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“Gato’s head snapped back… We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn’t look back.”Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, Pieter Tritton was no mule or...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2017-07-27
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For fans of BBC Three's Clean Eating's Dirty Secrets and The Cost of Cute, an honest and fun insight into tackling the problems that all young people face.From struggling with an eating disorder and body image issues to flashing Harry Potter (yes, that really did...
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Headline
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2017-07-27
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Uncovering Black Heroes: Lesser-Known Stories of Liberty and Civil Rights is a series of stories regarding real people who are not so well known in the mainstream of American freedom and civil rights discussions. These people have made a difference by the events of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-21
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This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923. The oldest daughter of a family of Eastern European origin, Bernice had an American-born mother, but in other things was similar to her...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-21
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The Sunday Times BestsellerAt just ten years old, Kirsty has already suffered a lifetime of heartache and suffering. Neglected by her teenage mother and taken into care, Kirsty thought she had found her forever family when she is fostered by Pat and Mike, who she comes...
Editeur :
Trapeze
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2017-07-20
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
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A powerful story of sadness, hope, pride, honour and triumph from the real-life Rocky!Raw, confronting and honest, UFC champion Mark Hunt's inspiring autobiography shows it is possible to defy the odds and carve a better life. Born into a Mormon Samoan family, Hunt...
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Sphere
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2017-07-20
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Prelude to Disaster is the most comprehensive account of the fateful decision to tax American colonists. Unlike other studies, it emphasizes the central role of the young George III in the process. Central to this examination are George’s principles of statecraft and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-18
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One of New Zealand's most respected and influential businesswomen, Joan Withers has been a champion of diversity in the workplace and a trailblazer for women in the boardroom. Despite leaving school with only School Certificate at 16, Joan rose to the top of New...
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Nz Epenguin
Parution :
2017-07-17
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The Sunday Times bestsellerNaoki Higashida met international success with THE REASON I JUMP, a revelatory account of life as a thirteen-year-old with non-verbal autism. Now he offers an equally illuminating insight into autism from his perspective as a young adult. In...
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Sceptre
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2017-07-11
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The legend of Betty Pack is simple enough. She was a beautiful American spy recruited first by the British Secret lntelligence Service in 1938 and later by the American OSS. Her method of obtaining information was singular: seduction. In Cast No Shadow Mary Lovell,...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2017-07-06
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John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist 'Connexion' was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the new relationship which it created between clergy and people. Throughout a life tortured by doubt about true faith and...
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Abacus
Parution :
2017-07-06
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It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us in the opening pages of A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD; so setting the tone for an elegant, continually surprising book.A somewhat precocious only child, Roy...
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Abacus
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2017-07-06
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Each night when the House of Commons rises, throughout the Palace of Westminster policemen shout, 'Who goes home?', a relic of the days when Members of Parliament were escorted safely to their beds. WHO GOES HOME? is Roy Hattersley's witty and characteristically frank...
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Abacus
Parution :
2017-07-06
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A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron and Eric Newby.'Lawrence Sterne once suggested that we travel for one of just three reasons: imbecility of mind, infirmity of body or...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2017-07-06
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is his personal...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-07-06
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'I have success, money, women. I've been lionised by the public and the media. The world is at my feet. I've spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has already begun.' Thomas Dekker was set to become one of pro...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2017-07-06
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**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting…With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère,...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-07-06
Collection :
Everyman's Library CLASSICS
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I personaggi di Antonio Tabucchi devono spesso confrontarsi con una dimensione "postuma", agendo in una temporalità sghemba abitata da vivi e da morti. Postumi sono anche i libri e le traduzioni usciti dopo la scomparsa dell’autore, come la raccolta di saggi Di tutto...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2017-06-30
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Greg Lake first won acclaim as lead vocalist, bass guitarist and producer when, together with Robert Fripp, he formed King Crimson. Their first album, the landmark In the Court of the Crimson King, co-produced by Greg, featured the iconic song '21st Century Schizoid...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2017-06-29
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Anne Robinson's mother was a cross between Robert Maxwell and Mother Teresa. WhenAnne became a young reporter in Fleet Street, her mother, a wealthy market trader, bought her a mink coat and told her to have a facial once a month.ButAnne Robinson's early success almost...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2017-06-29
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