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Lifeboat at the End of the World: A Volunteer’s Story

Lifeboat at the End of the World: A Volunteer’s Story...

Author: Dominic Gregory
ISBN: 9780008736781
Format: Hardback
$55.00

‘Dominic Gregory hasn’t just delivered a survey of courage and determination – Lifeboat at the End of the World...  Read More >>

Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family Story of Love, Loss and Obsession

Kutchinsky's Egg: A Family Story of Love, Loss and Obsession...

Author: Serena Kutchinsky
ISBN: 9781398532847
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A stunning story of obsession and lost glamour, fathers and daughters, for readers of The Hare with Amber Eyes,...  Read More >>

The Care Home Swindler: The Shocking True Story Behind One of Britain's Biggest Scandals

The Care Home Swindler: The Shocking True Story Behind...

Author: Kate Snell
ISBN: 9781408723425
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The gripping inside story of a major British scandal, a man who conned the elderly out of millions of pounds, and...  Read More >>

Mischlinge: The Untold True Story of the Holocaust, Hitler and My Family

Mischlinge: The Untold True Story of the Holocaust,...

Author: Sharon Ring
ISBN: 9780008802776
Format: Hardback
$45.00

A FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPT. A FAMILY SECRET. AND...  Read More >>

Citizens, Scholars, and Friends: Women in the Canadian Association for Adult Education (1935-1965)

Citizens, Scholars, and Friends: Women in the Canadian...

Author: Leona M. English
ISBN: 9781049800608
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The book highlights the biographies and contributions of women to editing, writing, and policymaking in the Canadian...  Read More >>

Finding Our Voice: A Story of Leadership in Crisis and the American Spirit Abroad

Finding Our Voice: A Story of Leadership in Crisis and...

Author: Adam Castillo
ISBN: 9781544551630
Format: Paperback
$52.80

After Myanmar's 2021 coup, a U.S. Marine-turned-entrepreneur stays through civil war to lead a stranded business...  Read More >>

The Most Wonderful Terrible Person: A Memoir of Murder in the Golden State

The Most Wonderful Terrible Person: A Memoir of Murder...

Author: Debra Miller
ISBN: 9798896361022
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Wasp Woman: The Life, Career, and Murder of Hollywood's Susan Cabot

Wasp Woman: The Life, Career, and Murder of Hollywood's...

Author: Lona Bailey
ISBN: 9781592116799
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A revealing biography for film and true crime fans, shedding new light on Susan Cabot’s Hollywood career and the...  Read More >>

Citizens, Scholars, and Friends: Women in the Canadian Association for Adult Education (1935-1965)

Citizens, Scholars, and Friends: Women in the Canadian...

Author: Leona M. English
ISBN: 9781049800592
Format: Hardback
$270.00

The book highlights the biographies and contributions of women to editing, writing, and policymaking in the Canadian...  Read More >>

The Bug's Life BEFORE THE MAFIA: The Untold Stories of the Families Directly Related to Charlie ""The Bug"" Workman

The Bug's Life BEFORE THE MAFIA: The Untold Stories...

Author: Pam Harris ,  Steve Workman
ISBN: 9798318825774
Format: Paperback
$44.85

This new edition answers questions you might have been left with after reading the first edition. Over 80 pages...  Read More >>

Yours Truly Jack the Ripper: How the Victorians created the world's greatest murder mystery

Yours Truly Jack the Ripper: How the Victorians created...

Author: Richard Walker
ISBN: 9781905315970
Format: Hardback
$71.25

What if everything you know about Jack the Ripper is wrong? Instead of asking 'Who was Jack?', Richard Walker asked...  Read More >>

Curse of the Blumenthals

Curse of the Blumenthals

Author: Phyllis Karas
ISBN: 9798895654316
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Over three generations of whispered secrets, crime, and lies in a Jewish-American family. “Journalist Karas blends...  Read More >>

Warrior and Protector: The start of a fast-paced, unforgettable historical adventure series from Peter Gibbons for 2026

Warrior and Protector: The start of a fast-paced, unforgettable...

Author:
ISBN: 9781806583621
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Odyssey Moscow: One American's Journey from Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State

Odyssey Moscow: One American's Journey from Russia Optimist...

Author: Michael Calvey
ISBN: 9781837050277
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Michael Calvey is a pioneering US-born financier, who made his fortune in post-Communist Russia. This is the story...  Read More >>

Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary

Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary

Author: Professor Gillian Whitlock (University of QUeensland, Australia) ,  Kate Douglas (Flinder's University Australia)
ISBN: 9781350280021
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Drawing on the letters, photographs, drawings, maps and craftwork they exchanged with humanitiarian activists, this...  Read More >>

Frontline Medic & SOE Agent: The WW2 Memoir of William Gillanders MM

Frontline Medic & SOE Agent: The WW2 Memoir of William...

Author: Lindsay Gillanders
ISBN: 9781036144999
Format: Hardback
$95.00

At the outbreak of the Second World War, a young Scottish professional athlete competing in the Highland Games circuit...  Read More >>

Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas

Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas...

Author: Joe Pappalardo
ISBN: 9781250287564
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The true story of the corrupt and violent town of Borger, Texas in 1927 - and the legendary Texas Ranger tasked...  Read More >>

A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed

A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder,...

Author: Scott Eden
ISBN: 9781954118621
Format: Hardback
$54.99

""An exhilarating, deeply reported true-crime murder mystery and love story that moves like a Netflix thriller.""-The...  Read More >>

Don't Talk About Joe Mac: The Life, Wars, and Secret History of the Man Behind the Winter Hill Gang

Don't Talk About Joe Mac: The Life, Wars, and Secret...

Author: Springs Toledo (Author)
ISBN: 9798881842499
Format: Hardback
$53.00

This is the story of Joe Mac, a mysterious figure in the Boston underworld, founder of the Winter Hill Gang in the...  Read More >>

Will Power: The Most Baffling Bequests, Ludicrous Last Wishes, and Daft Declarations in Final Testaments

Will Power: The Most Baffling Bequests, Ludicrous Last...

Author: Susan Goldenberg
ISBN: 9781459755826
Format: Paperback
$49.14

The most astonishing and extraordinary bequests and last requests found in people's wills. ""This will is uncommon...  Read More >>

The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education

The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher...

Author: Julie Cruse
ISBN: 9798891329300
Format: Paperback
$52.77

The Burn List follows Julie Cruse from an abusive childhood into two decades of escalating academic exploitation,...  Read More >>

Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid

Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy...

Author: Pamela Ryder
ISBN: 9781573662154
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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