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    O Brother

    John Niven

    An instant Sunday Times bestseller, O Brother is by turns heart-breaking and hilarious - evoking a working-class childhood of the 1970-80s and trying to answer the questions that often haunt…

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    Kill Your Friends

    John Niven

    London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed…

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    O Brother

    John Niven

    A memoir that is by turns heart-breaking and hilarious, O Brother evokes a working-class childhood of the 1970s and 80s and tries to answer the questions of guilt, culpability and…

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    John Niven

    John David Noll

    This is the story of John Niven, founder of Purity Stores -- a chain of grocery stores across California as far south as Fresno and as far north as Yreka…

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    John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography

    John Niven

    In the first full-scale biography of John C. Calhoun in almost half a century, John Niven skillfully presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Niven…

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    Cold Hands

    John Niven

    You thought you could leave the past behind. Think again. Donnie Miller counts himself lucky.

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    The Amateurs

    John Niven

    Gary is a sweet and decent man. Only two things would improve his life - having children with his gorgeous wife Pauline, and a lower golf handicap. Both are unlikely…

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    Kill ‘Em All

    John Niven

    But it’s also a proper novel about the Trumpian era, of the reality TV era, the fake news era.

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    The Coming of the Civil War: 1837 - 1861

    John Niven

    This book explores the interrelated themes of modernization and slavery, issues that created reform movements in the North, defensive sectionalism in the South, social disruption, and a general failure of…

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    No Good Deed

    John Niven

    What do you do when the homeless man on the street you’ve just given money to thanks you by name and turns out to be one of your ‘closest’ friends…

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    Straight White Male

    John Niven

    Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He’s writing film scripts in LA, fucking…

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    The Sunshine Cruise Company

    John Niven

    Julie’s not faring better: living in a council house and working in an old people’s home, she’s desperate for excitement. When the bank threatens to take Susan’s beloved home to…

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    Kill Your Friends

    John Niven

    A vicious, black-hearted howl of a book … A realistic portrait of the music industry, doing for it what The Player did for Hollywood… . Cripplingly funny in the way…

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    Straight White Male

    John Niven

    Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman…

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    The Second Coming

    John Niven

    God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday. When God returns, he finds all…

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    The Band’s Music from Big Pink

    John Niven

    A factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes…

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    Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy

    John Niven

    A full-scale life and times biography of an important Civil War figure.

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    The Amateurs

    John Niven

    Lee’s done some bad things - but murder? When Gary gets smashed on the head by a golf ball and miraculously develops an absolutely perfect swing, everyone finds their fates…

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    The F*ck-it List: Is this the most shocking thriller of the year?

    John Niven

    ‘Hilarious’ Adam Kay ‘Mind-blowingly brilliant’ Daily Mail ‘Loved it’ Robert Webb ‘Highly entertaining’ Evening Standard _____________________________ Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, has just been given a terminal diagnosis.

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    The Salmon P.Chase Papers v. 2; Correspondence, 1823-57

    Salmon P. Chase first gained prominence during the 1840s and 50s as a leader in the anti-slavery movement and as a founder of the Liberty, Free-Soil and Republican parties, before…

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    The Family of Niven: With Biographical Sketches

    John 1890- Niven

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Music From Big Pink

    John Niven

    A factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes…

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    Salmon P. Chase: A Biography

    John Niven (Emeritus Professor of History, Emeritus Professor of History, Claremont Graduate School)

    Salmon P. Chase was one of the principal political figures in the Civil War period. A rival of Abraham Lincoln for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1860, he subsequently became…

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    A Fragile Craft: The Work of Amos Niven Wilder

    John Dominic Crossan

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    Buick Motor Company V. City of Milwaukee U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings

    John Thomas Smith, II,John M Niven

    The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading…

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    Rissling V. City of Milwaukee U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record with Supporting Pleadings

    Leon B Lamfrom,John M Niven

    The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading…

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