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Beautiful Things : A Memoir
Biden, HunterSimon & Schuster Audio 2021 UnabridgedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love," Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving and "unflinchingly hone...
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A Prison Diary II - Purgatory
Archer, JeffreySaga EgmontLong days of boredom in confinement, the general inefficiency of prison bureaucracy and a critically over-stretched prison service. The tediousness of prison life kicks in for pris...
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A Prison Diary III - Heaven
Archer, JeffreySaga EgmontA flicker of light almost appears at the end of the tunnel for prisoner FF8282, as he is transferred to North Sea Camp near Boston, Lincolnshire, a D-category prison. Under a less...
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A Prison Diary I - Hell
Archer, JeffreySaga EgmontPrisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred windows of his cell. Within the thick pris...
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Asylum: A refugee's paradoxical journey from Sharia Yemen to Rainbow Sweden...
Ahmed, LuaiBookeaAsylum is a woeful yet comical memoir by 27-year old Luai Ahmed about his first 5 years in Sweden. Being a reformist secular ex-Muslim writer, Ahmed found himself at a crossroads w...
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How to Solve a Murder : True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine
Tremain, Derek; Tremain, PaulineHarperCollins Publishers 2021 UnabridgedAs gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a pathologist told by experts in the field. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard She...
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey : Crazy Stories about Racism
Ruffin, Amber; Lamar, LaceyHachette Book Group 2021 UnabridgedWriter and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of rac...
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The New Climate War : The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
Mann, Michael E.Hachette Book Group 2021A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a...
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Girl Gurl Grrrl : On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
Hunt, KenyaHarperAudio 2020 Unabridged"One of the year's must-reads." –ELLE "[A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection." –GLAMOUR "Essential, vital, and urgent." –HARPER'S BAZAAR In the ve...
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Hell on the Eastern Front
History, WorldSaga EgmontGerman tanks rolled unimpeded across the Russian steppes at the start of Hitler’s campaign against the Soviet Union. But in 1943, the so-called Slavic "untermensch" (subhumans) gai...
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Biggest Blunders of WWII
History, WorldSaga EgmontIn August 1940, Berlin was hit by British bombers. Hitler immediately ordered a series of gigantic air defences be built – each one more expensive than the city’s entire Olympic fa...
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Unsolved Mysteries of WWII
History, WorldSaga EgmontNazi propaganda presented Adolf Hitler as ascetic, solitary and a brilliant Fu¨hrer. Only a few knew the real man behind World War II. His mystery has fuelled numerous conspiracy t...
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Heroes and Villains
History, WorldSaga EgmontWith Europe overrun by Hitler’s thundering war machine, Churchill is the only head of state with the courage to stand up to the Fu¨hrer. The British Prime Minister’s iron will make...
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A Promised Land
Obama, BarackBooks on Tape 2020 UnabridgedA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWAR...
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Nazi Wives : The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
Wyllie, JamesMacmillan Audio 2020 Unabridged"The real housewives of the Third Reich...[Wyllie] recounts their stories with a bracing combination of scholarship and an almost cinematic approach to spinning a compelling narrat...
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The Rise of the Third Reich
History, WorldSaga EgmontThe name Adolf Hitler – even half a century after the fall of the Third Reich – continues to evoke disgust, contempt and astonishment. How was it possible for an amateur painter to...
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A World at War
History, WorldSaga EgmontOn 9th August, 1945, American pilot Charles W Sweeney threw a nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. 43 seconds later, his deadly cargo exploded in the air over the port...
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Incredible Weapons
History, WorldSaga EgmontLuftwaffe pilots fear one weapon more than any other: British Spitfires. Powerful Rolls Royce engines and an ingenious design make the plane fast and manoeuvrable. In 1940, Spitfir...
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Trust : America's Best Chance
Buttigieg, PeteSimon & Schuster Audio 2020 UnabridgedPete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation's current predicament—and how our future depends on finding ways to instill confidence in the American...
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Joe Biden
Osnos, EvanSimon & Schuster Audio 2020 UnabridgedA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2020 A concise, brilliant, and trenchant examination of Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s successful lifelong quest for the presidency by National Book Award wi...