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Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

By Bilton, Nick

Governance and Leadership - Debating the African Condition: Mazrui and His Critics, Volume Two: 2

By Mazrui, Alamin, Mutunga, Willy

Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science

By Dreger PH D, Alice

Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan

By Childers, Sam

Only in Boulder: The County's Colorful Characters (American Chronicles)

By Pettem, Silvia

Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change

By Adam Kahane

The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War

By Feigel, Lara

Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima

By Naoki Hirose with Hiroaki Sato

The Flag: The story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

By Richards, Andrew

"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

By Annette Gordon-reed, Peter S. Onuf

Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas

By Mayer, Jane, Abramson, Jill

Walden (Chump Change Edition)

By Thoreau, Henry David

Letters to the Midwife: Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife

By Jennifer Worth

Dorothea's War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story

By Dorothea Crewdson, Richard Crewdson

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

By Worth, Jennifer

My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

By Lady Antonia Fraser

The Many Not the Few: An Illustrated History of Britain Shaped By the People

By Sean Michael Wilson, Robert Brown

Way of the Wanderers: The Story of Travellers in Scotland

By Jess Smith

Keep Smiling Through: My Wartime Story

By Lynn, Dame Vera, Lewis-Jones, Virginia

A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space

By Jackson, Libby

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

By Gray, Annie

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Gillies, Midge

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

By David Harvey

The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno: 8 (Radical Thinkers)

By Rose

Young Winstone

By Ray Winstone

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

By Garfield, Simon

The Outrun

By Amy Liptrot

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

By Shaun Usher, Shaun Usher

White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties

By Jacky Hyams

Tsunami Kids: Our Journey from Survival to Success

By Paul Forkan, Rob Forkan, Nick Harding