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There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First
"This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up."-Timothy Snyder, New...
War and Love
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WAR AND LOVE takes us into the field operating rooms just behind the murderous front lines of World War II. Howard Jones, then a 33-year-old surgeon, Army Medical Corps, records...
Decision Points
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this candid and gripping memoir, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life. George W. Bush...
The Education of a Young Liberal: From Private School Boy to Hardened
'I put my hand out in greeting, but he announced that he only gave the Liberal Party handshake. What was that? The guy suddenly turned very sombreaHe placed one hand...
The Gurkha Mindset: 10 Lessons in Courage and Resilience
The Gurkha Mindset distils the wisdom and experiences of a seasoned Gurkha soldier into ten powerful lessons for life and leadership. Drawing from over two decades of service in the...
Walter And Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime
Walter Sisulu and Albertina Thethiwe were born in small rural villages just a few miles apart in the Eastern Cape hinterland. From these humble beginnings, they would become two of...
"Kill The Black One First": A memoir of hope and justice
'Absorbing... revealing and affecting. There are pleasures here, and lessons to be learnt, whatever colour you are' - The Sunday Times 'Michael Fuller is an extraordinary man with a remarkable...
One Man in his Time: A Memoir
From humble origins, the eminent Russian scientist Nicholas Borodin forged a career in microbiology in the era of Stalin. Pragmatic and dedicated to his work, he accepted the Soviet regime,...
Long Life: Memoirs
Nigel Nicolson grew up in the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsberries, one of three sons of the uncoventional parents, MP Harold Nicolson and his author and bi-sexual wife,...
True North: A Memoir
In 1960 Jill Ker Conway arrived in America from Australia. This sequel to "The Road from Coorain" tells of her gradual acclimatization to the new continent; her discovery of the...
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison-Solitary Confinement, a
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The Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. "544 Days" is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24. The dramatic memoir of the journalist who...
Memoirs: Laughing And Dancing Our Way to the Precipice
'A story of a simple but straightforward woman, caught up in the complications of the French Revolution' Economist Madame de la Tour du Pin was born Henrietta-Lucy Dillon in Paris...
Memoirs of the Duc De Saint-Simon: v. 3: 1715-23
This is the third volume in Lucy Norton's three-volume abridgement and translation of the the memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, first published in the 1960s. The court of Louis...
Salinger
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE BOY WHO BECAME A REBEL. THE REBEL WHO BECAME A SOLDIER. THE SOLDIER WHO BECAME AN ICON. THE ICON WHO DISAPPEARED. Raised in Park Avenue...
Portrait of a Turkish Family
Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, who lived in the seclusion of a...
Prison Journal, 1940-1945
France's Prime Minister and signatory to the Munich Agreement in 1938, Edouard Daladier, was arrested and imprisoned by the Vichy Regime for the duration of World War II. As a...
A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of Francois Mitterrand
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The man who changed the course of modern France In 1981, Francois Mitterrand became France's first popularly elected socialist president. By the time he completed his mandate, he had led...
Tamara: Memoirs of St.Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium
The book titled Tamara: Memoirs of St.Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium by the author T.Talbot Rice. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Unamerican Activities
The book titled Unamerican Activities by the author Sally Belfrage. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Perfection of the Morning
The book titled Perfection of the Morning by the author Sharon Butala. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Things Can Only Get Better
Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a...
The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for
When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come. In this frank and...
Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs
When Gorbachev came to power in 1985, the globe was still divided into two armed camps - one for each superpower - as it had been ever since 1945. The...
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
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In summer 2007 former president Jimmy Carter caused uproar when he described George W. Bush's foreign policy as the worst in history. Not because people disagreed, but because it was...
Jerilderie Letter
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Written in 1878, The Jerilderie Letter is Ned Kelly's own account of his family's persecution and the events that led to his becoming one of the most famous outlaws in...
Midnight Diaries
The struggles and upheavals in Russia over the last few years seen from the top ' Boris Yeltsin was the President of Russia for a decade. He overcame the coup...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
The explosive first-hand account of a CIA agent hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists - filled with suspense and plot twists to rival Carrie Mathison in Homeland The instant New...
My Dearest, Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria's Life Through Her Letters
Photographs of Queen Victoria most often show a plump Empress wearing widow's black; serious and regal. The posed portrait photos were stiff, formal affairs, partly because subjects needed to stay...
Churchill by Himself: The Life, Times and Opinions of Winston
Churchill (1874 1965) was one of the 20th century s most charismatic and controversial figures. He escaped from capture as a prisoner of war in the Boer War, was a...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL ' Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND 'Profound, ele giac and fascinating... I zipped through it'...
On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War
JENS STOLTENBERG OFFERS AN HONEST AND CANDID ACCOUNT OF A DRAMATIC DECADE AS THE LEADER OF NATO. When Stoltenberg took office as Secretary General of NATO in 2014, the world...
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
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In "Days of Fire," Peter Baker, ChiefWhite House Correspondent for "The New York Times," takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and...
Nefarious: A life in crime - my life with Joey Pyle, the Krays and
A Daily Mail Book of the Week Prolific armed robber. Close ally of Joey Pyle. Friend and fellow inmate of the Kray twins. Last man to stand trial with a...
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir
Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching candour from a truly remarkable woman' Elton John 'Blistering...
The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life
'I strongly agree with the central message of [the] book...that we need a sense of moral compass in politics... Put together it's pretty shocking' Rory Stewart on The Rest is...
My Feudal Lord
A Muslim woman's harrowing story. When a woman with brains and beauty from a wealthy background decides to take her fate into her own hands and challenge the restrictions of...
Sailing Alone Around the World
In the 1890s Captain Joshua Slocum, an ageing Massachussetts merchantman, was the first man to circumnavigate the globe single-handed. He did so in a 37-foot sailboat he had rebuilt from...
Time's Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 'A work of extraordinary power, beauty and human feeling.' Sunday Times , History Book of the Year 'Profoundly...
The View from the Kremlin
The book titled The View from the Kremlin by the author Boris Yeltsin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Platoon Commander
John O'Halloran was a country boy from Tamworth, NSW, who was called up for national service not long after the start of the Vietnam War. As a tough and determined...
Unveiled: One Woman's Nightmare in Iran
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The book titled Unveiled: One Woman's Nightmare in Iran by the author Cherry Mosteshar. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Rebel in Gaza: A Daughter of Rafah Speaks
Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face of prison, death threats, abuse, misogyny, violence, and repression, Asmaa Alghoul...
I Wish Someone Had Told Me . . .: The Best Advice for Building a Great
An Instant New York Times Bestseller Terrific advice, insightful stories, and powerful life lessons curated by Dana Perino the #1 New York Times bestselling author of And the Good News...
Outsider in the White House
Bernie Sanders's campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, and raising hopes that...
Chasing Wrongs and Rights: A personal journey of fighting for justice
The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights - from human trafficking in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines to treatment of detainees...
Freedom: Memoirs 1954 - 2021
'A great accomplishment . . . A wonderful reflection of an extraordinary sweep of history' - Barack Obama For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the...
Martha Jane and Me: A Girlhood in Wales
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Today, television interviewer Mavis Nicholson regularly rubs shoulders with the famous. As a girl in the 30s and 40s she dreaded her friends finding out how closely she rubbed shoulders...