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Paris to the Moon

Paris to the Moon

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Jacksonland

Jacksonland

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Richard Hooker and the Authority of Scripture

Richard Hooker and the Authority of Scripture

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Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

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In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially...
A Life on the Line: A MICA Flight Paramedic's Story

A Life on the Line: A MICA Flight Paramedic's Story

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A Year at Bullo: Stories from Sara's Table

A Year at Bullo: Stories from Sara's Table

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The Cattle King

The Cattle King

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This engrossing story by famous Australian author Ion Idriess is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King. At the age of 13...
Billy Graham Motivational Memoirs

Billy Graham Motivational Memoirs

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Jane Austen: A Life

Jane Austen: A Life

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'Truly marvellous. I cannot think of a better life of Jane Austen than Claire Tomalin's' Philip Hensher Claire Tomalin brings her extraordinary gifts of scholarship, fluent writing and empathy for...
Frederick: A Story of Boundless Hope

Frederick: A Story of Boundless Hope

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"My God won't let me do that." These seven words of boundless hope would irreversibly change the life of the teenage boy who spoke them. On April 7, 1994 the...
Forever Today

Forever Today

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A brilliant conductor and BBC music producer, Clive Wearing was at the height of his success when illness struck. A virus completely destroyed the memory part of his brain. For...
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee

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The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture--at a steep personal cost. The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics...
Beyond Imagination: Persecuted for Their Ideals

Beyond Imagination: Persecuted for Their Ideals

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This notebook is a tribute to all the thinkers and scientists who dared to be different. People who struggled to hold their ground in the face of adversity. People who,...
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

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Discover the man behind the movement in this intimate biography of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). In 1965, a seventy-year-old man-soon...
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines

My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines

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INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER - The Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer--whose work on the front lines of the fight...
No Mean Feat

No Mean Feat

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Touched by God: Story of Olive Allerton

Touched by God: Story of Olive Allerton

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Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all

Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all

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You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient...
Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust

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'Among the most moving documents I have read in years ... You will not forget it' Elie Wiesel From her small, sunny hometown between the beautiful Carpathian Mountains and the...
Hollywood Con Queen: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

Hollywood Con Queen: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

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Don't Miss the Apple TV+ Docuseries Streaming Now! "This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a...
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 2024 Good...
KB - A Life in Football

KB - A Life in Football

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The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

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Daylight ahead: the Darren Beadman Story: The Darren Beadman Story

Daylight ahead: the Darren Beadman Story: The Darren Beadman Story

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Hell's Angels: Popular Penguins

Hell's Angels: Popular Penguins

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The Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent...
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford

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Simon Winchester's The Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the...
The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

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One of the most influential - and best loved - spiritual autobiographies Born in the Castilian town of vila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when...
Utilitarianism and Other Essays

Utilitarianism and Other Essays

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Alan Ryan's anthology provides the perfect introduction to an enormously significant philosophical movement, aiming for "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of...
Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories.

Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories.

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'More than just a mantra, "cook, eat, repeat" is the story of my life'- A brilliant new book from Nigella Lawson featuring narrative essays about food, over 150 new recipes...
Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock

Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging

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Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock has captivated and perplexed generations. But the woman behind the novel is as much an enigma as the disappearance of the fictitious schoolgirls and...
Shadow Lines

Shadow Lines

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In this award-winning novel, Stephen Kinnane has written a deeply personal story of two remarkable people and of a vibrant, resilient Aboriginal community that flourished against the odds in the...
Selected Prose

Selected Prose

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Searing, haunting and timeless prose from one of England's greatest poets This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also...
The Literature Machine: Essays

The Literature Machine: Essays

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'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian 'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is...
Father of the Lost Boys

Father of the Lost Boys

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This the true story of a teacher and community leader, Mecak Ajang Alaak, who led twenty thousands Lost Boys to safety during the Second Sudanese Civil War. During the Second...
Selected Poems and Prose

Selected Poems and Prose

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A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded...
Italian Journey 1786-1788

Italian Journey 1786-1788

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Goethe's famous account of his time and travels in Italy In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on...
Augustus: The Biography

Augustus: The Biography

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The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered...
The Executioner's Song

The Executioner's Song

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If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then...
Question 7

Question 7

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**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we...
True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack

True North: The Story of Mary and Elizabeth Durack

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Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the...
Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies

Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats,

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Aren't we all just a little bit afraid that we, or someone we care about, will be duped in love or friendship? A powerful, richly layered investigative story for our...
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi

The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi

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Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'. Robin de Crespigny's The People...
The Unnamable Present

The Unnamable Present

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A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians- in this book Roberto Calasso considers...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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In her memoirs, Simone de Beavoir created a remarkable portrait of a twentieth-century woman's struggle for independence A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth...
Lives of the Artists

Lives of the Artists

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Lives of the Artists made Vasari one of the most influential art historians of all time, fusing literary and artistic ability In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian...