Biography & Autobiography
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Ohio State Buckeyes
SportsZone£12.99| /Every autumn, Saturdays belong to college football. Passionate fans pack stadiums across the country. Millions more watch on live television. Learn...
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Oklahoma Sooners
SportsZone£12.99| /Every autumn, Saturdays belong to college football. Passionate fans pack stadiums across the country. Millions more watch on live television. Learn...
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Old Lives
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /Set in the wild country north of Lillooet and west of the great Fraser River, "Old Lives" paints the rugged landscape and equally rugged lives of t...
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Old Mans Story
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£23.99| /Old Mans story shares the remarkable story of one of Australias most respected elders and traditional land owners, Big Bill Neidjie. This new t...
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Olive Rush
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /This engaging biography brings light to the life, art, and extraordinary contributions of Olive Rush (1873-1966), artist, illustrator, muralist, Na...
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Oliver Reed
Playdead Press£7.99| /Im Oliver Reed from Wimbledon! Id say to anyone I met. I out-drank, out-spoke and out-punched everyone. Join hell-raiser Oliver Reed as he share...
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On the Curve
Caitlin Press (CA)£18.99| /Sybil Andrews was one of Canadas most prominent artists working throughout the late twentieth century. From a cottage by the sea in Campbell River...
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On the Road
Music Mentor Books (UK)£15.99| /The music industry often paints a glamorous picture of its stars' lives and achievements, but what is life really like behind the gloss? How does i...
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On the Wings of Faith
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /Rabbi Eli Fishman began writing about his experiences in the Shoah over sixty years ago, soon after his liberation from Dachau. Mindful of the fact...
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Ootsa Lake Odyssey
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /From the 1920s to 1952, George and Else Seel lived about sixty kilometres south of Burns Lake near the small farming settlement of Wistaria on the ...
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The Order of British Columbia was established in 1989 to recognize and honour ordinary citizens who have made a difference in the lives of others. ...
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Orlando Bloom
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /Few movie stars have achieved the heights of fame with the blistering speed and reversal of fortune as Orlando Bloom. In 1998, the then-unknown act...
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Osama Bin Laden
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£6.25| /Osama bin Laden as Islamic fundamentalist leader, a self-styled Islamic scholar and a harsh critic of the United States, managed to -- rip a hole i...
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Oscar of Between
Caitlin Press (CA)£13.99| /In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to c...
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Other Voices, Other Eyes
Blacksmith Books (HK)£13.99| /The stories of expatriates in Hong Kong the most dynamic, dramatic and diverse city in the Asia-Pacific region come to life in this book. Why d...
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Otto Skorzeny: My Commando Operations
Schiffer Military£36.99| /The memoirs of the legendary Skorzeny appear here in its first unabridged English edition. Skorzeny's fame began with the successful raid to free B...
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Our Friend Joe
Ronsdale Press (CA)£16.99| /When a young black man named Seraphim "Joe" Fortes arrived in Vancouver in 1885, with little to his name, no one could possibly have suspected that...
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Out of the Blue
Jan Wong£16.99| /What happens when the place you've loved working at for twenty years asks for a divorce and breaks your heart?"Tapping into her journalistic rigour...
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Out There
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£30.00| /From the late-1950s until his premature death in 1977, Burt Shonberg was one of the most highly admired artists in Los Angeles. During this period,...
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Outlaws and Lawmen of the West
Lone Pine Publishing£11.99| /The American frontier was a rough place where only the tough survived. Gold and cattle were king, and many took up stealing the former and rustling...
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Outlaws and Lawmen of the West
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£14.99| /In the Old West, the law was fragile, the men were armed, tempers were short and socializing took place over shots of rotgut whiskey on a card tabl...
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Outlaws of the Canadian West
Lone Pine Publishing£11.99| /The Canadian West has a history littered with tales of robbers and murderers. These frontier days were long before faxes, DNA analysis and e-mail, ...
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Outrider of Empire
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /A dreamer of dreams, an adventurer, and a man of many ideas, Roger Pocock was an inveterate, world-ranging traveler who lived the life that all adv...
