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Archway Publishing Pictured Life: And True Stories from Northern and
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£43.90
Archway Publishing Luck, Courage, & Miracles: Surviving the Jewish
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£13.29
Capstone Press Football GOATS
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£8.54
Capstone Press Fernando Tatis Jr.: Big-Time Hitter
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£8.54
Capstone Press Christian Yelich: Baseball MVP
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£8.54
Capstone Press Naomi Osaka: Grand Slam Champ
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£8.54
Capstone Press Sabrina Ionescu: Rising Basketball Star
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£8.54
Capstone Press The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: A
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£23.49
Capstone Press The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: A
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£8.54
Capstone Press Joel Embiid: Basketball Star Shooter
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£23.49
Pebble Books Greta Thunberg
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£23.49
Pebble Books Greta Thunberg
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Pebble Books Kamala Harris
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£8.54
Pebble Books Kamala Harris
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£23.49
Capstone Press What You Never Knew about Ariana Grande
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£23.49
Capstone Press What You Never Knew about Lionel Messi
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£23.49
Academica Press Nietzsche and Joyce Carol Oates: Nietzschean
Book SynopsisNietzsche and Joyce Carol Oates explores the American novelist's The Wonderland Quartet through a reading of the German philosopher's seminal works. In the four books of The Wonderland Quartet – A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Expensive People (1968), the National Book Award-winning Them (1969), and Wonderland (1971) – Oates aestheticizes cultural experiments after the Nietzschean proclamation of "God is dead" permeated American culture from about 1950. What may be delineated as Oates's original literary scholarship is her ability to reflect on the cultural reception of Walter Kaufmann's work on Nietzsche in her fiction, while enabling her characters to find their purposes. Echoing Nietzsche, her characters are not limited by normative standards. The author's narrative techniques allow her characters' polyphonic voices to dominate the flow.
£127.50
The New York Review of Books, Inc Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters
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£17.85
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini,
Book SynopsisA warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mercantile network in fourteenth-century Tuscany, and a peerless evocation of the sensations, personalities, and everyday struggles of Italian life more than half a millennium in the past.“For God and Profit” is how the medieval merchant Francesco di Marco Datini headed a notebook in which he kept track of his business dealings, and these were certainly his guiding lights. Born in the 1330s in the Tuscan town of Prato, the son of a poor taverner, Datini set out at the age of fifteen for Avignon, where, over the course of the next thirty-five years, he made a fortune trading in arms, armor, artworks, wool, saffron, leather, silk, and much more. Returning home, he expanded his operations, setting up offices all across the Mediterranean, which he oversaw through an unceasing flow of correspondence. When he died, Datini asked that all his papers be preserved in his house, and in 1870 they were found, a little worm-eaten and mouse-nibbled but largely intact, in a sack under the stairs. They are one of the great records not only of medieval life but of the emergence of the modern commercial world.Drawing on this rich archive, Iris Origo offers a wonderfully vivid account of Datini’s public and private worlds. The Merchant of Prato is a masterpiece of modern narrative history.
£19.51
The New York Review of Books, Inc Stories I Forgot to Tell You
Book SynopsisA delicate and darkly witty reflection on loss, marriage, writing, and life in New York from an acclaimed biographer and memoirist.Dorothy Gallagher’s husband, Ben Sonnenberg, died in 2010. He had suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years and was almost completely paralyzed, but his wonderful, playful mind remained quite undimmed. In the ten sections of Stories I Forgot to Tell You, Gallagher moves freely and intuitively between the present and the past to evoke the life they made together and her life after his death, alone and yet at the same time never without thoughts of him, in a present that is haunted but also comforted by the recollection of their common past. She talks—the whole book is written conversationally, confidingly, unpretentiously—about small things, such as moving into a new apartment and setting it up, growing tomatoes on a new deck, and as she does she recalls her missing husband’s elegant clothes and British affectations, what she knew about him and didn’t know, the devastating toll of his disease and the ways they found to deal with it. She talks about their two dogs and their cat, Bones, and the role that a photograph she never took had in bringing her together with her husband. Her mother, eventually succumbing to dementia, is also here, along with friends, an old typewriter, episodes from a writing life, and her husband’s last days. The stories Gallagher has to tell, as quirky as they are profound, could not be more ordinary, and yet her glancing, wry approach to memory and life gives them an extraordinary resonance that makes the reader feel both the logic and the mystery of a couple’s common existence. Her prose is perfectly pitched and her eye for detail unerring. This slim book about irremediable loss and unending love distills the essence of a lifetime.
