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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

by Max Hastings

Published: 2012-10-02

Paperback: 800 pages

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Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Military HistoryA New York Times Notable BookFrom one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.  For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researche...

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Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen (Villains)

by Disney Book Group, Serena Valentino

Published: 2009-08-18

Hardcover: 256 pages

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For anyone who's seen Walt Disney's Snow White, you'll know that the Wicked Queen is one evil woman! After all, it's not everyone who wants to cut out their teenage step-daughter's heart and have it delivered back in a locked keepsake box. (And even if this sort of thing is a common urge, ...

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Semi-Sweet: A Novel of Love and Cupcakes

by Roisin Meaney

Published: 2011-04-25

Kindle Edition: 397 pages

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Hannah Robinson is just about to open the doors to her new shop Cupcakes on the Corner when out of the blue her boyfriend Patrick announces that he's leaving her for another woman. Faced with starting a business on her own, Hannah begins to wonder if her life-long dream has just turned into a nightmare....

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Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Published: 2020-03-31

Paperback: 464 pages

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Céline’s masterpiece?colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor Céline’s masterpiece?colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic?boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and hypocrisy: Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony ...

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Viaje al Fin de la Noche (Spanish Edition)

by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Published: 2004-09

Paperback: 573 pages

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: A George Smiley Novel

by John le Carré

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 400 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. John le Carré’s new novel, Agent Running in the Field, is coming October 2019.The man he knew as "Control" is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. But George Smiley isn't quite ready for retirem...

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The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain

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Highly accessible. It has the power to do vastly more for gender equality than any number of feminist manifestos revolutionary to a glorious degreeRachel Cooke, Observer'A treasure trove of information and good humour' CORDELIA FINE, author of Testosterone RexDo you have a female brain or a male brain...

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Confessions (Penguin Classics)

by Saint Augustine

Published: 1961-11-30

Paperback: 352 pages

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The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifes...

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The Joke (Definitive Version)

by Milan Kundera

Published: 1993

Paperback: 336 pages

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All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such ...

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Killoe: A Novel

by Louis L'Amour

Published: 2004-12-28

Kindle Edition: 173 pages

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Dan Killoe—over six feet of tough, raw, lightning fast man.  He had a trail heard and a mass of settlers to get across unknown territory to a new land.  Then he gave shelter to a stranger being hunted by Felipe Soto, scar-faced leader of the renegade Comancheros.  This time Killoe was borrowing...