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Deaf Utopia: A Memoir-and a Love Letter to a Way of Life

Deaf Utopia: A Memoir-and a Love Letter to a Way of Life

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Author: Nyle DiMarco Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality...
All the Money in the World

All the Money in the World

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Author: John Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom...
Donald Horne: Selected Writings

Donald Horne: Selected Writings

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Author: Donald Horne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 This definitive selection of Horne's writing, skilfully made by his son, Nick, tells the story of his life and intellectual development...
Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman

Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman

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Author: Harlow Giles Unger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, author Harlow Giles Unger tells how a fearless young Kentucky...
Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

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Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

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Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece'...
Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation

Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation

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Author: Gurdeep Loyal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 WINNER OF THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD 'Amazing, original, boundary breaking.' Diana Henry 'One of the most gleeful cookbooks of 2023.'...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times 'You...
The Prison Doctor

The Prison Doctor

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Author: Dr Amanda Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on BBC Breakfast Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients...
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History

I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance and History

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Author: Emmanuel Iduma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA 'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA 'Both epic...
Elton John at 75

Elton John at 75

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Author: Gillian G. Gaar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 A unique and beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton John at 75 examines Sir Elton's...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

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Author: Alexander Wolff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' - Philippe Sands In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff...
Black and Female

Black and Female

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Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness...
The Betrayal: The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos and Launderers

The Betrayal: The True Story of My Brush with Death in the World of Narcos and Launderers

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Author: Robert Mazur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel, he re-emerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his...
We Come With This Place

We Come With This Place

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Author: Debra Dank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 WE COME WITH THIS PLACE AWARDS AND LISTINGS: Shortlisted for 2023?NSW Premier's Literary Awards Shortlisted for 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award...
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

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Author: Mark T. Esper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure...
Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan

Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out - King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan

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Author: Saul David Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first...
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

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Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

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Author: Gabrielle Union Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "You Got Anything Stronger continues the project of unshackling. It's soul-baring work." - The Washington Post So. Where were we Right,...
Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style and Breaking All the Rules

Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style and Breaking All the Rules

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Author: Patricia Field Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture - bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication...
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...
The World According to Joan Didion

The World According to Joan Didion

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Author: Evelyn McDonnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who...
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: Paperback 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...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

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Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this...
Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class

Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class

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Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

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Author: Safiya Sinclair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' TARA WESTOVER 'To read it is to believe that words can save' MARLON JAMES 'I adored this book...
The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

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Author: Ron DeSantis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He...
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

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Author: Cody Keenan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan's new book...
Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride Into Parenthood

Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride Into Parenthood

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Author: Sophie McCartney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Welcome to the jungle... When you've grown up thinking your twenties are all about working hard, playing hard and trying not...
My Own Words

My Own Words

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Author: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg-"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly...
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

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Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
Cold-Water Eden

Cold-Water Eden

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Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's most captivating...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

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Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of...
Unbroken

Unbroken

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Author: Laura Hillenbrand Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 500 The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. On a May afternoon in...
Wavewalker: Breaking Free

Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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Author: Suzanne Heywood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a...
A Class Act

A Class Act

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Author: Rob Beckett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Pacy, witty and affectionate' Guardian Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and...
Living Brave: Lessons from Hurt, Lighting the Way to Hope

Living Brave: Lessons from Hurt, Lighting the Way to Hope

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Author: Shannon Dingle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "Shannon's struggle, defiance, strength, and power emanate from every page. That kind of brave can be trusted." - Glennon Doyle, #1...
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)

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Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in...
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh

The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh

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Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur and the most powerful...
Code Name Blue Wren

Code Name Blue Wren

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Author: Jim Popkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to...
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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Author: Dr Matt Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had...
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...
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...
Phosphorescence: Winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021

Phosphorescence: Winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021

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Author: Julia Baird Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that...
Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak

Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak

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Author: Rosie Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A family with a dark secret. A child who refuses to speak. Rosie must help her before it's too late. Nine-year-old...
Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures And Cautionary Tales Of A Former Playboy Bunny

Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures And Cautionary Tales Of A Former Playboy Bunny

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Author: Holly Madison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A spontaneous decision at age 21 transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's number-one girlfriend. But like...