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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
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Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future. This book tells for the first time in English the story of the first great universal library in the age of printing – and of the son of Christopher Columbus who created it.This is the sc…
Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future. This book tells for the first time in English the story of the first great universal library in the age of printing – and of the son of Christopher Columbus who created it.This is the sc…
The Complete Helen Forrester 4-Book Memoir: Twopence to Cross the Mersey, Liverpool Miss, By the Waters of Liverpool, Lime Street at Two
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The complete four-volume collection of classic memoir recounting a poverty-stricken childhood in 1930s Liverpool that started with Twopence To Cross the Mersey.Twopence To Cross The Mersey – When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in 1930 she and…
The complete four-volume collection of classic memoir recounting a poverty-stricken childhood in 1930s Liverpool that started with Twopence To Cross the Mersey.Twopence To Cross The Mersey – When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in 1930 she and…
Sexy Beast: The Intimate Adventures of an Ugly Man
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Burdened with a face only a mother could love, Stan Cattermole determined to find a woman. Lugging his man-boobs along for the ride, Stan shows Bridget Jones how it's done in this hilarious, heart-wrenching and often outrageous account of his quest f…
Burdened with a face only a mother could love, Stan Cattermole determined to find a woman. Lugging his man-boobs along for the ride, Stan shows Bridget Jones how it's done in this hilarious, heart-wrenching and often outrageous account of his quest f…
It’s Not Me, It’s You
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‘I loved Jon’s book. It’s even better than the real thing because you can’t hear his voice.’ Michael McIntyre A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the b…
‘I loved Jon’s book. It’s even better than the real thing because you can’t hear his voice.’ Michael McIntyre A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the b…
Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Gain the mindset and skillset for getting what you need to succeed
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Twenty years after creating the phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series as he explores the skills needed to empower yourself to success.In this…
Twenty years after creating the phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series as he explores the skills needed to empower yourself to success.In this…
In Stitches
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The true story of an A&E doctor that became a huge word-of-mouth hit – now revised and updated. FROM THE PUBLISHER THAT BROUGHT YOU CONFESSIONS OF A GP. Forget what you have seen on Casualty or Holby City, this is what it is really like to be working…
The true story of an A&E doctor that became a huge word-of-mouth hit – now revised and updated. FROM THE PUBLISHER THAT BROUGHT YOU CONFESSIONS OF A GP. Forget what you have seen on Casualty or Holby City, this is what it is really like to be working…
33° летней долготы
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Очерк об отдыхе с семьёй в самом любимом месте. Люди и животные, необычный спорт и разнообразное времяпровождение, таинственные надписи и забавные ситуации — об этом и не только, коротко и с юмором. Для тех, кто хочет вспомнить о лете и детстве и кт…
Очерк об отдыхе с семьёй в самом любимом месте. Люди и животные, необычный спорт и разнообразное времяпровождение, таинственные надписи и забавные ситуации — об этом и не только, коротко и с юмором. Для тех, кто хочет вспомнить о лете и детстве и кт…
Посвящается Ф. И. Шаляпину. Из Елабуги в Москву…
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Книга написана на основе воспоминаний оперного певца. О том, как мальчишка из глубинки оказался на прослушивании у великого Ф. И. Шаляпина, который оценил его талант, поддержал в самом начале творческого пути. Верьте в себя, будьте честными в достиже…
Книга написана на основе воспоминаний оперного певца. О том, как мальчишка из глубинки оказался на прослушивании у великого Ф. И. Шаляпина, который оценил его талант, поддержал в самом начале творческого пути. Верьте в себя, будьте честными в достиже…
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Memoir
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An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood – of a…
An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood – of a…
The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
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Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA.Drawing on revelatory ne…
Based on explosive new evidence, bestselling author David Talbot tells America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA.Drawing on revelatory ne…
The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach
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History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach and yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest Queen consort Britain ever had’.The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Carol…
History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach and yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest Queen consort Britain ever had’.The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Carol…
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
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A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies…
A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies…
Through the Narrow Gate: A Nun’s Story
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Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong’s memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960’s.With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with her decision, at the age of seventeen, to devote her…
Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong’s memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960’s.With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with her decision, at the age of seventeen, to devote her…
Shackleton’s Epic: Recreating the World’s Greatest Journey of Survival
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‘Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour’ SIR ERNEST SHACKLETONAPRIL 1916:After his ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice and now trapped on a small inhospitable island, cut off from all hope of help, with winter approaching, …
‘Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour’ SIR ERNEST SHACKLETONAPRIL 1916:After his ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice and now trapped on a small inhospitable island, cut off from all hope of help, with winter approaching, …
Silent Boy: He was a frightened boy who refused to speak – until a teacher's love broke through the silence
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From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of a boy trapped in silence and the teacher who rescued him.When special education teacher Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricad…
From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of a boy trapped in silence and the teacher who rescued him.When special education teacher Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was barricad…
Документальные повести
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В книгу вошли две документальные повести: «Дом с Маленьким принцем в окне» об удивительном человеке, знаменитом французском писателе и лётчике Антуане де Сент-Экзюпери и «По дороге к солнцу» о пути выхода из душевного кризиса после расставания с люби…
В книгу вошли две документальные повести: «Дом с Маленьким принцем в окне» об удивительном человеке, знаменитом французском писателе и лётчике Антуане де Сент-Экзюпери и «По дороге к солнцу» о пути выхода из душевного кризиса после расставания с люби…
Attack of the 50 Ft. Women: From man-made mess to a better future – the truth about global inequality and how to unleash female potential
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‘Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children’Sunday ExpressEssential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality.Not a single…
‘Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children’Sunday ExpressEssential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality.Not a single…
Four Mums in a Boat: Friends who rowed 3000 miles, broke a world record and learnt a lot about life along the way
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A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge and b…
A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge and b…
Blood Sisters: Part 2 of 3: Can a pledge made for life endure beyond death?
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It’s 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they’ll never let anyone come between them. But fast forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury Estate has gotten very messy.Lucy has fallen for local…
It’s 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they’ll never let anyone come between them. But fast forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury Estate has gotten very messy.Lucy has fallen for local…
How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: Dementia, Ma and Me
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Following Phyllida Law’s wonderful and acclaimed ‘Notes to my Mother-in-Law’ – which comically and tenderly documented the author’s relationship with her husband’s mother who lived with the family for 17 years – we now have a chronicle of Phyllida’s …
Following Phyllida Law’s wonderful and acclaimed ‘Notes to my Mother-in-Law’ – which comically and tenderly documented the author’s relationship with her husband’s mother who lived with the family for 17 years – we now have a chronicle of Phyllida’s …

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