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BBQ economics by Liam Dann

BBQ economics

Liam Dann

Should I fix or float? Is now a good time to buy -- or sell? What do self-made billionaires know that you and I don't? Why does cheese cost so much? Veteran financial journalist Liam Dann has fielded as many money-related questions as he has enjoyed beers...

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Money on your mind by Vicky Reynal

Money on your mind

Vicky Reynal

THE HUGELY ANTICIPATED SOLUTION TO ALL YOUR MONEY CONCERNS FROM FINANCIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST VICKY REYNAL 'An incredible voyage of financial self-discovery with plenty of "aha" moments[...] Think of this as financial therapy with feeling' - Claer Barrett,...

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Don't stress, just invest by Alec Renehan

Don't stress, just invest

Alec Renehan

Forget what you think about investing. Technology has made the wealth-building power of the stock market more accessible than ever. You can now get started with just a few cents. Leading investment podcasters Alec Renehan and Bryce Leske cut to the chase in...

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Catastrophe ethics by Travis N. Rieder

Catastrophe ethics

Travis N. Rieder

Humankind has never before faced challenges of the scale and complexity of today. In a hyper-globalised world hurtling towards environmental destruction, how do we determine the right actions? Do our individual efforts to avoid plastic or air travel, or to...

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Mickey by Helen Brown

Mickey

Helen Brown

It was 1966 and the times they were a-changing, even in the provincial New Zealand coastal town of New Plymouth. Skirts were getting shorter, the Vietnam War was on TV every night and French nuclear tests in the Pacific turned the night sky a violent red....

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Little things by Fearne Cotton

Little things

Fearne Cotton

This audiobook is a way to make small changes to feel better, even when under stress. Stress is a normal part of life, but it can be overwhelming. The habits, tools and advice in these pages will help you cope better, understand your own worries and learn how...

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Small victories by Anne Lamott

Small victories

Anne Lamott

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Help, Thanks, Wow, Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Dusk, Night, Dawn.Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become...

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This is where you have to go by Lynda Holden

This is where you have to go

Lynda Holden

In 1970, Lynda was 18, unmarried and pregnant when she was forced to give her baby up for adoption. She was sent by a doctor to a Catholic girls' home for unmarried mothers, and told she'd have no hope of keeping her child because she was Aboriginal. After 26...

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Parenting in progress by Mel Wilson

Parenting in progress

Mel Wilson

A book of reassurance, advice and hilarious epic fails for parents and carers of toddlers to primary-school-aged kids, from the co-host of The Juggling Act podcast and a diverse range of not-so-perfect (celebrity) mums, dads and carers, who have all made...

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Zero risk by Tony Loughran

Zero risk

Tony Loughran

We live in a dangerous world. And the stories of war and terrorism that fill our screens are brought to us by brave journalists who put their lives on the line. They will always face peril, but now they can work in much greater safety, thanks to the...

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Power of balance by Kerryn Phelps

Power of balance

Kerryn Phelps

One of Australia's first 'TV doctors', Dr Kerryn Phelps served as President of the Australian Medical Association, Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney and a key leader of Australia's LGBT+ community. Little did she know, as she celebrated the historic Marriage...

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Unstressable by Mo Gawdat

Unstressable

Mo Gawdat

This audiobook is brilliantly read by the authors, Mo Gawdat and Alice Law. 'Everything he writes is an enlightening education in how to be human.' - Elizabeth Day Unstressable applies Mo Gawdat's brilliant engineering mind and Alice Law's psychology and...

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Dead weight by Emmeline Clein

Dead weight

Emmeline Clein

Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women - famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved - she...

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The garden against time by Olivia Laing

The garden against time

Olivia Laing

Read by the author, Olivia Laing. 'What a wonderful book this is. I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the way.' - Nigel Slater 'A garden contains secrets, we all know that: buried...

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Literature for the people by Sarah Harkness

Literature for the people

Sarah Harkness

Read by the author, Sarah Harkness. Daniel and Alexander arrived in London in the 1830s at a crucial moment of social change. These two idealistic brothers, working-class sons of a Scottish crofter, went on to set up a publishing house that spread radical...

