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    In the Shadows
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    In the Shadows

    The Intelligence Corps is one of the smallest and most secretive elements of the British Army. It has existed in various guises since the early twentieth century, but it was only formally constituted in July 1940. In this book, Michael Ashcroft tells the...
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  • Scandals of the Royal Palaces
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    Scandals of the Royal Palaces

    'Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.' - Henry Fielding George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might also have said that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really...
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  • The Road to my Daughter
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    The Road to my Daughter

    Elisabeth Spencer's daughter Milly came out as trans at the age of twenty-one. Just a few days later, in one of life's perfect storms, Spencer's husband was diagnosed with an advanced terminal illness and so she was set on course to confront rebirth in...
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  • Behold the Dark Gray Man
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    Behold the Dark Gray Man

    Katharine Campbell's father Sholto Douglas was the hero of her childhood, an unconventional senior commander in the Royal Air Force described as 'a gloriously contentious character'. Following childhood abandonment and poverty, Sholto rose through the...
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  • The Last Queen
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    The Last Queen

    In 2020, the Queen finally appeared to be at ease in the modern world, helped by the new generation of Windsors. But then Harry and Meghan announced that they were leaving 'The Firm', and Prince Andrew was relieved of his duties...
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  • Putin's Killers
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    Putin's Killers

    Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Putin's Killers, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political...
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  • Kensington Palace
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    Kensington Palace

    For more than 200 years the younger members of the British royal family - including future monarchs - have lived at Kensington Palace, alongside royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic eccentrics. Kensington Palace has...
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  • Orders to Kill
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    Orders to Kill

    Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of...
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  • Goodbye Pet, and See You in Heaven
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    Goodbye Pet, and See You in Heaven

    When her beloved small dog died, Bel Mooney wasastonished at the depth of her ongoing sorrow. Sharing her loss online and in anewspaper article brought a deluge of responses, spurring Bel to explore thesefeelings further. Why do humans mourn pets? Can...
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  • The Myth of Meritocracy
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    The Myth of Meritocracy

    The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the offspring of privileged parents. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor children to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the poor. It...
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    Violent Cases - 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition
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    Violent Cases - 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition

    Before The Sandman, there was Violent Cases, the first teaming of multi award-winning writer Neil Gaiman and innovative artist Dave McKean.Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this seminal work, Violent Cases is being re-issued in a hardcover...
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  • Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement
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    Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement

    The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge's religious writings.Sara Coleridge and the Oxford Movement reveals a significant body of virtually unknown religious works by a woman writer. The first scholarly edition of Sara Coleridge's religious...
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    From Crimea with Love
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    From Crimea with Love

    In the summer of 1992, Jason Salkey was cast in a role that would change his life forever. Sharpe's Rifles, a Napoleonic war drama, was to be shot in the Crimean Peninsula. Little did the producers know that they would be sending Jason and the crew to...
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    Henry at Work
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    Henry at Work

    Henry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing...
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  • A Living Medicine
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    A Living Medicine

    A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery.In the last half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease-like...
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    The Best Japanese Short Stories
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    The Best Japanese Short Stories

    An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally...
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    The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter
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    The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter

    Get to know the inhabitants of a tiny Japanese island - and their unusual stories and secrets - through this fascinating, intimate collection of portraits.When American journalist Amy Chavez moved to the tiny island of Shiraishi (population 430), she...
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    The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda
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    The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda

    Zen monk Santoka Taneda (18821940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his "free-verse" haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than...
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    Modern Japanese Short Stories
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    Modern Japanese Short Stories

    Modern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume's twenty-five stories by as many authors display a wide range of style and subject matter - offering a...
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    Japanese Legends and Folklore
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    Japanese Legends and Folklore

    Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and people, A.B. Mitford - who lived...
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    It's Not What You Think
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    It's Not What You Think

    From the author of Threading My Prayer Rug, an eye-opening view of life in Saudi Arabia.It's Not What You Think is a wry, incisive account of working in Saudi Arabia that offers insight into that insular patriarchal society, what is so attractive to...
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  • Gay Giant
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    Gay Giant

    A child who feels like an outsider in a world that's set against him. A boy who sings on the playground instead of playing soccer, who likes Barbies, and whose secretly favorite car is the one called Tutti Frutti. Gabriel Ebensperger shares with us his...
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  • Roadhouse Blues
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    Roadhouse Blues

    'Bob Batchelor writes with great eloquence and insight about the Doors, the greatest hard-rock band we have ever had, and through this book, we plunge deeply into the mystery that surrounds Jim Morrison. It is Batchelor's warmth and...
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  • Upon Her Shoulders
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    Upon Her Shoulders

    A documentary-style collection of stories, poems, essays, and interviews by Southeastern Native American women.Upon Her Shouldersis a collection of stories, poems, and prose by Southeastern Native American women whose narratives attest to the hard work...
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  • Bright
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    Bright

    The highly anticipated, first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino.Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life lived...
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  • Dear Damage
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    Dear Damage

