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Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her...
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Fleet
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2016-04-05
ePub
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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers Charles II has always been one of the most instantly recognisable British kings - both in his physical appearance, disseminated through endless portraits, prints and pub signs, and...
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Penguin
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2016-03-31
ePub
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The events of 1976 convulsed China: Mao died, the Gang of Four fell, hundreds of thousands perished in the Tangshan earthquake. Ragnar Baldursson, an idealistic true believer in the Chinese socialist experiment, was one of the few foreigners present to witness these...
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E-Penguin
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2016-03-28
ePub
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An impeccably researched family history from the award-winning author of Billy Young.At the close of World War One, and after surviving a gas attack on the Western Front, Captain Walter Eddison moved his family from war-ravaged Britain to start a new life in Australia....
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E-Penguin
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2016-03-28
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In FOOD AND LOATHING a bright, chubby girl believes that thinness is next to godliness and so attends one of the first meetings of Overeaters Anonymous in 1975. Her twenties are marked by yo-yo dieting, depressive episodes and a sadistic shrink. Then, just as her dream...
Editeur :
Virago
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2016-03-24
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One woman’s investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love. All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson’s was no different: her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-03-24
ePub
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For fans of Sheryl McCorry's Diamonds and Dust and Sara Henderson, this is the story of Toni Tapp Coutts's extraordinary childhood on the legendary Killarney cattle station in the Northern Territory as the eldest of ten children and daughter of cattle king Bill...
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Hachette Australia
Parution :
2016-03-22
ePub
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“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”—The New York Times Book Review“This is Smith at her finest.”—Library Journal, starred review Set deep in the...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2016-03-22
ePub
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My journey from newlywed, to mother of two, to single mom - trying to heal - and become the mother God made me to beKaren lived an adventurous single life but longed for a family of her own. After years of maintaining her vow of purity and waiting for a man who shared...
Editeur :
FaithWords
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2016-03-22
ePub
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'Like Salvador Dali's confessions, only far funnier and more self-deprecating, Dandy in the Underworld entertains as much as it revolts, is as tender as it is shocking, and as genuine as it is false.' IndependentSure to shock and surprise, Sebastian Horsley recounts his...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2016-03-17
ePub
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The whole world knows the face of the young man with the bright black eyes. He is in the process of becoming an icon, a symbol, similar to the famous photo of Che Guevara.The face is that of Raif Badawi, who was nominated for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. Arrested in...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2016-03-16
ePub
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An unforgettable portrait of a marriage tested to its limits.When Dan, a writer with a passion for underground comics, and his wife Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, met through a mutual friend, they swiftly fell in love. "Of all the women I've...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2016-03-14
ePub
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‘I’ve lived through ten iOS upgrades on my Mac – and that’s just something I use to muck about on Twitter. Surely capitalism is due an upgrade or two?’When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favourite pieces for her new book she realised that they all seemed to join...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-03-10
ePub
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'EXCELLENT' SPECTATORNobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Released from house arrest in 2010, she led her party to a dramatic victory in Burma’s first free general election in a generation.Acclaimed...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-03-10
ePub
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When special forces soldier Jason Morgan awoke from a months-long coma, he was told he'd never walk again. Discovered face-down in a Central American swamp after a jungle mission gone wrong, he had a smashed spine, collapsed lungs and countless broken bones. It was a...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2016-03-10
ePub
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The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching deathKatie Roiphe's extraordinary book is filled with intimate and surprising revelations. Susan Sontag, consummate public intellectual, finds her rational...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2016-03-08
ePub
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'POWERFUL AND SOMETIMES SHOCKING ...' SUNDAY TIMES In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize.Having fought...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2016-03-03
ePub
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Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The TimesDespite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-03-03
ePub
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'Cut iron with iron,What makes iron valuable,Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree,Fari and Kaunju -' Told and retold since the fourteenth century, this West African epic chronicles the story of the mighty warrior who saves his people and founds an empire. One of 46...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-03-03
ePub
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In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marías, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2016-03-03
ePub
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