True stories / true accounts of events Books
Random House Australia The Stoccos Like Father Like Son
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£21.84
Random House Australia Deal with the Devil The Death of Matthew Leveson
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£23.63
Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) Pilgrims Wilderness A True Story of Faith and
Book SynopsisInto the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch. When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal. But behind the family's proud piety and beautiful old-timey music lay Pilgrim's dark past: his strange connection to the Kennedy assassination and a trail of chaos and anguish that followed him from Dallas and New Mexico. Pilgrim soon sparked a tense confrontation with the National Park Service fiercely dividing the community over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins. As the battle grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult
£13.49
WW Norton & Co Forever on the Mountain The Truth Behind One of
Book SynopsisIn July 1967, seven young menmembers of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expeditiondied on Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak.
£18.99
Fernhurst Books Limited Ultimate Surfing Adventures
Book SynopsisExplore and experience 100 extraordinary surfing tales and adventures from around the globe with stunning photography.Trade Review"A thrilling journey around the world's best surf spots." (Carve Magazine, December 2010) "Inspiring reading for everyone from hardcore wave riders to couch surfers" (Alex Wade) "These epic shots and inspiring stories will get you seeking adventure around the next headland and beyond!" (Gabe Davies)Table of ContentsTropical Waters; Temperate Waters; Cold Waters
£19.00
The University of Michigan Press Companions for the Passage
Book SynopsisAn unforgettable book on a rarely visited subject: the personal accounts of those who have witnessed the death of a loved one. Some of the interviews are religious, some are not, some encouraged their loved ones to accept death, others to fight it.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press The Breastfeeding Café
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£999.99
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Wastelands
Book SynopsisBeautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written. —From the Foreword by John Grisham The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight.There is Elsie Herring, the most outspoken of the neighbors, who has endured racial slurs and th
£15.19
Penguin Random House India The Bose Deception
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating investigative work, Dhar and Ghose have rummaged through more than two thousand files declassified in India, and in the UK, USA and Taiwan to unentangle the complex web of a deception plan, that has kept the whole country on tenterhooks for decades.
£29.99
University Press of Kansas Medellín v. Texas
Book SynopsisTells the story of Medellin v. Texas, showing how the Court’s 2008 ruling grappled with the complex question of how a united republic that respects the dual sovereignty of its constituent parts struggles to comply with its international obligations.Table of Contents Editors’ Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. A Heinous Crime 3. A Failure to Act 4. Mexico Intervenes 5. The World Court Weighs In 6. A Ray of Hope 7. Texas Rebels 8. The Aftermath 9. The United States, the Death Penalty, and International Law Chronology List of Cases Bibliographic Essay Index
£31.20
HarperCollins Publishers Muster Dogs From Pups to Pros
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£999.99
Harvest House Publishers,U.S. HeavenSent Miracles and Rescues
Book SynopsisThese heart-racing true accounts of emergency medical rescues will have you reading from the edge of your seat and give you assurance that God is always waiting to come through for you.
£13.25
Baker Publishing Group The Cat in the Window
Book SynopsisA heartwarming collection of true stories about the connections between humans and their cats.
£16.72
Johns Hopkins University Press Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the
Book SynopsisThis collection of true stories illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later.Trade ReviewFrom time to time one comes across a book of true tales that not only has the power to be painfully moving, but also terribly informing about what it was like to survive the Holocaust. Bernard Gotfryd, in his true tales, has given us such a book. Dimensions Thirty autobiographical stories whose banal details and well-placed silences haunt long after the book is finished. -- Joan Baum The Independent Written with integrity and honesty, Anton helps us to recognize human strength and precariousness, and the complexity of human existence. The book rouses our responsibility and makes us face people and history through the specific voices Gotfryd lets us hear, and the specific faces and places he lets us see. -- Yasuhiro Tae Bulletin of the Center for Holocaust Studies [A] fine collection of 30 true stories, some nostalgic, others heartbreaking, all of them moving. Jewish Book WorldTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceChapter 1. Theft of a TableChapter 2. The Circus Comes to TownChapter 3. The StuttererChapter 4. The Music TeacherChapter 5. The Wedding PictureChapter 6. The ViolinChapter 6. My DebutChapter 7. The Fountain PenChapter 8. Mr. G.Chapter 9. MashaChapter 10. A Chicken for the HolidaysChapter 11. AlexandraChapter 12. KurtChapter 13. Helmut ReinerChapter 14. The Last MorningChapter 15. Anton the Dove FancierChapter 16. On GuiltChapter 17. Three EggsChapter 18. The ExecutionChapter 19. My Brother's FriendChapter 20. Hans Bürger, #15252Chapter 21. The Last CampChapter 22. An Encounter in LinzChapter 23. ReunionsChapter 24. IngeChapter 25. America at LastChapter 26. Old FriendsChapter 27. Walking in the Footsteps of My ChildhoodChapter 28. On a Rainy NightChapter 29. On Memory