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50 ways to more calm, less stress by Megy Karydes

50 ways to more calm, less stress

Megy Karydes

Touch, taste, smell, hear, and see your way to better self-care and mental well-being. Let's face it: We all feel stress. Deep breathing, meditation, and yoga only go so far, and not being able to sit still and be alone with our thoughts isn't that unusual....

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The Saad truth about happiness by Gad Saad

The Saad truth about happiness

Gad Saad

Professor and "de facto global therapist" to an ever-growing audience of hundreds of thousands of people builds on national bestseller The Parasitic Mind to argue that happiness is not merely a changeable mood but a process toward which we can strive by...

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Areté. Volume 1 by Brian Johnson

Areté. Volume 1

Brian Johnson

"This book will change your life. And, if enough of us commit, it will change the world." -- Phil Stutz, MD, bestselling author of The Tools, featured in the Netflix documentary StutzIn Areté, Brian Johnson integrates ancient wisdom, modern science, and...

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Bennelong & Phillip by Kate Fullagar

Bennelong & Phillip

Kate Fullagar

Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Australians, Phillip the colony's first governor, and Bennelong the Yiyura leader. The pair have come to represent the conflict that flared and has...

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Better, simpler strategy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Better, simpler strategy

Felix Oberholzer-Gee

"Cut through complexity and get to better, more effective strategy. Extreme market volatility, pandemics, industry change, supply-chain disruption. The list of potential threats and strategic challenges seems to be growing exponentially. At the same time, the...

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Treat your own back by Robin McKenzie

Treat your own back

Robin McKenzie

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This patient handbook provides an easy-to-follow self-treatment plan to quickly and effectively diagnose, alleviate, treat and manage debilitating back and related pains, even for the long-term sufferer. First in the best-selling " Treat Your Own" Series,...

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The science of rights by Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The science of rights

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

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The Science of Rights (originally in German: Grundlage des Naturrechts nach Principien der Wissenschaftslehre) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, was originally written in 1796 and laterly translated by Adolph Ernst Kroeger into English.

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Show up by Tammy Hembrow

Show up

Tammy Hembrow

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Have you ever wondered what you could achieve if you knew how to show up as your best, strongest self every day?Tammy Hembrow knew she wanted to make an impact on the world - and do it her way, as her own boss.Since founding Tammy Fit and Saski and becoming a...

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Retoer by Marita Van der Vyver

Retoer

Marita Van der Vyver

Op reis saam met Marita van der Vyver, van Pretoria tot Provence! Retoer: Pretoria - Provence is 'n bundel van dié bekroonde en immergewilde skrywer se beste rubrieke, sketse en essays wat nog nie voorheen in bundelformaat uitgegee is nie. Dit sluit in 'n...

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Disability intimacy

Disability intimacy

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The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.What is...

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Hunt for the shadow wolf by Derek Gow

Hunt for the shadow wolf

Derek Gow

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Renowned rewilder Derek Gow has a dream: that one day we will see the return of the wolf to Britain as it has already returned elsewhere. As Derek worked to reintroduce the beaver, he began to hear stories of the wolf, both real and mythical, and his...

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The swans of Harlem by Karen Valby

The swans of Harlem

Karen Valby

"Harlem 1969; it's the height of the Civil Rights era and the community is still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first Black principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, takes his protest to the stage and establishes...

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The great Post Office scandal by Nick Wallis

The great Post Office scandal

Nick Wallis

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The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from...

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Never give up by Tom Brokaw

Never give up

Tom Brokaw

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In this moving story, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles the values and lessons he absorbed from his parents and other people who worked hard to build lives on the prairie during the first half of the twentieth century....

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Glitter and concrete by Elyssa Maxx Goodman

Glitter and concrete

Elyssa Maxx Goodman

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*The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023**A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous, Glitter and Concrete is urban history on fire."--Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New...

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Home before morning by Lynda Van Devanter

Home before morning

Lynda Van Devanter

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Lynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure...

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Transland by Mx Sly

Transland

Mx Sly

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A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective. Transland is a fiery and revealing memoir that delves into what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of...

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Dogs demystified by Marc Bekoff

Dogs demystified

Marc Bekoff

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An all-encompassing and fun reference from an award-winning scientist and dog lover Dr. Marc Bekoff is an expert at turning cutting-edge science into practical, readerfriendly information. The encyclopedic entries in this book cover everything related to dog...