£14.39
The New York Review of Books, Inc Instead of a Letter
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£14.41
The New York Review of Books, Inc Letters to Gwen John
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£23.96
Weldon Owen, Incorporated Somebody to Love: The Life, Death, and Legacy of
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£16.38
Weldon Owen, Incorporated Paul Ricard: The Story of Provence's Drinks King
Book SynopsisThe biography of Paul Ricard—whose eponymous company Pernod Ricard produced and popularized pastis, an anise aperitif from his native Marseille—embodies a wonderfully rich business success story of the 20th century. Overcoming significant adversity amid the turmoil of the 1930s, Ricard built a renowned premium spirits brand, parlaying the beauty and mystique of Provence into a worldwide libation.A savvy marketer and maverick, Paul Ricard started a company in Marseille, France, to introduce pernod, the beloved local aperitif, to the world. With its striking, colorful branding that evoked sunny Provence, the company thrived until the arrival of World War II, when Ricard was forced to close down operations. Ever the entrepreneur, he pivoted to agriculture and built up a successful rice farm from scratch. After the war, Ricard rebuilt his brand anew and lay the groundwork for the global leader it is today. This is the story of Ricard’s extraordinary life, a timeless tale of adventure, business prowess, and endless adaptability. In addition to his successful spirits company, Ricard opened a popular racecar circuit; transformed Mediterranean islands into vacation destinations; and pursued his lifelong love of painting. With endless optimism, strategic acumen, and unwavering determination, Ricard navigated his way through turbulent political and economic times to create a successful business that has stood the test of time and now includes more than 35 international brands, from Absolut Vodka to Chival Regal.
£21.25
North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc The Klinefelter Legacy: A Story of Faith, Family,
Book SynopsisSt. Joseph, Minnesota, police officer Brian Klinefelter was gunned down on January 29, 1996, leaving behind a wife and infant daughter. His death in the midst of a crime spree by three local men shocked Central Minnesota. But the response of his family and others affected by that night's violence was just as surprising in its grace. Drawing on dozens of interviews and hundreds of pages of court records, The Klinefelter Legacy reveals never-before-published details about that night, and also what the family and others have done in the twenty years since to help themselves and the community heal.
£13.25
North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc Flying Uncle's Junk: Hauling Drugs for Uncle Sam
Book SynopsisFlying Uncle's Junk is the much-anticipated follow-up memoir to A Shadow at the Gate. Author Don Bloch spent more than twenty years with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration. He made undercover buys of heroin, cocaine, and other drugs on the streets of Minneapolis. As a DEA pilot, he flew undercover and surveillance missions in many cities across the United States. He flew in the Mexican mountains of Sinaloa hunting opium poppy fields, and in the jungles of South America hunting cocaine laboratories. In vivid prose, Bloch describes the danger DEA agents were exposed to every day in the course of their work during the War on Drugs.
£14.20
North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc The Mare and the Mouse: Stories of My Horses Vol.
Book SynopsisBeautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic and magic-filled, Martín Prechtel's new book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala. First in the Stories of My Horses Series, The Mare and the Mouse is meant to be read aloud to crowds around campfires, especially to people who are mistaken that only rich people or rednecks ride horses, Prechtel credits both his own physical and spiritual survival in "modernity's mad rush to nowhere" with the sanity of riding and living with his natural-born Southwestern horses. Not raised for show, performance, status, or money, these little horses allowed a way of living that took him flying over ravines into deep-mountain Holy places, backwards over streams, and in general keeping alive a sparkier, older spirit in an age where horses have been grossly de-natured and sadly removed from our own everyday lives after three millennia as the closest companions of our ancestors' dreams and mythologies.
£17.95
North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc The Wild Rose: Stories of My Horses
Book SynopsisIn The Mare and the Mouse, the first book in the Stories of My Horses trilogy, Martín Prechtel sets loose his mystical memoir of a few mixed-breed horses who transform into allies of mythic proportions by his one-of-a-kind style of maneuvering through the rugged beauty of New Mexico. Together, they out-canter disillusionment and bitter despair, coursing into a dawn of beauty and humor. This second book, The Wild Rose, continues the saga of re-finding the horses of Prechtel's reservation-youth, which were assumed extinct, along with all the wild vicissitudes, truly magical happenings, and unique pre-cowboy Southwestern horse knowledge. This is the account of his struggle to gather a herd of these old-time Barb horses, who in the process become counselors and co-conspirators in the cause. The Wild Rose chronicles what it takes for Indigenous beauty and wild vitality to live, disappear, reappear, revive, and thrive in the modernity's unsympathetic clatter, and seems to hint the self-spinning condition of today's mindset is a spiritual illness that can cease being the relentless oppressor of Nature, open land, and Naturalness in People, and re-find its own health and nobility of soulTrade Review"Martin Prechtel's book is beautifully written and wisehe offers stories that are precious and life-sustaining. Read carefully, and listen deeply. Mary Oliver
£17.95
Fulcrum Publishing Stifled Laughter: One Woman's Story About
Book SynopsisPart memoir, part courtroom drama, part primer for fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter, the revised edition, is the story of one woman's efforts to restore literary classics to the classrooms of rural north Florida. In 2021, 1,500 books were banned in the United States. More than any other year previously recorded. Johnson's honest, often hilarious, first-person account of censorship in its modern form provides valuable insight into why what our children read at school remains a controversial issue, and why free speech in America remains a precarious right. For anyone who has ever wondered just how far the religious right will go in limiting free expression, this book proves once again that the personal is political. Parents and teachers, writers and readers—all will benefit from Johnson's experience and all will be touched by her spirit.Table of ContentsN/A
£15.95
Time Inc. Books Firsts: Women Who Are Changing the World
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£18.00
Capstone Editions of Coughlan Companies Soaring In Style
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£16.19
Sourcebooks, Inc The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find
Book SynopsisAn LGBTQ memoir about one couple's struggles to defy the patriarchy and redefine the nuclear family, The Other Mothers dives into the history and social challenges queer couples face when trying to make a family.Jenn Berney was one of those people who knew she was destined for motherhood—it wasn't a question of if, but when. So when she and her wife Kelly decided to start building their family, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. But they soon found themselves entrenched in a medical establishment that didn't know what to do with people like them. With no man factoring into their relationship, doctors were at best embarrassed and at worst disparaging of the couple.Soon Jenn found herself stepping outside of the system determined to disregard her. Looking into the history of fertility and the LGBTQ+ community, she saw echoes of her own struggle. For decades queer people have defied the patriarchy and redefined the nuclear family—and Jenn was walking in their footsteps.Through the ups-and-downs of her own journey, Jenn reflects on a turbulent past that has led her to this point and a bright future worth fighting for. With clarity, determination, and hope, The Other Mothers gives us a wonderful glimpse into the many ways we can become family.Trade Review"In The Other Mothers, Berney gives us the fascinating history and social context for things like queer family-making and sperm donation, but she also shows us what it feels like to go through it. Candid and human but always generous, this is a story of stubborn hope and defiant love. I inhaled it." - Meaghan O'Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready"In all, this is a beautiful book about love, family, identity and queer community by a gentle and observant writer. And as the book reached its closing pages, I found myself wanting to cheer as Berney and her partner become the parents they always wanted to be." - BookPage"Jennifer Berney's The Other Mothers is a heartfelt journey into the rough and rewarding world of queer family-making. Personal, political and beautifully written, this book is both a moving memoir and an important document of the needless struggles too many queer families experience in their efforts to have children." - Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot
£12.99
Sourcebooks, Inc The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories
Book SynopsisFor fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII—in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear about. These women who did extraordinary things didn't expect thanks and shied away from medals and recognition. Despite their amazing accomplishments, they've gone mostly unheralded and unrewarded. No longer. These are the women of World War II who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen—in and out of uniform.Young Hilda Eisen was captured twice by the Nazis and twice escaped, going on to fight with the Resistance in Poland. Determined to survive, she and her husband later emigrated to the U.S. where they became entrepreneurs and successful business leaders. Ola Mildred Rexroat was the only Native American woman pilot to serve with the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II. She persisted against all odds—to earn her silver wings and fly, helping train other pilots and gunners. Ida and Louise Cook were British sisters and opera buffs who smuggled Jews out of Germany, often wearing their jewelry and furs, to help with their finances. They served as sponsors for refugees, and established temporary housing for immigrant families in London. Alice Marble was a grand-slam winning tennis star who found her own path to serve during the war—she was an editor with Wonder Woman comics, played tennis exhibitions for the troops, and undertook a dangerous undercover mission to expose Nazi theft. After the war she was instrumental in desegregating women's professional tennis. Others also stepped out of line—as cartographers, spies, combat nurses, and troop commanders.Retired U.S. Army Major General Mari K. Eder wrote this book because she knew their stories needed to be told—and the sooner the better. For theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.Trade Review"This brisk and informative survey is a worthy tribute to the trailblazing women of WWII." - Publishers Weekly"""Eder's engaging writing makes these compelling histories read like a suspense novel. A highly recommended account that will draw in readers of U.S. history and women's history." - Library Journal, STARRED review"My appreciation for the veterans in my own family who served during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, coupled with the tragedy of 9/11 and the sacrifices made since, led me to absolutely consider myself a 'grateful American'—for the blessings of freedom provided by those who wear the cloth of our nation. Major General (Ret.) Mari K. Eder has without a doubt elevated my sense of gratitude even higher. The stories of extraordinary courage, service, and sacrifice by the women she highlights in this book, and all others who served similarly yet have not had their stories told, should inspire all who read this to be grateful Americans as well!" - Gary Sinise, Actor and humanitarian"We don't think of the women of WWII as young girls determined to make a difference. But these women, and thousands like them, did. They networked, connected, and supported one another. When the war ended, that network collapsed, a victim of culture and society's focus on a 'return to normal.' We can't forget what they sacrificed and what they've given to us, and this book helps us do just that." - Michelle Tillis Lederman, author of The Connector's Advantage and The 11 Laws of Likability"This book fills a historic void about Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams and others who stepped out of line to succeed, because the "lines" did not support race, gender, or mission. Their moral courage and leadership knocked down many barriers within the military and beyond." - Colonel (Ret.) Edna W. Cummings, U.S. Army Six Triple Eight Advocate/Producer"A tennis star who became a spy, a Polish immigrant who went to work for the OSS, a Jewish refugee who fought the Nazis as a partisan: these are some of the remarkable women whose incredible stories come to life in this engaging and important book. Mari Eder helps us to complete our history of the Second World War through voices that had been forgotten until now. A must-read for all who want to know more about women's history, the Second World War, and America in the twentieth century." - Michael S. Neiberg, author of Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe"A fascinating page-turner about a mostly forgotten contingent of people—women who willingly stepped 'out of line' to contribute to the Allied victory in WWII. It is a fresh set of gripping stories, from world tennis champ Alice Marble to far less well known heroines. Each story is moving and deeply inspirational." - Admiral James Stavridis, USN Supreme Allied Commander at NATO (Ret.)"The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line is a must-read. Each chapter highlights a different woman who stepped out of line and did what was right—not what was easy or expected. These warriors defied the odds in their fight against bigotry, hatred, and prejudice of all kinds. Many of them helped save the lives of others or helped pave the path for a brighter and equal future for other women. Thankfully, we have someone such as Mari K. Eder, a woman and veteran who also led a selfless life, to bring these stories to life and to preserve the legacies of these heroic women. And while Eder may not be looking for accolades or recognition for this beautifully written tribute, we all owe her a debt of gratitude. I know I will be purchasing a copy of this book for each female warrior and hero in my life." - Adena Bernstein Astrowsky, author of Living Among the Dead"Military women, intelligences agents, and partisan fighters who served in World War II remained much too modest about their accomplishments, and we are indebted to Major General Mari K. Eder (U.S. Army retired) for bringing to light their remarkable stories of dedication and heroism. An engaging and fast-paced work, this book will interest anyone who wants to fully understand why the Allies won the war. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line offers accounts of remarkable role models that will inspire future generations of women and men who embark on a career in military service. Highly recommended." - G. Kurt Piehler, PhD, Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience"Inspiring stories of women warriors who deserve greater attention." - Kirkus Reviews""Straightforward, eye-opening, and invaluable collection... this group biography offers a breezy tone, historic photographs, and plenty of lively anecdotes to bring its subjects to vivid life. " - Booklist
£19.94
Sourcebooks, Inc The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the
Book SynopsisNever tell a woman where she doesn't belong.In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that "women are not adapted to exploration," and that women and exploration do not mix. He obviously didn't know a thing about either...The Girl Explorers is the inspirational and untold story of the founding of the Society of Women Geographers—an organization of adventurous female world explorers—and how key members served as early advocates for human rights and paved the way for today's women scientists by scaling mountains, exploring the high seas, flying across the Atlantic, and recording the world through film, sculpture, and literature.Follow in the footsteps of these rebellious women as they travel the globe in search of new species, widen the understanding of hidden cultures, and break records in spades. For these women dared to go where no woman—or man—had gone before, achieving the unthinkable and breaking through barriers to allow future generations to carry on their important and inspiring work.The Girl Explorers is an inspiring examination of forgotten women from history, perfect for fans of bestselling narrative history books like The Radium Girls, The Woman Who Smashed Codes, and Rise of the Rocket Girls.Trade Review"In riveting detail that builds to insightful crescendo, The Girl Explorers reveals feats and firsts of remarkable achievers who we'd already know if they weren't women. It's about time." - Dr. Margaret Willson, cultural anthropologist and author of Seawomen of Iceland"Jayne Zanglein's THE GIRL EXPLORERS is both a celebration and a reminder that not only can women hike, climb, fly, and swim with the best of them, but they've been doing it all along...This well-researched and enjoyable book restores women to their proper place in history, which is: anywhere they want to go." - Melissa L. Sevigny, author of Mythical River and Under Desert Skies"The Girl Explorers profiles intrepid women who dared to leave their skirts under rocks to boldly occupy space their male counterparts did. A compelling collection of intrepid women -- pilots, scientists, mountain climbers, social reformers, and more -- it uniquely celebrates the work of lesser-known explorers. Highly recommended!" - Kathryn Aalto, author of Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World
£16.02
Sourcebooks, Inc The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories
Book SynopsisFor fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII—in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear about. These women who did extraordinary things didn't expect thanks and shied away from medals and recognition. Despite their amazing accomplishments, they've gone mostly unheralded and unrewarded. No longer. These are the women of World War II who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen—in and out of uniform.Liane B. Russell fled Austria with nothing and later became a renowned U.S. scientist whose research on the effects of radiation on embryos made a difference to thousands of lives. Gena Turgel was a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Bergen-Belsen and cared for the young Anne Frank, who was dying of typhus. Gena survived and went on to write a memoir and spent her life educating children about the Holocaust. Ida and Louise Cook were British sisters who repeatedly smuggled out jewelry and furs and served as sponsors for refugees, and they also established temporary housing for immigrant families in London.Retired U.S. Army Major General Mari K. Eder wrote this book because she knew their stories needed to be told—and the sooner the better. For theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come.Trade Review"My appreciation for the veterans in my own family who served during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, coupled with the tragedy of 9/11 and the sacrifices made since, led me to absolutely consider myself a 'grateful American'—for the blessings of freedom provided by those who wear the cloth of our nation. Major General (Ret.) Mari K. Eder has without a doubt elevated my sense of gratitude even higher. The stories of extraordinary courage, service, and sacrifice by the women she highlights in this book, and all others who served similarly yet have not had their stories told, should inspire all who read this to be grateful Americans as well!" - Gary Sinise, Actor and humanitarian"We don't think of the women of WWII as young girls determined to make a difference. But these women, and thousands like them, did. They networked, connected, and supported one another. When the war ended, that network collapsed, a victim of culture and society's focus on a 'return to normal.' We can't forget what they sacrificed and what they've given to us, and this book helps us do just that." - Michelle Tillis Lederman, author of The Connector's Advantage and The 11 Laws of Likability"This book fills a historic void about Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams and others who stepped out of line to succeed, because the "lines" did not support race, gender, or mission. Their moral courage and leadership knocked down many barriers within the military and beyond." - Colonel (Ret.) Edna W. Cummings, U.S. Army Six Triple Eight Advocate/Producer"A tennis star who became a spy, a Polish immigrant who went to work for the OSS, a Jewish refugee who fought the Nazis as a partisan: these are some of the remarkable women whose incredible stories come to life in this engaging and important book. Mari Eder helps us to complete our history of the Second World War through voices that had been forgotten until now. A must-read for all who want to know more about women's history, the Second World War, and America in the twentieth century." - Michael S. Neiberg, author of Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe"A fascinating page-turner about a mostly forgotten contingent of people—women who willingly stepped 'out of line' to contribute to the Allied victory in WWII. It is a fresh set of gripping stories, from world tennis champ Alice Marble to far less well known heroines. Each story is moving and deeply inspirational." - Admiral James Stavridis, USN Supreme Allied Commander at NATO (Ret.)"The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line is a must-read. Each chapter highlights a different woman who stepped out of line and did what was right—not what was easy or expected. These warriors defied the odds in their fight against bigotry, hatred, and prejudice of all kinds. Many of them helped save the lives of others or helped pave the path for a brighter and equal future for other women. Thankfully, we have someone such as Mari K. Eder, a woman and veteran who also led a selfless life, to bring these stories to life and to preserve the legacies of these heroic women. And while Eder may not be looking for accolades or recognition for this beautifully written tribute, we all owe her a debt of gratitude. I know I will be purchasing a copy of this book for each female warrior and hero in my life." - Adena Bernstein Astrowsky, author of Living Among the Dead"Military women, intelligences agents, and partisan fighters who served in World War II remained much too modest about their accomplishments, and we are indebted to Major General Mari K. Eder (U.S. Army retired) for bringing to light their remarkable stories of dedication and heroism. An engaging and fast-paced work, this book will interest anyone who wants to fully understand why the Allies won the war. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line offers accounts of remarkable role models that will inspire future generations of women and men who embark on a career in military service. Highly recommended." - G. Kurt Piehler, PhD, Director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience
£18.52
Sourcebooks, Inc The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Commemorative
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£9.57
Sourcebooks, Inc The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold
Book SynopsisIf you loved Kate Moore's The Radium Girls or Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance, you'll be enthralled with this untold story of how Katharine Clark, a trailblazing journalist, exposed the truth about Communism to the world.Meticulously researched and written by Clark's great-niece, Katharine Gregorio, The Double Life of Katharine Clark is historical narrative nonfiction at its finest. It is a fascinating Cold War adventure story about a remarkable woman who pioneered a career in a man's profession, vividly illuminating a largely untold chapter of the twentieth century.In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, providing essential eyewitness reports of post-war Europe and the revolutions in Poland and Hungary to the American public. It was while on assignment in Belgrade, Yugoslavia that she befriended Milovan Djilas, a high-ranking Communist leader and intellectual, who became disillusioned with Communism and published a number of newspaper articles criticizing the practices of the regime. He was stripped of his duties and arrested before being released under the watchful eye of the Yugoslavian secret police.Clark risked her life to ensure Djilas's articles made it to the West, and she was single-handedly responsible for smuggling his scathing anti-Communism manifesto, The New Class, out of Yugoslavia and into the hands of American publishers. The New Class would go on to sell three million copies worldwide, become a New York Times bestseller, translated into over 60 languages, and be used by the CIA in its covert book program.The Double Life of Katharine Clark shows how a strong-willed, fiercely independent woman with an ardent commitment to truth, justice, and freedom put her life on the line to share ideas with the world, ultimately reshaping both herself—and history—in the process.
