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Memoirs and Reflections

Memoirs and Reflections

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Author: Evgeny Kissin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian-British-Israeli classical pianist. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has been...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED

Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED

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Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOK CLUB 2016 SELECTION! 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS...
Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

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Author: Reverend Richard Coles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'I love @RevRichardColes SO MUCH' Caitlin Moran FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles's warm, witty and wise...
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 / softback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday...
The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN. Without fear,...
A Stolen Childhood: A dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future

A Stolen Childhood: A dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future

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Author: Casey Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

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Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

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Author: Hyeonseo Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships...
Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

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Author: Graham Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and England. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort

Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort

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Author: Raffi Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a...
Good Company: How to Build a Business without Losing Your Values

Good Company: How to Build a Business without Losing Your Values

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Author: Julietta Dexter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In a highly competitive world, many think business success means being ruthless: maximising short-term return for shareholders, cutting overheads,...
Tom Stoppard: A Life

Tom Stoppard: A Life

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Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...
Mr Five Per Cent: The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man

Mr Five Per Cent: The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man

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Author: Dr Jonathan Conlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

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Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science): Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition

The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science): Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition

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Author: Claire Brock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel...
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

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Author: Tembi Locke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and...
Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography

Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography

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Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Founder of one of the most influential and successful rock bands of all time, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

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Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...
Marshall: Lessons in Leadership

Marshall: Lessons in Leadership

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Author: H. Paul Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

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Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell...
The Smallest Lights In The Universe

The Smallest Lights In The Universe

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Author: Sara Seager Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning...
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

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Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New...
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur

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Author: Catherine Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits,...
Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives)

Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives)

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Author: Danielle Jawando Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several...
Lou Reed: A Life

Lou Reed: A Life

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Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...
Anna Comnena: A Study

Anna Comnena: A Study

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Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...
A Private War

A Private War

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Author: Marie Brenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan. The book that inspired the...
Talking to Strangers: And other ways of being human

Talking to Strangers: And other ways of being human

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Author: Michael Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'It's always a bad idea to go online and book a flight when you've had too much wine. You...
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures

On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures

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Author: Wilbur Smith Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction....
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953

Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953

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Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no...
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

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Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great...
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49

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Author: Patricia Malcolmson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'I've met such interesting people, and always heard unbelievable stories about people's lives. If I could put all in...
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,...
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov

The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov

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Author: Alex Beam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of...
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 . ....