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Happy Place
125.00 DHTitle: Happy Place
Author: Emily HenryCategory: Contemporary Romance / Fiction
Short Summary (Resume):
Happy Place follows Harriet and Wyn, a once-perfect couple who secretly broke up months ago. When their close friends plan a final getaway to their beloved Maine cottage, they decide to pretend they’re still together to avoid ruining the trip. Amid laughter, nostalgia, and unresolved feelings, Harriet and Wyn confront what went wrong — and what still feels right. It’s a heartfelt story about love, friendship, and finding where (and who) truly feels like home. -
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Orbital
130.00 DHThe earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour.
A book of wonder, Orbital is nature writing from space and an unexpected and profound love letter to life on Earth
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.
Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part – or protective – of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?
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The Housemaid’s Secret
140.00 DHAs he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can’t risk losing this job – not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe . . .
It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It’s almost perfect. But I still haven’t met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I’m sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I’m doing laundry. And one day I can’t help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything…
That’s when I make a promise. After all, I’ve done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It’s simply a question of how far I’m willing to go…
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Things We Never Got Over
140.00 DHThings We Never Got Over is a romance told from the perspective of Naomi who’s new to town and looking to escape her past, and Knox who thinks the last thing he needs is a woman like Naomi in his life.
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
110.00 DHThe #1 Sunday Times bestseller from ‘the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now’ (New York Times) – now in paperback.
How should we live properly in a world of chaos and uncertainty?
Jordan Peterson has helped millions of people, young and old, men and women, aim at a life of responsibility and meaning. Now he can help you.
Drawing on his own work as a clinical psychologist and on lessons from humanity’s oldest myths and stories, Peterson offers twelve profound and realistic principles to live by. After all, as he reminds us, we each have a vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
Deep, rewarding and enlightening, 12 Rules for Life is a lifeboat built solidly for stormy seas: ancient wisdom applied to our contemporary problems.
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Treasure Island
39.00 DHWhen young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirates chest in his parents inn he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure He joins the crew setting sail to the Caribbean to seek out the booty and over the course of the voyage confronts mutiny murder and the charismatic and devious Long John Silver
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To the Lighthouse
39.00 DHThe serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life, and the conflict between male and female principles. One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is often cited as Virginia Woolf’s most popular novel.
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The War of the Worlds
39.00 DHIn H.G. Wells’ timeless classic « The War of the Worlds, » humanity faces its ultimate test as Martians descend upon Earth in a catastrophic invasion. Written in the late 19th century, yet astonishingly prescient, the novel explores themes of colonialism, technology, and human resilience. As the extraterrestrial invaders lay waste to cities and landscapes, readers are taken on a pulse-pounding journey that questions the limitations of human civilization and technology.
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Tender is the Night
39.00 DHIt is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver’s calculated perfection begins to crack. As dark truths emerge, Fitzgerald shows both the disintegration of a marriage and the failure of idealism. Tender is the Night is as sad as it is beautiful.
