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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
2023 || Paperback || Sally Hayden || HarperCollins
‘The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read’ SALLY ROONEY The treatment of refugees has become one of the most devastating human rights disasters in our history. In this book, award-winning journalist Sally Hayden unfolds a staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa. This book follows the experiences of refugees, telling a range of shocking and eye-opening human stories.
But it also surveys the bigger picture: the negligence of NGOs and co...
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Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched Spacex
2023 || Paperback || Eric Berger || HarperCollins
'Just read it.' Elon Musk
The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company.
SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit. Half a cen...
How to Speak Whale
A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication
2023 || Paperback || Tom Mustill || HarperCollins
A thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication, and a poignant look at how science may change our relationship with animals forever.
In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. A video clip of the event went viral, and Tom found himself inundated with theories about what happened. He became obsessed with trying to find out what the whale had been thinking. He wished he could just ask it. In th...
Purple Hibiscus
2023 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by s...
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary / 10th edition
2023 || Hardcover || Collins COBUILD || HarperCollins
The tenth edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary has been revised and updated to include detailed coverage of today's English in a clear, attractive format. Ideal for upper intermediate and advanced learners of English, this dictionary covers all the words, phrases, and idioms that students need to master in order to speak and write effective English. New to this edition is the inclusion of CEFR levels, helping learners to focus on the words that are most important.
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Nazi Billionaires
The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
2023 || Paperback || David de Jong || HarperCollins
‘Lucid and damning … an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowed them to get away with it.
In 1946, Günther Quandt – patriarch of Germany’s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW – was arrested for suspected Naz...