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By: Glynis Ridley
ISBN: 9780732292850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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In 1765, eminent botanist Philibert Commerson was appointed official naturalist to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. Jeanne Baret - Commerson's young mistress and collaborator - disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. Ridley brings to life Jeanne Baret and her pioneering journey.
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By: Gideon Ariel
ISBN: 9781543917680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Gideon Ariel
ISBN: 9781543908558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Reyna Grande
ISBN: 9781451661781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Jon Katz
ISBN: 9780091932275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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As Izzy settles down to life on Bedlam Farm, Jon is amazed that all signs of the troubled rescue dog who first arrived have disappeared.
The Dog who Loved is a moving and inspiring story of love, compassion, and the incredibly rich and complex relationships between dogs and humans.
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By: Cathy Rogers
ISBN: 9780007346837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A deliciously different travelogue
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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9780375719011
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2007
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Marina Warner
ISBN: 9780099165910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1993
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty.
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By: James Knight
ISBN: 9780732279240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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The compelling life story of Duy Long Nguyen, a boy who eventually came to realise his mother's dreams. Born in Vietnam, fate saw him eventually arrive in Australia. He found work as a bodyguard and was soon straddling both sides of the law. Turning his back on violence, he realised he had a special gift - the gift to heal.
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By: Aurora Zacarias
ISBN: 9781543960679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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The book involves one woman's journey through the spiritual world and with supernatural phenomenon. The book chronicles approximately five decades of the experiences Aurora had with the spiritual, supernatural, the occult and other natural and other worldly experiences.
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By: Harry Bernstein
ISBN: 9780099517863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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On a narrow cobbled street in a northern mill town young Harry Bernstein and his family face a daily struggle to make ends meet.
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By: Kate Llewellyn
ISBN: 9780732286842
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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This candid account traces Llewellyn's life from her earliest days through to her nursing training, her marriage, life in Bohemian Adelaide in the 60s and 70s, and the beginning of her life as a writer.
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By: Alexander Roy
ISBN: 9780091924904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2009
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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A memoir of the author that shows you his highly modified BMW M5 car, takes you on a terrifying 120 mph lap of Manhattan, and tackles the Gumball 3000 and the Bullrun - the two most infamous road rallies in the world. It is filled with insane driving and the author's quest to win both for his late father and himself.
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By: Michael Partridge
ISBN: 9780313280757
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A bibliography of works by and about the Duke of Wellington, this book lists manuscript and archival resources, newspaper articles, pamphlets, both published and unpublished books and iconography relating to the Duke's life and career.
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By: Brian Masters
ISBN: 9780712667241
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: Vintage
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The origins of the non-royal dukes in the British peerage divide nicely into Tudor looters, Royal bastards, opportunist generals, territorial, metropolitan or Scottish magnates.
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By: Peter QC. Williams
ISBN: 9781775540915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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By: Vita Sackville-West
ISBN: 9781784873523
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The two saints whose lives Vita Sackville-West contrasts in this double biography were recorded by very different epithets: 'the great' and 'the little'.
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By: Philip Mansel
ISBN: 9780755645831
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Hunter Davies
ISBN: 9780007116324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A rags-to-riches tale of British entrepreneurialsim.
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By: David Halberstam
ISBN: 9781401308797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Hyperion
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Now with an introduction by David Maraniss (New York Times bestselling author of When Pride Still Mattered), Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam's bestseller takes you inside the football genius of Bill Belichick for an insightful profile in leadership.
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By: Henry Adams
ISBN: 9780679640103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1999
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Thomas Fisher
ISBN: 9780593230695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Lisa Balabanlilar
ISBN: 9780755640553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Margaret S. Chrisawn
ISBN: 9780313310621
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An examination of the life of Marshal Jean Lannes, this study looks at the career of the only soldier of any rank who consistently said exactly what he thought to Napoleon at every stage of their amazing careers.
