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A is for Arsenic by Kathryn Harkup, Kathryn Harkup

Investigates the poisons Christie employs in fourteen of her mysteries, discussing why the poisons kill, how they interact, obtainability of …

Crooked House (Minotaur Mysteries) by Agatha Christie

Three generations of the Leonides family live together in a large, if somewhat crooked looking, house. Then the wealthy patriarch, …

Night by Elie Wiesel (HRW library)

An autobiographical narrative, in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Fangirl is a young adult novel by Rainbow Rowell, published in 2013. Fangirl is Rowell's second published book, following Eleanor …

Too Brief a Treat by Truman Capote

We Two: Victoria and Albert by Gillian Gill

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the …

Crush by Richard Siken

Diary of Olga Romanov by Helen Azar

The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken …

A short walk from Harrods by Dirk Bogarde

The 1993 volume of his continuing autobiography series, it fleshes out the French countryside retirement life he built in Provence, …

Capote by Gerald Clarke

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the …

Tab Hunter confidential by Tab Hunter, Eddie Muller

Carry on, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (The collector's Wodehouse)

'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen FryA Jeeves and Wooster collectionThese …