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Traversal
In Traversal , Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: what makes a body a person? What makes a planet a world?...
Dear Data: A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards
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Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova ( Brain...
Is Peace Possible?
Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform....
Maria Callas: The Woman Behind The Legend
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling biography chronicles the tumultuous life of opera icon Maria Callas, moving beyond her celebrated stage presence to...
Maria Meneghini Callas
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The book titled Maria Meneghini Callas by the author Michael Scott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Callas 100
The sound of Maria Callas, artist and woman. Maria Callas was one of the most influential and renowned opera singers of the 20th century. Callas 100 recounts the diva's unparalleled...
Sisters: Life of Maria Callas
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My Cousin Maria Schneider
"Lovingly written" Deborah Harry "An exquisite portrait of a tragic heroine" Violaine Huisman A spare, heartbreaking memoir and tribute to Maria Schneider, the 1970s movie starlet who catapulted to fame...
The Devil & Maria D'Avalos
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Postern Of Fate
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the pen of the undisputed Queen of Crime comes Postern of Fate, a gripping mystery that draws its elderly protagonists — the irrepressible...
Doing It All: The Social Power of Single Motherhood
A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering. 'A brilliant book, fearlessly told.' Elinor Cleghorn, author of UNWELL WOMEN ''Lucid and liberating.'...
In Pursuit of Happiness: Mating, Marriage, Motherhood, Money, Mayhem
'Engaging, honest and funny...Stacey could write about Farrow & Ball paint drying - not to mention the breakdown of a marriage and a lifetime's dreams - and make it funny....
Poirot and Me
Hercule Poirot, with his distinctive moustache and fastidious ways, is one of Agatha Christie's finest creations, and one of the world's best-loved detectives. Through the television series 'Agatha Christie's Poirot',...
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World
During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate and eccentric in the world. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves tells the stories of some of the nineteenth century's...
Danse Macabre
An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel. 'It was the middle of November, I was supposed to be out jogging, but instead I was sitting at my breakfast table talking about...
The Bossier Baby: The Hilarious Follow-up to Boss Baby
Change is in the air-the Boss Baby's staff has stopped taking his direction! It seems that there is a new CEO in town; from the moment she comes home, Boss...
Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian
What happens if the psychiatric hospital in which you have lived for ten years is bombed and all the staff run away? What is it like to be a twelve-year-old...
Madeline and the Old House in Paris
In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines . . . In an old house in Paris that was...
Damsel: The new classic fantasy adventure now a major Netflix film
'The perfect spin to a fantasy fairy tale' - New York Times bestseller Chloe Gong 'Has all the fantasy, beauty, dragons, and intrigue of Game of Thrones ' - New...
The Lost Voices of Pompeii: The Final Day in Seven Lives
'Delightful ... Venner builds an excellent narrative of a city that was thriving and bustling with life at the very point it was snuffed out.' The Times We all know...
Politics is Murder: a darkly comic political thriller full of
'A hilarious political satire bursting with black humour with an unforgettable anti-heroine' 5* Review 'A fast-paced, witty and entertaining political thriller' 5* Review Charlotte Heard is one of few women...
Court Licensed Abuse: Patriarchal Lore and the Legal Response to
This book is based on award-winning research that analyzes transcripts of intrafamilial child sexual abuse trials. Building on the contemporary focus of legal trials as hegemonic sites of storytelling from...
Nun The Less: The Autobiography Of Sister Mary Noonan
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA life of faith, sacrifice, and extraordinary purpose unfolds in Nun the Less, the candid and...
The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher: From Grocer's Daughter to Iron Lady
Read the true story that inspired the major new film, The Iron Lady. John Campbell's magisterial biography is the political biography of Margaret Thatcher. 'An enormously useful achievement...every twist and...
Pointing from the Grave: A True Story of Murder and DNA
A true scientific and legal thriller with a perfect twist. In April 1984, a young British DNA scientist was sexually assaulted in her San Francisco cottage. A year later, and...
Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India
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In Uttar Pradesh-known as the "badlands" of India-a woman's life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after...
The Last Grave: A pulse-pounding, gripping Scottish crime thriller
'A perfect "lights off, punch the air" kinda read' - Loaded 'Perfection from T.F. Muir' - reader review ????? ______________ Glasgow, Scotland: When a man's body is pulled from the...
The Silent Killer: the first in a thrilling police procedural series
'SUPER-SMART AND HIGHLY ORIGINAL' - Doug Johnstone 'BRILLIANT AND DEEPLY EVOCATIVE' - Graham Bartlett 'AN EXCITING START TO A NEW SERIES' - Patricia Gibney 'A WRITER AT THE TOP OF...
Moonlight Riders: Snow Mare: Book 5
Harness the power of the elements with the Moonlight Riders! An exciting series for young readers from bestselling author Linda Chapman, author of MY SECRET UNICORN and UNICORN ACADEMY. Could...
Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O and the Love
Peter Evans's biography of Aristotle Onassis, Ari , metwith great acclaim when it was published in 1986. Ariprovided the world with an unprecedented glimpse of theGreek shipping magnate's orbit of...
Planet Ponzi
The world economy is now approaching the final death rattle of the greatest Ponzi scheme in history- a scheme in which politicians stood by as the financial industry and Sovereign...
The Necessary Rituals of Maren Gripe
A giddyingly magical fable of the power of unshackled desire, set in a North Sea fishing community. Maren abstains from salt, meat and sex on Saturdays. On the other days...
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
The Superclass - politicians, military leaders, finance gurus, energy barons, media moguls and thought leaders - is the small group that currently plays the greatest role in shaping the progress...
DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia
The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012 We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating...
Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free
No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know the full Churchill is to understand the combination of boldness and caution, of assertiveness and humility, that defines...