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By: Alistair Mant

ISBN: 9781741143669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The authorised biography of Robert Clifford, founder and chairman of INCAT - builder of high speed wave piercing catamarans.


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By: Shirley Painter

ISBN: 9780732274214
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Shirley Painter is 83 years old. She shouldn't be. When she was four years old, she was so badly injured, she was pronounced dead and taken to the morgue. The man who so severely injured her was her father. This work tells her disturbing and inspirational story.


(Hardback)

By: Kenneth Womack

ISBN: 9781498534734
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the most momentous year in the life of the Beatles, the contributors to The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love perform wide-ranging analyses of the groups enduring sociocultural influence and achievements.


(Paperback)

By: Georgie Edwards

ISBN: 9780091951368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Yet Georgie wants to fall in love and start a family as well as have a career is this one dream too many for a woman in the 1950s

Warm and full of humour, The Best Medicine is Georgies fascinating memoir of her early years as a nurse and doctor.


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By: Penelope Rowe

ISBN: 9781741146615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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An honest and inspiring personal account of living with bi-polar disorder.


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By: Tom Sancton

ISBN: 9781101984499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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The true, shocking story of Liliane Bettencourt and the biggest scandal to ever rock Europe.


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By: Leo Katcher

ISBN: 9780306805653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1994
Publisher: Hachette Books
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"Arnold Rothstein (1882--1928) was described in the newspapers of the 1920s as "a sportsman," "a gambler," and "the man who fixed the 1919 World Series." But he was much more than that. A bootlegger and"


(Paperback)

By: Nathan Rabin

ISBN: 9781416556213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Hardback)

By: Daniel S. Burt

ISBN: 9781573562560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A reference guide to primary resources, autobiographies, biographies, biographical novels, and audio-visual resources that tell the stories and contributions of 500 famous figures from ancient times to the 20th century. There are reviews describing the biographical works listed.


(Hardback)

By: Edward D. Miller

ISBN: 9798350960501
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: John T. Barber

ISBN: 9780275985042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Most discussions of the digital divide focus on the gap between African Americans and others when it comes to using, and benefiting from, the technological and business opportunities of the information age.


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By: Robert Lee Watt

ISBN: 9781442239388
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Today, the number of African Americans who hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras are few and far between, and Watt is the first in many years to write about this uniquely exhilaratingand at times painfulexperience.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Lee Watt

ISBN: 9781442268715
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Today, the number of African Americans who hold chairs in major American symphony orchestras are few and far between, and Watt is the first in many years to write about this uniquely exhilaratingand at times painfulexperience.


(Hardback)

By: Alessandro Massignani

ISBN: 9780306813115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Hachette Books
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The only biography of Prince Valerio Borghese-the legendary Italian World War II naval commando whose covert activities shocked the Allies and became a model for today's "special forces"


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By: Carolyn Rasmussen

ISBN: 9780522876185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, ardent feminist and campaign secretary to Vida Goldstein, neither had marriage in their imagined futures. But they fell in love - with each other as much as with their individual aspirations to change the world for the better.


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By: Trevor Rees-Jones

ISBN: 9780751537239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* The phenomenal bestselling, first-hand account of the crash that killed Diana, its causes and consequences, by the bodyguard who survived.


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By: Helga Schneider

ISBN: 9780099443735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin.


(Paperback)

By: Eve Claxton

ISBN: 9780091908461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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From childhood through to adulthood - if not necessarily maturity - The Book of Life offers the literary journal of a lifetime, in the company of the most fascinating and talented figures in history.

From Alan Bennett's wartime childhood in Yorkshire to Mahatma Gandhi's experiment with cigarettes;


(Paperback)

By: Gnter Grass

ISBN: 9780099539759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this delightful sequel to Peeling the Onion, Gnter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives.


(Paperback)

By: Ken Sears

ISBN: 9781471113574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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By: Richard McCann

ISBN: 9780091908645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2007
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller.

The Boy Grows Up is an account of how Richard used the success of Just A Boy to try and save his sister, and of his attempts to make sense of his past whilst learning more about the effects of traumatic childhoods and loss.


(Paperback)

By: James Kramer

ISBN: 9781543982756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)

By: Stephen Young

ISBN: 9798350909104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)

By: Immacule Illibagiza

ISBN: 9781401973391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Hay House Inc
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