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Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast of the United States in late summer of 2005. The city of New Orleans soon became a world like none other. Deluged by severe flooding, its residents turned to basic instincts to survive the chaos. Coast Guard response teams navigated its watery depths to discover that not all of the tragedy would remain on the surface...but, deep within ones conscience.

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The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924 - the year that made a monster

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Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. This book covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his pioneering work in the Texas oil business, and his political rise as a Congressman, US Representative to China and more.

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In this final volume of diaries, Tony Benn reflects on the compensations and the disadvantages of old age. Published here alongside these last diaries are Tony Benns highly personal insights into the challenges of old age and failing health, of widowhood,and of moving out of the family home after sixty years.

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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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Featuring more than 4700 entries cross-referenced for easy use, this book is an annotated bibliography on Gandhi and his legacy.

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This is a fascinating and highly readable biography of Barbara Wootton, one of the extraordinary public figures of the twentieth century. She was an outstanding social scientist, an architect of the welfare state, an iconoclast who challenged conventional wisdoms and the first woman to sit on the Woolsack in the House of Lords.

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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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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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In these pages, David Norris reveals for the first time the full, no-holds-barred story of his presidential campaign, and of how he recovered from the turmoil.

A Kick Against the Pricks is a brilliant, deeply revealing autobiography, a remarkable journey from the margins to the centre of Irish society.

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A collaborative autobiography and an oral narrative as well as a history. The subject is the experience of the Anglo-Australian Burrage family on Aboriginal reserves between 1917 and 1940.

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Soon Evelyn realised she had to find part-time work to make ends meet, and to her astonishment she was offered part-time hours at her old hospital.

The day-to-day job hadn't changed much, but she was now a nurse and mother.

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A first-hand account of a conscientious objector born into a famous artistic family who, after the death of his brother on active service, decides to fight the Nazis and joins SOE.

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In this autobiography, the author evokes his Edwardian childhood in his portrait of a vanished community as he tells how he and the other children of Salford struggled daily to survive the poverty that surrounded them.

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