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(Hardback)

By: Robin Knox-Johnston

ISBN: 9781471177620
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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The autobiography of the first man ever to sail non-stop single-handedly round the world, one of the planet great adventurers


(Paperback, Export/Airside)

By: Robin Knox-Johnston

ISBN: 9781471177637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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The autobiography of the first man ever to sail non-stop single-handedly round the world, one of the planet great adventurers


(Hardback)

By: Semisi Ma'ia'i

ISBN: 9781877484292
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Little Island Press
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Samoan Odyssey takes us on a journey through the Pacific diaspora. Throughout the second half of the twentieth century thousands of Samoans left their island homes to live in far-flung countries.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Whitaker

ISBN: 9781982114121
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Journalist and author Mark Whitaker explores the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan Black Power challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis.


(Paperback)

By: Johnny Marr

ISBN: 9781784751791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The Sunday Times Bestseller and Winner of the NME Best Book Award 2017

Few groups have had a bigger impact than The Smiths and few musicians are as celebrated as Johnny Marr.


(Hardback)

By: Eric Metaxas

ISBN: 9780718021832
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of historys greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following Gods call upon their lives---as women. Each of them---Joan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks---is an exemplary model of true womanhood.


(Hardback)

By: Joe Foster

ISBN: 9781471194016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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The story of the founder of Reebok, Joe Foster, who grew the business from a small factory in Bolton to a major international brand.


(Paperback, Export/Airside)

By: Joe Foster

ISBN: 9781471194023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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The story of the founder of Reebok, Joe Foster, who grew the business from a small factory in Bolton to a major international brand.


(Hardback)

By: David Lloyd

ISBN: 9781471190025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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David 'Bumble' Lloyd looks back at the great characters in the cricketing world who have inspired, entertained and amused him


(Hardback)

By: Peter Edgar

ISBN: 9780987057495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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Sir William Glasgow is a fascinating and valuable book that tells the story of this once famous figure: his early service in the Boer War, a career in the AIF which included serving at Gallipoli and distinguished command at the Western Front, and a knighthood and distinguished career in the Commonwealth Government and the diplomatic service.


(Paperback)

By: Mick Whatham

ISBN: 9781922132284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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So I Hit Him is the compelling story of a man who, despite all odds being against him, still says he has had a lucky life.


(Hardback)

By: Jay Morton

ISBN: 9780008418151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best.


(Hardback)

By: Yann-Brice Dherbier

ISBN: 9781862058316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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One of the first cinematic sex symbols, Sophia Loren's charisma and voluptuous figure attracted many admirers. Yet out of the spotlight, she was a committed wife and mother. Faithful to just one man, film producer Carlo Ponti, she considered her two children her greatest accomplishment.


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By: David Crook

ISBN: 9781906502041
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2008
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
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Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts, The Battle of Britain, seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron.


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1974
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Neil Crossley

ISBN: 9781497104358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2024
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
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Peek inside the life and career of John Wayne, or "The Duke," in this amazingly detailed book, featuring a review of the top 10 Wayne movies for each decade. Learn how he became a star, how he got along with his co-stars, his political influence and ambitions, his foray onto the small screen, and ultimately his diagnosis of incurable cancer.


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By: N. S. Nash

ISBN: 9781781590904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The first biography of an outstanding soldier and commander Had Gott not been killed he - and not Montgomery - would have commanded 8th Army in North Africa. Gott was the only general to be targeted for assassination by the Germans.


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By: Margaret Hooks

ISBN: 9788417048006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: La Fabrica
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This book recounts the life and loves of artists and writers, Leonora Carrington, Peggy Guggenheim, Dorothea Tanning, Leonor Fini, Meret Oppenheim, Gala, Luise Straus and Marie-Berthe Aurenche during their years with Max Ernst.


(Hardback)

By: Laura Flynn

ISBN: 9781582433851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Set in 1970s San Francisco, "Swallow the Ocean" is a searing, beautifully written memoir of a childhood under siege and three young girls determined to survive despite their mothers mental instability. In luminous prose, this memoir paints an intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood.


(Hardback, Illustrated edition)

By: Laura Thompson

ISBN: 9781789542646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A reissue of Laura Thompson's Take Six Girls, illustrated with beautiful and timeless photographs of the Mitford sisters.


(Hardback)

By: Roland Perry

ISBN: 9780733338465
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Hardback)

By: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

ISBN: 9780062422156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at thirty-three, based on the authors viral Buzzfeed essay

Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on New Years Eve 2006.


(Hardback)

By: Paul Virr

ISBN: 9781838574215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2022
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Russell Miller

ISBN: 9781844139224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As the creator of Sherlock Holmes, 'the world's most famous man who never was', Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favourite writers; his work is read with affection - and sometimes obsession - the world over. This is his biography.

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