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Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters

Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters

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Author: Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max...
Guderian: Panzer General

Guderian: Panzer General

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Author: Kenneth Macksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Born in Kulm, Germany, on 17 June 1888, Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was the son of an army officer. He eventually joined...
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well

The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well

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Author: Julian Baggini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known...
Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth

Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth

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Author: Sergey Prokofiev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

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Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
Madness of Alexander ther Great: And the Myths of Military Genius

Madness of Alexander ther Great: And the Myths of Military Genius

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Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

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Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon'

Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon'

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Author: Eugenia Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 206 At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire...
Napoleon's Shield and Guardian

Napoleon's Shield and Guardian

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Author: Edward Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 This outstanding biography is a story of courage. It charts the career of a superbly brave cavalryman against the rise and...
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art

The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art

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Author: Ingrid Rowland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511?1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of...
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders

Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders

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Author: Kahlil G. Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil...
Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax

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Author: Paul N. Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and...
Frege: A Philosophical Biography

Frege: A Philosophical Biography

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Author: Dale Jacquette Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 680 Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language,...
The Queen Mother: The Official Biography

The Queen Mother: The Official Biography

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Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers

Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers

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Ruck Me: (I've written another book)

Ruck Me: (I've written another book)

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Author: James Haskell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The side-splittingly hilarious new book from Sunday Times bestselling author, rugby icon, and stag do in human form, James Haskell. It's...
The Reichmanns

The Reichmanns

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Treasures of Beachcombing: Details and accounts of beachcombing in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and more..

Treasures of Beachcombing: Details and accounts of beachcombing in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and more..

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It's Only A Game

It's Only A Game

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Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage

Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage

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Fear of Fifty: A Mid-Life Memoir

Fear of Fifty: A Mid-Life Memoir

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Reading by Moonlight

Reading by Moonlight

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Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond

Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond

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Ali - The life of ali bacher

Ali - The life of ali bacher

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The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

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Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency

This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency

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Author: Ben West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'What's sort of funny when something horrific happens is that nothing happens to the rest of the world. The cars still...
You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen

You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen

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Author: Shannon Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A harrowing and heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful book about one of our society's deepest shames, from Shannon Molloy, the author of...
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

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Author: Tembi Locke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a...
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women

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Author: Inger Burnett-Zeigler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable -but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength...
Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance

Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance

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Author: Mallory Weggemann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Meet Mallory Weggemann: a Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator whose extraordinary story will give you...
Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America

Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America

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Author: Rob Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the...
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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Author: Benjamin Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." -Kirkus...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

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Author: The RNLI Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...
Out of the Box: Raw and hilarious tales of heartache, triumph and truth

Out of the Box: Raw and hilarious tales of heartache, triumph and truth

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Notes on a Nervous Planet

Notes on a Nervous Planet

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Storyteller

Storyteller

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A Woman In Charge

A Woman In Charge

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Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography

Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography

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Inside Out

Inside Out

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Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond

Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond

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Connie Sweetheart

Connie Sweetheart

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The Monkey and the Dragon: A True Story about Friendship, Music, Politics & Life on the Edge

The Monkey and the Dragon: A True Story about Friendship, Music, Politics & Life on the Edge

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Wild Hope

Wild Hope

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Author: Marisa Bate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in Omaha, Nebraska,...
Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

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Author: Anna Malaika Tubbs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history ... Eye-opening, engrossing'...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy Strong is...
My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die

My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die

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Author: Kevin Toolis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, death has...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown

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Author: James McBride Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music...
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy

Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the...