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The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization
For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and...
Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism - Women's Fight for Change
In the Museum of London lies a purple feather, once worn by the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. The plumed hat was an essential part of her ultra-feminine image - and...
Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed
Lou Reed made it his mission to rub people the wrong way, whether it was with the noise rock he produced with the Velvet Underground in the late 1960s or...
Caesar's Footprints: A Cultural Excursion to Ancient France: Journeys Through Roman Gaul
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Julius Caesar's conquests in Gaul in the 50s BC were bloody, but the cultural revolution they brought in their wake forever transformed the ancient Celtic culture of that country. After...
The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising...
The Game
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose ...A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating thriller set in London's East End. 'Masterful' Susan Lewis'Feels different and fresh, Johnny Klein...
The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities
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Author: Gregory Berns Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A New York Times-bestselling author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are critical to our lives We all...
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests-from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to...
Virat Kohli (Amazing Cricket Stars, Book 2)
Meet the champion Indian batter, Virat Kohli, in this stunning unofficial biography! From when he was a small boy, Virat Kohli's special talent for cricket has wowed those around him...
Unicorn's Wobbly Bottom (Wobbly Bottoms)
Do you love books? Do you love dancing? Then you'll love this fun and cheeky new board book series - perfect for playful preschoolers! Who's got a wobbly bottom?Unicorn does!...
One Marine's War: A Combat Interpreter's Quest for Mercy in the Pacific
The first time that the entire story of one Marine Corps combat interpreter has been told; a compelling personal struggle to come to terms harrowing combat experiences Robert Sheeks was...
Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger
Otherworldly, provocative, and strange, Awake in the Dream World channels the looming, historical grimness of the classic fairy tale, illuminating the dichotomy between the real and imagined through the context...
The Romanov Brides: A Novel Of The Last Tsarina And Her Sisters
From the author of A Most English Princess comes a rich novel about young Princess Alix of Hesse-the future Alexandra, last Empress of Imperial Russia-and her sister, Princess Ella. Their...
Reading Champion: Run, Melina, Run: Independent Reading 14
Melina lives in Ancient Greece. She is a great runner and can even outrun her male friends. Maybe, just maybe, she can find a way to compete in the famous...
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir
Author: Leslie JonesFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 360g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023"You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder...
Find Out About ... Animal Babies
A colourful and gentle introduction to the concept of animal babies for young children.All animals have babies, but not all babies are the same! From big babies to little babies,...
Trespass
When your past is a lie, who are you?'Provocative, moving and timely' Mail on Sunday'Angry and engaged' Sunday Times'So perceptive and clever... I read Trespass in one go' Cathy Rentzenbrink'As...
The Bronte Sisters (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions): Three Novels
Author: Emily BronteFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 864 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2012The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre...
A Wedding in Provence
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The Super-Secret Diary of Holly Hopkinson: A Little Bit of a Big Disaster (Holly Hopkinson, Book 2)
A charming domestic comedy for readers of 8+, with a dash of magic, and the occasional moment of mayhem! These are the continued memoirs Holly Hopkinson, aged ten, except without...
The Perfect Present
A joyful and beautiful picture book celebrating friendship and sharingTom and Mot are best friends who share a birthday. Tom gives Mot a feather and Mot gives Tom a marble...
The Boy With The Star Tattoo: A Novel
From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to...
Fazal Sheikh and Terry Tempest Williams: The Moon is Behind Us
This book is an intimate personal correspondence between two leading political artists at a time of crisis. In the summer of 2020, their collaboration suddenly halted by Covid-19, photographer Fazal...
Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II
Author: Lloyd GardnerFormat: Paperback, 133mm x 202mm, 305g, 262 pagesPublished: The New Press, United Kingdom, 2011In an account of the U.S. role in the Middle East, Three Kings is an...
Reading Champion: The Farmer and the Ogre: Independent Reading Turquoise 7
In this Scandinavian traditional tale, a greedy ogre demands the farmer's crops. Can the farmer think of a way to trick him?This story is part of Reading Champion, a series...
Reading Champion: Little Red Riding Hood: Independent Reading Turquoise 7
Little Red Riding Hood is off to visit her grandmother, but the forest is full of danger ...This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book...
Art Crime and its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals
Art Crime and Its Prevention is the definitive handbook on art crime for art-world professionals of all kinds - from the museum, auction house or art-insurance employee to the contemporary...
A Writer's House in Wales
Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys,...
The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet
The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both.On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in...
Queerbook
Queerness is everywhere and it always has been. But queer stories, culture and communities have been often hidden . . . 'This affirming whistlestop tour through queer history and culture...
Queerbook
Queerness is everywhere and it always has been. But queer stories, culture and communities have been often hidden . . . 'This affirming whistlestop tour through queer history and culture...
To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...
Big Girl: A BBC Radio Two Book Club Pick. 'Absolutely incredible' Candice Carty-Williams
A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AND THE LAMBDA AWARD*'Absolutely incredible. Beautiful, powerful writing. These pages will stay...
Turbulence
'Each flick of the page suggests the tick of a countdown' New York Times Books Review'Artfully well-orchestrated' Sunday Times'Splendidly tense' Los Angeles Times The D-day landings - the fate of...
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monae returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of...
Movie Emojis: 100 Cinematic Q&As
A mashup of emojis and movie trivia that keeps film buffs, trivia geeks, and everyone who emojis guessing.Featuring 100 movie titles or plotlines, each described through a series of emojis...
Takedown
When a British Special Forces soldier goes rogue, carrying out an attack at a US army base in Syria leading to the death of two men, ex-MI5 controller Charlotte Button...
George Washington: Gentleman Warrior
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Opportunity Knocks
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"In Opportunity Knocks, Sweeney captures the insanity of Hollywood in the perfect blend of fun, intrigue, and romance." -- Portia De Rossi, actress and New York Times bestselling author of...
Greenland: A Novel
Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the...
DJ BBQ's Backyard Baking: 50 Awesome Recipes for Baking Over Live Fire
Backyard Baking will take your live fire skills and backyard set-up to the next level, covering everything you ever wanted to know about baking on your BBQ. The standard kettle...
Woven by Gold (Beasts of the Briar, Book 2)
A Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance Retelling A curse that must be broken. A human longing for home. Four yearning fae princes.A villain in the shadows.Rosalina O'Connell has been...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in...
Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation
A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to...
Save Me from Dangerous Men
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"An outstanding debut...If you're a fan of Jack Reacher or Lisbeth Salander, you are gonna love Nikki Griffin." --New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston "Action packed and razor sharp...
Father Figure
Jason Kirk is a thirty-two year old teacher who believes he is happily married until he returns home one day to find that his wife has left him, taking their...
Inside Opus Dei: The True, Unfinished Story
"A fascinating and disturbing book. . . a literary grenade seeking to blow apart Opus Dei's benign and exalted image. . . a picture of an obsessively secretive, manipulative and...
The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths
A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today Self-help today is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, one often seen...