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"Wickedly indiscreet and elegant" Mail on Sunday"He will join Chips Channon, Duff Cooper and Alan Clark in the pantheon of truly great diarists" Matthew d'Ancona, Evening Standard

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A transformative memoir by a queer disabled brown femme and abuse survivor: an intersectional, tragicomic story told with wild abandon.

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Tells the story of William Herschel, the brilliant, fiercely ambitious, emotionally complex musician and composer who became court astronomer to Britain's King George III, and of William's sister, Caroline, who assisted him in his observations of the night sky and became an accomplished astronomer in her own right.

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This text refers to more than 300 Welsh graves and discusses not so much about the graves themselves but about the people buried in them. It provides potted biographies of the individuals involved and offers some intriguing juxtapositions.

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Who was Mathilde Marchesi How did she become a byword internationally for vocal excellence and operatic success What was her formula And how did she produce prima donnas on such a consistent basis Neill traces Marchesis extraordinary career from Vienna to Paris and introduces an array of remarkable characters and the successful singing method that is her legacy.

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"Do You Mind If I Smoke" is the astonishing and often hilarious life story of a national treasure, told for the first time in a special edition hardback book to be published on the eve of actress Fenella Fielding's 90th birthday this November.

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The four hundred townspeople of Ennis, Montana needed a doctor and Ronald E. Losee, MD, became "Doc." This moving account of Doc's time in Ennis evokes both the feel of small-town life and the pioneering spirit of the...

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The first definitive, authorised biography of the late Elizabeth Jolley - one of the most distinctive and remarkable voices in Australian literature. Brian Dibble draws on Jolley's private letters and diaries as well as extensive interviews with family and friends in this revealing and surprising biography.

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A revealing look at one of pro footballs most legendary figures!

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The fascinating biography of the man who laid the foundation for the CIA.One of the most celebrated and highly decorated heroes of World War I, a noted trial lawyer, presidential adviser and emissary, and chief of America's Office of Strategic Services during World War II, William J. Donovan was a legendary figure.

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Doreen Kartinyeri was a key Ngarrindjeri spokeswoman. Aged 10 years, Doreen suffered the loss of her mother, her sister's removal and her own placement in Fullarton Girls Home, 100 kms from home. This title presents her story.

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Using declassified files, Nigel West explores the heroic exploits of one of the Second World War's most closely guarded secrets.

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-...tells the stories of African American women who did extraordinary things to help their country during World War II.---Amazon.com.

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Surgeons cut, but physicians... what do physicians actually do And is it true that other doctors really call them 'the magicians'

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Through well-researched prose and interviews with celebrities including George Clooney, Jerry Lewis, Yogi Berra, and Sid Caesar, the authors reveal Jacobson's influence on events such as the assassination of JFK, the Kennedy-Khrushchev Vienna Summit, the murder of Marilyn Monroe, and, the filming of the C B DeMille classic The Ten Commandments.

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In what is every Monday morning quarterback's fantasy, Cowser revisits his days as a football star by joining the Watertown Red & Black, the country's oldest semi-professional football team.

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A biography that incorporates Duke Ellington's talents into engaging activities for children. Enlisting the musician's gifts as a pianist, composer, and band leader, it presents an interdisciplinary that approach shows how to create a ragtime rhythm, make a washtub bass, write song lyrics, dance the Lindy Hop, and design an album cover.