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On Board RMS Titanic
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Join Alice Taylor this Christmas as she welcomes us into her home and shows us the traditions of her family's Christmas. Alice looks back over her past Christmases and prepares for this Christmas.
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Women of Intelligence
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Sarah Millican's autobiography will make you laugh, feel normal and probably sniff your leggings.
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The classic film Get Carter was based on a book called Jack's Return Home, and many commentators agree contemporary British crime writing began with that novel. The influence of both book and film is strong to this day, reflected in the work of David Peace, Jake Arnott, Russell Lewis and the likes. But what of the man who wrote this seminal foundation work? Ted Lewis is one of the...
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Legendary music icon writes tell-all book 'Show business as we know it is very unpredictable. For a few years I was the talk of the town. It was getting hard to even go shopping without being mobbed by fans.' - Marah Louw With a career spanning over 40 years, Marah Louw is counted among South Africa's musical and entertainment industry royalty and has a powerful and memorable story to tell. This...
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The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural revolution as the most tangible symbol of the Sixties' psychedelic dream of peace, love and playful rebellion. In the midst of this epochal change was Leslie Cavendish, hairdresser to the Beatles and some of the greatest stars of the music and... |
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Dear Ms Expat is a collection of 10 real-life stories from women who have made tropical Singapore their home. They each left their comfort zone in search of adventure, following a partner or in pursuit of a bright new career for themselves.
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Dark, deviant, and deliriously funny, Jude Angelini writes in the colloquial vein of Charles Bukowski, using his unique, natural voice to tell stories from his life. He writes about his sexual encounters--both strange and intimate--alongside stories from his childhood and his tell-all experiences with "science drugs." Throughout it all, Jude is critical of himself and his actions, proving himself...
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Lily Larsen is given no choice but to leave her beloved home in Cades Cove, Tennessee. She's sent to St. Louis to live with her uppity aunt, who's determined to turn Lily into a proper young woman. Brokenhearted, Lily succumbs to her aunt and uncle's odd ways, though she can't understand why her estranged relatives suddenly care about her. She's schooled in etiquette and groomed for the purpose...
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Funfzehn Jahre jung und einen Hirntumor, aus dem Nichts heraus. Oder doch nicht so ganz, in einer Zeit allgegenwartiger Umweltgifte, nicht zuletzt Quecksilber? Niemand kennt sie oder will sie kennen. Stattdessen Therapien nach allen Regeln der medizinischen Kunst. Perfekt, auch wenn vom eigentlichen Menschen kaum noch etwas ubrig bleibt dabei. Und hinter allem die bange Frage: Worauf lauft es...
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In this frank, unflinching, hilarious and--at times--heartbreaking memoir, Terra Jole, beloved star of reality television's Little Women: LA and Terra's Little Family, shares her never-before-told story of what it takes to overcome small-mindedness and make it as a little person in Hollywood. With little more than a dream in her heart, the passion in her soul, and two...
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s. During the same years I learnt elementary geometry and algebra thoroughly, the differential calculus, and other portions of the higher mathematics far from thoroughly: for my father, not having kept up this part of his early acquired knowledge, could not spare time to qualify himself for removing my difficulties, and left me to deal with them, with little other aid than that of books: while I...
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California, with its scores of native languages, contains a wealth of old time stories--a bedrock literature of North America. Jaime de Angulo's linguistic and ethnographic work, his writings, as well as the legends that cloak the Old Coyote himself, vividly reflect the particulars of the Pacific coast. Born in Paris of Spanish descent, he came to America to become a cowboy, and he did--as well...
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Official companion to the Ken Burns film premiering September 20, 2016, on PBS tells the little-known story of the Sharps, an otherwise ordinary couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to undertake dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving the lives of countless refugees, political dissidents, and Jews on the eve of World War II.
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Ceylon, Pearl of the East, a teardrop shaped island lying in the India Ocean, now called Sri Lanka, is the setting for this memoir. Jawatta Road, close to Cinammon Gardens, is in an exclusive area of Columbo, where houses built by wealthy Singhalese accommodated Embassies and the foreign community.
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