Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott by Gavin Stamp
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George Gilbert Scott was the most prolific and most famous of Victorian architects. For many, however, blinded by prejudice to the merits of Victorian architecture and the Gothic Revival, he was the most notorious. The rehabilitation of his reputation after a century of abuse is symbolised, above all, b ...Show more
Spinster - Making a Life of Ones Own by Kate Bolick
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'Whom to marry and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman's existence.' So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experience as a starting point, Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered ...Show more
Elsa Schiaparelli - A Biography by Meryle Secrest
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"A wonderful insight into a life that history hasn't remembered as well as it should have." (Vogue). One of the most extraordinary fashion designers of the twentieth century, Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, ...Show more
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
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Vivian Gornick's relationship with her mother is difficult. At the age of forty-five, she regularly meets her mother for strolls along the streets of Manhattan. Occasionally they'll hit a pleasant stride - fondly recalling a shared nostalgia or chuckling over a mutual disgust - but most often their walk ...Show more
The Blue Touch Paper - A Memoir by David Hare
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as completely vanished as Victorian England. Now in his first ...Show more
The Promise : Three Mates, Two Wars by Jamie Zimmermann
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It was a blood oath between best friends. As Sergeant Brett Wood prepared for a third tour of Afghanistan, he made fellow Commando Jamie Zimmermann promise to take care of his wife and financial affairs should the worst unfold. When Brett was killed two months later, it tore two worlds apart. The Promis ...Show more
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by Howard Eiland
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Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings--mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology--defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existence has ...Show more
The Tsarnaev Brothers - the Road to a Modern Tragedy by Masha Gessen
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An important story for our Era: How the American dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. The facts of the tragedy are established: on 15 April 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 264 others. The el ...Show more
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die -- from starvation, or disease, or even execution.In Order to Live is the ...Show more
The Attachment: Letters from a most unlikely friendship by Ailsa Piper, Tony Doherty
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Dear Ailsa, Sometimes I wonder whether the friendship that has caught us both-a most unlikely friendship I must confess-might find an echo in a far off Irish village somewhere in the wild, windy hills of old Donegal. Or am I allowing that uncontrollable imagination of mine too much slack? This is the st ...Show more
Magic by Jan Golembiewski
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'I couldn't put it down.' Sofie LagunaThis is a true story. A young man heads off on a journey to find out if magic still exists in the world, to know its wonder, and to see if it might save him when his own life is unexpectedly at stake.In the Caribbean, he meets a Rastafarian Don Juan who teaches him ...Show more