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Redemption Falls
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By Joseph O'Connor The year is 1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at N...
Face of Britain
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By Robin McKie Written into our facial features is a story going back generations. It is the story of who we are and where we are from - th...
Holbein in England
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By Susan Foister Hans Holbein (1497-1543) is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the sixteenth century. His prolific production of p...
Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans: A Brief History
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By Charles Khan It is hard to let go of Pythagoras. He has meant so much to so many for so long. I can with confidence say to readers of thi...
The Glass Books of The Dream Eaters
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G. W. Dahlquist A spy, a killer, and an impostor - this book features three extraordinary heroes. Miss Temple didn't come to the city f...
The Italian Job
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Gianluca Vialli Gabriele Marcotti Football lies at the heart of popular culture in both England and Italy. It is played, watched, written ...
Shadow of The Silk Road
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By Colin Thubron There was never one Silk Road - but several. The route chosen by Colin Thubron passes through China, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzsta...
Sea of Thunder
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By Evan Thomas In 1943, American sailors and soldiers entering the harbor at Tulagi, the front-line U.S. Navy base in the South Pacific,...
Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
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By James Gaines In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire's heralded 'philosopher-king', the It Boy of the Enlightenment....
Utopian Dreams
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By Tobias Jones The original Utopia, Sir Thomas More’s, was a refuge from poverty. Modern readers find its regulations authoritarian. But th...
Alexis De Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution
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By Hugh Brogan In 1927 Paul Valéry wrote that Europe dreams of being ruled by an American Commission, and for many Europeans America is stil...
In the Line of Fire: A Memoir
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By Pervez Musharraf If there is a single consistent theme in Pervez Musharraf’s memoir, it is the familiar military dogma that Pakistan has ...
The Uninvited
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Geling Yan This is the fantastical tale of Dan Dong, an unemployed factory worker whose life takes a series of unexpected twists upon his ...
The Naming of The Dead
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Ian Rankin July 2005, and the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland. With daily marches, demonstrations, and scuffles, the police are at ful...
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By John Stubbs John Donne's life story is inextricably tied up with the fabric of a society in the throes of religious persecution. His...
The Thirteenth Tale
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Dianne Setterfield Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them i...
The Penguin Freud Reader
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By Michael Wood In 1936 Freud wrote a letter to Romain Rolland, offering him a speculation about a particular memory as a 70th birthday gif...
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The Secret
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By Michael Berg The real secret of a happy and fulfilled life, revealed by renowned Kabbalist Michael Berg, author of the acclaimed and bes...
Balderdash and Piffle
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By Alex Games ( Buy this book and any other 5 of your choice, for just $1 ) 'Balderdash and Piffle' looks into words and phrases, th...
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A Better Way
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By Delvin Dresser Ralph Mosco often felt different from the other children his age. The son of a preacher, Ralph lived his life a little dif...
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