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Outspoken
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /"In 2007, I underwent a crisis of sexual identity. I was married, with two young children, when I became attracted to another woman. The hostility ...
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P is for Prostitution
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£12.99| /"P is for Prostitution" is a primer unlike any you will have read before, the ABC approach far from simplistic. Through various episodes the author...
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Paint Me Black
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£18.99| /Claire Henty-Gebert's life is remarkable and inspiring. Born in the late 1930s, the daughter of a white settler and an Alyawarra woman, Claire was ...
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Pans Daughter
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£22.99| /During the 1950s and early 1960s the Sydney-based trance-artist and Pan-worshipper, Rosaleen Norton, was well known in Australia as the Witch of K...
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Pardon My Hearse
Linden Publishing£17.99| /Even celebrities die -- and he was the man who picked up the bodies! Allan Abbott ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in...
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Passing Through Missing Pages
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Annie Garland Foster was born in Fredericton, NB, in 1875. She was an educator, nurse, politician, social reformer, journalist and biographer of Pa...
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Past Truth & Present Poetry
TFM Publishing Ltd (UK)£20.00| /This is a book comprising 28 small chapters focusing on medical scientists and their discoveries. The title states past truth because these are tru...
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Patriot Priest
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /This book tells one man's personal experience over several epochs and areas of history. It is also, in part the story of one unique individual, aut...
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Paul Yandell, Second to the Best
Schiffer£22.99| /Unassuming late guitarist Paul Yandell described his career not as one of celebrity but as sideman, the musician that audiences hear while they're ...
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Peculiar Lessons
Great Plains Publications£19.99| /Part memoir, part social history, this collection of ten essays explores the various physical and natural elements that form the backdrop to Braun...
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People Of Troubled Water
American Travellers Press (US)£25.99| /People of the Troubled Water focuses on stories of people involved in early years of Missouri River history. It describes the adventures of explore...
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Persian Sphinx
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.00| /Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran -- a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitan...
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Peter McLeavey
Te Papa Press£49.99| /From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the ...
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Pictures from My Memory
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£23.99| /I want our past to be recorded for future generations to read and know and understand how life was for us desert Aboriginal people and how we live ...
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Pieces of Morrissey
Empire Publications (UK)£9.95| /Morrissey is a figure cult. But what drives his fans devotion? What makes them trek halfway round the world to catch his shows in the US or South ...
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Pioneer Canadian Actors
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /It seems that so many of today's Hollywood stars come from Canada, but at one time only a few could claim to have conquered Tinseltown. Here are th...
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Plundertown USA
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£15.99| /By taking this heart-rending journey into his own luminous past and the more remote and sombre past of the lumber-town where he grew up, Al Sandine...
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Polar Bears
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Around the Arctic Circle, polar bears are at the top of the food chain. They have no natural enemies and are fearless, living on the ice and huntin...
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Pomegranate Years
Paul Dry Books (US)£19.99| /This is an intimate account of three years lived on the island of Crete, documents a turbulent, stressful time of economic and political crisis in ...
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Poor Little Bitch Girl
Manor House Publishing Inc (CA)£19.99| /CJ Sleez. The name evokes fantasies... with visions of the slender blonde writhing on stage to a driving rock beat punctuating songs she belts out ...
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Popular Art and the Avant-garde
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-gard...
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Popular is Not Enough: The Political Voice of Joan Baez
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /In his study, Markus Jäger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavours as a political activist thro...
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Popular Is Not Enough: The Political Voice Of Joan Baez
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£36.00| /Markus Jaeger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavors as a political activist throughout the las...
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Portrait of a Holocaust Child
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /Portrait is an artistic book which uniquely tells the true story of Rita Kasimow Brown's experience of hiding in an underground pit from the Nazi d...
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Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Spinifex Press£17.95| /I am seen by many as a danger. As having failed to understand the new rules, the new paradigm of successful motherhood. A memoir and an examination...
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