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Anthony Gottlieb

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Stung by Life

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How Korean Corn Dogs Changed My Life

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Alice Amelia

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Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure)

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The Life of Louise Bourgeois

Marie-Laure Bernadac

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Iris Jamahl Dunkle

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Ruth Franklin

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Denis D. Gray

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Mark Oppenheimer

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Lucy Ridge

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President Bill Clinton

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Anne Glenconner

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The Boundless Deep

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Richard Holmes

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A Hidden Life

Gerri Kimber

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Akiko Mikamo

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We Should Have Talked

The biography of my father

Joe Reich

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Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard

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A Man and his Home

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John Holden

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My Gardening Life

Mary Berry

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Peter Brown

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Myself and Other Animals

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The Real Wallis Simpson

Rachel Louise Foster

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Anthony Bourdain

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Yes I Can

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Jane Boyar

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A Hymn to Life

Shame has to Change Sides

Gisèle Pelicot

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Two Women Living Together

Kim Hana

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Mornings With My Cat Mii

Mayumi Inaba

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Didion & Babitz

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Lili Anolik

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I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

On Making a Living

Hu Anyan

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Things That Disappear

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Jenny Erpenbeck

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The Flower Bearers

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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My Cursed Vagina

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Lally Katz

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

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Michael Kempe

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Maria Theresa

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Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

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A Life in Letters

John Updike

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers

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The Greatest Spy

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John Harte

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Who Could Ever Love You

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Mary L. Trump

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Fire in Every Direction

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Tareq Baconi

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Berlin Childhood around 1900

Walter Benjamin

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The Real Alma Mahler

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Judith Grohmann

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Squanto

A Native Odyssey

Andrew Lipman

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Patriot

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Alexei Navalny

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Afghanistan Sniper

Trauma on the Front Line and Beyond...

Ted Shirley

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Stripped Down

Unfiltered and Unapologetic

Bunnie Xo

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There She Goes, My Beautiful World

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Gosia Buzzanca

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Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና)

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Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes

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A Voyage Around the Queen

Craig Brown

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Strangers

A Memoir of Marriage

Belle Burden

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Life in Progress

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Goethe

A Life in Ideas

Matthew Bell

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I'll Tell You When I'm Home

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Hala Alyan

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Nothing Random

Bennett Cerf and the Publishing...

Gayle Feldman

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By My Hands

A Potter’s Apprenticeship

Florian Gadsby

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The Royal We

A Memoir

Roddy Bottum

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Jean Baudrillard

Emmanuelle Fantin

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

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Death of an Ordinary Man

Sarah Perry

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Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear

A Biography of A. A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh...

Gyles Brandreth

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Henry Kissinger

An Intimate Portrait of the Master...

Jérémie Gallon

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I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking

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Joan Didion

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Sisters of Scandal

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Ainslie Harvey

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Muv

The Story of the Mitford Girls'...

Rachel Trethewey

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Is That You, Petula?

An Autobiography

Petula Clark

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The Incidental Feminist

Friend, foe, femme fatale? The truth...

Tina Gaudoin

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Exit Wounds

A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional...

Peter Godwin

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Joyce

Ian Pindar

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Joseph Smith

The Rise and Fall of an American...

John G. Turner

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Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear

A. A. Milne and the Creation of...

Gyles Brandreth

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Margaret Thatcher

Life After Downing Street

Peter Just

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What Nails It

Greil Marcus

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Chanel's War

Escape From France

Richard Wallace

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True Nature

The Lives of Peter Matthiessen

Lance Richardson

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Book of Lives

A Memoir of Sorts

Margaret Atwood

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Finding My Way

Malala Yousafzai

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A Bright Cold Day

The Wonder of George Orwell

Nathan Waddell

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Nobody's Girl

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Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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The Second Emancipation

Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global...

Howard W. French

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Jane Austen

The Biography

Elizabeth Jenkins

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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

Shaun Bythell

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Hope in Action

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Sanna Marin

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A Season for That

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Steve Hoffman

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The Brothers Grimm

A Biography

Ann Schmiesing

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Joyride

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Susan Orlean

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The Confessions of Samuel Pepys

His Private Revelations

Guy de la Bédoyère

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Curie

Sarah Dry

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The Look

Michelle Obama

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My Palestine

An Impossible Exile

Mohammad Tarbush

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Adventures of a Young Naturalist

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Sir David Attenborough

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The Good Russian

In Search of a Nation's Soul

Jana Bakunina

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Days in the Caucasus

Banine

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Gaston Bachelard

An Intellectual Biography

Steven Connor

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George Stephenson

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Hunter Davies

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Good Taste

Alain Ducasse

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Vegas

A Memoir of a Dark Season

John Gregory Dunne

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Pop Scars

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Anthony Kavanagh

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Mastering My Messy Life

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Steph Pase

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The Nine Lives of Annie Besant

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Clare Paterson

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Vermeer

A Life Lost and Found

Andrew Graham Dixon

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Storyteller

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Leo Damrosch

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Raise Your Soul

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Yanis Varoufakis

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107 Days

Kamala Harris

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Freedom

Memoirs 1954 - 2021

Angela Merkel

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What Have I Done?

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Ben Elton

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Electric Spark

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Frances Wilson

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My Beloved Monster

Caleb Carr

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The Other Girl

Annie Ernaux

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Future Boy

Back to the Future and My Journey...

Michael J Fox

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From Here to the Great Unknown

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Lisa Marie Presley

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Softly, As I Leave You

Life After Elvis

Priscilla Presley

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Alice

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Hugo Vickers

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My Glorious Defeats

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Barrett Brown

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Ingrained

The making of a craftsman

Callum Robinson

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The Piano Player of Budapest

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Roxanne de Bastion

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My Book of Treasures

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Joanna Lumley

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Franz Boas

In Praise of Open Minds

Noga Arikha

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Mind over Miles

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Russ Cook

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The Man Who Changed the Way We Read

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Jeremy Lewis

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What Have I Done?

My Autobiography

Ben Elton

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Around the Table

52 Essays on Food & Life

Diana Henry

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Churchill's Angel

The Life of SIS Agent Hazel ‘Jicky’...

Nicoletta Maggi

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I Am Giorgia

My Roots, My Principles

Giorgia Meloni

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Young Once

A Life Less Heavy

Nigel Planer

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Ian Fleming's War

The Inspiration for 007

Mark Simmons

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Fly, Wild Swans

My Mother, Myself and China

Jung Chang

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Mother Mary Comes To Me

Arundhati Roy

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This Is for Everyone

Tim Berners-Lee

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All the Way to the River

Love, Loss and Liberation

Elizabeth Gilbert

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White Male Stand-Up

An Autobiography

Alan Davies

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Fires Which Burned Brightly

A Life in Progress

Sebastian Faulks

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Indignity

A Life Reimagined

Lea Ypi

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Wallis Simpson

Her Lotus Year in 1920s China

Paul French

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Byron

A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew Stauffer

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Naked Portrait

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Rose Boyt

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The Possession

Annie Ernaux

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Always Home, Always Homesick

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Hannah Kent

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Jane Austen

The Life of a Literary Titan

Caroline Sanderson

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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

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Alyson Stoner

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Tales from the Heart

True Stories from my Childhood

Maryse Condé

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Dirtbag Billionaire

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David Gelles

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Entitled

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Andrew Lownie

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You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

A Psychiatrist’s Life

Benji Waterhouse

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Reacher

The Stories Behind The Stories

Lee Child

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90 Seconds to Midnight

A Hiroshima Survivor's Nuclear Odyssey...

Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

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What I Ate in One Year

and related thoughts

Stanley Tucci

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Dickens the Enchanter

Inside the Explosive Imagination...

Peter Conrad

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Poets Square

A Memoir in Thirty Cats

Courtney Gustafson

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For Art and for Life

Vincent Van Gogh

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Paris France

Gertrude Stein

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The New Dress

Virginia Woolf

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The Scientist Who Wasn't There

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Joanne Briggs

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A Different Kind of Power

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Jacinda Ardern

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The Trading Game

A Confession

Gary Stevenson

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Breadcrumbs

Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Poland...

Kasia Babis

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Natasha Trethewey

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