Some Like It Hot (1959)
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After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering...
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
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In the midst of a summer heat wave, New Yorker Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) ships his wife, Helen...
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
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Schatze Page, Loco Dempsey and Pola Debevoise (Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe) are...
Niagara (1953)
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Rose Loomis (Marilyn Monroe) and her older, gloomier husband, George (Joseph Cotten), are...
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Dragonflight
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After ten long Turns, Lessa was ready to come out of hiding, to reclaim her birthright... and...
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The Hobbit
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The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and...
The Lord of the Rings
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Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this three-volume paperback boxed set of Tolkien's epic...
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Native Life in South Africa
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First published in 1916 and one of South Africa's great political books, Native Life in South Africa...
To Quote Myself: A Memoir
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In 2015 the first edition of To Quote Myself was published and it soon became a bestseller at the...
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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Steve Martin has been an international star for over thirty years. Here, for the first time, he...
My Traitor's Heart
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In '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan – descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white...
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their...
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How Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules,...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Read an exclusive interview with the author here 100,000 years ago, at least six human species...
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
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-Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 This acclaimed book by Steven Pinker, author of The...
The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is?
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Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of...
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If I Built a Car
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If I built a car, it'd be totally new! Here are a few of the things that I'd do. . . . Jack has...
What is a Refugee?
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Who are refugees? Why are they called that word? Why do they need to leave their country? In this...
Stick Man
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
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"Stick Man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three." But...
Treasure Island
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'We want that treasure, and we'll have it!' Jim Hawkins has discovered a terrible plot. Mutiny is in...
The Family Book
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The Family Book celebrates the love we feel for our families and all the different varieties they...
Teachings of Buddah
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This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese,...
The Art of Happiness
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The Art of Happiness is a highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the Dalai Lama's...
The Power of Compassion
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This work is a selection of edited talks given by The Dalai Lama during his last visit to Britain....
The Divine Comedy
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Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, tracing Dante's journey from...