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Juan Pablo Escobar: Pablo Escobar: My Father

EBURY PRESS, 2017

This is the shocking true story of a life of violence and a son's attempt ato come to terms with the sins of his father.

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Julia Child: My Life in France

ANCHOR BOOKS, 2007

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.

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Kari Hotakainen: The Unknown Kimi Raikkonen

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2018

Kimi Räikkönen is the Finnish superstar Formula One driver with a reputation for being fast on the track and silent off it – until now!

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Karl Ove Knausgard: Min kamp 1

NORSTEDTS FÖRLAG, 2018

Min kamp är Karl Ove Knausgards mäktiga självbiografiska roman. Första delen inleds med en svepande beskrivning av varje människas slutpunkt, döden.

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Karl Ove Knausgard: Träumen

BTB VERLAG, 2017

14 Jahre verbrachte Knausgard in Bergen, bevor er aus der norwegischen Küstenstadt regelrecht nach Stockholm floh, als ginge es ins Exil.

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Klaus Kordon: Die Zeit ist kaputt: Die Lebensgeschichte des Erich Kästner

GULLIVER, 2019

Seine Kinderbücher machten Erich Kästner (1899–1974) weltberühmt, doch Kästner war auch Satiriker, Journalist, Lyriker und Moralist -

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Kobe Bryant: The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

MCD, 2018

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play is Kobe Bryant’s personal perspective of his life and career on the basketball court and his exceptional, insightful style of playing the game?a fitting legacy from the late Los Angeles Laker superstar.

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Le Journal d'Anne Frank

LIVRE DE POCHE, LE, 2017

Anne Frank est née le 12 juin 1929 a Francfort. Sa famille a émigréaux Pays-Bas en 1933. A Amsterdam, elle connaît une enfance heureuse jusqu’en 1942, malgré la guerre.

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Lee Israel: Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2018

Before turning to her life of crime—running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI—Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies.

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Leonardo Faccio:Messi

ANCHOR BOOKS, 2012

For soccer enthusiasts and sports fans in general, an in-depth look at the life of the beautiful game's greatest star, Argentine footballer Lionel Messi.

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Luis Carlos Montalván: Tuesday's Promise

HACHETTE, 2018

Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, Until Tuesday, Iraq War veteran Luis Carlos Montalván advocated for America's wounded warriors and the healing powers of service dogs.

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M. K. Gandhi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2001

This is not a straightforward narrative biography, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi offers his life story as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps.

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Maddie Ziegler:The Maddie Diaries:My Story

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017

Teen dance prodigy, breakout Dance Moms star, and judge on So You Think you Can Dance: The Next Generation, Maddie Ziegler presents her uplifting coming-of-age memoir about following her dreams and working hard to achieve success in both the dance world.

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Mai Jia: Decoded

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015

A semi-autistic mathematical genius, Jinzhen is recruited to the cryptography department of China's secret services, Unit 701, where he is assigned the task of breaking the elusive 'Code Purple'.

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Malala Yousafzai: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

PHOENIX, 2013

In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in the Swat Valley as the Taliban gained control, at times banning girls from attending school.

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Marcus Ferrar: The Budapest House - A Life Re-Discovered

CRUX PUBLISHING, 2013

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Margaret A. Salinger: Dream Catcher - My Life with J. D. Salinger

POCKET BOOKS, 2010

Margaret A. Salinger's memoir of life with one of the 20th Century's most infamous and revered writers - her father, J. D. Salinger

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Margaret George: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

PAN BOOKS, 2012

The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words

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Martin Corona: Confessions of a Cartel Hitman

EBURY PRESS, 2017

At the age of twelve Martin Corona started dealing drugs. After years in and out of prison, he rose through the ranks to become the leader of an elite killing squad for a notorious Tijuana drug cartel.

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Massimo Polidoro: Io, Leonardo da Vinci

PIEMME, 2019

Chi era veramente Leonardo da Vinci? Un genio che ha anticipato il Novecento? Un "alieno" catapultato dal futuro? Oppure, piu semplicemente, un uomo incredibilmente acuto ma pur sempre un uomo del suo tempo?

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Matthew McConaughey: Greenlights

CROWN PUBLISHERS, 2020

From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

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Matthew Qvortrup: Angela Merkel - Europe's Influential Leader

OVERLOOK DUCKWORTH, 2016

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Matthieu Mégevand: Lautrec

J'AI LU, 2021

Lautrec, c'est la légende de Montmartre, le peintre du Moulin Rouge. Mais c'est aussi un petit homme foutraque, issu d'une famille de la haute noblesse de province, atteint d'une maladie génétique qui interrompt sa croissance.

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Maxim Leo: Red Love - The Story of an East German Family

PUSHKIN PRESS, 2014

Growing up in East Berlin, Maxim Leo knew not to ask questions. All he knew was that his rebellious parents, Wolf and Anne, with their dyed hair, leather jackets and insistence he call them by their first names, were a bit embarrassing.

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Maya Jasanoff: The Dawn Watch

WILLIAM COLLINS, 2017

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Michael Caine: Blowing the Bloody Doors Off - And Other Lessons in Life

HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2018

Chatty and engaging . . . he often comes across as endearingly humble' SUNDAY TIMES'Thoroughly engaging' SUNDAY EXPRESS magazine'Fabulous storytelling' PRIMA

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Michael D'Antonio: Die Wahrheit über Donald Trump

ECON, 2016

Er ist der neue Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Spätestens jetzt ist es ist höchste Zeit, sich ernsthaft mit Donald Trump auseinanderzusetzen.

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Michael Haag: The Durrells of Corfu

PROFILE BOOKS, 2017

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells?

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Michael Hodgson: Patricia Roc - The goddess of the Odeons

AUTHORHOUSE, 2010

THE BEAUTIFUL and alluring Patricia Roc was the epitome of style, elegance, sophistication and finesse that defined the wonderful days of Britain's 'golden age' of cinema during the 1940s.

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Michael Moore: Here Comes Trouble - Stories from my Life

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012

Here Comes Trouble is Michael Moore's blistering anti-memoir, a hilarious book tracing the origins of his political rabble-rousing and his early forays into campaigning for change.

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Michael Palin: North Korea Journal

HUTCHINSON, 2019

A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer.

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Michael Parkinson: Muhammad Ali: A Memoir

HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2017

Muhammad Ali: A Memoir is a fresh, revealing and personal account of the life of the most important and enduring cultural figures of our age.

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Michael T. Kaufman:Soros

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2003

A penniless emigre who made a fortune and became one of the great philanthropists of the twentieth century, George Soros has led a remarkable life.

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Michelle Marly: Romy und der Weg nach Paris

AUFBAU TASCHENBUCH, 2021

Romy Schneider – die größte Schauspielerin ihrer Zeit.

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Michelle Morgan: Madonna

ROBINSON, 2015

The Mammoth Book of Madonna offers a one-of-a-kind look at the Queen of Pop's phenomenally successful career, just in time for the 30th anniversary of her first major tour, The Virgin Tour.

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Michelle Obama: Becoming

VIKING, 2018

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era.

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Michelle Obama: Becoming

PENGUIN, 2021

Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady

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Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth - My Autobiography

HARPERSPORT, 2014

Love him or loathe him, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson is an icon and one of the most fascinating sporting figures of our time. In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Tyson lays bare his demons and tells his story: from poverty to stardom to hell and back again.

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Miron Bialoszewski: A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising

NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS, 2015

On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland’s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history.

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Morten Storm: Agent Storm - A Spy Inside Al-Qaeda

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015

He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision.

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My Early Life

ELAND PUBLISHING LIMITED, 2000

Churchill önéletrajza fiatal éveiről, eredeti nyelven.

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Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

ABACUS, 2013

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny.

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Nick Cave: Stranger Than Kindness

CANONGATE, 2020

Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.

