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  • Blow by Blow
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    Blow by Blow
    The unexplored life of rock's greatest and perhaps most enigmatic instrumentalist. With his shag haircut and white Stratocaster guitar, Jeff Beck was an icon. Yet somehow, he maintained the ineffable low-profile cool of a cult hero—gliding through six decades of musical trends with nary a lapse in taste. In his illustrious career, Beck won eight Grammy Awards, was twice inducted...
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  • Citizen Kim
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    Citizen Kim
    An unprecedented and intimate account of one of the most business-savvy, influential and defining public icons of our time. Citizen Kim provides a deep and nuanced portrayal of Kim Kardashian, who stands as a self-made mogul, social media genius, fashion icon, and unexpected advocate for criminal justice reform. Though she is often dismissed as a figure of scandal, spectacle, and...
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  • Dianaworld
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    Dianaworld
    A brilliant, kaleidoscopic cultural history of Diana, her many lives and the world she created In February 1981 a 19-year-old nursery teacher's assistant overnight became globally famous. In a frenzy of excitement, jumping every barrier of language and class, a new, overwhelming icon was conjured up. This is a guide to Dianaworld - the extraordinary hall-of-mirrors through which one young...
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  • Letters To Sartre
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    Letters To Sartre
    An irresistible invitation to get inside one of the twentieth century's most infamous and fascinating relationships. These intimate love letters reveal the open relationship between de Beauvoir and Sartre, two of the twentieth century's groundbreaking thinkers. Simone de Beauvoir lived her feminist philosophy. She never married or had children, she had affairs with both men and women, and she actively...
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  • Make It Ours
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    Make It Ours
    A groundbreaking chronicle of the life and legacy of Virgil Abloh from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, Robin Givhan. In 2018, Louis Vuitton appointed a designer with no formal training to be the head of menswear - the first Black director in the brand's 164-year history, upending a century's worth of ideas about luxury and taste. Recounting Virgil Abloh's remarkable ascent to...
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  • Napoleon and his Marshals
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    Napoleon and his Marshals
    The story of the elite generals who built up - and ultimately ruined - one of the greatest warriors in history, from the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon. In 1804, immediately after his coronation as Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the supreme martial rank of the empire. Over the next decade, he elevated to it some...
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  • Plot Twist
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    Plot Twist
    Part deeply personal memoir, part masterclass in storytelling, Plot Twist is a refreshingly honest look at the life of a writer whose stories have thrilled us for decades. With 100 million books in print worldwide and over twenty blockbuster television and film adaptations of his work, Harlan Coben has much to teach us about the creative process. Plumbing memories from...
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  • Sleuth-Hound
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    Sleuth-Hound
    From the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker comes the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock Holmes. Edinburgh, 1878. A medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle squeezes into the Royal Infirmary's packed operating theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrated professor whose uncanny powers of...
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  • Smack Talk
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    Smack Talk
    On the 24th of October 2023, Wayne Holdsworth lost his son to suicide. That moment sparked a legacy which has snowballed into a mass movement that is changing Australia for the better. On the morning of the 24th of October 2023, Wayne Holdsworth went upstairs to wake Mac, his 17-year-old son. He discovered Mac's body instead. In the period leading...
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  • So Many Ways to Belong
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    So Many Ways to Belong
    A powerful and illuminating exploration of adoption, written by an adoptive mother, which tells both a deeply personal story and the larger story of adoption itself. Essential reading for those whose life has been—or may yet be—touched by adoption, and for anyone wanting to better understand its story. Twenty years ago, Carol Atherton and her husband, Matthew, stood together on...
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  • The Big Hop
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    The Big Hop
    The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress. A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first. Vivid and compelling - John Lancaster A delectable serving of escapist nostalgia...
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  • The Trembling Hand
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    The Trembling Hand
    Bracing and essential, a radical reframing of British Romanticism through the lens of Black experience - for fans of David Olusoga, Gretchen Gerzina, Saidiya Hartman, and Emma Dabiri. Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Keats - the Romantic poets are titans of English literature, taught and celebrated around the world. Their writings are associated with the sublime power of nature and revolutionary politics....
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  • Unlimited
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    Unlimited
    The raw and inspiring story of how a former prisoner overcame abuse, addiction and incarceration to become CEO of a global business, helping and coaching others to break free of their self-imposed limitations. "ONE OF THE MOST CAPTIVATING BOOKS I'VE READ IN YEARS" - Simon Alexander Ong Your most difficult experiences aren't setbacks. They're the starting points on your journey...
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  • Wings
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    Wings
    Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the history of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their humble beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution barely a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, Wings recounts the musical odyssey taken by a...
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  • You Are What You See
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    You Are What You See
    Entertainment was never just entertainment... It was instruction. From the sleek hallways of Constance Billard to the rainy corridors of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Domenica Feraud—like so many of us—was raised by TV. It was her greatest comfort, her most passionate obsession, her favourite form of therapy. Her childhood friends were cloaked in laugh tracks, her mentors monologued under stage...
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    Che, A Memoir
    In this memoir, Fidel Castro describes his historic political partnership and personal friendship with Che Guevara, a relationship that changed the course of Cuban politics and world history. "For me, it has been hard to accept the idea that Che is dead. I have dreamed of him often, that I spoke with him, that he was alive." In this uncharacteristically...
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  • After Shock
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    After Shock
    In this powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir, In Shock, a doctor asks: What does it truly mean to heal? In the aftermath of her own critical illness, physician and writer Dr. Rana Awdish finds herself oddly estranged from her own body. Medicine has conditioned her to view sick bodies as broken objects, not as sites of meaning, mystery, and...
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  • Brady
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    Brady
    New York Times bestselling author and former Sports Illustrated journalist Lars Anderson plunges into Tom Brady's childhood to discover the origins of what Brady later described as his 'sickness': his singular obsession with the game. The obsession dictated every choice Brady made, from what foods he ate to how he managed his day-to-day schedule to how he viewed his role...
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  • Burying the Typewriter
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    Burying the Typewriter
    'This story starts roughly in the 1970s, a few years after I was born, about the time when I began to have memories and my father's codename was already long established as "Andronic", a name we learned about only last summer . . .' Burying the Typewriter is the haunting true story of life behind the Iron Curtain, and one...
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  • Charles Sumner
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    Charles Sumner
    Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial democracy of his time. A friend of Alexis de Tocqueville, an ally of Frederick Douglass, and an...
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  • Games of My Life
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    Games of My Life
    The ultimate illustrated legacy of the greatest football manager of all time. In this personal and contemplative book, Sir Alex Ferguson has chosen twenty-one defining football matches to illuminate, with touching details, his journey from the shipyards of Govan to the summit of global football as manager of Manchester United. Going far beyond the trophy cabinet, Sir Alex uses these...
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  • In Deep Water
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    In Deep Water
    October, 8, 2022. Three friends are fishing for red snapper when their boat, tied to an oil rig, begins taking on water and sinks 15 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly, the three men find themselves in a struggle for their lives. Their vessel succumbs to the building seas so quickly that the fishermen are unable to send...
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  • No Land to Stand On
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    No Land to Stand On
    A revelatory and powerful testament of protest, courage, and imprisonment in America's deportation regime. No Land to Stand On begins with the question, "Are you Mahmoud Khalil?" This was asked by ICE agents as they took the Palestinian student and U.S. legal resident from his pregnant wife and home in New York City, transported him across the country, and locked...
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  • The Everest Mystery
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    The Everest Mystery
    The definitive book on Sandy Irvine and the mystery of his and Mallory's disappearance on Everest in June 1924. The fate of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, who were last seen disappearing into the clouds as they headed for the summit of Mount Everest on 8 June 1924, still grips the imagination over 100 years later. Mallory's body was found...
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  • The Showgirl and the Prince
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    The Showgirl and the Prince
    What happens when an ordinary girl falls for a charming prince? In this funny, honest, and at times heartbreaking memoir, musical theatre star Ruthie Henshall reveals all. Today Ruthie is an award-winning West End and Broadway star, known for the emotional power of her performance. In 1987, she was at the start of her career, a lycra-clad chorus girl in...
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  • (Almost) Killing It in Hollywood
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    (Almost) Killing It in Hollywood
    As a well-known Australian comedian, podcaster, actor and radio presenter, Ash Williams was used to juggling the ups and downs of the show business world. So when he was given an opportunity to try his luck at making it big in Hollywood, he jumped at it. After all, what could possibly go wrong? Very little, or so it seemed at...
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  • Baseball's Greatest Pitchers
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    Baseball's Greatest Pitchers
    Celebrate the legendary pitchers of America's greatest pastime with this licensed, authoritative history packed with stats, facts, and photos from The National Baseball Hall of Fame archives. A central position in the game of baseball, pitchers must face every hit with utter control and strength. In Baseball's Greatest Pitchers, learn what it takes to command the role through the lives...
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  • Behind the Beehive
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    Behind the Beehive
    An incredible whirlwind of talent, transformation, and turmoil, the British pop icon’s life is detailed in this sensitive and heart-rending portrait. For most of the early 1960s, Dusty Springfield was the most popular and best-selling female recording artist in Britain, becoming the first bonafide British star to follow the Beatles. In 1966, she was named as the top female singer...
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  • Beyond the Gates of Gloriavale
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    Beyond the Gates of Gloriavale
    'We were told that the leaders were given the power to bind or to lose us from heaven. If I died suddenly, which I always believed was a high possibility, and I didn't meet Hopeful's definition of a good woman of God, I would go to hell.' To survive in Gloriavale, you must submit. And for the first 27 years...
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  • Can't Get You Out Of My Head
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    Can't Get You Out Of My Head
    From Ramsey Street to global icon, this is the revelatory exploration of one of the world's most successful pop stars, Kylie Minogue. From her late-eighties beginnings — capturing our hearts as Charlene in Neighbours — to her gold-plated hits like 'Spinning Around' and 'Padam Padam' soundtracking the euphoria of dancefloors the world over, Kylie Minogue is a modern-day icon. But,...
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  • Emily
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    Emily
    Emily Kame Kngwarreye only started painting at the age of 79. She is now regarded by many as Australia's most important artist, with an international reputation that continues to grow. Drawing on accounts from those close to her as well as previously unexamined sources, Andrew Bailey reveals the inside story of how a senior law woman from one of the...
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  • Ill Feelings
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    Ill Feelings
    In 1995, Alice's mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother's and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography, and literary non-fiction to uncover both of...
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  • In the Room
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    In the Room
    'Every Prime Minister needs someone who will challenge them - and that was you.' So said Jacinda Ardern to Andrew Campbell on his final day as her Chief Press Secretary. Now, for the first time, Campbell offers a revealing insider's account of one of New Zealand's most extraordinary political eras. Serving alongside Ardern for almost her entire time in office,...
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  • Letters to Our Sons
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    Letters to Our Sons
    Fathers from around the world and from all walks of life come together in this honest and moving collection of letters to their sons. What advice do you wish you’d shared before your son’s first day at school? When he missed or scored that goal? Or the day he left home? When was the last time you hugged him? And...
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  • Little Ruins
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    Little Ruins
    'Beautifully written and deeply moving' – CLARE BALDING 'An important voice' – CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'I devoured it in a day . . . An open-hearted book' – CLOVER STROUD The Corner is a place where birds with broken wings will come to heal. Looking to begin a new chapter after years on the move, Manni Coe and his partner take...
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  • Nothing But the Truth
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    Nothing But the Truth
    New Zealand's courtrooms have seen few figures as formidable—or as enduring—as Stuart Grieve KC. Over five decades of criminal law and trial advocacy, Stuart has had a front-row seat for the cases that have gripped the nation: the notorious Peter Plumley-Walker murder trials, the Springbok Tour clowns case, the Gisborne Cervical Cancer Inquiry, and the Erebus Royal Commission among them....
