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Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

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Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

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Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998

Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998

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Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries. TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

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Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on...
Another Bloody Love Letter

Another Bloody Love Letter

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Author: Anthony Loyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. ANOTHER BLOODY LOVE LETTER exposes...
Becoming: Sex, Second Chances, and Figuring Out Who the Hell I am

Becoming: Sex, Second Chances, and Figuring Out Who the Hell I am

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Author: Laura Jane Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 When the man Laura Jane Williams thought she'd wed dumped her and married her friend, she was devastated....
Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

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Author: Julian Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'ALPHA GIRLS will be a story to make you laugh and cry. It will inspire and infuriate you. It...
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water

The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water

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Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1900 to a promiscuous American oil heiress and a British army captain, Marion Barbara Carstairs realised very...
The Child Bride

The Child Bride

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Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from...
Lou Reed: The Life

Lou Reed: The Life

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'This "sincere speed-written, blood-spattered tribute" strings together the raciest anecdotes...and does it rather well' SUNDAY TIMES 'Mick Wall has...
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition

A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition

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Author: Michael Paterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about...
Gunter Grass

Gunter Grass

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across...
Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard

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Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Danish philosopher, theologian, and author Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is widely considered to be one of the most important...
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

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Author: Paul R. Laird Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 216 Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognisable figures. In a career spanning five...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

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Author: Walter J. Ciszek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of...
For the Love of Money: A Memoir of Family, Addiction, and a Wall Street Trader's Journey to Redefine Success

For the Love of Money: A Memoir of Family, Addiction, and a Wall Street Trader's Journey to Redefine Success

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Author: Sam Polk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 "Part coming-of-age story, part recovery memoir, and part expose of a rotten, money-drenched Wall Street culture" (Salon), Sam Polk's...
The King's War

The King's War

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Author: Mark Logue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which...
Open Book

Open Book

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Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles....
Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

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Author: Eliese Colette Goldbach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Eliese Goldbach was nine years old, she decided to become a Catholic nun. Twenty years later, with...
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival

The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival

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Author: Alaa Aljaleel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When the Syrian civil war forced the people of Aleppo to flee their homes, thousands of the city's pets...
Up Front

Up Front

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Author: Kerry Dixon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Kerry's life in recent years has been bedevilled by problems with gambling, drugs and, worst of all, a prison sentence...
Knowledge is Power (Icon Science) How Magic

Knowledge is Power (Icon Science) How Magic

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Author: John Henry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Francis Bacon - a leading figure in the history of science - never made a major discovery, provided a...
Small Fry

Small Fry

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Author: Lisa Brennan-Jobs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A remarkable book, much more than the lurid celebrity tell-all it might have become in a less able writer's...
Jonathan Swift His Life and His World

Jonathan Swift His Life and His World

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Author: Leo Damrosch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Winner of the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the...
Operation Insanity The Dramatic True Story of the Mission That Saved Ten Thousand Lives

Operation Insanity The Dramatic True Story of the Mission That Saved Ten Thousand Lives

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Author: Colonel Richard Westley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In the summer of 1995, the Bosnian town of Gorazde, found itself under attack from Serbian forces despite...
Taking Flight Lores Bonneys Extraordinary Flying Career

Taking Flight Lores Bonneys Extraordinary Flying Career

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Author: Mrs Kristen Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy...
Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy Darkness on the Edge of Truth

Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy Darkness on the Edge of Truth

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Author: Randall E. Auxier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Known as the working man's poet, the Boardwalk prophet, or simply, the Boss. If "love is a banquet...
The Boy Who Was Born a Girl One Mothers Unconditional Love for Her Child

The Boy Who Was Born a Girl One Mothers Unconditional Love for Her Child

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Author: Jon Edwards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Brought up as female for fifteen years, Jon can remember feeling different from other girls since he was only...
Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

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Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel...
My Lucky Stroke

My Lucky Stroke

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Author: Sarah Brooker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Sarah Brooker was an ambitious young woman studying to be a neuroscientist. She had the world at her feet. On...
The Duchess The Untold Story - the explosive biography

The Duchess The Untold Story - the explosive biography

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Author: Penny Junor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The last untold account of the biggest crisis to hit the royals since the...
Grace The Remarkable Life of Grace Grattan Guinness

Grace The Remarkable Life of Grace Grattan Guinness

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Author: Michele Guinness Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Preparing for her husband's retirement from his parish, Michele Guinness, author of THE GUINNESS LEGEND, decided to clear out...
Respect The Life of Aretha Franklin

Respect The Life of Aretha Franklin

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Author: David Ritz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother,...
President McKinley Architect of the American Century

President McKinley Architect of the American Century

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Author: Robert W Merry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a "measured, insightful biography that seeks...
Guilty Thing A Life of Thomas de Quincey

Guilty Thing A Life of Thomas de Quincey

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Author: Frances Wilson (Chester University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist...