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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew
up in a country she
loved, surrounded by a
family she cherished. But
in 1994, her idyllic
world was ripped apart as
Rwanda descended into a
bloody genocide.
Incredibly, Immaculee
survived the slaughter.
This title tells the
triump
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Recounts the kidnapping
of the author in Africa
aged ten, his service as
a slave of an officer in
the British Navy for ten
years, and his life
after he bought his
freedom in 1766, growing
to become one of the
foremost figures of the
anti-slavery movement in
Britain. This
autobiography presents a
tale of spiritual quest.
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Part horror story, part
historical document,
part memoir, part
political tract, this
story of one young man's
personal suffering
finally reveals the human
suffering in North Korean
concentration camp, with
its forced labour,
frequent public
executions, and
near-starvation rations.
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At the end of the
nineteenth century
European pimps and 'white
slavers' established a
hugely successful global
market for commercial
sex, and Joseph Silver
was central to this
hidden world of betrayal,
intrigue, lust and
sexual slavery. This book
exposes the most infamous
serial killer of all time
- Jack the Ripper.
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A fiction about horses in
war. It is about a
thoroughbred horse that
Winston Churchill's great
heroic friend took to
France in 1914 and
survived five years of
bombs and bullets to lead
a cavalry charge in 1918
before returning home to
the Isle of Wight where
to ride on together until
1938 their combined ages
(70+30) totalled a 100.
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The son of a shepherd
from the Scottish
borders, Thomas Telford
rose to be the greatest
engineer in Victorian
Britain. His life spanned
one of the most dynamic
periods in British
history, the decades of
the industrial
revolution, and no one
contributed more to
making Britain the
'workshop of the world'.
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In 1997, Grant Hadwin
committed an act of
violence - he destroyed
the Golden Spruce of the
Queen Charlotte Islands.
The tree was a scientific
marvel, beloved by the
Haida people who believed
it sacred. This book
tells the story of what
pushed him to such an
act, an environmental
protest which acts as a
metaphor for the
challenge the world
faces.
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Presents a full-scale
biography of Jack
Johnson, the first black
heavyweight champion in
history (1908-15), and
the most celebrated - and
most reviled - African
American of his age.
Accompanied by more than
fifty photographs, this
work aims to restore
Johnson to his rightful
place in the pantheon of
sporting and social
warriors.
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A personal,
entertaining, joyous -
and seductive -
exploration on the
significance of clothes,
filtered through one
woman's life-long
sartorial infatuation. A
mix of memoir, thoughts,
fantasies and
conversations with other
women, this is a book
for those who love
clothes and find fashion
beguiling, fickle and
fabulous.
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The author began looking
into aspects of her
remarkable family twenty
years ago. This book is
based on her search,
which throws light into
some of the darkest
corners of the last
century. At the centre of
the story stands the
author herself -
wondering not only about
where she is from, but
about what she's entitled
to know.
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Jess Smith lived with her
parents and sisters in a
Bedford bus. They
travelled the through
Scotland, and much of
England too, stopping
here and there until they
were moved on by the
local authorities or
driven by their
instinctive need to
travel. This biography
describes what it was
like to be one of the
last of the traditional
travelling folk.
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How to get on well with
people, how to adjust to
losing someone you love?
How to live? This
question obsessed
Renaissance nobleman
Michel Eyquem de
Montaigne (1533-92), who
wrote free-roaming
explorations of his
thought. This biography
of Montaigne relates the
story of his life by way
of the questions he posed
and the answers he
explored.
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Charts the experience of
the 42nd President as he
took presidential oath of
office, and how he fared
thereafter in the piranha
pool of Washington DC.
This book presents a
story that climaxes with
William Jefferson Clinton
becoming the first
Democrat to win
re-election to the White
House since Franklin
Roosevelt.
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We each of us strive for
domestic bliss, and we
may look to Delia and
Nigella to give us tips
on achieving the
unattainable. Kathryn
Hughes, acclaimed for
her biography of George
Eliot, has pulled back
the curtains to look at
the creator of the
ultimate book on keeping
house.
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Katherine Synford was the
wife, of John of Gaunt,
the Duke of Lancaster.
This book highlights her
key dynastic position
within the English
monarchy. She was the
mother of the Beaufort,
then the ancestress of
the Yorkist kings, the
Tudors, the Stuarts and
every other sovereign
since - a prodigious
legacy that has shaped
the history of Britain.
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Eleanor, Duchess of
Aquitaine was one of the
leading personalities of
the Middle Ages, and
also one of the most
controversial. Having
inherited a vast feudal
domain stretching from
the Loire to the
Pyrenees, she was one of
the greatest heiresses in
history. This biography
offers a perspective on
this woman.
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This is the story of
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
(1897-1957), who bridged
the worlds of serious
music, operetta and film
scores. He achieved
legendary status as a
child-prodigy composer
with the operas Violanta
and Die Tote Stadt. This
work offers a reappraisal
of his life and works.
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Rudolf Steiner -
educator, architect,
artist, philosopher and
agriculturalist - ranks
amongst the most creative
and prolific figures of
the early twentieth
century. Yet he remains a
mystery to most people.
This is the biography of
the man behind the ideas,
written by a sympathetic
but critical outsider.
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A biography of music
legend, Johnny Cash.
This book also includes
interviews with
individuals close to Cash
throughout his life,
visits to key locations
(Arkansas, Memphis,
Nashville), and
examination of archives,
such as those of Sony
Music and the Country
Music Foundation.
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Set in the south of
England, this book
captures the soft-handed,
city-dweller's naivety
and wonder both at the
workings of nature and
the toughness of life on
a farm. It contains
sections on whatever
happens to take the
author's fancy and
inspire his thoughtful
curiosity.
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Roman Ungern von
Sternberg was a Baltic
aristocrat, a violent,
headstrong youth posted
to the wilds of Siberia
and Mongolia before the
First World War. After
the Bolshevik Revolution,
the Baron conquered
Mongolia, the last time
in history a country was
seized by an army mounted
on horses.
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A story of an unwanted
Chinese daughter growing
up during the Communist
Revolution, blamed for
her mother's death,
ignored by her
millionaire father and
unwanted by her Eurasian
step mother. It is a
story of greed, hatred
and jealousy; a domestic
drama that is played
against the extraordinary
political events in China
and Hong Kong.
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Alistair Taylor was privy
to all the secrets that
we were never supposed to
know. Now, on the 50th
anniversary of Ringo's
appointment as drummer,
he reveals for the first
time what it was really
like to ride the
rollercoaster that was
the sixties with The
Beatles.
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Glasgow-born Alex
Harvey's career began in
the 1950s when he won a
competition to become
Scotland's answer to
Tommy Steele. He was a
devoted family man but in
front of an audience he
became an unforgettable
entertainer -
charismatic, provocative
and intense.
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Brighton has long been at
the vanguard of English
tastes - in its attitudes
towards homosexuality,
the rise of the chav and
binge-drinking, as well
as its music and drug
cultures. This book looks
at the changing face of
Britain, using Brighton
as a focal point. It is
suitable for anyone with
a curiosity and a love
for Britain.
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Known simply as Ba
Chr(45) Mother to
millions of people in
India, Kastur Gandhi
shared Gandhi's loves,
his sorrows, his
triumphs and his
tragedies. They say that
behind each great man
there is a woman, but
Kastur was not the woman
behind the man. This is
the story of Kastur
Gandhi.
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Tells the story of three
people: Julia Blackburn,
her father Thomas and her
mother Rosalie. Thomas
was a poet and an
alcoholic. Rosalie, a
painter, was sociable
and flirtatious; she
treated Julia as her
sister, her confidante,
and eventually as her
deadly sexual rival.
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Kublai Khan inherited the
second largest land
empire in history from
his grandfather, Genghis
Khan. He promptly set
about extending this into
the biggest empire the
world has ever seen,
extending his rule from
China to Iraq, from
Siberia to Afghanistan.
This work talks about
this person.
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Johnson, born weak and
half-blind, shambolic
and poverty-stricken,
became the most admired
and"ed man in the
eighteenth century.
Thrown out of Oxford for
a lack of funds, he rose
to celebrity: author of
The Dictionary, a friend
to the king, companion
of Reynolds, Goldsmith
and Garrick. This title
presents a portrait of
Johnson, and his life.
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This is a writer's
journal of his
friendships, encounters
and observations during
the 1950s and 60s,
describing the
relationships with Cork
author Frank O'Connor,
Patrick Kavanagh,
Charles Cape and the
remarkable Margaret
Radford - baglady and
acquaintanc
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The compelling story of
Walker Stacey -- a child
who triumphed over his
autistic tendencies with
the dedicated help of his
family When in 1996,
Patricia Stacey gave
birth to her second
child, a baby boy, she
quickly noticed an
emptiness in his gaze --
a vacant quality that
emphasized her sense that
he was ill at ease in his
own body.
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By reading these
insightful,
inspirational accounts,
you'll learn where they
got their ideas, why
they have succeeded where
so many have failed,
and, crucially, how you
can follow in their
footsteps. This is
essential reading for
anyone who has ever dared
to think outside the box.
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When television legend
Susan Lucci joined the
cast of All My Children,
she had only expected to
appear on the show every
other Tuesday. But she
endeared herself to
America playing the
beautiful and often
controversial character
of Erica Kane. This title
shares how she has
balanced the needs of her
family with the grueling
demands of her career.
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The personal story of the
man who founded the
system of micro-credit,
Banker to the Poor tells
the story of how he did
it. Today Yunus's system
of micro-credit is
practiced in some 60
countries, including the
US, Canada and France
and his Grameen Bank is
now a billion-pound
business.
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Paul Dirac was one of the
leading pioneers of the
greatest revolution in
20th-century science:
quantum mechanics. Based
on an archive of family
papers, this title
celebrates Dirac's
massive scientific
achievement while drawing
a portrait of his life
and work.
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Bernie Ecclestone is
best-known as the
architect and figurehead
of modern F1, but he has
been a constant and often
controversial presence in
both F1 and British
public life since the
1970s. This biography
analyses in detail his
rise to prominence, from
his early entrepreneurial
exploits as a schoolboy
to his position as a
peerless businessman.
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During the sixty-odd
years of her reign Queen
Victoria gathered around
her a household dedicated
to her service. This book
follows the lives of six
members of her household
from the governess to the
royal children, to her
maid-of-honour, chaplain
and pers
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This is Doris Lessing's
follow-up to the first
part of her
autobiography, Under My
Skin. Here, we move into
the heyday of her career,
sparked off by the
international success of
her first novel in 1950.
She went on to forge a
unique role for herself
in British literary and
political life.
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In the spring of 1895 the
life of Constance Wilde
changed irrevocably. Up
until the conviction of
her husband, Oscar, for
homosexual crimes, she
had held a privileged
position in society. Part
of a gilded couple, she
was a popular children's
author, a fashion icon,
and a leading campaigner
for women's rights. A
founding member of the
magical society the
Golden Dawn, her
pioneering and
questioning spirit
encouraged her to sample
some of the more
controversial aspects of
her time. Mrs Oscar Wilde
was a phenomenon in her
own right. But that
spring Constance's entire
life was eclipsed by
scandal. Forced to flee
to the Continent with her
two sons, her glittering
literary and political
career ended abruptly.
Having changed her name,
she lived in exile until
her death. Franny Moyle
now tells Constance's
story with a fresh eye
and remarkable new
material. Drawing on
numerous unpublished
letters, she brings to
life the story of a woman
at the heart of fin-de-si
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Illuminee Nganemariya
existed for 100 days in
the living hell of
Kigali, Rwanda's
capital, after watching
her husband being dragged
away to be killed by
friends who had
celebrated their wedding
with them a month
earlier. Then she
embarked on a horrific
journey through the
Genocide with her son
strapped to her back.
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Commenting on the demise
of the New Labour project
from the re-election of
Tony Blair in 2001 to the
ultimate foreign policy
disasters of Afghanistan
and Iraq, this book
gives other prescient
accounts of the
government's by-passing
of Cabinet, parliament
and the party, of the
'war on terror', and the
debate about Islam.
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This book charts elbow's
long journey from humble
roots through modest
success to international
recognition. Elbow
started out at a time
when great songs and
evocative lyrics were not
generally recognised.
Their music transcended
genre, age and image,
eventually finding its
own distinctive global
audience as Guy Garvey
evolved into one of the
most brilliant and
intriguing lyricists of
recent times.
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William Melville was one
of the most influential
counter - espionage
figures of the twentieth
century. This work
presents the true story
of the real 'M', William
Melville, MI5's founding
father and the
inspiration for Ian
Fleming's character in
James Bond.
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Presents a story of big
guns and small planes,
princes from England and
sultans from Zanzibar,
marauding lions,
syphilis,
self-destruction and the
tragedy of the human
heart. The author tracks
her quarry from a
dreamlike Edwardian
childhood in a
Lincolnshire mansion
through to the
battlefields of the East
African campaign.
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The lives of the Queen,
Prince Philip and their
children are examined and
exposed in a biography
that reveals the Windsor
family's history of
adultery, passion,
jealousy and mental
cruelties. The book also
refers to a relationship
between Prince Philip and
one of the Queen's
cousins.
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From October to December
1888 a pair of artists
lived under one roof in
the French provincial
town of Arles. Paul
Gauguin and Vincent Van
Gogh ate, drank,
talked, argued, slept
and painted in one of the
most intense and
astonishing creative
outpourings in history.
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Beginning in 1966 as
something a little out of
the ordinary for
prime-time TV, and
suffering from shaky
ratings throughout its
entire run, Star Trek
went on to spend the
better part of the next
three decades exploding
into a worldwide,
billion-dollar industry.
This is the reminiscence
of the show that has
become a cultural
phenomenon.
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After years of chasing
his dreams,
singer-songwriter the
author finally had a
record deal and an album
to promote. He offered to
write a song for anybody
who pre-ordered his
self-titled release; all
they had to do was send
him a letter about their
story,
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A memoir that recounts
the author's journey from
a poverty-stricken
childhood in rural Cuba
to his death in New York
four decades later. It
tells of his odyssey from
young rebel fighting for
the Revolution, through
his suppression as a
writer, his
disillusionment with
Castro, his imprisonment
and torture, to his
eventual flight from
Cuba.
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In 1993, Dominic
Stevenson left a
comfortable life with his
girlfriend in Kyoto,
Japan, to travel to
China. From Afghan gun
shops to Tibetan
monasteries, Thai
brothels and the
stirrings of the rave
culture in Goa, this
title tells a tale of
discovery and
rediscovery, of
friendship and betrayal.
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The story of Joe Jacoby,
who worked in the early
days of live TV, and
went on to become a
pioneering filmmaker. He
has never revealed that
his childhood was spent
in foster homes and
institutions. This book
is useful for those
concerned about neglected
children, and for those
searching for a story set
within the world of
television and film.
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It's the summit of K2, 1
August 2008. An exhausted
band of climbers pump
their fists into the
clear blue sky - joining
the elite who have
conquered the world's
most lethal mountain. But
as they celebrate, far
below them an ice shelf
collapses and sweeps away
their ropes.
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Journalist, presenter,
broadcaster, husband,
father, vigorous
all-rounder -- Alan
Partridge -- a man with a
fascinating past and an
amazing future.
Gregarious and popular,
yet Alan's never happier
than when relaxing in his
own five-bedroom,
south-built house with
three acres of land and
access to a private
stream. But who is this
mysterious enigma?
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Mrs Seacole, a free-born
Jamaican daughter of a
Scottish army officer and
a free black woman,
recounts her childhood,
her years as a
storekeeper in a Central
American frontier town,
and her role as a
battlefield 'doctress' to
British troops in the
Crimea.
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A memoir of Martin Amis,
which talks about his
life and presents an
intimate look at the
process of writing.
Exploring his
relationship with his
father, the great comic
novelist, Kingsley Amis,
it records the changing
literary scene in Britain
and the United States,
along with anecdotes and
pen portraits.
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Buffett has generously
endowed us all with a
sensible and intelligent
roadmap for investing. --
Robert G Hagstrom Warren
Buffett -- The Oracle of
Everything. He has been
right about the stock
market, rotten
accounting, CEO greed,
and corporate governance.
The rest of us are just
catching on.
