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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Mortimer, Mitch (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Good. A charming, witty and touching collection of letters from a father to his son.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A Jen Hatmaker Book Club Pick · Named a Best Book of 2022 by Time, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal Longlisted for the Booker Prize · Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize · Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize · Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize · Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Prize This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman's life--told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease. Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia's past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform. Deftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia's youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia's body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day. Pivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman's life to symphonic effect. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. A Jen Hatmaker Book Club Pick · Named a Best Book of 2022 by Time, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal Longlisted for the Booker Prize · Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize · Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize · Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize · Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Prize This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman's life--told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease. Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia's past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform. Deftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia's youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia's body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day. Pivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman's life to symphonic effect. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Each book in this series creates a special moment to focus on feelings and discover the words and phrases needed to talk about them. All the words are carefully chosen, and with 10 sharing tips at the back of each book, as well as a glossary, offer easy opportunities to talk about first experiences and new emotions. Playground moments provide opportunities for being brave. Cristina Trapanese (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. On the Secretary's Christmas List by Carole Mortimer Bree has landed an amazing job, but her new boss is a difficult, unreliable playboy--who is also infuriatingly gorgeous. When Bree looks after Jackson's son and energetic puppy, she realizes what she really wants this Christmas. The Soldier, the Puppy and Me by Myrna Mackenzie Christmas is a difficult time for war hero Trey McFadden and it doesn't help that his neighbour, Ella Delancey, and her adorable puppy, Fizz, seem determined on spreading festive cheer. The Patter of Paws at Christmas by Nikki Logan Ingrid has to spend Christmas with gorgeous zookeeper Gabriel Marque. They're keeping watch for the zoo's first litter of wild dogs. Will the patter of tiny paws bring them together, this time forever. …

Condition: Good. Jonas Buchanan is a man renowned for being arrogant and seemingly emotionless, both inbusiness and in his private life. He never combines work and pleasure, and steers clear of any woman who doesn't play by his rules. Rule 1: He doesn't bed virgins. Rule 2: He doesn't do Christmas. Mary "Mac" McGuire loves the festive season, and she's as pure as the snow falling outside Jonas's window. But by Christmas Day she might well have Jonas breaking every rule in his book. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. The return of Ethan Black ??? the most magnificent man she???s ever met??? Mia Burton thinks she???s seen the last of Ethan Black ??? the man who haunts her heart. She???s wanted to forget him ??? but can you really dismiss from your mind the most magnificent man you???ve ever met? He???s a painful reminder of her troubled past and she needs him to stay just a memory??? But Ethan???s returned in all his very real glory ??? unyielding in his bid to resolve the history between them. Mia wonders what his real motive can be ??? because it???s clear he???ll do whatever it takes to win her back.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a collection of interviews the author has conducted with famous men and women including Christine Keller, Lauren Bacall, Neil Kinnock, Andre Previn and Lord Scraman.

Condition: Good. Gideon St. Claire's life revolves around work--just the way he likes it. He's master of his emotions, and the women he dates never get glimpses of his home life beyond the stairs leading to his bedroom. Feisty and fun loving, with the annoying knack of knowing just how to wind Gideon up, Joey McKinley is the sort of woman he avoids. How does he handle such enthusiasm? But when an old enemy of Joey's starts looking for revenge, Gideon is forced to keep watch over her--day and night.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Following the bestselling "Summer of a Dormouse", Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. What would we like to leave to our descendants? Not a third-rate painting or our PEPS, according to Sir John, but a love of Shakespeare, a taste for alcohol, the ability to defeat boredom, the importance of never locking the lavatory door, and so on. Owing something to Montaigne's essays, something to Wilde's aphorisms and something to Yeats' poem for his daughter, "Where There's a Will" offers plenty of advice from one who has seen it all.…

Condition: Very Good. Jonas Buchanan is a man renowned for being arrogant and seemingly emotionless, both inbusiness and in his private life. He never combines work and pleasure, and steers clear of any woman who doesn't play by his rules. Rule 1: He doesn't bed virgins. Rule 2: He doesn't do Christmas. Mary "Mac" McGuire loves the festive season, and she's as pure as the snow falling outside Jonas's window. But by Christmas Day she might well have Jonas breaking every rule in his book.…

Condition: Very Good. Rupert Stirling, Duke of Stratton, has long since acquired the nickname Devil. And with outrageous exploits both in and out of ladies' bedchambers, my, has he earned it! Risqué behavior is beyond Pandora Maybury, widowed Duchess of Wyndwood--although with her dark secret she's far too well acquainted with being the subject of ribald gossip for her liking. If only the Ton knew just how innocent she really was.including Rupert who, after rescuing her from a compromising situation, seems intent on wickedly compromising her himself.…

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Horace Rumpole is not overfond of the rituals of Christmas: turkey, tinsel and the like. But happily the festive season is not one respected by the criminal fraternity; meaning that celebrations in the Rumpole household are frequently disturbed in most-welcome ways. There's the suspicious Father Christmas at Equity's Court's festive party. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Each book in this series creates a special moment to focus on feelings and discover the words and phrases needed to talk about them. All the words are carefully chosen, and with 10 sharing tips at the back of each book, as well as a glossary, offer easy opportunities to talk about first experiences and new emotions. Trapanese, Cristina (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Annie is a single mother who adores her young son--but as one of the notorious Balfour heiresses, she will have to work hard to give her baby a normal childhood. Then a chance meeting forces her back into the world of Luca de Salvatore, the gorgeous father of her child! Luca doesn't know that he has a son. Annie has to tell him, but Luca can't see past her spoiled and scandalous Balfour reputation. Can Annie find a way to make Luca understand--and let her little boy know his father.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. The delightful sequel to Dear Lupin. A collection of letters sent by Roger Mortimer to his youngest daughter, Louise, affectionately known as Lumpy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Its June 1944 in an English seaside resort and a shy young man has just joined an army film unit making a documentary about army training. While shooting a cliff-scaling exercise a sergeant plunges to his death. It seems like an accident, but the shy young man is not convinced.…

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Does beauty lie merely in the eye of the beholder? Is the human soul immortal? What does it mean to know something? What is the nature of erotic love? Here, Adler examines these questions, as well as many others, with his trademark clarity, rigor, and common sense. Providing a broad-ranging inventory of the 125 most used and abused terms in the philosophical lexicon, Adler precisely defines such key terms as: *chance *good and evil *memory*choice *honor *soul*duty *human nature *timeStimulating, engaging, and organized in any easy-to-use, A-to-Z format, Adler's Philosophical Dictionary is an ideal introduction to the history of the great ideas. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Pantos, puds and a Father Christmas who isn't quite what he seems to be.Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas - time has a horrible habit of hanging heavily on the hands as the usual rituals are observed: exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed (a tie for him; lavender water for her) before settling down round the fire at Froxbury Mansions for a traditional turkey with all the trimmings and a bottle of Chateau Thames Embankment, then the Queen's Speech and a glass of port. But at least the criminal fraternity never rests, and many is the time Rumpole's 'celebrations' have been rudely interrupted. In these seven Christmas stories, previously published only in magazines, the call of justice (and a bit of excitement) leads Rumpole as far afield as a health farm in Norfolk and as near to home as a pantomime at the Tufnell Park Empire.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Aims to communicate the "uncommon common sense" of Aristotelian logic, presenting his arguments in a contemporary style. The book thus encourages people to address such issues as the difference between wants and needs and the right way of living with new urgency, seriousness and insight. …

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Condition: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Mortimer, Mitch (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Mortimer, Mitch (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's Philosopher for Everyman (Time).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's Philosopher for Everyman (Time).

Condition: Very Good.