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The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFirst published in 1906, this edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works by W.J. Craig has been many times reprinted. The spelling has been modernised, and the punctuation revised. A short glossary of obsolete words is provided, and there is also an index of characters and of the first lines of songs.The drawing on the jacket, a reconstruction of the Fortune Theatre, 1600, is by C... -
![Coma Girl: Part 5 by Stephanie Bond]()
Coma Girl: Part 5 by Stephanie Bond
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNEW! An Amazon exclusive! From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance. In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can. COMA GIRL is a daily serial available on stephaniebond... -
![Coma Girl: part 3 by Stephanie Bond]()
Coma Girl: part 3 by Stephanie Bond
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNEW! An Amazon exclusive! From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance. In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can... -
![Coma Girl: part 2 by Stephanie Bond]()
Coma Girl: part 2 by Stephanie Bond
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNEW! An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance.In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can.The COMA GIRL daily serial is available on stephaniebond... -
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![Coma Girl: Part 4 by Stephanie Bond]()
Coma Girl: Part 4 by Stephanie Bond
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of family drama, suspense, comedy, and romance. In COMA GIRL, a victim of a tragic event lies in a hospital bed, at the mercy of friends and relatives who think she can't hear them. But she SO can. COMA GIRL is a daily serial available on stephaniebond... -
![All That Charm: by Liz Talley]()
All That Charm: by Liz Talley
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA dying friend’s gift delivers a chance to start over… With Morning Glory in her rearview mirror, Eden Voorhees heads to New Orleans to pursue the dream she put on hold while caring for her disabled mother. But in the Big Easy, she finds a roach-infested apartment, a non-existent job and a dwindling bank account... -
![A Perfectly Messed-Up Story by Patrick McDonnell]()
A Perfectly Messed-Up Story by Patrick McDonnell
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this interactive and engaging read-aloud, bestselling author and award-winning artist Patrick McDonnell creates a funny, engaging, and almost perfect story about embracing life's messes... -
![Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist by Erich Kästner]()
Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist by Erich Kästner
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGoing to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, “aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . -
![The Baby Diaries by Sam Binnie]()
The Baby Diaries by Sam Binnie
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe hilarious and heart-warming second in the series from the author of The Wedding Diaries."I'd be sick right now, but I never like to reinforce a cliché."A few weeks after Kiki and Thom return from honeymoon, Kiki finds there's a noticeable absence. An extremely serious noticeable absence of something, it turns out, Kiki now realises she was pretty glad about... -
![House of God, The by Samuel Shem]()
House of God, The by Samuel Shem
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNow a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile nurses... -
![Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer]()
Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Right Honourable Leslie Titmuss has clawed his way up the Tory government ranks and is now Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Ecological Affairs and Planning (H.E.A.P.), and in pursuit of beautiful widow Jenny Sidonia. But seismic changes are afoot in the beautiful countryside where a new town threatens to engulf his own back garden... -
![One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper]()
One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“Mistakes have been made.”Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy... -
![The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga]()
The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"[The Reactive is] a searing, gorgeously written account of life, love, illness, and death in South Africa. With exquisite prose, formal innovation, and a masterful command of storytelling, Ntshanga illustrates how some young people navigated the dusk that followed the dawn of freedom in South Africa and humanizes the casualties of the Mbeki government's fatal policies on HIV & AIDS...Categorized as:
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![Grim Reaper: End of Days by Steve Alten]()
Grim Reaper: End of Days by Steve Alten
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPatrick "Shep" Shepherd was a promising major league rookie pitcher on September 11th, 2001. Shaken by the attacks, Shep was driven to enlist in the armed forces even if that meant leaving behind his soul mate and their newborn daughter. Eleven years and four deployments later, Shep finds himself in Manhattan's VA hospital... -
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![Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Anonymous, Joe Klein]()
Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Anonymous, Joe Klein
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA brilliant and penetrating look behind the scenes of modern American politics, Primary Colors is a funny, wise, and dramatic story with characters and events that resemble some familiar, real-life figures... -
![When Mr. Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan]()
When Mr. Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDylan Mint has Tourette’s. For Dylan, life is a constant battle to keep the bad stuff in – the swearing, the tics, the howling dog that escapes whenever he gets stressed. And, as a sixteen-year-old virgin and pupil at Drumhill Special School, getting stressed is something of an occupational hazard. But then a routine visit to the hospital changes everything... -
![The Fourth Hand by John Irving]()
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsWhile reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper... -
![This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay]()
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsTHE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS `Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you... -
![Dinosaur Therapy by James Stewart, K. Roméy]()
Dinosaur Therapy by James Stewart, K. Roméy
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsa comic about dinosaurs navigating the complexities of life, togetherincluding exclusive, never-seen-before, bonus comicsa wistful, honest and highly relatable account of modern life.dinosaur therapy is a book of cartoons for grown-ups from the very successful web comic @dinosandcomics... -
![Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 14 by Aka Akasaka]()
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 14 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle... -
![Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 15 by Aka Akasaka]()
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 15 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo geniuses. Two brains.Two hearts. One battle.Who will confess their love first…?!Turns out confessing your feelings is the easy part of a romantic relationship… Now Kaguya and Miyuki have to figure out how to behave in a relationship. Kaguya retreats behind the ice shield she built to protect herself years ago. Miyuki believes only an ideal version of himself is worthy of love... -
![The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson]()
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsIn the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself... -
!["Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman]()
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWinner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustoble combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism... -
![Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 13 by Aka Akasaka, 赤坂アカ]()
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 13 by Aka Akasaka, 赤坂アカ
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle... -
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![The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth]()
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe idiosyncratic, erudite and brilliantly funny new book from Mark Forsyth, bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon.In an age unhealthily obsessed with substance, this is a book on the importance of pure style... -
![Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 16 by Aka Akasaka]()
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 16 by Aka Akasaka
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWill Kaguya and Miyuki ever go beyond making out and get around to officially going out?! What game is Miko playing when she interferes with Yu and Tsubame’s fledgling intimacy? Meanwhile, Kaguya tries to choose the perfect gift for Miyuki, Yu tries to choose the perfect gift for Tsubame, and Miyuki’s dad goes into the fortune-telling business!India is the land of spiritual enlightenment... -
![Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 12 by Aka Akasaka, 赤坂アカ]()
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 12 by Aka Akasaka, 赤坂アカ
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle... -
![Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West]()
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny... -
![Kind of Coping: An Illustrated Look at Life with Anxiety by Maureen Marzi Wilson]()
Kind of Coping: An Illustrated Look at Life with Anxiety by Maureen Marzi Wilson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“These comics perfectly capture what it's like to live with anxiety.” —BuzzFeedMaureen “Marzi” Wilson—the popular Instagram cartoonist behind Introvert Doodles—is back with a brand-new collection of hilarious, relatable, and heartwarming doodles about anxiety that show you that you are not alone.If you struggle with anxiety, you may feel like it’s you against the world all the time... -
![What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe]()
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsRandall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate...Categorized as:
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