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Album contains beautiful photos of Iceland's nature and people, with wordy captions and a summary of the country natural and cultural history.

An extraordinary work of fact-based fiction. Set during the 1830s in a hellish island prison colony off the Tasmanian coast, the novel plucks a real-life thief and prisoner, English forger William Bue...

He who calls himself a Civilized Man, an Englishman - is he able to discipline his heart so as to distinguish oneself from a savage? That is the question - for Charles Dickens and for the wife of a go...

A not unlike John Updike critical look at the Americam middle class - spiced with some exotica.

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under hi...

Of course it's pathetic! If you like Coelho, you'll LOVE Evans.

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer--one of the best--until the rainswept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim of the games spies play. Since then he's been ...

After fifteen years as a brilliant master spy, Nick Bryson has disappeared into anonymity as a professor at an exclusive college in western Pennsylvania-- until he's suddenly lured back into the game....

There is no retirement in Special Operations business. Especially if your former employers seek to annihilate you for no discernible reason...

A very good action book

"Landmark" is a general English course for adults and young adults available at two levels, Intermediate and Upper Intermediate. Interesting skills work, with a special focus on improving sp...

A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the ...

Reading this book was a real repose - dramatic family events, if sometimes predictable, are masterfully intertwined with descriptions of English country and its modern life.

From Sholom Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer to Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth