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A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.

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A true story of a woman with a "head for business and a bod for sin," Indecent chronicles the real work and emotion behind the carnal adult sex industry

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The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the 20th-century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)

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Miguel Indurain is Spain's greatest cyclist of all time and one of the best Tour racers in history. He is the only bike rider to have won five successive Tours de France, as well as holding the title for the youngest ever race leader in the Tour of Spain. This is his story.

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Influencing Hemingway documents the places, people, and activities that influenced and intrigued Ernest Hemingway. Arranged chronologically and punctuated with photographs, the book traces Hemingway's encounters and reflects upon how they impacted one another and influenced his decisions, actions, and philosophy of life--and of course, his novels, short stories, and nonfiction works.

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Influencing Hemingway documents the places, people, and activities that influenced and intrigued the literary great. Arranged chronologically and punctuated with photographs, this book traces Hemingways encounters and reflects on how they impacted and influenced his decisions, actions, philosophy of life, and, of course, his works.

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A sprawling portrait of India at the crossroads, this title is an intensely personal story about coming to terms with a dazzlingly different culture, as the author's fate is entwined with a cosmopolitan Hindu family of Old Delhi, and a guru who might just change his life.

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The first collection of writings about Tom Waits-spanning the artist's thirty-year career in music, film, and theatre-and featuring the most revealing, bizarre, provocative, and hilarious interviews, profiles, reviews, and conversations with the world's favourite bohemian bandleader

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This book contains the story of the Evolution of the Steelband from 1936 to present. The second part of the narrative is dedicated to Anthony Williams leader, pan builder, tuner, arranger and composer of the Legendary Pan Am North Stars of St. James, Trinidad, West Indies.

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Written together with friend and journalist Boyd Hilton, Inside Little Britain follows a year in the lives of Matt Lucas and David Walliams - the good, the bad, the mundane and the monumental.

Leading cultural historian Christopher Frayling reflects on gothic themes in literature, art and popular culture, through correspondence with Angela Carter.

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Edwin Land built a tiny basement enterprise into an "invention factory", turning out not only polarizers and the first instant cameras, but also high-speed and x-ray film, 3D and instant movies, and military devices for night vision and aerial reconnaissance. This is his biography.

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Originally published in paperback in the United States by The New American Library, Inc., New York, in 1968. Published in hardcover in the United States with a new foreword by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2006.

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The private lives of a broad section of Russians who lived during Stalin's purge are revealed in this book. The nine diaries here capture the day-to-day thoughts of these people, and represent a vast selection of opinions, from those oblivious to the terror and those deeply affected by it.

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Custers Last Stand remains iconic in American history. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighorn, the victory may have been one among many, while in defeat, he became legend. In Inventing Custer, Caudill and Ashdown bridge the gap between the true Custer and the one immortalized into legend in our generally accepted reading of American history.