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Langston Hughes survived as a writer for over forty years under conditions that made survival virtually heroic. Determined on a literary career at a time when no African American had yet been able to live off his or her writing, Hughes not only faced poverty and racism...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-01-17
PDF, ePub
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Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelistOlivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-10
ePub
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Olivia Manning: A Woman at War is the first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelistOlivia Manning. It tells the story of a writer whose life and work were shaped by her own fierce ambition, and, like many of her generation, the events and aftermath of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-01-10
PDF
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Country Living welcomes back Steven Coffmans celebrated collection of essays about life on the farm. Hailed by Library Journal as “amusing, exuberant, and poignant,” it now includes three entirely new and thoroughly delightful articles to...
Editeur :
Hearst Books
Parution :
2013-01-10
ePub
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A beautifully packaged celebration of mothers and daughters that will touch the heart—written by former Country Living columnist Faith Andrews Bedford. From the joyous chaos of raising small children to the thoughtful adventure of being a grandmother who...
Editeur :
Hearst Books
Parution :
2013-01-10
ePub
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From the author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day comes an intimate memoir of loss, self-discovery, and growth that will resonate deeply with any woman who has ever mourned the passage of time, questioned her own purpose, or wondered, "Do I have what it takes to...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2013-01-08
ePub
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Born into a high-ranking samurai family at the onset of the Meiji period, Etsu Sugimoto's own life mirrored the radical shifts her country faced. Originally destined to be a priestess, she instead became the arranged bride of a Japanese merchant in Cincinnati, later...
Editeur :
Disruptive Publishing
Parution :
2013-01-04
epub sans DRM
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Kahane, father of Olympia Press founder Maurice Girodias, recalls his life and his incredible publishing run in Paris from '31-39.
Editeur :
Disruptive Publishing
Parution :
2013-01-04
epub sans DRM
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'I always wanted everything so frantically, and I'm just the person that can't have them.' Based on family papers and memories, this picture of middle class life at the end of the nineteenth century tells the poignant story of Winnie Seebohm, Victoria Glendinning's...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2013-01-03
ePub
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'Michael Lewis is, by a long way, the most important financial writer alive today' Spectator'As traders would say, this book is a buy' Financial TimesBy the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER comes the classic...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-01-03
ePub
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFor eleven years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco. She worked under cover of darkness distributing food, clothing, bedding, tools, and toiletries to the city’s most vulnerable...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-01-03
ePub
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Sites of gruesome murders, stories of killings, frauds, jewel thefts and treachery are all part of Mad Frankie Fraser's grand tour of Britain's criminal underworld. As one of the most notorious gangsters of the 20th Century, he is perfectly placed to give us the lowdown...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton.Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years and all that time he has shown loyalty, courage and commitment to the British army whilst also being an undeniable media attraction.A man of substance where foreign policy is...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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Liza Campbell was the last child to be born at Cawdor Castle, as featured in Macbeth. Her father Hugh, the 25th Thane of Cawdor, inherited good looks,wealth, an ancient title, three stately homes and 100,000 acres of land. But increasingly overwhelmed by his enormous...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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Mad Frankie Fraser has become a household name, known to millions as one of London's most notorious gangsters. InMad Frank's London - his fourth book - Frank continues the shocking stories of his life of crime.Frankie Fraser recalls the good and the bad times, brings...
Editeur :
Virgin Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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'Higher education comes at exactly the right time: in the twilight of your teens, you're just starting to coagulate as a human being, to pull away from parental influence and find your own feet. What better than three years in which to explore the inner you, establish a...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States.In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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Bend, Not Break chronicles Ping Fu's journey from China's work camps to top CEO.'Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times' -Ping Fu's Shanghai...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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When Kate Lock first met Tim Franklin she was a naive undergraduate, and he was a charismatic mature student. One night in the pub he casually revealed that he was a 'lifer'. A domestic dispute had taken a tragic turn, an accidental death, he said. It was the start of...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2012-12-31
ePub
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