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From an acclaimed historian comes an authoritative and balanced biography of FDR, based on previously untapped sources No president looms larger in twentieth-century American history than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and few life stories can match his for sheer drama....
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2015-09-22
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Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's famous account of the 1996 Everest disaster, INTO THIN AIR, will remember the story of Beck Weathers: the gregarious Texan climber who went snow-blind in the Death Zone below the summit and who spent a night out in the open during a...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2015-09-17
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Mindy Kaling has found herself at a turning point. So in Why Not Me?, she shares her ongoing journey to find fulfilment and adventure in her adult life, be it falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in unlikely places, or attempting to be the first person in...
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Ebury Digital
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2015-09-17
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Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, Felix Dennis was a true one-off. When he died in 2014 he was a multi-millionaire. Yet he spent his last months writing poetry and planting the millionth tree in his own forest in Warwickshire. Journalist Fergus Byrne...
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Ebury Digital
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2015-09-10
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FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL. AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE…At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF.At twenty-five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War.Before he turned thirty, he was in Africa...
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Transworld Digital
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2015-09-10
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Sir David Frost was the only person to have met and interviewed every British Prime Minister since Harold Wilson as well as seven Presidents of the United States. With unparalleled, authorised access to David’s family and friends, in this book Neil Hegarty documents how...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2015-09-10
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Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. 'One of the great biographies of 2015.' The TimesFully updated edition including recently released information. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on Sunday Biography of...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-09-10
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From the moment Pope Francis stepped on to the balcony of St Peter's Basilica for the first time, a global audience sensed that not only the Catholic Church but the world at large could be entering a new spiritual, political and social age. In the days following Pope...
Editeur :
Constable
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2015-09-10
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In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation.In...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2015-09-10
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Two-time New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly opens up about his remarkable life, taking us inside fifty years of law enforcement leadership, offering chilling stories of terrorist plots after 9/11, and sharing his candid insights into the challenges and...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2015-09-08
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Ministry is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Al Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises. "No stone unturned and no vein left untapped, Jourgensen recites events of a life lived (and ended a few times) to its...
Editeur :
Da Capo
Parution :
2015-09-08
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'Touching and nostalgic' GUARDIAN'She conjures places as vividly as feelings, and feelings as exactly as her surroundings' VOGUE 'It is the only intimate and un-angry expression of the feelings of a colonised people that I have ever read' DAVID THOMSON Polly Devlin grew...
Editeur :
Virago
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2015-09-03
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
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On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace stood in a Wiltshire field, wondering why he was playing cricket against the Great Western Railway Club. A batting genius, 'W. G.' should have been starring at Lord's in the grand opening match of the...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
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2015-09-03
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"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me"Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - a childhood replete...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2015-09-03
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A book with a thousand laughs entwined with unknown stories about some of the most popular movies of the past decades." --Steve Martin"This book is kick-ass funny and truly unique. A Hollywood autobiography with only one wife, no rehab, a...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2015-08-27
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An incredible true coming-of-age storyIn 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London's bustling East End, where she is to fulfill her dream to...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2015-08-27
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C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s celebrated translation of Proust’s A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was first published in 1922 and was a work which would exhaust and consume the translator, leading to his early death at the age of just forty. Joseph Conrad told him, ‘I was more...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-08-27
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR 'A beautiful and evocative story' TIME OUT '[Markham] can write rings around all of us . . . ' ERNEST HEMINGWAY 'A vivacious account of an eccentric life' DAILY MAILWest with the Night appeared on thirteen bestseller lists on first...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2015-08-27
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
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William IV, the 'Sailor King', reigned for just seven years. Rash and impetuous as a young man, he was sent to join the navy by his father, George III, to bring him to order, but he was overpromoted at an early age and saw his years of active service marked by a series...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-08-27
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Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: AgincourtHenry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-08-27
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