Cooking Dirty

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From his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at the age of fifteen, Jason Sheehan has worked at all kinds of restaurants across America, from Buffalo to Tampa to Albuquerque: at a French colonial a …

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

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Shortlisted for the Thurber Prize for American Humor22 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list’Wonderfully intelligent and frank… I loved this book, and Rhoda Janzen. She is a terrific, pithy, b …

Paradoxical Undressing

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Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting university at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was …

The Woman Who Thought too Much

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2011Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn’t want to think, and does things she doesn’t want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive …

Splendour and Squalor

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They were the black sheep of aristocracy and this is their story.From stately homes to the prisons of wartime Britain; from the House of Lords to Edwardian asylums; from the Ritz and the Dorchester to …

Anne Frank

Anne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday in June 1942, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two yea …

The Butterfly Mosque

After taking an Islamic Studies course in Boston, G. Willow Wilson quietly found herself adopting the tenets of the religion as her own. This intellectual and emotional exercise created a unique chall …

Golden Boy

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**Voted Wisden Cricket Monthly’s best cricket book ever in 2019**WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010_________________Golden Boy is a blistering exposé of the tumultuous Lillee/M …

The Letter in the Bottle

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The amazing true story of a heart-breaking message in a bottle and one mother’s successful quest to find the person who sent it.On a winter’s day in 2002, a bottle shaped like a tear washed up on the …

Feeding The Bump

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One of the most important factors for women attempting to fall pregnant and those who are expecting is making sure that what they put into their bodies is good not only for them but also the developme …

Inside Steve's Brain

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Steve Jobs was an American visionary who immeasurably altered the way the world uses technology. From the Apple II to minimalist iMacs and from the foundation of Pixar to the invention of the iPad, Jo …

The Clash

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The Clash: trendsetters, icons, revolutionaries. They were the pioneers of British punk rock and their story is steeped in mythology. Many people have an opinion about what made them who they were – t …

Thommo Speaks Out

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Jeff Thomson talks about his life before, during and after he played Test cricket for Australia.’I’d just lope in and go whang.’ This is how Thommo, the fastest bowler of all time, explains his bowlin …

Always Liza to Me

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A very personal, entertaining and engaging memoir of growing up with a severely disabled sibling.This is the story of the Rice family, and of Liza, Cecilia Rice’s severely mentally retarded sister. As …

From Harvey River

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Lorna Goodison’s family made their home in the Jamaican village to which her great-grandfather gave his name: Harvey River. Her mother Doris was a big-hearted lover of big stories and raised Lorna on …

The Pattern in the Carpet

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A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it has played in its distinguished author’s life. Weaving together memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of p …