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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Health and Safety
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Kensington Publishing The Girl on the Balcony
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Penguin Putnam Inc All Down Darkness Wide
Book SynopsisWinner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature • Named a Best Book of 2022 by Kirkus, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness • Named a Best Book of July by Buzzfeed • A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction 2022 Summer Read • Observer Book of the Week • Lammy Finalist“The most beautiful prose I’ve read in years.”—Alexander Chee, The Atlantic • Rapturous...Hewitt beautifully illuminates his own darknesses so that we might also see our own.—Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book Review • “Exquisitely written.”—Claire Messud, Harper’s MagazineWhen Seán Hewitt meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe mental illness, they soon come face-to-face with crisis.All Down Darkness Wide is
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Random House USA Inc Out of Africa Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction
Book SynopsisSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful. The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called Announcement Number One. Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent
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Simon & Schuster Angelas Ashes
Book SynopsisThe author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc D.V.
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HarperCollins Publishers A YEAR IN GREEN TEA AND TUKTUKS My unlikely adventure creating an eco farm in Sri Lanka
Book SynopsisBBC journalist and environmentalist Rory Spowers wanted to finally live his dream and abandon life in London for a more ecologically sustainable lifestyle. Moving with his wife and two toddler sons to a 60-acre abandoned tea estate in Sri Lanka, Rory sets out to create a model organic farm there and earn his livelihood from the land.Trade Review"Rory Spowers writes with candour and wit about the agony and ecstasy of trying to live the green dream with his young family in an abandoned Sri Lankan tea plantation!Inspiring stuff." Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall "This is a book of great charm and warmth that captures perfectly the restless spirit of all of us. I heartily recommend it." Tim Smit, co-founder of The Eden Project ' ..a fascinating read that will engage anyone interested in organic farming.' Lifescape magazine '..utterly absorbing' Environment UK
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Little, Brown Book Group Past Mortems
Book Synopsis**PRE-ORDER NOW: MURDER ISN''T EASY: THE FORENSICS OF AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE FASCINATING NEW BOOK BY CARLA VALENTINE**''Part memoir and part manifesto, Valentine''s book lifts the lid on daily life in the mortuary . . . Valentine bares her own soul . . . with visceral attention to physical and emotional detail'' - Wendy Moore, Guardian''A fascinating portrait . . . one seriously intriguing read'' - Glamour''A grisly topic, but a glorious read'' - Mail on SundayA day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and ''death professional'' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was her desk, and that day''s corpses her task list.Past Mortems tells Carla''s stories of those years, as well as investigating the body alongside our attitudes towards death - shedding light on what tTrade ReviewIt is an understatement to say that Valentine is passionate about embracing death ... Part memoir and part manifesto, Valentine's book lifts the lid on daily life in the mortuary ... [Valentine] bares her own soul ... with visceral attention to physical and emotional detail -- Wendy Moore Guardian a fascinating portrait ... one seriously intriguing read Glamour There are sections of Valentine's writing that fondly brought back my first post-mortem experience. Rather than listening to the pathologist's monologue about coronary arteries, I was mesmerised by the painstaking focus of the APT ... Valentine succeeds in presenting her trade as a caring one. -- Kate Womersley Spectator
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HarperCollins Publishers A Merry Dance Around the World
Book SynopsisA collection of writing from Britain's best-loved travel writer, ‘A Merry Dance around the World’ is the culmination of a lifetime of adventure.Trade Review'Newby is an incomparable, shrewd and witty travel writer … Immensely enjoyable' John Mortimer, Mail on Sunday 'Newby has quite rightly established himself as one of the sharpest, funniest and most boisterously entertaining of all travel writers' Sunday Telegraph 'Cost me a lot of sleep because it was too enjoyable to put down' Peter Lewis, Daily Mail 'Still holds the laurels as the country's wittiest travel writer. A Merry Dance Around the World is a collection of all the master's best traveller's tales from a lifetime's travel writing. It is an astonishing catalogue of disasters and misunderstandings, but it had me laughing so uncontrollably, my wife eventually forbade me from reading it in public' Sunday Times 'In the increasingly popular realm of travel writing, Eric Newby has acquired Homeric status . . . The extract from Love and War in the Apennines, arguably one of the best travel books ever written, shows Eric Newby at his most scintillating, and the chapter from A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush includes the most luminous moment in modern travelling history' Daily Telegraph 'Whatever Eric Newby writes, I read with uncritical pleasure. The Newby travels are classics of their time' Financial Times 'Keeping up with Eric Newby, every breathless puff and pant of it, is worth it all the way. His vitality, which was always more than most people's, gets bigger and his writing richer and funnier' Observer 'Compassionate and hilarious' Independent on Sunday 'Wonderful stuff' Wanderlust’
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Yale University Press The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Book SynopsisThe authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, now with a new foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. MorganTrade Review“People who have read one or more of the many current books about Benjamin Franklin really ought to direct their attention to the man himself, specifically to The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. . . . It is the first great American book. . . . An extraordinary document. . . . Plainly yet vividly written, its 18th-century prose still accessible to ordinary readers more than two centuries later. . . . It portrays Colonial and Revolutionary America . . . with an immediacy unmatched in almost any other document. . . . Franklin’s wisdom is for the ages, our own as much as his. So read the Autobiography and—among the many editions available—read Yale’s. Its text is the most reliable (the Franklin papers are at Yale) and its supplementary material is uniformly useful.”—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post“The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography].”—J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books“Where so many fancy books are long on pictures and short on readable reading matter, this one is superbly the reverse. . . . What counts here is the text: the first thoroughly edited and adequately annotated version of Franklin’s memoirs faithful in every word to Franklin’s holograph. . . . The result is like cleaning away the grime and crackled varnish of generations to discover unsuspected sparkle in an old master.”—Time
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Picador USA When Women Were Birds Fiftyfour Variations on
Book SynopsisIn fifty-four short chapters, the author recounts memories of her mother, ponders her own Mormon faith, and contemplates the notion of absence in art and in our world. She deals with the question: What does it mean to have a voice?Trade Review"This poetic memoir continues the work Williams began in Refuge....Williams explores her mother's identity - woman, wife, mother, and Mormon - as she continues to honour her memory....A lyrical and elliptical meditation on women, nature, family, and history." (The Boston Globe)"
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Simon & Schuster Camera Girl
Book Synopsis“One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date.” —The Washington Post An illuminating and “wholly refreshing” (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer in Washington, DC; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts congressman who shared her intellectual passion.Camera Girl “shines with wit and intelligence” (Library Journal, starred review) as it brings to life Jackie’s years as a young, single woman trying to figure out who she wanted to become. Chafing at the expectations of her family and the societal limitations placed on women in that era, Jackie pursued her dream career as a writer. Set primarily during the years of 1949 to 1953, when Jackie was in her early twenties, the book recounts in heretofore
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
Book SynopsisIn an era when we are constantly bombarded by technology and instant gratification is the norm, this work is a reminder of the wisdom to be found in books and proof of the all-encompassing power and delight of reading.Trade Review"The beauty of her project lies in seeing how books intertwine with daily life, how very much they affect our moods, interactions, and, especially important for Sankovitch, how we recover and process our memories...She makes reading seem accessible, relaxing, inspiring, fun." -- Los Angeles Times "Anyone who has ever sought refuge in literature will identify with Tolstoy and the Purple Chair." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Sankovitch's memoir stands as a tribute to the power of books to enrich our daily lives." -- Christian Science Monitor "This graceful memoir describes a true love affair with books." -- Boston Globe "A beautifully fluid, reflective, and astute memoir that gracefully combines affecting family history with expert testimony about how books open our minds to 'the complexity and entirety of the human experience.' Sankovitch's reading list in all its dazzling variety is top-notch." -- Booklist "[Tolstoy and the Purple Chair] digs deep into that near-mystical connection between a reader and an author-that startling feeling that you are channeling someone you have never met...A gripping and inspiring book." -- Connecticut Post "What Sankovitch has accomplished in her first book is not only to celebrate the transformational, even healing, powers of reading, but to give the reader a feeling of reading those books as well, through the eyes of an astute reader." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Her deeply moving memoir artfully intertwines her immigrant family's history with the universal themes of hope, resilience, and memory. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair celebrates not only the healing power of literature but its ability to connect us to the best of ourselves - and each other." -- American Way "[An] entertaining bibliophile's dream...Sankovitch's memoir speaks to the power that books can have over our daily lives. Sankovitch champions the act of reading not as an indulgence but as a necessity, and will make the perfect gift from one bookworm to another." -- Publishers Weekly "Nina Sankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature-to heal, to nurture and to connect us to our truest selves." -- Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between us "In Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, her affectionate and inspiring paean to the power of books and reading, Sankovitch gracefully acknowledges that her year of reading was an escape into the healing sanctuary of books, where she learned how to move beyond recuperation to living." -- BookPage "Tolstoy and the Purple Chair will transport you to a time before texts and tweets. Through the stories of her own family, Nina Sankovitch shows how books have the power to refresh, renew, and even heal us. I loved this memoir." -- Julie Klam, author of You Had Me at Woof "Tolstoy and the Purple Chair is original, uplifting and very moving: a unique celebration of life, love and literature." -- S. J. Bolton, author of Now You See Me "[A] brilliant and heartwarming book." -- Ventura County Star "An original and touching...account of one woman's lifelong affinity for books and her attempt to channel that affinity to deal with her grief after her sister dies. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair is an understated but moving story about the effects of a 'year of magical reading.'" -- The Dartmouth "Tolstoy and the Purple Chair masterfully weaves beloved and sometimes surprising books into central events in the writer's life. There is much to learn from this moving book. Sankovitch writes with intelligence and honesty, leading us to respond in a similar manner." -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of One Amazing Thing "Tolstoy and the Purple Chair is a must-read for anyone who adores books. It is also a primer on the healing power of taking time off to grieve by immersing oneself in a revered activity." -- The Book Bully "Tolstoy and the Purple Chair is an absolutely lovely account of the healing power of literature." -- Devourer of Books "Sankovitch's account works well because she uses her reading list to jump off into topics that are tangential, yet intriguing and often important." -- Buffalo News "A beautifully paced look at how mindfulness can affect the psyche." -- Shelf Awareness (starred review) "[Tolstoy and the Purple Chair] offers timeless wisdom, is uplifting and has a powerful message." -- PsychCentral.com "She is adept at stitching together musings about the books she is reading with memory and narrative from her own life." -- The Christian Century "What is best in Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, however, is not the author's literary criticism, but the way in which she blends her accounts of her reading with the story of her family and with broader human concerns." -- Smoky Mountain News
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HarperCollins L.a. Son
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Random House USA Inc Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BEST SELLER • Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty an
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Random House USA Inc Wild
Book SynopsisA powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Margaret Thatcher
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Random House USA Inc Paris to the Moon
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The finest book on France in recent years.”—Alain de Botton, The New York Times Book Review In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of Paris. In the grand tradition of Stein, Hemingway, Baldwin, and Liebling, Gopnik set out to enjoy the storied existence of an American in Paris—walks down the paths of the Tuileries, philosophical discussions in cafés, and afternoon jaunts to the Musée d’Orsay. But as readers of Gopnik’s beloved and award-winning “Paris Journal” in The New Yorker know, there was also the matter of raising a child and carrying on with la vie quotidienne—the daily, slightly less fabled life. As Gopnik discovers in this tender account, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not comp
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Southeast Asia A Testament Asias TransformationsCritical Asian Scholarship
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Penguin Books Ltd Undertones of War
Book SynopsisThe poet and critic Edmund Blunden was born in Yalding, Kent in 1896. He studied at Oxford, was professor of English literature at Tokyo from 1924-7 and fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1931. He joined the staff of 'The Times Literary Supplement' in 1943, and from 1953 lectured at the University of Hong Kong. From1966-8 he was professor of poetry at Oxford.Trade ReviewAn established classic ... accurate and detailed in observation of the war scene and its human figures -- D. J. Enright
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Urano World SEREMOS JAGUARES
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Henry Holt and Co. Eminent Jews
Book SynopsisLeonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their forebears and changed American life.They worked in different fields, and, apart from clinking glasses at parties now and then, they hardly knew one another. But they shared a historical moment and a common temperament. For all four, their Jewish heritage was electrified by American liberty. The results were explosive.As prosperity for Jews increased and anti-Semitism began to fade after World War II, these four creative giants stormed through the latter half of the twentieth century, altering the way people around the world listened to music, defined what was vulgar, comprehended the relations of men and women, and understood the American soul. They were not saints; they were turbulent and self-dissatisfied intellectuals who fearlessly wielded their own newly won freedom
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HarperCollins Publishers Liverpool Miss
