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It's a kind of detective story, following the tracks of two men who did all they could to cover their tracks, and to conceal 'the self': Frank the father used secrecy and sleight-of-hand as strategies for self-protection; Frank the son masked a thoroughly reclusive personality with flamboyant self-parody.

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Thais is almost two. Like most well-loved children, she is happy. She laughs as she runs on the beach. But her footprints in the sand, with toes turned out, tell a different story. "Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand" relates the overwhelming tragedy experienced by a family as a result of a genetic disorder.

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Sandra Leigh, the oldest of three, was only seven when she protected her mother against her father's fury, helping her escape the house in the midst of winter, and then retrieving her through an open window. They had just moved to the isolated mountains of West Virginia to begin their new life.

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At his 10,000-acre estate in Surrey heemployed seventy-seven personal staff, moved a hill that blocked his view andbuilt an underwater glass smoking room. On his vast steam yacht he entertainedthe Prince of Wales and the Kaiser.

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Before Shamrock became known professionally as "The Legend"Nwinning almost every mixed martial arts title in existenceNhe endured a childhood marred with abuse, neglect, and molestation that led to an equally troubled young adulthood. This riveting book tells his whole story.

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Full of enticing anecdotes culled from a fifty-year career, this is an engrossing book that provides an insider's view of the changing world of publishing. Jeremy Robson has published an extraordinary range of household names; writers, poets, actors, singers, sports people, cartoonists, newspaper columnists and politicians. .

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An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth.

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Includes topics as diverse as magic, philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, and Alice in Wonderland. This title takes readers from author's childhood in Oklahoma to his college days at the University of Chicago, his service in the navy, and his varied and professional pursuits.

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Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by the man evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould called our "single brightest beacon

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Presenting a biography of Daniel Ortega, this title tells the story of Nicaragua's continuing struggle for liberation. It traces Ortega's life from his childhood in Nicaragua's mountainous mining region, where his parents instilled in him a hatred of Yankee imperialism.

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The incredible story of German goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel - the most interesting footballer you've never heard of. A massive bestseller in Germany, this astonishing, fascinating and at times hilarious book relates a football career in which Lutz travelled the world, played for 23 teams on five continents and lived life to the absolute full.

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An autobiography of a slave's rise to distinction which asserts that a strong work ethic and excellence in whatever one is doing will be rewarded no matter what race or what position a person holds in life.

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Vanished tells the seven different tales of adventurers who vanished and were never seen again.

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Vanished tells the seven different tales of adventurers who vanished and were never seen again.