This is the prose masterpiece of the Heian era of the 10th and 11th centuries which is recognized as a great period in Japanese literature It is an account of the intricate exquisite highly ordered court culture which made such a masterpiece possible
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When a society becomes more affluent does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force...
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34 pages Illustrations black and white Gilman Charlotte Perkins
They Hanged My Saintly Billy Paperback softback 312 pages
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You watched the show now play the game! Titansgrave The Ashes Of Valkana is Wil Wheaton&39;s new tabletop RPG show on Geek & Sundry It introduces an original science fantasy setting that mixes high magic and hi-tech Written by a stellar team of award-winning...
300 pages Contains 30 black and white illustrations by the author and 8 photographs Burke Helen
The Tome of Beasts brings more than 400 new monsters to 5th Edition Whether you need dungeon vermin or a world-shaking personification of evil the Tome of Beasts has it!This richly-illustrated 400 page supplement for any 5E game includes monsters from...
This richly-illustrated 400 page supplement for any 5e game includes monsters from the entire history of Kobold Press with longtime favorites such as clockwork creatures drakes and dragons devils and arch-devils and dangerous flavors of the fey&8212;illustrated...
When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband and that a gulf...
Explosive suspenseful thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown 400 pages Brown Sandra
Set in the Sindal Subsector featured in the recently released Core Rulebook Marooned on Marduk is the perfect introduction to the Trojan Reach and the new edition of Traveller The Traveller s shuttle to Marduk is damaged during an attack by raiders forcing...
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Dylan Thomas's classic radio play reprinted to celebrate the centenary of his birth A true masterpiece that has never been out of print 160 pages Thomas Dylan
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Vampire The Masquerade is the original and ultimate roleplaying game of personal and political horror You are a vampire struggling for survival supremacy and your own fading humanityafraid of what you are capable of and fearful of the inhuman conspiracies...
Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives Through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world
In a search for a young woman's past PI Elvis Cole discovers far more than he expected 'Excellent the plot is full of surprise' THE TIMES
Young Edward Waverley is caught in the middle son of a Hanoverian yet nephew and heir to a Jacobite a captain in the King's army yet drawn to the brave Highlanders and their romantic history Edward must choose where his loyalties lie even as his heart...
The 'Norwegian Chandler' Gunnar Staalesen is back with his finest Varg Veum crime thriller - eco-warriors wind turbines power lines and of course murder 271 pages Staalesen Gunnar
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Some of Agatha Christie's earliest stories - including her very first - which show the Queen of Crime in the making 224 pages Christie Agatha
288 pages Eddo-Lodge Reni
From award-winning and Sunday Times top five bestseller Ann Cleeves comes the captivating eighth and final novel in the Shetland series featuring DI Jimmy Perez in his most personal case to date 416 pages Cleeves Ann
Colette Baron-Reid has expertly blended elements of the I-Ching Norse runes traditional tarot and other ancient divination tools into a sacred communication system Wisdom of the Oracle This 52-card deck and companion guidebook will allow you to interpret...
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A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover; the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and communities; a holocaust survivor seemingly back from the dead; a formidable socialist activist defying house arrest; the only...
Over 100 woodworking techniques from joints to finishingWith Woodwork Step by Step you can tackle every type of carpentry project with confidence- create a shelf a coat rack or even a chairIn an age where household objects are mass produced nothing beats...
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Emily Bronte's enduring classic 416 pages Bronte Emily
This is the book that can show us how to turn back our biological clocks - how to put off 70 per cent of the normal problems of aging (weakness sore joints bad balance) and eliminate 50 per cent of serious illness and injury The key to the program is...
A burning helicopter crashes into Sydney Opera House and Kurt Austin is flung headlong into a race to avert global catastrophe Attempting to save a man in a speedboat from a sniper swooping in by helicopter Kurt Austin lands himself in trouble with the...