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Series: The Figure in the Photograph Paperback Kevin Sullivan 9780749026615 $16.95 FICTION Feb 18, 2021

Juan Camarón and his father travel across Cuba in the summer of 1898, photographing the island and its people as the war between Spain and the United States escalates. But tragedy strikes when Juan’s father is killed, and his last photos reveal a sinister truth to his final moments.Travelling to Scotland, where he has inherited property, Juan immerses himself in the study of photography. When he pioneers a new device that inadvertently solves a crime, he is brought to the attention of local law enforcement, prompting a fateful invitation to hel... + Read More
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Series: Domesday The Stallions of Woodstock Hardcover Edward Marston 9780749026059 $25.95 FICTION Nov 19, 2020

In the forest of Woodstock an excited crowd waits for the first horse to pass the post, but the winning steed has an empty saddle, its rider lying in a copse with a knife in his back. While guests of the Sheriff of Oxford, Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret inevitably find their attention drawn to the tragedy and uncover a startling truth.
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Series: Domesday The Serpents of Harbledown Hardcover Edward Marston 9780749025946 $25.95 FICTION Nov 19, 2020

When a young girl is found in a holly patch, dead from a snakebite, her premature death shocks the entire town of Canterbury on the day that Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret arrive about the king’s business. But when astonishing truths come to light, the pair must look for a force more vicious than a mere reptile.
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Series: Domesday The Lions of the North Hardcover Edward Marston 9780749025793 $25.95 FICTION Nov 19, 2020

A wealthy Yorkshire merchant enjoys the security of his castle, guarded as it is by his pet lions. When the beasts literally make a meal of an anonymous young man attempting to gain entry, Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret cannot help but wonder why anyone would make such a suicidal effort, and soon suspect there is more at stake.
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Series: The Straits of Treachery Paperback Richard Hopton 9780749025533 $16.95 FICTION Jan 21, 2021

September 1810. British forces have used the utmost secrecy and stealth to cross the Straits of Messina and infiltrate the enemy’s stronghold. Their mission: to disrupt preparations for the French invasion of Sicily. But when the raiding parties are ambushed by rival soldiers and suffer heavy casualties, one bright young officer suspects that treachery is involved.Ordered to investigate, George Warne uncovers a shadowy underworld of spies, traitors and informers, and where nothing is quite as it seems. Danger lurks around every corner and time ... + Read More
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Series: Hakim & Arnold A Time to Die Paperback Barbara Nadel 9780749024710 $16.95 FICTION Nov 19, 2020

Ever since it was built in 1912, Woolwich Foot Tunnel has been the subject of rumour and speculation. Running underneath the Thames it connects north and south London, and in the hot summer of 1976, when young John Saunders apparently entered the Tunnel and disappeared on his way to his sister’s house, it was a grim and frightening place.John was never seen again until he re-emerged forty-two years later, complete with an American accent. Happy to submit to the DNA testing his sister Brenda demands, this man is definitely John Saunders, but whe... + Read More
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Series: São Paulo Quartet Brazilian Psycho Paperback Joe Thomas 9781911350842 $21.95 FICTION May 19, 2022

Brazil, 1 January 2003: Lula begins nearly fifteen years of left-wing government; 1 January 2019, Jair Bolsonaro is inaugurated, a president of the far right. An occult history of São Paulo, told through the lens of real life crimes, Brazilian Psycho reveals the dark heart at the centre of the Brazilian social-democrat resurgence and the fragility and corruption of the B.R.I.C economic miracle; it documents the rise and fall of the left-wing - and the rise of the populist right, prefiguring and explaining the violent political divisions of cont... + Read More
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Series: Arcturus Science & History Collection 100 Great Artists A Visual Journey from Fra Angelico to Andy Warhol Hardcover Charlotte Gerlings 9781839404214 $21.95 ART Nov 30, 2020

From Giotto to David Hockney, this invaluable A-Z reference guide introduces some of the most celebrated artists in history. 100 Great Artists showcases the masterworks of one hundred painters who represent eight centuries of artistic tradition, ranging from the 13th century to the 21st. Featuring spectacular full-color images and biographic timelines, this book is a wonderful resource to browse some of histories most iconic artists and why they remain influential today. Featured artists include:• Michelangelo• William Blake• Francisco Goya• Ka... + Read More
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Series: Elements The Essential Book of Mindfulness Healing Through Being Present Hardcover Wendy Hobson 9781838576363 $16.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Oct 01, 2020

