, fabulously disobedient novel. Roy is writing at the height of her powers. Urgent, intimate ecstatic` Boston Globe`A searing portrait of modern India` Tatler` This vast novel will leave you awed by the heat of its anger & the depth of its compassion` Washington Post
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