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Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During the late stages in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, U.S. Navy Captain George Dyer was wounded in...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
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...
Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
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...
Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and Connection
Author: Mimi Zhu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Be Not Afraid of Love is a stunning collection of interconnected essays and affirmations that follow Mimi Zhu's journey toward embodying...
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth
Author: Esther Safran Foer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that...
Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
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Author: Paul Betts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Winner of the American Philosophical Society's 2021 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History From an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of...
Nautical Chic
Author: Amber Jane Butchart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From Chanel's coastal couture to McLaren and Westwood's punk-fuelled pirates, from Jean Paul Gaultier's beefcake camp to Tommy Hilfiger's preppy...
Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic
Author: Gareth C. Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 286 The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile...
Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
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Author: Linda Kinstler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back...
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
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Author: Anne Sebba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes...
Jump: From the Streets to the Suites
Author: Larry Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Author: Cleve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was part of the last generation of gay people who grew up not knowing if there...
Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East
Author: M. C. Bishop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 197 Lucius Verus is one of the least regarded Roman emperors, despite the fact that he was co-ruler with his adoptive...
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
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Author: James Poskett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "A radical retelling... Poskett deftly blends the achievements of little-known figures into the wider history of science... The book brims with...
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork: A Sunday Times Book of the Year
Author: Reeves Wiedeman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 **The Sunday Times Best Business Book of the Year 2020** 'A satisfying ticktock of the company's rapid rise and crash, culminating...
The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Author: Lisa Z. Sigel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, The People's Porn offers the backstory to the explosion of amateur...
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys: Society's First Sex Offender
Author: Geoffrey Pimm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of...
Not Like Other Dads
Author: Sean Szeps Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A fearless, frank and funny memoir about reinventing the rules of parenting Sean had wanted to be a mum since the...
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning
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Author: Alex Halberstadt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a...
Icons of Style: Denim
Author: The Daily Street Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Once a functional piece of workwear, denim has long since taken its place as a global style icon - but...
Golem Girl: A Memoir - 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL
Author: Riva Lehrer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud Atlas The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of...
My Generation: Collected Nonfiction
Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 After an illustrious career spanning the 20th century legendary journalist Clare Hollingworth died in Hong Kong aged 105 in...
The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico
Author: Matthew D. O'Hara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field's focus on historical memory to examine colonial-era conceptions...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An Economist Best Book of the Year In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the...
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories
Author: Renee Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and we march...
Golden Harvest
Author: Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies, Professor of Politics and European Studies, New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It seems at first commonplace:...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship. 'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn,...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it...
Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink
Author: Ethan Chorin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries...
The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
Author: Nicholas Griffin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In the tradition of The Wire, the "utterly absorbing" (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of...
This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir
Author: Jenny Pentland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect...
Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
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Author: Jeff Madrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our...
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
Author: Eric D. Weitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 **Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers** Once dominated by vast empires, the world is...
The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Slavery and the trade that fuelled it underpinned Britain's economic position throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unsurprisingly, when the abolition...
The Nixon Tapes: 1973
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Author: Professor Douglas Brinkley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 848 The blueprint for Nixon's downfall, based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013, most of which have never been published...
The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century
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Author: Catherine Clinton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our national history. The American women...
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...