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When foster carer Maggie Hartley meets Sean and Sheila, they're facing every parent's worst nightmare. A split-second decision to leave toddler Edward alone for a few short minutes results in a tragic accident, and Edward is left fighting for his life. He survives, but...
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Trapeze
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2016-12-01
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A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
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The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Günter Grass – a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world.Suddenly, in spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, everything seems possible again: love letters,...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-12-01
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Il s'agit de la version anglaise du livre Intrigues parisiennes de la Belle Époque paru en Octobre 2016.
The author offers us a vibrant testimony of the Parisian intrigues of the Belle Epoque. He refutes terrifying rumours circulating about Antonio de La Gandara and why...
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Editions L'Harmattan
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2016-12-01
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Le présent ouvrage porte sur les ressorts de l’entreprise généalogique. L’investigation sur la parenté est un choix, souvent risqué : tout l’enjeu étant ici de mieux cerner les implications sociales de cette entreprise, à la croisée de l’individuel et du collectif, en...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2016-11-29
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Dear Madonna,Thank you for showing me that it is okay to be both a devoted mother and on a podium drenched in glitter. Love, Em RuscianoDear Mum,My life is so much more fortunate than yours was and I'm sorry if my unplanned arrival was a part of that. Love, Anthony...
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E-Penguin
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2016-11-28
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In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking...
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E-Penguin
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2016-11-28
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'Smart and funny . . . the pages crackle with one-liners' Guardian'Who do I think I would've been if I hadn't been Princess Leia? Am I Princess Leia, or is she me?'This is Carrie Fisher's intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous...
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Transworld Digital
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2016-11-24
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Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like ‘The Weight’, ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ and ‘Up on Cripple Creek’, he and his partners in the Band...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2016-11-24
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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward I (1272-1307) is one of the most commanding of all English rulers. He fought in southwest France, in Wales, In Scotland and in northern France, he ruled...
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Penguin
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2016-11-24
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The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp need writers like...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp need writers like...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-24
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Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary career spanning over half a century during which time he produced over...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-24
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'A riveting read about an amazing man' THE SUNLegendary boxer Muhammad Ali visited Michael Parkinson's chat show sofa four times, culminating in an iconic interview in 1971. Muhammad Ali: A Memoir is a fresh, revealing and personal account of the life of the most...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-11-24
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JANET MASLIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES'Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird's exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch' The New York Times Book Review (Editor's...
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Blackfriars
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2016-11-22
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This biography provides a versatile insight into the life, work, and thought of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965). Nils Ole Oermann offers a detailed account of the multifaceted life of Albert Schweitzer who was a theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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Named one of "40 Gifts for the Book Lover on Your List," by Good Housekeeping: The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life. Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2016-11-15
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Richard Garner has spent 36 years reporting on education, working for the Times Educational Supplement, The Mirror, and The Independent. In The Thirty Years War, he retraces the steps of his career, examining the policies, personalities, success stories and outright...
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John Catt
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2016-11-14
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'I loved every word' Sarra Manning, Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2016-11-03
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Every muscle in my body ached. I told myself to grieve, get it out of my system, so that I could be the mother my daughter needed me to be. The agony of knowing what was coming...endless. Just married, vivacious and thrill-seeking, Brittany Maynard was in the prime of...
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Ebury Digital
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2016-11-03
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Meet Rita Gilligan, Hard Rock Cafe’s original ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’ waitress and international cultural ambassador and MBE. It was 1971 when Hard Rock first opened its doors in London, and Rita was there with her spunky, chatty, and absolutely lovable personality. Over the...
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Ebury Digital
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2016-11-03
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