Come rain or come shine

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to control everything the…

Egyptian tombs

Light up the past as you enter an Egyptian tomb. What do the strange hieroglyphics mean? Who is inside the sarcophagus? How did the Egyptians preserve dead bodies

Fear and fury

In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson reveals how the infamous New York subway shooting of 1984 divided a nation, unveiling the potent cocktail of rage and resentment that ushered in a new era of white vigilante violence.

The Book Thief

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herse…

A short history of the world in 50 failures

From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system malfunction that almost sparked a nuclear war, the course of human history has so often been shaped by failures of all magnitudes.

Spice: the 16th century contest that shaped the modern world

Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competi…

Black hawk down: a story of modern war

Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour…

Science year by year: the ultimate visual guide to the discoveries that chang…

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Ed. 1

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9780241720165

Collation

400 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm

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509 DOR s

Who were the first North Americans

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ISBN/ISSN

9781580865128

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32 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm

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930 WIN w

Story of the Titanic

This is the tragic story of the Titanic. Double-page illustrations with cross-sections and cutaway details explain the construction and mechanical details of the ship and reveal life on board for passengers and crew.