In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland & the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia & starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams & hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written & sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, & the relationships & desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives. ...

This antique style floor standing 16 inch diameter globe is mounted so it can rotate by longitude & latitude. With clear political borders in tonal hues, shipping routes & distances shown, marked mountain peaks with elevations & many raised mountain ranges. This globe would be a great addition to a home or office. ...

The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker`s sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. 1917, Scotl&. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotl&, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen, & Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil & paper... Regeneration, The Eye in the Door & The Ghost Road follow the stories of these men until the last months of the war. Widely acclaimed & admired, Pat Barker`s Regeneration trilogy paints with moving detail the far-reaching consequences of a conflict which decimated a generation. ” Harrowing, original, delicate & unforgettable”. (Independent). ”A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male & female, soldiers & civilians. Constantly surprising & formally superb”. (A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph). ” One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction”. (Jonathan Coe). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration (1991); which was made into a film of the same name; The Eye in the Door (1993), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize; & The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize, as well as the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, Life Class & Toby`s Room. She lives in Durham. ...

From the bestselling author of The Real Bravo Two Zero comes the definitive history of the world`s most elite fighting force
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The Regional Office & its band of super-powered female assassins protects the world from annihilation. But a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. & now the Regional Office is under attack... Rose is a young assassin leading the assault, eager to stretch into her powers & prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah
- who may or may not have a mechanical arm
- fiercely devoted to the organisation that took her in as a troubled young woman. On the day that the Office is attacked, Rose`s & Sarah`s stories will overlap, their lives will collide, & the world as we know it just might come to an end...

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This title is based on the true story of Charles Sainte-Beuve, his lover Adele & her husb&, Victor Hugo. When Charles Saint-Beuve, a French literary journalist met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer who intended to become famous, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But it is not Victor he is really attracted to
- it is his wife Adele. Soon the two lovers are on the edge of a great scandale & a wounded Victor must exact his price for betrayal, a price that will change the lives of many, including his own children. As Saint-Beuve
- a man like no other man
- struggles to hold on to what is left of his great love, he finds that only words can rekindle the flame. Set during the tumultuous reign of Napoleon III, this mesmerising novel draws a rich portrait of old Paris, where duels were fought & cholera-ridden bodies float in the Seine. Towering over all is the genius of Victor Hugo, already the voice of France, eventually banished to the island of Guernsey for his opposition to the regime. In contrast come the quieter voices of two women destroyed by Hugo's ferocious literary ambition as well as the unique, acerbic & heart-breaking voice of the critic & essayist, Saint-Beuve, first Hugo's friend & then his unlikely competitor in love. An atmospheric story of delicacy & emotion, of the experience of professional jealousy & personal passion, The Reinvention of Love is an outstanding piece of fiction writing, in part about writing itself.


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Married to a great man, in love with a man like no other... When Charles Sainte-Beuve, a French journalist, met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a world where words can become swords. But Charles` attraction moves on from Victor, to his wife Adele. Soon the two lovers are on the edge of a great scandal & a wounded Victor must exact his price for betrayal. Set during the tumultuous reign of Napoleon III, this mesmerising novel draws a rich portrait of old Paris, where duels were fought & cholera-ridden bodies float in the Seine. An atmospheric story of delicacy & emotion, ” The Reinvention of Love” brings together the voices of two women destroyed by Victor Hugo`s ferocious ambition, & the unique, acerbic & heart-breaking voice of Charles Sainte-Beuve, first Hugo`s friend & then his unlikely competitor in love. ...

Learn to think like the father of relativity himself as you ponder over puzzles, enigmas, quizzes & logic trials based on & inspired by Einstein`s works. In Einstein`s Relatively Difficult Puzzle Universe you`ll come across more than 80 puzzles drawing on his scientific exploration, along with a selection of the wisest"es from the genius physicist himself. ...

The Matrix meets Oliver Twist, WARP: The Reluctant Assassin is the first of a major new series by Eoin Colfer, the bestselling author of Artemis Fowl. It all began with the FBI & WARP (Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme). Hiding witnesses in the past to protect the future
- until now... Riley is a Victorian orphan, hurtled into the twenty-first century & on the run from his evil master... Albert Garrick, the terrifying assassin-for-hire pursuing Riley through time, along with... Chevie Savano, the FBI`s youngest & most impulsive special agent. As Garrick relentlessly hunts them down, Riley & Chevie face a desperate race to stay alive & stop Garrick from returning to his own time
- armed with knowledge & power that could change the world forever. Colfer has the ability to make you laugh twice over: ”first in sheer subversive joy at the inventiveness of the writing, & again at the energy of the humour”. (Sunday Times). Readers mourning the end of the Artemis Fowl series can take heart: ”this first book in the time-bending WARP series is an all-out blast”. (Publishers Weekly). Eoin Colfer is the megaselling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Airman & The Legend of.. .books. His brilliant new series WARP is out now. Eoin lives with his family in Irel&.

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At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting... Among the brightest & best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by an elite firm & thrives on New York & the intensity of his work. & his infatuation with fragile Erica promises entree into Manhattan society on the exalted footing his own family once held back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez`s meteoric rise to personal & professional success: the fulfillment of the immigrant`s dream. But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, & his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. & Changez`s own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, & perhaps even love. ...