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Born Survivors: The Incredible True Story Of Three Pregnant Mothers And Their Courage Determination

Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

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Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...
A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

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Author: Chrissie Wellington Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Chrissie Wellington is the world's No 1 female Ironman triathlete, a four times World Champion, having recently won the...
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family

Wellington: A Journey Through My Family

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Author: Lady Jane Wellesley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Reissued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The first Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

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Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A Sunday Times top-five bestseller 'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . ....
The Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner

The Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner

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Author: Vicki Laveau-Harvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly compressed energy of an explosive...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

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Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on...
The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light

The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light

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Author: Carlos Santana Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of...
Another Bloody Love Letter

Another Bloody Love Letter

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Author: Anthony Loyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. ANOTHER BLOODY LOVE LETTER exposes...
David Bowie: Starman

David Bowie: Starman

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Author: Paul Trynka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 "Ziggy Stardust," "Changes," Under Pressure," "Let's Dance," "Fame," "Heroes," and of course, "Starman." These are the classic songs of David Bowie,...
George Michael: The Life 1963-2016

George Michael: The Life 1963-2016

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Author: Emily Herbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 As the man whose voice and style came to define pop music in the eighties and beyond, George Michael...
The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

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Author: Rhyannon Styles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop...
Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story

Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story

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Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary...
Stay Golden

Stay Golden

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Author: Lucky Blue Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 While most kids my age were sitting in English class waiting for the bell to ring, I was...
Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering

Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering

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Author: Kevin Cummins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'One of the greatest music photographers of all time...this book is indispensable to anyone who is a fan of Morrissey, or...
You Can Run But You Can't Hide: Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter

You Can Run But You Can't Hide: Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter

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Author: Duane Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Duane 'Dog' Chapman entertains and inspires millions on DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER, his top-rated TV show, but there is...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

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Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
Open Book

Open Book

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Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles....
Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

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Author: Chris Christie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 After dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, Chris Christie stunned the political world by becoming the first major...
Eichmann before Jerusalem The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

Eichmann before Jerusalem The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

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Author: Bettina Stangneth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed...
Song of the Sea

Song of the Sea

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Author: Jane Dolby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous peacetime occupation that exists - leading her...
Bruce

Bruce

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Author: Peter Ames CarlinFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 496  Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the...
The Last Leonardo The Secret Lives of the Worlds Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo The Secret Lives of the Worlds Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In...
Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly...
Who am I

Who am I

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Author: Lenny Henry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With...
Ben Jonson: A Life

Ben Jonson: A Life

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Author: Ian Donaldson (Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 562 Ben Jonson was the greatest of...
The Intellectual Devotional Biographies

The Intellectual Devotional Biographies

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Author: DAVID S. KIDDER Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The fifth installment of this best-selling series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities in history Like its...
Her Again Becoming Meryl Streep

Her Again Becoming Meryl Streep

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Author: Michael Schulman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming-of-age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the...
617 Going to War with Todays Dambusters

617 Going to War with Todays Dambusters

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Author: Tim Bouquet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The inside story of today's Dambusters, 617 Squadron RAF, at war in Afghanistan. In May 1943, 617 Squadron RAF...
A Reluctant Memoir

A Reluctant Memoir

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Author: Robert Ballagh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 An honest and unvarnished memoir from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's...
Respect The Life of Aretha Franklin

Respect The Life of Aretha Franklin

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Author: David Ritz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother,...
Guilty Thing A Life of Thomas de Quincey

Guilty Thing A Life of Thomas de Quincey

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Author: Frances Wilson (Chester University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist...