Biography: General
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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 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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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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Teacher
AMPS£9.99| /This is the stoy of The Teacher to The Beatles told in his own evocative words with the help of his boyhood friend and rock & roll fan turned a...
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Teacher in a Foreign Land
Tughra Books (US)£5.99| /Fethullah Gulen is an enlightened person who knows well many issues related to literature, art, philosophy and science, he is a man of action who h...
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Teacher in a Foreign Land
Tughra Books (US)£5.99| /Fethullah Gulen is an enlightened person who knows well many issues related to literature, art, philosophy and science, he is a man of action who h...
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Teddy Kollek
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£22.99| /Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem 1965 1993, symbolises the history of the nation of Israel in the twentieth century, in which he played a central r...
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Tell Me Im Okay
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Throughout my years of practice, people have often asked me why I decided to specialise in sexual health. The question is not surprising given tha...
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Ten Soviet Sports Stars
Branden Publishing Co (US)£12.99| /Only Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policy could bring you this inside look at the Soviet Union's athletic superstars -- co-authored by Yuri Khromov,...
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Texas Longhorns
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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The 356th Fighter Group in World War II
Schiffer Military£54.99| /Here for the first time is the story of the 356th Fighter Group which flew in the European Theater of Operations during the Second World War. This ...
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The A to Z of People of Faith and Science
ATF Press£21.99| /The Catholic Church today is accustomed to o en being ridiculed and criticised. Well known scientists such as Richard Dawkins treat religion in gen...
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The Aces of Fighting 17
Schiffer Military£63.99| /They were called the deadliest fighter squadron in action in the South Pacific; U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron Seventeen, famous with their Skull and ...
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The Albertans
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£14.99| /In honour of Alberta's Centenary year, The Albertans profiles 100 individuals from our province who have either made a significant contribution to ...
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The Amazing Mazie Baker
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /When author Kay Johnston first met Mazie Baker, she came to know her as the reigning queen of bannock, selling out batch after batch of fluffy, lig...
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The Atlanta Rhythm Section
Schiffer£27.99| /This book is the authorized chronicle of the Atlanta Rhythm Section, the legendary southern rock band that created such memorable hits as “Champagn...
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The Backpack
Linden Publishing (US)£17.99| /A former police officer tells his personal story of the long climb from depression to faith in the intense new personal memoir The Backpack. An ama...
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The Ballad of Jacob Peck
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...
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The Bastard of Fort Stikine
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fictio...
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The Beatles: Yesterday and Tomorrow
Schiffer£27.99| /Take a magical mystery tour through time, following the trail of Beatles memorabilia left behind by the Fab Four from their early days in Hamburg, ...
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The Book of Her Life
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography features Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez's authoritative translation of The ...
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The Boy Who Walked
Boulder Publications£15.99| /In January 2012, 14-year old Burton Winters froze to death after his snowmobile broke down on the ice just outside his home in Makkovik, Labrador. ...
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The Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century
Schiffer£136.99| /Art flourished in France to an exciting and unprecedented degree in the 19th century. Sculpture was a part of this fantastic explosion of creative ...
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The Calling
Ibex Publishers (US)£20.99| /In the 19th century, countless individuals believed a new Revelation was imminent. In Persia, the Báb fulfilled the prediction by several clerics o...
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The Camp Men
Schiffer Military£54.99| /nside these pages you will meet over 960 infamous men â the officers of Nazi Germany's Totenkopf (Death's Head). You will encounter the 256 SS off...
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The Changing North
CCI Press£26.99| /Imagine living through an arctic winter in shelter with no plumbing, not even an outhouse. For two months, the sun does not rise above the horizon,...
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The Clay Pigeons
Schiffer Military£31.99| /This book is centered around the author's father's World War II diary. Robert C. Sage was a B-17 pilot who flew twenty-nine missions out of Thurlei...
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The Columbia
Schiffer£13.99| /Books have been written about the highway that Samuel C. Lancaster built. This is the book that he wrote. Lancaster is known to all who have studie...
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The Delamere Saga
Interactive Publications£30.99| /This colourful and thoroughly researched history of the Lord Delamere branch of the British aristocracy focuses on the famous Vale Royal Abbey in C...
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The Diplomat
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /The story of the incident that forged Canada's reputation as a broker of peace and a player with outsized influence in world affairs. In a world on...
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The Doolittle Raiders
Schiffer Military£15.99| /Eighty brave men made a near-suicidal first attack on Japan about four months after Pearl Harbor. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted a quick respo...
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The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£172.99| /The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln gets to the heart of young Lincoln's life and the origins of his reputation as "honest Abe". This biography is fu...
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The Earth Remembers Everything
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /This is a masterful blend of history, travel and poetic narrative, tracing the author's journeys to some of the most difficult destinations in the ...
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The Edmonton Queen
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /A Drag Dynasty is about to be divined from the high life decade of decadence. It is destined, pre-ordained -- and perfectly coiffed. Darrin Hagen, ...
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The Elephant Man
Acadian House Publishing£15.99| /The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascina...
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The Fatal Lure of Politics
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his early life he...
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The Ferbey Four
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£23.99| /A full-colour portrait of Canada's curling giants--Randy Ferbey, Dave Nedohin, Scott Pfeifer and Marcel Rocque--winners of three world championship...
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