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A Clockwork Orange
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?...
Mao: The Unknown Story
"Jung Chang's Wild Swanswas an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. Based on a decade of research, ...
Child's Play
In an office there is a group of young people who work from morning till night, six days a week. Their way of life during office hours is dedicated and austere. The discipline they follow seems monastic. These people, who see themselves simply as "technologists", are in fact assassins....
Inheritance
Louisa May Alcott, who spent much of her childhood amid an intellectual circle that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, embarked on her own literary efforts at an early age. Her recently discovered first novel, The Inheritance, written when Alcott was just 17, offers re...
First Victory: The Hunt for the German Raider Emden
When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into Sydney Harbour in October 1913, a young nation was at peace. Under a year later Australia had gone to war in what was seen as a noble fight for king, country, and Empire. Thousands of young men joined up for the adventure of hav...
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Penguin Green Ideas series)
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a w...
Around the World in 80 Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them.Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...
The Last White Man: A Novel
A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR "Perhaps Hamid's most remarkable work yet ... an extraordinary vision of human possibility." -Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies"Searing, exhilarating ... reimagines Kafka...
The Partisan
'Remarkedly assured debut ... the advent of a real talent...One to watch' Sunday Times'Immersive, intriguing, and intelligent - incredibly impressive, up there with the best in the genre' Lee Child________________________It is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ...
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