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An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, a celebration of older people and ageing,...
The Finch in My Brain: How I forgot how to read but found how to live

The Finch in My Brain: How I forgot how to read but found how to live

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Author: Martino Sclavi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Whenever I see Martino I am reminded of how little I know about life and death compared to him....
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...
New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

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Author: Clyde Haberman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the...
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

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Author: David M Friedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth...
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...
Fatherland: A Family History

Fatherland: A Family History

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Author: Nina Bunjevac Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the...
Sometimes An Art: Nine Essays on History

Sometimes An Art: Nine Essays on History

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Author: Bernard Bailyn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays...
Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

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Author: Jonathan Petropoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose...
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 BRAND-NEW EDITION of the multi-million-copy bestseller, now adapted for YA readers and complete with never-before-seen colour photos. A revealing portrait of...
Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War  - by the British troops who fought it

Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War - by the British troops who fought it

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Author: Nigel Ely Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands war 'There was a time when we did extraordinary things.' On 28...
Anna Comnena: A Study

Anna Comnena: A Study

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Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 0
Hell Week and Beyond: The Making of a Navy Seal

Hell Week and Beyond: The Making of a Navy Seal

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Author: Scott McEwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 HELL WEEK AND BEYOND will take the reader to the sands of Coronado Beach in San Diego, where Navy SEALS are...
Hitler's Vineyards: How the French Winemakers Collaborated with the Nazis

Hitler's Vineyards: How the French Winemakers Collaborated with the Nazis

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Author: Christophe Lucand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 During the Second World War, French wine was hardly a trivial product. Indeed, following the Fall of France, it proved to...
A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War: Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC

A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War: Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC

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Author: Marc G. DeSantis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 261 Naval power played a vital role in the Peloponnesian War. The conflict pitted Athens against a powerful coalition including the...
In the Name of Lykourgos

In the Name of Lykourgos

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Author: Miltiadis Michalopoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In the middle of the 3rd century B.C. Sparta was a shadow of its glorious past. Politically and militarily weakened and...
The Dragon's Teeth: The Chinese People's Liberation Army - its History, Traditions, and Air, Sea and Land Capabilities in the 21st Century

The Dragon's Teeth: The Chinese People's Liberation Army - its History, Traditions, and Air, Sea and Land Capabilities in the 21st Century

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Author: Benjamin Lai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of...
The Atrocities of the Pirates: A Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Suffering of the Author During His Captivity Among the Pirates

The Atrocities of the Pirates: A Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Suffering of the Author During His Captivity Among the Pirates

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Author: Aaron Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Originally published in 1824, this firsthand account describes how, in June 1822, young English seaman Aaron Smith was taken captive by...
Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness

Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness

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Author: Niklas Zetterling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 450 A revised and updated single-source reference book which accurately details the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their...
Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862

Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862

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Author: Duane Schultz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg, Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of...
Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity

Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity

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Author: Gregory J. W. Urwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following...
Hunting the Last Great Pirate: Benito de Soto and the Rape of the Morning Star

Hunting the Last Great Pirate: Benito de Soto and the Rape of the Morning Star

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Author: Michael Edward Ashton Ford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 1827 the Duke of Wellington - former Commander-in-Chief of the British Army and British Prime Minister - ordered...
Hitler's Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion

Hitler's Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion

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Author: Mel Kavanagh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 September 1940: Britain stands alone against the might of the advancing German Army and the spectre of invasion looms. Using a...
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe

The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe

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Author: Forrest McGill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A huge number of artworks relating to the Rama legends have been made over the course of 1500 years in a...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker

To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker

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Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

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Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began...
Twilight Riders: The Last Charge Of The 26Th Cavalry

Twilight Riders: The Last Charge Of The 26Th Cavalry

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Author: Peter Stevens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A stunning collision of militaray eras--The heroic and tragic final campaign of the U.S. horseback cavalry against the mechanized Japanese Army...
It Happens With Gurkhas: Tales from an English Nepali, 1944-2015

It Happens With Gurkhas: Tales from an English Nepali, 1944-2015

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Author: J P Cross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Gurkhas have served with the British for almost 200 years, first with the army of the East India Company, then...
The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

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Author: Michael R. Auslin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability "A point-by-point debunking of...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science

Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science

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Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
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...
Hotel K

Hotel K

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Author: Kathryn Bonsella Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees...
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

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Author: Julia Samuel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will inform and engage anyone who is grieving, from the 'expected' death of a parent...
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

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Author: Michela Wrong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that...
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare

Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare

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Author: Paul Lockhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells...
14-18: Understanding the Great War

14-18: Understanding the Great War

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Author: Catherine Temerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 With this brilliantly innovative book, reissued for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette...
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society

Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society

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Author: Roderic Fenwick Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but...
Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink

Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that Pushed America and its World to the Brink

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Author: Ethan Chorin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries...
Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love

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Author: Mike Pompeo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration's most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. Now,...
Osprey Battles of WWII - The Rhineland

Osprey Battles of WWII - The Rhineland

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Author: Osprey Format: Hardback Number of Pages:
Fear: A Cultural History

Fear: A Cultural History

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Author: Professor Joanna Bourke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific:...
A Class Act: Life as a working-class man in a middle-class world

A Class Act: Life as a working-class man in a middle-class world

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Author: Rob Beckett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Pacy, witty and affectionate' Guardian Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

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Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
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...
Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World

Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World

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Author: Susan Silverman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Susan Silverman grew up with parents who were, both before and after a devastating loss, atheists. Yet, as a young adult,...