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Leigh Hunt is the forgotten giant of English Romanticism. The man Virginia Woolf called the 'spiritual grandfather' of the modern world was descended from black Caribbeans and grew up a child of the American and French revolutions. Hunt's own poetry glows with the sexual frankness that characterised all his relationships, male and female.

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Jan Ruff O'Herne's idyllic childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended when the Japanese invaded Java in 1942. In February 1944, when Jan was just twenty-one years old, she was taken from the camp and forced into sexual slavery in a military brothel. This title tells about what she had suffered.

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Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing up in the Sixties and the Cold War details author and Professor Mary Lawlor's unconventional upbringing in Cold War America. A personal narrative braided with scholarly, retrospective reflections as to what that narrative means, Fighter Pilot'...

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Based on Sheeler's Pulitzer Prize-winning story, "Final Salute" is a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to the families who continue to mourn them.

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The author discusses growing up without a mother, her career, and her children while recounting how her interaction with a young rape victim who called a nonprofit adoption agency seeking help changed her perception of herself.

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Traces the life of the early twentieth-century adventurer, writer, and watercolor artist, describing his early years as a child prodigy, his solitary journeys through the American Southwest, and his mysterious 1934 disappearance in Navajo country.

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The inspiring and uplifting story of one man's meteoric rise from the cobbler's shop to the concert hall.

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Presents an account of the first 27 years of a astonishing trajectory in a life made difficult by depression, but sustained throughout by a love of books and learning. This book depicts the formative years of a man nourished by lifelong learning, whose rise from humble beginnings to heights of achievement serves as a model for generations to come.

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John Peard is a rugby league legend. But John's memoir is more than football yarns. In 2002, at only 57 he suffered a massive stroke Doctors did not expect him to live and his family prepared for the worst. Fine, thanks mate is an unforgettable story of survival.

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Tells the story of a ten-year-old in top hat, cane and a red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's 'Get Happy' by an alarmed mother at the bedroom door exclaiming, in shame and exasperation: 'Son, you're a boy'.

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The book contains a number of studies focused on the post-war correspondence between noted exiles from Hitlers Germany and colleagues and friends who remained in Germany. These materials provide unique insights into the reshaping of relations among the correspondents, which figure decisively in decisions of exiles on questions of return.

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The book offers five interlinked portraits of Irish women artists and political figures: Edna OBrien, Sinad OConnor, Nuala OFaolain, Bernadette McAliskey and Anne Enright.

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The first major biography of one of the greatest writers of the South, whose books will 'live on and on in American literature' (Elizabeth Bishop).

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The band that drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie started in 1967 has gone through more personnel changes and stylistic innovations than any other pop group in history. This book chronicles the origins, the songs, and the ever-changing personal dynamics of one of the most popular bands.

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Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous figures in modern history. Based on her writing, this book reports what she said and did. Published to commemorate the centenary of Nightingale's death, it offers a scholarly view of Florence Nightingale's extraordinary life and career that gets to the heart of her range of interests and achievements.

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Buckley's first political book in nearly two decades is a revealing memoir ofthe first champion of the conservative movement--Barry Goldwater.

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