The Man Who Created the Middle EastAt the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it. The SykesPicot agreement was drawn by the eponymous British and French diplomats in 1916 to determine the divide of the collapsing empire in

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author of The Leaving Season

One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and an anti-Nazi cowed into silence named Adrian de Groot

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Setting his life within the sweeping political and social transformations that defined the nation

adopted by daring trendsetters and members of the avant-garde

Follow this brother-sister duo of sibling detectives as they take justice into their own hands and explore the meaning of fairness

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to inform the wizard that he is a ghost who has lost all of his magical powers

1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry