Hugh de Lacy, First Earl of Ulster: Rising and Falling in Angevin Ireland
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This book charts the striking rise, fall and restoration of the first earl of Ulster, Hugh II de...
J.J. Abrams: A Study in Genius
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J.J. Abrams is one of the most successful director-writer-producers working in Hollywood, and now...
The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XXIII: The Rawlinson Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford
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In 1755 Richard Rawlinson bequeathed his vast collection of books and manuscripts to the Bodleian...
Two Essays on Miracles
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The essays in this volume were written when John Henry Newman was a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford....
Tombland (The Shardlake series Book 7)
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Summer, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . . The...
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
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Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with “separate but equal,” created...
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Rosemary Ashton and Edward John Trelawny
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In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the...
Binocular Vision
Clare Skeats and Edith Pearlman
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Edith Pearlman's Binocular Vision are the collected stories of an award-winning author who has been...
The Missing Monuments Murders
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In 1806, Jane Austen's relative, the Reverend Thomas Leigh, inherited huge estates and the mood in...
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
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"I was told to come alone. I was not to carry any identification, and would have to leave my cell...
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