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Interlink Publishing Group, Inc The Nomad
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Amazon Publishing The Second Shot
Book SynopsisThe riveting true story behind an unsanctioned rescue mission in the jungles of the Philippines, engineered by former Green Beret and unlikely American hero Gene Yu.Evelyn Chang and her husband were vacationing in the Philippines when they were ambushed by terrorists. Evelyn’s husband was killed. She was kidnapped and disappeared into the lawless netherworld of the Sulu Archipelago. There was no hope of a rescue.Former Green Beret Gene Yu was five years out of the military, unemployed, and struggling with his transition back to the real world when Evelyn’s family asked for help. His improbable mission: infiltrate one of the most dangerous corners of the world and get her back. Alone.Mindful of “every young Asian kid in America struggling to fit into a dominant white culture,” Gene’s harrowing, self-deprecating, and provocative memoir is really the story of two rescues. One, a personal liberation and the discovery of self-iden
£16.99
Simon & Schuster On the Ground
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Atria Books Ambition Monster
Book Synopsis“Entertaining and highly relatable.” —The New York Times “As hilarious as it is heart-wrenching…[A] gift of storytelling, and an act of reclamation.” —Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author A deeply personal memoir about workaholism, the addictive nature of ambition, and the humbling process of picking yourself up when the world lets you down—an anti-girlboss tale for our times for readers of Drinking: A Love Story and Uncanny Valley.After years of relentlessly racing up the professional ladder, Jennifer Romolini reached the kind of success many crave: a high-profile, C-suite dream job, a book well-received enough that reporters wanted to know the secrets to her success, and a gig traveling around the country giving speeches on “making it.” She had a handsome and clever husband, a precocious child. But beneath this polis
£17.00
Atria/One Signal Publishers The Mixed Marriage Project
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Greystone Books,Canada A Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage: The
Book Synopsis“Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping … readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.”—BOOKLISTA man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way.When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before.His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique.Guirec never intended to sail the world with a chicken, but after reaching the Caribbean, he and Monique made for Greenland—and emerged from the pack ice 100 days later.Their next goal? San Francisco. Then, Antarctica. But first, could they navigate the treacherous Northwest Passage? One thing was for sure: Monique would help her trusty skipper by laying an egg! Heart-stopping adventure story: navigating treacherous icebergs with a chicken on the mast is just one of many nail-biting maneuvers from this action-packed book. Perfect for readers of The Art of Racing in the Rain: Guirec and Monique’s bond is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Inspirational: Guirec shows that all you have to do is believe to achieve something big. Photographs and maps: show the epic voyage and provide breaks in the text. Guirec and Monique’s unbelievable journey won the hearts of people all over the world and caused a social media frenzy when it happened. Now, in their long-awaited first book, readers will uncover their gripping voyage from start to finish.Trade Review“Soudée’s deeply adventurous spirit finds a home at sea. From Arctic pack ice to the Roaring Forties, this young man and his chicken show the world what’s possible with a little boat and a big dream.”—Caroline Van Hemert, author of The Sun is a Compass“Guirec Soudée’s page-turning tale of his round-the-world ocean adventure is a delight. Setting off with no solo sailing experience whatsoever, he learns by doing—crossing the Atlantic, overwintering alone in Greenland’s profound pack ice, then sailing the length of the Pacific to survive raging storms and rogue icebergs in Antarctica. Add Monique, his unlikely but charming feathered first mate, and you’re reminded that our dreams are in fact possible if we dare to risk following them.”—Kim Brown Seely, author of Uncharted“If madcap single-handed sailing (with a chicken) is your thing, then you'll love the hair-raising adventures of Guirec Soudée.”—John Krestchmer, author of Sailing to the Edge of Time and Flirting with Mermaids“Don't mistake Guirec Soudee's youthful adventures for just another sailing book—this is a coming-of-age story for our times. Guirec writes with an inspiring mix of humility and wonder as he and Monique complete an epic voyage that takes them to extreme latitudes, propelled by a wellspring of courage—and revealing a humanity that fills you with joy. An incredible book.”—John Krestchmer, author of Sailing to the Edge of Time and Flirting with Mermaids“Guirec’s thirst for adventure is infectious, yet this intrepid Breton remains humble despite his extraordinary achievements, writing with both humor and good grace. A clucking good read!”—Emma Bamford, author of Casting Off and Untie the Lines“Funny, charming and endearing, this gem of a book immerses you into the world of a true adventurer. A classic high-seas yarn that you never want to end..”—Frank Wolf, adventurer and author of Lines on a Map“I greatly enjoyed reading this. It overflows with the author's good humor and his ability to always come up smiling, whatever the oceans of the world throw at him. For a novice to achieve a voyage like this is truly remarkable.”—Paul Heiney, broadcaster and author of One Wild Song: A Voyage in a Lost Son's WakeTable of ContentsWhere It All BeganPART 1Our Atlantic CrossingPART 2Hibernating in the IcePART 3The Northwest PassagePART 4From Alaska to Canada, and BeyondPART 5How Far South Can We Go?PART 6The Long Journey HomeAcknowledgmentsGlossaryPartners
£18.04
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Adventures of a Country Vet
Book SynopsisFunny and heartwarming stories from a Northland country vet In the rolling green hills of Kaipara, Scottish vet Rory Dean and his two fox terriers, Scrappy and Alfie, are on call day and night for whichever animal emergency awaits. In Adventures of a Country Vet, Rory shares stories of the livestock and pets he's cared for as a rural vet in New Zealand and southwest England. From calving in a blizzard to a dog wounded in a pig-hunt, a horse castration gone wrong and warming a baby alpaca in the footwell of his ute, life as a vet is all-go. It isn't all rosy: Rory's sworn at, called every name under the sun, even threatened to be shot; and, some days, bad news can make the toughest Kiwi bloke cry. Working with farmers who are at the mercy of extreme weather, Rory knows when to stop and listen over a strong cuppa. These are entertaining, heartwarming tales of animals in need and a picture of the communities who care for them.
£15.29
Birlinn General Dancing in the Streets
Book SynopsisThe classic Glasgow Memoir with a new introduction by Tom MortonThis is Clifford Hanley's vibrant, unsentimental and hilarious account of growing up in the 1920s and 30s, and his later working life as a radio broadcaster and journalist.His razor-sharp observations and anecdotes cover many topics, from family life, art and showbiz to politics, sex, TB and what it was like to be a conscientious objector during the Second World War. But even the most bittersweet stories are leavened with humour, and the irrepressible Glasgow spirit always shines through.''Hanley writes with consistent relish for his native city . . . captures Glasgow and its people nonchalantly and unfussily'' Ian Jack, The Guardian''Like a portal into a vanished Glasgow, but one where the city, its people their foibles, hopes, humour and warmth are instantly familiar'' Norry Wilson, Lost Glasgow
£9.49
Pelagic Publishing Rhythms of Nature
Book SynopsisAfter a career in conservation, Ian Carter moves to a secluded farmhouse tucked away in the low hills of mid-Devon between Exmoor and Dartmoor. Here he tries new approaches to connecting with the local countryside from following streams wherever they may lead, to night-time rambles or simply rewilding the garden.
£9.49
Pelagic Publishing Human Nature
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a part ofrather than apart fromnature? This book is about how we interact with wildlife and the ways in which this can make our lives richer and more fulfilling. But it also explores the conflicts and contradictions inevitable in a world that is now so completely dominated by our own species.
£9.49
Merrion Press Hunted The Kevin Barry Artt Story
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Eye Books Power Through
Book SynopsisJames Longley got into a fight one night and ended up beingsent to prison. It could have destroyed him, but a chance meeting after hisrelease helped him turn his life round and make his fortune in an energybusiness. Having sold that business, he has now devoted himself to helpingprisoners break the cycle of reoffending
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Biteback Publishing Classified
Book SynopsisThis is the story of the most enthralling and significant post-war intelligence revelations as told by Britain's most authoritative writer on espionage and the secret services.
£21.25
Headline Publishing Group Life Lessons from Explorers: Learn how to weather
Book SynopsisGreat explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in exploration – from legendary adventurers such as Ernest Shackleton to lesser-known figures such as Junko Tabei.Life Lessons from Explorers collects 15 of the most highly prized traits shared by those who have scaled mountains and traversed tundras, proposing how these could be applied to your own life, whether you are crossing Antarctica or battling a mental obstacle. Compelling accounts of the life and times of celebrated explorers, highlighting when they have displayed these traits are accompanied by remarkable images of the people who have travelled to the ends of the Earth, and the places they discovered.Table of ContentsAdaptability (Roald Amundsen) • Humanity (Neil Armstrong) • Risk (Amelia Earhart) • Leadership (Ernest Shackleton) • Self-discipline (Nain Singh Rawat) • Courage (Piccard) • Diplomacy (Gertrude Bell) • Creativity (Agatha Christie) • Determination (Junko Tabei) • Independence (Gudrun the Far Traveller) • Patience (Charles Darwin) • Curiosity (Abu Al Hasan Al Masudi) • Resilience (David Livingstone) • Innovation (Sylvia Earle) • Purpose (Olaudah Equiano).
£11.69
Troubador Publishing A New Man
Book SynopsisImagine you are a proud lesbian and a feminist. You have the odd doubt about your sexuality but you understand how the male-dominated world works and are angry about it. Then one day, a shock realisation occurs that not only are you not a lesbian, but you are in fact, a man. Your world is turned upside down. This is Charlie's story.
£14.39
Olympia Publishers Anecdotes of a Village Bobby
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Y Lolfa Oedolyn ish
Book SynopsisThe creative biography of Melanie Owen presented as a collection of lessons learnt. We learn how she has reached where she is today, we are given insight into her career, and what she has to work on to ensure further development and happiness.
£12.88
Y Lolfa Brwydr yr Iaith 196267
Book SynopsisThe memoir of one of the most dedicated campaigners for the Welsh language. This bold and forthright biography offers a look at the life and convictions of the author, musician and language campaigner Geraint Jones ''Trefor'' one of the founders of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the Welsh language society and his memories of the fervent language protests in Wales in the 1960s.
£14.99
Y Lolfa Rownd a Rownd yn Dathlur 30
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Gemini Books Group Ltd Top of the World
Book SynopsisMartin Hibbert was left paralysed by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017. Determined to make a difference, he scaled Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair, raising a million pounds for charity
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The History Press Ltd Suddenly an Englishman
Book SynopsisEngland is my home, and if someone asks me what I am German, Norwegian, Jewish or British I answer, I'm an Englishman.'In 1934, aged just 16, Louis Hagen was sent to Lichtenberg concentration camp after being betrayed for an off-hand joke by a Nazi-sympathising family maid. Mercifully, his time there was cut short thanks to the intervention of a school friend's father, and he escaped to the UK soon after. The Life of Louis Hagen' follows his adventures across the globe and the characters he met along the way, from the founder of the NHS to a Nobel Prize winner to one of the earliest animated-film directors, all told in lively and unflinching detail.Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 were captured a bloody disaster in more ways than one. Arnhem Lift' is Hagen's breathtaking and frank account of what it was like in the air and on the ground, including his daring escape from the German Army by
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The History Press Ltd An Inspector Recalls
Book SynopsisBorn in inner-city Birmingham, from an impeccable working class pedigree', Graham Satchwell was diagnosed with a serious illness at age 7 a condition which should have barred his entry to the police force. Forty-two years later, he was Britain's senior-most railway detective. In a career that encompassed every CID rank and involved some of the country's toughest gangsters, petty thieves, bomb threats, terrorism, the odd politician and even the Queen, Graham Satchwell has seen it all. Infused with humour and genuine down-to-earth wisdom, An Inspector Recalls is a frank and intimate account of a life spent on the frontier between crime and punishment that recalls the gangsters, politics and often-questionable police culture of the 1970s, '80s and '90s.
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Verso Books StreetFighting Years
Book SynopsisThe 1960s were a time of tumult and radicalism. Street Fighting Years captures the era’s mood and energy, its hope and its passion. In this, the first of his memoirs, Tariq Ali tracks the growing significance of the protest movements of the time alongside his own formation as a leading political activist from Pakistan, where he defied the military regime to lead a demonstration against Patrice Lumumba’s murder. His political odyssey is unique. Ali witnessed the imperialist brutalities of the Vietnam War—torture, bombing, the killing of children—the aftermath of the revolutionary insurgencies led by Che Guevara in Bolivia, the jubilation of the Prague Spring, and the student protests on the streets of Europe and America. It is a story that takes him from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and La Paz. Along the way, Ali encounters allies and enemies, including Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, John Lennon and M
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Olympia Publishers Tears in Paradise and a Smile in Hell
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Olympia Publishers My Escape from Barbados
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Olympia Publishers Soccer Fashion Icon
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Olympia Publishers Chaos
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£9.71
Gill On Duty
Book SynopsisBetween 2016 and his retirement in 2022, Assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll was the public face of Garda operations targeting organised crime. This put him at the centre of a long-running quest to bring down the Kinahan drug cartel, culminating in US sanctions being imposed an unprecedented development spearheaded by O'Driscoll.But the Kinahans were just some of the many notorious drug dealers and criminals O'Driscoll successfully brought to book. During his tenure at Dublin's Store Street he was tasked with reckoning with the heroin epidemic: his unique approach to community policing got to the root of the power of infamous criminals like Tony Felloni, Michel Cronin and Derek Dunne, stripping them of their assets.No Assistant Garda Commissioner has ever written a memoir before; On Duty promises to be a unique insight into policing operations in Ireland at the highest level.John O'Driscoll makes anauthoritative and valuablecontribution, quite withoutprecedent, to the debatearound policing and securitypolicy in 21st century Ireland'Conor Brady, former editor of The Irish Times and author of The Guarding of Ireland.
