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'Richie is one of the most inspiring people I've ever met, and his story is testament to the healing power of the ocean.' Kelly SlaterGoes surfing, beats cancer. One man's inspirational story.Richie Lovett might be the world’s unluckiest surfer . . . or its luckiest....
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2013-11-26
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The inspirational memoir by international classical music star Paul Potts, winner of Britain’s GotTalent—soon to be a major motion picture fromThe Weinstein CompanyOne Chance is the remarkable true story of Paul Potts, cell phone salesman by day, amateur...
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Hachette Books
Parution :
2013-11-26
ePub
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Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother thought they would be safer in Holland than Holland Park, but although...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-11-22
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All three of Jenny Tomlin's bestselling memoirs in one eBook collection: her number one bestselling childhood memoir of abuse, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS; the sequel to her bestselling memoir, written with her sister, SILENT SISTERS; and NEVER ALONE telling her own - and other...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-11-21
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‘Satisfyingly replete with eye-popping stories’ Observer What was so dangerous about Queen Victoria’s artistic tempestuous sixth child, Princess Louise?When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-21
ePub
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An intimate look at the legendary British designer behind Apple's most iconic products - including the Apple WatchWith the death of Steve Jobs in 2011, JONY IVE has become the most important person at Apple. Some would argue he always was.Steve Jobs discovered Ive in...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-18
ePub
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This carefully crafted ebook: “Walden + Civil Disobedience + Slavery in Massachusetts” contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Walden is a book written by Henry David Thoreau. The work is part...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-11-15
epub sans DRM
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Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today – this is the comprehensive literary biography of the greatest WW1 poetWilfred Owen tragically died in battle just a few days before the Armistice. Now, during the centenary year of...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-14
ePub
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Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into the modern world....
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-14
ePub
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As her mother slipped into the darkness of old age, Lisa Appignanesi began to realise how little she knew of the reality behind the tales she had heard since childhood. She had shunned her parents' stories of war-time Poland, but now she set out to find the truth. In...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2013-11-07
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
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A classic mountaineering memoir by one of the UK's foremost female climbers.'A story of climbing and compulsive love of mountains ... magnificent' OBSERVERIn 1945, when Gwen Moffat was in her twenties, she deserted from her post as a driver and dispatch rider in the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Joan Lock's warm and nostalgic account of her three years of training as a young student nurse in the early 1950s. Perfect for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE.WhenJoan Lock began her formal training as a young nurse in the 1950s, she was unprepared for the strict discipline...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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ON THE ROAD: GROWING UP IN EIGHT JOURNEYS - MY EARLY YEARS is a new form of autobiography, in which TOP GEAR presenter Richard Hammond tells the story of his early life through a series of significant driving episodes. He's a child in the back seat of Dad's car on the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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'I think anyone who doesn't believe there is life out there will eventually end up looking as ignorant as those people who used to think that the earth was flat and if you went too far out to sea in your boat you'd fall off the end of the world. Ridiculous.' Shaun...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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‘Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian’ The TimesBritain’s foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often overshadowed by Napoleon’s military might. In this triumphant biography, Kate Williams tells Josephine’s searing story, of sexual obsession, politics and surviving as a woman...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirées and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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Discover a magical true story of the power of love and motherhood . . . 'Filled with warmth and love, and is so life-affirming' 5***** reader reviewTwo-week-old Suzanne was left at the door of Nazareth House orphanage - abandoned by the very people who should have...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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An unusual coincidence occurred early one morning at the most visited war memorial in the United States as a shaft of sunlight hit one of the 58,282 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The name was Larry Byford. So begins a unique personal journey to discover the...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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