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The inspiring true story of a Girl Scout group set up in a homeless shelter in New York

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Life for the Gervase Phinn is about to become not unlike the rambling hills of the Dales themselves - up and down and all over the place. After a routine school inspection - and a rather brutal report - culminates with a teacher being forced into early retirement, Gervase is left feeling his year hasn't exactly begun on the right foot.

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An eye-opening, jaw-dropping account of Britain's dispossessed youth and inner city wastelands by an insider, as funny and inspiring as it is heartbreaking. 'Another CITY OF GOD, this time for Britain rather than Brazil.' Observer

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A 'retired career anorexic' examines herself and her, and our, culture.

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Full of unusual characters, mischief, camaraderie, and testosterone-fueled man-gossip.

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A rare, alternative history of the McCarthy era from the point of view of a black member of the Communist Party in the US at that time.

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Bestselling oral history of what it was like to age in the 20th century - told by 74 disparate voices, all of whom lived through practically all of it, woven into one astonishing tapestry. Superb oral history from the undisputed master of the genre.

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The remarkable story of a twenty-six-year-old blind woman's journey to help the blind of...

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The author, the adopted daughter of murdered mobster Manny Skar, offers the true story of the search for her birth mother in which she used her reporting skills to unearth newspaper accounts of arrests, murders, and a mysteriously funded Vegas-style hotel.

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Samuel Shirley's splendid new translation, with critical annotation reflecting research of the last half-century, is the only edition of the complete text of Spinoza's correspondence available in English. An historical-philosophical Introduction, detailed annotation, a chronology, and a bibliography are also included.

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Christina Asquith presents a moving first-hand account of her year teaching in one of Philadelphia's worst schools. Told with striking humor and honesty, her story begins when the School District of Philadelphia, in desperate need of 1,500 new teachers, instituted a policy of hiring "emergency certified" instructors.

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Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in post revolutionary France, this title shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted.

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Makes a substantial contribution to multicultural and migrant writing. From humble, self-published memoirs by amateur chroniclers to celebrated releases by high-profile authors, this title interweaves events and attitudes, literary theory and narrative forms to address important and often moving topics such as Holocaust memory, and more.

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Blind since birth, Ron regards himself as fortunate to have been born at a time when ever improving technology has enabled him to live a rich and full life, and to become a professor of law at one of Australia's most prestigious universities.

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