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Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"

Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called

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This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker--a woman known only as Alien. When...
Granta: Best of British Novelists: 43

Granta: Best of British Novelists: 43

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Granta: Best of British Novelists: 43
Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century

Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century

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Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after his death, the man is...
Kippenberger: an Inspired New Zealand Commander

Kippenberger: an Inspired New Zealand Commander

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Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One

Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting...
Marcel Caux: A Life Unravelled

Marcel Caux: A Life Unravelled

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Why We Travel

Why We Travel

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Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

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The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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A Very Private School

A Very Private School

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year'Shocking and moving' Guardian'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose' The Times At eight...
Ian Fleming: The man who created James Bond

Ian Fleming: The man who created James Bond

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The definitive biography of author Ian FlemingIan Fleming's life was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation, James Bond 007. Andrew Lycett's direct access to Fleming's family, friends...
Eccentrics

Eccentrics

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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's

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Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history-Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.?An...
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa

To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa

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From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that...
Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way

Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way

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Gina Miller came to prominence when she brought one of the most significant constitutional cases ever to be heard in the British Supreme Court. Gina successfully challenged the UK government's...
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling

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A beautiful new edition of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. The international classic and bestseller, Maya...
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar

Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea

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The official biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem 'My Country.' 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains...' Though many Australians...
Stray

Stray

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From the author of the international bestseller Sweetbitter, a memoir of survival, starting over, and love in all its complicated guises. Even after achieving her dream of selling her debut...
The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn

The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn

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A riveting tell-all biography that delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood's most infamous private detective and "fixer" to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative...
Hollywood on the Links: Collection of the Greatest Celebrity Golf Stories of All Time

Hollywood on the Links: Collection of the Greatest Celebrity Golf Stories of All Time

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Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic

Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic

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From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium of poems, images, personal stories, and vignettes that explore magic, queerness, Tyler's unique story,...
The Art of the Publisher

The Art of the Publisher

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An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing In this illuminating volume, Roberto Calasso reflects on more than half...
Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness

Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness

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The Children's House of Belsen

The Children's House of Belsen

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Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

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'A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity...no Proustian should be without it.' - Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster'Literate, lively, and leavened by wry and gentle humour, Living and Dying with...
Yorkshire: There and Back

Yorkshire: There and Back

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In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner,...
If Not Now, When?

If Not Now, When?

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TV personality, founder of Childline, writer and broadcaster, Esther Rantzen has spent her life tirelessly campaigning on behalf of children and mental health sufferers. In this personal and anecdotal handbook,...
War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family

War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the Rivalry That Has Defined the Royal Family

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Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News. Foreword by Christiane Amanpour

Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News.

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Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's...
Bacon in Moscow

Bacon in Moscow

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'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' - Grayson PerryThis funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount...
None of this Rocks: The brilliant first memoir by Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman

None of this Rocks: The brilliant first memoir by Fall Out Boy

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None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman - lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy - that reads like a double album full of revealing stories...
La Belle Saison (Air/Exp/Ire)

La Belle Saison (Air/Exp/Ire)

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Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing

Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and

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Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six...
Ben Cropp: Blood in the Water

Ben Cropp: Blood in the Water

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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

A Song Flung Up to Heaven

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A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman'...
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine

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TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Telegraph ***** 'Gaudoin's book is revealing and hugely...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism

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The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah'This book pulses with a defiant wonder at the living world, as...
The Woman Who Outran the Devil: The Extraordinary Story of One Woman's Search for Real Love

The Woman Who Outran the Devil: The Extraordinary Story of One Woman's Search for Real Love

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Box of Moonlight

Box of Moonlight

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The Evangelist - Billy Graham

The Evangelist - Billy Graham

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Turner: The Life of Britain's Greatest Painter

Turner: The Life of Britain's Greatest Painter

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Living on a Thin Line

Living on a Thin Line

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The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian'This powerful tell-all from the Kinks guitarist puts the spotlight on his own bad behaviour,...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

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'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

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Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams

Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams

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'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother,...