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| "The Only Girl in the World : A Memoir" |
| "For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape Maude still remembers the sound of the gate being locked behind her She was three years old when they moved into the secluded manor and she would only be allowed out again a handful of times Her parents belonged to a fanatical Masonic order who believed that it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor She followed a strict schedule of study hard labour and endless drills designed to eliminate weakness' such as holding an electric fence without flinching and sitting still in a rat-infested cellar But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life Befriending animals on the lonely estate and characters in the books she read Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love her parents forbade"
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| "Russia : A Short History" |
| "Distinguished Professor Abraham Ascher offers an impressive blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this perennially popular introduction to Russia Newly updated on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution Russia A Short History begins with the origins of the first Slavic state and continues to the present-day tensions between Russia and its neighbours the rise of Vladimir Putin and the increasingly complex relationship with the United States"
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| "The Sellout : WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016" |
| "Outrageous hilarious and profound' Simon Schama Financial TimesThe longer you stare at Beatty's pages the smarter you'll get' GuardianThe most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read' New York TimesA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting he discovers there never was a memoir All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral What's more Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment Fuelled by despair the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school which lands him in the Supreme Court In his trademark absurdist style which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh and cry The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of our time"
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| "Shariah Law : Questions and Answers" |
| "Shariah law is a subject that is misunderstood and misrepresented by many in the West More than simply a system of law it is concerned with a set of values and rules that are essential to the understanding and practice of Islam In this volume Mohammad Hashim Kamali a world-renowned expert on Shariah adopts a question-and-answer format to provide a clear introduction to its most salient aspects Extending from the sources of Shariah in the Qur'an hadith and the legal maxims of Islamic law to the discussion of issues such as freedom of religion gender equality and human rights Shariah Law Questions and Answers connects the theoretical aspects of the law with how it is applied in the world today At once scholarly and accessible it is sure to be a vital resource for students teachers and general readers addressing as it does a range of contemporary concerns including jihad democracy the environment genetic engineering human cloning euthanasia and abortion"
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| "A History of Britain in 21 Women : A Personal Selection" |
| "They were famous queens unrecognised visionaries great artists and trailblazing politicians They all pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world Jenni Murray presents the history of Britain as you've never seen it before through the lives of twenty-one women who refused to succumb to the established laws of society whose lives embodied hope and change and who still have the power to inspire us today"
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| "The Tiger and the Ruby : A Journey to the Other Side of British India" |
| "In 1841 Nigel Halleck left Britain to become a clerk in the East India Company He served in the colonial administration for eight years before leaving his post eventually disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal never to be heard from again A century-and-a-half later Kief Hillsbery Nigel's nephew many times removed sets out on a quest to discover what happened to his ancestor Through beguiling prose he transports us to a time and place deep in the heart of British and Indian history weaving together a clash of civilizations and uncovering the moving tale of one man against an empire"
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| "The Man with the Poison Gun : A Cold War Spy Story" |
| "1961 The height of the Cold War Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever This gripping story of real-life espionage and intrigue began when the Soviets invented a special weapon that killed without leaving a trace and put it in the hands of Bogdan Stashinsky It is a tale of exploding parcels fake identities forbidden love and a man who knew the truth about the USSR's most classified programme By the time Stashinsky had his day in court the whole world was watching"
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| "The Mindspan Diet : Reduce Alzheimer's Risk, and Keep Your Brain Young" |
| "Dementia is now the primary cause of death in many developed nations While the search for an effective treatment continues the question is can anything be done to protect ourselves from Alzheimer's and other brain disorders?Esteemed scientist Preston W Estep presents a revolutionary plan to maximize the lives of both our bodies and our minds He upends many of long-held beliefs about nutrition and ageing revealing a new enemy and putting wine bread and pasta back on the menu Featuring seventy delicious recipes to sample and easy-to-follow dietary tips The Mindspan Diet shows that you can enjoy the richest flavours life has to offer and remain lean healthy and brain fit for a very long time"
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| "The Trials of the King of Hampshire : Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England" |
