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As the Material Girl, Eva Peron in Evita, and queen of the disco floor, Madonna's transformations and assumed identities keep her fans wanting more. This biography traces Madonna's ambitious journey from a Midwest upbringing as part of a large family to achieving fame on a global scale.

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Moses Maimonides was a great physician, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, and a philosopher whose greatest work attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. The bestselling author of "How We Die" focuses on this greatest of rabbis.

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An intern makes his first cut and is ridiculed by his tutor. An old woman is brought back to life against her will, only for the unexpected to strike a week later. A notorious surgeon is driven crazy by a massive brain tumour. This is compelling memoir recounts Mohamed Khadra's stories from his life as a surgeon.

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An engrossing and evocative quest into Mexico's past, to uncover the story of the legendary Amerindian woman who became translator and concubine to Cortes in the Spanish Conquest.

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The extaordinary life of Sir Thomas Malory, author of the Morte dArthur.

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SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS

'When I came into the Ulster team,' Stephen Ferris says with typical candour, 'we were crap'. It was, however, preferable to his day job of paving driveways, and that day in 2005 saw the start of an incredible journey for Ferris, Ulster and Ireland rugby.

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A giant of American music pays tribute to the vanishing Appalachian culture that gave him his voice.

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'A lot of people know me,' wrote Alan Hillgarth in a letter, 'but I'm very much an enigma to most of them and regarded with suspicion because I don't fit into any category .

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The autobiography of a young black man raised in Harlem. A realistic description of life in the ghetto.

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Explores the power and perseverance of James K Polk, who overcame the political intrigues of both members of his own Democratic party and the Whigs in Washington, DC, as well as the challenges posed by many of his own commanding officers in the field, to lead the nation to victory during the Mexican War.

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' Raymond Mortimer. ' Anthony Powell. ' Angus Wilson. With A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU Marcel Proust achieved a perfect rendering of life in art, of the past created through memory. George Painter's work has brilliantly captured the life of the great writer in a TOUR DE FORCE of scholarly research and literary craft.

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The anthropologist Margaret Mead garnered fame and generated controversy in a full life that spanned most of the 20th century. Mead has special appeal to teens because of her work with and theories on this age group.

Readers will be inspired by Mead's individualism and career in anthropology in its golden age.

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The first volume of John Campbell's biography of Margaret Thatcher was described by Frank Johnson in the Daily Telegraph as 'much the best book yet written about Lady Thatcher'.

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Re-examines the mythology and suggests a complex reality behind the idealized picture accepted by Lady Thatcher's early biographers.

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Margaret Whitlam has been in the public eye for over forty years. As the controversial wife of a prime minister she is a household name and an Australian identity in her own right. In this biography, she reveals the private life behind the public events to which she was both a witness and a participant.

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