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Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon: The Clash

ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2010

The Clash: trendsetters, icons, revolutionaries. They were the pioneers of British punk rock and their story is steeped in mythology.

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Joel N. Shurkin: Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2006

This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century.

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John le Carré: A Private Spy - The Letters of John le Carré

VIKING, 2022

A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carré's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness.

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John le Carré: The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017

In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels.

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John Lydon: Anger is an Energy - My Life Uncensored

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2015

This is the definitive autobiography of John Lydon, one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history.

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John Steinbeck: A Life in Letters - Penguin Classics

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2001

Beginning with Steinbeck's early life in California, the letters follow him through his novels, three marriages and many travels to his last days in Sag HArbor, Long Island and New York City.

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John Waters: Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, 2019

No one knows more about everything?especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling?than John Waters.

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Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster

PAN BOOKS, 1997

Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude.

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Jordan Belfort: Way of the Wolf

NORTH STAR WAY, 2017

Jordan Belfort—immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street—reveals the step-by-step sales and persuasion system proven to turn anyone into a sales-closing, money-earning rock star.

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Joyce Carol Oates: Blonde

4TH ESTATE, 2022

Blonde is a mesmerising novel about the most enduring and evocative cultural icon of the 20th century: the woman who became Marilyn Monroe.

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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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Jung Chang: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

HARPER PRESS, 2012

Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.

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Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin: American Prometheus - The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2006

PULITZER PRIZE WINNERThe definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war,...

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Kamala Harris: The Truths We Hold

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2020

The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President Kamala Harris was raised in a California community that cared deeply about social justice.

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Karikó Katalin: Nonostante tutto. La mia vita nella scienza

BOLLATI BORINGHIERI, 2024

Katalin Karikó ha letteralmente salvato milioni di vite e lo ha fatto nonostante tutto: nonostante fosse donna, nonostante fosse un'immigrata, nonostante per decenni nessuno abbia realmente creduto in lei e nei suoi studi.

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Katalin Karikó: Breaking Through

CROWN PUBLISHERS, 2023

Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables.

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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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Lara Love Hardin: The Many Lives of Mama Love

OCTOPUS, 2023

New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.

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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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Lucy Worsley: Agatha Christie

HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2023

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'.

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Lulah Ellender: Grounding - Finding Home in a Garden

GRANTA, 2023

Lulah Ellender's garden in Sussex is an unruly but beloved place. It is also not permanently her own.

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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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Malala Yousafzai: I Am Malala

W&N, 2023

In the face of Taliban oppression, one girl's unwavering defiance sparked a worldwide movement. Shot in the head for daring to seek an education, Malala Yousafzai defied all odds, emerging stronger than ever.

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

CRUX PUBLISHING, 2013

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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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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 McConaughey: Greenlights

HEADLINE, 2023

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 Perry: Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

HEADLINE, 2022

So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare.

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Matthew Perry: Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

HEADLINE, 2024

So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare.

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Matthew Perry: Friends, mes amours et cette chose terrible

J'AI LU, 2023

"Salut, je m'appelle Matthew, mais vous me connaissez peut-etre sous un autre nom. Mes amis m'appellent Matty. Et je devrais etre mort." Ainsi commence le captivant récit du célebre Matthew Perry, acteur qui incarna le légendaire Chandler de Friends.

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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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Maya Jasanoff: The Dawn Watch

WILLIAM COLLINS, 2017

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Maye Musk: A Woman Makes a Plan

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2020

Maye Musk is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends--and is 71 years old.

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Maynard Mack: Alexander Pope: A Life

W. W. NORTON & CO., 1988

The noted Yale scholar and critic offers a complete biography of the great eighteenth-century poet, elucidating his skills as a doubly disadvantaged individual and his triumphs as a poet and spokesman for his times.

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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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Michelle Marly: Romy und der Weg nach Paris

AUFBAU TASCHENBUCH, 2021

Romy Schneider – die größte Schauspielerin ihrer Zeit.

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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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Michelle Zauner: Crying in H Mart

PICADOR, 2022

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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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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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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Nadia Murad: The Last Girl

TIM DUGGAN BOOKS, 2017

My story of captivity, and my fight against the islamic state

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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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Oliver Stone: The Putin Interviews

HOT BOOKS, 2017

Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Pamela Anderson: Love, Pamela

HEADLINE, 2024

Her blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands of a football game, she was immediately rocket launched into fame, becoming Playboy's favourite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sexuality.

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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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Patrick Stewart: Making It So

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2024

From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations in a career spanning six decades with his indelible command of stage and screen.

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Patrick Stewart: Making It So: A Memoir

GALLERY UK, 2023

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart.

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Patti Smith: A Book of Days

BLOOMSBURY, 2022

In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!"

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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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Patti Smith: Year of the Monkey

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2020

Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering.

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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 R Alexander: Three Minutes for a Dog: My Life in an Iron Lung

FRIESENPRESS, 2020

Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges.

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

CITADEL, 2016

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Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education II.

AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ, 2023

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Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex: Spare

BANTAM, 2023

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror.

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Puskás Ferenc: Ferenc Puskas - Captain of Hungary

THE HISTORY PRESS, 2012

Provides an account of Ferenc Puskas: his growing up in Soviet-occupied Hungary, travelling the world with the national side and army team Honved, and his different achievements in the game of football.

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Rafael Nadal: Rafa

HACHETTE, 2012

What makes a champion? What does it take to be the best in the world at your sport? Rafael Nadal has the answers.

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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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Rob Wilkins: Terry Pratchett - A Life with Footnotes

DOUBLEDAY, 2022

The creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, Terry Pratchett was known and loved around the world for his hugely popular books, his smart satirical humour and the humanity of his campaign work. But that's only part of the picture.

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Robert Capa: Slightly Out of Focus

MODERN LIBRARY, 2001

In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England.

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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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Roland Lazenby: Michael Jordan - The Life

BACK BAY BOOKS, 2015

The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is responsible for sublime moments so ingrained in sports history that they have their own names.

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Roland Lazenby: Showboat - The Life of Kobe Bryant

W&N, 2019

Bryant is one of basketball's greatest-ever players, a fascinating and complicated character who says he knew when he was a boy that he would be better than Michael Jordan.

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Sally Bedell Smith: Elizabeth the Queen - The most intimate biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2016

Queen. Mother. Servant. Friend. This is the most intimate portrait of our longest serving monarch, an inspiration to her country: Queen Elizabeth II.

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Sally Bedell Smith: George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy

RANDOM HOUSE, 2023

Granted special access by Queen Elizabeth II to her parents’ letters and diaries and to the papers of their close friends and family, Sally Bedell Smith brings the love story of this iconic royal couple to vibrant life.

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Salman Rushdie: Knife - Meditations After an Attempted Murder

JONATHAN CAPE, 2024

A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.

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Sam Smith: The Jordan Rules

GALLERY BOOKS, 2020

This is the book that changed the way the world viewed Michael Jordan, while delivering nonstop excitement, tension, and thrills.

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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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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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Sharon Stone: The Beauty of Living Twice

ALLEN & UNWIN, 2022

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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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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Sports Illustrated: Kobe Bryant: A Tribute to a Basketball Legend

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, 2021

In 20 seasons in a Los Angeles Lakers uniform, Kobe Bryant ascended from teenaged rookie to 18-time All-Star and five-time NBA champion.

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Stanley Tucci: Taste - My Life Through Food

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2022

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.

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Stanley Tucci: What I Ate in One Year

FIG TREE, 2024

Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime.

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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 Patrick Morrissey: Autobiography

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2013

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England...

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Susana Fortes: Esperando a Robert Capa

BOOKET, 2010

París, 1935. Escritores, pintores, poetas, fotógrafos? se mezclan en las calles y en los cafés de la Rive Gauche con miles de refugiados que llegan huyendo del nazismo.

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Sylvia Plath: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

ANCHOR BOOKS, 1998

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.

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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 Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2022

In the late 1880s, a dashing young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession to the novelist Émile Zola.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927

FABER & FABER, 2012

This correspondence with friends and mentors vividly documents all the stages of Eliot's personal and artistic transformation during these crucial years, the continuing anxieties of his private life, and the forging of his public reputation.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

FABER & FABER, 2013

Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and spiritual consolidation.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931

FABER & FABER, 2014

Volume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the poet, between the ages of forty-two and forty-four, reckoning with the strict implications of his Christian faith for his life, his work, and his poetry.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933

FABER & FABER, 2016

A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7: 1934–1935

FABER & FABER, 2017

T. S. Eliot's career as a successful stage dramatist gathers pace throughout the fascinating letters of this volume.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 8: 1936–1938

FABER & FABER, 2019

The volume covers his separation from first wife Vivien, and tells the full story of the decision taken by her brother, following the best available medical advice, to commit her to an asylum - after she had been found wandering in the streets of London.

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