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Throughout history, people have loved, owned and ridden horses. They fascinate us, and we are drawn...
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
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Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the...
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
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In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese...
Hearts in Atlantis
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Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply...
The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller
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Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art...
Walkaway: A Novel
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From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love,...
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The Scourge of Soho: The Controversial Career of SAS Hero
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Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor is undoubtedly one of the most controversial policeman of all...
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Detective Sergeant Harry Challenor is undoubtedly one of the most controversial policeman of all...
The Hair of Harold Roux
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In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas...
Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good
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As President Obama began to unveil sweeping government programs to restore the crippled economy, the...