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The chances are good that every one of us will become a caregiver at some point in our lives. We come to this challenge in the most personal way possible—we want to help someone we love, but we don't know how, and we're afraid of losing ourselves in this...
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PublicAffairs
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2013-10-01
ePub
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In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr's of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in the world -and is a by-word for...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-09-30
ePub
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Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi – the most important woman in Chinese history – brought...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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'This riveting account spares none of the detail and paints fascinating portraits of the desperate young pirates.' Daily MailAn extraordinary true story of piracy, heroism and survival on the high seas . . .8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old...
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Transworld Digital
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2013-09-26
ePub
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Can money buy you happiness?A few years ago Duncan Bannatyne might have said so. He was happily married and his businesses were thriving. Life was good. He couldn't have known that a storm was brewing on the horizon and that he would soon face immense personal and...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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Wild Tales by Graham Nash - a classic rock memoir of the legendary Hollies front man and member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungGraham Nash, lead singer and principal songwriter of the Hollies, then member of supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, made the incredible...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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Kevin Heffernan was a giant amongst GAA men. A giant with a brilliant mind who repeatedly warned everybody that he would not let his own mother get in the way of him winning one more game of football. Heffo was deeply admired and absolutely feared like no other. And...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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A funny, poignant and inspirational story of widely acclaimed comedian, writer and producer, Tim Ferguson.Tim Ferguson was a star of the international comedy circuit. Along with Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler he was part of the edgy, provocative and very funny Doug...
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Hachette Australia
Parution :
2013-09-24
ePub
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An essential guide to one of the most influential writers of the 20th centuryA Brief Guide to C. S. Lewis explores Lewis's life, from his reconversion to Christianity under the influence of his friend J. R. R. Tolkien, which had such a profound influence on his writing...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2013-09-19
Collection :
Brief Histories
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When the Great War broke out, Kitchener, with the foresight lacking in many of his contemporaries, insisted that it would last at least three years and that he must raise an army of 3 million men. This began with an immediate recruitment of 100,000 volunteers, and the...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2013-09-19
ePub
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Man or Monster?What drove this 18th Century nobleman to pen the works that made the name de Sade forever infamous? His life was a sorry record of imprisonment for the terrible deeds he perpetrated. But what of his books? Revolutionist, gaolbird, sentenced to die--and...
Editeur :
Disruptive Publishing
Parution :
2013-09-13
epub sans DRM
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Jacky was twenty-three when she arrived in Egypt for a holiday with her boyfriend, Dave. Little did she know that an innocent holiday would result in a horror beyond her imagination. Separated from Dave in a bustling street,Jacky fell and twisted her ankle, only to be...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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'If Ray Mears isn't a Great Living Englishman, then goodness me, who is? Ray is a persuader, pragmatist and populariser in the Durrell-Attenborough-Bellamy tradition.' - Robert Crampton, The TimesRay Mears is a household name through his television series Tracks, World...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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**Explore the fascinating history of the real Downton Abbey as the Crawley family saga makes its way on to the big screen with Downton Abbey, the major motion picture**'An excellent depiction of English aristocratic life ... a compelling portrait' Publisher's Weekly* *...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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Heart-rending, shocking and totally gripping, The Slave Across the Street is the incredible true story of how an ordinary girl was lured into the sinister world of human trafficking - and how she eventually escaped and rebuilt her life.'Flores puts a different face on...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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Half a century ago a youth appeared from the American hinterland and began a cultural revolution. The world is still coming to terms with what he did. How he did it - and why - has never been fully explored.In Once Upon a Time, award-winning writer Ian Bell draws...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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The definitive biography of Wilkie Collins: the Victorian novelist, playwright, author ofThe Moonstone andThe Woman in White, who lived a life of sensation.Wilkie Collins, author ofThe Moonstone andThe Woman in White, was the master of the Victorian sensation novel, but...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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William Wordsworth's creative collaboration with his 'beloved Sister' spanned nearly fifty years, from their first reunion in 1787 until her premature decline in 1835. Rumours of incest have surrounded the siblings since the 19th century, but Lucy Newlyn sees their...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-12
ePub
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William Wordsworth's creative collaboration with his 'beloved Sister' spanned nearly fifty years, from their first reunion in 1787 until her premature decline in 1835. Rumours of incest have surrounded the siblings since the 19th century, but Lucy Newlyn sees their...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-12
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