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Risible Rhymes
Author: Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking the pretensions...
In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East
Author: Maurice A. Pomerantz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Insights into power, spectacle, and performance in the courts of Middle Eastern rulers In recent decades, scholars have produced much...
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...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
Author: David N. Livingstone (Professor of Geography and Intellectual History, The Queen's University Belfast) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau
Author: Brian Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An exciting look at the artistic evolution of the iconic style of Doonesbury on the 40th anniversary of its publication. Best...
The Oracle of Maracoor: A Novel
Author: Gregory Maguire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire brings us the enchanting second novel in the series Another Day, returning to the world he...
One Spoon on This Earth
Author: Hyun Ki-Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 330 An autobiographical novel that takes a life to pieces, "One Spoon on this Earth" stands a sort of digest of contemporary...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria...
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
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Author: Roger Lowenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth...
Cave Dada
Author: Brandon Reese Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 It's bedtime for Dada's little cave baby. But Baba wants a bedtime story, and not just from any book. Baba wants...
Reading Champion: Fran Makes the Team: Independent Reading 16
Author: Jenny Jinks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Fran loves football and has great goal-scoring ability, but how can she get noticed by the school football coach and convince...
Temora and the Wordsnatcher
Author: Kate Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 276 Temora and the Wordsnatcher is a book of magic and adventure, self-discovery and the true power of words. It is peopled...
Open Book
Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by...
Grown
Author: Tiffany D Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An instant New York Times bestseller! "Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir,...
The Wrong Man
Author: David Ellis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A young girl is murdered, executed with a single bullet through her skull. A homeless man, Tom Stoller, is arrested. He...
League of Thieves
Author: Sarah Crofton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 YOU choose how the story unfolds as you embark on a thrilling adventure in this epic illustrated gamebook. Prepare for death-defying...
A Is for Always: An Adoption Alphabet
Author: Linda Cutting Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A is for Always. With your hand in mine, Adoption's a gift that will last for all time. With gentle rhymes...
Pierced
Author: Thomas Enger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on Oslo's underground crime scene, has been...
The Mammoth Adventure (The Princess Rules)
Author: Philippa Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Princess Florizella may live in a classic fairy-tale world, but she's no ordinary princess... This third volume in THE PRINCESS RULES...
Winter Term at Malory Towers
Author: Pamela Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A classic children's story from the world's best-loved children's author, Enid Blyton. Malory Towers is about everything school should stand for...
The Killing Game (Carson Ryder, Book 9)
Author: J. A. Kerley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Detective Carson Ryder's reputation is on the line when a sociopathic serial killer embarks on a personal vendetta,...
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
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Author: Ellen Ullman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, GQ, Slate, San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum,...
Real Easy: a bold, mesmerising and unflinching thriller featuring three unforgettable women
Author: Marie Rutkoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Very possibly the best crime fiction book since Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects' Neel Mukherjee Three Women meets Tana French in a...
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
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Author: Samantha Cristoforetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's intimate account of her first journey to the International Space Station, to which she returns in 2022, as...
A Season in Exile: 'Oliver Harris is an outstanding writer' The Times
Author: Oliver Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Anti-hero Nick Belsey, a policeman so maverick as to make Rebus look like a jobsworth, has burnt his bridges and fled...
This is NOT a Dragon Party
Author: Mike Flaherty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Age range 3 & up What happens when your birthday celebration includes a crazy dragon pool party, an all-knight karaoke festival,...
Medical Grade Music
Author: Steve Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 No-one, least of all Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi themselves, expected the six-time former World Snooker champion and a British-Iranian underground...
Payday: A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick for Autumn 2022
Author: Celia Walden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR AUTUMN 2022 Can YOU guess who killed Jamie Lawrence? ***Don't miss the new...
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times
Author: Rob Percival Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation,...
Epic Big Nate
Author: Lincoln Peirce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 If there's one word that Big Nate would use to describe himself, it would be E-P-I-C! And so is this slipcased,...
Charming as a Verb
Author: Ben Philippe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From the award-winning author of The Field Guide to the North American Teenager comes a whip-smart and layered romantic comedy. Perfect...
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...
Minding Miss Manners: In an Era of Fake Etiquette
Author: Judith Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Minding Miss Manners: In an Era of Fake Etiquette is a modern guide to modern manners. Facing down the miscreants purveying...
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
Author: Gershom Gorenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans...
Half-Past Tomorrow
Author: Chris McGeorge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Shirley Steadman, a 70 year old living in a small town in the North East of England, loves her volunteer work...
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
Midnight Magic: Witch Trap
Author: Michelle Harrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Black cats born at midnight Are magic, it's true! Just waiting to have An adventure with you. Trixie and Midnight are...
All Fall Down: The Brand New D.I. Helen Grace Thriller
Author: M. J. Arlidge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 "You have one hour to live." Those are the only words on the phone call. Then they hang up. Surely,...
The Siege: The fast-paced thriller from a former Met Police negotiator
Author: John Sutherland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'You know you're in the presence of an expert when you read The Siege. A gripping debut novel.' Jeffrey Archer Nine...
Rainbow in the Dark
Author: Sean McGinty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Wizard of Oz meets Ready Player One in this darkly comic YA novel about identity, depression, giving up, and finding...
Speed: by the bestselling author of Sex/Life: 44 chapters about 4 men
Author: BB Easton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN, BB Easton's bestselling memoir, is the inspiration for Netflix's new series: Sex/Life. BB had so much...
Spring Comes to Emmerdale: an uplifting story of love and hope (Emmerdale, Book 2)
Author: Pamela Bell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOTHER'S DAY Spring Comes to Emmerdale is a must for fans of ITV's Emmerdale, and readers who...
Freight Dogs
Author: Giles Foden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and...
The Fountains of Silence
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Author: Ruta Sepetys Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping,...
The Multi-Hyphen Method
Author: Emma Gannon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: In The Multi-Hyphen Method award-winning blogger / social media editor / podcast creator, Emma Gannon, teaches that it doesn't matter if you're...
Zombie Diaries: Apocalypse Cow!: Zombie Diaries #1: Volume 1
Author: Guy Edmonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Hi! I'm Jimmy and I'm living in a totally weird ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! All of the adults in my town of Buttburgher...