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Guides us through the
monuments and lost
paradises, dilapidated
Ottoman villas, back
streets and waterways of
Istanbul - the city of
the author's birth and
the home of his
imagination. This is an
account of one man's love
affair with the city that
has been his home since
his birth.
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At the age of fifteen,
the author's parents
immigrate with her to the
United States. She leaves
behind her home, her
language, her culture,
& her ideals. In her
endless search for
herself in this new
capitalist world, she
struggles to keep even a
waitress job.
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Abused as a child by his
local priest, Brian
O'Dea, became a rebel,
using and selling drugs.
Soon he was operating a
$100 million a year
business, and had
developed a cocaine
addiction. Eventually he
quit the trade - and the
drugs and was working
with recovering addicts.
Extracted from Brian's
prison diary, this work
re-tells his outlaw
years.
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Birhan Woldu became one
of the most recognized
faces and forms of the
late 20th century when
her skeletal image was
used at the end of 'Live
Aid' to globally
publicize famine in
Africa. This title tells
Birhan's life story from
the days when her father
literally carried his
daughter across Africa on
an epic journey to life,
to Live Aid.
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The story of Raymond
Briggs's parents'
marriage, from their
first, chance encounter
to their deaths. Told in
Briggs's familiar
strip-cartoon format,
with nothing embroidered
or altered, the book is
also a social history of
a kind, embracing such
events as World War II
and the advent of
television.
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Over the course of a
year, Leo Hickman,
resident consumer expert
of the Guardian, and his
family set out to
discover whether it was
possible to live a
'normal life', while at
the same time making each
daily choice or decision
an 'ethical' one - for
the family, their
neighbours and the
environment. This is the
story of that one-year.
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Stuart Kelly's biography
of Sir Walter Scott
defies classification in
terms of genre. Rather
than a literary
biography, or critical
study, it is a personal
examination of the
sometimes overwhelming
affect Scott has had on
Scottish identity at
large, and on how his
legacy affects the very
act of writing in
Scotland.
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Marc Bolan was the
biggest pop star in
post-Beatles Britain and
in 1972 the Beatles
acknowledged Bolan and
his group T Rex as their
natural successor. This
title chronicles the life
and music of the
vibrato-voiced glam rock
idol and 20th century boy
who c
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ï ½I am six. We are
sitting on the piano
bench. Daddyï ½s wearing
his undershorts. Thatï ½s
all. Iï ½m wearing my
white underpants. Thatï
½s all. It doesnï ½t feel
like weï ½re going to
make beautiful musicï ½ï
½ Catherine McCallï ½s
father was a high-profile
doctor, her mother
regularly hosted bridge
parties. Growing up in
their beautiful,
historic home in
Brooklyn, Cathy appeared
to have everything a girl
could want. No one, not
the neighbours, the nuns
at school or her beloved
grandmother, could have
guessed that there was a
torture chamber in the
basement of 763
Montgomery Place, or
that Cathy was being
raped repeatedly by her
father. By the age of
eighteen, Cathy didnï ½t
know either: she had
repressed every memory of
abuse. Twenty years
later, looking after her
now ailing parents,
Cathyï ½s memories begin
to return. In this
starkly authentic and
utterly immediate memoir,
Cathy describes both how
she uncovered the
horrific secrets sheï ½d
kept so well throughout
her childhood and her
inspirational journey to
overcome them.
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Della Raye became a
beautician and married
Floyd Hughes, a widower
with five daughters, in
1951. Together they also
had two boys, Donny and
Butch. She has visited a
number of the people who
worked at Partlow in
nursing homes and
hospitals and has
remained in contact with
many of the people she
met during her
confinement.
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Offers an account of the
author's life during a
racially turbulent period
in Detroit. This memoir
tells the story of the
author's childhood with
subversive allusions to
the Victorian-era
coming-of-age stories she
consumed while growing up
and the moral lessons she
absorbed in such readings
but could not reconcile
with her own experience.
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Why do explorers put
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situations? And, once
the worst possible
situation occurs, how do
they find the resources
to survive? The author
presents a series of
tales from his own
experience as well as
that of other explorers
including Columbus,
Cortez, Scott,
Shackleton, Stanley,
Livingstone.
