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An Italian psychoanalyst and raconteur reflects on life and the common experiences that make us human. These ten essays tell stories from his life, from encounters with a Giant Caucasian Sheepdog and a martial arts master to a journey through a remote Italian village, and draws out the meaning of these experiences for himself and his readers.

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Lilla Eckford, interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the second world war after an extraordinary early life, passed her time by compiling a book about the joys of food. This cookery book blends together personal history, world events, period atmosphere and family anecdotes into a poignant story.

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Manette Ansay ("Ann") grew up in a small town, not unlike the one she immortalised in "Vinegar Hill". Her passion was the piano, which she practised for hours each day. This is the story of how ill health forced her to abandon her musical career and how she built a new life as a writer.

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The final part of Helen Forrester's autobiography continues the story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool.

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"Occasionally a book that begins as a work of scholarship becomes a great and profoundly moving human document. This life of Lincoln's friend, law partner and biographer is such a book. It has a two-fo"

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A major movie, starring Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and directed by Steven Spielberg, offers the biggest platform yet for the bestselling series of books with Participant Media, which have included Food Inc and Waiting for Superman.

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A comprehensive insightful read for anyone interested in British culture during the sixties and seventies. The volume includes the diaries of the revolutionary British film and theatre director who became one of the major cultural figures of his time. It has a preface by Malcolm McDowell.

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"One of the few unquestioned greats of twentieth-century science, Linus Pauling was the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes--one in chemistry, for deciphering the quantum physics of large m"

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A compelling new biography of Patrick Henry, a monumental figure in American history, hailed in his time as the first of the nation's Founding Fathers

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The long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling The Liars Club and Cherry a memoir about a self-professed blackbelt sinners descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection.

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little cloud is a book about a little boy growing up on a reservation in South Dakota. it tells of many adversities he had to go through and how he had learned to lean on his faith and love of his culture to find his joy.

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In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds of miles from their mother, news of the approaching army left them confronted with an impossible choice: to face invasion, or to flee on foot. This work presents a true story of surviving the unimaginable.

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A powerful story about family and adoption, and the tensions and joys between the old world of Europe and the new world of Australia.

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After "Tutti Frutti," Little Richard began garnering fans from both sides of the civil rights divide. He brought black and white youngsters together on the dance floor and even helped to transform race relations. This book presents a study of Little Richard, one of the great rock'n'roll pioneers.

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The comical 'autobiography' of a young girl growing up in the Australian suburbs in the sixties and seventies.

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These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; Little Wilson and Big God moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling Burgess's time as an education officer in the tropics, his tempestuous first marriage, his struggles with Catholicism and the beginning of his prolific writing life.

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Little yellow lies is a gripping story about life and the choices that define it. At the end of the day, do you fight for what you believe in Or will the pressure make you fold and abandon your values

In this story, these are the choices that Mike had to face growing up in Brooklyn.

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The inside story of the real Bon Scott, told by three of the people who knew him best.

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The second volume of Helen Forrester's four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression.

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From one of America's first woman governors: a rare and important exploration of power and personal integrity in the crystallization of one woman's identity, which also serves as an individual history of women gaining access to political leadership in our time.

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This memoir of a victim of Alzheimer's disease reveals the horror of trying to live with the disease's debilitations and offers hope for sufferers and their families, describing how she found the strength to continue her life.

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A Life of W. H. Hudson: Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate

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Explores Harold Mitchell's remarkable personal journey from son of a sawmiller to the owner of a $100 million business, rubbing shoulders with Australia's most powerful people. This title traces Mitchell's philosophies about business and life, and presents guidance for young business executives trying to make it in the corporate jungle.