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  • A GHOST'S STORY
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    A GHOST'S STORY
    LORNA GIBB
    "A fascinating story of what it might be like to be a ghost, and the longing in us that makes us want them to exist."— Glasgow Herald, "Books of the Year"   Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, séances and spiritualist meetings grew in popularity. One "ghost" appeared more than any other: the Katie King spirit. Blending historical fact and fiction, A Ghost's Story...

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  • JACK OF JUMPS
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    JACK OF JUMPS
    DAVID SEABROOK
    A dark and deep dive into the "Jack the Stripper" murders that "rips open sixties London and leaves her swinging from a lamp-post for all to finally see" (David Peace, author of the Red Riding Quartet).   Between 1959 and 1965, eight prostitutes were murdered in West London by a serial killer. The killer's motive and identity were the subject of endless speculation by the media...

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  • LAST RITES
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    LAST RITES
    MICHAEL HAMPSON
    A former parish priest offers a provocative examination of the contemporary Church of England—an institution in crisis—in this controversial book.   Dire Sunday services, shrinking congregations and financial meltdown are the realities of today's Church of England. In Last Rites, Michael Hampson, who worked as a parish priest for thirteen years, examines why this centuries-old ...

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  • WHAT DO CHRISTIANS BELIEVE?
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    WHAT DO CHRISTIANS BELIEVE?
    MALCOLM GUITE
    A lucid summary and interpretation of the Christian faith from "one of the leading Christian poets of our time" ( Jeremy Begbie, Duke University).   "I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another."—Jesus Christ Christianity began as a minor sect within Judaism and has become one of the major world religions. ...

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  • WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
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    WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?
    JULIAN BAGGINI
    "Secular-minded readers seeking an alternative to The Purpose-Driven Life have an excellent starting point here."— Publishers Weekly   For readers who are serious about confronting the big issues in life—but are turned off by books which deal with them through religion, spirituality, or psychobabble, this is an honest, intelligent discussion by a philosopher that doesn't hide f...

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  • WELCOME TO EVERYTOWN
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    WELCOME TO EVERYTOWN
    JULIAN BAGGINI
    This study of an ordinary town in Northern England is "a thoughtful, sympathetic portrait of white working-class life…essential reading" ( Guardian).   What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to de...

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  • 100 HIEROGLYPHS
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    100 HIEROGLYPHS
    BARRY KEMP
    "Written by the greatest living Egyptologist, this wonderful, fun, and short book will take you inside the heads of the ancient Egyptians."—Sarah Parcak, National Geographic   Egyptian culture is divided from us by several millennia, a lost people and a dead language. We can discover much about this fascinating civilization from its physical remains, but perhaps the greatest in...

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  • LOST WORLDS
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    LOST WORLDS
    MICHAEL BYWATER
    A "funny, erudite, and fascinating" miscellany of things lost, large and small—from cultures to candies, species to sports gear—by the acclaimed columnist (A.C. Grayling).   They go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of art disappear, species are extinguished, books are lost. Dunwich is drowned, Pompeii buried, Athena's statue gone from the Part...

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  • UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, I AM ALIVE
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    UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, I AM ALIVE
    TOM LUBBOCK
    "These are thoughts for us all, sooner or later—and this is a book I'll keep with me, as long as I live."—David Sexton, The Scotsman   In 2008, art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor and told he had only two years to live. Physically fit and healthy, and suffering from few symptoms, he faced his death with the same directness and courage that had marked th...

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  • DESPERATELY SEEKING PARADISE
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    DESPERATELY SEEKING PARADISE
    ZIAUDDIN SARDAR
    "A curious, often amusing travelogue of [Sardar's] quest for understanding and the Muslims he has encountered along his journeys."— Publishers Weekly   Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain, learned the Koran at his mother's knee in Pakistan. As a young student in London he set out to grasp the meaning of his religion, and, hopefully, to find "par...

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  • THE NEW GRANTA BOOK OF TRAVEL
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    THE NEW GRANTA BOOK OF TRAVEL
    ALBINO OCHERO-OKELLO
    A collection of travel writing by some of the genre's finest authors, from Paul Theroux to Sara Wheeler, voyaging from Mississippi to Malawi and Thailand.   The New Granta Book of Travel Writing represents a sea change in writers' approaches to the craft. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fent...

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  • THE HOUSEHOLD TIPS OF THE GREAT WRITERS
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    THE HOUSEHOLD TIPS OF THE GREAT WRITERS
    MARK CRICK
    What would literary lions tell us about cooking, cleaning, and gardening? A three-book collection of parody and practical advice by a "brilliant" humorist ( The Financial Times).   The Household Tips of Great Writers covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a dripping tap with Jean-Paul Sartre. Throwing a tea p...

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  • MAP OF A NATION
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    MAP OF A NATION
    RACHEL HEWITT
    This "absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey"—the first complete map of the British Isles—"charts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcome" ( The Guardian, UK).   Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map, the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and t...

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  • SHOULD YOU JUDGE THIS BOOK BY ITS COVER?
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    SHOULD YOU JUDGE THIS BOOK BY ITS COVER?
    JULIAN BAGGINI
    A philosopher takes a second look at sayings, proverbs, and bits of homespun wisdom: "Every society needs its guardian of good sense: Baggini is ours." — The Financial Times   These short, stimulating, and entertaining capsules of philosophy delve into the familiar words that live in our consciousness yet are rarely examined. Should you really do as the Romans do when in Rome a...

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  • THE REAL ODESSA
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    THE REAL ODESSA
    UKI GOÑI
    The groundbreaking expose of an international conspiracy to protect Nazi war criminals—now with new material and an introduction by Phillip Sands.   As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goni unravels the complex international...

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  • WHAT DO MUSLIMS BELIEVE?
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    WHAT DO MUSLIMS BELIEVE?
    ZIAUDDIN SARDAR
    "Elucidating . . . describes the basics of Islam, including the Qur'an and hadith, the life of Muhammad and the history of Islam and Muslims."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)   "The world is green and beautiful; and God has appointed you as His trustee over it."—The Prophet Muhammad Islam is one of the great monotheistic religions of the world. It produced a magnificent civ...

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