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The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown

The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown

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Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and...
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

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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...
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

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Author: Jean Findlay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece "And suddenly the memory returns. The...
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

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Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign

The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign

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Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...
Taking Heaven Lightly: A Near Death Experience Survivor's Story and Inspirational Guide to Living in the Light

Taking Heaven Lightly: A Near Death Experience Survivor's Story and Inspirational Guide to Living in the Light

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Author: Roisin Fitzpatrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'The day after my 35th birthday, I had a near death experience, caused by a sudden brain haemorrhage. Ironically,...
The Boy Who Was Born a Girl: One Mother's Unconditional Love for Her Child

The Boy Who Was Born a Girl: One Mother's Unconditional Love for Her Child

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Author: Jon Edwards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The groundbreaking autobiography of the teenage boy who was born a girl, which is also a major documentary Brought...
Molly Keane: A Life

Molly Keane: A Life

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Author: Sally Phipps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which...
Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family

Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family

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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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Author: Ibram X Kendi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 The National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans...
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

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Author: Ann Wroe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A startlingly original new look at Shelley, a stunning work of scholarship and imagination by one of the most remarkable non-fiction...
Open Book

Open Book

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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...
The Language of Blood

The Language of Blood

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Author: Jane Jeong Trenka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 244 "A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) My...
Inside Out

Inside Out

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Author: Demi Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on Sunday Book of the...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

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Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...
Diamonds at the Lost and Found: A Memoir in Search of My Mother

Diamonds at the Lost and Found: A Memoir in Search of My Mother

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Author: Sarah Aspinall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood,...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

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Author: Margaret Kimball Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best of 2021 List in Comics. 2021 Top of the List Graphic Novel Pick In the...
The Power of Women: A doctor's journey of hope and healing

The Power of Women: A doctor's journey of hope and healing

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Author: Dr Dr Denis Mukwege Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity - to love,...
Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring - 'profoundly important' Clover Stroud

Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring - 'profoundly important' Clover Stroud

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Author: Penny Wincer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A beautiful and important book that is both deeply engaging and usefully practical. I loved it.' CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'An insightful and...
The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

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Author: Casey Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Magnificent." -People Magazine The instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and...
Jump: From the Streets to the Suites

Jump: From the Streets to the Suites

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Author: Larry Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company...
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...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

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Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Scenes and Apparitions begins where its predecessor, Splendours and Miseries, left off. It covers a period of Roy Strong's life...