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The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

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Author: Florence de Changy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book...
Manga Girls

Manga Girls

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I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

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Author: Esther Safran Foer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that...
The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

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Author: Douglas Century Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba,...
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us

The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us

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Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they...
Through a Glass Darkly: Journeys through Science, Faith and Doubt - A Memoir

Through a Glass Darkly: Journeys through Science, Faith and Doubt - A Memoir

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Author: Dr Alister E McGrath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In what he anticipates will be his final book, respected scientist and theologian Professor Alister McGrath shares the story...
The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century

The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century

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Author: Catherine Clinton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our national history. The American women...
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

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Author: Professor of History Camilla Townsend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann

House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann

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Author: Evelyn Juers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In 1933, the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in...
Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany

Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany

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Author: Mark Roseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help...
Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896

Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896

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Author: Charles Postel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality-in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists,...
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend

Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend

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Author: Diana Athill (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains...
I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir

I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir

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Author: Jan Grue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I am not talking about surviving... I am not talking about becoming human, but about how I came to realize that...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

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Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As the bookish daughter of a travelling salesman, Jami Attenberg was drawn to the road. Her wanderlust led her to drive...
Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

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Author: Danielle Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Author of The Cut's viral article shared thousands of times unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the...
Small Bodies of Water

Small Bodies of Water

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Author: Nina Mingya Powles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored?...
The Reactor: A Book about Grief and Repair

The Reactor: A Book about Grief and Repair

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Author: Nick Blackburn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 I tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up...
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

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Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 How does a man become a God? It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found...
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time

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Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four year old Sybil Andrews. They...
Wreck: Gericault's Raft and the Art of Being Lost at Sea

Wreck: Gericault's Raft and the Art of Being Lost at Sea

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Author: Tom de Freston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Artist Tom de Freston has long had an obsession with Gericault's painting The Raft of the Medusa, and the troubling...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

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Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper

Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper

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Author: Carol Ann Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Original, intelligent and thought-provoking, Carol Ann Lee's book sheds new light on to the human stories behind the headlines. A...
Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51

Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51

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Author: D.J. Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A Times Book of the Year 2019 'You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it' Sunday Times 'A remarkable...
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and  the Search for Truth in Tehran

City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran

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Author: Ramita Navai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Lying in Tehran is about survival. Welcome to Tehran, a city where survival depends on a network of subterfuge. Here is...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

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Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. A New York Times...
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist

Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist

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Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022 You dreamed of being a journalist and the dream has come...
Running From the Shadows: A true story of how one woman faced her past and ran towards her future

Running From the Shadows: A true story of how one woman faced her past and ran towards her future

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Author: Stephanie Hickey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In Running from the Shadows Stephanie Hickey tells, in her own words, how she survived abuse at the hands of a...
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

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Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes...
Here Lies Hugh Glass

Here Lies Hugh Glass

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Author: Jon T Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The true story behind The Revenant. In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled mountain man Hugh Glass in...
Why I Read

Why I Read

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Author: Wendy Lesser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In...
Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

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Author: Geoffrey Cain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An explosive expose of Samsung that "reads like a dynastic thriller, rolling through three generations of family intrigue, embezzlement, bribery, corruption,...
Mordecai: An Early American Family

Mordecai: An Early American Family

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Author: Emily Bingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 346 An Intimate Portrait of a Jewish American Family in America's First Century Mordecai is a brilliant multigenerational history at the forefront...
First Generations: Women in Colonial America

First Generations: Women in Colonial America

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Author: C Berkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Carol Berkin's multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native...
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary

Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary

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Author: Henry Hitchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first...
Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir

Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir

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Author: Carmen Bugan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan...
God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother

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Author: Amy Seek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 God and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their...
1831: Year of Eclipse

1831: Year of Eclipse

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Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

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Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

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Author: Hector Tobar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio...
The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

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Author: Martha Saxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of...
In the Long Run: A Father, a Son, and Unintentional Lessons in Happiness

In the Long Run: A Father, a Son, and Unintentional Lessons in Happiness

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Author: Jim Axelrod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Got an urgent 'you've got to read this book' note from buddy Armen Keteyian, and I'm glad he was insistent ....
Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany

Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany

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Author: Yascha Mounk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A moving and unsettling exploration of a young man's formative years in a country still struggling with its past As a...
Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945

Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945

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Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest...
All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions...
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling

How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling

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Author: Jeremy Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath...
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today

Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today

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Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates...