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  • Les Misérables

    Translated by Christine Donougher ...
    by Victor Hugo ...
    A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs.This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of the Century.Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Princess Mary

    The First Modern Princess

    Princess Diana is seen as the first member of the British royal family to tear up the rulebook, and the Duchess of Cambridge is modernising the monarchy in strides. But before them was another who paved the way.Princess Mary was born in 1897. Despite her Victorian beginnings, she strove to make a princess's life meaningful, using her position to help those less fortunate and defying gender ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Auschwitz Lullaby

    A Novel

    by Mario Escobar ...
    Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz’s youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann—a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought furiously for the children she hoped to save.On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

    by Richard Hugo ...
    "Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."—James DickeyRichard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • The Enigma of Reason

    “Brilliant…Timely and necessary.” —Financial Times“Especially timely as we struggle to make sense of how it is that individuals and communities persist in holding beliefs that have been thoroughly discredited.”—Darren Frey, ScienceIf reason is what makes us human, why do we behave so irrationally? And if it is so useful, why didn’t it evolve in other animals? This groundbreaking account of the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Demolished Man

    Winner of the First Hugo Award

    by Alfred Bester ...
    #4 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written.“One of the all-time classics of science fiction.”—Isaac Asimov“Bester's two superb books have stood the test of time. For nearly sixty years they’ve held their place on everybody’s list of the ten greatest sf novels” —Robert SilverbergIn a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime ... Read more

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  • The Sphinx

    The revelatory biography of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough, from 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - FINANCIAL TIMES

    by Hugo Vickers ...
    An enthralling portrait of the enigmatic woman at the centre of a now vanished Golden Age of English history: Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough.'Truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' - SUNDAY TIMESOne of the most beautiful and brilliant women of her time, Gladys Deacon dazzled and puzzled the glittering social circles in which she moved . . .Born in Paris to American parents in 1881 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Translated by Catherine Liu ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The story and characters in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame have resonated with succeeding generations since its publication in 1831. It has tempted filmmakers, and most recently animators, who have exploited its dramatic content to good effect but have inevitably lost some of the grays that make the original text so compelling.From Victor Hugo's flamboyant imagination came Quasimodo, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Designs for the Pluriverse

    Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Les Miserables

    by Victor Hugo ...
    One of the greatest epic novels in history, Les Misérables is the moving story of Jean Valjean’s struggle for redemption and his lifelong pursuit by Javert, a police detective determined to return Valjean to chains. Always one step ahead of Javert, Valjean encounters the tragic Fantine, and ultimately rescues Fantine’s daughter, Cosette, from her wretched life with the Thénadiers, treating the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Beauty, Disrupted

    The Carre Otis Story

    Throughout her career, supermodel and actress Carré Otis has been celebrated for her striking physical beauty—but in this brazenly honest memoir she revisits the ugliest parts of her past to reveal the events that ultimately brought her to strive for, and champion, the kind of beauty that can only be found within. In Beauty Disrupted Carré details the triumphs and challenges of her career in ... Read more

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  • Les Misérables

    by Victor Hugo ...
    Series series The Works of Victor Hugo presented by Kobo Editions
    “Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”Ex-convict Jean Valjean is finally freed after nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Having changed his name and become a respected business owner, his identity ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus