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One family's quest to bring a farm back to life in the mountains of West Virginia. Abandoned for 50 years, the Old Barlow Place had returned to the wild.

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A charming, nostalgic memoir about a bygone way of life, growing up in the Essex countryside during the early part of the last century.

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From the author of Britons, the story of the exceptional life of the intrepid Elizabeth Marsh an extraordinary woman of her time who was caught up in trade, imperialism, war, exploration, migration, growing maritime reach, and new ideas. Linda Colley's new book breaks the boundaries between biography, family stories and global history.

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The extraordinary story of Annette Kellerman, who started swimming to overcome a childhood illness and went on to become an international swimming sensation and a Hollywood star. The original Million Dollar Mermaid, she is one of the great unsung Australian heroines.

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"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature." When Joe Orton (1933--1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as"

This fascinating and compellingly told mystery about the disappearance of the adventuring Simon Holmes a Court, younger brother of Robert, goes into the heart of big game Africa.

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A new edition--now with a new Afterword--of the honest and hilarious recovery memoir by the famously neurotic comedian and regular guest star of the hit show Curb Your Enthusiasm

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This book shows how the power of God can be used in many different ways. For instance in this book the toll God used to save my life was MUSIC!!!!!

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The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth.

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The author does not come from the leafy suburbs of south Dublin or the rugby hotbeds of Limerick or Cork. As a teenager he played Gaelic football for Kildare minors. But his greatest love, and his true genius, was for rugby. In this title, the author tells his story.

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Follows the experiences of the authors, three friends who grew up in impoverished families in Newark, New Jersey, and who supported one another in their dreams of becoming doctors in spite of tremendous disadvantages.

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Mens lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially as lawyer and politician. Womans function is to pour oil on the wounds to heal the bruises of spiritand to stimulate to renewed exertion.

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An account of the rise and collapse of the Bingham family of Kentucky chronicles three generations of a newspaper dynasty and the battles that destroyed the family.

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In this major new biography of one of the architects of modern America, Steven Watts shows readers an entrepreneur whose affordable car triggered the consumer revolution, but who, in his private life and public pronouncements, rejected consumerism.

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Describes the sad life of Huguette Clark, heiress to a copper magnate's fortune, who withdrew from society to live in isolation in a huge 5th Avenue apartment before spending the last years of her life in a New York hospital.

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Who was Jean Amery Victim or survivor Agnostic or Jew Austrian or exile Philosopher or journalist This biography demonstrates that he is more - far more - than some enigmatic cult figure: he is one of the most influential of Holocaust survivors and one of the most provocative writers and thinkers of the 20th century.

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Throughout the ages philosophers have examined their own lives in an attempt both to find some meaning and to explain the roots of their philosophical perspectives. This volume is an introduction to philosophical autobiography, a rich but hitherto ignored literary genre that questions the self, its social context, and existence in general.

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The Russian princess who inspired Pushkin and Tolstoy

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No other family was as active, and successful as the Garretts. They saw how education for women was a basic need, and how suffrage would be worthwhile as a right in itself and as a route to much else. Using letters, diaries and contemporary writings, the author chronicles the struggles and the triumphs of the Garretts.

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Peter Kirk, Esq. tracked the world iron markets diligently. He had to. Kirk employed 1000 men and boys in his integrated iron and steel works in Workington, England. Britain's market share was losing ground to America's burgeoning steel industry. In 1886, he sailed from Workington flush with decades of success in Britain's Victorian era rail expansion. - from the publisher.

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It was a remarkable and profound transformation, brought about largely by two men with an insatiable desire to succeed, Duncan Fletcher and Andy Flower.

In The Plan, Steve James tells the story of the renaissance of English cricket from a unique perspective.