The concluding volume of Dave Pelzer's million-copy bestselling memoir'I don't blame others for my problems I stand on my own & one day you'll see I'm going to make something of myself' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother
- a woman who had abused him with shocking brutality But even years after he was rescued his life remained a continual struggle Dave felt rootless & awkward an outcast haunted by memories of his years as the bruised cowering ' It' locked in his mother's basement Dave's dramatic reunion with his dying father & the shocking confrontation with his mother led to his ultimate calling mentor to others struggling with personal hardships From a difficult marriage to the birth of his son from an unfulfilling career to an enduring friendship Dave was finally able to break the chains of his past learning to trust to love & to live
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Below the neon skies of Dayzone
- where the lights never go out & night has been banished
- lowly private eye John Nyquist takes

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As Minister for Culture the Honourable M A Nanga is 'a man of the people' as cynical as he is charming & a roguish opportunist At first the contrast between Nanga & Odili a former pupil who is visiting the ministry appears huge But in the 'eat-&-let-eat' atmosphere Odili's idealism soon collides with his lusts
- & the two men's personal & political tauntings threaten to send their country into chaos Published prophetically just days before Nigeria's first attempted coup in 1966 A Man of the People is an essential part of his body of work dealing with modern African history
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2015 &I kill a man & most people forgive me However I love a man & many say this makes me an evil person& On 24 March 1962 when Emile Griffith stepped into the ring in Madison Square Garden to defend his world title against Benny Paret he was filled with rage During their weigh-in the Cuban challenger had denounced Griffith as a &faggot& & minced towards him In the macho world of boxing where fighters know they are engaged in the hurt game there could be no greater insult At that time it was illegal for people of the same gender to have sex or even for a bar to knowingly serve a drink to a gay person It was an insinuation that could have had dangerous consequences for Griffith
- especially as it was true In the fight that followed Griffith pounded Paret into unconsciousness & the Cuban would die soon after leaving Griffith haunted by what he had done Despite this he went on to fight more world championship rounds than any other fighter in history in a career that lasted for almost 20 years In Donald Mc Rae&s first sports book in more than a decade he weaves a compelling tale of triumph over prejudice
- Griffith was black so doubly damned by contemporary society but refused to cower away as society wished A Man&s World is sure to become a classic piece of sports writing

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE &I kill a man & most people forgive me However I love a man & many say this makes me an evil person& On 24 March 1962 when Emile Griffith stepped into the ring in Madison Square Garden to defend his world title against Benny Paret he was filled with rage During their weigh-in the Cuban challenger had denounced Griffith as a &faggot& & minced towards him In the macho world of boxing where fighters know they are engaged in the hurt game there could be no greater insult At that time it was illegal for people of the same gender to have sex or even for a bar to knowingly serve a drink to a gay person It was an insinuation that could have had dangerous consequences for Griffith
- especially as it was true In the fight that followed Griffith pounded Paret into unconsciousness & the Cuban would die soon after leaving Griffith haunted by what he had done Despite this he went on to fight more world championship rounds than any other fighter in history in a career that lasted for almost 20 years In Donald Mc Rae&s first sports book in more than a decade he weaves a compelling tale of triumph over prejudice
- Griffith was black so doubly damned by contemporary society but refused to cower away as society wished A Man&s World is a classic piece of sports writing

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The New York Times bestseller ' This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' Independent The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction With extraordinary honesty & magnetism Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich itinerant life the drink & the mess & the pain & the beauty & the moments of surprise & of grace Her voice is uniquely witty anarchic & compassionate Celebrated for many years by those in the know she is about to become
- a decade after her death
- the writer everyone is talking about The collection will be introduced by Lydia Davis' With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston & New York & quite far away too from the fiction of manners unless we are speaking of very bad manners The writer Lucia Berlin most puts me in mind of is the late Richard Yates' LRB 1999

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&I devoured A Manual for Heartache in one sitting a kind honest & wise book about how to make a friend of sadness& Rachel Joyce When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief & loss & find joy in the world again She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult & overwhelming & how we can emerge from suffering forever changed but filled with hope This is a moving warm & uplifting book that offers solidarity & comfort to anyone going through a painful time whatever it might be It&s a book that will help to soothe an aching heart & assure its readers that they&re not alone ...

&I devoured A Manual for Heartache in one sitting a kind honest & wise book about how to make a friend of sadness& Rachel Joyce When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy In A Manual for Heartache she describes how she learnt to live with grief & loss & find joy in the world again She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult & overwhelming & how we can emerge from suffering forever changed but filled with hope This is a moving warm & uplifting book that offers solidarity & comfort to anyone going through a painful time whatever it might be It&s a book that will help to soothe an aching heart & assure its readers that they&re not alone ...

&A magnificent compelling & insightful voyage to the frontier of knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding& Brian Cox What is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out Over the last sixty years scientists around the world have worked together to explore the fundamental constituents of matter & the forces that govern their behaviour The result so far is the ‘ Standard Model’ of elementary particles a theoretical map of the basic building blocks of the universe With the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 the map as we know it was completed but also extended into strange new territory A Map of the Invisible is an explorer’s guide to the Standard Model & the extraordinary realms of particle physics After shrinking us down to the size of a sub-atomic particle pioneering physicist Jon Butterworth takes us on board his research vessel for a journey in search of atoms & quarks electrons & neutrinos & the forces that shape the universe Step by step discovery by discovery we journey into the world of the unseen from the atom to black holes & dark matter & beyond to the outer reaches of the cosmos & the frontiers of human knowledge Beautifully illustrated with charts & maps offering an inventive visual glossary as the journey progresses A Map of the Invisible provides an essential introduction to our world & to particle physics It is a landmark work of non-fiction by one of the great scientists & science writers of today ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A decorated Marine officer unexpectedly returns home from the war & is quickly recruited to help a troubled teen prepare for boot camp but when the true reasons for her return become known it threatens the future for both of them Dealing with an issue that has polarized the American people for almost two decades A MARINE STORY highlights the absurdity of the recently repealed military ban on homosexuals serving openly through the personal story of one courageous woman ...