Buyers, Liars, Sellers and Yellers


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Meet agent Madison O'Malley whose client seems more interested in her long, lovely legs than in selling his house. Meet Attila who parades his body in his window nightly just to infuriate Melvin, the uptight neighbour. Meet agent Hugo Fields who is so in love with himself that it seems nothing can stop his rise to the top-except fate itself! In this quirky collection of short stories, you'll meet them all: Buyers, Liars, Sellers and Yellers!...




Yachting


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Apple Pie


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Real EstateNew York City




Hello, my name is Emily


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For a smart girl, Emily is planning to do something really stupid . . . She's mad at her mother. So what else is new? As a typical teenager, Emily wants a life, but her mother wants to ruin everything! She even treats the family dog better than she does Emily. Besides, she's not even her real mother - Emily and Taylor, her brother, were adopted. As Emily begins the search for her birth mother, she reaches a dead end, but then a man sends her an email that changes her life. She wants to meet him secretly. Her friend Alex warns her not to go because he thinks that cyberspace is full of creeps. But Emily doesn't listen to him and heads into serious trouble. Frantic, Alex tries his best to save her. Will he be too late?




Buyers, Liars, Sellers and Yellers


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THE WORLD OF REAL ESTATE IS FILLED WITH DREAMERS AND SCHEMERS. Meet agent Madison O'Malley whose client seems more interested in her long, lovely legs than in selling his house. Meet Attila who parades his body in his window nightly just to infuriate Melvin, the uptight neighbour. Meet agent Hugo Fields who is so in love with himself that it seems nothing can stop his rise to the top-except fate itself! In this quirky collection of short stories, you'll meet them all: Buyers, Liars, Sellers and Yellers!




Mrs. Maloney's Garden


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"What's buried in Mes. Maloney's garden? A dead cat? Perhaps. A dead kid? More than likely. Kids say the crabby, old lady flies around on a broom all night and snatches kids right from their beds. They're never seen again! With flashlights and a shovel, four boys set out to dig up the garden one night. What they find will raise the hairs ont he back of your neck!" (publisher).




Wise Blood


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Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was an American author. Wise Blood was her first novel and one of her most famous works.




How to Sell Yourself


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A practical handbook explains in clear, simple, easy-to-understand terms how to use one's mind, face, body, and voice to get a message across in any public speaking situation. Original.




Bond and Free


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Browse


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A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Michael Dirda, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann. A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse, Henry Hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a specific time and place. These inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spell. Contributors include Alaa Al Aswany, Stefano Benni, Michael Dirda, Daniel Kehlmann, Andrey Kurkov, Yiyun Li, Pankaj Mishra, Dorthe Nors, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Elif Shafak, Ian Sansom, Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, Saša Stanišic, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez. A dazzling collection of original essays about the bookshop by fifteen bestselling international authors.