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One of the greatest mysteries of twentieth-century science: a tormented genius discovers a key element of atomic fission, then disappears forever

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These accounts of life with Mervyn Peake provide insights into art, personality and friendships of the author of Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone.

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The Macdonald sisters - Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa - started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes. But as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, and the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. This title presents Macdonald sisters' story.

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Unique history of an illustrious Egyptian family that charts the role they played in shaping modern Egypt.

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A unique and highly personal memoir of life in the Middle East from a bright, young Australian journalist whose bravery and curiosity (or perhaps naivety) saw her reporting from the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

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A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how these two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to a share a relationship that was to last over fifty years.

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Chronicles bureaucratic control over everything from the press to people's clothing in wartime Japan. This diary traces the gradual disintegration of Japan's war effort and the looming certainty of defeat.

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Bradlee offers this frank, funny, inspiring memoir of growing up with developmental and learning disabilities as well as his famously accomplished parents--a "Washington Post" editor and bestselling author. Illustrations throughout.

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After the end of the WWII, Australia's Directorate of War Graves Services uncovered a document hidden in a bottle. It was a summary of the secret diary of Dr Rowley Richards, a POW and medical officer on the Burma-Siam Railway. This memoir, about battle, imprisonment and survival, is based on the diary summary and Richards' other wartime writings.

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Jon and his wife live in a New Jersey suburb with two perfectly behaved Labradors. Then into the mix comes Devon, who creates havoc from the moment he arrives at the airport, when it takes Jon, two baggage handlers and three police officers to track him down after he escapes.

Jon learns the hard way how to encourage Devon to behave.

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A memoir about two European Jewish families living through the last gasps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The authot begins his memoir with the story of his great-grandfather David, an inveterate cigar smoker, and his family's journey to becoming cosmopolitan Europeans thanks to the multicultural ideals of the Austro-Hungarian world.

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New life of forgotten novelist

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This optimistic volume by the author of the bestselling "Always Looking Up" inspires and motivates readers to work hard, achieve the most they can, and maximize their abilities.

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The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos
'A happy, hilarious book' Daily Express

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Short stories reflecting a simple life in the Appalachian foot hills of Kentucky.

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In this Washington Post and Heartland Indie bestseller, the former two-term governor of Michigan-a state at the epicentre of the economic storms devastating middle-class lives throughout the US-offers a candid portrait of her tenure and the lessons learned, and points the way toward a new future.

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