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Mostly what God does by Savannah Guthrie

Mostly what God does

Savannah Guthrie

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Read by the author. Guthrie persuasively renders the evolution of a hard-won religious belief that makes room for imperfection and "does not require us to ignore... the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see but to believe past it." Mostly what God...

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The Yank by John (Soldier) Crawley

The Yank

John (Soldier) Crawley

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HE YEAR IS 1975. A young Irish-American is on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive military training possible and then go to Ireland to join the IRA and fight to end the British occupation of the...

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Rubbish. The complete series 1 and 2 by Tony Bagley

Rubbish. The complete series 1 and 2

Tony Bagley

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Quirky comedy from the writer of Married, following the highs and lows of a local government officer. Martin Christmas is a local government worker in the Sanitation department, whose days are shaped by endless recycling initiatives and green league tables,...

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Sophocles' greek tragedies by author Sophocles

Sophocles' greek tragedies

author Sophocles

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A collection of full-cast dramatisations of Sophocles' finest Greek tragediesOne of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during his 60-year career, though only seven survive today. The most famous of these are...

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Strap yourself in by Amy Gerard

Strap yourself in

Amy Gerard

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A memoir of motherhood, dancefloors and all the mayhem in between. In a world of highly curated Instagram pages and unrealistic expectations of motherhood, Amy Gerard is a gust of fresh air. She does not sugarcoat the fact that her life with her husband and...

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Footmarks by Jim Leary

Footmarks

Jim Leary

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Archaeologist Jim Leary reanimates the past with this riveting 'archaeology of movement' All too often we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time', and indeed movement is not always easy to decipher from the archaeological record. With Jim Leary's expert...

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It starts today by Jono Castano

It starts today

Jono Castano

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Personal trainer to the stars Jono Castano has been the motivator for thousands of powerful fitness transformations, was in-house trainer at Men's Health Magazine and is Founder of Acero Gym. In It Starts Today, Jono draws upon his own powerful experiences as...

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Devil's kitchen by Candice Fox

Devil's kitchen

Candice Fox

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When a city's heroes become its boldest criminals . . .For years the firefighters of New York's Engine 99 have rushed fearlessly into hot zones, saving countless lives and stopping devastating blazes in their tracks. They've also stolen millions from banks,...

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Craig Brown by Craig Brown

Craig Brown

Craig Brown

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Columnist, critic and award-winning author Craig Brown is well known for his Private Eye parodies lampooning politicians and celebrities. He has written for numerous newspapers, both under his own name and as his alter egos Wallace Arnold and Bel Littlejohn....

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism by Empiricus Sextus

Outlines of Pyrrhonism

Empiricus Sextus

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Throughout history philosophers have sought to define, understand, and delineate concepts important to human well-being. One such concept is "knowledge." Many philosophers believed that absolute, certain knowledge, is possible--that the physical world and...

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City of echoes by Jessica Wärnberg

City of echoes

Jessica Wärnberg

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From a bold new historian comes a vibrant history of Rome as seen through its most influential persona throughout the centuries: the pope. Rome is a city of echoes, where the voice of the people has chimed and clashed with the words of princes, emperors, and...

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Life skills for a broken world by Ahona Guha

Life skills for a broken world

Ahona Guha

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A revolutionary framework for living well in a broken world, from acclaimed author and psychologist. How can I manage heartbreak? How do I cope with death? How can I learn to tolerate anxiety and have hope? In this helpful, practical, and realistic guide to...

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Oscar Piastri by Andrew van Leeuwen

Oscar Piastri

Andrew van Leeuwen

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The meteoric rise of motorsports phenom Oscar Piastri has been the stuff of legends - so far. Three years and a record-breaking three straight titles across Formula Renault, Formula 3 and Formula 2 set up one of the most anticipated F1 rookie seasons ever when...

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Crimewaves by Dave Simpson

Crimewaves

Dave Simpson

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A six-part crime drama about a group of Manchester teens fighting for justice.When their friend Keith Brandon is charged with murdering a policeman, Gemma, Liam and Andy decide to bunk off school and go to the trial. Keith had a knife, a motive and has...

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Unshrinking by Kate Manne

Unshrinking

Kate Manne

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Brought to you by Penguin.For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied...

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Unruly figures by Valorie Castellanos Clark

Unruly figures

Valorie Castellanos Clark

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Ballet shoes & more by Noel Streatfeild

Ballet shoes & more

Noel Streatfeild

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Full-cast dramatisations of three of Noel Streatfeild's classic children's books. Rising to fame with her 1936 novel Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild soon became one of the most popular authors of her day. She was one of the first winners of the Carnegie Medal...

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Mothering heights by Rachael Mogan McIntosh

Mothering heights

Rachael Mogan McIntosh

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A year of joy and survival in the trenches of early parenthood Following the year Rachael Mogan-McIntosh gave birth to her third child and shapeshifted from wild to mild, Mothering Heights is an hilarious, moving celebration of early parenthood - written by a...

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Break the cycle by Mariel Buqué

Break the cycle

Mariel Buqué

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Brought to you by Penguin.How to pass on strength not pain to those you love.When a physical wound is left unhealed, it continues to cause pain and can infect the whole body. When emotions are left unhealed, they similarly cause harm that spreads to other...

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The energy fix by Karina Antram

The energy fix

Karina Antram

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Brought to you by Penguin.Feeling tired but don't know why? This is the book anyone battling low energy needs to read.The Energy Fix is a nutritional science book that will help you to understand why your energy levels are so low and equip you with easy,...

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The great wave by Michiko Kakutani

The great wave

Michiko Kakutani

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An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth 'A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world' Ai...

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Code dependent by Madhumita Murgia

Code dependent

Madhumita Murgia

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Read by the author, Madhumita Murgia, this audio edition includes a fascinating exclusive author interview, led by the global AI lead at publisher Pan Macmillan, Sara Lloyd. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'Code Dependent is the intimate...

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The capitalist manifesto by Johan Norberg

The capitalist manifesto

Johan Norberg

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Marx and Engels were right when they observed in the Communist Manifesto that free markets had in a short time created greater prosperity and more technological innovation than all previous generations combined. A century and a half later, all the evidence...

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The furies by Elizabeth (Journalist) Flock

The furies

Elizabeth (Journalist) Flock

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Brought to you by Penguin.A stunning narrative investigation into three women who rewrote stories of disempowerment into stories of resistance, and wielded violence to fight back against their oppressorsBrittany Smith, a young woman from Stevenson, Alabama,...

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Wild history by James (Writer on aerial photography) Crawford

Wild history

James (Writer on aerial photography)...

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From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past. Perhaps...

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Birding to change the world by Trish O'Kane

Birding to change the world

Trish O'Kane

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In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative...

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Rich AF by Vivian Tu

Rich AF

Vivian Tu

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"From TikTok star and your (favorite) rich BFF Vivian Tu, the definitive book on personal finance for a new generation"--

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The riddles of the Sphinx by Anna Shechtman

The riddles of the Sphinx

Anna Shechtman

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Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist...

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Is everyone happier than me? by Sarah Bragg

Is everyone happier than me?

Sarah Bragg

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The point where you feel like your life is unraveling can actually be a place of unimaginable growth--an awakening--if you're willing to ask yourself a few simple questions. In an age where everyone else's successes are flaunted in front of you on social...

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From the moment they met it was murder by Alain Silver

From the moment they met it was murder

Alain Silver

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The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity--its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history--is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th...

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We've Got Issues by Phillip C./ Mcgraw Mcgraw

We've Got Issues

Phillip C./ Mcgraw Mcgraw

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved television host comes We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity, a new book on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families, and re-embrace self-determination...

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Heartstone by C. J. Sansom

Heartstone

C. J. Sansom

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An enthralling BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of the fifth novel in C.J. Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime series, featuring lawyer-detective Matthew ShardlakeSummer, 1545, and England is preparing for war. Facing imminent invasion by the French fleet, King...

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Storm's edge by Peter Marshall

Storm's edge

Peter Marshall

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From Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, Storm's Edge is a new history of the Orkney Islands that delves deep into island politics, folk beliefs and community memory on the geographical edge of Britain. Peter Marshall was born in Orkney. His...

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Clear thinking by Shane Parrish

Clear thinking

Shane Parrish

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Brought to you by Penguin.A roadmap for thinking clearly in any situation.We all aspire to see the world clearly. And yet all too often, when the pressure is on, we give in to our most irrational impulses - making intuitive decisions that take us ever-further...

