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The Thirty-Nine Steps: Popular Penguins
Richard Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns la...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c....
The Overstory
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...
A Place for Us
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NEW YORK'S "ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK" PICKNamed One of the Best Books of 2018 by: Washington Post * NPR * People * Refinery29 * Parade * Buzzfeed"Mirza writes with a mercy that encompasses all things." -- RON CHARLES, Washington Post"A Place for Us is a book for our tim...
Burma Sahib
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair...
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