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A mindless sectarian psychopath or a loyalist folk hero who took the war to the IRA's front door? The name Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair is synonymous with a killing spree by loyalist terrorists that took Northern Ireland to the brink of civil war.From humble beginnings as a...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2013-04-19
ePub
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From the author of The Notebook, this is the story of two brothers deeply bound by love and tragedy and an extraordinary chronicle of a life-affirming tripIn January 2003 Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip around the world.An adventure by...
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Sphere
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2013-04-18
ePub
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A highly informed insider's account of some of the 'honest men' as they sought, by fair means or foul, to get Britain its way in the world.GETTING OUR WAY recounts nine stories from Britain's diplomatic annals over the last five hundred years, in which the diplomats...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-04-18
ePub
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Who is Harry Redknapp? Football genius or football chancer? Master tactician or practical joker? How is it that even when he was facing court proceedings for tax evasion so many people were still seriously tipping him to be the next England manager? How can one man...
Editeur :
Constable
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2013-04-18
ePub
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Hardly a week goes by without Dickie Bird visiting a county or Test match arena where he can keep up to date with all that is happening in the cricket world, while at the same time taking the opportunity to reflect, in the company of old friends and acquaintances, on...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-04-11
ePub
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A revised edition of the tell-all biography of the businessman turned outsider artist In this no-holds-barred biography of controversial artist Matt Lamb, Richard Speer takes readers on an all-access tour of Lamb's life and times. With true insider access that includes...
Editeur :
Wiley
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2013-04-11
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Brought up as female for fifteen years, Jon can remember feeling different from other girls since he was only five years old. But it will take years of depression, incessant bullying, self-harm and isolation before he discovers why.When Jon eventually confides to his...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2013-04-11
ePub
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An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of the Second World War.When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942, the German army is enjoying unparalleled success in...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-04-11
ePub
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**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**With all the SEALs' recent successes, we have been getting a level of attention we are not used to. It's been flattering but something important has been missing from the discussion. People keep describing what we do, but no one has even...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-04-11
ePub
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Eva Schloss's remarkable memoir of surviving the Holocaust, rebuilding her life after WW2 and honouring her stepsister Anne Frank's legacyThe extraordinary international bestseller'A book that is almost impossible to put down and stop reading. I've shed many a tear...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-04-11
Collection :
Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
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K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest. It is one of the most unrelenting and testing of the worlds 8000-metre peaks. Jim Curran came toK2 as a climbing cameraman with an unsuccessful British...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-04-11
ePub
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When a big city writer's small-town sister is diagnosed with cancer, her untimely death teaches him about life, faith and community.When she was diagnosed at age forty with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Philadelphia journalist Rod Dreher was moved by the way...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2013-04-09
ePub
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A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2013-04-09
ePub
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"I exist to say, 'No, that isn't the way it is,' or 'What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.' I am a master of the obvious. I mean, if there's a hole in the road, I will, viciously, outrageously, say there's a hole in the road and if you don't...
Editeur :
Abacus
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2013-04-09
ePub
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A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a...
Editeur :
Virago
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2013-04-04
ePub
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A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. ...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-04-04
ePub
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From 1950 through the late 1960s, America feared two great enemies: Communism and illegal drugs. While the espionage stories have been well publicised, the war against drugs was far more violent and has remained mostly secret. In New York City, the centre of organised...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2013-04-04
ePub
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Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we will ever...
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Penguin
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2013-04-04
ePub
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A collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literatureIn these five elegant autobiographical meditations Italo Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-04-04
ePub
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You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed… In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-04-04
ePub
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