Biography & Autobiography
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Winning Ways
Manor House Publishing Inc (CA)£19.99| /Learn how leading developer Rudy Reimer fled Nazi Germany to build success in Canada and earn widespread praise from the business community and bey...
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Wiremu Pere
Libro International (NZ)£69.99| /Wiremu Pere (Wi Pere) lived from 1837 to 1915, leading his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapt...
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Wisdom in Nonsense
University of Alberta Press (CA)£10.99| /I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with tho...
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With All Her Might
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Born in 1889, Gertrude Harding spent a boistrous childhood on a Welsford, New Brunswick, farm. She travelled to Hawaii to live with her sister, and...
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With the Black Devils:
Schiffer Military£27.99| /With The Black Devils offers readers a rare first-hand account of life with an elite group of American and Canadian World War II soldiers known as ...
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With Them Through Hell
Massey University Press£50.00| /The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with ...
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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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Woman of Few Words
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£18.99| /How would you like to be unable to speak intelligibly? How would you enjoy having an awkward gait that makes you prone to falling and causes people...
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Woman of Valor
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /This book begins where most love stories leave off: at the beginning of real life. The transition from being a young couple in love to a couple of ...
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Women in the Dark
Schiffer£40.99| /Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became commercial photographers and...
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Women of Brave Mettle
Caitlin Press (CA)£17.99| /In this much-anticipated second volume in the Extraordinary Women Anthology series, Diana French follows up on Gumption and Grit with more stories ...
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Women Were Pirates, Too
Schiffer£9.99| /From women who fought alongside the men in dastardly high-sea robberies, to an Irish heroine who plundered British ships, to women unfortunate enou...
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Women, Crime and the Courts
Blacksmith Books (HK)£13.99| /Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husbands concubine; sick of her mother-in-laws endless carping about the money s...
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Woolf's Head Publishing
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /The Hogarth Press is perhaps most famous for its association with Virginia Woolf, as she was both a partner in the Press and its most important aut...
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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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Writers on the Air
Paul Dry Books (US)£25.99| /Writers on the Air brings to print for the first time Donna Seaman's vibrant author interviews from her Chicago-based radio program, Open Books. In...
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Wyatt Earp
Golden West Cookbooks£8.99| /In his new series: 'Wild West Heroes and Rogues', Marshall Trimble recounts the mystique surrounding the lives of the famous and not-so-famous West...
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Yearning to Breathe Free
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /On 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually bec...
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Yes I Would Love Another Glass of Tea
Blue Dome Press (US)£15.99| /CD Audiobook + mp3 file. "Yes, I Would..." comprises a series of imaginary letters written to Lady Mary Montagu, whose famous Embassy Letters were ...
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Yes, It's Possible
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /Ehud Diskin's mother wanted him to play it safe when he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, he volunteered for one of the IDF's mo...
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Yip Sang
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make...
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Yitzhak Rabin - The Growth of a Leader
Dekel Publishing House£14.99| /Even before Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, I always saw him as an enigmatic hero, writes the author Dr. Shaul Weber. This enigma only intensified ...
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Your Unselfish Kindness
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906-39) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter. As a journalist, she jug...
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Yukon Tears and Laughter
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£14.99| /Born in the small, northern community of Whitehorse, before the building of the Alaska Highway, Joyce Yardley"™s childhood was full of friends, fam...
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