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A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
Authors :
Christopher Alexander , Sara Ishikawa , Murray Silverstein
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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21 Aug '16
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21 Aug '16
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non-fiction
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Vanity Fair
Author :
William Makepeace Thackery
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Becky and Emmy make their way through the upper middle classes of 1812-1825
Synopsis 13 words
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20 Aug '16
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20 Aug '16
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fiction
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The Forgiveness of Nature
Author :
Graham Harvey
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
The story of grass
Synopsis 4 words
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07 Aug '16
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7 Aug '16
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non-fiction
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Plato's Revenge
Politics in the Age of Ecology
Author :
William Ophuls
Published: 2011
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Synopsis extract:
Linking together psychology ecology and philosophy to build a possible alternative way to be
Synopsis 14 words
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01 Aug '16
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1 Aug '16
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non-fiction
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The Great Pursuit
Author :
Tom Sharpe
Published: 2000
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No summary or synopsis available
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24 Jul '16
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24 Jul '16
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fiction
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The Midden
Author :
Tom Sharpe
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Farce involving an incompetent rich scion, a chief constable and his wife and a drug fueled motorbike ride from devon to Yorkshire
Synopsis 22 words
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09 Jul '16
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9 Jul '16
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fiction
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The Things We Never Said
Author :
Susan Elliot Wright
Published: 2012
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Synopsis extract:
In mid 60s a young woman is in a mental hospital having had a child taken from her. ...
Synopsis 35 words
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05 Jul '16
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5 Jul '16
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fiction
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Deaf Sentence
Author :
David Lodge
Published: 2008
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Synopsis extract:
Prof retires whilst wife starts a new career and his father refuses to move from the old family house where he is going demented. ...
Synopsis 49 words
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01 Jul '16
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1 Jul '16
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fiction
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The Laughing Policeman
Authors :
Maj Sjowall , Per Wahloo
Published: 1967
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Synopsis extract:
4th in Martin Beck series. ...
Synopsis 16 words
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06 Jun '16
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6 Jun '16
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fiction
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The Second Midnight
Author :
Andrew Taylor
Published: 1987
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Synopsis extract:
Abandoned by his father in Prague pre WWI Hugh has to make it on his own - which he does and emerges in British Intelligence some time later
Synopsis 28 words
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22 May '16
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22 May '16
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fiction
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Fractured
Author :
Clar Ni Chonghaile
Published: 2016
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Synopsis extract:
Three points of view: journalist kidnapped in war torn Somalia. ...
Synopsis 21 words
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01 May '16
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1 May '16
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fiction
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The Man on the Balcony
Authors :
Maj Sjowall , Per Wahloo
Published: 1967
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Synopsis extract:
3rd Martin Beck.Someone is killing young girls in parks in Stockholm
Synopsis 12 words
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23 Apr '16
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23 Apr '16
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fiction
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The Wolf Border
Author :
Sarah Hall
Published: 2015
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Synopsis extract:
Woman working as an ecologist & conservationist with Wolves in Idaho Reservation gets involved in a re-wilding project in Cumbria.
Synopsis 20 words
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05 Apr '16
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5 Apr '16
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fiction
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The Convenience of Lies
Author :
Geoffrey Seed
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Journo gets involved in disappearance of girl and uncovering of a plot to replace MaggieT and arm Saddam in Iraq.
Synopsis 20 words
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27 Mar '16
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27 Mar '16
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fiction
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A Pleasure and a Calling
Author :
Phil Hogan
Published: 2014
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Synopsis extract:
Mr.Heming the small town estate agent who loves and protects his community in a way that is disturbing, disturbed, obsessive and sometimes destructive. ...
Synopsis 44 words
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17 Mar '16
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17 Mar '16
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fiction
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Harmony
A New Way of Looking at Our World
Authors :
Charlie Windsor , Tony Juniper , Ian Skelly
Published: 2010
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Synopsis extract:
What's what and what to do about what's what that should not be and how to recover what should be what.
Synopsis 21 words
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06 Mar '16
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6 Mar '16
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non-fiction
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The Heart Goes Last
Author :
Margaret Atwood
Published: 2000
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Synopsis extract:
Post the next crash a couple forced to live in their car in the NE USA stumble into a final solution that is laughable.
Synopsis 24 words
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06 Mar '16
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6 Mar '16
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fiction
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The Man Who Went Up In Smoke
Authors :
Maj Sjowall , Per Wahloo
Published: 1967
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Synopsis extract:
Martin Beck Sweedish detective investigates the disappearance of a journalist on assignment in Hungary
Synopsis 14 words
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04 Mar '16
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4 Mar '16
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fiction
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The Bone Clocks
Author :
David Mitchell
Published: 2014
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Synopsis extract:
precognition, transmigration of souls, hermetic sects, ancient guardians, working class gravesend, posh boy cambridge, high class ski resort, an author writes his own review, moral turpitude or expediency, psycho war, redemption, and we come to the ...
Synopsis 43 words
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28 Feb '16
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28 Feb '16
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fiction
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Crow Hollow
Author :
Michael Wallace
Published: 2015
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Synopsis extract:
17th Century Boston. ...
Synopsis 10 words
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25 Feb '16
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25 Feb '16
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fiction
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya
Authors :
Felice Benazzi , Felice Benuzzi
Published: 1948
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Synopsis extract:
Italian prisoners of war in East Africa escape to climb Mount Kenya
Synopsis 12 words
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19 Feb '16
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19 Feb '16
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non-fiction
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Edward Adrift
Author :
Craig Lancaster
Published: 2015
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Synopsis extract:
Edward is 42 and lives in Billings Montana where he has spent a life dealing with Asbergers and OCD. ...
Synopsis 36 words
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16 Feb '16
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16 Feb '16
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fiction
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Pandaemonium
1660-1886: Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers
Editor : Humphrey Jennings
Published: 1985
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No summary or synopsis available
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07 Feb '16
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7 Feb '16
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non-fiction
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The Night Circus
Author :
Erin Morgenstern
Published: 2011
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Synopsis extract:
A proxy contest between two eternal magicians in the arena of a Circus which is operated by magic by their agents - who meet, fall in love, and then have to find a way of subverting the deadly game in which they are locked
Synopsis 44 words
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18 Dec '15
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18 Dec '15
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fiction
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The Timeless Way of Building
unlisted author
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No summary or synopsis available
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05 Dec '15
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5 Dec '15
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non-fiction
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