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A true story about Duane Johnson, a young white student who receives a fellowship to attend an all-black college in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. Read now and experience the culture shock....and later the understanding Duane endures during this time.

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Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of age for invention'. This book demonstrates his perceptions, which changed our world forever.

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A group portrait of the great Broadway choreographer-directors: Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Tonny Tune, Graciela Daniele, and Susan Stroman. The hits generated by two generations of choreographer-directors define the Broadway stage: "Oklahoma!", "On the Town", "West Side Story", and others.

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As a police officer, Alistair Livingstone was dubbed Supercop by the media for making more arrests than any other officer in the UK. But then Ali broke down. Broken Blue Line is the vividly told story of what brought him to that point, and the beginning of his slow, painful recovery.

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Bronte was the Melbourne teenager, whose battle with anorexia captured the hearts of Australians, in a series of stories and documentaries for the Nine Network. Bronte kept diaries from diagnosis to recovery. This book talks about her story.

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Includes David Ritz's moving account of "The Last Days of Brother Ray" and an updated discography

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Until now.

Kept in a small brown case handed down by the brothers' youngest sister, Edie, were hundreds of letters sent home from the front by the Beechey boys: scraps of paper scribbled on in the firing line, heartfelt messages written from a deathbed, exasperated correspondences detailing the absurdities of life in the trenches.

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A life of the Victorian poet.

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The warts and all story of Bryan 'Strauchanie' Strauchan (rhymes with Warne) - an inspirational tale of a rise to fame from humble beginnings, of a sportsman's courage and determination to follow his dreams, and an expose of what really goes on behind the scenes of an AFL club.

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A fascinating and authoritative look at the enduring legacy of a singular philosopher.

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An indispensable historical series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time.

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The story that blew the gates wide open

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A woman of Indian-Jewish ancestry details growing up in Israel and New York City as a member of two distinctly different cultures, describing her awkward adolescence as she learned to combine ancient tradition and modern attitudes.

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A hilarious story of self-belief, hardship and struggle, as Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew sets off from Australia's Gold Coast, surfboard under his arm, to conquer the surfing world. This memoir recalls adventures with surfing's most famous figures.

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Barry Cryer is one of the great comedians of the last 50 years. This is a sparkling series of hilarious and true anecdotes, almost all of which have never been told before!

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The third volume in the story of Helen Forrester's childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s.

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It is his clear-sightedness, his candour, his steely strength of will, the immediacy of his writing, his insolence and cynicism, his love of liberty, his hatred of hypocrisy, his originality, his rational enlightened toughness which attached Byron to the present age as much as to his own.

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With access to Day-Lewis' archives and the recollections of first-hand witnesses, the author traces the link between life and art to reassess the work of a poet lauded in his lifetime but whose literary reputation has latterly become a matter of controversy, with Westminster Abbey refusing him the place in Poets' Corner allotted to Poets Laureate.

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Popular biography of C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), the Oxford academic who wrote THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE