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Aimed at high school students and general readers, this accessibly written volume describes the life and times of Mark Twain. Supplemental materials include a chronology, Clemens family tree, selected quotations, and listings of important places and holdings in Mark Twain studies.

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A devastating first-hand testimony exposing the cruel and widespread practice of forced marriage.

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This intriguing biography provides a balanced portrait of Martha Stewart's professional and personal life, from her childhood as the oldest daughter in a family of six children to her brief career as a securities trader, to becoming a bestselling author in the 1980s and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in the 1990s.

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In her superb new biography, Brady draws on a vast array of primary sources to reconstruct the daily texture of the Washingtons' marriage as well as the nuances of Martha's character.

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The first biography of one of contemporary British literature's most gifted and controversial authors.

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Martin O'Neill is one of the most brilliant, successful and intriguing of the new manager/coaches to emerge from British football. This biography provides an account of his first few months in charge at Aston Villa and deals with various aspects of his life and remarkable career from the early days as a player in Northern Ireland onwards.

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Traces filmmaker Martin Scorsese's Italian-American heritage, his strict Catholic upbringing, the continuing role of religion in his life and art. This biography chronicles his private relationships, his stormy marriages, and his battles with drugs and depression.

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A autobiography sports book about my soccer career and life at Luton town Football club in England, United Kingdom.

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This incisive exploration probes the relationship between the novels of bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and the key events and influences of her life.

In her 2002 memoir, Kitchen Privileges, Mary Higgins Clark shared the details of her life with her readers, but she offered little significant reflection on those details.

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A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity which explores two thousand years of history, art, and literature to provide a close-up look at Mary Magdalene and her significance in religious and cultural thought.

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The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent 'doctress' combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical techniques. This biography of a Victorian celebrity, voted the greatest black Briton in history, brings Mary Seacole centre stage.

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Tracking the development of a collection from concept to catwalk, onto the front pages of Vogue and then to the high street, it reveals the shocking mark-ups, the fabulous extremes and the shoddy shortcuts which the fashion industry would rather you didn't know about...

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'She should never have kept the business going after her husband died. Running a betting shop is no job for a woman. Especially when she's got bad legs.' After a short stay at hospital herself, Evelyn Prentis wondered what was in store for her when she returned to work.

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The only biography of Thorez available in English.

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'Max knows more secrets of the rich and famous than anyone in the world'
Piers Morgan

Max Clifford is the media guru everyone calls when they want to know about a celebrity story or a celebrity's relationship with the media. What is less known is the other side to Max: the stories he keeps out of the papers;

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Max Perutz himself explored the protein haemoglobin and his work, which won him a shared Nobel Prize in 1962, launched a new era of medicine, heralding today's astonishing advances in the genetic basis of disease.

Max Perutz's story, wonderfully told by Georgina Ferry, brims with life;

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This book provides an informal biography of the wunderkind who became one of America's greatest living artists and most well-known architects.

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Vic Reeves' vivid, enchanting, and utterly hilarious childhood memoir is a comic masterpiece.

Before there was Vic Reeves, there was a boy called James Moir who was much the same as any other lad.Obsessed with owning a pet crow, a master at writing his name and terrified of his father's immense moustache.

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