Opis: "A rapt meditation on death, which mixes essay and memoir to elegant, frequently moving effect."
"This is the most enjoyable of all Barnes's books."
Opis: A discworld map revealing the house and garden that Death built. It shows the golf course that's not so much crazy as insane, and the dark gardens. You can also find out the reason why Death can't understand rockeries, and what happens to garden gnomes.
Opis: How is being a pro skater different from being, say, a professional golfer? Veteran skate journalist and former pro skater Sean Mortimer has interviewed the top skaters of all time to answer that question in different and hilarious ways. Tony Hawk, Stacey Peralta, Rodney Mullen, Daewon Song, and Chris
Opis: For those who have not read Tolkien's epic fantasy, or for those looking to replace a worn and battered copy, this three-volume The Lord of the Rings box set is a great place to start. Comprising the three novels that make up the Lord of the Rings sequence --The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers
Opis: The script for major new film An Education, the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny (played by Carey Mulligan) and older man David (Peter Sarsgaard), after she accepts a lift on her way home from music practice one day. Based on Observer journalist Lynn Barber's real-life
Opis: 'Dear Ta-ra-ra, It surprises us to find that a girl sufficiently educated to write and spell well should be so deplorably ignorant of the common rules of society to think that she may go out alone with a young man in his canoe' - "Girl's Own Paper", 1895. "Never Kiss a Man in a Canoe" is a fascinating
Opis: "A spy novel of the highest order." -- -- Baltimore Sun
"Follett is a master." -- Time
"Heart-stopping, nerve-freezing...Truly suspenseful...Extraordinarily satisfying." -- -- Los Angeles Times
"Thrilling." -- -- The New York Times Book Review
Opis: "To honor [their] 45th anniversary, Walker is reissuing these first two George Smiley mysteries in affordable hardcovers. Grab em." —Library Journal
“Beautifully intelligent, satiric and witty.” —The Observer (London)
“Vastly entertaining.” —Sunday
Opis: "Le Carré's ... secret agents exist in a world of stalemate, moral compromise, ambiguity and betrayal... Like his books, le Carré is a mix of unblinking realism and hopeful humanism.""-- Jill Lawless, Associated Press
""What le Carré has always done terrifically
Opis: It's a historical novel with the very highest intentions, asking the question: How has the modern world gotten itself to the edge of nuclear annihilation? Shamsie's answer may or may not sound accurate, depending upon your own view. The world has been cursed, she suggests, since America dropped not