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Updated January 16, 2025
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An African History of Africa : From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Badawi, Zeinab
Paper Book
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2024 AND THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2025* *An instant Sunday Times bestseller, Radio 4 Book of the Week and Guardian Best Summer Read* Selected as a book to look out for by the Guardian and The Rest is...
Cloistered : my years as a nun
Coldstream, Catherine
Paper Book
'A profoundly moving memoir which gripped me' Mark Haddon Discover Catherine Coldstream's evocative account of life as a nun in the 1990s, and the dramatic events which led to her flight from the monastery. **A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** ...
In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some
Gad, Josh
Paper Book
A heartfelt and hilarious collection of essays from the comedian and entertainer known for voicing Olaf in the phenomenon Disney franchise of Frozen, and for his award-winning turn as Elder Cunningham in the Broadway smash hit The Book of Mormon. For the first and...
American sirens : the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics
Hazzard, Kevin
Paper Book
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world.   Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your...
Henry V : the astonishing triumph of England's greatest warrior king
Jones, Dan
Paper Book
'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' - Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was...
The JFK conspiracy : the secret plot to kill Kennedy-and why it failed
Meltzer, Brad
A gripping account of the little-known plot that could have put end end to JFK's historic presidency - before it even began.
Complete flags of the world
Mumford, Simon
Paper Book
Over 300 world flags are reproduced in this guide that reveals the history, symbolism and sense of national identity captured in the design of every national flag. This revised and updated edition contains a full index and glossary of technical terminology.
A very short history of the Israel-Palestine conflict
Pappé, Ilan
An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. 'Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's "new historians".' Avi Shlaim, author of Three Worlds The...

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