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Explores how generations of biographers shaped, reinvented, and fabricated the life of Geoffrey Chaucer Very little is known with certainty about Geoffrey Chaucer’s life, yet he has long been enshrined as the “Father of English Poetry.” Over six centuries, biographers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2026-02-17
Collection :
The Life of the Author
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A powerful memoir from 'the Democrats’ most talented political newcomer since Barack Obama' (Time)'Spectacular . . . Wes Moore is a proper leader' George ClooneyTwo kids named Wes Moore shared much more than a name; they shared remarkably similar circumstances. Both...
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Penguin
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2026-02-12
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Sceptre
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2026-02-12
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The rousing story of two trailblazing superstars—Julius “Dr. J” Erving and Moses Malone—whose improbable alliance and unsung legacies shaped the wildest and most innovative era of basketball history. In the early 1970s, playground courts...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2026-02-10
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'Run, Paki, Run.'The words ricocheted off the walls of the Rochdale underpass that connected Sajid Javid's home and primary school. Even as a five-year-old boy, he had learned that 70s Britain could be a cruel and violent place for those seen as outsiders.Leaving behind...
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Abacus
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2026-02-05
ePub
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'As much a history of the deeply crooked culture of Italian politics as it is a vivid biography of one man' SUNDAY TIMES'Fascinating' SPECTATOR'Vivid and disturbing but utterly compelling' DAILY MAILCorruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2026-02-05
ePub
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'A miracle of a book' CELIA PAULA stunning meditation on how the physical world can bring us back to earth from the edge of griefIn the aftermath of catastrophic loss, a mother and her young son cross the Atlantic, taking refuge in a wooden house on a remote strip of...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2026-02-05
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‘“I liked the Jewish jokes,” she says.“Oh, it’s OK”, I say. “I’m allowed to make them.”Her eyes light up.And so it all begins.’When Max meets Eliana, a dazzling modern Orthodox Jewish girl, in a bar in Edinburgh one night, he never expected it to kickstart an agonising...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2026-02-05
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'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... Simply glorious, from start to finish' Rachel Clarke, author of Dear LifeSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.Mark...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2026-02-05
ePub
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Oscar Piastri's star is on the rise - and at a meteoric rate. The 24-year-old is fighting to become the first Australian for 45 years to become Formula 1 world champion as he goes head-to-head with British McLaren teammate Lando Norris.It could be a rivalry that lasts...
Editeur :
OH
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2026-02-05
ePub
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Who’s Watching Shorty? is a fearless memoir about the 14-year-old-girl in the child pornography video that ultimately led to R.Kelly’s trial, and one of the most high-profile cases of a generation. Reshona Landfair—known as “Jane...
Editeur :
Legacy Lit
Parution :
2026-02-03
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'Two Women Living Together is a wonderfully calming and cosy read. I always adore stories of women who choose to live beyond the confines of cultural expectation—and this book might just be my new favourite!' - Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of both...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2026-01-22
ePub
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Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History by Lytton Strachey is a masterful and psychologically nuanced portrait of one of the most dramatic relationships in English history—that betweenElizabeth I and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
In this elegant and incisive work,...
Editeur :
Fanela Publishing
Parution :
2026-04-18
epub sans DRM
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The Classic Collection of Zitkala-Ša brings together two of the most important works by Zitkala-Ša, offering a powerful and deeply personal perspective on Native American life, culture, and identity. This illustrated edition includes American Indian Stories and Old...
Editeur :
Fanela Publishing
Parution :
2026-04-17
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Society as I Have Found It is a vivid and revealing memoir by Ward McAllister, one of the most influential arbiters of high society in Gilded Age New York.
In this fascinating account, McAllister offers an insider’s portrait of America’s social elite during the late...
Editeur :
Asimis Books
Parution :
2026-04-11
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Along with a similar line, watch out for anyone who tries to isolate you from your own friends and support groups. Sociopaths like to remove you from any other support so that you don’t have the ability to pull back or have someone else removed from such situation, or...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-04-09
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"Duffy’s honesty and vulnerability resonate with emotional intensity" —Kirkus Reviews "A must-read for any woman facing the path of begin again" —Marnie Woodrow, author of Heyday Build the mantra you need right now. When the author’s marriage breaks down after 16 years,...
Editeur :
Pownal Street Press
Parution :
2026-03-31
epub sans DRM
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Psychopaths are people who suffer from a serious personality disorder. They are characterized of having antisocial tendencies, lack of remorse and inhibition. It is considered as the most difficult personality disorder to deal and many victims of people with...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-03-24
epub sans DRM
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Colonel Edmund W. Starling joined the White House Secret Service Detail during Woodrow Wilson’s first term and remained through Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third. His record as personal bodyguard to Wilson won him the position as head of the Detail, and in that capacity he...
Editeur :
Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2026-03-22
epub sans DRM
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