| "A Guardian best history book of 2016Eccentric shy aristocrat or mad bad and dangerous to know?Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman and Lord Byron maintained that while the man was a fool he was certainly no madman Behind closed doors though Portsmouth delighted in pinching his servants so that they screamed asked dairy-maids to bleed him with lancets and was obsessed with attending funerals After he'd lived this way for years in 1823 his own family set out to have him declared insane Still reeling from the madness of King George society could not tear itself away from what would become the longest costliest and most controversial insanity trial in British history"
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| "The Art of Failing : Notes from the Underdog" |
| "An Observer book of the yearHAUNTED! By endless tiny humiliations STRUGGLING! To resurrect the corpse of his literary career ENSNARED! In a loving yet perplexing marriage Anthony McGowan is a man at odds with the universe Stumbling from one improbable fiasco to the next he patrols the mean streets of West Hampstead like some unholy cross between Columbo J Alfred Prufrock and a common tramp pondering the very stuff of life itself For McGowan that's holed socks unsatisfactory packed lunches broken washing machines Kierkegaard the eccentricities of the British Library liver salts Morrissey and disapproving ladies on trains Relentlessly honest exquisitely funny The Art of Failing is a paean to the glory and desperation of everyday existence"
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| "Black Tudors : The Untold Story" |
| "A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian diver to salvage lost treasures from the Mary Rose From long-forgotten records emerge the remarkable stories of Africans who lived free in Tudor England They were present at some of the defining moments of the age They were christened married and buried by the Church They were paid wages like any other Tudors The untold stories of the Black Tudors dazzlingly brought to life by Kaufmann will transform how we see this most intriguing period of history"
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| "Shadow Wars : The Secret Struggle for the Middle East" |
| "In this unparalleled investigation Christopher Davidson exposes the true extent of Western interference in the Middle East over the past one hundred years Drawing on the examination of hundreds of leaked and declassified documents and interviews with former officials academics journalists and activists he shows how the region's most powerful actors have been manipulated by foreign players in a game that has given rise to dictators sectarian wars bloody counter-revolutions and the most brutal incarnation of extremism ever seen"
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| "Sweet Bean Paste" |
| "Sentaro has failed He has a criminal record drinks too much and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste But everything is about to change Into his life comes Tokue an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted She begins to teach him her craft but as their friendship flourishes social pressures become impossible to escape and Tokue's dark secret is revealedwith devastating consequences Sweet Bean Paste is a moving novel about the burden of the past and the redemptive power of friendship Translated into English for the first time Durian Sukegawa's beautiful prose is capturing hearts all over the world"
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| "A Man for All Markets : Beating the Odds, from Las Vegas to Wall Street" |
| "A New York Times bestsellerIn a remarkable career Edward O Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT invented card counting and the world's first wearable computer beat the casinos of Las Vegas at blackjack and roulette then became a bestselling author and a hedge fund heavyweight ushering in a revolution on Wall Street Now he shares his incredible life story for the first time revealing how he made his fortune and giving advice to the next generation of investors An intellectual thrill ride replete with practical wisdom A Man for All Markets is a scarcely imaginable tale of ludicrous success"
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| "The Soldier's Curse : Monsarrat Series Book 1" |
| "A fast-paced witty and gripping historical crime opener to The Monsarrat Series from Tom Keneally and his eldest daughter MegIn an Australian penal colony at the edge of the known world gentleman convict Hugh Monsarrat has risen from convicted forger to trusted clerk of the settlement's commandant Not long after the commandant heads off in search of a rumoured river his beautiful wife Honora falls ill with a sickness the doctor is unable to identify And when Honora dies it becomes clear she has been slowly poisoned Monsarrat and perceptive housekeeper Mrs Mulrooney feel suspicious as regards the motives of Captain Diamond the commandant's second-in-command In a trice Diamond has Mrs Mulrooney arrested for murder To save his new friend from the hangman's noose Monsarrat must go all out to unmask the real killer"
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| "What a Fish Knows : The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins" |
| "An Observer Book of the Year 2017A Sunday Times must readA New York Times BestsellerEndorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama - Balcombe vividly shows that fish have feelings and deserve consideration and protection like other sentient beings'What's the truth behind the old adage that goldfish have a three-second memory? Do fishes think? Can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? Myth-busting biologist and animal behaviour expert Jonathan Balcombe takes us under the sea through streams and estuaries to the other side of the aquarium glass to answer these questions and more He upends our assumptions revealing that fish are far from the unfeeling dead-eyed feeding machines so many of us assume them to be They are in fact sentient aware social and even Machiavellian - in other words rather like us What a Fish Knows draws on the latest science to present a fresh look at these remarkable creatures in all their breathtaking diversity and beauty Teeming with insights and exciting discoveries it offers a thoughtful appraisal of our relationships with fish and inspires us to take a more enlightened view of the planet's increasingly imperilled marine life What a Fish Knows will forever change how we see our aquatic cousins - the pet goldfish included"
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| "The White Boy Shuffle" |
