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Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
Author: Reyna Grande Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" -Publishers Weekly "[These...
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian
Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The latest installment from always funny, sometimes bizarre comic David Sedaris. Praise for Theft By Finding The writing here...
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
Author: Barnaby Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men...
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women
Author: Inger Burnett-Zeigler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable -but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is...
Yearbook
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Author: Seth Rogen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the...
The Ox: The Last of the Great Rock Stars: The Authorised Biography of The Who's John Entwistle
Author: Paul Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A highly entertaining read' The Times Music Books of the Year 'Eye-popping' The Times best summer books The definitive no-holds-barred biography...
Confess: The year's most touching and revelatory rock autobiography' Telegraph's Best Music Books of 2020
Author: Rob Halford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his. 'The most hotly anticipated hard-rock autobiography of the year' 'Rob Halford has...
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
Friendship & Other Essays
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 144
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most well-known American nature writers, essayists and poets.
The Easy Day Was Yesterday: Life, The SAS and 24 Days in Jail
Author: Paul Jordan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 My SAS selection course instructor, was as hard as nails. At the start of each day's training, he would...
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide
Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
Author: Gabrielle Union Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Included in Time's 100 Must Read Books of 2021 list * A New York Times Best Seller * One of Audible's...
Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today's Disruptors
Author: Ellis Cose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ranging from chattel slavery, through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that investigates how pivotal decisions have...
Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
Author: Jenna Bush Hager Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today...
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
Author: Jesse Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is...
Strong to Serve: An Australian Spitfire Pilot's war over Europe
Author: Joseph Mack Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 364 Following training in Australia, Canada and the UK, Fred Riley flew Spitfires with No 130 (Punjab) Squadron RAF from October 1943...
The Last Assassin
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined...
The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
Author: Boris Kavalerchik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 193 The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a...
Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues
Author: Matt Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The electric and daring independent wrestling tag team share their inspiring story of how two undersized, ambitious athletes from...
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters,...
The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-73
Author: Allan Kozinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in...
Wrecking Ball: A Big Lad From a Small Island - My Story So Far
Author: Billy Vunipola Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Wrecking Ball is a captivating and humorous memoir by Billy Vunipola, one of the stars of England's recent rugby renaissance, and...
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century
Author: Christopher Capozzola Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces....
Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet
Author: Hof Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into...
Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
Author: Annette Gordon-Reed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town....
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
Secret Warriors: Key Scientists, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War
Author: Taylor Downing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The First World War is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided...
Sammy Davis Jr.: A Personal Journey with My Father
Author: Nina Pierce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Nicknamed Mr. Show Business, Sammy Davis Jr. was a consummate performer who sang, danced, and acted on film, television, radio, and...
Dogfella: How an Abandoned Dog Named Bruno Turned This Mobster's Life Around--A Memoir
Author: Charlie Stella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 How did a former mob enforcer become a compassionate advocate for animals in need of loving homes? How did his hardened...
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web
Author: David Weinberger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just...
The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
Author: Don Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 "Doyle's important book reveals why the war was more than a domestic quarrel it was also a geopolitical event that shook...
Alex's Wake: The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany and a Grandson's Journey of Love and Remembrance
Author: Martin Goldsmith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Alex's Wake is a tale of two parallel journeys undertaken seven decades apart. In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut...
The Brazilians
Author: Joseph Page Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A country warmly hospitable and surprisingly violent, physically beautiful, yet appallingly poor,these are the contrasts Joseph Page explores in The Brazilians,...
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
Author: Robert Coles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 206 Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her...
Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan
Author: Toby Harnden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody...
Return to Victory: MacArthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines
Author: James P. Duffy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It had been two and a half difficult years since General Douglas MacArthur had reluctantly obeyed a presidential order to...
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children...
Fatal Mission: The Life and Death of the Crew of the Naughty Nan 467 SQN RAAF
Author: Mal Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Fatal Mission is the story of Australian navigator Oscar Furniss, just one of 55,000 young men who perished while flying for...
Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor
Author: Sir James Rowland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 520 A descendant of early pioneers of New South Wales, James Rowland combined a thirst for adventure with a strong sense...
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945
Author: Lee Eric Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
Sea Monsters: Savage Submarine Commanders of World War Two
Author: Tony Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 348 The true story of a deeply murderous intent that lurked menacingly beneath the waves during World War Two. The torpedoes strike...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.
Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Author: Matthew Avery Sutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild"...
The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
Author: Leslie Cavendish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set...
The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age
Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....