Biography & Autobiography
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Romy Schneider Story
Reel Publishing (UK)£10.00| /Determined to tread her own path, Austrian film sensation, Romy Schneider was talented, honest, prickly, loving and ultimately tragic. The star of ...
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Ronald Reagan
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£261.99| /Coming from humble origins in Illinois, Ronald Reagan always carried an optimism that life would get better, and with his education from small Eure...
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Roommate of Ann Frank
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£10.95| /Van Der Zee re-creates the life story of Fritz Pfeffer, a German born Jewish dentist, who under the name of 'Dussel' -- which means 'day-dreamer' o...
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Roots of the Future
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /A rabbi, an arms smuggler, a collaborator and a spy, he has flirted with danger, been trailed and jailed, and broken his share of laws. Yet through...
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Rosine, the Midwife
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Between 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States in search of wo...
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Ross Perot
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£35.99| /Born in Texas and worked as a cowboy before attending the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he joined IBM and left to form Electr...
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Ruffles on my Longjohns
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£18.99| /Autobiographical account of a young couple's adventures homesteading in the Canadian wilderness. Isabel Edwards was in her early twenties when she ...
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Rufus
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£15.99| /As they shook hands and sat down across from each other in the stark office, Rufus knew that history was being made... Chronicling the true life of...
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Run As One
Great Plains Publications£19.99| /Errol Ranville has been running all his life: from chronic poverty and racism in rural Manitoba; a discriminatory music business; alcohol and drug ...
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Running Uphill
Dragon Hill Publishing (US)£14.99| /Running Uphill showcases Harry Jerome's race upon the treadmill of ârace,' where progress against racism is glacial, even for an Olympic sprinter...
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Russell Crowe
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /Russell Crowe has been compared to Marlon Brando, Errol Flynn, Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart. He demonstrates a versatility as an actor rarely ...
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Rutherford B Hayes
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£101.99| /It had never occurred to Rutherford B. Hayes that he could be a presidential contender until he won an unprecedented third term as Ohios governor ...
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Rutherford B Hayes
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /It had never occurred to Rutherford B. Hayes that he could be a presidential contender until he won an unprecedented third term as Ohios governor ...
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Saga of Bishop Thorlak
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /CONTENTS: Introduction; Translation; Notes; Bibliography & Abbreviations; Index of Personal Names; Index of Place Names.
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Sailing Uphill
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Sam McKinney has spent many of the best parts of his life on the water -- sailing a dory along Canada's west coast, crewing on the deck of a river ...
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Saladin
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£10.99| /Text in Arabic. Saladin was an outsider whose life was filled with paradox. Famous for driving the crusaders out of Jerusalem, and becoming the mos...
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Salar al-Dowleh
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£43.99| /Salar al-Dowleh, the madcap prince and serial rebel, was a reflection of the unsettled political times during the early 1900s when Iranian society ...
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Sam Steele
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Sam Steele, "the man who tamed the Gold Rush," had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. Sam Steele: A Bio...
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Sam Steele & the Northwest Rebellion
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at...
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Sanctuary
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Design Edge Regional Design AwardShortlisted, Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice AwardAuthentic. Original. Inimitable. Mary Majka was...
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Saudade
Ariadne Press (US)£29.99| /In 1831 a young princess is forced to leave her home in Brazil and follow her father into exile. After the forcible overthrow of her tyrannical unc...
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Saxon -- Never Surrender (or Nearly Good Looking)
IP Verlag (D)£15.99| /For over thirty years, Saxon has been led from the front by charismatic and larger-than-life vocalist Biff Byford. In 'Never Surrender', he tells h...
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Scientists Greater than Einstein
Quill Driver Books (US)£25.99| /Scientists Greater than Einstein tells the stories of ten scientists whose discoveries have had an amazing impact on humanity. Combined, these ten ...
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Serenade to the Big Bird
Schiffer Military£27.99| /After completing a tour of duty (thirty-five missions) in B-17s, Bert Stiles transferred to a fighter squadron. Just four months later he was kille...
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Service on the Skeena
Ronsdale Press (CA)£20.99| /His name was Horace Wrinch. It was 1880. He was 14 years old, a farmers boy from England travelling on his own to Quebec. Twenty years later, a qu...
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Seven Big Australians
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Comic actors have made a particularly strong contribution to cultural life in Australia over the past sixty years. They have brought a range of mem...
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Seven Slovak Women
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£22.99| /This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Slovak women. The seven life stories, ...
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Sex & the Singer
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£69.99| /The most famous Russian Opera Star of the 20th Century Feodor Chaliapin, as stated by some memoirists, was known in Europe as a womanizer, while th...
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Shadow of Doubt
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionShortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book AwardOn July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of...
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Shadow of Doubt
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /A national bestseller, now updated, expanded, and revised to tell an even bigger story.On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewi...
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Sheperd Paine
Schiffer Military£72.99| /Sheperd Paine did more than anyone to elevate modeling to the level of an art form - one that includes elements of painting, sculpting, research, a...
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Shiva's Rainbow
Ethos-UK (UK)£10.99| /This is a very personal autobiography, an Orwellian journey of self discovery, rebirth, love and friendship in the face of appalling psychological ...
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Showdown!
Linden Publishing (US)£16.99| /Punctuated by gunshots and hoof beats, this engaging collection presents six biographies of hardened lawmen in Old California. Illustrating the dan...
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Showman
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /His father was a magician; his mother trained white doves. Russ Whitebone grew up in the colourful world of the Big Top and the vaudeville stage. S...
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Shut Away
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /An explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization."How many brothers and sisters do you have?" It was one of the first questions ki...
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Siauw Giok Tjhan
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Siauw Giok Tjhan (1914-1981) was one of the most influential Chinese Indonesian political leaders active in the early decades following Indonesias...
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Sicilian Mafia
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Italian gangland experience. Since 2006 Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots...
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Sidney Crosby
Overtime Books (CA)£11.99| /This upstart hockey champion from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, has led a seemingly charmed life, garnering awards and firsts since he learned to skat...
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Signers of the Declaration
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /This book incorporates a comprehensive survey of sites and buildings associated with the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The book highl...
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Sir Frank Packer
Sydney University Press£30.00| /Legendary media baron Sir Frank Packer was pugnacious, autocratic and always controversial. After joining forces with Labor politician E.G. Theodor...
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Sir John Franklin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Ere...
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Sir Michael Sadler 1861-1943
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£39.99| /The writer's main purpose in this book is to arouse interest on the reader's part in an extraordinary personality. Michael Sadler was a Comparative...
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Site of Convergence
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /17 September 2011 will mark 10 years exactly since the formal opening of the Monash University Prato Centre, Monash Universitys teaching and resear...
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Sitting Bull in Canada
Folklore Publishing (CA)£11.99| /This book recounts the story of the great Sioux chief Sitting Bull's retreat into Canada after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The story centers ...
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Six Foot Two, Eyes OF Blue...
Empire Publications (UK)£10.95| /BIG JIM HOLTON was a cult hero for Manchester United and Scotland during the heady early 1970s. Although he had the terrace anthem Six Foot Two,...
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Skateboarding
Overtime Books (CA)£7.99| /Read about the culture of skateboarding...the early daredevils and the new breed of innovators. â¢Skateboarding's growing pains and the flagship c...
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Slippery Jim or Patriotic Statesman?
Otago University Press (NZ)£23.00| /This is a biography of one of New Zealands most colourful and persuasive politicians. When James Macandrew arrived in Dunedin from Scotland in 185...
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Slumach's Gold
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in...
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