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  • WHAT ABOUT MEN?
    MORAN, CAITLIN
    'A must-read eye-opener that makes you laugh, cry, get angry and get happy on every page. It's magnificent' Bob Mortimer'Our greatest modern writer on women turns her eyes on men - and it's all good' David BaddielAs any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' After eleven years of wri...
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  • HOW TO CHANGE EVERYTHING
    NAOMI KLEIN / REBECCA STEFOFF
    'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - GRETA THUNBERGThe first book for younger readers by internationally bestselling social activist Naomi Klein: the most authoritative and inspiring book on climate change for young people yet.Warming seas. Superstorms. Fires in the Amazon....
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  • SAPIENS A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
    HARARI , YUVAL NOAH
    **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human in the perfect read for these unprecedented times.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative book, Yuval N...
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  • DEAR IJEAWELE, OR A FEMINIST MANIFESTO IN FIFTEEN SUGGESTIONS
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.Here are fifteen invaluabl...
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  • AGATHA CHRISTIE
    SANCHEZ VEGARA, MARIA ISABEL
    In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Agatha Christie, the most famous crime writer of all time.When Agatha was young, she read books every night, but always had her own idea for how they should end! As an adult, her crime novels, with their twists and turns and peculiar detectives, challenged the minds of millions of ...
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  • WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise ou...
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  • PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY: TEN MAPS THAT TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GLOBAL POLITICS
    MARSHALL, TIM
    THE MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERGeography shapes not only our history, but where we're headed...All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.If you've ever wo...
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  • A BRIEF HISTORY OF BARCELONA
    AGUSTÍ BELART, DAVID
    Barcelona is a city steeped in history and conflict. It has been a garrison city of the Roman Empire, the leading power of the Mediterranean, the battleground of international wars, an industrial power, and the largest holdout against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. The Catalan capital has been bombed and besieged, and has raised itself from the rubble time and time again. It...
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  • SOUTH FROM GRANADA
    BRENAN, GERALD
    Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from Granada includes an introduction by Chris Stewart, author of the bestselling Driving Over Lemons, in Penguin Modern Classics.Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, v...
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  • THIS IS AN UPRISING
    ENGLER, MARK
    "Absorbing... Ambitious... Indispensable. A genuine gift to social movements everywhere." -Naomi Klein Features a new Foreword by Bill McKibben and a Reading Group GuideFrom protests to defend immigrant rights and combat climate change, to Occupy, #BlackLivesMatter, and the resistance to the Trump administration, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to sha...
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  • GOOD NIGHT STORIES FOR 3. REBEL GIRLS: 100 IMMIGRANT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
    FAVILLI, ELENA
    The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, featuring 100 immigrant women who have shaped, and will continue to shape, our world. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World is the third book in the New York Times bestselling series for children. Packed with 100 all-new bedtime stories abo...
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  • QUEENS: 3,000 YEARS OF THE MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN HISTORY
    CROSSMAN, VICTORIA
    Queens - over 3,000 years ofincredible women who ruled the world!Celebrating strong, brave women across the centuriesand around the world, Queens tellstheir stories of strength and resilience.Spanning 3,000 years from Cleopatra to the Vikingqueens, Queen Nanny of Jamaica to HRH Elizabeth II, discovernew stories about fierce female monarchs.Full to the brim with striking, vibran...
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  • THE PERFECT NINE
    THIONG'O, NGUGI WA
    Gikuyu and Mumbi settled on the peaceful and bounteous foot of Mount Kenya after fleeing war and hunger. When ninety-nine suitors arrive on their land, seeking to marry their famously beautiful daughters, called The Perfect Nine, the parents ask their daughters to choose for themselves, but to choose wisely.First the young women must embark on a treacherous quest with the suito...
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  • GOOD NIGHT STORIES FOR REBEL GIRLS 100 INSPIRING YOUNG CHANGEMAKERS
    HARRITON, JESS
    The fifth volume of the best-selling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, 100 Inspiring Young Changemakers, shines a spotlight on extraordinary young women who are making their mark on the world today.Readers will celebrate well-known women, like Greta Thunberg, Bethany Hamilton, Bindi Irwin, Zendaya, and the Linda Lindas, and meet up-and-coming powerhouses like inventor ...
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  • THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM : WHY SCIENCE IS STILL A BOYS' CLUB
    POLLACK, EILEEN
    ONE OF WASHINGTON POST'S NOTABLE NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR"Beautifully written and full of important insights, " this is a bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science (Washington Post)In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve ...
