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The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

By Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

Self-Help (Oxford World's Classics)

By Smiles, Samuel, Sinnema, Peter W.

Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse

By Thwaite, Ann

The Illustrated Lark Rise To Candleford.

By Thompson, Flora

Letters from America, 1946-1951

By Cooke, Alistair

Pimp: The Story Of My Life (Canons)

By Slim, Iceberg, Welsh, Irvine

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

By Worth, Jennifer

It Must Never Happen Again: The Lessons Learnt from the Short Life and Terrible Death of Baby P

By Mcshane, John

The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood

By Epstein, Edward Jay

The Economist Book of Obituaries (Economist Books)

By Ann Wroe, Keith Colquhoun

Turing And The Computer (Big Idea)

By Strathern, Paul

Reinvented Lives: Women at Sixty: A Celebration

By Handy, Charles, Elizabeth

The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely

By Woodward, C. Vann, Mcfeely, William S.

The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society

By Neima, Anna

The Explorer's Daughter: A Young Englishwoman Rediscovers Her Arctic Childhood

By Herbert, Kari

Hitler (Profiles In Power)

By Kershaw, I.

How Do You Know Its True?: Discovering the Difference Between Science and Superstition

By Ruchlis, Hy

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

By Gbowee, Leymah

Eclipse of Reason

By Horkheimer, Max

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (Little House Nonfiction)

By Anderson, WILLIAM

Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village

By Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock

The Crofter and the Laird

By Mcphee, John, Graves, James

Hillbilly Elegy: The International Bestselling Memoir Coming Soon as a Netflix Major Motion Picture starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close

By Vance, J. D.

The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2021 from the author of The Salt Path

By Winn, Raynor

Inside Alcatraz: My Time on the Rock

By Quillen, Jim

A Bend In The Yellow River

By Hill, Justin

Saved for a Purpose: A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values

By James A. Joseph

Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood

By Douglas, Robert

Journey to Nowhere

By Figes, Eva

The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga

By Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, Goldhammer, Arthur