£12.34
Authorhouse A Most Unlikely Story: A Short Memoir of a Long
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£23.39
Lerner Publishing Group G.O.A.T. Baseball Shortstops
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£9.99
Lerner Publishing Group Abby Wambach: Super Striker
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£12.01
Editorial Destellos Ellas
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£10.00
Soulstice Publishing Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits
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£36.51
Winning Team Publishing Mtg
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£28.50
Mosaic Press Artists in Nazi-Occupied France: A German
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£16.10
Book*hug Begin by Telling
Book SynopsisNever forget / to connect the dots / This book is an attempt to connect a couple. In Begin by Telling, experimental pop sensation Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) spins a web out from her body to myriad corners of American hyper-culture. Through illustrated lyric essays depicting visceral memories from early childhood to present day, Remy paints a stark portrait of a spectacle-driven country.As though channel surfing, we catch glimpses of Desert Storm, the Oklahoma City Bombing, random street violence, the petrochemical industry, small town Deadheads, a toilet with uterus lining in it, the county STD clinic, and missionaries at the front door. Each is shared through language of the body; the sensation of experiencing many of the defining events and moments of a country.Immersive and utterly compelling, the threads in Begin by Telling nimbly interweave with probing quotes and statistics, demonstrating the importance of personal storytelling, radical empathy, and the necessity of reflecting on society and one's self within that construct.Trade Review"Begin By Telling explores the horrors and absurdity of being a "girl" in the mediated warscape of America. With sharp emotional intelligence, Remy reveals a cultural systemic rot that begins with family and fractals out into school, life, the media, the government, and history. Both hallucinogenic and lucid, this work is a radical interrogation of trauma, and a literary salve for the feminist psyche." -- Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave and Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions and Criticisms"Powerful and distinctive, Begin by Telling ripped through me with the velocity and weight of a freight train; it's roar drowning out the world around me. A beautiful and brutal work, that forces the reader forward, but is crafted to leave space to catch your breath." -- Tegan Quin from Tegan and Sara"To recover and grow from trauma is a slow and long process. But Remy shows that there can be a path forward. One can listen to the knowledge of the body... And one can share such stories, with themselves and with otherscan begin, simply, "by telling." Lily Nilipour, Stanford Daily
£16.16
Book*hug Crying Wolf: A Memoir
Book SynopsisIt's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway. After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain that a man who wasn't her husband, who she had agreed to go on a date with, had just raped her. Or go home and pray that, in the morning, it would be only a nightmare.In the years that followed, Eden was met with disbelief by strangers, friends, and the authorities, often as a result of stigma towards her non-monogamy, sex positivity, and bisexuality. Societal conditioning of acceptable female sexuality silenced her to a point of despair, leading to addiction and even attempted suicide. It was through the act of writing that she began to heal.Crying Wolf is a gripping memoir that shares the raw path to recovery after violence and spotlights the ways survivors are too often demonized or ignored when they belong to marginalized communities.Boudreau heralds a new era for others who were dismissed for "crying wolf." After all, women prevailing to change society for others is a tale as old as time, too.Trade Review“Boudreau’s early passion for writing and reading turned out to be key to her recovery. On the advice of her therapist, she took up her pen and joined a writing retreat with a literary idol. In the end, she weighed the potential shame of going public with a trial against taking charge of her own story and how it would be told. Crying Wolf is the result of that choice: a battle cry for women who have survived assault.” —Foreword ReviewsTable of ContentsAuthor’s NoteChapter I. Two Roads DivergedChapter II. Tea and ConsentChapter III. Sex and LiesChapter IV. Peeling The OnionChapter V. TriggeredChapter VI. Detective No JusticeChapter VII. Fine LinesChapter VIII. ComatoseChapter IX. Finding PurposeChapter X. Margaret and The BirdsChapter XI. Hard TruthsChapter XII. Don’t Read the CommentsChapter XIII. No Fucks Left to GiveChapter XIV. Returning To the Scene
£17.95
Guernica Editions,Canada Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl?
