A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
Category: Non Fiction: General | Series: One Family's Fight Against Italian Fascism
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of ...Show more
Sentinels of the Sea : A Miscellany of Lighthouses Past by R. G. Grant
Category: Non Fiction: General
Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity's battle with the forces of nature. Taking as its heroes the lighthouses themselves, Sentinels of the Sea describes the engineering genius that allowed their construction on even the smal ...Show more
Discoveries - The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas
Category: Non Fiction: General | Reading Level: very good
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their mid ...Show more
A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life by Tara Button
Category: Sale Book
A revolutionary guide to the art of mindful buying that will teach you how to resist cheaply made goods and make smart, fulfilling purchases that last a lifetime. With the whole world trying to convince us to spend our way to happiness, we've been left cluttered, stressed, and unfulfilled. Tara Butt ...Show more
Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
Category: Non Fiction: General | Reading Level: near fine
John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, takes us through centuries of drawing and painting, revealing his lifelong fascination with a diverse cast of artists. In penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both cano ...Show more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
Category: Non Fiction: General | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-five years after she left, Kassabova returns to Bulgaria to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece in an immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and ex ...Show more
A Short History of Golf by Matt Cleary; Greg Norman (Foreword by)
Category: Non Fiction: General
'Bloody brilliant.' - Greg Norman This book tells the magnificent, sometimes tragic, always inspiring stories of the greats of golf and how they lit up the world with their own brands of magic. Since Old Tom Morris won three of the first four Open Championships in the 1860s at the famous St Andrews co ...Show more
Memory of the World: The Treasures That Record Our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day by UNESCO
Category: Sale Book
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, priceless documentary heritage records the diversity of languages, peoples and knowledge that has influenced humanity from the early days of human history to the present. This heritage documents important events, discoveries or inventions that have transformed the world. Th ...Show more
Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction by Alison Ballance
Category: Sale Book | Reading Level: very good
Kakapo follows the fall and rise of one of the world's most unusual birds, from the brink of extinction, through a roller-coaster ride of hope and loss. One of New Zealand's most threatened species, these charismatic yet mysterious night parrots, are now found only on a small number of predator-free isl ...Show more
Trees of the World 2 by Graeme Matthews
Category: Sale Book
A superbly photographed collection of trees from around the world: from the broadleaf forests and woodlands of Europe to the Amazon rainforests; from the mountain pines and weeping willows of China to the baobabs of Africa and the banyans of Malaysia. Also featured are individual specimens of great beau ...Show more
Samuel Pepys - Plague, Fire, Revolution by Margarette Lincoln (ed.)
Category: Sale Book | Reading Level: very good
This book, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, centres on Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), the famous diarist and the greatest administrator of the Stuart Age. Not only a passionate diarist, Pepys was also a pr ...Show more
Saga Land - The Island of Stories at the Edge of the World (HB) by Richard Fidler; Kari Gislason
Category: Non Fiction: General | Reading Level: very good
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey.A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author K ri G slason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who set ...Show more