THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFor eleven years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco. She worked under cover of darkness distributing food, clothing, bedding, tools, and toiletries to the city’s most vulnerable...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2013-01-03

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"It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I'm presenting myself for execution."For Sathnam...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-11-29

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Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's Entertaining...

Editeur : Seal Press
Parution : 2012-11-20

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This is a large beautifully illustrated edition of CALL THE MIDWIFE with never-before-seen photographs which bring the real London and real lives to life. Pictures of the docklands, photos of how life was lived at the time, the families, housing, health service, food...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2012-11-08

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YEARS OF HOPE is a kind of 'prequel' to the published series of DIARIES, and will cover fully the peerage renunciation, as well as revealing his early career, touching on schooldays, RAF service during the war, early involvement with politics etc. As a young man he had...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2012-10-31

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From fourth grade onward, shy, nervous Bree Housley and fearless, outgoing Shelly were an inseparable, albeit unlikely, pair. Their friendship survived everything from the awkward years of junior high to the transformative upheavals of early adulthood—until, at...

Editeur : Seal Press
Parution : 2012-10-30

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This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material.This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2012-10-25

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This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material.This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s -...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2012-10-25

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This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material. OUR LIVERPOOL is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture and...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2012-10-25

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At last, a book about life that discusses liquor and lovemaking as much as it does the point of it all. Judith Lucy has looked everywhere for happiness. Growing up a Catholic, she thought about becoming a nun, and later threw herself into work, finding a partner...

Editeur : E-Penguin
Parution : 2012-10-24

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Many years after becoming the youngest person ever to be awarded the VC for attacking a company of Panzer Grenadiers on his own - an action that proved a turning point in one of the major battles of the Second World War - John Kenneally made an extraordinary confession....

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2012-10-11

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Accidents happen, but they're usually the result of human carelessness. Charlie Morecraft found that out one August night years ago, when he literally blew himself up. A long time worker at an Exxon refinery in New Jersey, Morecraft was rushing to leave for vacation and...

Editeur : Center Street
Parution : 2012-10-02

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With wit and candour, Tim Rice describes the gilded path that took him from cricket and comic-obsessed schoolboy to one of the world's best-known lyricists. Along the way he worked as a petrol pump attendant and articled clerk before becoming a management trainee at...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-10-01

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A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland. Healy lovingly coaxes his childhood into being until, one day, his elderly mother hands him the coded diary he kept as a teenage tearaway and the uncut past burst in like a blast of raw air.

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-09-30

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The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness - shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award - is a remarkable, compelling and moving memoir of a farm, a family and a home.When Selina Guinness and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with Selina's uncle...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-09-27

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Hillary Fogelson led a charmed life: as the young wife of a successful Hollywood executive, her only major concerns were her acting auditions, interior decorating, and unexpected visits from her high-maintenance parents. Then, one day, her doctor told her she had...

Editeur : Seal Press
Parution : 2012-09-25

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'Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world.' - Barack Obama Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards Political Book of the Year Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world. Now, for the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2012-09-13

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If you've had your heart broken/been on the dating scene/had sex, read Laid Bare. Unputdownable.' Kerri Sackville, author of The Little Book of Anxiety on LAID BAREA nakedly honest account of one man's emotional and mental oblivion after separation and divorce. And how...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2012-09-11

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Life in Ingrid Steffensen’s New Jersey suburb was safe, comfortable, and predictable. A college professor, wife, and mother of a preadolescent daughter, her carefully cultivated world was comprised of the usual suspects: family, work, book clubs, yoga classes, and...

Editeur : Seal Press
Parution : 2012-09-11

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'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .'Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he encountered on...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-09-06

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