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River of the gods : genius, courage, and betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile
Millard, Candice
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy--from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:...
Alexandria : the quest for the lost city
Richardson, Edmund
Paper Book
'Not all lost cities are real, but this one was.'The extraordinary story of Alexander the Great's lost city, and a quest to unravel one of the most captivating mysteries in ancient history.'Superb ... impeccably researched, but with the pace and deftly woven plot complexity...
Eruption
Crichton, Michael
Paper Book
THE BLOCKBUSTER THRILLER 'As thrilling and jaw-dropping as Jurassic Park' Don Winslow 'Heart-pounding storytelling at its finest' T.J. Newman 'One of the most entertaining novels I've read in years' Adrian McKinty _____________...
Outlawed
North, Anna
Paper Book
In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17-year-old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are...
Clive Cussler ghost soldier
Maden, Mike
Paper Book
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are back in this explosive new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Neptune's fortune : the billion-dollar shipwreck and the ghosts of the Spanish empire
Sancton, Julian
Paper Book
Spanish galleons groaning with gold, piratical English sea captains, swashbuckling treasure hunters with Hemingway beards, war, greed and adventure ... Neptune's Fortune is exactly the sort of book I want to read' -- The Times The riveting true story of a...
Somebody is walking on your grave : my cemetery journeys
Enriquez, Mariana
Paper Book
In Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in Paris, Highgate in London, and the Jewish cemetery in Prague, as well as more...
Call me Ishmaelle
Guo, Xiaolu
Paper Book
Call Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville's Moby Dick from a female perspective. 'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare 'A clever and original skewering of a classic' i
Amity
Harris, Nathan
Paper Book
The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the Booker-longlisted THE SWEETNESS OF WATER 'Amity is deeply adventurous and astonishingly beautiful' Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets'I didn't want to put the book down' ⭐ &...
The tusks of extinction
Nayler, Ray
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. ...

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