£30.39
Southern Illinois University Press Chicago Death Trap The Iroquois Theatre Fire of
Book SynopsisOn the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. This work provides a chronicle of this event to assess the titanic tragedy of the fire itself and also the municipal corruption that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke.Trade Review[Brandt] deftly lays out the story of a tragedy waiting to happen in a city with a corrupt government and greedy businessmen.... In the one hundred years since the fire, the worldwide horror and anger over the Iroquois calamity has faded away. But Brandt's carefully documented, readable account reminds us what all the shouting was about. - Chicago Sun-Times ""This superior piece of historical investigative journalism will keep readers turning the pages until the bitter end."" - Booklist
£999.99
Tyndale House Publishers Lets Roll
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£15.68
University of Exeter Press Histoire de Louis Anniaba Exeter French Texts Roi
Book SynopsisBased on fact, Historie de Louis Anniaba was first published in 1740 but has never before been reprinted. The story allows a degree of narrative and geographical fantasy, but the legal context of the period, in this volume brought into play for the first time, throws into relief the author's free-thinking stance.Trade Review Table of ContentsIntroduction, v; Questions d'histoire et de geographie, vii; Questions de couleur, xii; Questions de style et de narration, xv; Questions d'originalite, xix; Note technique, xxv; Bibliographie selective, xxvii; Histoire de Louis Anniaba, 1; Avertissement, 3; Premiere Partie, 5; Seconde Partie, 49; Table des matieres, 89.
£30.15
Pen & Sword Books House of Tudor
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£19.14
Amberley Publishing Eyewitness Accounts Diary of a Nursing Sister
Book SynopsisThe latest title in Amberleyâs new series of Eyewitness Accounts bringing history, warfare, disaster, travel and exploration to life, written by people who could say, âI was there!â This book was originally published anonymously during wartime, but today most sources attribute the diary to Kathleen Luard, a nurse in France in 1914-15.
£11.17
Random House USA Inc Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young
Book SynopsisThe beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. ?From the time I?d been a girl, I?d been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the job of teaching school in a gold-mining settlement called Chicken, I accepted right away.? Anne Hobbs was only nineteen in 1927 when she came to harsh and beautiful Alaska. Running a ramshackle schoolhouse would expose her to more than just the elements. After she allowed Native American children into her class and fell in love with a half-Inuit man, she would learn the meanings of prejudice and perseverance, irrational hatred and unconditional love. ?People get as mean as the weather,? she discovered, but they were also capable of great good. As told to Robert Specht, Anne Hobbs?s true story has captivated generations of readers. Now this beautiful new edition is available to inspire many more. ?The memoir reads like an old-fashioned novel, a heartwarming love story with the added interest of frontier hardships and vividly portrayed characters.??Publishers Weekly
£13.29
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Back from the Edge: Mental Health and Addiction
Book SynopsisThe truth is that professional sport is a breeding ground for addictive behaviour. Luke Sutton is a business owner and successful agent to sporting stars such as James Taylor, Nile Wilson and Sam Quek, but his life didn't always look so positive. Back from the Edge reveals the huge ups and major downs that a professional career in sport can bring - and the mental health difficulties that can plague a sportsperson along the way. Luke knows this more than most. Brutually but refreshingly honest, this no-frills autobiography of the former professional cricketer describes in detail the moment he hit rock bottom, how he got there, his rollercoaster journey through rehab, and the important lessons he's learnt since. Throughout the book, Luke remains candid and reveals how his addictions affected his personal life, from his friends to family to his children. Back from the Edge is heart-wrenching. It's also thoroughly genuine, funny and utterly inspirational, and has allowed the former cricketer to speak about his mental health and to raise awareness of addiction in sport. Now a sports agent, he is perfectly placed to spot the warning signs in young stars, and to support them before they spiral into the same type of experiences he faced.
£23.86
Hampton Roads Publishing Co The Eyes of an Angel
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£15.19
Smithsonian Books The Flight 981 Disaster: Tragedy, Treachery, and
Book SynopsisOn June 12, 1972, a powerful explosion rocked American Airlines Flight 96 a mere five minutes after its takeoff from Detroit. The explosion ripped a gaping hole in the bottom of the aircraft and jammed the hydraulic controls. Miraculously, despite the damage and ensuing chaos, the pilots were able to land the plane safely. Less than two years later, on March 3, 1974, a sudden, forceful blowout tore through Turk Hava Yollari (THY) Flight 981 from Paris to London. THY Flight 981 was not as lucky as Flight 96; it crashed in a forest in France, and none of the 346 people onboard survived. What caused the mysterious explosions? How were they linked? Could they have been prevented? The Flight 981 Disaster addresses these questions and many more, offering a fascinating insiders' look at two dramatic aviation disasters.
