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The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

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Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

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LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE FIRST BOOK AWARD 2024WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: POLITICS'A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page' Elizabeth Day'Profoundly articulate....
Shadow Warrior: CIA Hero of a Hundred Unknown Battles

Shadow Warrior: CIA Hero of a Hundred Unknown Battles

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So Many Books So Little Time

So Many Books So Little Time

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Loving Garbo: Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton and Mercedes de Acosta

Loving Garbo: Story of Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton and Mercedes de Acosta

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Darling Ma: Letters to Her Mother, 1932-44

Darling Ma: Letters to Her Mother, 1932-44

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Afterlife

Afterlife

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Prick With a Fork: The World's Worst Waitress Spills the Beans

Prick With a Fork: The World's Worst Waitress Spills the Beans

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If I am Missing or Dead

If I am Missing or Dead

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Back from the Ashes

Back from the Ashes

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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini: A Biography

The Woman Who Shot Mussolini: A Biography

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Cleftomania: A Disease That Attacks Musicians and Makes Them Do Strange Things

Cleftomania: A Disease That Attacks Musicians and Makes Them Do Strange Things

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Carving a Piece of Heaven

Carving a Piece of Heaven

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Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

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Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

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Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes s personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne himself a direct ancestor of...
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with <i>The Lady Falkland:  Her Life</i>, by One of Her Daughters

The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters

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Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia

Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia

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The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

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Author: Jeffrey Stern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He...
Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea

Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea

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Author: Michael Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of detail, context and narrative structure... the results are impressively claustrophobic.'...
Only: A Singular Memoir

Only: A Singular Memoir

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Author: Caroline Baum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always...
Below the Edge of Darkness: Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

Below the Edge of Darkness: Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

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Author: Edith Widder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean in this 'thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure'...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be...
Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

Bet on Black: The Good News about Being Black in America Today

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Author: Eboni K. Williams, Esq. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Essence Magazine 2023 Must Read Eboni K. Williams knew that an important part of her mission as a media...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

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Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

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Author: Nelson Mandela Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 784 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama...
Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir

Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir

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Pathfinder

Pathfinder

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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

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Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 *...
Vieira Da Silva

Vieira Da Silva

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The Outsider: a Portrait of Ursula Hoff

The Outsider: a Portrait of Ursula Hoff

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The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography

The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography

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The Life of Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography

The Life of Joseph Conrad: A Critical Biography

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John Millington Synge: a Biography

John Millington Synge: a Biography

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Painful in Daily Doses: An Anecdotal Memoir

Painful in Daily Doses: An Anecdotal Memoir

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Floating in Foyers: Coralie Wood Lashes Out

Floating in Foyers: Coralie Wood Lashes Out

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Queen Elizabeth II: An Oral History

Queen Elizabeth II: An Oral History

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Author: Deborah Hart Strober Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A stunning and revelatory oral history of Queen Elizabeth II and her reign. There seems an unquenchable fascination with the...
Spun Out

Spun Out

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The Feel of Steel

The Feel of Steel

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Masud Khan: The Myth and the Reality

Masud Khan: The Myth and the Reality

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

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In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust

In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust

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Author: Richard Hurowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration,...
My Holidays

My Holidays

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Author: Sylvia Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From the author of Misadventures and Appleby House comes another volume of true-life tales. In My Holidays, Sylvia Smith remembers in...
Becoming Dr. Seuss

Becoming Dr. Seuss

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Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

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Author: Paul Hendrickson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own...
Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women

Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women

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Author: Jane Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Letter to My Younger Self is back...
Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice

Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice

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From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world's richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb's masterful Childless...
First Comes Love

First Comes Love

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'Bitingly funny, infectiously inquisitive and ferociously sharp. Adored!' ATTITUDE 'A fascinating interrogation' GRAZIA 'An incisive, witty and moving look at marriage - as an achievement, a compromise, a selling-out, a...