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Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy

Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy

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A Wounded Thing Must Hide: In Search of Libbie Custer

A Wounded Thing Must Hide: In Search of Libbie Custer

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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story

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Churchill and America

Churchill and America

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Remembering Weary

Remembering Weary

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Weary: Life of Sir Edward Dunlop

Weary: Life of Sir Edward Dunlop

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A Place for Us

A Place for Us

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Annabel: An Unconventional Life

Annabel: An Unconventional Life

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A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life

A Leap of Faith: Memoir of an Unexpected Life

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J.B.Priestley

J.B.Priestley

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The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People

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Bad Faith

Bad Faith

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Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy

Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy

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Elton

Elton

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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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Young Girl's Diary

Young Girl's Diary

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Josiah Wedgwood: Entrepreneur to the Enlightenment

Josiah Wedgwood: Entrepreneur to the Enlightenment

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How I Learned to Understand the World: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

How I Learned to Understand the World: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

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Author: Hans Rosling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes. It...
Standing Up!: My Story of Hope, Advocacy and Survival After Stroke

Standing Up!: My Story of Hope, Advocacy and Survival After Stroke

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Author: Kathleen with Steggall, Vicki Jordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Kathleen Jordan was a vibrant businesswoman, mother and grandmother until one morning in 2011 she suffered a massive...
Robert Graves: Life on the Edge

Robert Graves: Life on the Edge

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William Shakespeare: His Life and Work

William Shakespeare: His Life and Work

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Proust

Proust

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Perfect Hostage

Perfect Hostage

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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

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Author: Professor of History Camilla Townsend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in...
Drinking the Rain

Drinking the Rain

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Author: Alix Kates Shulman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 242 A memoir of spiritualism and self-discovery from the acclaimed, award-winning author At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated...
Mama's Boy: A Memoir

Mama's Boy: A Memoir

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Author: Dustin Lance Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny,...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann

House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann

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Author: Evelyn Juers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In 1933, the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in...
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend

Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend

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Author: Diana Athill (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains...
I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir

I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir

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Author: Jan Grue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I am not talking about surviving... I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

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Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As the bookish daughter of a travelling salesman, Jami Attenberg was drawn to the road. Her wanderlust led her to drive...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

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Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper

Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper

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Author: Carol Ann Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Original, intelligent and thought-provoking, Carol Ann Lee's book sheds new light on to the human stories behind the headlines. A...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

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Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. A New York Times...
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist

Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist

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Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022 You dreamed of being a journalist and the dream has come...
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

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Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes...
Young Eliot: From St. Louis to the Waste Land

Young Eliot: From St. Louis to the Waste Land

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Author: Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poets On the fiftieth anniversary...
Why I Read

Why I Read

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Author: Wendy Lesser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In...
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary

Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary

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Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...
The Language of Blood

The Language of Blood

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Author: Jane Jeong Trenka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 244 "A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) My name is...
Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir

Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir

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Author: Carmen Bugan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan...
Poser

Poser

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Author: Claire Dederer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 National Bestseller Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. Told to try yoga by...
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

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Author: Sujatha Gidla Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 A Shelf Awareness Best...
God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

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Author: Amy Seek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 God and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their...
Trickster Travels

Trickster Travels

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Author: Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan...
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

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Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...
The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

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Author: Martha Saxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of...