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Queen Bees Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars
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Sian Evans
Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefax. Written with wit, verve and heart, Queen Bees is the story of a form of societal revolution, and the extraordinary women who helped it happen. In the aftermath of the First World War, the previously strict hierarchies of the British class system were weakened.
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So long, Marianne : a love story
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Kari Hesthamar
Chronicles the author's nearly decade-long relationship with writer and musician Leonard Cohen prior to his fame, drawing on unpublished poems, letters and photos to describe their international travels and the creation of his acclaimed love song, "So Long, Marianne."
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Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died in the 1940s
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Anne Sebba
What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until finally renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, with the Swastika flying from the Eiffel Tower and pet dogs abandoned howling on the streets, glamour was ever present. French women wore lipstick. Why? By looking at a wide range of individuals from collaborators to resisters, actresses and prostitutes to teachers and writers, Anne Sebba shows that women made life-and-death decisions every day, and often did whatever they needed to survive.
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Justin Trudeau : The Natural Heir
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Huguette Young
This unauthorized biography provides a rare look at the real Justin Trudeau, retracing his steps from his early days to the height of power. Having grown up in the shadow of his famous father, a political giant who dominated Canadian politics for almost sixteen years, Justin Trudeau took many detours before discovering that he was a natural politician, with qualities, such as a charismatic ease with the public, that his father never possessed.
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Citizen Clem : A Biography of Attlee
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John Bew
The gallons of ink spilled on Winston Churchill - and the huge appetite for books about him - have created something of an imbalance in our understanding of twentieth-century Britain. Not only does Clement Attlee's life deserve to have a rightful place alongside the Churchill legend. It is also more emblematic, and more representative, of Britain in his time.
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Irena's Children: A True Story of Courage
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Tilar J. Mazzeo
In 1942, Irena Sendler, a young Polish social worker, was assigned to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. When she realized the grim fate that loomed over the Jewish families enclosed within, she joined with colleagues to smuggle children out and connect them with helpful Gentiles. Though most of the families later died in the Holocaust, her remarkable efforts saved 2,500 of their children.
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On the Beat
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Graham Cole
As big-hearted PC Tony Stamp, Graham Cole is instantly recognisable after pounding the beat of fictional Sun Hill in 'The Bill' for 20 years. Graham reveals his own rise to stardom and the ups and downs of an actor's life.
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I will find you
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Joanna Connors
A Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter describes her rape at knife point by a stranger who grew up a few miles from her and her efforts to find closure by investigating her attacker's story when her daughter reached college age.
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"Donald Trump isn't a politician he's a one man wrecking ball against our dysfunctional and corrupt establishment. Now Ann Coulter, with her unique insight, candor, and sense of humour, makes the definitive case for why we should all join his revolution."
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Our man elsewhere : in search of Alan Moorhead
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Thornton McCamish
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation and yet forgotten?
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King of the World Muhammad Ali and the Rise of An American Hero
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David Remnick
King of the World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of battles fought inside the ring and out. With grace and power, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. Ali was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural clashes of his time and King of the World is a classic piece of non-fiction and a book worthy of America's most dynamic modern hero.
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Danger Close: My Epic Journey as a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Amber Smith
Few American women have served as combat helicopter pilots, but former 101st Airborne Pilot-in-Command Amber Smith flew in both Iraq and Afghanistan during two deployments. In this no-nonsense memoir, she relates her aspiration to become a pilot like both her parents, her decision to join the Army after 9/11, and her training. The bulk of her account provides vividly detailed views of what it's like to fly a Kiowa Warrior low and fast, sometimes under fire.
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Black Sails White Rabbits : Cancer Was the Easy Part
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Kevin A. Hall
Kevin A. Hall is an Ivy League graduate of Brown University, where he earned bachelor's degrees in mathematics and French literature. Despite being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1989, he went on to become a world-champion Olympic sailor, as well as racing navigator for Emirates Team New Zealand in the 2007 America's Cup match. A two-time testicular cancer survivor, Hall has spent a successful twenty-five years as a racing navigator, speed testing manager, and sailing performance and racing instruments expert.
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Henry V : The Conscience of A King
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M. G. A. Vale
More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare. Shakespeare's centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king's reputation as a warmongering monarch, a perception that has persisted ever since. But in this exciting, thoroughly researched volume a different view of Henry emerges.
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November and December Birthdays
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Spoken from the Heart
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Laura Bush
November 4, 1946. In Spoken from the Heart, former First Lady Laura Bush offers an account of her life from her childhood and youth in Midland, Texas, to her marriage to the 43rd President of the U.S., George W. Bush. Thoughtful and insightful, this compelling memoir provides commentary on aspects of American history as well as an intimate portrait of its author.
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The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China
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Chen Guangcheng
November 12, 1971. After escaping house arrest in 2012, Guangcheng Chen made international headlines as he broke free of the Chinese government's efforts to suppress his voice. In The Barefoot Lawyer, Chen relates his life story, explaining how illness destroyed his sight in infancy, how he obtained an education despite his disability, and why he began to advocate for women's rights, land reform, and improved conditions for the poor in China.
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Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography
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Susan Cheever
November 29, 1832. Louisa May Alcott only wrote her immortal novel Little Women because she needed the money to support her family, but its success both provided financial benefits and assured her place in women's and literary history. In this thoroughly researched biography, author Susan Cheever views her as a writer, a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, an intellectual progressive, and a woman who defied the conventions of her time.
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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him
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David Henry and Joe Henry
December 1, 1940. By the time he died in 2005, Richard Pryor had won an Emmy, five Grammys, and several other awards. He is still Number One on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest standup comedians. But he also was addicted to drugs, married seven times (to six different women), and served time in an Army prison.
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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
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Hermione Lee
December 17, 1916. In this award-winning biography, author Hermione Lee offers an insightful portrait of award-winning British novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, whose first book came out when she was 58. Perceptively relating Fitzgerald's family background and life to her novels, Lee draws on Fitzgerald's own journals and research notes to create this detailed, emotionally rich portrait.
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