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Gill Under the Rainbow
Book SynopsisFrom late 1994 to June 1997 Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left were a coalition government led by John Bruton, arguably the most left-wing government in the history of the state. Shane Kenny provides the reader with the ultimate fly-on-the-wall insider account of this crucial period in Irish politics: one which contained highly significant breakthroughs in the Northern Ireland peace process, the most high-profile murder in the history of the state (Veronica Guerin), the establishment of the payments to politicians' tribunal which finally exposed the sources of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey's wealth, and a divorce referendum which heralded a changing Ireland.This is also a story of tragedy, both political and human; of those who died and were injured needlessly by the resumption of IRA violence; of a government with good potential which fell; of timing which was wrong, and of an economic disaster that could have been averted, or at least substantially mitigated.
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Gill Rebuilding a Man
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Troubador Publishing Antarctic Basalt: An Antarctic Quest in the Days
Book Synopsis“By 1st February the unloading had been completed, and when the ice anchors had been recovered the ship drew slowly away from the ice edge. The dull weather could not suppress the thrill that pulsed through me – this was the real start of my adventure. Up till then I could at any time have turned back. It might have been embarrassing, inconvenient, or expensive, but it had been possible. Now there would be no more direct contact with the outside world until the ship returned for another brief week or so in a year’s time. There was no air link, established or even planned. Was any other workplace in the world as isolated? Even in the Antarctic, did any other base have so fleeting a relief? Together with my companions I was irrevocably committed.” Lewis Juckes describes the many new experiences that lay ahead over the next two years, first while living in huts buried deep within the snow and then in the field with dog teams for transport and tents for accommodation. Thrills and rare sights were there, as well as scares and dangers – and tragedy within the close-knit group. This was Antarctica in the mid-1960s.
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Troubador Publishing Ltd A Bed with a View
Book SynopsisAn honest and times amusing description of being a patient in an NHS hospital ward. Also a humorous autobiography of growing up and finding work in Liverpool.
£14.39
Troubador Publishing Ltd Independence
Book SynopsisA story of three generations of passionate Finnish women. A family history, as well as the story of Finland from the 1918 civil war to the 1970âs.
£14.39
Olympia Publishers A Cheffing Adventure
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Olympia Publishers Life Luck and Lessons Learned
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Olympia Publishers BLUE
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Olympia Publishers God Hates Me
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Olympia Publishers Two Gay Men Three Cats and a Dog
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Olympia Publishers Screaming Into The Darkness
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Olympia Publishers From Paedophiles To Padded Cells A Life That No
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Olympia Publishers Tollivers Travels
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£10.79
Olympia Publishers Why Do I Hate Cabbage
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£10.44
Troubador Publishing Ltd Penzance to Paddington Stop Block to Stop Block
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£15.29
The History Press Ltd One Man and His Hog
Book SynopsisBroadcaster Paul Heiney reveals the remarkable story of his relationship with his pig, Alice, and how we can all learn from her
£10.44
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Dope Daze
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Letters to Four Very Dead and Deeply Flawed Poets
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Verso Books My Country Africa
Book SynopsisAndrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman in Africa—played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and ’60s, advising the postcolonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea, and Ghana.In this autobiography, Blouin retraces her remarkable journey as an African revolutionary. Born in French Equatorial Africa and abandoned at the age of three, she endured years of neglect and abuse in a colonial orphanage, which she escaped after being forced by nuns into an arranged marriage at fifteen. She later became radicalized by the death of her two-year-old son, who was denied malaria medication by French officials because he was one-quarter African.In Guinea, where Blouin was active in Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence, she came into contact with leaders of the liberation movement in the Belgian Congo. Blouin witnessed the Congolese tragedy up close as an adviser to Patrice Lumumba, whose arrest and assassination she narrates in unforgettable detail.Blouin offers a sweeping survey of pan-African nationalism, capturing the intricacies of revolutionary diplomacy, comradeship, and betrayal. Alongside intimate portraits of the movement’s leaders, Blouin provides insights into the often-overlooked contribution of African women in the struggle for independence.
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Ak Press To Rob A Bank Is An Honor
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