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Steve Richards Atlantic Books 10.99 Steve Richards last book was an entertaining and penetrating discussion of the last ten Prime Ministers (or at any rate, the last ten at the time of publicati

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Rachel Gross W W Norton 19.99 There comes a time in every womans life when her body bumps up against the limits of human knowledge. In that moment, she sees herself as medicine has seen her: a m

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Simon Mason Riverrun 14.99 A beautiful girl is strangled in the Provosts lodge in an Oxford College while the college is shmoozing a billionaire Emirati. It is a situation which calls for delica