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Briefly perfectly human by Alua Arthur

Briefly perfectly human

Alua Arthur

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A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America's most visible death doula. For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua...

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The lost paths by Jack Cornish

The lost paths

Jack Cornish

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Brought to you by Penguin.Discover the rich history of Britain's millennia-old network of pathways, and it will be impossible to take an unremarkable walk again...Hundreds of thousands of miles of paths reach into, and connect, communities across England and...

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Influence by Justin Hempson-Jones

Influence

Justin Hempson-Jones

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One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think what you think and do as you do. You use it to change the thoughts and...

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The eighth house by Linda Segtnan

The eighth house

Linda Segtnan

In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl's face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted in her mind. Birgitta Sivander was brutally murdered one night in May 1948. The...

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Shaolin by Bernhard Moestl

Shaolin

Bernhard Moestl

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The Shaolin monks in China are legendary for their mastery of kung fu, but the secret to their success - their ability to rise to any challenge, handle stress and overcome conflict - lies not in their physical strength but in their...

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Fiere by Jackie Kay

Fiere

Jackie Kay

A deeply moving and searching enquiry into all forms of human friendship, Fiere is a brilliant collection of poems by Jackie Kay, as well as a lyric counterpart to her memoir, Red Dust Road: the extraordinary story of the search for her Nigerian and Highland...

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Things no one taught us about love by Vex King

Things no one taught us about love

Vex King

Things No One Taught Us About Love is a concise audiobook that distils the ideas found in Vex King's Closer to Love, reworked and presented in the warm, relatable style of his No. 1 bestseller Good Vibes, Good, Life. This extraordinary audiobook is for anyone...

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The forbidden daughter by Zipora Klein Jakob

The forbidden daughter

Zipora Klein Jakob

Elida Friedman was never supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet despite the danger they faced, Dr Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila, choose to bring a daughter into the world - a...

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Breaking better by Lennox Rodgers

Breaking better

Lennox Rodgers

Lennox recounts in riveting detail how he was drawn into his life of crime, how he operated as a drug dealer, enforcer and armed robber, and how he survived numerous spells in prisons including Dartmoor, Strangeways, Grendon, Oxford and Lewes. All culminating...

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How to be an F1 driver by Jenson Button

How to be an F1 driver

Jenson Button

In his 17 years as a Formula 1 driver, Jenson Button has picked up a thing or two about how to do the job properly. Sure, you need to be able to drive a car fast - and Jenson is on hand to pass on a few tricks of the trade here - but you also need to know the...

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Alastair Humphreys by Alastair Humphreys

Alastair Humphreys

Alastair Humphreys

At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys set off to try to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across five continents on a budget of just £7,000. From frozen Siberia tundra to the jungles of central...

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Mortimer & Whitehouse: gone fishing by Bob Mortimer

Mortimer & Whitehouse: gone fishing

Bob Mortimer

'If only all audiobooks were this funny.' Join these two comedy greats and lifelong friends on their journey from recuperation to riverbank in this hilarious and heart-warming audiobook that gives you a front-row seat at an exclusive Bob and Paul production....

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In her room by James Cook

In her room

James Cook

When James Cook's daughter was nearly one, he began to suspect that she wasn't simply a 'late bloomer', as he and his wife were telling friends and family. Emily was strongly taken by images and patterns around the house, had a marked response to music, but...

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Somebody's daughter by Ashley C. Ford

Somebody's daughter

Ashley C. Ford

"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as...

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The Nazi conspiracy by Brad Meltzer

The Nazi conspiracy

Brad Meltzer

The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted. In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As the...

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Inside Broadmoor by Jonathan Levi

Inside Broadmoor

Jonathan Levi

'There is time and then there is Broadmoor time' Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane...

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The secret GP by Max Skittle

The secret GP

Max Skittle

If you thought you knew about the life of a GP, think again. Let me take you on an unbelievable journey to the truth, through spilt urine bottles, the patients who should have been in hospital months ago, existential crises, utterly unexplainable health...

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Hype machine by Joshua Oliver

Hype machine

Joshua Oliver

On 2 November 2023, in one of the largest fraud trials in history, Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of stealing billions of dollars from the customers of his crypto-exchange, FTX. How did this 31-year-old Californian in flip-flops, board shorts and a...