| "A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot' EsquireHilariousand immensely moving' The New YorkerA blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life' New York TimesWhite Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty's electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who is forced to wise up when his mother moves from suburban Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles There he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighbourhood outcast to basketball superstar and eventually to reluctant messiah of a divided downtrodden people' A bombastic coming-of-age novel that has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same timeBeatty mingles horrific reality with wild fancy in this outlandish laugh-out-loud funny and poignant vision of contemporary America"
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| "City of Saints & Thieves" |
| "The Hunger Games meets The Thief Lord in this enthralling murder mystery set in Kenya In the shadows of Sangui City a street-thief called Tina patiently plots her revenge Her mother has been shot dead at the home of one of Kenya's richest businessmen and Tina is sure she knows who's to blame When a local gang asks her to steal from his home it's the chance Tina has been waiting for But as she steps inside old wounds resurface and she is caught red-handed by his son Michael The pair set in motion a cascade of dangerous events that could at any moment cost Tina her life The desire to uncover the incredible truth about who killed her mother - and why - keeps her holding on in this fast-paced nail-biting thriller"
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| "Nicole Dennis-Benn Here Comes the Sun Paperback" |
| "A finalist for the New York Public Library Fiction AwardA Grand Prix Littéraire of the Association of Caribbean Writers SelectionNamed a Best Book of 2016 by New York Times NPR Buzzfeed San Francisco Chronicle The Root Book Riot Kirkus Amazon WBUR&39;s &39;On Point&39; and Barnes & NobleIn this radiant highly anticipated debut a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas At an opulent resort in Montego Bay Margot hustles to send her younger sister Thandi to school Taught as a girl to trade her sexuality for survival Margot is ruthlessly determined to shield Thandi from the same fate When plans for a new hotel threaten the destruction of their community each woman – fighting to balance the burdens she shoulders with the freedom she craves – must confront long-hidden scars From a much-heralded new writer Here Comes the Sun offers a dramatic glimpse into a vibrant passionate world most outsiders see simply as paradise"
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| "Libya : From Colony to Revolution" |
| "Since Qaddafi's ousting in 2011 Libya has been beset by instability and conflict To understand the tumultuous state of the country today one must look to its past With great clarity and precision renowned regional expert Ronald Bruce St John examines Libya's long struggle to establish its political and economic identity amidst the interference of external actors keen to exploit the country's strategic importance This authoritative history spans the time of the early Phoenician and Greek settlements colonization by Mussolini's Italy Qaddafi's four decades of rule and in this updated edition the internal rivalries that have dominated the country in the aftermath of the Arab Spring Essential reading for those seeking a greater understanding of this complex North African state Libya From Colony to Revolution is an insightful history rich in detail and analysis"
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| Kompromat |
| "2016 The world is on the brink of crisis In Britain the British Prime Minister is fighting a referendum he thought couldn't be lost In the USA brash showman Ronald Craig is fighting a Presidential Election nobody thought he could win In the USSR Igor Popov the Russian President is using both events as part of his plan to destabilise the West Three men who could change the course of the world forever In his brilliant new thriller Stanley Johnson former MEP has written an alternative account of the seismic events that took place on both sides of the Atlantic"
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| "Sophie Scholl and the White Rose" |
| "This is the gripping story of the five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II featured in the award-winning Oscar-nominated film Sophie Scholl - The Final Days This 75th anniversary edition commemorates the 75 years since their arrest & execution in 1943 This updated edition includes a new preface and more photos"
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| "Roadmap to Hell : Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast" |
| "From sex slaves to drug mules The Daily Beast's Rome Bureau Chief uncovers a terrifying and intricate web of criminal activity right on Europe's doorstep Caught between Camorra gunrunners selling to ISIS and Nigerian drug gangs along Italy's picturesque coast each year thousands of refugees and migrants are lured into their criminal underworld forced to become sex slaves drug mules or weapon smugglers In this powerful expose investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau follows the weapons trail meets the Nigerian hair braiders trafficked and trapped by black magic the brave nuns who try to save them and the Italian police who turn a blind eye as the most urgent issues facing Europe play out in broad daylight"
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| "The Temptation to Be Happy" |
| "Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker He has lived his whole life by his own rules and has no intention of changing now Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana he spends his days avoiding the old cat lady next door and screening calls from his children But when the enigmatic Emma moves in next door with her strange and sinister husband Cesare suspects there is more to their relationship than meets the eye He enlists the other residents to help him investigate and soon discovers a new and unexpected sense of purpose that leads him to risk everything for a future he had never thought possible Laced with humour and pathos in equal measure this is a delightful book to savour for young and old alike"
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| Grace |