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  • A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF CATALONIA
    EAUDE, MICHAEL
    On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle continues. Catalonia's national consciousness has deep roots.A People's History of Catalonia tells this small country's history, ...
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  • SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY
    BEACH, SYLVIA
    Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank. Shakespeare and Company evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgera...
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  • THE MOST OF NORA EPHRON : THE ULTIMATE ANTHOLOGY OF ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND EXTRACTS FROM HER GREATEST WORK, WITH A FOREWORD BY CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS
    EPHRON, NORA
    A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer' STYLISTINCLUDING:* Nora's much-loved essays on everything from friendship to feminism to journalism* Extracts from her bestselling novel Heartburn* Scenes from her hilarious screenplay...
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  • CHRONOLOGICA : THE INCREDIBLE YEARS THAT DEFINED HISTORY
    BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
    Compiled by the team behind Whitaker's Almanack, Chronologica is a fascinating journey through time, from the foundation of Rome to the creation of the internet. Along the way are tales of kings and queens, hot air balloons, comets... and monkeys in space.Travel through 100 of the most incredible years in world history and learn why being a Roman Emperor wasn't always as good a...
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  • THE OCEAN HZERO HANDBOOK : SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO SAVE OUT SEAS
    WARDLEY, TESSA
    Focusing on so much more than plastic pollution, this ahead-of-the curve book exposes the extensive damage being done to the oceans that most of us don't know about, and what simple, everyday changes we can make to help protect our seas. When we think about climate change, our first thoughts are often of burning rainforests, cities filled with smog, and mammals teetering on the...
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  • LONDON: A GUIDE FOR CURIOUS WANDERERS
    CHESHER, JACK
    See London in a completely new light in this guide to the city's hidden secrets, untold stories and special places laden with history which you can discover for yourself! London is famous for its museums, each one full of treasures and relics - but the biggest museum in the capital is the city itself. From the stories behind unusual street names, to the trees in our parks; rail...
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  • THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING : A NEW HISTORY OF HUMANITY
    GRAEBER, DAVID
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish...
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  • THE T GUIDE : OUR TRANS EXPERIENCES AND A CELEBRATION OF GENDER EXPRESSION-MAN, WOMAN, NONBINARY, AND BEYOND
    GORGEOUS, GIGI
    Real talk about transgender experiences from Gigi Gorgeous and GottmikIn this fabulous, fashion-forward guide, transgender icons Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik discuss the ins and outs of being transgender with their honest, hilarious, and GORGEOUS tales of what it means to be true to oneself-and they've picked up a few friends along the way. Whether you're embarking on your own tra...
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  • I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK
    EPHRON, NORA
    'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' - Phoebe Waller-BridgeNow with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, revealing how a new generation of women can take inspiration from Nora's sharp wit and wisdom about life. * Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.* If the shoe doesn't fit in the s...
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  • BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
    BAXTER, CHARLES
    Graywolf reissues one of its most successful essay collections with two new essays and a new foreword by Charles BaxterAs much a rumination on the state of literature as a technical manual for aspiring writers, Burning Down the House has been enjoyed by readers and taught in classrooms for more than a decade. Readers are rewarded with thoughtful analysis, humorous one-liners, a...
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  • LONDON A TRAVEL GUIDE
    GREEN, MATTHEW
    Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past.Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary periods in London's history - the ages of Shakespeare, medieval city life, plague, coffee houses, the reign of Victoria and the ...
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  • BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
    COATES, TA-NEHISI
    In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratificiation of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh- it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country's foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, ...
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  • A SPECIAL DAY
    ANNE-DAUPHINE JULLIAND
    February 29th is a date that comes into existence just once every four years. It is also the birthday of Thais author Anne-Dauphine Julliand's darling daughter who died of a genetic disease. Thais lived just shy of her fourth birthday. She had a short life but good one.As this special day is about to reappear on her calendar for the first time since her daughter passed away, An...
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  • HONOR THY FATHER
    TALESE, GAY
    The acclaimed author of Unto the Sons penetrates the silence and secrecy of the Mafia and offers an intimate look at a powerful--and vanishing--way of life. A classic masterwork newly updatedThe electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York's notorious Bonanno crime familyOn New York's Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain J...
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  • REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM : THE PRINCIPLES OF CONCENTRATED WEATH AND POWER
    NOAM CHOMSKY
    NOAM CHOMSKY is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic, income inequality: -During the Great Depression, things were much worse than they are today, but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness. There isn't today. . . . Inequality is really...
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