Biography & Autobiography
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Smugglers of the West
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Do you think the smuggling of drugs and people is a new phenomenon in Canada's west? Think again! Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, many...
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Snippets from the Trenches
Freda Wagman (US)£18.99| /"The really extraordinary thing about this book is that it tells the story of how one mother embarked on her feverish course of involvement in the ...
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Snow Bodies
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Snow Bodies is a memoir of a young woman's life on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver in the early 1970s, in the vein of Evelyn Lau's Runaway. Di...
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Snowflake Man
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US)£25.99| /This is a biography of Wilson Alwyn Bentley, the farmer from Jericho, Vermont, who took over five thousand photomicrographs of ice, dew, frost, and...
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Song for Rosaleen
Massey University Press£23.99| /A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mothers dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmonds life an...
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Song on My Lips
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£19.99| /Stephen Botek apprenticed at the side of some of the greats of the jazz era, learning not only about music, but about life. Growing up in small-tow...
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Sonia
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /After Sonia Cornwall's father died in 1939, her mother inherited the Onward Ranch and a huge debt. To make the ranch viable, a twenty-year-old Soni...
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Sooner Or Later
Clear Light Publishers (US)£15.99| /This colourful chronicle of pioneering experience emerges from Virginia Stumbough's priceless collection of family letters, diaries, scrapbooks, al...
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Soul to Soul
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /When she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2007, Deborah Masel's life collapsed. Two and a half years later, her struggle to find mean...
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Spectacular Canadians
Blue Bike Books (CA)£11.99| /Nation builders, titans of industry and great thinkers; brilliant writers, movie stars and sports heroes; dirty scoundrels, pirates and hooligans--...
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Spook War
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This book gives a glimpse and a tour into the primary and collateral events triggered when the Reagan Administration abruptly shifted three decades...
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Spoonfed
Manor House Publishing Inc£19.99| /With a string of smash hits -- Nova Heart, Tell No Lies, Old Emotions, Romantic Traffic -- the Spoons redefined the musical landscape and captured ...
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Spotlight on the SAI Story
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£6.99| /This is the story of Sai Baba's life and philosophy retold in new light in historical chronology and spiritual potency with aroma and lustre of ava...
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SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Theodor Teddy Wisch
Schiffer Military£22.99| /This biography examines, in great detail, the life of Theodor Wisch, Waffen-SS General and Swords to the Knights Cross holder. A member of the Lei...
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SS-Sturmbannführer Ernst August Krag
Schiffer Military£18.99| /This biography of Ernst August Krag, offers a close look at one of the elite troops most decorated officers. Examining his career from the pre-war...
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Stalin's Eagles
Schiffer Military£54.99| /Stalin's Eagles is the most complete and detailed book ever published on the Soviet aces. All of the great names are here: Kozhedub, Pokryshkin, Re...
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Standing My Ground
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /For over five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-gras...
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Starring Edward Woodward
Reel Publishing (UK)£20.00| /"Starring Edward Woodward" is a star-image construction that benefits greatly from the inclusion of personal memories and photographs provided by t...
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Starring Edward Woodward
Reel Publishing (UK)£25.00| /"Starring Edward Woodward" is a star-image construction that benefits greatly from the inclusion of personal memories and photographs provided by t...
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Steady Steady
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /Book & CD. Born on Thursday Island in 1929, Seaman Dan didn't release his debut album, Follow the Sun', until his 70th birthday. In the next t...
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Steam Lion
Brick Tower Press (UK)£16.95| /The summer of 1840, and Boston Harbor is thrumming with politicians, business people, civic leaders, members of the judiciary, and the public. The ...
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Stella
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /A wealthy madam who was known from San Francisco to Victoria in the early part of the 20th century, Stella Carroll was glamorous, worldly and deter...
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Stepan Bandera -- The Life & Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£37.99| /"The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Ban...