Book SynopsisMaking coal patties. Selling liquid soap. Shopping at a glittering shoe mecca. She's done them all living half her life in deprived-post-war-communist-Vietnam-turned-free-market. It's life in a vacuum when strange types of brainwashing happened. Part memoir and part social criticism, Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl? is a provocative read about a full-fledged bilingual who fights to get free from the dead past and her ancestors' sins.The story starts with her grandmother's prison visit and moves to a journey through the jungle carried out for family reunion. Drawing strength from her, Hoàng completes her transformation in America from an international student to a free naturalized being. As she sheds her adoration for the impeccable American logic, oscillates between languages, and crosses oceans, she confronts the power play and biases, cultural inhibitors and prejudices that condition human behaviors, be it in Vietnam, America or Thailand. All along, she claims justice for her under-appreciated grandma, straightens male and white patronization, tears down tradition and brainwashing, uncovers the Asian submission to western iconography, and resists the attraction of a white guy. In lucid prose and with a hint of quiet humor, Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl? is an unflinching pursuit of questions about family, finding one's voice, home, and freedom.Trade ReviewIt is not often that we read a memoir with such power, such lucidity, such passion that doesn't get lost in the personal but informs, provides history, and makes us think hard about what it means to be an American woman from somewhere else, what it means to be in the margins even when things go well, and how a visit home reveals that you now have two homes and each provides you a glimpse of "self", but reminds you that your "place" is neither fully here nor fully there. HoÀng's Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl? is a powerful reminder that a woman from somewhere else's humanity is fluid, transnational, transcultural and personal but never ceases to speak to a collective reality of so many other women. I have no doubt this memoir will take its place among the best of Vietnamese, immigrant and American stories of self. -- Ignacio M. García, Author of When Mexicans Could Play BallAnvi HoÀng's Why Do You Look At Me and See a Girl? is an authentic memoir of growing up in Vietnam..., coming to America, journeying around the world in search of peace. HoÀng writes from the voice of experience, commemorating with the memories and the ghosts of her past. Why Do You Look At Me and See a Girl? is a work for the present and an offering for the future. -- Kao Kalia Yang, Author of The LatehomecomerAnvi HoÀng's compelling Why Do You Look at Me and See a Girl? is described as "part memoir and part social criticism." It is certainly a fine example of both those genres. But at its deepest level it takes up the central theme of all great literary fiction: the enduring quest for a self, for an identity, for a place in the universe. And on that level Anvi HoÀng's book is simply literature, fiercely engaging and genuinely moving literature. -- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange MountainBeginning with a distant war and ending with the uneven realities of capitalist life in a global era, Anvi HoÀng delivers an insightful, feminist, and cross-cultural work that illuminates both Vietnam and the United States. -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The SympathizerThe author has created a moving account of bridging past and present, home and homelessness, sorrow and joy, and traditions and ideals in the course of her life. Interweaving an elegy for her grandmother with HoÀng's own journeys across geographical space and inner time, we understand for ourselves how HoÀng's journey is our own as well. We feel to follow the author's path as she learns to disregard and move beyond that which would derail her path towards joy and acceptance. The timeless and spaceless search for one's true home unites us all, and we realize we can no longer see each other as "just" anything--"just a girl," "just an Asian," "just an American." Highly recommended. -- Valerie M. Hudson, University Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University
£15.15
Guernica Editions,Canada Pictura: Essays on the Works of Roy Kiyooka
Book SynopsisHow do you write about an artist who refused to be contained? Widely published and celebrated, Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was an influential Canadian artist and writer who gifted an extensive body of work that unfolded in nearly every dimension of media. Throughout his life, he continued to redefine his context for articulation. His early success and recognition as a painter and poet expanded to include a practice in photography, sculpture, film, performance and music improvisation. But his compulsion for articulation also manifested as a resistance towards resolution and an embracing of its provisionality.
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