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Checking In: How Getting Real About Depression Saved My Life-and Can Save Yours

Checking In: How Getting Real About Depression Saved My Life-and Can Save Yours

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Author: Michelle Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and the Rise of America's Opioid Crisis

Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and the Rise of America's Opioid Crisis

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Author: Jack Riley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 DEA Agent Jack Riley, "[Chicago's] most famous federal agent since the days of The Untouchables" (-Rolling Stone)tells the inside story of...
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

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Author: Colm Toibin (Columbia University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From Colm Toibin, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture,...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography

Young Rembrandt: A Biography

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Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

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Author: Tess Holliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Plus-size supermodel Tess Holliday's passionate plea for modern women, whoever and wherever they are, to be comfortable in their own...
Runner: A short story about a long run

Runner: A short story about a long run

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Author: Lizzy Hawker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Scared witless and surrounded by a sea of people, Lizzy Hawker stands in the church square at the centre...
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...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

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Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
The Journals of Captain Cook

The Journals of Captain Cook

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Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories.

Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories.

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Author: Nigella Lawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'More than just a mantra, "cook, eat, repeat" is the story of my life'- A brilliant new book from Nigella Lawson...
The Secret to Superhuman Strength

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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Author: Alison Bechdel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The new masterpiece from the bestselling, award-winning graphic novelist and feminist icon, whose fans include Gloria Steinem and Laura Marling *A...
Persepolis I & II

Persepolis I & II

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Author: Marjane Satrapi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and...
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

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Author: Debra Adelaide Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Books are impractical companions and housemates: they are heavy when you are travelling, and in the home take up...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

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Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
Out of this Century - Confessions of an Art Addict: The Autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim

Out of this Century - Confessions of an Art Addict: The Autobiography of Peggy Guggenheim

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Author: Peggy Guggenheim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 456 This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

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Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
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 (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

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Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent

Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent

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Author: Emma Baxter-Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is the pocket-sized and exquisitely illustrated story of 60 years of innovative fashion design. An...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
Unquiet

Unquiet

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Author: Linn Ullmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Each summer of her childhood,...
When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

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Author: Paul Kalanithi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book...
A History of My Brief Body

A History of My Brief Body

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Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal...
Aunts Up The Cross

Aunts Up The Cross

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Author: Robin Dalton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 142 My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

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Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 'Give me chastity, but not yet', Augustine famously prayed. His intimate spiritual masterpiece, The Confessions, has inspired millions...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

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Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

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Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
The Fry Chronicles

The Fry Chronicles

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

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Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie...
American Scoundrel

American Scoundrel

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last,...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

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Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

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Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's...
Personal Writings

Personal Writings

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side,...
Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that'  Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

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Author: Dr Richard Shepherd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A REAL-LIFE SILENT WITNESS FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S FOREMOST FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS The dead do not hide the truth...
The Trauma Cleaner

The Trauma Cleaner

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Author: Sarah Krasnostein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 261 A poignant and powerful celebration of one remarkable woman's unrelenting drive to make order from chaos. Before she was...
The Choice: A true story of hope

The Choice: A true story of hope

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Author: Edith Eger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Even...
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

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Author: Ashlee Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.' - Elon Musk South African born Elon Musk...
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire

Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire

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Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The definitive biography of Saladin. Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

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Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao and Empress Dowager Cixi- a gripping...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World

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Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
The American Duchess

The American Duchess

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Author:Anna Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life?...
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear

Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear

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Author: Willard Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to...