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Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real

Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real

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Author: Mariana Atencio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this much-needed book, which is part self-help and part autobiography, award-winning correspondent Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of...
The Corinthian Girl: Champion Athlete of Ancient Olympia

The Corinthian Girl: Champion Athlete of Ancient Olympia

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Author: Christina Balit Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 The brilliantly illustrated tale of one girl's epic achievement, from slavehood to champion athlete in the great Herean Games of Ancient...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss

Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss

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Author: Jenna Bush Hager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today...
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy

The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy

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Author: Lawrence Freedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 522 '...Lawrence Freedman has provided a masterly account of the evolution of nuclear strategic thought which is steeped in scholarship, elegantly written,...
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mercedes Barcha

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes

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Author: Rodrigo Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 "This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone...
Moo: A book of happiness for cow lovers

Moo: A book of happiness for cow lovers

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Author: Angus St. John Galloway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and...
Every Tool's A Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

Every Tool's A Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

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Author: Adam Savage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 * THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Adam has drawn for us an imperative...
Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind

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Author: Patricia Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place...
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers

Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers

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Author: Michelle Obama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A younger reader's edition of the number-one bestselling memoir by former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. With a...
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 / softback 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...
V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

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Author: Robert Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The no. 1 bestselling author of MUNICH and THE SECOND SLEEP returns to the Second World War for his...
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History

Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever...
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

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Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency,...
Atlantic Kingdom: America's Contest with Cunard in the Age of Sail and Steam

Atlantic Kingdom: America's Contest with Cunard in the Age of Sail and Steam

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Author: John A. Butler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 Atlantic Kingdom pays tribute to the Americans who challenged Cunard, the shipping company that held a monopoly on...
Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson

Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson

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Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...
The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

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Author: Kenneth C Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War....
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

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Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Wicked Lord Lyttelton

Wicked Lord Lyttelton

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Author, Thomas Frost Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 192 A drug addict and debaucher of women, Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, indulged in all the vices and libertinism...
Bitter Experience Has Taught Me

Bitter Experience Has Taught Me

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Author, Nicholas Lezard (Non Fiction Reviews, guardian) Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 304 In 2007, Nicholas Lezard was kicked out of his home, for reasons we need not...
Backstop Land

Backstop Land

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Author, David Passes Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 46 A witty and impassioned book on Ulster, which has been thrust into the centre of British and European politics...
Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money

Unsolved Case Files, Escape at 10,000 Feet, D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money

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Author, Tom Sullivan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 104 A thrilling new graphic nonfiction series about real FBI cases, launching with a gripping, minute-by-minute account of the only...
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

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Author: Mike Love Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The New York Times Bestseller Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the...
In Days to Come: A New Hope for Israel

In Days to Come: A New Hope for Israel

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Author: Avraham Burg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Born in 1955, Avraham Burg witnessed firsthand many of the most dramatic and critical junctions in Israeli history. Here he chronicles...
Protest!

Protest!

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Author: Alice Haworth-Booth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Illustrated by Emily Haworth-Booth, and written by Emily and her sister Alice, this book is a timely history of peaceful protests...
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: Paperback / softback 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 Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

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Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

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Author: David Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 David Green believes that generosity and building a legacy based on giving can lead to getting back what you really want:...
Forces of Nature

Forces of Nature

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Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the acclaimed BBC TV series, providing...
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

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Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners...
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back...
Edison

Edison

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Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

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Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

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Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat

The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat

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Author: Eric Haseltine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets...
New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

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Author: Clyde Haberman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

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Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400  The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review The birth...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

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Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
No Surrender Young Readers' Edition: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism

No Surrender Young Readers' Edition: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism

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Author: Chris Edmonds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The epic true story of Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, an American hero who risked his life in the final days of...
Cod

Cod

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Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been triggered by it, national diets have been based...