Book SynopsisThe second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression.The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival. But life remains extremely tough for fourteen-year-old Helen. Along with caring for her younger siblings and suffering terrible hardships she is also battling with her parents to persuade them to allow her to earn her own living. Helen is desperate to lead her own life after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling.Written with an unflinching eye, Helen's account of her continuing struggles against severe malnutrition and dirt (she has her first bath in four years) and, above all, the selfish demands of her parents, is deeply shocking. But Helen's fortitude and her ability to find humour in the most harrowing of situations make this make this a story of amazing courage and perseverance.Trade Review‘Remarkable that from so bleak and unloving a background came a writer of such affectionate understanding and unsettling honesty’Sunday Telegraph ‘It was the biography that I would have written if my parents had not been given benefits, if they’d had to rely on parish hand outs … [I] want to press this book into your hands and go, “You must read this”.’ Caitlin Moran ‘What makes this writer’s self-told tale so memorable?… An absolute recall, a genius for the unforgettable detail, the rare chance of subject’The Good Book Guide
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Penguin Books Ltd A Woman in Arabia The Writings of the Queen of
Book SynopsisA portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner HerzogGertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world, and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today’s Middle East. As she wrote in one of her letters, “It’s a bore being a woman when you are in Arabia.” Forthright and spirited, oTrade Review[A] well-chosen selection from [the] letters and memoirs [of] one of the most remarkable figures of the late 19th and early 20th century . . . Bell might be regarded as the much happier, female equivalent of T. E. Lawrence, who knew and admired her * Washington Post *A fascinating glimpse at [Bell's] larger-than-life personality . . . Timely and timeless . . . The genius of this collection is letting Bell tell her story in her own words-just as her fiercely independent spirit would have wanted. Impossible to put down, the book reads a bit like a travelog, part humorous wit and part educational lecture, allowing the reader an in-depth look at the life of a true heroine and the time period she inhabited and conquered * Library Journal *An impressive anthology . . . Howell brings the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' to life through judicious selections from Bell's massive public writings and personal papers. . . . Bell comes across as a compassionate, erudite quasi-diplomat worthy of great admiration * Kirkus Reviews *Tantalizing . . . Fascinating . . . Bell's own words showcase . . . a personality and intellect that glittered like the sun-drenched Arabian sands. . . . Readers will accompany her on some of her most daring exploits. . . . This is a nifty little volume that illuminates a remarkable life * Publishers Weekly *
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Freedom
Book SynopsisThe long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our timeFor 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But Angela Merkel was not born a Chancellor. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-standing political advisor Beate Baumann, she looks back on her life in two German states 35 years in the GDR (German Democratic Republic), 35 years in reunified Germany. More personally than ever before, she talks about her childhood, youth, and her studies in the GDR, and the dramatic year of 1989, when the Wall fell and her political life began. She shares insights into her meetings and conversations with the world''s most powerful leaders and elucidates, with clear and precise examples, significant national, European, and international turning points and how decisions were made that shape ou
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HarperCollins Publishers The Chains of Heaven
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HarperCollins Publishers Twopence to Cross the Mersey
Book SynopsisThe poignant account of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the 1930s, and the brilliant first volume of autobiography. A bestseller ever since it was published in February 1993. One of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read.Anyone who has enjoyed the Frank McCourt books is going to be equally moved by this magnificent testimony to a little girl's courage.When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in 1930 she and her six siblings were forced from comfortable middle-class life in southern England to utmost poverty in the Depression-ridden North. The running of the household, in slum surroundings and with little food, and the care of the younger children all fell on twelve-year-old Helen. She writes about her experiences without self-pity but rather with a rich sense of humour which makes her account of these grim days heartwarmingly funny as well as shockingly moving.Trade Review‘It was the biography that I would have written if my parents had not been given benefits, if they’d had to rely on parish hand outs … [I] want to press this book into your hands and go, “You must read this”.’ Caitlin Moran ‘Remarkable that from so bleak and unloving a background came a writer of such affectionate understanding and unsettling honesty’ Sunday Telegraph ‘What makes this writer’s self-told tale so memorable?… An absolute recall, a genius for the unforgettable detail, the rare chance of subject’The Good Book Guide 'Should be long and widely read as an extraordinary human story and social document' Observer
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Simon & Schuster Teacher Man
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Hachette Australia Running Like China A memoir of a life interrupted