£14.39
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Goshawk
Book SynopsisThe predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham’s Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence—“the bird reverted to a feral state”—seized his imagination, and, White later wrote, “A longing came to my mind that I should be able to do this myself. The word ‘feral’ has a kind of magical potency which allied itself to two other words, ‘ferocious’ and ‘free.’” Immediately, White wrote to Germany to acquire a young goshawk. Gos, as White named the bird, was ferocious and Gos was free, and White had no idea how to break him in beyond the ancient (and, though he did not know it, long superseded) practice of depriving him of sleep, which meant that he, White, also went without rest. Slowly man and bird entered a state of delirium and intoxication, of attraction and repulsion that looks very much like love. White kept a daybook describing his volatile relationship with Gos—at once a tale of obsession, a comedy of errors, and a hymn to the hawk. It was this that became The Goshawk, one of modern literature’s most memorable and surprising encounters with the wilderness—as it exists both within us and without.
£13.82
Unbound Children of Las Vegas: True stories about growing
Book SynopsisOver forty million people a year travel to Vegas, more than to Mecca. It is a global celebrity, an improbable oasis, a place offering bank-breaking fortunes and instant gratification, 24/7, with no moral debits. Award-winning writer Timothy O’Grady lived in Vegas for two years. He finally began to understand it when he talked to people who had grown up there, the children of the card dealers and cocktail shakers, the jugglers and the dancers – young people who had been bearing witness to this strange city all their lives. One had her student loans and credit card limits stolen by her father. Another fled a sequence of exploiters until she found herself living in the storm drains under the casinos. There is the boy whose father entered him into a drinking contest when he was eight, the casino owner’s son, the erudite contortionist turned stripper. Each tells their own tale.In Children of Las Vegas, O’Grady renews his partnership with renowned photographer Steve Pyke. Through short essays, Pyke’s portraits and ten witness testimonies, he pierces the city’s glittering façade to reveal the darker reality that lies beneath.Trade Review'These are brave, honest, articulate stories, the children wise beyond their years . . . A modern fairy tale' Martina Evans, Irish Times
£19.04
Merrion Press A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories
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£20.89
Carpenter's Son Publishing Jackie, a Boy, and a Dog: A Warm Cold War Story
Book SynopsisAn incredible journey of life lessons, grief and unexpected friendship changes the life of a young Midwestern boy who accidentally kills his beloved dog during a backyard baseball game in the summer of 1963. In his grief, he reaches out to the most powerful family in the world, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy who give Mark a gift that changes his life. This true story not only gave this boy a dog to fill the void of his loss, but an unexpected friendship with the most iconic woman of the 20th century: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In a series of unlikely divine interventions, Mark shares the journey and fulfillment of his love for dogs, brought back to life by a remarkable little dog, Streaker. Just as amazing is the long-term friendship Mark develops with Jacqueline, and how God used that friendship to mentor him. That sense of divine calling led Mark to opportunities of great service for the Kingdom of God, while at times dangerous, incredibly rewarding and important. Streaker may have been a mutt, but his simple bloodline showed Mark that anyone puts their giftedness in God’s hands, and allows God to use them, amazing things happen.
£16.57
Bohlau Verlag Nach Moskau Und Zuruck: Die Reiseschriften Von
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£61.78
Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V. Sociópata Unas Memorias Sociopath A Memoir
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£18.35
Fatal gracias Historias de una vida tan
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£15.20
ARUGAS INTERIORES
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£29.61
Juntos todos juntos
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£20.83
DE UNA BATALLA PERDIDA
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£23.09
Edhasa El águila del imperio (rtca)
Book SynopsisQuinto Licinio Cato ha conseguido la preciada libertad a cambio del compromiso de servir en la legión; sin embargo, ninguno de sus compañeros parece muy seguro de que haya hecho un buen negocio. La implacable instruccion a la que le someten y las interminables marchas no parecen lo más apetecible a un joven culto y refinado como Cato, pero, tras dos semanas en el campamento y después de ser víctima de las más crueles novatadas, parece listo para enfrentarse a los bárbaros germanos e iniciar una prometedora carrera como optio.Será durante la invasión de Britania, tierra de brujas habitada por salvajes, y de la mano del rudo centurión Lucio Cornelio Macro, donde se iniciará la carrera militar de este personaje. La segunda legión augusta, por entoncess al mando de Vespasiano, será testigo de sus primeras hazañas. El inicio de una serie que está arrasando en todo el mundo.
£24.75
Atico de Los Libros Escándalo Lemoine
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£16.73
Editorial Trotta, S.A. En el corazón de la zona gris
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£28.22
