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  • Ugly Beauty

    The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business

    by Ruth Brandon ...
    From acclaimed novelist and cultural historian Ruth Brandon comes a captivating dual biography of the legendary founders of the cosmetics industry, Helena Rubinstein and Eugène Schueller, creator of L’Oréal. Brandon’s gripping and sometimes disturbing story of gender, power, and politics stretches back from the darkest days of World War II, to the emergence of the modern fashion and makeup ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Singer and the Sewing Machine: A Capitalist Romance

    by Ruth Brandon ...
    “Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-1875), the man who made the sewing machine work and drove New York’s most flamboyant equipage, was also, on the sly, the father of four families comprising (when the news broke) sixteen children, all of whom he recognized and supported — a story told full-length for the first time because, Ruth Brandon speculates, neither the firm nor the family wished to see it revived ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Spellbound by Marcel

    Duchamp, Love, and Art

    by Ruth Brandon ...
    In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two years later, enchanted the Arensberg salon, and—almost incidentally—changed art forever.In 1915, a group of French artists fled war-torn Europe for New York. In the few months between their arrival—and America’s entry into the war in April ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Caravaggio's Angel

    by Ruth Brandon ...
    Dr Reggie Lee, newly arrived at the National Gallery, is putting together a small exhibition around three Caravaggios depicting 'St Cecilia and the Angel.' One is at the Getty, one at the Louvre, and she hopes it won't be too hard to track down the third. But a series of inexplicable obstacles keep getting in her way - and then, unexpectedly, a fourth Caravaggio turns up. One of them must be a ... Read more

    Was $3.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel, Volume II

    by Ann Stolinsky, Ruth Littner, Abigail Gervase, Andrew Majors, Brandon Barrows, CJ Erick, Darrell Schweitzer, David Partington, Elizabeth Davis, Garrett Rowlan, Gary Every, Gary Zenker, Heidi Voss, James Harper, James Pyles, Janet A. Hopkins, John Haas, Kara Race-Moore, Ken Altabef, Ken Goldman, Kerry Gans, L. N. Hunter, Lance Schonberg, Larry Hodges, Marisca Pichette, Michael A. Ventrella, Rik Hoskin, Sandra Skalski, Steve Davidson, Toni V. Sweeney, Trisha Ridinger McKee, William R.D. Wood ...
    This anthology follows the same theme as Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel Volume I. In this anthology, 30 authors provide their amazing visions on the theme of time travel, showing their storytelling skills while delighting readers. These stories take readers to the past, alternate present, and the future. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrongful Imprisonment

    Mistaken Convictions and their Consequences

    by Ruth Brandon, Christie Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1973, Wrongful Imprisonment aims to combine the human interest of individual cases of wrongful imprisonment with a general analysis of how and why they occur. It deals in detail with the English system, but also provides comparisons with Scotland, France, and the United States. The authors spent three years collecting material from newspaper reports, trial transcripts, books, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    Maid of Dishonor

    by Gracie Ruth Mitchell ...
    Narrated by Eva Wilhelm, Brandon Utah ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Love Mishaps

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    Samantha Quinn: Baseball lover. Plant mama. Eternal friend zone dweller. I know exactly three things: 1) My heart will forever belong to my best friend, Carter. 2) Carter's heart will never belong to me. 3) I will therefore die alone, surrounded by my houseplants, probably old and grouchy like my eighty-two-year-old landlady, Winifred. But now Carter's cousin wants my help planning her wedding, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    HBR Guide to Critical Thinking

    by Harvard Business Review ...
    Narrated by Karen Ruth Johnston, Brandon Pollock ...
    Series series HBR Guide

    Unabridged

    4 hours 17 min

    Tackle complex situations with critical thinking.You're facing a problem at work. There are many ways you can approach the situation, but each comes with its own pros and cons. How do you sort through all the information so that you know you're taking the right path?The answer is in how you think. The HBR Guide to Critical Thinking will help you navigate your most challenging issues, from ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The End of the World

    Stories of the Apocalypse

    Edited by Martin H. Greenberg ...
    Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of literature, this explosive collection of the world’s best apocalyptic writers brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war back to the bookstores with a bang.The best writers of the early ... Read more

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  • A Life of Crime

    The Memoirs of a High Court Judge

    by Harry Ognall ...
    A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall.For many years, Harry Ognall enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials, both in Britain and abroad.Among many cases as a QC, he prosecuted Peter Sutcliffe, the so-called ... Read more

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  • The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle

    Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

    by Dean Koontz ...
    Series series Odd Thomas
    His life unfolds with adventure, humor, and roller-coaster suspense. He’s the “most likable creation” (The New York Times) of “one of the master storytellers of this or any age” (The Tampa Tribune). And he’s got one hell of a hidden talent. If you don’t know his name by now, you’re the odd one out. Now all eight novels of Dean Koontz’s beloved series are together in one convenient ebook bundle:ODD ... Read more

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  • Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories

    From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks

    by Thomas Grant ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NON-FICTION DAGGER'Thomas Grant has brought together Hutchinson's greatest legal hits, producing a fascinating episodic cultural history of post-war Britain that chronicles the end of deference and secrecy, and the advent of a more permissive society . . . Grant brings out the essence of each case, and Hutchinson's role, with clarity and wit' Ben ... Read more

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