Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers by Jessica Roux
Category: Non Fiction: General
Floriography is a full-colour guidebook to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy. The language of flowers was historically used as ...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
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
The Betrayal of Anne Frank - A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
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A New York Times Bestseller Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team--led by an obsessed retired FBI agent--has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since Wo ...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
Alan Turing - The Enigma Man by Nigel Cawthorne
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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
First in Last Out - The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos by Paul Winter
Category: Sale Book
The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of postwar Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length.Prepared in 1951 at the height of the Korean War by the Chief of Amphibious Warfare ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident ...Show more
Oscar Piastri The Rookie: In the Driver's Seat with the Next F1 Legend by Andrew van Leeuwen
Category: Non Fiction: General
A riveting account of motorsport phenom Oscar Piastri's first season in Formula 1, The Rookie charts his meteoric rise through the ranks to become McLaren's chosen young gun and takes us behind the scenes in his mission to triumph in the do-or-die world of the Fastest Show on Earth. The meteoric rise o ...Show more
Colour Your own Historical Maps by BRITISH LIBRARY
Category: Sale Book | Series: Colour Your Own Ser.
Explore the cartographic treasures of the British Library's extensive map archive, and add your own colour.Early maps are often much more highly decorated than our own, featuring fantastical drawings of real or imaginary people and animals that may or may not occupy unknown places. Medieval maps look ve ...Show more
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
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Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...Show more