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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

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Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
The Wager

The Wager

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Author: David Grann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of...
The Birth Of Melbourne

The Birth Of Melbourne

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The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars

The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars

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Social Sketches of Australia

Social Sketches of Australia

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Defiant Voices: How Australia's Female Convicts Challenged Authority 17881853

Defiant Voices: How Australia's Female Convicts Challenged Authority 17881853

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Author: Babette Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

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Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 928 WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedy's international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic...
Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings

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Author: Matt Lodder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World

Heroic Animals: Amazing Creatures that Changed Our World

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Author: Clare Balding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ORDINARY ANIMAL. EVERY ONE HAS A HEROIC STORY TO TELL. Discover how . ....
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present

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Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which...
The Fairytale: A real and imagined history of Australian sport

The Fairytale: A real and imagined history of Australian sport

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War As I Knew It

War As I Knew It

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The Great World War 1914-1945: 1. Lightning Strikes Twice

The Great World War 1914-1945: 1. Lightning Strikes Twice

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Heroes of Rimau

Heroes of Rimau

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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability

And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability

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Spirit of Kokoda, The (New Edition)

Spirit of Kokoda, The (New Edition)

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Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022

Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022

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Author: Andrea Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back...
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

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Author: The Countess of Carnarvon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory...
Bittersweet: The story of sugar

Bittersweet: The story of sugar

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The Histories

The Histories

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Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets: Unusual Stories from South Africa's Past

Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets: Unusual Stories from South Africa's Past

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Interventions

Interventions

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The Girls

The Girls

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The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

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Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...
In Bligh's Hand: Surviving the Mutiny on the Bounty

In Bligh's Hand: Surviving the Mutiny on the Bounty

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Give War a Chance

Give War a Chance

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Among The Barbarians

Among The Barbarians

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A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

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Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a...
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed

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Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Eric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilisations of the...
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world

Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world

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Author: Brett Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 ** Shortlisted, 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award ** Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in...
The Snowy: A History

The Snowy: A History

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Author: Siobhn McHugh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Snowy: A History tells theextraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of theworld's engineering marvels. The Snowy...
The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

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A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

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Author: Eric D. Weitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 **Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers** Once dominated by vast empires, the world is...
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England

Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England

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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

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Jerusalem: The Biography - A History of the Middle East

Jerusalem: The Biography - A History of the Middle East

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Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated

Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated

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Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s

Journey of Hope: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s

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The Great Divide

The Great Divide

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Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Endeavour: a Photographic Journey: A Photographic Journey

Endeavour: a Photographic Journey: A Photographic Journey

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Macquarie

Macquarie

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Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world

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Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his...
Mr Stuart's Track

Mr Stuart's Track

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