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  • Only Ever Evonne
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    Only Ever Evonne
    'The most elegant player to have ever graced a tennis court, Evonne brought her career to life with dedication, talent, love and fierce commitment. She has inspired millions to be proud of who they are, appreciate where they come from, and most importantly, to dream big. She is my dear friend and a wonderful human being.' Ash Barty Only Ever...
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  • Peter Asher
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    Peter Asher
    As a musician, award-winning producer, and talent manager, Peter Asher has both witnessed and participated in seismic changes in the music business—from the British Invasion in the 1960s to corporate takeovers of independent labels in the 1970s; from the MTV era to the nearly unrecognisable industry of today. Throughout, he has been virtually alone in his success as a hitmaker...
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  • Push the Wall
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    Push the Wall
    YOU KNOW BATMAN. BUT DO YOU KNOW FRANK MILLER? This is like Stephen King's On Writing for comic books and creatives. In Push the Wall, Frank Miller chronicles the creation of his most iconic works such as Sin City, 300, Ronin, Daredevil, Wolverine and notably, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, which, alongside Batman: Year One served as the foundation for...
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  • Rockin' the Kremlin
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    Rockin' the Kremlin
    “David Junk delivers the goods... a jaunty, picaresque memoir” – The Washington Post The true story of Universal Music Russia’s first CEO and his quest to bring Western popular music to post-Soviet Russia. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia opened its borders, and Russian audiences were hungry for Western popular music and the values it espoused. David Junk...
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  • Shadow Before the Flame
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    Shadow Before the Flame
    In the 1930s, the airship was viewed as the future of transatlantic travel and a brave new era of global connectedness. Germany's safe, fast and efficient airships brought it back into the international fold after its humiliation in World War I. But on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship caught fire in the sky over New Jersey in a blaze...
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  • Superhero Leadership
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    Superhero Leadership
    Peter Cuneo distills a lifetime of courageous leadership into timeless lessons for a world in flux - Soledad O'Brien Peter Cuneo, who rescued Marvel Entertainment from near bankruptcy and orchestrated its $4.5 billion Disney sale, knows leadership. In Superhero Leadership, he distils decades of turnaround expertise into leadership fundamentals. Drawing from successful transformations at Marvel, Black & Decker, Remington, and...
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  • The Agatha Christie Cure
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    The Agatha Christie Cure
    One of those books that felt like an old friend, from the very first page. So honest, and funny and somehow . . . kind. It made me want to read a little Christie, it made me want to read all of Rentzenbrink. I'll return to it again and again' - MEG MASON One Christmas, Cathy Rentzenbrink finds herself drained...
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    The Agatha Christie Cure
    One Christmas, Cathy Rentzenbrink finds herself drained by life's upheavals. In need of comfort and escape, she turns to her first literary love: Agatha Christie. As Cathy delves into Agatha's novels and her mysterious disappearance in 1926, she discovers more than she expected. Beyond the hidden jewels, detectives, and thrilling escapes on trains and automobiles, Cathy unearths an adventurer and...
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  • The Beginning and End of Everything: with a foreword by Davina McCall
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    The Beginning and End of Everything: with a foreword by Davina McCall
    An inspiring must-read for anyone who is searching for hope in darkness of loss, grief or addiction — Gillian Anderson Sarah Hiscox's deep self-esteem and addiction issues began in childhood when she was given powerful sleeping pills for her nightmares. Then, as a young woman, a toxic relationship with food morphed into a full-blown heroin dependency that neither a loving...
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    The Girl Who Would Be Marilyn Monroe
    A thoughtful glimpse into the childhood of Norma Jeane Mortenson and how it shaped her into the iconic Marilyn Monroe for the 100th anniversary of her birth. At the fragile intersection of myth and memory stands a girl—often eclipsed by the legend she became. The Girl Who Would Be Marilyn Monroe dares to strip away the satin, the spotlight, the...
