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A Painful Season And Stubborn Hope: The Odyssey of an Eritrean Mother

A Painful Season And Stubborn Hope: The Odyssey of an Eritrean Mother

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A startling story of Abeba Tesfagiorgis' experience in the hands of Ethiopians in Asmara and her subsequent escape.
Global Girls: Find Your Thing

Global Girls: Find Your Thing

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The world is changing, and across the globe, women are stepping up into positions of influence in some of the biggest corporate organisations, while others are taking the bold, entrepreneurial...
Gather and Grill

Gather and Grill

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Foreword by Steve Doocy Turn up the heat and crack open a cold one with this smokin' hot, flavor-packed cookbook from Fox News' favorite father-son duo, packed with more than...
Legends and Soles: Business, Creativity and Basketball - A Memoir of

Legends and Soles: Business, Creativity and Basketball - A Memoir of

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The brilliant autobiography from the 'saviour of Nike' If you're a sneaker head, you know him as the Savior of Nike. If you've watched Air you saw Matt Damon's portrayal...
The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place

The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place

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From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers. In the style of her memoir Girl...
If Matthew Flinders Had Wings

If Matthew Flinders Had Wings

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In a journey that took five years to complete, property magnate Richard Buxton circumnavigated Australia by air and sea in an effort to raise public awareness and funds for research...
Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale

Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale

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After a brief and undignified stint as a war correspondent, Chris Ayres is exiled by his newspaper to Hollywood, where he lives in a building called The Leisureplex and sends...
For The Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food:

For The Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food:

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A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today's food and hospitality landscape-from farm to table and beyond-chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom,...
The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller

The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City. 'The...
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

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"A magnificent new life . . .[and]a superb adventure story. . . . There have been many biographies of Stanley, but Jeal's is the most felicitous, the best informed, the...
Say Everything: A Memoir

Say Everything: A Memoir

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Gen X icon Ione Skye bares all in an achingly vulnerable coming-of-age memoir about chasing fame, desire, and true love in the shadow of her famous, absent father. "Yep, Ione...
The Sunday Times Investigates: Reporting That Made History

The Sunday Times Investigates: Reporting That Made History

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A must-have gift for anyone interested in investigative journalism. The Sunday Times Insight team is famous for its investigative journalism. This book profiles the major stories - often a result...
Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong

Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong

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Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize 'Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening' Sunday Times A book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit,...
Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign

Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign

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A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. For three years, from 2007 until 2010, Sherard...
Rhino

Rhino

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Fourteen years ago, an English woman named Anna Merz decided to try to do something to stop the massacre of the black rhino and this book tells her story. Having...
Becoming an English Country Squire

Becoming an English Country Squire

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The true story of how one man acquired and managed an English country estate, and lived to tell the tale-complete with illustrations by Annie Tempest, and perfect for all Downton...
Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope

Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope

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'A searingly honest and impassioned account of being an advocate in the social media era, Alyssa's voice is fierce, urgent and brave; and filled with deep familial love. This book...
Stages of the Revolution

Stages of the Revolution

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Most Australians owe what they know of the Eureka Stockade to Raffaello Carboni, the Italian chronicler of the uprising. Yet they know little about Carboni himself. Variously described as 'quaint'...
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the

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Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of...
Lucky Johnny: The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps

Lucky Johnny: The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps

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In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he...
Call Me Vivian: A True Love Story

Call Me Vivian: A True Love Story

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A true story about a woman caught in adultery. This book exposes the truth about Scheller's struggle with sexual sin, the battle for her heart, and the transforming power of...
La Prisonniere

La Prisonniere

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Malika Oufkir has been a prisoner for virtually her whole life. Born to a proud family in 1953, daughter of the King of Morocco's aide, Malika was adopted by Mohammed...
red helicopter-a parable for our times: lead change with kindness

red helicopter-a parable for our times: lead change with kindness

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A true story of triumph by award-winning business leader, impact investor, and educator James Rhee that will inspire and empower us to transform our lives and our businesses with the...
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and

Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and

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" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America." " - Publishers Weekly "[These contributions] touch on so many different...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the...
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

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The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter's moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth...
The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

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Written in spare, elegant prose, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. is the autobiography of a well-known Parisian art critic who likes to spend nights in the singles clubs of...
A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of my Mother's Dementia

A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of my Mother's Dementia

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Combining personal and professional experience, A Silent Tsunami is a moving exploration of the development of Dementia and its impacts on a mother-daughter relationship. A Silent Tsunami is a unique...
Scared Weird Frozen Guy

Scared Weird Frozen Guy

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Twins in the Family

Twins in the Family

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Do You Hear What I Hear?: Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My

Do You Hear What I Hear?: Religious Calling, the Priesthood, and My

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When Minna Proctor's father, a university professor and musicologist, tells her he has decided to pursue the priesthood, all she can say is, "oh." Having grown up the child of...
Heretic: A Memoir

Heretic: A Memoir

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A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community. Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a...
When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable

When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable

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"Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn't miss this for the world."-Leslie Jones When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode...
'What's Wrong With Me?': From Unravelling to Reinvention: A Midlife

'What's Wrong With Me?': From Unravelling to Reinvention: A Midlife

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'This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife' Davina McCall, author of Menopausing From the bestselling author of 'Mum, What's...
Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the spectre of polio

Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the spectre of polio

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Acrossmost of the world, an entire generation has lived free from the spectre ofpolio, but for fifty years during the twentieth century that fear wasoverwhelming. Dancing in My Dreams investigatesthe...
The Prison Book Club

The Prison Book Club

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Ten years ago Ann Walmsley was mugged outside her house in Hampstead. She suffered PTSD and for a long time afterwards was afraid to walk down the street alone. A...
The Man Who Returned From The Dead

The Man Who Returned From The Dead

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Hugh Glass was left to die. Attacked Whilst hunting in the fur-rich, Native American-held territory of the Upper Missouri River, Hugh Glass was attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear....
Punished: A mother's cruelty. A daughter's survival. A secret that

Punished: A mother's cruelty. A daughter's survival. A secret that

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The inspiring true story of Vanessa Steel, whose childhood was overshadowed by a terrible secret. Plagued by torture and abuse by both her mother and grandfather, little Vanessa was nearly...
What I Would Do If I Were You

What I Would Do If I Were You

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Re-issued with new jacket to coincide with the publication of Mandy's new title, BOYFRIENDS. Welcome to the wonderful, slightly-wacky world of Mandy Nolan. She is a stand-up comedian, an artist...
#OP No Way to Behave at a Funeral: A Tale of Personal Loss through

#OP No Way to Behave at a Funeral: A Tale of Personal Loss through

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This is the story of Noel who lost Maris, his beloved wife of 42 years, to suicide following years of struggling with depression. The abrupt ending of a life by...
Is it Just Me?: Confessions of an Over-sharer

Is it Just Me?: Confessions of an Over-sharer

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"You know what I want? I want to be able to have fun wherever I am. I want to laugh. All. The. Time. I want to have one holiday every...
A Chorus of Cockerels: Walking on the Wild Side in Mallorca

A Chorus of Cockerels: Walking on the Wild Side in Mallorca

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A merger in Anna's PR agency gives her more time to explore the culture and history of the island that she calls home (along with her 40 hens and cockerels,...
India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

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Mark Perlstrom is no stranger to money laundering, drug smuggling and crooked firms. In the early 1980s he started working for HM Customs and was quickly thrown in the deep...
Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood and Asperger's

Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood and Asperger's

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Me: 'Are you going to be a good boy this year?'Boomer: 'Uh huh. I have no interest in toilet humour.'Me: 'You don't?'Boomer: 'No. No interest at all. I mean, I...