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Malorie Blackman
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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A touching story, written in verse, which celebrates friendship and individuality " from the award-winning author of Noughts and Crosses . Despite his mums insistence, Sam doesnt want to be friends with Davey. He thinks Davey is a first-class, grade A, top-of-the-dung-heap moron. But one day Davey saves Sams life... more
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Sam Willetts
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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An extraordinary first collection of poems from a writer already being described as a significant and natural poet. Trade paperback. The poems in this remarkable first collection have been hard won: 'Fruits of much grief they are,' as Donne said, 'emblems of more.' Having lost ten years to heroin addiction... more
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Simon Heffer
[Hardcover 2010]
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"Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer." "We must avoid vulgarities like 'front up'. If someone is 'fronting up' a television show, then he is presenting it." Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the The Daily Telegraph about grammatical... more
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Alex Games
[Hardbound 2006]
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Tying in with a major new BBC2 series, this book will look at our national obsession with words: their meanings, their origins and their place in our culture. Each episode of the programme will concentrate on a single letter and celebrities will discuss their favourite words, and the accompanying book... more
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John Fuller
[Hardbound 2010]
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A new, elegiac and accessible collection from one of Britain's most important and accomplished poets. Trade paperback. From the posing of the very first question in the opening poem, 'Fragment of a Victorian Dialogue', John Fuller's enquiring and elegiac new collection arrives with a sharp sense of mortality, marked by... more
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Robert Burns
[Paperback 2011]
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This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red... more
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Dannie Abse
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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The sequel to }The Presence{, this new collection of poetry celebrates the 50 year marriage Abse had with his wife Joan, before her tragic death in a car crash in 2005. Dannie and Joan Abse had been married for more than fifty years when she was killed in a car... more
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Thomas Lynch
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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If life is pilgrimage, Walking Papers are the pages -- the notes on the journey, news of the world, letters of introduction and dismissal -- found in one's breast-pocket amongst one's effects. And Thomas Lynch, the celebrated poet-undertaker is our guide through a world that's painfully aware of its own... more
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E Lear
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
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Description: One of the world's most loved writers, Edward Lear has delighted whole generations of readers with his verse. Now "The Book of Nonsense" is available once again from his original publishers. One of the world's most loved writers, Edward Lear has delighted whole generations of readers with his verse.... more
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Alexander Pushkin ,
Charles Johnston ,
John Bayley
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2008]
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A translation of Pushkin's sober, elegant, witty, fluent, affable, graceful, sad novel in verse, "Eugene Onegin". 'We'd both drunk passion's chalice ? there waited for us both the malice of blind Fortuna' Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersburg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to the country... more
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Wade E Cutler
[Mass market paperbound 2003, 4th Edition]
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Based on the famous Cutler Acceleread program, this resource offers simple, easy-to-use techniques and tests to help people read faster and understand context better. Includes eye exercises, drills for practicing pacing, and much more. This fourth edition of "Triple Your Reading Speed" does just that -- with self-quizzes and tests... more
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R K Bansal
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M C Sreevalsan
[Paperback 2009, 3rd Edition]
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About the Book : Spoken English provides a lot of material for conversation practice from everyday situations and familiar topics. It includes a variety of sentence patterns and helps the learner read and repeat to gain fluency.The third edition is much richer in expressions and dialogues on new kinds of... more
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Jack Foster
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Where do ideas come from, anyway? Why do some people get so many of them? Is there some secret technique to getting more of them? How to Get Ideas answers these questions. And shows you-no matter your age or skill, your job or training-how to come up with more ideas,... more
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Steven Pinker
[2011]
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Describes various facets of human language - its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects. 'Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate... more
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Benjamin Franklin ,
Kenneth A Silverman
[Paperback 1986]
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/Benjamin Franklin Publisher, inventor, educator, and statesman, Benjamin Franklin was a complex and appealing character. Here is a wide-ranging selection of his writings from Poor Richard's Almanac, scientific essays, and political commentaries, plus a generous do. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was... more
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Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl WONKA FACTORY TO BE OPENED AT LAST TO LUCKY FEW Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket and wins the chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most delectable eatables ever made. Join Charlie in this irresistible,... more
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Mark Forsyth
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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'I'm hooked on Forsyth's book ... Crikey, but this is addictive' - Mathew Parris, The Times. Sunday Times Bestseller and Book of the Week on Radio Four. The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly... more
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Aristotle
[Paperback 2007, 20th Edition]
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and... more
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Durga. A fourteen-year-old girl, found all alone in a sprawling farm house tucked away in a corner of Punjab. Silent, terrified, and the sole suspect in the mass murder of thirteen members of her family. Simran. Whisky-swigging, chain-smoking unmarried social worker from Delhi. She is Durga's only hope, for Simran... more