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  • The Monk's Mindset
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    The Monk's Mindset
    In The Monk's Mindset, former Buddhist monk and renowned Peloton instructor Sam Yo shares the transformative lessons that helped him move from chaos to clarity. Drawing on his monastic training, meditation practice, and experiences as a performer and coach, he reveals how anyone can weave ancient Buddhist wisdom into modern life to find calm, focus, and purpose, even in a...
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    Three Brothers in a Boat
    The Maclean Brothers are an inspiration EWAN McGREGOR What The Maclean Brothers are doing is next level MARK WAHLBERG Three brothers. 9,750 miles. A record-breaking odyssey. When the Maclean brothers rowed non-stop and unsupported across the entire Pacific, they made history and raised over a million pounds for charity. But there's miles more to the story than that. Just a...
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    Too L.A.
    In between the partying, the drugs, the love affairs, the 'squalid overboogie' of it all, Eve Babitz made time to chronicle the world as she saw it in works like Eve's Hollywood; Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage. But Babitz considered her letters 'the kind of writing I do best,' calling them 'practically a diary,' and rarely depositing...
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    I'm Still Here
    Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Feature. When Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 years old, his father was tortured to death by the Brazilian dictatorship. Twenty-five years later, his mother, Eunice, helped usher into law a way for the families of the regime's victims to finally have their deaths formally acknowledged, and allow them to seek compensation. In...
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  • Shane Cotton
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    Shane Cotton
    For over thirty years Shane Cotton (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Hine, Te Uri Taniwha) has developed a rigorous and evolving painting practice, using the medium to layer the visual languages through which Aotearoa can be seen and understood. In this book, leading art writer Anthony Byrt takes us on a voyage into Te Tai Tokerau to unravel the relationships, landscapes...
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    Not Forgotten
    For the first time, Kenneth Bae tells the full story surrounding his arrest and imprisonment in North Korea. Not Forgotten is a modern story of intrigue, suspense, and heart. Driven by his passion to help the people of North Korea, Bae moves to neighbouring China to lead guided tours into the secretive nation. Six years later, after eighteen successful excursions...
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    If You Don't Like This, I Will Die
    A powerful and illuminating memoir that exposes the stark and rarely-seen reality of influencing as a career. Lee Tilghman—also known as @LeeFromAmerica—was one of the very first wellness influencers. To her nearly 400,000 followers, she shared daily updates and advice on everything from skincare and sleep hacks to smoothie bowls, travel tips, and workout routines. She embodied #SelfCare. Her sponsorships...
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    Destroy This House
    An ELLE Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing “Incredible…riveting.” —Dax Shepard, Armchair Expert podcast For fans of The Glass Castle and The Liars’ Club, a tender, heartbreaking, and hilarious memoir chronicling the challenges of growing up with a desperately scheming father, a mother plagued by an acute hoarding disorder, and parenting parents...
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    Manners and Mischief
    Filled with sparkling anecdotes and tales of living life to the full, featuring previously unseen photographs from Lady Glenconner's personal collection.Lady Anne Glenconner, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Margaret and Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation, returns with a rich, sparkling memoir told through an A to Z of her life. From affairs of the heart and Basil's Bar to dinners...
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  • Take My Word for It
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    Take My Word for It
    The legendary actor behind Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow shares never-before-told stories from a life that has shaped generations — told at last on his own terms. This is my attempt to pull back the curtain. Not just on the roles I've played, but on the life I've lived. The fears. The fight. The survival. And...
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    The Beckhams
    The Beckham family came to define modern celebrity. Lifting the lid on the realities behind the image, this book offers a complete, unbiased portrait of a family whose story continues to unfold – and whose influence spans generations.When David Beckham and Victoria Adams first met in the late 1990s, they were already famous in their own right – young, ambitious...
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  • Unreliable Boyfriend
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    Unreliable Boyfriend
    Unreliable Boyfriend is a book that only Chrystia Freeland could write—about a globe-trotting journalist who covered oligarchs and then became a political leader; what she learned about power, international relations, and global trade from her years in government; and how the United States can be seen in revelatory ways through the eyes of a Canadian who had to deal with...
