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From the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oilfields and plains of Wyoming

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In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history - the Supremes - told her own side of the story. This title focuses on different areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped prior to her entering the music business.

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The classic historical biography reissued for the 150th anniversary of John Brown's celebrated uprising against slavery.

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A documentary manga biography of the influential artist and the birth and evolution of manga and anime in Japan.

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Drawing on Strummers lyrics, interviews and bootleg recordings, as well as interviews with friends and contemporaries like Billy Bragg, The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer reveals the wide-ranging political influence of one of the twentieth centurys iconic rocknroll rebels.

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A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalist Here is Charles Darwin in his own words--the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds of quotations carefully selected by world-renowned Darwin

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From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson - revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe - built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. This title paints a portrait of Schneerson.

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The extraordinary and unhappy life story of one of the world's richest men. By the author of the best-selling Backstairs Billy ISBN 9781849547802 hb and ISBN: 9781785900006 pb, with combined sales of 15,600 across cloth, paper and Ebook.

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Tells the story of John Lilly's discoveries from his early experiments; mapping the brains of monkeys and communication with dolphins, to his experience with consciousness expanding drugs. The book includes an update on Lilly's work on human/dolphin communication and returning animals to the wild.

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In an era where everything was permitted, Anita Berber's celebrations of "Depravity, Horror and Ecstasy" were condemned and censored. Multi-talented Anita saw no boundaries between her personal life and her taboo-shattering performances. This is an illustrated biography of Weimar Berlin's sordid and influential dancer, playwright, and actress.

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In this remarkable true story, Christopher Andrew, best-selling official biographer of MI5, brings to life one of the most surprising and fascinating tales of espionage ever told.

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The Yage Letters is one of the most accessible and popular works in the William Burroughs oeuvrebut also one of the most curious and enigmatic. Twice the size of the original, this new, expanded edition includes selections from Burroughs' unpublished letters and original 1953 manuscript.

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Known as the Lady of the Mercians in the 900s, Aethelflaedruled Mercia on her own after her husbands death, leading the army to war and earning a fearsome reputation. She became a competent general and helped to drive the Vikings out of England. This book, published 1100 years after her death, tells her remarkable story.

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