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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

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Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...
Little Tractor

Little Tractor

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Author: Format: Board book Number of Pages: 7
Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

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Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...
Self-help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America

Self-help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America

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Author: Steven Watts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 586 "An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans how to win friends and influence people b> efore Stephen Covey, Oprah...
The Messenger

The Messenger

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Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Every reporter knows the first rule of journalism: never betray your source. But what if your source turns out...
Face It: A Memoir

Face It: A Memoir

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Author: Debbie Harry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to...
Alpha Docs

Alpha Docs

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Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 After completing grueling residencies, the competition for subspecialty fellowships in the medical world is intense. And few fellowships, if any, are more selective...
The Throwaway Boy

The Throwaway Boy

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Author: Alix Chapel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When Alix Chapel's husband Billy suffered a mental breakdown, he was forced to admit the truth of his tormented...
Taking Command Book

Taking Command

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Author: General Sir David Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013...
Born Survivors: The Incredible True Story Of Three Pregnant Mothers And Their Courage Determination

Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

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Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...
White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties

White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties

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Author: Jacky Hyams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In the follow-up to her bestselling memoir Bombsites and Lollipops, Jacky Hyams takes a look back to the years...
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 . ....
Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

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Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A Sunday Times top-five bestseller 'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . ....
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 Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner

The Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner

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Author: Vicki Laveau-Harvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly compressed energy of an explosive...
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...
Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

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Author: Cassandra King Conroy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I've read." - Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times...
Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

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Author: Sophie Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at...
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

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Author: Various Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them -...
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...
David Bowie: Starman

David Bowie: Starman

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Author: Paul Trynka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 "Ziggy Stardust," "Changes," Under Pressure," "Let's Dance," "Fame," "Heroes," and of course, "Starman." These are the classic songs of David Bowie,...
Part Reptile: UFC, MMA and Me

Part Reptile: UFC, MMA and Me

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Author: Dan Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For fans of Ronda Rousey's My Fight Your Fight and John Kavanagh's Win or Learn comes the first book...
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...
Stay Golden

Stay Golden

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Author: Lucky Blue Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 While most kids my age were sitting in English class waiting for the bell to ring, I was...
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

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Author: Andrew Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. The sensational aspects...
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...
The Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

The Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

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Author: Dr Peter Dorward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Everyone is a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
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...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

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Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978

Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978

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Author: Andy Neill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The most dynamic day-to-day chronicle of the band ever compiled. Organised by year, each chapter of the book gives...
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....
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

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Author: A N Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince...
Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

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Author: Marcello Simonetta Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but...
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...
Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

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Author: Mike Tyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 One of the most talked-about and best-selling books of last year, this is the no-holds-barred autobiography of a sporting...
Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

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Author: Chris Christie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 After dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, Chris Christie stunned the political world by becoming the first major...
Shrill Notes from a Loud Woman

Shrill Notes from a Loud Woman

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Author: Lindy West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 *CATCH THE TV ADAPTATION OF SHRILL ON BBC3 NOW* 'Lindy West is an essential (and hilarious) voice for women. Her talent...
Bruce

Bruce

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Author: Peter Ames CarlinFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 496  Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the...
Deep Down Dark The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine

Deep Down Dark The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine

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Author: Hector Tobar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ' . . . an eloquent testament to the human spirit' The Times The heart-stopping survival...
The Last Leonardo The Secret Lives of the Worlds Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo The Secret Lives of the Worlds Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In...
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

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Author: Ann Wroe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Four questions consumed Shelley and coloured everything he wrote. Who, or what, was he? What was his purpose? Where...
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4 1928-1929

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4 1928-1929

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Author: Valerie Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents...
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...
Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly...
Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior

Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior

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Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...