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  • Beneath the Cards
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    Beneath the Cards
    One of poker’s most feared competitors reveals the triumph, scandal, and hidden cost of obsession. Garrett Adelstein, widely recognised as the best high-stakes cash game player on earth—and the alleged mark in “Jack-Four,” the most controversial hand in poker history—flips the deck in Beneath the Cards. This gripping memoir charts Garrett’s up-and-down journey to the pinnacle of poker—from online poker...
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  • Crying on the Kitchen Floor
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    Crying on the Kitchen Floor
    From THE Trisha Paytas comes a raw and uproarious memoir that finally sets the story straight. No person has reinvented themselves more times than Trisha Paytas. Like a phoenix, she has risen from the ashes again and again – outliving social media platforms, navigating ill-fated and explosively popular podcasts, and being on the wrong end of more messy feuds than...
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  • Look At Me
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    Look At Me
    Look at Me is both an intimate account of Dustin Hoffman’s work as an actor, collaborating with the greats of the last six decades—Mike Nichols, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Lawrence Olivier, Steve McQueen, Ann Bancroft—in era-defining films, and a profound contemplation of mortality by a person entering his nineties and looking back on a remarkable life....
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    Mission in Captivity
    Winner of the 2026 Bernstein Prize A powerful, firsthand account of a woman’s fifty-day struggle to protect three generations of her family while held hostage by Hamas in Gaza. For fifty days, Dr. Shoshan Haran was held captive alongside her family—including her three-year-old granddaughter—under the constant threat of terrorists and the horror of IDF bombardments. After their release, words began...
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    Born an American citizen but raised under Iran’s theocracy, a teenage boy risks everything to escape religious persecution and reclaim the freedom—and responsibility—of choosing America. When freedom is denied by governments, can it still be carried—hand to hand, heart to heart—by people? Nizam Missaghi was seven years old when he was expelled from school for the first time in Tehran—not...
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  • The Digger's Diary
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    The Digger's Diary
    A forgotten soldier. A bullet-pierced diary. A 22-year quest to uncover the truth. When museum curator Colin Reid is handed a bullet-pierced diary for a Great War exhibition, it sets him on a 22-year search to uncover the fate of its owner, Corporal Claude Nuttall MM. Written in the trenches of France, the diary offers a rare and deeply personal...
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  • KISS Destroyer: The Definitive Visual History
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    KISS Destroyer: The Definitive Visual History
    Have a “Rock and Roll Party” with this incredible chronicle of KISS’s first platinum studio album and one of the greatest rock records in history. In 1976, Gene, Paul, Ace, and Peter stomped their platform heels into the mainstream with Destroyer, which catapulted them to superstardom. This official, authorized retrospective takes you behind the scenes at the recording sessions and...
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  • Sabr
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    Sabr
    A memoir of resilience, identity, courage, and one of the most remarkable comebacks in Australian Test cricket history. Sabr – the Arabic word for patience – is the philosophy that has carried Usman Khawaja through the turbulent highs and lows of cricket and life. Eighty-eight Test matches, and over 6000 runs at elite level – including 16 centuries – have...
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  • Babe: Elaboratio
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    Babe: Elaboratio
    From the Author: There aren’t enough trees to make enough paper to write enough words to say how much I love my mom, and words would just make a big bucket of ink. I only knew her for a short time, as she died when I was thirteen, but those years gave me infinite joy and strength. I carry her...
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    Do What You’re Gonna Do
    Packed with never-before-heard stories and exclusive interviews with the cast, crew, producers, writers, directors, and creators, star Dean Norris-aka DEA Hank Schrader and Walter White's brother-in-law-shares a definitive insider account of the iconic TV show Breaking Bad. The story of Walter White, a timid, cancer-stricken chemistry teacher who becomes "the one who knocks" when he decides to cook meth to...
