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Into the Abyss
Carol Shaben

ISBN10: 1447207793 ISBN13: 9781447207795
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pan Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Jun 2013
The astonishing true life adventure story of a plane crash in the wilds of northern Canada...and the four men who survived to tell the tale. Only four men survived the plane crash: The pilot, A politician, A cop ...And the criminal he was shackled... More

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Anne Frank
Melissa Muller

ISBN10: 1408842092 ISBN13: 9781408842096
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Jun 2013
Tracing Anne Frank's life from an early childhood in an assimilated family to her adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam, Melissa Muller's biography, originally published in 1998, follows her life right up until her desperate end in Bergen Belsen. More

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ISBN: 9781906764449 - Founder of Hasidism

Founder of Hasidism
Murray Jay Rosman, Moshe Rosman

ISBN10: 1906764441 ISBN13: 9781906764449
Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Jun 2013
The Ba'al Shem Tov is an elusive subject for historians because documentary evidence about his life is scanty and equivocal. Until now, much of what was known about him was based on stories compiled more than a generation after his death... More

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Time and Tide
Cedric Robinson

ISBN10: 0957295162 ISBN13: 9780957295162
Publisher: Great Northern Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Jun 2013
The author's long and active life has centred round the fickle tides of Morecambe Bay, culminating in 2013 in the 50th anniversary of his appointment as Queen's Guide to the Sands. In this book, he looks back over the last half century... More

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The Unwinding
George Packer

ISBN10: 0571251285 ISBN13: 9780571251285
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Jun 2013
In "The Unwinding", George Packer narrates the story of America over the past three decades, bringing to the task his empathy with people facing difficult challenges, his sharp eye for detail and a gift for weaving together engaging narratives. More

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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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Thurgood Marshall
Charles L Zelden

ISBN10: 0415506433 ISBN13: 9780415506434
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2013
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1967 to 1991. He was the first African American to hold that position, and was one of the most influential legal actors of his time. Before being appointed to the Supreme... More

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Under the Wire
Paul Conroy

ISBN10: 1782065253 ISBN13: 9781782065258
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
An account of the tragic death of Marie Colvin and a war photographer's harrowing and daring escape from one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of... More

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The Best Medicine
Georgie Edwards

ISBN10: 0091951364 ISBN13: 9780091951368
Publisher: Ebury Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
In 1949, Staff Nurse Georgie Edwards is asked to chaperone medical students undertaking their practical exams when suddenly the penny drops. Georgie wants to learn to diagnose and treat too. Yet Georgie wants to fall in love and start a family and... More

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The North
Paul Morley

ISBN10: 0747578168 ISBN13: 9780747578161
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 06 Jun 2013
Here is the north, this is where it lies, where it belongs, full of itself, high up above everything else, surrounded by everything that isn't the north, that's off the page, somewhere else...Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles... More

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