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Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in
The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi,
This brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-cultureThe Dead Don't Need...
Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution
As the son of a noble family which was nearly wiped out in the Revolution and as an ambitious politician during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, he had...
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
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It was at the height of the Cold War, in the summer of 1950, when Bruno Pontecorvo mysteriously vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Who was he, and what caused him...
Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to
Jared Kindred left his home and family at the age of eighteen, choosing to wander across America on freight train cars and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most...
War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the
Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and...
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith,
In this powerful memoir, the creator of the viral videos "Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black", Tyler Merritt, shares his experiences as a Black man in America...
Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life
Courage and outrage inform 13 essays about black womanhood.Searing in its emotional honesty, Womanish is an essay collection by award-winning author Kim McLarin that explores what it means to be...
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma
A Times Biography of the YearAda Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that still influence...
What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History
Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she was born in Russia and has lived in Czechoslovakia,...
Everything Else is Bric-a-brac: Notes on Home
A collection of 60 short prose pieces by best-selling author and design critic Akiko Busch that reflect, in her classic style of observation, on the human condition and offer insights...
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called
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This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker--a woman known only as Alien. When...
Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century
Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after his death, the man is...
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting...
Why We Travel
Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
A Very Private School
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year'Shocking and moving' Guardian'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose' The Times At eight...
Ian Fleming: The man who created James Bond
The definitive biography of author Ian FlemingIan Fleming's life was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation, James Bond 007. Andrew Lycett's direct access to Fleming's family, friends...
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's
Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history-Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.?An...
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa
From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that...
Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way
Gina Miller came to prominence when she brought one of the most significant constitutional cases ever to be heard in the British Supreme Court. Gina successfully challenged the UK government's...
Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to
The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright...
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea
The official biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem 'My Country.' 'I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains...' Though many Australians...
Stray
From the author of the international bestseller Sweetbitter, a memoir of survival, starting over, and love in all its complicated guises. Even after achieving her dream of selling her debut...
The Fixer: Moguls, Mobsters, Movie Stars, and Marilyn
A riveting tell-all biography that delves into the extraordinary life of Hollywood's most infamous private detective and "fixer" to the stars, revealing newly discovered shocking revelations from his never-before-seen investigative...
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on
'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL BRYSON'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of...
Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic
From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium of poems, images, personal stories, and vignettes that explore magic, queerness, Tyler's unique story,...
The Art of the Publisher
An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing In this illuminating volume, Roberto Calasso reflects on more than half...
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
'A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity...no Proustian should be without it.' - Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster'Literate, lively, and leavened by wry and gentle humour, Living and Dying with...
Yorkshire: There and Back
In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner,...
If Not Now, When?
TV personality, founder of Childline, writer and broadcaster, Esther Rantzen has spent her life tirelessly campaigning on behalf of children and mental health sufferers. In this personal and anecdotal handbook,...
Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News.
Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's...
Bacon in Moscow
'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' - Grayson PerryThis funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount...
None of this Rocks: The brilliant first memoir by Fall Out Boy
None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman - lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy - that reads like a double album full of revealing stories...
Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and
Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman'...
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine
TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Telegraph ***** 'Gaudoin's book is revealing and hugely...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of
The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
George: A Magpie Memoir
An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah'This book pulses with a defiant wonder at the living world, as...
Living on a Thin Line
The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian'This powerful tell-all from the Kinks guitarist puts the spotlight on his own bad behaviour,...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka
'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure...
Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams
'That politics was the most exciting of all the exciting things in the world I never doubted'Shirley Williams was born to politics. As well as being influenced by her mother,...
Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the [...]
For fans of The Queen's Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport with the most famous...
Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man's world. 'Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves...
The Lady as Saint: Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century
Author: Brigitte Cazelles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The 13th century was the golden age of French verse hagiography, and more than half of the 200 extant French saint's...