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Owen Matthews: An Impeccable Spy - Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

BLOOMSBURY, 2019

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Pamela Rhodes: Bobby on the Beat

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2013

Back in 1950 Pamela Rhodes became one of the first policewomen in the country. But the force's new female recruits faced a sceptical public in rural Yorkshire and even before they stepped out on the beat there were the prejudices of older male officers..

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Patti Smith: Just Kids

BLOOMSBURY, 2010

A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists--Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art.

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Paul Johnson: Socrates

PENGUIN, 2013

This brilliant biography of Socrates by historian Paul Johnson situates the father of philosophy in the fifth century BC Athens that he loved.

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Paul Johnson:Darwin - Portrait of a Genius

PENGUIN BOOKS (USA), 2013

Acclaimed historian and biographer Paul Johnson turns his keen eye on Charles Darwin, the towering figure whose work continues to spur scientific debate.

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Paul Kalanithi: When Breath Becomes Air

RANDOM HOUSE, 2016

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.

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Paul Kalanithi: When Breath Becomes Air

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2018

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017

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Paul Lendvai:Orban: Europe's New Strongman

C HURST & CO PUBLISHERS LTD, 2017

Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism, and deep-rooted corruption, Prime Minister Orbán has exploited successive electoral victories to build a closely knit and super-rich oligarchy.

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Peter Ackroyd:Alfred Hitchcock

ANCHOR BOOKS, 2017

lfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled his public image, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring out all others.

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Peter Hince: Queen Unseen

JOHN BLAKE PUBLISHING, 2015

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Peter Seewald: Benedikt XVI. - Ein Leben

DROEMER TB, 2020

Peter Seewald „gilt als einer der besten Kenner von Papst Benedikt XVI.“, stellte die Wochenzeitung Die Zeit fest. Nun legt Peter Seewald die lang erwartete große Biographie des emeritierten Papstes Joseph Ratzinger vor.

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Peter Turner: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool : A True Story

PAN BOOKS, 2016

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is an affectionate, moving and wryly humorous memoir of friendship, love and stardom.

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Phil Knight: Shoe Dog

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2018

'A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like ... It's an amazing tale' Bill Gates

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Phil Lesh: Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead

BACK BAY BOOKS, 2006

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Philip Carlo: The Night Stalker - The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

CITADEL, 2016

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Raphael Honigstein: Klopp: Bring the Noise

YELLOW JERSEY PRESS, 2019

Celebrate Liverpool's 2020 Premier League victory with this definitive insight into the man behind their cup-winning success.

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Renegades Born in the USA

CROWN PUBLISHERS, 2021

Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast, featuri

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Richard Branson: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

VIRGIN BOOKS, 2009

This is the worldwide bestselling autobiography of iconic entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, featuring his take on his latest business ventures, personal achievements and intrepid adventures.

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Richard P. Feynman: ?Esta Ud.de Broma Sr. Feynman?

ALIANZA EDITORIAL, 2008

Aventuras de un curioso personaje tal y como le fueron referidas a Ralph Leighton

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Rick Stein: Under a Mackerel Sky

EBURY PRESS, 2014

When Rick Stein was eighteen a tragic family event caused him to set out alone to travel the world. Leaving behind his idyllic childhood fishing off the rocks in Cornwall and roaming the Oxfordshire countryside near his family's farm.

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Rob Chapman: Syd Barrett - A Very Irregular Head

FABER & FABER, 2010

Syd Barrett was the lead guitarist, vocalist, and principle songwriter in the original line up of Pink Floyd. During his brief time with the band (1966-68) he was the driving force behind the unit.

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Robert Coles: Bruce Springsteen's America

RANDOM HOUSE, 2004

In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, turns his attention to popular music legend Bruce Springsteen.

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Roberto Bolano: Cuentos completos

DEBOLSILLO, 2019

«Roberto Bolano no escribió libros sino una obra total, un campo minado de referencias, un sistema literario que estos cuentos extraordinarios, leídos en conjunto, vienen a completar.»

