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Gaudi: A Biography

Gaudi: A Biography

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"A soaring biography. . . meticulously researched, elegantly organized, fluidly, lucidly written." --Chicago Tribune At the time of his death in 1926, Antonio Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect...
Birdland: A Journey Around Britain on the Wing

Birdland: A Journey Around Britain on the Wing

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A joyous celebration of Britain's rich bird life In Birdland , journalist and lifelong birder Jon Gower explores our intimate connection with the bird life around us. From the symphonic...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the

A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the

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Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

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A New York Times Editors' Choice One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "A beautifully wrought ode to life...a precious gift to the world." - The Washington Post From...
Sarich: The Man and His Engines

Sarich: The Man and His Engines

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The book titled Sarich: The Man and His Engines by the author Pedr Davis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern

Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern

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The book titled Phaethon's Children: The Este Court and Its Culture in Early Modern by the author Dennis Looney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Zen Teaching, Zen Practice: Philip Kapleau and the Three Pillars of

Zen Teaching, Zen Practice: Philip Kapleau and the Three Pillars of

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The eleven essays in this volume examine Kapleau's pivotal role in the transmission of Zen to the West. Kapleau's book The Three Pillars of Zen, was first published in 1965...
The Antonia White Diaries

The Antonia White Diaries

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The book titled The Antonia White Diaries by the author Susan Chitty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Sartre: A Life

Sartre: A Life

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The book titled Sartre: A Life by the author Solal Annie Cohen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
No Gifts from Chance: Biography of Edith Wharton

No Gifts from Chance: Biography of Edith Wharton

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Offers a new approach to the life and work of Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Drawing on the recent discovery of many of her letters, the book examines the intricate network of...
Venus Envy: A Sensational Season Inside the Women's Tennis Tour

Venus Envy: A Sensational Season Inside the Women's Tennis Tour

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A behind-the-scenes look at the hugely popular and often controversial world of women's tennis featuring such household names as Venus and Serena Williams and Anna Kournikova. At a time when...
Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook

Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook

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The book titled Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook by the author Timothy Findley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Stranger in Tibet: Adventures of a Zen Monk - Life of Kawaguchi Ekai

A Stranger in Tibet: Adventures of a Zen Monk - Life of Kawaguchi Ekai

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The book titled A Stranger in Tibet: Adventures of a Zen Monk - Life of Kawaguchi Ekai by the author Scott Berry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

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Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughteris an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, orself-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst...
Dysphoria Mundi

Dysphoria Mundi

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In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the...
Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

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Across history, women were told to sit down, smile and stay quiet. Spoiler alert- they didn't. They spoke out, stood tall - and ruined the patriarchy's day. Because of them,...
Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid

Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid

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Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the YearA Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 'An insightful and at...
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa

To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa

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From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" ( The Washington Free Beacon ) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a...
Drawing Hell: The Life of War Artist - Alan Moore

Drawing Hell: The Life of War Artist - Alan Moore

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"From the sweltering battlefields of the South Pacific to the devastated cities of Europe, Alan Moore witnessed the greatest war in human history-not with a rifle, but with a paintbrush."...
Greyhound

Greyhound

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In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she...
Always Liza to Me: A memoir for my silent sister

Always Liza to Me: A memoir for my silent sister

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Liza is different. She can't talk. She can't walk properly. She's funny-looking and when she upsets people, which she almost always does, trying to bite or scratch them, we have...
Over My Shoulder: A Columbine Survivor's story of Resilience, Hope and

Over My Shoulder: A Columbine Survivor's story of Resilience, Hope and

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On April 20, 1999, Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson was a newly transferred junior at Columbine High School. As she sat down to read a magazine in the school library, she had...
Bless the Messy: Life Lessons from a Work in Progress

Bless the Messy: Life Lessons from a Work in Progress

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For readers of Hyperbole and a Half and Am I There Yet ?, Bless the Messy is a compassionate, distinctive, and voice-driven illustrated personal growth book, one that gives readers...
It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia: How Three Friends Spent

It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia: How Three Friends Spent

