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View book details for Jennifer Saunders
The Biography
Jennifer Saunders is Britains best-loved comedienne, screenwriter, and actress. For the first time, author Jacky Hyams reveals the story behind Jennifers rise to fame, her successful career as the Queen of Comedy, and the highs and lows of her remarkable …
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The True Story of Barrington 'Zulu' Patterson, One of Britain's Most Fearsome Hard Men
Barrington "Zulu" Patterson is not a man to mess with. Blinded in one eye by a childhood incident, "One-eyed Baz" grew up on the tough back streets of Birmingham while his father served an eight-year prison sentence. He could have …
View book details for Chas & Dave
All About Us
Bursting onto the music scene in the 1970s, Chas 'n' Dave released songs that spoke about life in London and used their own accents rather than the fashionable but fake transatlantic twang. They knew that if they wrote and sang …
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The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Escape from Thailand's Bangkok Hilton
Klong Prem prison, Thailand. The Bangkok Hilton, where 600 foreigners among the 12,000 inmates of this walled prison city also wait and rot. Among the tragic, ruthless and forgotten, one man resolves to do what no other has done: escape. …
Inspector Perry Trethowan reads in the obituaries that his estranged father has died under peculiar circumstances: he was fooling around with a form of self-torture called strappado. At the request of his supervisor, Peter returns to his ancestral home to …
With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many families sent their children to the comparative safety of the countryside. When the Blitz ended, the families came for their kids, but no one ever came for Simon Thorn. His …
View book details for Sherlock's Squadron
The Incredible True Stories of the Unsung RAF Heroes of World War Two
John Holmes was a schoolboy when World War II broke out in 1939, but even then he knew his destiny lay in the skies. "Boys from these parts dont join the RAF," he was told on more than one occasion. …
View book details for Queens of the Underworld
A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks
What a brilliant piece of research; pieced together with compassion, heart and understanding. Caitlin gives voice to women who have been forgotten or have only been seen through a male prism. She wrestles back their stories - Maxine PeakA rollicking …
View book details for "The Best Response"
An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur
Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society, this essay is about the best response to various situations.
SHE IS A FASHION ICON WITH A LUST FOR FAME. HE IS POSSIBLY THE MOST FAMOUS ATHLETE ON THE PLANET. Together they are one of the most loved -- and hated -- pairs on Earth. This sensational, highly addictive biography …
View book details for Sophia Tolstoy
A Biography
As Leo Tolstoys wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse and literary assistant to one of the worlds most celebrated novelists. But when in later years Tolstoy became a …
View book details for Orange County
A Personal History
Bestselling author of Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano returns with Orange County, a seamlessly woven history of California's Orange County with Gustavo's personal narrative of growing up within its neighborhoods.The story began in 1918, when Gustavo Arellano's great-grandfather and grandfather …
View book details for The Rise
Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
From celebrated art historian, curator, and teacher Sarah Lewis, a fascinating examination of how our most iconic creative endeavorsfrom innovation to the artsare not achievements but conversions, corrections after failed attempts.The gift of failure is a riddle: it will always …
Set in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds. They devise a shrewd bargain: they'll marry …
View book details for A Toast to Bargain Wines
How Innovators, Iconoclasts, and Winemaking Revolutionaries Are Changing the Way the World Drinks
THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF JUDGMENT OF PARIS EXPLORES THE THRIVING BUSINESS OF BARGAIN WINES AND OFFERS HIS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE BEST VALUES. Is inexpensive wine any good? Award-winning author George M. Taber shows that it is, examining the paths to …
View book details for My Two Polish Grandfathers
And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life
AWARD-WINNING AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WRITER WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI DELIVERS A REVELATORY COLLECTION OF LINKED AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS -- PART MEMOIR, PART FAMILY HISTORY -- ABOUT THE UPHEAVALS OF EUROPEAN LIVES DURING WORLD WAR II, HIS OWN INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, AND THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGES …
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Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father
A historic memoir by the noted Alpine climber and journalist who undertakes an epic climb of The Eiger in Switzerlandthe very same mountain that not only made his father Eiger John famous, but killed him in 1966.In the 1960s an …
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Olympic Runner
An inspiring story of the first American female athlete to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games shares her triumphs over childhood illnesses to become a high school basketball player. A Childhood Of Famous Americans title.
The creatures of legend are realand its up to twins Zac and Lu to save them in this fun-filled middle grade adventure perfect for fans of Fablehaven and The Hotel Between.Twins Zac and Lu grew up on their mothers stories …
A jock turned model gets a chance at love in this romantic comedy by Debbie Rigaud.Who doesnt want to be a cover girl? London Abramss first love is volleyball, so why does she enter an online modeling competition? Answer: superhottie …
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Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx
Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop …
From the renowned biochemist who created a health revolution with his bestselling Supernutrition in 1975 comes The New Supernutrition. Totally revised and updated, The New Supernutrition focuses on the latest scientific discoveries and offers solutions to the nutrition problems of …
A topsy-turvy ride through corporate America, where the male is the minority and must face a comedic blend of sex discrimination and harassment that threatens his sanity.Michael Forrester, a floundering author, has been reduced to writing articles for a local …
Square meatballs. Sunrise mashed potatoes. Lemon blizzard parfaits. Its dinnertime, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs style, and you get to be the chef!The tiny town of Chewandswallow is known for its edible weather: soup rain, mashed potato snow, and …
Desmond and Andres battle beach bullies who also happen to be creepy monsters in the third book of the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol chapter book series!When you go to the beach with Desmond Cole, it isnt all sand, surf, and …
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