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Fallen Angels

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

by Stephen Jay Gould


Stompin’ with the Savoy

Italy and its Monarchy

by Denis Mack Smith


South Africa: The Fire This Time?

The Mind of South Africa

by Allister Sparks


Life After Squirrel Nutkin

Beatrix Potter's Letters

selected by Judy Taylor

The Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881–1897

transcribed from her code writings by Leslie Linder, foreword by Judy Taylor


Neither Salvation nor Sausage

Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (Russia in 1839)

by the Marquis de Custine, foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin, introduction by George F. Kennan


Lost in the Cosmic

In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal

by Richard Nixon


Lost History of the Lost Library

The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World

by Luciano Canfora, translated by Martin Ryle


Prophet in Kentucky

What Are People For?

Collected Poems, 1957–1982

The Hidden Wound

Meeting the Expectations of the Land: Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship

edited by Wendell Berry, edited by Wes Jackson, edited by Bruce Colman

Standing By Words

The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural

Home Economics

A Continuous Harmony

Recollected Essays, 1965–1980

Remembering

A Place on Earth: Revision

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The Trial of Alyosha

In Václav Havel’s letters, the strictures of censorship elicited from him a strange, unclassifiable, inadvertent masterpiece.

Letters to Olga June 1979–September 1982

by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson


The Brilliant Misfit

Lewis Namier

by Linda Colley


Touché!

The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy

by V.G. Kiernan


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