TITLES
DIGITAL SOCIETY
Society, Current Issues
Genre:
Manuel Castells
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Publisher:
Edward Elgar Publishing
This essential book examines the global digital society's social, economic, political, and cultural impacts. With cutting-edge empirical analysis and research, it explores the profound influence of technology and digital transformation on our world.
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THE ASSASSIN'S MARK
Historical Fiction
Genre:
C.J. Williams
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Publisher:
Legend Press
G.J. Williams is the author of the Tudor Rose Murder Mystery series – historical murder mysteries with just a hint of supernatural twist. Her acclaimed books are set in Tudor England, beginning in the reign of Mary Tudor, also known as Bloody Mary, and then moving to the reign of Elizabeth 1st. Each novel takes real events and people of Tudor England and the Royal Courts, and puts a plot and bodies in the middle. Her detective is Doctor John Dee, a real Tudor figure, who was an astronomer, philosopher, medic, adviser, and spy for Elizabeth 1st. His apprentice is a woman called Margaretta Morgan, born with the strange gift of hearing and feeling what is not said. As a woman in Tudor times, she can move among others, ignored, as she picks up evidence to feed back to her master. As they work together to solve the crime, both must face the mystery but also fight their own battles.
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The Women of Ravensbrück
Historical Fiction
Genre:
Paul Smith
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Publisher:
The Book Social
In the harsh confines of Ravensbrück, the infamous Nazi concentration camp for women, Sarah Rothstein a Jewish book keeper, Marie Laurent a French resistance fighter, Zofia Nowicki a Polish nurse, are thrown together in a crucible of suffering.Yet in the face of unimaginable cruelty, they forge an unbreakable sisterhood. With grit, cunning, and quiet defiance, they wield their unique skills to sabotage their captors from within. Their determined unity and the secret network of information they construct, reflect the real-life acts of resistance carried out by women during history's darkest chapters - resonating deeply with readers drawn to true stories of female courage, resilience, and solidarity under Nazi oppression.
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ULTREIA
Historical Fiction
Genre:
Francisco Narla
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Publisher:
Planeta
A ruthless bishop crushes Compostela under taxes, provoking hunger, unrest, and the threat of rebellion.
Amid political ambition and looming Almoravid danger, a young thief and a grieving stonemason are drawn into a deadly conspiracy. Both outcasts have lost everything—except each other.
In the uprising that follows, the fate of the city will depend on whether they can become, once more, daughter and father.
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NINE MINDS
Narrative Non-Fiction, Psychology
Genre:
Daniel Tammet
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Publisher:
Profile
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers, this poignant, perspective-altering book celebrates the power and beauty of the neurodivergent mind, as told through the true stories of nine contemporary men and women on the autism spectrum.
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KOCA KARINLI KENT (The Big-Bellied City)
Fiction Literary & General
Genre:
Suzan Samanci
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Publisher:
Ayrıntı
A Kurdish family, driven from their village by violence, struggles to rebuild their lives in Istanbul in this lyrical, dreamlike novel narrated by a young girl. The Big-Bellied City weaves myth and reality into a poignant portrait of forced migration, family resilience, and the haunting power of memory.
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RESCUE ME
Thriller & Noir
Genre:
Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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Publisher:
Ohio University Press/Swallow Press
When drag performer Tim Watkins becomes the target of violent anti-LGBTQIA harassment, private investigator Andy Hayes is hired as his reluctant bodyguard. Their uneasy partnership is tested after a brutal attack points to a local white supremacist group. As clues spiral into a broader conspiracy, Andy must confront his own biases to stop a deadly plot before it erupts.
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LA CANARIA (The Canary)
Literary & General, Historical
Genre:
Mara Fortuna
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Publisher:
Les Flaneurs
Naples, 1965: two aging sisters, bound by love and resentment, revisit a lifetime of lost ambitions. Between song, memory, and a haunting presence, La Canaria traces the fragile fate of female creativity in a patriarchal world.
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A WORLD HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Second Edition
History, Politics
Genre:
J. Babb
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Publisher:
Edward Elgar
A World History of Political Thought is an outstanding and innovative work with profound significance for the study of the history of political thought, providing a wide-ranging, detailed and global overview of political thought from 600 BC to the 21st century. Treating both western and non-western systems of political thought as equal and placing them as they should be; side by side.
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ENCOUNTER IN RENDLESHAM FOREST
Current Issues
Genre:
Nick Pope
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Publisher:
Thistle
In 1980, a UFO was tracked on military radar in Rendlesham Forest, England. It landed near two of the most strategically important military bases in NATO. This explosive book tells the full story of this incident, which is set to become better-known than Roswell.
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