Book Synopsis''When I was eleven years old Mum told me, One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. Even before I heard these words I was always a child who crammed intense joy into tiny pockets of time.''One day Sophie Hardcastle realised the joy she''d always known had disappeared. She was constantly tired, with no energy, no motivation and no sense of enjoyment for surfing, friends, conversations, movies, parties, family - for anything. Her hours became empty. And then, the month before she turned seventeen, that emptiness filled with an intense, unbearable sadness that made her scream and tear at her skin. Misdiagnosed with chronic fatigue, then major depression, then temporal lobe epilepsy, she was finally told - three years, two suicide attempts and five hospital admissions later - that she had Bipolar 1 Disorder.In this honest and beautifully told memoir, Sophie lays bare her story of mental illness - of a teenage girl using drugs, alcohol and sex in Trade ReviewInterview * Kids Book Reviews *Mention, event recap, Date a Book YA Blogger Night, August 2015 -- Kat Kennedy * Cuddlebuggery Book Blog *Mention, event recap, Date a Book YA Blogger Night * Genie in a Book *Mention, event recap, Date a Book YA Blogger Night * Sweet Little Pretties *Mention, event recap, Date a Book YA blogger night * The Never Ending Bookshelf *Mention, event recap, Date a Book YA blogger night * Words on Paper *Please, please make the effort to track this book down. * Escape Club *Instagram shoutout * Emmgurr *PICK OF THE WEEK + written with raw honesty, immediacy and heart-felt lyricism, her tale is one that will resonate deeply with young people in particular * Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday Age, Canberra Times, Daily Advertiser, Burnie Advocate, Bendigo Advertiser, Ballarat Courier *
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Random House Publishing Group Call ME Anna The Autobiography of Patty Duke
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Faber & Faber A Fish in the Water
Book SynopsisMario Vargas Llosa''s A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir by one of Latin America''s most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.Llosa evokes the experiences which gave rise to his fiction, and describes the social, literary, and political influences that led him to enter the political arena as a crusader for a free-market economy.A deeply absorbing look at how fact becomes fiction and at the formation of a courageous writer with strong political commitments, A Fish in the Water reveals Mario Vargas Llosa as a world figure whose real story is just beginning.
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Stormberg Publishers,South Africa The Lady Who Fought A Young Womans Account of the
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The Library of America Frederick Douglass Autobiographies LOA 68
Book SynopsisHenry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader.Here in this Library of America volume are collected Frederick Douglass''s three autobiographical narratives, now recognized as classics of both American history and American literature. Writing with the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made him a brilliantly effective spokesman for the abolition of slavery and equal rights, Douglass shapes an inspiring vision of self-realization in the face of monumental odds.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), published seven years after his escape, was written in part as a response to skeptics who refused to believe that so articulate an orator could ever have been a slave. A powerfully compressed account of the cruelty and oppression of the Maryland plantation culture into which Douglass was born, it brought him to the forefront of the anti-slavery movement and drew thousands, black and white, to the cause.In My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Douglass expands the account of his slave years. With astonishing psychological penetration, he probes the painful ambiguities and subtly corrosive effects of black-white relations under slavery, and recounts his determined resistance to segregation in the North. The book also incorporates extracts from Douglass’s speeches, including the searing “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”Life and Times, first published in 1881, records Douglass’s efforts to keep alive the struggle for racial equality udirng Reconstruction. John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Beecher Stowe all feature prominently in this chronicle of a crucial epoch in American history. The revised edition of 1893, presented here, includes an account of his controversial diplomatic mission to Haiti.This volume contains a detailed chronology of Douglass’s life, notes providing further background on the events and people mentioned, and an account of the textual history of each of the autobiographies.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Gateways Books & Tapes Shivitti
Book SynopsisPresents the author's own account of his experience of two years in Auschwitz and his subsequent attempts at recovery. The text recounts his time in captivity, years of torment and how finally the author sought help from a psychiatrist who recognized Concentration Camp Syndrome.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Into the Planet
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Floris Books Karl Koenigs Path into Anthroposophy
Book SynopsisFollows Karl Koenig's spiritual journey from his early years to the end of his life, through the words of his diaries.Trade Review'The book is a little gem, of potential interest to anyone with an anthroposophical background but especially to those working within a Camphill setting...there are so many quotable entries that it is hard to decide which to bring forward for illustration...This little volume is rich in substance and will give readers lasting nourishment. It will also leave them eagerly looking forward to the further publications from Konig's diaries and papers which are currently being prepared.'-- Crispian Villeneuve, Camphill Correspondence
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Committed
Book SynopsisA contemplation of marriage that debunks myths, unthreads fears and suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in the author's amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibility of adulthood.Trade Review'A writer of incandescent talent.' Annie Proulx
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Simon & Schuster True Spirit The True Story of a 16YearOld
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iUniverse Sopranino
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Picador USA The Faithful Executioner
Book SynopsisTHE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF A RENAISSANCE-ERA EXECUTIONER AND HIS WORLD, BASED ON A RARE AND OVERLOOKED JOURNAL.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured for more than forty-five years in the city of Nuremberg. But the portrait of Schmidt that gradually emerged was not that of a monster. Could a man who practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionateeven progressive?In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington teases out the hidden meanings and drama of Schmidt''s journal. Deemed an official outcast, Meister Frantz sought to prove himself worthy of honor and free his children from the stigma of his profession. Harrington uncovers details of Schmidt''s life and work: the shocking, but often familiar, crimes o
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Yale University Press Letters from Mexico
Book SynopsisWritten over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, Hernan Cortes's letters provide a narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. The two introductions set the letters in context.Trade Review"[A] welcome re-issue of Anthony Pagden’s fine translation of Cortés’ Cartas De Relacion. . . . This edition is a model of how to present a sometimes difficult text to an English-speaking readership."—B.W. Ife, Times Higher Education Supplement"[The] definitive translation. . . . It adds up to one of the most fascinating Machiavellian documents to come out of the Renaissance."—Carlos Fuentes, The Guardian"The definitive edition [of the letters] in any language. . . . The book is a 'must' for all those who are seriously interested in this traumatic clash of civilisations and the consequences, both for good and ill, which ensued."—C.R. Boxer, English Historical Review"Ensures that the achievements and controversies of Hernan Cortés will have a source and a guide worthy of these extraordinary events."—John Lynch, Journal of Latin American Studies
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HarperCollins Publishers TWO IN A BOAT A Marital Rite of Passage
Book SynopsisIn her forties Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis decided to trade in her landlubber life – a nice house in Cardiff and a sensible job at the BBC – for life aboard a small yacht with her husband Leighton, a former bosun with the Merchant Navy and now in his mid-sixties.Trade Review‘Gwyneth Lewis is a writer first and last and her boating book is a surpassing exception … Her view of the way sailors get from A to B is the freshest and truest I've read in the canon of small-boat adventuring. This funny, finally profound and moving sailing memoir is no more for sailors than for gardeners, or anyone who tried to navigate the maelstrom waters of a marriage. Don't pack it away in the boat; take it home’ Guardian Praise for Gwyneth Lewis:‘Felicitous, urbane, heartbreaking, the poems of Gwyneth Lewis form a universe whose planets use language for oxygen and are thus inhabitable’ Joseph Brodsky ‘True stars in poetry like Gwyneth Lewis always match brilliance with warmth. She is one to bet on.’ Les Murray
£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Sailor in the Wardrobe
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£999.99
Hodder & Stoughton Not Without You
Book SynopsisA powerful love story that touched the heart of the nation when it was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4.Trade Review'I'm not a fan of 'misery memoirs', but this is a shining exception. Alan and Irene both write extremely well.' **** * Mail on Sunday *A remarkable real-life romance * Glasgow Evening Times *There's no question that this is love. It's a joy to see * Woman's Weekly *Love finds a way... A heart-stopping love story * Sunderland Echo *Love, Actually * Aberdeen Press *The couple's story confirms the power of human relationships over an unfeeling world * Oldham Evening Chronicle *This is a story of hope and destiny and will reaffirm your belief in romance * Soul and Spirit *'I'm not a fan of 'misery memoirs', but this is a shining exception. Alan and Irene both write extremely well.' **** * Mail on Sunday - *'I'm not a fan of 'misery memoirs', but this is a shining exception. Alan and Irene both write extremely well.' **** * Mail on Sunday - *
£10.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Rainbow Comes and Goes
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Stolen Innocence
Book SynopsisIn September 2007, a packed courtroom in St George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This title tells the story of one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her life.Trade Review"Wall's story couldn't be more timely. Her descriptions of the polygamous sect's rigidity are shocking, but what's most fascinating is the immensely likeable author's struggle to reconcile her longing for happiness with her terror of it's consequences." -- People
£17.30
Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. Night
Book SynopsisA new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel''s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps.This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie''s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author''s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man''s capacity for inhumanity to man.Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.
£11.70
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Oblivion
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£16.20
