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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...
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

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Author: Jack Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question:...
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...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth: A Scientific Exploration Into the Heart of Our Planet

Journey to the Centre of the Earth: A Scientific Exploration Into the Heart of Our Planet

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Author: Dr David Whitehouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over...
Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent

Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent

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Author: Christopher Petkanas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Loulou de la Falaise was one of the most important women in the history of twentieth century fashion. Born in England...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

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Author: Magda Hellinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at...
Ferdinand Magellan (Little Guides to Great Lives)

Ferdinand Magellan (Little Guides to Great Lives)

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Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Explorer, sailor and navigator, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world. He encountered lands...
Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives

Nelson Mandela: Little Guides to Great Lives

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Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, Nelson Mandela's journey from political prisoner to president of South Africa is an incredible tale of...
Clothes... and other things that matter: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A beguiling and revealing memoir from the former Editor of British Vogue

Clothes... and other things that matter: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A beguiling and revealing memoir from the former Editor of British Vogue

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Author: Alexandra Shulman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Chosen by Evening Standard as one of the best books to look forward to in 2020. 'a must-read memoir for even...
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World

Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World

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Author: Hugh Pope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 413 A detailed portrait of the Turkic people explores events since World War I that have rendered the nation a vital NATO...
Fighting them on the Beaches

Fighting them on the Beaches

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Author: Nigel Cawthorne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
To Win a War

To Win a War

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Author: John Terraine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
The Child that Books Built

The Child that Books Built

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Author: Francis Spufford (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood? In The Child...
The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

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Author: Dominique Enright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 162 He took his seat in Parliament in the reign of Queen Victoria, and died when Lyndon Johnson was in his second...
Stranger than we can imagine

Stranger than we can imagine

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Author: John Higgs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
A Brief History of Spain: Indispensable for Travellers

A Brief History of Spain: Indispensable for Travellers

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Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is...
Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label

Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label

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Author: Alan McGee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Alan McGee's role in shaping British culture over the past thirty years is hard to overstate. As the founder...
Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age

Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age

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Author: Ben Wilson Format: Paperback  Number of Pages: 512 'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent ....
Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege

Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege

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Author: Marcus Luttrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

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Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone

Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone

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Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

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Author: Sunil Amrith (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 From a MacArthur Genius, a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to...
Keeping On Keeping On

Keeping On Keeping On

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Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I...
The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths

The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths

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Author: Stuart Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1969, James Nelson confessed to murder, served a prison sentence, then applied to be ordained as a minster in the...
The World of Peaky Blinders: An unofficial guide

The World of Peaky Blinders: An unofficial guide

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Author: Dan Whitehead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Welcome to The World of Peaky Blinders, a cultural guide to the world that inspired the hit BBC drama. Get ready...
DNA

DNA

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Author: Dr Kat Arney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The Compact Guide: DNA provides a fascinating look at the world of the double helix and examines who...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

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Author: Sarah Prager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 One of Time Out's "LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month," this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes readers...
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

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Author: Adam Tooze Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where...
Pele:  The Autobiography

Pele: The Autobiography

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Author: Pele Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to...
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks

Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks

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Author: Judy Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of...