Nigel Carrington
1) Lost & found
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"Seven years old and ever hopeful, Millie Bird wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Grieving the death of her husband, Millie's mother leaves her in a local store and never returns. Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her house in seven years. Karl the Touch Typist, who is eighty-seven and types into the air as he speaks, has escaped from his nursing home. Brought together by fate, these three set out across Western Australia to find Millie's...
3) The prince
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English
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Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the awkwardness of becoming generally hated and despised. "Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be...