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Dinner with Lenny
Jonathan Cott

ISBN10: 0199858446 ISBN13: 9780199858446
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2013
Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a... More

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Unbroken Trust
Jill Anderson

ISBN10: 1849837899 ISBN13: 9781849837897
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
Beautifully written, powerful story of a woman's decision to honour her suicidal husband's wish that he be allowed to die. In 2005, Jill Anderson went on trial at Leeds Crown Court for the manslaughter of her husband of eight years. More

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ISBN: 9781846043482 - Everest - The First Ascent

Everest - The First Ascent
Harriet Tuckey

ISBN10: 1846043484 ISBN13: 9781846043482
Publisher: Ebury Press Rider & Co
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
On 29 May 1953, the summit of Mount Everest was finally reached. The achievement brought fame and honours to many involved - except the man who made the ascent possible. This title tells the story of Griffith Pugh, the forgotten team member whose... More

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Flappers
Judith Mackrell

ISBN10: 0230752330 ISBN13: 9780230752337
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Macmillan
Edition: Unabridged
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
A gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to... More

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Crossing the Line
Christian Plowman, Douglas Wight

ISBN10: 1780576277 ISBN13: 9781780576275
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
As he rose through the ranks of various departments of the Metropolitan Police, the author dreamt of being an undercover cop. When he finally achieved his ambition, becoming one an elite group of officers, the reality of covert work turned his... More

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ISBN: 9781846248443 - The Self-Tapping Screw

The Self-Tapping Screw
Simon Barlow

ISBN10: 1846248442 ISBN13: 9781846248443
Publisher: Book Guild Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013

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ISBN: 9780230301122 - Hayek: A Collaborative Biography (Part 1)

Hayek: A Collaborative Biography (Part 1)
Robert Leeson

ISBN10: 0230301126 ISBN13: 9780230301122
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
This is the first collaborative biography of Hayek. Some of the world's most distinguished scholars will integrate the archival evidence with Hayek's published writings to illuminate the process by which Hayek changed the direction of world history. More

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Bas Jan Ader
Alexander Dumbadze

ISBN10: 022603853X ISBN13: 9780226038537
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. The author resituates... More

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This Boy
Alan Johnson

ISBN10: 0593069641 ISBN13: 9780593069646
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd Bantam Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. This book tells the story of Alan's mother, Lily, who battled against poor health, poverty, and domestic violence... More

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Ben
Kerry Needham

ISBN10: 0091950872 ISBN13: 9780091950873
Publisher: Ebury Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
In 1991 the author and her son Ben followed her parents to live on the Greek island of Kos. On 24 July, she was at work when her mum Christine arrived crying uncontrollably. Ben had been playing outside, and then disappeared. Someone had taken Ben. More

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