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The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear

The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear

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Author: Kate Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman...
Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America

Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America

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Author: Alec MacGillis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon's impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States....
A Banquet of Consequences RELOADED: How we got into the mess we're in, and why we need to act now

A Banquet of Consequences RELOADED: How we got into the mess we're in, and why we need to act now

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Author: Satyajit Das Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'A powerful book . . . highly readable and informative . . . Demands to be read.' - Lindsay...
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about...
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

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Author: Colm Toibin (Columbia University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From Colm Toibin, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture,...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

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Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?

What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?

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Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up...
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...
How To Be an Antiracist

How To Be an Antiracist

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Author: Ibram X. Kendi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A radical new way to think about racism and an inspiring treatise for what to do about it from the...
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

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Author: Maggie Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, THE SOCIAL INSTINCT reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined...
Nightbitch: Stylist's summer 2021 cult breakout

Nightbitch: Stylist's summer 2021 cult breakout

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Author: Rachel Yoder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Jenny Offill and Curtis Sittenfeld, this is a funny, provocative, pin-sharp novel that redefines modern motherhood...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

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Author: Amanda Gorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem 'The Hill We Climb,' read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a...
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

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Author: Kate Murphy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will...
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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Author: Caroline Criado Perez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one...
The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

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Author: Nadifa Mohamed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . . Mahmood Mattan...
The Second Sex

The Second Sex

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Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes.A long awaited, highly acclaimed new translation...
Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives

Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich?: The Dangerous History of Meat Additives

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Author: Guillaume Coudray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 306 The result of more than five years of detailed research, documentary filmmaker Guillaume Coudray's book demonstrates why many in...
The Queer Bible

The Queer Bible

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Author: Jack Guinness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)

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Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet....
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
Places I've Taken My Body

Places I've Taken My Body

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Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die

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Author: Katie Engelhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable,...
The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour

The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour

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Author: Jenny Linford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A delightful epicurean adventure through the most essential yet overlooked of culinary ingredients- time. The Missing Ingredient is about...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

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Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
The Mabinogion

The Mabinogion

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Author: Jeffrey Gantz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the Mabinogion passed from generations of storytellers before they were...
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing

The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing

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Author: Hannah Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world Feminism is the insight that women are...
Women, Race & Class

Women, Race & Class

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Author: Angela Y. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis 'Black...
Notorious RBG: Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Notorious RBG: Young Readers' Edition: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Author: Irin Carmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 "A tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that does more than catalog her achievements; it conveys her spirit, one that will...
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods

Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods

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Author: Otegha Uwagba Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'An important, timely personal essay' OBSERVER BEST BOOKS OF 2020 'Not taking any bullshit...sharp and stylish...brutal' GUARDIAN BOOK OF...
Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World

Foot Work: What Your Shoes Are Doing to the World

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Author: Tansy E. Hoskins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Do you know where your shoes come from? Do you know where they go when you're done with...
Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution

Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution

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Author: Wendell Steavenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went...
Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

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Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935?2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary...
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...
The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series

The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series

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Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series ** THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Author: Naomi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century

Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century

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Author: David Goodhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

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Author: Anand Giridharadas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

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Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well

The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well

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Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
Facebook: The Inside Story

Facebook: The Inside Story

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Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began

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Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
Sister Outsider

Sister Outsider

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Winner of the FT Business Book of the Year Award

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram - Winner of the FT Business Book of the Year Award

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Author: Sarah Frier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The extraordinary inside story of how Instagram became the world's most successful app Winner of the FT & McKinsey...
Made In America: An Informal History of American English

Made In America: An Informal History of American English

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Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 An informal history of the English language in America by the inimitable Bill Bryson. 'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive'...
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

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Author: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Up...