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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Abacus 40th edition by Douglas Coupland
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of b ...Show more
Glass Room, The - Abacus 40th edition by Simon Mawer
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary Ser.
A New York Times Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House become ...Show more
If This is a Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
Category: History | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
On 22nd February 1944, 650 people were sent to Auschwitz in 12 goods trains. Only Primo Levi and two others survived. "If This Is a Man" is Levi's most direct, non-fictional account of his time in Auschwitz, and in "The Truce" he describes his flight from the hell in which he had been incarcerated. Wi ...Show more
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranc ...Show more
Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus 40th Edition) by Nelson Mandela
Category: Politics | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, A Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a st ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Category: Biography | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Welcome to the wonderful world of America's foremost humorist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delight ...'The Italian was attempting to answer the teacher's latest question when the Moroccan student interrupted, shouting, "Excuse me, but what's an Easter?" ...Show more
Old Filth - Abacus 40th edition by Jane Gardam
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period fro ...Show more
Property - ORANGE PRIZE WINNER 2003 by Valerie Martin
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah, a slave girl who may have b ...Show more
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic - Abacus 40th edition by Tom Holland
Category: Classic | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe ...Show more
Sex and the City - Abacus 40th edition by Candace Bushnell
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
'"Relationships in New York are about detachment, so how do you get attached when you decide you want to?" "Honey, you leave town."' Meet Carrie, Miranda, Sam and their stylish friends. Successful, attractive, thirty-something career women living the high life in New York; blazing a glorious cocktail tr ...Show more
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In the first book of the bestselling series, Mma Ramotswe - with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi - navigates her cases and her persona ...Show more
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Abacus 40th edition by Malcolm Gladwell
Category: Classic | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explai ...Show more