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The Devil in the White City

The Devil in the White City

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Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the...
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words

Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words

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Author: Michael Ausiello Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Now a major motion picture starring Jim Parsons! A "heartbreaking but surprisingly hilarious memoir" (People) about the lessons, love, and laughter...
From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

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Author: Edward Smithies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window' GUARDIAN 'The...
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

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Author: Hopwood DePree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story-with charm and humor in abundance-about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to...
Warhol

Warhol

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Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his--or any--age To this day,...
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

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Author: Andrew Lownie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography...
Killing Time: Extraordinary short stories from the long road home from Australian music icon and author of bestselling memoirs Working Class Boy and Working Class Man

Killing Time: Extraordinary short stories from the long road home from Australian music icon and author of bestselling memoirs Working Class Boy and Working Class Man

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Author: Jimmy Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend...
'Mum, What's Wrong with You?': 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know

'Mum, What's Wrong with You?': 101 Things Only Mothers of Teenage Girls Know

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Author: Lorraine Candy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Sunday Times bestseller 'The mothering manual we all need' Claudia Winkleman Calling all Mums: Are you feeling lonely and...
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty

The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty

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Author: Neal Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon Meacham Based on genealogical breakthroughs...
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family

Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family

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Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters,...
The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-73

The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-73

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Author: Allan Kozinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in...
See Ya Later: The World According to Arron Crascall

See Ya Later: The World According to Arron Crascall

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Author: Arron Crascall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Alright guys? It's me, Arron. Or as some people call me, 'that guy with the phone, the skinny jeans and the...
Steven Gerrard: My Liverpool Story

Steven Gerrard: My Liverpool Story

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Author: Steven Gerrard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Steven Gerrard is a genuine Liverpool legend. Captain at the age of 23. Two FA Cups. Three League Cups. One UEFA...
Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians

Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians

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Author: Michael Bloch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Closet Queens is a fascinating study of gay men in twentieth century British politics, from Lord Rosebery and Lord Beauchamp in...
My Beautiful Struggle

My Beautiful Struggle

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Author: Jordan Bone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A girl with her whole life ahead of her. A terrible accident. An inspiring story of triumph over trauma. Aged 15,...
Too Young to be a Mum: Can Jess learn to be a good mummy, when she is only a child herself?

Too Young to be a Mum: Can Jess learn to be a good mummy, when she is only a child herself?

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Author: Maggie Hartley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 When sixteen-year-old Jess arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep with her newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else to go....
Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women

Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women

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Author: Claudia Gold, MD Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Poisoners', 'whores', 'witches' and 'murderers' - or so their enemies claimed. From Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, to the villainous Catherine...
Invention: A Life

Invention: A Life

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Author: James Dyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Dyson has become a byword for high performing products, technology, design and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who...
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to...
Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet

Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet

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Author: Hof Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into...
Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir

Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir

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Author: Annette Gordon-Reed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town....
Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies

Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies

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Author: Nick Frost Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness was laughter...
A Wild Life: My Adventures Around the World Filming Wildlife

A Wild Life: My Adventures Around the World Filming Wildlife

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Author: Martin Hughes-Games Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The frozen wastes of the Southern Ocean; the tropical rainforests of South America, the scorching grasslands of Africa, the dizzy heights...
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate

Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate

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Author: Jason Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London...
Unmeasured Strength: A Story of Survival and Transformation

Unmeasured Strength: A Story of Survival and Transformation

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Author: Lauren Manning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Unmeasured Strength is a survivor's awe-inspiring story of how Lauren Manning overcame tragedy and re-created herself as a wife, mother, and...
Jean Renoir: A Biography

Jean Renoir: A Biography

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Author: Pascal Merigeau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 992 Originally published in France in 2012, Pascal Merigeau's definitive biography of legendary film director Jean Renoir is a landmark work,the winner...
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

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Author: June Jordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Written with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a...
Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad

Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad

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Author: Terry Jennings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In a signed copy of his autobiography, Waylon Jennings penned a personal note to his son, Terry Jennings, ending it with...
John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation

John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Nation

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Author: Harlow Giles Unger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The surprising life of Chief Justice John Marshall, who turned the Supreme Court into a bulwark against presidential and congressional...
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion

Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion

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Author: Robert Coles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 206 Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her...
They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

They Called Us "Lucky": The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

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Author: Ruben Gallego Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company,...
The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller

The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller

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Author: Jon Lys-Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art world, with the visitors' book...
The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families

The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families

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Author: Shannon Bream Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 God always keeps His promises, but not always in the way we expect.... "Have faith" is a phrase we...
Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas

Gurkha: Better to Die than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas

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Author: Colour-Sergeant Kailash Limbu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling memoir that 'reads like a thriller', (Joanna Lumley) Colour-Sargent Kailash Limbu...
Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride

Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride

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Author: Maggie Hartley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The powerfully moving new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maggie Hartley. Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care...
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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Author: Henri Charriere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder...
Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin

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Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...
The Magnolia Story

The Magnolia Story

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Author: Chip Gaines Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 National Bestseller--New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly Also, check out Capital Gaines, available now,and The Magnolia Table,...
On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump

On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump

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Author: James Naughtie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Everything you would expect of a James Naughtie book - droll, absorbing and wonderfully perceptive.' Bill Bryson 'A revealing and at...
Love Like Salt: A Memoir

Love Like Salt: A Memoir

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Author: Helen Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 CHOSEN BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL IN THE GUARDIAN AS ONE OF HER BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'It's a slice...