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Ups and Downs: Diaries 1972-75

Ups and Downs: Diaries 1972-75

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At the age of 100, Frances Partridge has had a new lease of life and decided she would like to publish another volume of diaries which covers the years 1972-75....
Water Mirror Echo: The Making and Meaning of Bruce Lee

Water Mirror Echo: The Making and Meaning of Bruce Lee

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" Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff...
Inside: Winning. Losing. Starting again.

Inside: Winning. Losing. Starting again.

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'One of the most incredible and moving books that we've read, ever.' The High Performance Podcast Sitting in the prison classroom each morning, reading the pages in my book, listening...
This Happened to Me: A Reckoning

This Happened to Me: A Reckoning

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"Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." - Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author For...
Ankami: Stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories

Ankami: Stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories

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'Be careful what you wish for,' wrote Aesop, 'lest it come true.' Debra Dank had long been desperate to visit the National Archives, to paint a fuller picture of her...
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They

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A memoir from the revolutionary editor credited with bringing social consciousness to the pages of Teen Vogue and an inspiring exploration of what it means to be enough. INSTANT NEW...
Love and Hatred: Troubled Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy

Love and Hatred: Troubled Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy

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A provocative dual biography of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy offers an illuminating anecdotal study of a long and stormy marriage between two remarkable individuals and the impact of their complex...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War

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Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard...
Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood

Not Me: Memoirs of a German Childhood

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Few others have determined our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis,...
Lucky Girl: My Journey from Heartbreak to Healing

Lucky Girl: My Journey from Heartbreak to Healing

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'You can look at my life in two ways. Some people see a nightmare, some see a fairytale. I've just always thought I was lucky...People often ask me how I...
Sky Swimming: Reflections on auto/biography, people and place

Sky Swimming: Reflections on auto/biography, people and place

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'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife-black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the...
Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders

Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders

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Stories of courage and conviction from the environmental frontline With a foreword by Geraldine Brooks. For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who...
Who Brought the Luck to the Lucky Country?: Interviews by Carolyn Ford

Who Brought the Luck to the Lucky Country?: Interviews by Carolyn Ford

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From real property mogul Frank Lowy to recruitment queen Sarina Russa, 'Who Brought the Luck to the Lucky Country?' celebrates the people behind so many of Australia's successful migrant businesses...
Only a Mother Could Love Him: My Story - How I Lived with A.D.D. and

Only a Mother Could Love Him: My Story - How I Lived with A.D.D. and

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Only A Mother Could Love Him tells the story of Benjamin Polis who suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder as an adolecent. His book explains the condition through the eyes of...
Preemptive Love: Pursuing Peace One Heart at a Time

Preemptive Love: Pursuing Peace One Heart at a Time

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A personal account of the Courtney family and the Preemptive Love Coalition, as they help children obtain lifesaving surgeries in Iraq using one simple but powerful tool: a love that...
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

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From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life. Why do we read? What is...
No Words for This

No Words for This

by Ali Mau
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An inspiring, honest and intimate memoir about family, love and rising from the ashes. From the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist like her father. He...
Forgiveness: An Exploration

Forgiveness: An Exploration

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Using real stories, expert opinion, politics, psychology and the author's own insights, Forgiveness explores the messy, complex and gripping subject of forgiveness. 'Cantacuzino's gift for empathy shines through her conversations......
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

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The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner-creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's...
Matchbook: The Diary of a Modern-Day Matchmaker

Matchbook: The Diary of a Modern-Day Matchmaker

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Fans of Sex and the City and Bridget Jones's Diary, and anyone who loves to date vicariously, will fall in love with Matchbook. In this irresistible read, America's hippest Matchmaker...
Cancer is a Bitch: Or, I'd Rather be Having a Midlife Crisis

Cancer is a Bitch: Or, I'd Rather be Having a Midlife Crisis

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This work offers an intimate, brutally honest and often humorous account of the author's brush with breast cancer and its intersection with midlife, motherhood and marriage. Gail Konop Baker was...
Mary Penfold: The true story of the great Australian winemaker, from

Mary Penfold: The true story of the great Australian winemaker, from

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The inspiring story of Mary Penfold, the mother of the Australian wine industry - a self-taught vintner and business genius who emigrated to a frontier settlement and built her family's...
Last Word: On coaching, winning, motivation and inspiration

Last Word: On coaching, winning, motivation and inspiration

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Jack Gibson tells us about his experiences over forty years as a player, coach and mentor. this book features material from his diaries and scrapbooks (which include quotes and opinions...
Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus

Mermaid Singing & Peel Me A Lotus

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These two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the bohemian life that she and her husband, writer George Johnston, and their family, led in Greece in the 1950's are...
The Republic of Imagination

The Republic of Imagination

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From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified...
Troublemaker: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties

Troublemaker: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties

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The political memoir as rousing adventure story--a sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of every important struggle of the era. April 1973: snow falls thick and fast...
If Only They Could Talk

If Only They Could Talk

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When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie...
Call the Midlife

Call the Midlife

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During his run into turning fifty, Chris Evans is on a mission. To take stock of where he is and where he's at in order to figure out how best...
Sachin: Cricketer Of The Century

Sachin: Cricketer Of The Century

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Sachin Tendulkar is a virtuoso when it comes to the game of cricket who does not need an introduction or a marketing strategy. Sachin Cricketer of The Century is the...
Mr Nice & Mrs Marks: - Adventures with Howard

Mr Nice & Mrs Marks: - Adventures with Howard

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The 'Bonnie & Clyde' adventures of the world's most notorious dope smugglers - now in mass market paperback 'I have long wanted to write a book about my life and...
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female,

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female,

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Roots' 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018 "A writer to be reckoned with." -Roxane Gay Named one of the Most Anticipated...
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

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Combining wit and journalistic detail, "Emergency" follows Strauss' search for an escape plan from the seemingly ever-more unstable United States and world, eventually obtaining a second citizenship in a small...
Docile: Memoir of a Not So Perfect Asian Girl

Docile: Memoir of a Not So Perfect Asian Girl

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From Texas sugar cane fields, Ivy League halls to her homeland of South Korea and back again this memoir is a journey through identity crises, mental health struggles, and the...
For the Record

For the Record

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'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

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A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
The Upside of Down: A Memoir

The Upside of Down: A Memoir

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Susan Biggar fell in love with a New Zealander. Maybe as an American, she saw Darryl as a ticket to an exhilarating, global life. When her first son arrived, he...
Polanski

Polanski

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Fifty years ago, a young director named Roman Polanski made his first complete film a two-minute student exercise which he called Murder. In the half-century since, Polanski has become an...
Hostage: The unflinching first memoir by an Israeli hostage

Hostage: The unflinching first memoir by an Israeli hostage

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On October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Be'eri, shattering the peaceful life Eli Sharabi had built with his British wife, Lianne, and their teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel. Dragged...