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The extraordinary true story of hope, courage and survival and one boy's journey across the world to find safety When Mir was thirteen, he was forced to flee his village in the mountains of Afghanistan. Separated from his family he embarked on an astonishing journey...
Editeur :
Trapeze
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2025-05-22
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This book takes the case of the civil war disappeared in Lebanon to draw on fiction’s potential to inform peacebuilding processes by allowing the exploration of invisible histories in postwar Beirut. In its close reading of three Lebanese novels by Rabee Jaber, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-18
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023'Important and beautifully lyrical' THE TIMES'A fierce, urgent memoir' AMY-JANE BEERTo grow up in rural poverty is to fight for life before you can walk. Natasha Carthew was born into a world that sat alongside picture-postcard...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2023-04-13
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2017-02-28
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LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017An immersive, intimate journey into the world of the Thames Estuary and the people who spend their lives thereThe Thames Estuary is one of the world's great deltas, providing passage in and out of London for millennia. It is...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-09-22
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My journey from newlywed, to mother of two, to single mom - trying to heal - and become the mother God made me to beKaren lived an adventurous single life but longed for a family of her own. After years of maintaining her vow of purity and waiting for a man who shared...
Editeur :
FaithWords
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2016-03-22
ePub
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'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-03-12
ePub
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Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2014-09-11
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A concise political, social and religious history of the Byzantine empire.Michael Angold's book is a clear, concise and authoritative history of the successor state to the Roman Empire, known as the Byzantine Empire. It was named after Byzantium, which Emperor...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-11-15
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More gypsy tales from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author...Rosemary Penfold's A FIELD FULL OF BUTTERFLIES was a beautiful and evocative memoir of her life growing up in the fields of the English countryside. A moving testament to a forgotten world and a rapidly...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2012-09-27
ePub
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Long-awaited and comprehensive biography of the great Irish author James JoyceJames Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, but he was not immediately recognised as such; rather he lived in exile in the cosmopolitan Europe of the 1920s in a bid...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-05-26
ePub
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In this inspirational memoir, Grey's Anatomy actor Isaiah Washington explains how filling in the gaps of his past led him to discover a new passion: helping those less fortunate. DNA testing revealed that Washington was descended from the Mende people, who today live in...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2011-04-27
ePub
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*Now features never-before-published extra chapter*Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious Blackhill district where...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
ePub
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Huey P. Newton remains one of the most misunderstood political figures of the twentieth century. As cofounder and leader of the Black Panther Party for more than twenty years, Newton (1942-1989) was at the forefront of the radical political activism of the 1960s and...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-04-27
ePub
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other ... compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMESFor more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2008-09-04
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Ita Doyle: 'In all my life I have lived in two houses, had two jobs, and one husband. I'm a very interesting person'Rory & Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives. They remember every detail of...
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Vintage Digital
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2008-09-04
ePub
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Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-07-26
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The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture.
In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-09-28
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The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture.
In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-09-28
ePub
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Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st century an iconic figure. But what are the sources of his almost mythic appeal? And to what extent did Mandela self-consciously create the status of political hero that he now...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-07-27
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