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From CIA to CEO by Rupal Patel

From CIA to CEO

Rupal Patel

Agent-turned-entrepreneur Rupal Patel shares the unique skills she developed as a woman and field agent in the high-stakes, alpha-male world of the CIA, and combines those clandestine insights with her experiences as a business leader and advisor. Each chapter...

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England's villages by Dr Ben Robinson

England's villages

Dr Ben Robinson

England's villages have survived, developed, persisted and thrived over hundreds of years. Entirely new villages are still being built today. But when did the first villages appear and why is this form of settlement so enduring and endearing? What makes a...

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Strong by Ashley Cain

Strong

Ashley Cain

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to The Azaylia Foundation. Strong is the moving and heartbreaking memoir from celebrity campaigner, endurance athlete, and father of an angel, Ashley Cain. Charting his daughter's birth and...

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The winning formula by David Coulthard

The winning formula

David Coulthard

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Why is F1 the perfect example for leadership, motivation and strategy? And what can we learn from it? How does a pit crew change four wheels in 1.9 seconds? And what does that mean for a company like Blackberry? What is Ron...

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What does rain smell like? by Simon King

What does rain smell like?

Simon King

Why doesn't rain fall all at once? Can technology change the track of a hurricane? What's the weather like on other planets? Meteorologists Simon King and Clare Nasir reveal the captivating ways the weather works, from exploring incredible weather phenomenon...

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Māori made easy pocket guide by Scotty Morrison

Māori made easy pocket guide

Scotty Morrison

This pocket-sized book is your guide to using te reo Māori in everyday situations, from introductions to conversations, online and in person. Carry the essentials with you, and develop confidence in: * Basic pronunciation * Greetings * Dates and times *...

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Right, said Fred by Andrew Flintoff

Right, said Fred

Andrew Flintoff

As I've got older, I've developed this thing where I mutter stuff under my breath if someone's talking nonsense, probably because I'm getting less tolerant with age. My kids have picked up on it, so they'll say, 'Talking to yourself again, Dad?' And my...

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Break point by Ollie Ollerton

Break point

Ollie Ollerton

Ex-Special Forces' soldier and host of SAS: Who Dares Wins, Ollie Ollerton narrates his incredible story for the first time. Where is your break point? Is it here? Facing the gruelling SAS selection process on one leg, with a busted ankle and the finish line...

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The hidden lives of dreams by Melinda Powell

The hidden lives of dreams

Melinda Powell

On average, we spend around six years of our lives dreaming. Yet, astonishingly, few of us understand the purpose of dreams and even fewer recognise what our dreaming mind can tell us about ourselves and our world. In The Hidden Lives of Dreams, Melinda...

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Sold in secret by Karen Downes

Sold in secret

Karen Downes

'1st November 2003 started so unremarkably that I wish I had appreciated the normality of it. Because I would never, ever know peace again.' Charlene Downes was 14 when she went missing in Blackpool's seedy underbelly. Once a happy-go-lucky schoolgirl, she...

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Connect! by Simon Lancaster

Connect!

Simon Lancaster

Why do some people radiate energy when they speak while others fizzle out? How do some writers make us turn the page whilst others make us feel like closing the book? What makes some colleagues so memorable whilst others are instantly forgettable? One of the...

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The Hebridean baker by Coinneach MacLeod

The Hebridean baker

Coinneach MacLeod

Close your eyes. What is your picture of the Outer Hebrides? Walking along a deserted beach? Climbing a heather-strewn hill with a happy wee dog by your side? Sipping a dram at a cèilidh to the tune of a Gaelic song? Or chatting by a warm stove with a cuppa...

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Letter to my younger self by Jane Graham

Letter to my younger self

Jane Graham

THE CHRISTMAS GIFT THAT GIVES BACK. All royalties from sales of this book go to The Big Issue. If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Over 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask some of the best-known, most interesting and most...

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Bear woman by Karolina Ramqvist

Bear woman

Karolina Ramqvist

"Blending autofiction and the essay, The Bear Woman takes us on a journey of feminism and literary detective work that spans centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned by her guardian in the Gulf...

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Sagittarius rising by Cecil Lewis

Sagittarius rising

Cecil Lewis

Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a...

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