    A harrowing and heartfelt essay collection weaving narratives about family, gun violence, art, and the American Dream.Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Marie Farmer's grandmother tripped as she walked across their living room. It...
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  • The Mausoleum of Lovers
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    The Mausoleum of Lovers

    The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 19761991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself - a mausoleum of lovers - comes to take its place. The...
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    American Grotesque

    American Grotesque is a lavish retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood photographer William Mortensen (18971965), an innovative pictorialist visionary whom Ansel Adams called the "Antichrist" and to whom Anton...
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  • Griffith Review 60: First Things First
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    Griffith Review 60: First Things First

    Inspired by the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and featuring outstanding Indigenous writers, First Things First is an urgent, nuanced and robust call to listen, hear and respond to questions of constitutional recognition. Published in partnership with...
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  • Adding The Blue
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    Adding The Blue

    'I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock 'n' roll...' - Chrissie HyndeFeaturing oil paintings by Chrissie Hynde, Adding The Blue presents nearly 200 original artworks for the very first...
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    The Great Tales Never End
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    The Great Tales Never End

    Over more than four decades J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, published some twenty-four volumes of his father's work, much more than his father had succeeded in publishing during his own lifetime. Standing on the mountain...
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  • Gender Euphoria
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    Gender Euphoria

    This is the latest groundbreaking anthology from the publishers of The Good Immigrant, Repeal the 8th and Common People. Laura Kate Dale (@LaurakBuzz, 57.1k followers on Twitter) is the author of Uncomfortable Labels (2019), a first-of-its-kind memoir...
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  • There is No Backstage
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    There is No Backstage

    Linda shares her journey through almost every possible venue for theatre. From auspicious beginnings to regional theatre to Broadway, she has created a successful and fulfilling career. In this sensitive and beautifully written memoir, Linda reveals the...
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    Serious Minds
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    Serious Minds

    An elegant, revealing portrait of a remarkable family that helped to shape the politics, arts and sciences of modern Britain.The Times hailed Richard Burdon Haldane as 'one of the most powerful ... intellects' British statesmanship had ever seen. His...
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    Citizen of London
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    Citizen of London

    A vivid, richly informative biography of the medieval entrepreneur, social reformer and 'influencer' at court.The extraordinary story of Richard Whittington, from his arrival in London as a young boy to his death in 1423, against a backdrop of plague,...
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  • Stranger in My Own Land
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    Stranger in My Own Land

    After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them.This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine,...
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  • I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
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    I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

    'Oates takes you on an extraordinary journey from teenage rebellion, through the fight for African rights, to the top ranks of the British government. It's all the more extraordinary because the story is true his is a life lesson that...
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    Gun Barons

    This riveting work of narrative history vividly brings to life five charismatic and idiosyncratic men who, living within ninety miles of one another, changed the course of history through the invention and refinement of the repeating firearm - the...
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    So Here It Is

    With six consecutive number one singles and the smash hit "Merry Xmas Everybody," Slade were unstoppable. Now, the man whose outlandish costumes and unmistakable hairstyle made Slade one of the definitive acts of the Glam Rock era tells his story.If...
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    Shogun
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    Shogun

    Uncover the true story of the man who unified medieval Japan.For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders with absolute authority, while the emperor remained a figurehead. This book tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu - the greatest...
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    Tokyo Rose: Zero Hour (A Graphic Novel)
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    Tokyo Rose: Zero Hour (A Graphic Novel)

    Traitor or hero? Discover the truth behind the legendary Tokyo Rose.Tokyo Rose: Zero Hour tells the true story of Iva Toguri, a Japanese-American woman who was visiting her relatives in Tokyo shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor--and became caught...
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    Writing Haiku
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    Writing Haiku

    A world of dew And within every dewdrop A world of struggleThe iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace-and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with...
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    Japanese Stories for Language Learners
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    Japanese Stories for Language Learners

    A great story can lead a reader down a rabbit hole of discovery-especially if it's presented in two languages! Beautifully illustrated in a traditional style, Japanese Stories for Language Learners offers five compelling stories with Japanese and English...
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    47 Ronin
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    47 Ronin

    A classic tale that will captivate lovers of Japan, history, and epic adventure alike.Japan's most celebrated tale of chivalry, loyalty and revenge and the basis for a Hollywood feature film starring Keanu Reaves 47 Ronin is the epic tale of a...
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  • Japanese Folktales
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    Japanese Folktales

    Japanese Folktales is Yei Theodora Ozaki's classic collection of twenty-two traditional Japanese stories. The book introduces the reader to the rich world of the Japanese imagination, a world of ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings;...
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  • The Big Silence
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    The Big Silence

    Quiet your mind, and the silence will help you hear your inner voice-the one that says,"Stay strong enough to forgive, to heal, and to have hope."In her stirring, vulnerable new memoir, Karena Dawn reveals what it was like to grow up with a mother...
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  • Pearls of Wisdom
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    Pearls of Wisdom

    Built-in audience eager for more content: The author's YouTube channel, MEPearlA, has 124,000 subscribers, with some videos amassing hundreds of thousands of views. The author will tap into this built-in, adoring audience to drive sales of her book,...
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