Practicing mindfulness in daily life reaps endless benefits. This beautiful foil-stamped hardback includes many different ways to incorporate the practice into our everyday routine.With explanations of what our tech-heavy world is doing to us and suggestions for ways to support ourselves when facing pressure, this is a timely book that will become invaluable to those struggling with modern ills. The mindfulness and meditations exercises included will help readers release stress and tension and appreciate the joy that every day brings. The book ... + Read More
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Series: Elements The Essential Book of Chakras How to Focus the Energy Points of the Body Hardcover C.W. Leadbeater 9781838576356 $16.95 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Oct 01, 2020

Improve your spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing with this modern guide to chakras, presented in a beautiful gold-stamped hardback with full-color illustrations. Inside our bodies, we have spinning wheels of natural energy called chakras. Together, these energies form the Chakra System, a channel for the integration of mind, body and spirit. This accessible beginner's guide teaches simple techniques to practice at home in order to keep your chakras in balance. These include yoga, meditation, eating a balanced diet and the use of scents and... + Read More
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Series: The Further Adventures of Father Brown Hardcover G. K. Chesterton 9781839406928 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2020

Father Brown is one of the best-loved sleuths from Golden Age of detective fiction. This handsome hardback volume collects four of his classic cases, presented with a modern cover design, dust jacket and gorgeous endpapers. Hiding behind his genial appearance, this priest-come-detective has a razor-sharp mind. Through his experience as a confessor, Father Brown has gained has an intrinsic knowledge of humanity's capacity for evil which makes him an expert at solving crimes. This gifted sleuth uses intuition over scientific method, putting hims... + Read More
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Series: The Classic Ghost Stories Collection Chilling Tales from Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James Hardcover Guy de Maupassant 9781839406485 $25.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2020

This handsome anthology brings together 60 of the greatest ghost stories ever written, presented in a jacketed hardback with beautifully gothic endpaper illustrations. Featuring silent spectres, petrifying phantoms and all manner of ghastly ghosts, these tales will terrify and entertain in equal measure. Whether the apparitions are discovered by intrepid adventurers, solemn priests or mild-mannered academics, the haunted must reconsider their most basic assumptions and work out how best to respond to these supernatural assaults.Tales include: •... + Read More
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Series: Arcturus Color by Numbers Collection Happiness Color by Numbers Paperback Arpad Olbey 9781839407352 $16.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 01, 2020

This uplifting color-by-number book explores the theme of happiness in more than 60 beautiful artworks. From cake shop windows to calming beach scenes, this heart-warming collection of images is perfect for the calming activity of coloring. The magic of coloring by numbers is that you don't have to worry about drawing from scratch or choosing colors - simply match up the numbered section to the corresponding color on the color-key and focus on completing the design. In this collection, the key has been placed on the back-flap and so can be fli... + Read More
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Series: Ingenious Puzzles Expert Sudoku Paperback Ben Addler 9781839406348 $16.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 15, 2020

Put your logic-skills to the test with this collection of over 200 sudoku puzzles. Perfect for the more experienced puzzlers, the number grids included offer a challenging and satisfying solving experience.• IMPROVE YOUR SOLVING SKILL: Each puzzle is graded so you can enjoy the satisfaction of seeing your skill improve as you work through the levels.• EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN: Give your mind a great workout as you find where each missing number fits.• REDUCE STRESS: Feel your stress melt away as you focus on these satisfying puzzles.ABOUT THE SERIES... + Read More
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Series: The Turing Tests The Turing Tests Expert Brain Training Puzzles Foreword by Sir Dermot Turing Paperback Eric Saunders 9781839404863 $12.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 15, 2020