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In the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating deep dive into the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history, from its humble beginnings to its...
What Would Dolly Do?: How to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World

What Would Dolly Do?: How to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World

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A spirited homage to Dolly Parton that captures the unique humor, no-nonsense wisdom, flash, and sass of one of America's most iconic stars. One of twelve children raised in a...
Reading and Writing

Reading and Writing

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I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S....
The Story of My Father

The Story of My Father

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An unforgettable book about fathers and daughters from Sue Miller. In the spring of 1986, Sue Miller found herself more and more deeply involved in the caring of her father...
Transition: The IBM Story

Transition: The IBM Story

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Transition documents the changes IBM has initiated in this country to make it internationally competitive in IT services exports from Australia. It examines the changes that have occurred in the...
George's Ghosts: A New Life of W.B. Yeats

George's Ghosts: A New Life of W.B. Yeats

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Many know the public Yeats but few have managed to penetrate to the inner man, or to explore the relationship with his much younger wife, George. Here Brenda Maddox brings...
The World is Burning: Murder in the Rain Forest

The World is Burning: Murder in the Rain Forest

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The story of Chico Mendes, self-taught environmentalist and leader of a people fighting to save their way of life in the rainforest, who was gunned down outside his home in...
Finding My Voice: A story of strength, self-belief and S Club

Finding My Voice: A story of strength, self-belief and S Club

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The inspirational and honest first book from S Club legend Rachel Stevens Whether as part of the iconic S Club or as a successful solo artist, Rachel Stevens was in...
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

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An Instant NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR according to Elle, Real Simple...
Diamonds & Demons: The Joseph Gutnick Story

Diamonds & Demons: The Joseph Gutnick Story

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All but wiped out in the 1987 stockmarket crash, Joseph Gutnick marshalled all his skills to regain his position as one of the New World's wealthiest men. While his radical...
James,the Brother of Jesus: Recovering T

James,the Brother of Jesus: Recovering T

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In a work of detection based on a lifetime of research, a co-author of "The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered" identifies the "missing link" between Judaism and early Christianity as James...
The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past

The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My Grandfather's Secret Past

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Part personal quest, part family memoir, part World War II history- and one horrifying family secret. What if you found out that your grandfather-the man who had been a demanding,...
Magical Thinking: True Stories

Magical Thinking: True Stories

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From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry --a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical collection. True stories that give voice to the thoughts we...
The Jackie Handbook

The Jackie Handbook

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Jackie Handbook is a groundbreaking new interpretation of the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and the extraordinary influence of the image she so carefully crafted. It is illustrated with some...
Hunger Like a Thirst

Hunger Like a Thirst

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Hunger Like a Thirst is a bold and deeply personal memoir from Besha Rodell; chief restaurant critic for The Age , New York Times contributor, and one of the most...
Anthony Van Dyck: A Life, 1599-1641

Anthony Van Dyck: A Life, 1599-1641

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This superb new biography provides the fullest narrative of Van Dyck's life and personality to appear in English. Commonly pigeonholed as a follower of Rubens or as the court painter...
Letters to My Younger Queer Self: Inspiring, influential voices from

Letters to My Younger Queer Self: Inspiring, influential voices from

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'The compelling stories in this book are funny, uplifting and at times poignant and sad, but always honest. I learned such a lot. ' - Lorraine Kelly 'A beautifully heartfelt...
Leaving the Ladder Down: How to Combine Career and Motherhood, from

Leaving the Ladder Down: How to Combine Career and Motherhood, from

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A funny, practical and crucial guide for women facing the life-changing prospect of returning to work after having children. When Dolly had her children, the idea of returning to the...
Joyful Recollections of Trauma

Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND BOOKLIST AN AUDIE AWARD FINALIST "Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of...
The Good, The Bad & The Rugby - Unleashed

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby - Unleashed

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'I want absolutely nothing to do with this book.' - Owen Farrell THREE RUGBY MEGASTARS. ONE EPIC BOOK. Welcome to the wild world of The Good, The Bad & The...
A Very Private School

A Very Private School

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times , Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year 'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose'...
War Diary

War Diary

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The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. For her and millions...