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  • Daddy Issues
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    Daddy Issues
    An unflinching memoir from Sofia Franklyn, cocreator of the hit podcast Call Her Daddy, offering an explosive story of power, friendship, reclamation and surviving yourself. Long before the internet was watching, Sofia Franklyn learned to disappear. Dysfunction was normal and escape was instinct. New York City offered reinvention, and there she met Alex Cooper. They moved quickly: roommates, best friends,...
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  • Alexander
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    Alexander
    'A thrilling story, wonderfully told by one of the great historians' KEN FOLLETT 'Dazzling... This is biography of great brilliance and rare resonance' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'A pulsating, vivid life of a true historical titan' DAN JONES 'A splendid book, lively, erudite... where myth and heroism meet' RORY STEWART A stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a...
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  • Across the Universe
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    Across the Universe
    What made the Beatles so extraordinary? How did these four young musicians come together at exactly the right moment, and how did everything fall into place so perfectly that they became the most innovative and successful band that the world has ever seen, and a cultural phenomenon that still shapes the world today? Was it simply a series of lucky...
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  • Are You with Me Now?
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    Are You with Me Now?
    The follow-up to Hanif Kureishi's extraordinary hospital memoir, Shattered, this is the story of what came next—a year of living at home in London after paralysis, told through scenes of carers, physio, insomnia, sex, money, football, film sets, festivals, and family. The song Are You with Me Now? was a regular soundtrack to the drives Hanif and partner Isabella would...
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  • Decline and Falling Over
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    Decline and Falling Over
    An irreverent, funny and bullsh*t-free memoir on the realities of ageing from one of the UK's best-loved comedians. Jo Brand is getting on a bit and wants to tell you all about it. This is not a 'life begins after menopause' pep talk. This book will not tell you how to live longer or better. This book offers no guidance...
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  • Finding Justice
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    Finding Justice
    A revelatory exploration of how law and lore can co-exist, from the bestselling author of After Story. Larissa Behrendt has lived an extraordinary career—as a legal academic, author and filmmaker—that has allowed her to move between courtrooms and Country to explore what real justice means, and what it might yet become. In this ground-breaking work that is part philosophical meditation...
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  • Hiroshima, 8:15
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    Hiroshima, 8:15
    The recently discovered and remarkable memoir of a Hiroshima survivor and hero, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, one of the six characters in John Hersey's seminal 1946 book Hiroshima. A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivors—a lost classic that brings unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event. The whole city was...
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  • In the Hide
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    In the Hide
    The Sunday Times bestselling memoir from beloved natural history presenter and cameraman Gordon Buchanan - now in paperback. The instant Sunday Times bestseller from Gordon Buchanan, beloved natural history presenter. "A terrific book" - ALASTAIR CAMPBELL "Gordon is a natural storyteller" - STEVE BACKSHALL "Stunning and moving" - LIZ BONNIN "A truly remarkable story told by a brilliant man." -...
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  • Light Sleeper
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    Light Sleeper
    This is a book of inner rending and tearing: it will hack at the numbed, bewildered heart.Helen Garner What happens when the story you were raised to believe collides with the reality you can no longer ignore? For half a century, David Leser has wrestled with the question at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: how can two peoples, bound...
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  • Michael Gambon
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    Michael Gambon
    A major and definitive portrait of Sir Michael Gambon, one of the greatest actors of the last fifty years who died in 2023. Jasper Rees, the acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling author of Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood, interviewed Gambon more than any other journalist alive, and has been granted exclusive access to Gambon's personal archive and...
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  • My Pressures
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    My Pressures
    Beloved star of Lord of the Rings, The Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Marvel's Black Panther, DC's Batman and more, invites fans behind the scenes of their favourite franchises with his first memoir. 'The characters choosing the actor ... Would they, I wonder? Would they choose me? If I told them my life story, what would they think? What...
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  • Seasons
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    Seasons
    As the seasons skip by faster than ever, cricket's greatest living legend looks back at the sport and at himself, taking us on an eventful ride through his own and our nation's changing times. “Ride the torpedo to the end of the tube. You might not know where it's going. You might not be in total control. There'll probably be...
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