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Walk Tall is a special younger readers' edition of the Jim Stynes autobiography My Journey, adapted by Warwick Green.
Part football autobiography and part coming-of-age story,Walk Tall is an inspirational and unforgettable account of a man who continues to inspire...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
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2014-07-23
ePub
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This is a remarkable story. It will change the way you look at life.For a couple of weeks, Matthew Ames didn't feel well. The busy father of four young children knew things were not quite right but suddenly he was in Emergency, with a severe case of toxic shock syndrome...
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E-Penguin
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2014-07-20
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A 21st century take on Dispatches, award-winning VICE News journalist Aris Roussinos tells the real stories behind life in a rebel army.The hidden truth about war is how much fun it is. However they begin, whatever their aims, wars are fought by young men. They fight in...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-07-17
ePub
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The incredible true story of how one man turned his life around through the companionship of his best friend.For years, John Dolan had been living rough, trying his best to get by. Born and bred on the estates of east London, his early life was marked by neglect and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-07-17
ePub
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ATTEMPTING 300KPH on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, PAUL CARTER and danger at high speed is his second name. Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2014-07-17
ePub
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This book uses new sources to indepth the early history of the Telegraph Union (today the International Telecommunication Union) and focuses on the key role – political, diplomatic, economic and technical – Switzerland played in promoting its birth and managing its...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
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2014-07-15
ePub
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When Helga Schneider was four, her mother, Traudi, abandoned her to pursue her career. In 1998, Helga received a letter asking her to visit Traudi, now 90-years old, before she dies. Mother and daughter have met only once after Traudi left, on a disastrous visit where...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2014-07-10
ePub
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Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin. The...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-07-10
ePub
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA brilliantly written, hour-by-hour account of an ocean tragedy and the inexperienced marine biologist who saved the ship's crew. _____________________________ The waters of Antarctica, June 6th 1998. 23-year-old Matt Lewis has just...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2014-07-10
ePub
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The 'Forgotten Voices' of the First World War speak for the final time.LAST POST is very consciously the last word from the handful of First World War survivors who were left alive in 2004. Now they have passed away, our final human connection with the First World War...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-07-10
ePub
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A Wolf Called Romeo is the remarkable story of a wolf who returned again and again to interact with the people and dogs of Juneau, Alaska, living on the edges of their community, engaging in an improbable, awe-inspiring inter-species dance and bringing the wild into...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
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2014-07-03
ePub
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Agent Storm - My Life Inside al-Qaeda by Morten StormMorten Storm was an unlikely Jihadist. A 6'1" red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens with a biker gang or in jail. But after converting to Islam he embarked on a transformation that led from a militant madrassa in...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-07-03
ePub
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Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland. Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed: some were innocent civilians - half of them were Jews - but the rest died as a...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2014-07-03
ePub
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'I dragged my heels all the way to the mill. ‘I can’t do it!’ I sulked. Mother sighed and shook her head. My heart sank. Of course, I’d seen the mill hundreds of times before, but now it was different – now, I was going in. I’d never seen a place so depressing; I wanted...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
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2014-07-03
ePub
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'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.' - RLSIn September 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson travelled by donkey through the Cevennes region of France. For personal memory - and, as it happens, for...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
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2014-07-03
ePub
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In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gordon challenges such slanders, and portrays instead the genius of this...
Editeur :
Virago
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2014-07-03
ePub
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This prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer of 'the...
Editeur :
Virago
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2014-07-03
ePub
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John Key has been called a political phenomenon. Having scaled the heights of one career, as a foreign currency trader, he came home from the world's financial capitals to start another. Six years after entering Parliament, Key was Prime Minister - the most rapid rise...
Editeur :
Nz Epenguin
Parution :
2014-06-27
ePub
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In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner was at the head of a convoy of 3,500 US soldiers as they entered the Iraqi desert. Now, still stalked by conflict, he retraces his war experience and meditates on the echoes between his story and those of generations of soldiers...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-06-26
ePub
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