Authors: Greg Mortenson

In Memoir, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Biography

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‘Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything – even die.’

Authors: Mark E. Smith , Tom Sheehan , E.D. Smith

In Nonfiction, Biography, Music Books

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The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands ever, their music - odd, spare, cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand. And Mark E. Smith IS The Fall - 66 members came and went over the years yet he remained its charismatic leader until his death in 2018.

Authors: Gerald Durrell

In Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography, Travel

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Authors: Stephen Kotkin

In Politics, Cultural, History, Biography

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In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life.

Authors: Art Spiegelman

In Graphic Novels, History, Nonfiction, Biography

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On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).

Authors: Suetonius , Robert Graves

In History, Classics, Nonfiction, Biography

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An essential primary source on Roman history, Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars is a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin by Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, revised with an introduction and notes by James B. Rives.

Authors: Vincent van Gogh , Arnold J. Pomerans

In Nonfiction, Biography, Art Books

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A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw, and translated by Arnold Pomerans in Penguin Classics.

Authors: Simon Winchester

In History, Nonfiction, Biography

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The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history

Authors: Bill Gates , Peter Rinearson , Nathan Myhrvold

In Business, Nonfiction, Biography

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In a study complete with CD-ROM, the founder of Microsoft presents his vision for the future in which he sees the digital technologies of the coming years changing the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. Reprint....