100 Books That Changed The World by Colin Salter, Scott Christianson
Category: Non Fiction: General
A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter brin ...Show more
Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food by Fadi Kattan
Category: Non Fiction: General
Bethlehem is a celebration of Palestinian food and culture from one of the area’s most dynamic chefs and a portrait of one of the most storied cities in the world. Franco-Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan celebrates the hidden parts of Bethlehem, his home, conjuring the colours and smells of its market and s ...Show more
New Coastal: Inspiration for a Life by the Sea by Ingrid Weir
Category: Non Fiction: General
Dreaming of life by the ocean? New Coastal: Where To Find It and How To Create It, takes you on an epic voyage around the USA and Australia. This beautiful, photo-filled hardback serves as an inspiration and compass for life lived by the sea. Written and photographed by interior designer Ingrid Weir, t ...Show more
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Category: Non Fiction: General
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnamon Gardens Nursing Home is nestled in the quiet suburb of Westgrove, Sydney - populated with residents with colourful histories, each with their own secrets, triumphs and failings. This is their safe place, a ...Show more
Somebody Told Me: One Man's Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies by Danny Wallace
Category: New Arrivals
The million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me immerses himself in the contagious, dangerous world of disinformation, everyday lies, trolls, conspiracy theories and those trying to fight back. 'Danny Wallace lightens this dark topic about lies and propaganda with his trademark humour and ge ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
Category: New Arrivals
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
Category: New Arrivals
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator'A cracking yarn... Grann's taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expre ...Show more
Building with Secondhand Stuff, 2nd edition How to Reclaim, Repurpose, Re-use & Upcycle Salvaged & Leftover Materials by Chris Peterson
Category: Sale Book
From Craig's List, your basement, and estate sales, you can salvage what you need to upcycle all kinds of cool things. You can build tables, install vintage hardwood floors and salvaged windows, mason reclaimed stone walls, and do much more using free or very inexpensive, high-quality, reconditioned mat ...Show more
Great Breakthroughs in Technology - The Scientific and Industrial Innovations That Changed the World by Robert Snedden
Category: Sale Book
From the earliest days of prehistory, humanity has developed tools to help make life easier. Using the latest insights of the science of the day, ambitious inventors and entrepreneurs have found ingenious solutions to the problems they face - and by doing so, they have shaped the world around them. In t ...Show more
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Category: Non Fiction: General
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I shall never look at any painting in th ...Show more
Alan Turing - The Enigma Man by Nigel Cawthorne
Category: Sale Book
According the Winston Churchill, Alan Turing made the single biggest contribution to the Allied victory against Nazi Germany with his code-breaking machine. The world is also indebted to Turing's genius for the modern computer. However, in 1954, he was found dead, poisoned by an apple laced by cyanide. ...Show more