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By: Vincent LoBrutto

ISBN: 9780313357763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This incisive book provides an in-depth critical and biographical study of the artistic range of film director Gus Van Sant.

Arranged chronologically, Gus Van Sant: His Own Private Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of the life and art of this talented director, covering his mainstream, commercial, and avant-garde projects.


(Paperback)

By: Gabriele Marcotti

ISBN: 9780224100687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A player for fifteen years. A manager for thirty. Leicester City's victory was more than just a 'miracle'. It was Claudio Ranieri. This is the story of the rise and rise of the butcher's son from Rome, whose hard work, passion for the game and ability to learn from his mistakes have earned him the respect of players, fans and owners worldwide.


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By: Laurel Snyder

ISBN: 9781933368245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
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An anthology of personal stories, written by authors who've all shared the experience of being raised in a half-Jewish home. Though each essay is distinct, and the experiences are different, the half-Jewish narrative in each describes the experience of growing up without a streamlined identity, unsure of community or religious direction.


(Paperback)

By: Andrew Masich

ISBN: 9780306814105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Hachette Books
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This is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent, a Halfbreed born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife, whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in America's history.


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By: Vivien Allen

ISBN: 9781850758099
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A biography of a man who was a close friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and later became a popular romantic novelist.


(Hardback)

By: Melissa Ewey Johnson

ISBN: 9780313358340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Charlotte Moore

ISBN: 9780141021751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Hancox is the Tudor hall house in rural Sussex where the author grew up, and where she lives. It's been in the family since her ancestor Milicent Ludlow, young, single and an orphan, took it on in 1891 and began to enlarge the house and manage the farm. This title tells the story of the house and the family.


(Paperback)

By: Jonathan Keates

ISBN: 9781845951153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Though unquestionably one of the greatest and best-loved of all composers, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) had received little attention from biographers. This work charts Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London.


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By: Maria Housden

ISBN: 9780007155675
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Transformative lessons in life learnt through a three-year-old girl's battle with cancer. From Hannah's story emerge five profound lessons - of truth, joy, faith, compassion and wonder - that have the power to change our lives.


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By: Patrick N Hunt

ISBN: 9781439102183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Robert Garland

ISBN: 9781853997259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Few people in history have achieved more yet with such fatal consequences for the cause that they supported than Hannibal. This study explores Hannibal's fascinating but complex personality in the light of his extraordinary military and political career, which made him one of history's greatest survivors.


(Paperback)

By: Jackie Wullschlger

ISBN: 9780140283204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2001
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Desperately sensitive, sexually confused and socially awkward, Hans Christian Andersen found grace and acceptance through the creation of a distinct and beguiling literary world. This biography demonstrates the unity of his troubled life and the soaring achievement of his work.


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By: Leah Furman

ISBN: 9780345483256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The fascinating and inspiring true story of the rise and fall of the celebrated child star who beat drugs--and the odds--to become a successful adult actress. Coincides with Barrymore's feature role in the upcoming film "Charlie's Angels". 8 pages of color photos.


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By: Jane Lynch

ISBN: 9780007447589
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Best-known for her role in Glee, this is the hilarious and inspiring story of how Jane Lynch changed from a real-life Sue Sylvester to the happy and fulfilled actress she is today.


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By: Phil Robertson

ISBN: 9781476726106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Howard Books
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By: Robin Robilliard

ISBN: 9781775536635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Random House New Zealand Ltd
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By: Todd Carney

ISBN: 9781760876036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The raw, honest and utterly compelling autobiography of one of rugby league's most talented yet most notorious players.


(Paperback)

By: Norman Rose

ISBN: 9780712668453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Vintage
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A renowned politician, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster and gardener, his position in society and politics allowed him an insight into the most dramatic events of British, indeed world, history.

Nicolson's personal life was no less dramatic.


(Hardback)

By: James A. McGowan

ISBN: 9780313348815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This concise biography of Harriet Tubman, the African American abolitionist, explores her various roles as an Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War scout and nurse, and women's rights advocate.


(Paperback)

By: JG Daniel

ISBN: 9781483570969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Yukari Iwatani Kane

ISBN: 9780008108175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An insightful, behind-the-scences portrait of the technology giant Apple.


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By: Wendy Gimbel

ISBN: 9780679750703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1999
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Gimbel's sweeping tale of Cuba past and present recounts the stories of four generations of Cuban women, whose lives the author illuminates in a picture both intimate and historical. of photos.


(Paperback)

By: Viviana Carballo

ISBN: 9780743285179
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Atria Books
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By: Carole White

ISBN: 9780099576693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Cornerstone
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There are model agents and there is Carole White ... Every decade in Carole White's life has been extraordinary, from her childhood in Colonial Ghana, her rebellious teenage years and own modelling career, to spending 30 years at the helm of her iconic London agency Premier. This book tells a revealing story of the grande dame of modelling.

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