When Women Ruled the World
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The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet...
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Paris in Ruins
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From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved,...
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Midnight in Chernobyl
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A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence WinnerFrom journalist Adam Higginbotham,...
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award**The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of...
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes
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In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside...
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
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From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look...
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The Furies: Women, Vengeance and Justice
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“Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and...
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Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
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Winner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive JournalismFor fans of The Boys in the...
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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“Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags.” —The Wall Street Journal From The New York...
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded
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The groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head—from the “brilliant, deeply original political thinker” David Graeber...
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
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Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history—the fight to free the slaves...
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
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National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus,...
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The Glass Castle
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The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers.The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience...
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Blankets: 20th Anniversary Edition
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"Quaint, meditative and sometimes dreamy, blankets will take you straight back to your first kiss." --The GuardianBlankets: 20th Anniversary Edition is the story of a young man...
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Yours, For Probably Always
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"An engrossing collection that burnishes Gellhorn's reputation as an astute observer, insightful writer, and uniquely brave woman."-- Kirkus starred review) "This carefully curated collection ... reveals...
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The Use of Photography
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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**Serialized in The New Yorker**An account of Annie Ernaux’s love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing...
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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence
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A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedomsAfter the devastation of World War Two, the international community came together to...
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.Immersive and gripping,...
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.“A wholly original achievement.... Satrapi...
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
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The fascinating continuation of the best-selling Persepolis, “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day” (Los Angeles Times). Marjane Satrapi dazzles with her heartrending...
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The Lives of Lee Miller
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Collected in this compelling volume are the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded by her son, Antony Penrose, whose years of work on her...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner...
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
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A “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.Dress...
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
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From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, A Spy Among Friends, and Rogue Heroes, a fascinating work of popular history that vividly recreates the vast...
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West with the Night
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A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our timeBeryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim...
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
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Finalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by The...
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Material World
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year...
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
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"If ever there was any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent...
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Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore
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Of picking, washing and cleaning my pretty little toes, which he took great delight in, and in which pleasurable, innocent, and inoffensive pastime he as...
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The Garden Against Time
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In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a...
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Under the Banner of Heaven
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now...
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Sad Tiger
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Winner of multiple prizes, Neige Sinno has created a powerful literary form with Sad Tiger, a book that took France by storm and is an international phenomenon.“Reading Sad Tiger is...
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
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A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot, by bestselling novelist Kate Mosse.Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is...
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, a definitive and surprising new narrative of one of history's most famous prisons--and...
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Paris: A Short History
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Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie...
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
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A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal...
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by TIME, Lit Hub, Vulture, and Foreign PolicyFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad...
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The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living
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The astonishing reality of living without our most important resource: money.'An inspiring and entertaining guide to escaping the money trap and reconnecting with reality.' Paul...
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The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
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The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey’s years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head—but wasn’t. In her harrowing, darkly funny,...
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Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF ONE OF THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR • A CBC BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 • SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS...
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The Draw of the Sea
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WINNER OF THE HOLYER AN GO AWARD 2023Wyl Menmuir’s The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the sea and the...
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Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year
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“Raw, visionary, lucid, and mystical, Cacophony of Bone speaks of the connection between all things, and the magic that can be found in everyday life.”—Katherine May, bestselling...
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Mud and Stars
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With the writers of the golden age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news,...
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The Carbon Tax Question
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A timely and insightful exploration of the implementation and impact of British Columbia’s carbon tax, delving into the political and economic considerations behind the tax,...
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Breathless
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National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to...
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Uncommon Measure
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTNPR “BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR” SELECTIONNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode...
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Glowing Still
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Sara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman travel writer. Glowing Still is the story of her travelling life - what is 'important, revealing or funny' -...
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