| "SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE GUARDIAN AND ESQUIREEarly one October morning Grace's mother snatches her from sleep and brutally cuts off her hair declaring You are the strong one now' With winter close at hand and Ireland already suffering Grace is no longer safe at home And so her mother outfits her in men's clothing and casts her out When her younger brother Colly follows after her the two set off on a remarkable journey in the looming shadow of their country's darkest hour The broken land they pass through reveals untold suffering as well as unexpected beauty To survive Grace must become a boy a bandit a penitent and finally a woman - all the while afflicted by inner voices that arise out of what she has seen and what she has lost Told in bold and lyrical language by an author who has been called 'one of his generation's very finest novelists' (Ron Rash) Grace is an epic coming-of-age novel and a poetic evocation of the Irish famine as it has never been written"
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| "Tales from Watership Down" |
| "Tales from Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adams's bestselling classic Watership Down which won the Carnegie Medaland Guardian Children's Fiction Award Adams returns to the vivid and distinctive world he created in that enduring work reacquainting readers with the characters we know and love including Fiver Hazel Bigwig Dandelion and the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah These compelling tales include all-new adventures with the younger generation of rabbits eager to find out about the heroic age that existed before they were born Enchanting us once again with stories of courage and survival the millions of readers who enjoyed Watership Down now have the chance to re-enter this unique and spell-binding world"
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| "The Angry Chef : Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating" |
| "Never before have we had so much information available to us about food and health There's GAPS paleo detox gluten-free alkaline the sugar conspiracy clean eating Unfortunately a lot of it is not only wrong but actually harmful So why do so many of us believe this bad science?Assembling a crack team of psychiatrists behavioural economists food scientists and dietitians the Angry Chef unravels the mystery of why sensible intelligent people are so easily taken in by the latest food fads making brief detours for an expletive-laden rant At the end of it all you'll have the tools to spot pseudoscience for yourself and the Angry Chef will be off for a nice cup of tea - and it will have two sugars in it thank you very much"
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| "The Know-It-Alls : The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball" |
| "The Beginning a Stanford University lab embarked on an idealistic quest to create an artificial intelligence that would benefit society perhaps even profit the makers There were few women or minorities in the department and its head rejected the very idea of authority but really - what could go wrong?Now more and more aspects of our lives are being dictated by a tiny unaccountable elite a breakaway sect of free-market libertarians who are determined to bypass government and enrich themselves at the expense of society Pioneers and self-proclaimed geniuses like Jeff Bezos Peter Thiel Reid Hoffman and Mark Zuckerberg have not only made the Internet what it is today - their impact on the world has been profound This is a history of Silicon Valley through its eleven greatest entrepreneurs and a damning indictment of the greed bias and outright prejudice of an industry that is fracturing America and taking the rest of us with it"
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| "It's All Relative : Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree" |
| "AJ Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years but this note was perhaps the strangest You don't know me but I'm your eighth cousin And we have over 80000 relatives of yours in our databaseAnd so begins AJ Jacobs's quest to build the biggest family tree in history In an era of us-versus-them thinking this book is a hilarious heartfelt and profound exploration of what binds us all - where family begins how far it goes and the science that is revolutionizing the way we think about ethnicity history and the human species This book is about AJ Jacobs's family But it's also about your family Because it is the same family"
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| "Mudbound (2017)" |
| "Oscar Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay Best Supporting Actress Best Original Song and Best Cinematography Now a Netflix original movie starring Carey Mulligan Garrett Hedlund Jason Mitchell & Mary J BligeA masterly meaningful tale from America&39;s divided past This is a giant of a story&39; GuardianA sweeping often spellbinding epic of cinematic storytelling that runs right up against the definition of masterpiece&39; The TimesMudbound is poised to break serious ground what makes Rees&39;s ensemble movie remarkable is that every character is so richly defined and rounded A wonderfully assured blend of sweeping period melodrama and small telling moments it&39;s a world you want to spend more time inside&39; MetroRees arranges her symbols with a rich sense of cinematic and literary tradition&39; Daily TelegraphDee Rees&39;s rich absorbing story set in pre- and postwar Mississippi and based on Hillary Jordan&39;s novel is beautifully directed and performed&39; Peter Bradshaw Guardian When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife Laura to a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta in 1946 she finds herself in a place both foreign and frightening Henry&39;s love of rural life is not shared by Laura who struggles to raise their two young children in an isolated shotgun shack under the eye of her hateful racist father-in-law When it rains the waters rise up and swallow the bridge to town stranding the family in a sea of mud As the Second World War shudders to an end two young men return from Europe to help work the farm Jamie McAllan is everything his older brother Henry is not and is sensitive to Laura&39;s plight but also haunted by his memories of combat Ronsel Jackson eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the farm comes home from war with the shine of a hero only to face far more dangerous battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen These two unlikely friends become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale"
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