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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,...
Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light

Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light

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Author: MS Susan Dunn (Williams College) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today The American and French revolutions presented...
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...
The Language of Blood

The Language of Blood

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Author: Jane Jeong Trenka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 244 "A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) My name is...
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...
The Elizabethans

The Elizabethans

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Author: A N Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 "In Wilson's hands these familiar stories make for gripping reading."--The New York Times Book Review New York Times Book Review...
Poser

Poser

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Author: Claire Dederer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 National Bestseller Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. Told to try yoga by...
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

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Author: Sujatha Gidla Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2017 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 A Shelf Awareness Best...
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...
Trickster Travels

Trickster Travels

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Author: Natalie Zemon Davis (University of Toronto) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers Al-Hasan...
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...
Graham Greene:: The Enemy Within

Graham Greene:: The Enemy Within

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Diamond Cuts: An Affectionate Memoir of Jim Mcclelland

Diamond Cuts: An Affectionate Memoir of Jim Mcclelland

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness And the Love of Words

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness And the Love of Words

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My Own Life: an Autobiography

My Own Life: an Autobiography

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Rewrites

Rewrites

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Remembering Bob

Remembering Bob

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A Concise History of Greece

A Concise History of Greece

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The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress

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MEMORIES OF THE GREAT AND THE GOOD

Memories of the Great and the Good

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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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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...
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance

Soar: A Life Freed by Dance

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Author: David McAllister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'McAllister's triumphant story.' Benjamin Law 'A ripping memoir.' Jane Turner From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a...
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

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Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
Constable: A Portrait

Constable: A Portrait

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Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times

Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times

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Author: Sasha Swire Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Sunday Times Political Book of the Year A Book of the Year pick in the New Statesman, Financial Times, Telegraph, Guardian,...
In Strictest Confidence

In Strictest Confidence

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Author: Craig Revel Horwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The third instalment in Craig Revel Horwood's frank and funny autobiography takes the reader through the highs and lows of...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

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Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

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Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

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Author: Julie Welch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s...
Solid Ivory

Solid Ivory

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Author: James Ivory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Over 20 films. Over 40 years. What collaboration in any medium has lasted so long, been so successful, so personal, so...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

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Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon

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Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...
Maradona: The Boy. The Rebel. The God.

Maradona: The Boy. The Rebel. The God.

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Author: Guillem Balague Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 MARADONA is the definitive new biography of a true global icon, from world-renowned football writer and journalist Guillem Balague. Diego Armando...
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues

On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues

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Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

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Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Above Water: A Stolen Childhood, An Enduring Scandal, A Survivor's Story

Above Water: A Stolen Childhood, An Enduring Scandal, A Survivor's Story

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Author: Trish Kearney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "When my parents signed me up to Trojan Swimming Club, they had no idea of the evil behind Gibney's interest in...
Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year

Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year

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Author: Bobby Gillespie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 ROUGH TRADE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class...