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'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton_______Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2021-02-08
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WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2021A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell from the...
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Penguin
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2021-02-04
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The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library. I'm a librarian. Every day I encounter people. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiastics, the bookworms, the homeless, the eccentrics, the jobless, the teenagers, the toddlers, the aged. I know my community...
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Ebury Digital
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2021-02-04
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SHORTLISTED, 2022 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITERS' PRIZE
In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous New Norcia Mission, north of Perth in the fifties and sixties.
At once darkly...
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Magabala Books
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2021-02-01
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In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated...
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Hurst
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2021-02-01
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Die Autoren des Buches stellen die kirchenpolitische, soziokulturelle und institutionelle Geschichte der Budweiser Prälatur in den Jahren 1851–1907 dar. Dieser thematischen Ausrichtung und dem gewählten Zeitrahmen entspricht auch die Struktur dem Buch.Die Darstellung...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-28
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'Rachel takes the worst life can throw at us and shows us the beauty in it' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to HurtIncluded in Best Books to read in 2021 pieces in the Sunday Times, Guardian, Financial Times, New Stateman, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Evening...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2021-01-26
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Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches stehen Schriftsteller, Journalisten und Professoren, deren Prägungen, Denk- und Wirkungsräume. Portraitiert werden außerdem einige der Medien, die sie zur Verbreitung ihrer Einsichten, Visionen und Überzeugungen benutzen. Sichtbar werden...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-01-21
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This book discusses early-modern collective identities related to territory, language, cultural milieu, state, and alleged "ethnic" origins in the border and multilingual areas of Friuli and the County of Gorizia before the rise of nineteenth - century nationalisms. It...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Learn to feast like Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel and entertain in retro style with this collection of craveable classic recipes inspired by one of the greatest TV shows of all time. Recipes include:Cuban dishes such as Ricky Ricardo's Arroz con Pollo and Tropicana...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
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2021-01-19
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'A treatise on empathy and grace in extraordinary circumstances' Jojo MoyesWhat does it mean to be a woman? To live in a woman's body?Alexandra Heminsley thought she knew, but then her world turned inside out. Having just resurfaced from fertility issues, childbirth and...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-01-14
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When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him - not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well - ...
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Virago
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2021-01-14
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This is Orwell's memoir of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War - a groundbreaking work of dissident literature drawn from vivid personal experience. There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all...This is dissident...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2021-01-14
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For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-14
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For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-01-14
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Far away from the bright lights of international rugby, there is another version of the game played by ordinary blokes of all shapes, sizes and degrees of physical ability. Steven Gauge was the last person anyone would expect to find on a rugby field, being somewhat...
Editeur :
Summersdale
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2021-01-14
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Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas explores the psychological mechanisms underlying the hypnotic power of Callas's artistry and the unfolding of her tragic life story. Although precipitated by the trauma and shame that followed her abandonment by Aristotle...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-18
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The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author - a woman very much ahead of her time.'She was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal in leading the way' Sandi ToksvigNancy Spain was one of the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2020-12-10
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The Happiness Project meets So Sad Today in this "hilariously witty, unflinchingly honest" book from Words of Women founder Lauren Martin, as she contemplates the nature of negative emotions -- and the insights that helped her to take control of her life (Bobbi...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-12-08
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An elegantly jubilant and personal new collection celebrating love, life and creativity from award-winning poet and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist, John FullerIn this personal and characteristically brilliant new collection from John Fuller, an abundance of memories...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2020-12-03
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