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Tells the story of the
author's time as
Britain's most senior
representative in
Southern Iraq, trying to
keep the region together
as the rest of the
country descended in to
murderous violence. This
book provides a portrait
of the absurdities of
life inside the occupying
coalition.
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Born a bastard to a
teenage mother in the
slums of 1950s Dublin,
Martha has to be a
fighter from the very
start. As her mother
moves from man to man,
and more children follow,
they live hand-to-mouth
in squalid, clothed in
rags and forced to beg
for food. The author
tells the story of her
early life without an
ounce of self-pity.
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Writer Alvin Schwartz
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attention from fans when
he began talking publicly
about his seventeen-year
stint writing Superman
and Batman comics. One of
the individuals who
contacted him was no
ordinary fan, but a
seven-foot Buddhist monk
named Thongden, a tulpa
or individual who was
thought into being by a
Tibetan mystic.
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Born in 1899 to Russian
Aristocrats, Tamara de
Lempicka escaped the
Bolsheviks by exchanging
her body for freedom,
dramatically beginning a
sexual career that
included most of the
influential men and women
she painted. This
biography is reissued to
coincide with the
twentieth anniversary of
her death.
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From earliest childhood
memory until I leave
home, I take the reader
on a journey through the
loneliness, isolation
and blessings of
functioning in a
mainstream world with a
form of autism which did
not gain classification
until the late 1980's.
The overall tone of my
novel is positive.
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The concept of multiple
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the universe is one of
the hottest topics in
contemporary physics. It
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attempts to explain
gravity and the
underlying structure of
the universe. The history
of how such an
unfathomable concept has
risen to prominence takes
centre stage in
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This affectionate and
in-depth biography
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life of this remarkable
man. From his early life
growing up in a pub in
Sussex, through the
scandals he encountered
as an editor, to how his
life has taken a new turn
with his stateside career
and recent marriage.
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Part of the author's
autobiography, this
first title recounts his
solitary childhood in the
English countryside,
with affectionate
portraits of his remote
parents - an increasingly
unconventional barrister
father, whose blindness
must never be mentioned,
battling earwigs in the
mutinous garden, and a
vague and endlessly
patient mother.
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Fusing blues, jazz and
psychedelia with an
outrageous personal
style, Hendrix is still
revered as the most
important instrumentalist
in rock history.
Capturing the essence of
Hendrix's intense and
tragic life, the author
covers Hendrix's life
from his boyhood to the
legacy he left behind.
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In a biography of style
and energy, Frances
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previously unseen
letters, law reports and
confidential Government
correspondence to reveal
the true story of the
sexual celebrity who
blackmailed the British
aristocracy and held even
the king to ransom.
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Tells the story of one of
history's most despicable
villains and conmen -
Louis Darquier, Nazi
collaborator and
'Commissioner for Jewish
Affairs', who dissembled
his way to power in the
Vichy government's and
was responsible for
sending thousands of
children to the gas
chambers.
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Ballard's father's
untimely death; his
brother's amorous and
reckless attitude to
life; his shattering
experiences in the
Vietnam War and his son's
battle with mental
illness, reflect and
mould his definition of
what courage is and the
purpose of what bei
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Queen Victoria ascended
the throne in 1837 on the
death of her uncle
William IV. In 1840, she
married her first cousin,
Prince Albert of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and
for the next twenty years
they were inseperable.
Their descendants were to
succeed to most of the
thrones of Europe. This
biography provides an
assessment of the
monarch.
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Born in Kincardine in
1767, James Wylie became
one of the most
celebrated doctors in
Europe and the centre of
two of the most
fascinating and enduring
conspiracy theories in
Russian history. This
book unravels the many
mysteries surrounding
Wylie's life and his
involvement with the
Romanov dynasty.
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An autobiography by Brian
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1993 amidst much press
comment about his health
and business affairs,
after three decades of
controversial and
successful football
management. He speaks of
his career, and also his
mother's influence, his
relationship with his
wife, and his children.
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Talleyrand is a
silver-tongued master
diplomat, infamous
turncoat, peacekeeper
and libertine. Talleyrand
held high office in five
successive regimes from
France's Ancient Regime,
into the Revolution of
1789, Robespierre's
Terror, Napoleon's epic
wars, and on through
restored kings to more
revolution. This title
charts the progress of
Talleyrand.