Published in association with the Turing Trust, this challenging collection of over 120 brain training puzzles will put your problem-solving skills to the test.Follow in the footsteps of famous World War II codebreaker Alan Turing who used impeccable logic to decipher the military codes used by Germany and its allies. These expert puzzles offer a tough but enjoyable challenge, with puzzles of many varied types. Puzzles include:• Hidato• Number link• Skyscraper• Brickwork • And more!This book includes a foreword written by Sir Dermot Turing, nep... + Read More
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Series: Arcturus Color by Numbers Collection Flowers Color by Numbers Paperback Else Lennox 9781839407369 $16.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Oct 01, 2020

From bright fields of tulips to elegant bouquets, this wonderful collection of over 60 color-by-number images celebrates the beauty of flowers around the world. Perfect for nature-lovers and budding artists, this collection allows you to create beautiful and sophisticated artworks with a little help. The colors have been chosen for you - simply match up the numbered section to the corresponding color on the flip-out key and color away!Designs include:• Beds of roses• Fields of lavender • A bouquet of wildflowers• Cherry blossom in a Japanese... + Read More
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Series: The Art of War Hardcover Sun Tzu 9781839406645 $25.95 HISTORY Nov 19, 2020

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. This richly illustrated deluxe gift edition presents Sun Tzu's The Art of War, the earliest-known and most famous treatise on military science. This ancient Chinese text provides tactical advice on war strategy and how to adjust your approach in ever-evolving situations. Despite being written over two thousand years ago, its shrewd and penetrating theories are used today as a source of insight into many areas of life, including leadership and corporate... + Read More
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Series: Arcturus World Classics Library World Classics Library: Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra, Ecce Homo, Beyond Good and Evil Hardcover Frederich Nietzsche 9781839407000 $25.95 PHILOSOPHY Nov 01, 2020

Could it be possible? This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead! - Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra This beautiful jacketed hardcover brings together three of Friedrich Niezsche's most influential essays, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Ecce Homo and Beyond Good and Evil. This German philosopher was one of the most prominent thinkers of the 19th century. His work contains a radical critique of objective truth, rejecting Christian morality and arguing instead that nihilism has become an inherent condition of the modern wo... + Read More
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Series: Arcturus Silhouette Classics Walden Hardcover Henry David Thoreau 9781839407765 $19.95 PHILOSOPHY Nov 01, 2020

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. This beautiful jacketed hardback edition presents the incredible memoir of Henry David Thoreau - a man who left his home town to live a contemplative life in the tranquil wilderness of Walden Pond. During his two years there, he diligently chronicled his observations. Walden blends natural history with philosophy, taking an insightful look at human solitude and our affinity with the natural world. In its reject... + Read More
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Series: Arcturus Ornate Classics The Prophet Hardcover Kahlil Gibran 9781839403842 $16.95 POETRY Nov 01, 2020

This deluxe hardback edition presents Gibran's poetic masterpiece The Prophet, featuring gilded page edges, beautiful black and white illustrations and a foil-embossed cover design. The Prophet is a concise but deeply profound prose poem set in the city of Orphalese. Before leaving on a journey to his homeland, the prophet Almustafa imparts words of wisdom to the crowds, touching on occasions of birth, marriage, death and all of life's other milestones. An international bestseller, it has furnished individuals the world over with words of joy o... + Read More
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Series: A Guide to Happiness Using Mindfulness and Meditation Paperback Tara Ward 9781839403668 $9.95 SELF-HELP Nov 01, 2020

Embark on a journey to happiness and fulfillment in seven simple steps A Guide to Happiness is a seven-step personal development programme that will help you rediscover your zest for life. The techniques and exercises in this book are designed to help you plot out your own way to happiness in small, actionable steps. Presented in a handy pocket size with beautiful full-color illustrations, this book is perfect for taking around with you and applying its tips to your daily life. • Includes mindful exercises in every chapter • Features plans for... + Read More
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Series: Attention Passengers An Adult Activity Book from McSweeney's Novelty book Wendi Aarons 9781944211998 $18.95 HUMOR Nov 03, 2028

