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Streams of Grace

By Tourville, Abbe De, Waterfield, Robin

Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections

By Alice Kimball Smith, Charles Weiner

The Greatest Adventure. The Balloonists' own epic tale of their round-the-world voyage.

By Piccard, Jones;, Bertrand, Jones, Brian

Unsettled

By Rosaleen McDonagh

Early Views of India: Picturesque Journeys of Thomas and William Daniell, 1786-94

By Mildred Archer

Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays

By Jenny Diski

Language and Literature: An Introductory Reader in Stylistics

By Ronald Carter

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By Joan Didion

Victorian Women's Magazines: An Anthology

By Margaret Beetham, Kay Boardman

Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas

By David Daiches, J.E. Flower

The Penguin John Lennon: John Lennon in His Own Write; a Spaniard in the Works

Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

By Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Janet Lloyd

Through Connemara in a Governess Cart

By E.OE. Somerville, Martin Ross

L'aventure des langues en Occident

By Henriette Walter

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

By Cardinal John Henry Newman, William Oddie

Petit traité de la décroissance sereine (Les Petits Libres (41))

By Latouche, Serge

Journal

By Helene Berr, David Bellos

The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

By Ben Aitken

The Nomad's Path: Travels in the Sahel

By Alistair Carr

(Just As Well) It's Not About The Bike: A Journey Across Southern Spain

By Chris Atkin

Drinking in America

By Eric Bogosian

De Re Metallica

By G. Agricola, L.H. Hoover

Don't You Have Time to Think?

By Richard P Feynman

Far & Away: Essays from the Brink of Change

By Andrew Solomon

Nikolai Gogol

By Vladimir Nabokov

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

By Michelle Feynman, Richard Feynman, Timothy Ferris

Murder Trials

By Cicero, Michael Grant

The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies

By Robertson Davies, Judith Skelton Grant

P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

By P.G. Wodehouse

The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich

By Robert K Wittman, David Kinney