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1421 - The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born.Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the f ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World - America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous sub ...Show more
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
Category: No Category | Series: P.S.
Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities not in the i ...Show more
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Category: Natural History | Series: P. S. Ser.
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine--and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally ...Show more
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage (University of East Anglia)
Category: No Category | Series: P.S.
"The bad blood had missed a generation. You're just like your grandfather, my mother said."Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. An international bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, Bad Blood is a tragicomic memoir of one woman's escape from a claus ...Show more
Bad Kid - A Memoir by David Crabb
Category: Biography | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas. In the summer o ...Show more
Barmy in Wonderland by P. G. Wodehouse
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to the legions of Wodehouse fansa libraries.
Beautiful Ruins (US ED) by Jess Walter
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
From the moment it opens--on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat--Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set o ...Show more
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Winner of the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of State of Wonder and Commonwealth. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful ...Show more
Big Bang - The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is.Renowned for making difficult ideas much less difficult than they might first appear, Simon Singh is our perfect guide to explaining why cosmologists believe that the Big Bang is an accurate description of the origin and evolution ...Show more
Blandings Castle by WODEHOUSE P G
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Here are a dozen stories to delight all Wodehouse addicts...A crooning tenor is attempting to captivate the affections of the Rev. Rupert Bingham's fiancee, Lord Emsworth is striving to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the family escutcheon, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood is making a last-ditch attempt to c ...Show more