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America's Mistress

Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times

by John L. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013

Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends...
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50 Art Ideas

You Really Need to Know

by Susie Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011

A visit to an art gallery can be a baffling experience - a bewildering parade of paintings, sculptures, artists and movements with little perspective on how they all fit together. 50 Art Ideas you Really Need to Know is here to help. For all those who don't know their Degas from Dali or their Monet...
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by Corban Addison
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

Corban Addison's debut novel, A Walk Across the Sun, made waves when it was first published, called "pulse-revving with a serious message," by O, the Oprah magazine. John Grisham said, "Addison has written a novel that is beautiful in its story and also important in its message. A Walk...
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Zero Six Bravo

60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story

by Damien Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013

The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told. In March 2003 M Squadron...
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The Perfect Prey

The fall of ABN Amro, or: what went wrong in the banking industry

by Jeroen Smit
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010

On 9 October 2007, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) celebrated its leading role in the biggest deal in banking history, a record 71 billion euros for Dutch bank ABN Amro. Searching for an immediate profit, the victors dismantled ABN Amro - and Holland's number one bank ceased to exist. Shareholders...
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I Followed the Rules

a laugh-out-loud romcom you won't be able to put down!

by Joanna Bolouri
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015

From the bestselling author of THE LIST and RELIGHT MY FIRE, comes a hilarious novel about how to find true love by the book... My friends think I'm insane, I'm stalking men all over town and I'm on a deadline. Most people have heard of The Rules of Engagement, the book that promises...
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by Anna Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

When Penny tells her best friend Lou sheâ??s sure tonight is the night that her fiancé Mark will finally propose, Lou couldn't be more pleased for her. But during the course of a wild night out on the town, Lou can't help but wonder if marriage is really the thing on Markâ??s mind--and Penny...
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An Epic Swindle

44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys

by Brian Reade
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

AN EPIC SWINDLE is the inside story of how Liverpool FC came within hours of being re-possessed by the banks after the shambolic 44-month reign of American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. It is the tale of a civil war that dragged Britain's most successful football club to its knees, through...
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by Katie Piper
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016

'Confidence is about empowerment. It's about valuing who you are, not what you want to do or how you look. It's about finding the courage to live the life you want, the way you want. Don't look for happiness in other people, find it in yourself.' Katie Piper Katie Piper is Britain's most inspiring...
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by Chris Salewicz
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014

James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix is the most famous and perhaps the most innovative guitarist in music history. He died aged 27. In this thought-provoking mini-biography, acclaimed author Chris Salewicz attends not just to Hendrix's virtuoso skill, but also to his enigmatic and unpredictable character....
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Words of Wisdom

Philosophy's Most Important Quotations and Their Meaning

by Gareth Southwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015

Words of Wisdom brings together 360 of Philosophy's most famous quotations, explaining their meaning and telling the stories behind them. Western philosophy may be said to have begun in ancient Greece, where, inscribed in his temple at Delphi, the words of the god Apollo commanded those who...
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Life in Five Seconds

Over 200 Stories for Those With No Time to Waste

by Gianmarco Milesi, Matteo Civaschi
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012

Winner of the Cannes Lions Bronze Award for Design 2013! In today's caffeine-charged, jet-fuelled, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two? C'mon, let's face it, life's too bloody short. What you need is instant knowledge. Told in ingenious, award-winning...
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by Karl Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011

Karl Miller is one of the greatest literary critics of the last fifty years, the founder of the London Review of Books and Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London. In this last book of essays he turns his attention to appreciate certain writers...

Art

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Art

Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Artists and Their Works

by Susie Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014

Art introduces readers to 100 of the world's most important artists and their paintings, from the 13th century to the modern era. Works by artists including Caravaggio, Vermeer, van Gogh and Warhol are reproduced in superb high quality, arranged chronologically and set in their historical context...
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