Airports are agonizing. The shoeless indignity of waiting in TSA lines. The $18 you spent for a disgusting sandwich. The business bros. Travelers deserve this side-splittingly funny and ever-so-slightly off-color activity book for adults. Despairing air travelers can take respite in these pages, written by award-winning humorist Wendi Aarons, one of the hilarious people behind McSweeney's Internet Tendency. It's utterly unfair that only children can have a disappearing ink and word search activity books to get them through their travels. Now,... + Read More
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Series: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern McSweeney’s Issue 62 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) The Queer Fiction Issue Hardcover Patti Yumi Cottrell 9781944211912 $35.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 24, 2020

McSweeney's 62: The Queer Fiction Issue, collects absurd, bold, bleak, humorous, and astonishing works of fiction and art by queer writers of all orientations. Inside this luxurious hardcover, you’ll find stories about storm chasers and Colombian supermodels, about talking plants and DIY bands and camboys and encounters with the dead. Contributors include Bryan Washington, Eileen Myles, Kristen Arnett, Sarah Gerard, Juli Delgado Lopera, Gabby Bellot, Denne Michelle, Emma Copley Eisenberg, K-Ming Chang, and many more. Guest-edited by Patty Yumi ... + Read More
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Series: Dear McSweeney's Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer Hardcover Daniel Levin Becker 9781952119019 $30.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Sep 21, 2021

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern has been printing issues since 1998, and sending them into the world with reckless faith. Now and then, the world writes back. In two decades and change, we’ve accumulated a heady archive of dispatches, pleas, confessions, treatises, ruminations, rants, raves, and the occasional misdirected customer service query. Collected here are one hundred installments from this sprawling many-to-one correspondence, including but not limited to musings on moths and mummies and macaroons, cats and armadillos and homicidal sea w... + Read More
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Series: HRH So Many Thoughts on Royal Style Hardcover Elizabeth Holmes 9781250625083 $45.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 17, 2020

Veteran fashion journalist Elizabeth Holmes expands her award-winning Instagram Stories series, "So Many Thoughts," into a nuanced look at the style, branding, and positioning of the four most influential contemporary British Royals: Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, Kate Middleton, and Meghan Markle.Royal women wield a unique, quiet kind of power. They use their clothing choices and their styling preferences to create a visual brand that is at once aspirational and accessible, and to project a sartorial statement that encompasses their valu... + Read More
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Series: Four Word Thinking A Fast-Paced Word Race Game Sylvain Plante 9781452180922 $29.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Dec 01, 2020

Can you put two and two together? In Four Word Thinking, 2–6 players race to pair up hexagonal tiles with two-letter combinations to claim four-letter words—and victory! The domino style of play means every new card changes the available letters, so players must think FA-ST. This fun and frenzied game takes seconds to learn, minutes to play, and provides endless hours of fun for word-game enthusiasts of all ages.SECONDS TO LEARN, MINUTES TO PLAY, FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY: The simple game mechanics and four-letter limit on words makes this game ... + Read More
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Series: Confessions in B-Flat Paperback Donna Hill 9781640638990 $21.99 FICTION Nov 24, 2020

Essence bestselling author Donna Hill brings us an emotional love story set against the powerful backdrop of the civil rights movement that gripped a nation—a story as timely as it is timeless...The year is 1963. In Harlem, the epicenter of Black culture, the fight for equality has never been stronger. The time is now. Enough is enough. Yet even within its ranks, a different kind of battle rages. Love thy neighbor? Or rise up against your oppressors? Jason Tanner has just arrived in New York to help spread the message of his mentor, Dr. Martin ... + Read More
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Series: No Time Like the Future An Optimist Considers Mortality Hardcover Michael J. Fox 9781250265616 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 17, 2020

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. ?The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the disea... + Read More
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Series: Claris Claris Book & 60 Piece Puzzle Set Kit Megan Hess 9781760507817 $25.99 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Age (years) from 3 - 8 Nov 03, 2020

This gorgeously designed gift set includes a hardback copy of Claris: The Chicest Mouse in Paris and your very own 60-piece Claris jigsaw puzzle!Claris: The Chicest Mouse in Paris follows an adorable mouse who dreams of moving to Paris to follow her fashion dreams. One day, she bravely takes the leap – only to find a mean little girl with a horrible-looking cat standing in the way of her perfect Parisian apartment! Can Claris use all her wit, warmth and – of course – style to make her dreams come true?A delightful rhyming tale about courage, co... + Read More
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