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Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment...
Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson
Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...
Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering
Author: Kevin Cummins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'One of the greatest music photographers of all time...this book is indispensable to anyone who is a fan of Morrissey, or...
A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets
Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he...
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival
Author: Judith Tebbutt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
$12.00
Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren
$10.00
Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
$15.00
Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
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Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create...
More than a Muse: Creative Partnerships That Sold Talented Women Short
Author: Katie McCabe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, or worse, 'mistress' of a...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent
Author: Christopher Petkanas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Loulou de la Falaise was one of the most important women in the history of twentieth century fashion. Born in England...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
$17.50
Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Edison
Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
$15.00
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...
The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
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Author: Carlos Santana Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...
Open Side: The Official Autobiography
Author: Sam Warburton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A terrific book. No one put their body on the line quite like Sam Warburton.' Brian O'Driscoll 'It was...
Commandant Of Auschwitz: Commandant Of Auschwitz
Author: Rudolf Hoess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered some three...
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident
Author: Peter Stanford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey
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Author: Frances Wilson (Chester University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
The Wolf of Wall Street
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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
Author: David Ritz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother,...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
Marshall: Lessons in Leadership
$10.00
Author: H. Paul Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a...