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His Holiness the
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Tibet is revered by 6
million followers around
the world. He describes
himself as 'a simple,
smiling monk'. This title
describes the different
aspects of this
remarkable man, who is
universally recognised as
the best hope for peace
and unity in the troubled
world.
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Milton Friedman is one of
the world's most
important, and certainly
one of the most famous,
economists of the second
half of the twentieth
century, a key figure
during the resurgence of
American conservatism.
Ebenstein's book is the
first to chronicle
Friedman's life and
development as an
economic theorist.
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My Booky Wook was on of
the most revered and
successful celebrity
autotrophies of all time
(not including the Bible
or anything by Jordan).
The honesty, mayhem and
scandal made it as
riveting and fanciful as
anything found in
fiction. In Booky Wook 2,
this award-winning
achievement is surpassed
as Russell charts his
rise from crack-house
junky to Hollywood star,
indulging in sexual
excesses that make
Caligula seem like a
prudish spinster. On his
quest to find true love,
Russell encountered
thousands of women,
often three or four at a
time (for efficiency),
and his dizzying ambition
led to chaos and
controversy that could
have landed him in prison
and left the BBC in
ruins. This is the story
of what happens when
insatiable desire meets
limitless opportunity and
when a chancer from the
wrong side of the tracks
is given the keys to the
palace. This riot of
self-indulgence would be
rampaging still but for a
tossed bottle to the head
from one of the world
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Phoolan Devi was born
into a poor, low-caste
family in Uttar Pradesh,
living in a world that
gave more respect to a
stray dog than to a
woman. This is the story
of a life characterized
by beatings, rapes and
humiliation, and the
Bandit Queen's road to
freedom.
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Ordinarily presented as a
self-effacing virgin or
sacrificial saint,
Dorothy Wordsworth was a
talented writer and
exceptional woman. She
was William Wordsworth's
inspiration, aide and
most valued reader and
traded in a conventional
life to share in his
world of words. This
biography brings Dorothy
to life in all her
complexity.
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Paul Nazaroff was the
ringleader of a desperate
plot to overthrow the
Bolsheviks in Central
Asia in 1918. Betrayed to
Lenin's Secret Police,
he was forced to live
like an animal hunted
across Central Asia, the
Himalayas and the plains
of Hindustan. This is his
tale.
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Takes us on a journey
through the author's
childhood and
adolescence, along
Jerusalem's war-torn
streets in the 1940s and
'50s, and into the
infernal marriage of two
kind, well-meaning
people: his fussy,
logical father, and his
dreamy, romantic mother.
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The acclaimed story
teller and ballad singer
takes us through the
story of her life, from
working on farms,
experiencing the highs
and lows of the
travelling lifestyle, to
becoming a star of the
folk scene. Stewart is a
unique voice, and one of
the last representatives
of a tradition that has
all but disappeared.
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Investigates the
influences that shaped
the Churchill: his
troubled schooldays, his
flamboyant politician
father, Randolph, and
his famously attractive
American mother, Jennie.
This book argues that the
qualities that made
Churchill great also led
him to commit
catastrophic blunders.
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At twenty-six Colby
Buzzell, unemployed and
living at home, decided
to join the US Army.
Within months he was in
Iraq, a machine gunner
in the controversial
Stryker Brigade Combat
Team, an army unit on
the cutting edge of
combat technology. This
is a story of a young man
and a war that aims to
present an account of the
absurdities of war.
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Describes the trails and
triumphs of keeping a
military family together.
This is a true-life story
written by the wife of a
soldier serving in Iraq.
It talks about the
uncertainty and fear of
living with daily media
reports on Iraq, as is
the shared grief over the
death of a friend's
husband, and the elation
of one's own husband
return safely.
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Drawing on a cache of
personal documents, the
author retraces Bruno
Langbehn's journey from
disillusioned adolescent
to SS Officer to
mysterious grandfather.
He tries to understand
how Langbehn and millions
of others like him were
seduced by Hitler's
regime, and attempts to
come to terms with this
devastating revelation.
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