Biography & Autobiography
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Purses & Shoes For Sale
Acadian House Publishing£18.99| /Purses & Shoes For Sale is a hardcover book about the author's journey as a caregiver to her elderly parents in the twilight of their lives. Pa...
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Queering the Way
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Edmonton's Loud & Queer Cabaret has been blazing trails and shining a light on Queer arts and culture for twenty years. The showcase has debute...
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R.G. Smith
Schiffer Military£27.99| /R.G. Smith began his career as an engineer for Douglas Aircraft Company in the 1930s, and played a key role in the design of many successful tactic...
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R.M. Patterson
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /David Finch's highly regarded biography of R.M. Patterson is now available in paperback. The escapades of this great Canadian are brought to life i...
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Rabbinate in Stormy Days
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /From his days as a precocious youngster in Lomzha to his service as rabbi of Belfast and Dublin, chief rabbi of the Irish Free State, and then chie...
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Racing Time
Dementi Milestone Publishing£35.99| /Racing Time is a book of searing intensity shining a healing light into the wounds of loss. Most of all, it is a celebration of life-long friendshi...
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Raja of Mahmudabad
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)£4.50| /The Raja of Mahmudabad (1914-1973) was the only Treasurer of the All-India Muslim League, as well as the founding President of both its main subsid...
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Ralph Edwards of Lonesome Lake
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£15.99| /A trilogy of stories by the Edwards family about their fascinating life in the Bella Coola area. Often called "The Crusoe of Lonesome Lake," becaus...
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Ranching with Lords & Commons
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£16.99| /Ranching with Lords & Commons, originally published in 1903, tells the fascinating story of Alberta's famous Oxley Ranch from the perspective o...
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Randolph Caldecott
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was a pioneer in the way he charmed his young readers with an innovative and engaging aesthetic approach to the pict...
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Random Illuminations
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (a...
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Rashi
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /"The magic spell cast by Rashi on the Jewish nation over eight centuries ago continues to enlighten and enchant us. What is the secret of Rashi's c...
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Raymond Chandler in Hollywood
Silman-James Press (US)£20.99| /This book offers an entertaining and comprehensive assessment of Chandler's turbulent association with Hollywood, both as a screenwriter whose cred...
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Reading Aboriginal Women's Life Stories
Sydney University Press£16.99| /A wave of life stories and autobiographical narratives by Aboriginal women began in the late 1970s and gained momentum a decade later with the publ...
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Real Alaskans
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£17.99| /Biographies of modern Alaskans who are finding new challenges, yet trying to reach back into the past and preserve it.
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Real Jason Robinson
Empire Publications (UK)£17.95| /As the scorer of the only try in England's historic World Cup victory in 2003, Jason Robinson's career has scaled the peaks. Yet while his career h...
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Rebel Women
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The women in these stories did the unthinkable for their time: they followed their own paths, flouting convention and daring to break from the trad...
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Rebel Women of the Gold Rush
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /During the frenzied Klondike Gold Rush, many daring women ventured north to seek riches and adventure or to escape a troubled past. These unforgett...
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Rebel Women of the West Coast
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Here are the stories of singularly courageous West Coast women--driven, obsessed, sometimes desperate people whose nonconformist beliefs and action...
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Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Harry Stallworthy spent 20 years in the Canadian North with the RCMP. While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic...
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Red, White & Blackmore
Empire Publications (UK)£20.00| /As a homegrown player with a taste for spectacular goals, Clayton Blackmore was a fan favourite for Manchester United long before he secured cult s...
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Reena
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Shortlisted for the 2009 George Ryga Award. This is the story of an average family that has never been the same . . . since its eldest child was sw...
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Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Malcolm Forsyth (1936-2011) was a musical legend: a much-loved composer, performer, teacher, and mentor. Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth presents a ...
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Reflexions
Brick Tower Press (UK)£14.95| /The book begins in New York in 1951 where Olney, a struggling artist, waited tables in Greenwich Village, then moves to Paris and weaves a magical ...
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Remembering Cesar
Quill Driver Books (US)£127.99| /In this collection of firsthand accounts by those who knew Cesar Chavez best, a portrait of an uncommonly complex man, both driven and focused, yet...
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Renee Zellweger
Folklore Publishing (CA)£6.99| /Renée Zellweger is living the American Dream. From the small town of Katy, Texas, Zellweger has climbed quickly to the heights of stardom with som...
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Resolve
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Andy and Phyllis Chelsea met during their years spent at the St. Josephs Mission School in Williams Lake, BC. Like the thousands of others forced ...
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Return of the Cavaliers
Blue Dome Press (US)£9.99| /Beginning with the environment in which Fethullah Gülen was raised and the dynamics that formed his character, this biographical novel captures the...
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Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent
Clear Light Publishers (US)£25.99| /Reuben Snake's life story is at once intensely personal and a retelling of the most significant events and developments affecting Indian America in...
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Richard M Nixon
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£194.99| /In the twenty years since Richard Nixon's death, both his achievements and his failures remain hotly contested. His domestic achievements included ...
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Rider Haggard, Henry Miller & I
New Falcon Publications (US)£30.99| /The struggles of those called to write, suffering rejection after rejection until finally recognised. This work explores the psychological and arch...
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Right Hand Man
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /Right Hand Man is the gripping story of Yechiel Kadishai, Menachem Begins right-hand man and confidant. Kadishai was by Begins side for decades, fr...
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Rittenhouse Writers
Paul Dry Books (US)£20.99| /James Rahn has led the Rittenhouse Writers' Group since he founded it in 1988, making it one of America's longest-running independent fiction works...
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Roar of the Sea
Boulder Publications£15.99| /Nova Scotias maritime heritage is brought to life in the story of an adventurer who travelled the world on an epic solo voyage in a 23-foot sailbo...
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Rob Riley
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£24.99| /Widely regarded as one of the great Aboriginal leaders of the modern era, Rob Riley was at the centre of debates that have polarised views on race ...
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Robert Service
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£10.99| /A quick-paced and engaging biography of Canada's favourite northern poet, Robert Service. Born in England in 1874 to Scottish parents, Robert Willi...
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