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Roland Lazenby: Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant

BACK BAY BOOKS, 2017

The definitive portrait of Kobe Bryant, from the author of Michael Jordan. "Lazenby's detailed research and fantastic writing paint a complex, engaging picture of one of the NBA's greats" (Kurt Helin, Pro Basketball Talk , NBC Sports).

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RUGGERO RAIMONDI

RICORDI, 1994

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Salman Rushdie: Joseph Anton

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2013

On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence.

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Samuel Pepys: Diary of Samuel Pepys

MODERN LIBRARY, 2003

On 1 January 1660 ("1 January 1659/1660" in contemporary terms) Pepys began to keep a diary. He recorded his daily life for almost ten years. This record of a decade of Pepys’s life is over a million words long and is often regarded as Britain’s most cel

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Sarah Bradford: Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012

Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Saroo Brierley: Lion: A Long Way Home

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017

Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.

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Scott F. Parker: Conversations with Ken Kesey

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI, 2014

These conversations make clear Kesey's central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.

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Sharon Stone: The Beauty of Living Twice

ALLEN & UNWIN, 2021

Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame.

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Sir David Attenborough: Journeys to the Other Side of the World

TWO ROADS, 2018

Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world.

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Sophia Amoruso: Girlboss

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2016

The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion - it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving.

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Spit in the Ocean, No. 7: All About Ken Kesey

PENGUIN, 2003

Between 1974 and 1981 Ken Kesey self-published six issues of a literary magazine called Spit in the Ocean.

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Stephen King: On Writing

HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2012

Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.

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Steven Gerrard: My Story

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2016

Steven Gerrard is the former captain of Liverpool football team and of the England national football team, and is the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a UEFA cup final and a champion's league final.

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Steven Lee Myers: The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2016

An epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders.

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Steven Patrick Morrissey: Autobiography

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2013

Autobiography covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day.

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Sugar Ray Leonard: The Big Fight: My Story

EBURY PRESS, 2011

SUGAR RAY LEONARD was one of the greatest boxers ever. An artist and a showman he was always willing to take the difficult fight: his gruelling encounters with Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler have become legendary.

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Susan Page: The Matriarch - Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

TWELVE, 2019

A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history.

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Suzanne Jill Levine: Manuel Puig y la mujer arana

SEIX BARRAL EDITORIAL, 2002

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Tara Westover: Educated

WINDMILL, 2018

Selected as a book of the year in THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER and RED MAGAZINE.

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THE LETTERS OF VINCENT

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008

A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters

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The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

PICADOR, 2018

Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. They are sometimes funny, often moving and ultimately life-changing.

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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2005

Immediately popular when it first appeared around 1356, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville became the standard account of the East for several centuries—a work that went on to influence luminaries as diverse as Leonardo da Vinci, Swift, and Coleridge.

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Thomas E. Ricks: Churchill and Orwell - The Fight for Freedom

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2018

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.

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Thomas Hauser: Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times

PORTICO, 2012

'All I really wanted was someday to buy my mother and father a house and own a nice big car for myself...'

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Tom Bower: Rebel Prince

WILLIAM COLLINS, 2018

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TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald

GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING, 2016

Available for the first time in a decade-the book that launched a $5 billion lawsuit--with a new introduction by the author in which O'Brien reflects on the recent wave of TrumpMania.

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Verdone Carlo: La carezza della memoria

BOMPIANI, 2021

La memoria e una scatola. Aprirla, guardare, ricordare, raccontare sono atti naturalmente concatenati in questa raccolta di storie e racconti di Carlo Verdone.

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Victor Gregg, Rick Stroud: King's Cross Kid - A London Childhood Between the Wars

BLOOMSBURY, 2013

Ninety-three-year-old Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for ....

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Viktor E Frankl: Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

RIDER, 2004

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience.

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Viktor E Frankl: Yes To Life In Spite of Everything

RIDER, 2021

A rediscovered masterpiece by the 16 million copy bestselling author of Man’s Search For Meaning

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Virginia Woolf: Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read - Illustrated

TLS BOOKS, 2019

Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?

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Walter Isaacson: Leonardo Da Vinci

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2018

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science.

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