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Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia
Ronsdale Press (CA)£16.99| /In an intimate narrative, Braun ushers us into the life of one extended Mennonite family -- in particular the lives of her father and grandfather, ...
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Stories of Service
Linden Publishing (US)£25.99| /Perfectly blending a vast historical scope with intensely individual viewpoints, this stirring collection of stories brings a man-on-the-ground per...
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Story of Sir Peter Blake
Libro International (NZ)£16.99| /Sir Peter Blake was a New Zealand hero -- sailor, adventurer, leader and environmentalist. Competing in ocean races, he clocked up as many sea mile...
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Strange Beautiful Excitement
Otago University Press£22.99| /How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through ...
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Strangers No More
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£13.99| /In this book, Brunell reveals the personal account of his wife and children, as they embark on the journey of a lifetime he explains why he chose t...
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Strangling of Persia
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.50| /In 1911, an ambitious American was invited by a budding Iranian democracy to bring financial stability to the country. He went with the blessing of...
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Students of Deep Springs College
Lodima Press (US)£61.99| /Deep Springs College is the most unusual college in America. Arguably, it is also the best. It is located in such a remote place in the high desert...
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Subtle Moments
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Bruce Grant was raised in outback Western Australia but lived and worked at or near the centre of power in Australia for several decades, as journa...
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Sugar Ride
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /For three months Yvonne Blomer travelled by bike with her husband Rupert Gadd through Southeast Asia. A type one diabetic since childhood, she also...
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Suitcases & Backpacks
Dekel Publishing House£5.95| /This is a testimony of intricate detail that describes a young girl's survival in ghettos and concentration camps between 1942 and 1945. Readers fo...
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Sultan Selim I
Blue Dome Press (US)£11.99| /Sultan Selim I was an extraordinary sultan who virtually re-established the Ottoman state. This work relates his approach to developments in his ti...
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Sunburst and Luminary
Fort Point Press£20.99| /In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment...
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Surviving in My World
Bhatkal & Sen (IND)£22.00| /A translation of the author's autobiography Amar Bhubane Ami Beche Thaki (2013), this book consists in addition a detailed interview of the author ...
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Surviving Peace
Spinifex Press£19.95| /How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is ...
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Surviving the Gulag
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking ai...
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Survivors
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This is not just another Holocaust photo album. It is a special work that confirms optimism and vitality. It deals with the cycle of life and its w...
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Susan B. Anthony
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /To strive for liberty and for a democratic way of life has always been a noble tradition of our country. Susan B. Anthony followed this tradition. ...
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Swelling with Pride
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Theres no straightforward path to LGBTQ2 parenthood and just as every queer person has their own coming out story, every LGBTQ2 family has a uniqu...
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Switched at Birth
Hollis Media Group (US)£20.99| /This a story about two baby boys that were inexplicably switched at birth and how it would change my (author's) life dramatically in every aspect o...
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Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Wisdom Tree (IND)£24.95| /Syama Prasad Mookerjee was an academician, administrator and educational thinker, as may be discerned from his life-long engagement with education ...
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Take It Lying Down
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /Six months shy of retirement and on a family vacation in Mexico, Jim Linnell steps off the porch of a rented guest house and breaks his neck. He is...
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Tales From the Back Room
Great Plains Publications£19.99| /Emerging from the back rooms, ultimate insider Michael Decter treats us to a range of raunchy and riveting stories of politics in Canada. From his ...
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Tales from Under the Rim
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /A National Bestseller. Now available in paperback. "On a Rrrroll! You may not be familiar with Ron Buist, but you know his handiwork." -- The Ottaw...
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Tales of Nehama
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£22.99| /Who was Nehama Leibowitz? This question is thoroughly and lovingly explored in Tales of Nehama, by Lea Abramowitz. The result is a fascinating, in-...
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Tattered Banners
Paul Dry Books (US)£19.99| /War, like love, is an experience that each generation must learn for itself. Born into Russian aristocracy at the end of the 19th Century, Paul Rod...
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