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The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott
Schiffer£22.99| /Known as the "Audubon of Botany," Philadelphia, Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860–1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise...
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Verity Sweeny Purdy at the age of eleven was sent to England to live with an aunt and train as a classical dancer. This memoir tells of her experie...
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The Metamorphosis
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, Canadian Regional Design Awardmet-a-mor-pho-sis: a complete change of form, structure, or su...
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The Namesake, the Biography of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Brick Tower Press£19.95| /"Except for Douglas MacArthur, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is the most decorated soldier in American history, having earned his Congressional Medal of ...
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Theo Schoon
Massey University Press£46.99| /Émigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultura...
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Two Frank Thrings
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /They shared a name, of course, and their physical resemblance was startling. And both Frank Thrings were huge figures in the landscape of twentieth...
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Unstrung Heroes
Schiffer£31.99| /There may be plenty of books on guitar players, but there are very few, if any, that delve into the guitar players who have been somewhat "under th...
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Volume
Sarsen Press (UK)£8.99| /Have you ever been to a gig? Have you ever been obsessed with music? This is Oliver Gray's memoir of 30 years spent dabbling on the periphery of th...
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When Jolson Was King
Celebrity Profiles Publishing (US)£25.99| /Here is the quintessential Al Jolson tribute from the pen of author/music historian Richard Grudens, documenting the story of Al Jolson's colourful...
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Winging Home
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /In British Columbia's remote and exotic Cariboo Plateau, "Everything is slow. Everything is happening at the same speed, which is no speed at all."...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ariadne Press (US)£13.99| /The world is familiar with Mozart the composer, but in his private life he lived a variety of other roles: husband, father, son, and cousin, among ...
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Wormwood Star
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£14.99| /In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron, one of the mos...
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