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Conroy and Walshe tell the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of Sarah Palin's 2008 vice-presidential campaign, which proved to be as dysfunctional as it was secretive. "Sarah from Alaska" offers a clear-eyed look at a pivotal campaign in a historic election.

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"Best known for her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) is a writer with enormous resonance for our time. Our fascination with place, with traditional values, an"

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This objective, well-researched biography tells the story of the woman whose meteoric rise to the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidacy made history.

Sarah Palin: A Biography offers a candid yet unbiased look at the charismatic politician who became the first female nominee on a Republican national presidential ticket.

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Robbie Savage could have been just another Manchester United reject. Instead, he used the Old Trafford scrapheap as a springboard to become one of the most instantly recognisable footballers in the Premier League. This title provides insight into the extraordinary life of this elite sportsman, a colourful character and loving family man.

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A true story of a gal with big-city aspirations, but an empty wallet. It chronicles her glamorous rise, her embarrassing fall and her determination to crawl out from under her debt.

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A powerful and telling account of a mother's ongoing battle to help her daughter Jessie recover from heroin addiction, which affects more than 100,000 Australians. The story is not just about Jessie's addiction but the affect it has had on her family and friends - how they dealt with it, and what they have learned from the experience.

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Four neglected siblings were taken into care following the breakdown of their parents' marriage. Sent to a small croft in north-east of Scotland, they endured an onslaught of physical and mental abuse at the hands of an elderly foster mother. For ten years the children's cries for help were ignored in the naive social-work climate of late 1950s.

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When a man called Joe contacts her, prepared to pay 150 for an hour-long meeting, she nervously agrees to his request.

Joe will be the first of many clients - men of all ages with urgent needs.

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Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over.

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In 1982 the Griffiths left the security of suburbia to grow garlic in West Wales. This is a funny and sometimes touching, warts-and-all account of their first three years: of how they learned lambing and marketing and ploughing and hay-making: and of the dung-sodden joys of milking and the surreal terrors of bee-keeping. Be amused.

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This collection includes portraits by Edward Weston, George Gershwin, and Schoenberg himself, plus candid camera photographs by Otto Rothschild and two ink drawings by Carlos Dyer.

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We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking research, this collection offers new perspectives on this seminal nineteenth-century figure. In Part

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Michael Parkinson: 'What was the nearest to kick-off that you made love to a woman'George Best: 'Er- I think it was half-time actually'George Best was the first celebrity footballer and to many the greatest British player ever.

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Presents a journey of maturation and self-discovery, as the author mingles myths and traditions with tales of Scotland. The author involves the readers as he shoots the breeze with ghosts in a pub, bedazzles friends with druid magic or hunts for gold in the mountains. This is a sequel to "A Celtic Childhood".

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David Crane has given us a magisterial portrait of one of Britains greatest heroes and explorers, acclaimed as the masterpiece on the subject. Reissued for the 100th anniversary of Scotts doomed expedition.