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Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of the Australian star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids, one of the best new books of 2024

Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of the Australian

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From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself. For decades, Rebel...
Murriyang: Song of Time

Murriyang: Song of Time

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Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, he offers a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing...
When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable

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When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks,...
Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way round from Australian rock legend & bestselling author of WORKING CLASS BOY, WORKING CLASS MAN & KILLING TIME

Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way

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The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...
Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe author of Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation...
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

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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...
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts

A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts

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THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.'Nigel Slater's prose is the...
Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in the Wild West

Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in

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The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding...
W.B. Yeats: the Man and the Milieu

W.B. Yeats: the Man and the Milieu

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Keith Alldritt gives us a lively telling of Yeats's story that puts the poet in the context of his times, from the high Victorian era to the modernism of the...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

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A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
Style and Substance: Why What We Wear Matters

Style and Substance: Why What We Wear Matters

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'Compelling' HARPER'S BAZAAR'Richly textured' GRAZIA'Completely riveting . . . an eclectic compendium of style, subversion and literary snippets . . . all about the magical meaning of clothes' CALENDAR MAGAZINEMaya...
America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal

America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt,

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The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the...
The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets

The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code,

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The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI's hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan-known as the Spy Who Couldn't Spell. Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of...
The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption

The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of

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Engaging but caustic and openly ideological, Antonin Scalia was among the most influential justices ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. In this fascinating new book, legal scholar...
Posters of WWII

Posters of WWII

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Charles Perkins Biography

Charles Perkins Biography

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Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking

Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking

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Defence Supremo: Sir Frederick Sheddon and the Making of Australian Defence Policy

Defence Supremo: Sir Frederick Sheddon and the Making of Australian Defence Policy

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The Beacon Bike: Around England and Wales in 327 Lighthouses

The Beacon Bike: Around England and Wales in 327 Lighthouses

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The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage

The Gates of Hell: Sir John Franklin's Tragic Quest for the North West Passage

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Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of Emperor Michael II, the Last Tsar of Russia

Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of Emperor Michael II, the Last Tsar of Russia

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Mussolini: A Biography

Mussolini: A Biography

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Attila The Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire

Attila The Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire

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Icons of Opera

Icons of Opera

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Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life

Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life

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Three Wild Dogs and the Truth

Three Wild Dogs and the Truth

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The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron -- Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle

The Body Shop: Parties, Pills, and Pumping Iron -- Or, My Life in the Age of Muscle

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A Joyful Life: One Woman's Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and Gratitude

A Joyful Life: One Woman's Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and Gratitude

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George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife (Eminent Lives)

George Eliot: Novelist, Lover, Wife (Eminent Lives)

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Star: The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty

Star: The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty

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War Paint

War Paint

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George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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Atlas of Mediaeval Man

Atlas of Mediaeval Man

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Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma

Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy

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Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...
The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit

The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi,

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This brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-cultureThe Dead Don't Need...
Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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A "New York Times" Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi (1835 1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into...
Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow

Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow

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From the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect of the twentieth century. Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le...
Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution

Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution

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As the son of a noble family which was nearly wiped out in the Revolution and as an ambitious politician during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, he had...
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

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It was at the height of the Cold War, in the summer of 1950, when Bruno Pontecorvo mysteriously vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Who was he, and what caused him...
Landsman Hay: v. 4: Seafarers' Voices

Landsman Hay: v. 4: Seafarers' Voices

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In 1803, at the age of 14, Robert Hay ran away from home to join the Royal Navy, and for the next eight years experienced the trials and tribulations of...
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas: Festive Diaries from the Creator of This Is Going to Hurt

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas: Festive Diaries from the Creator

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The number one Sunday Times bestseller - with a new, fantastically festive front cover! Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author...
Kew - Parched: 50 plants that thrive and survive in a dry garden

Kew - Parched: 50 plants that thrive and survive in a dry garden

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Dazzling, diverse, durable - discover the remarkable drought-proof plants that flourish in the driest environments.With rainfall unpredictable and summers increasingly hot, plants that survive and thrive in these conditions have...
Polite: The Art of Communication at Home, at Work and in Public

Polite: The Art of Communication at Home, at Work and in Public

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A fresh and fascinating look at politeness and the important role it plays in our work, relationships and lives, from professor and pioneer of Politeness Theory, Louise Mullany'Fascinating and insightful....
Mrs Hinch: The Little Book of Lists

Mrs Hinch: The Little Book of Lists

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This is the essential book for every Hincher- the ultimate and complete set of Mrs Hinch's very own lists to make organising your life the simplest it's ever been! Hello,...
Dream Big: Inspirational Quotes for Bold Women

Dream Big: Inspirational Quotes for Bold Women

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Reach for the stars with these positive, empowering and confidence-building quotes and sayings. Focusing on aspiration and creativity, this book is ideal for any woman just beginning on her path...
Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir

Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir

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My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose

My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose

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Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR

Off The Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard The Space Station MIR

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