Biography: General
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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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Robert Service
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£33.99| /One hundred years ago, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£48.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£35.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Rogue Traders
Brick Tower Press£29.95| /"Ever since the earliest days of commerce, business people have organized themselves into partnerships. They formed groups with a common interest ...
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Rolling On
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Gary McPherson contracted life-threatening polio during the epidemic of 1955 which left him a quadriplegic. He retains just enough coarse movement ...
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Romy Schneider Story
Reel Publishing (UK)£10.00| /Determined to tread her own path, Austrian film sensation, Romy Schneider was talented, honest, prickly, loving and ultimately tragic. The star of ...
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Ronald Reagan
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£261.99| /Coming from humble origins in Illinois, Ronald Reagan always carried an optimism that life would get better, and with his education from small Eure...
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Roommate of Ann Frank
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£10.95| /Van Der Zee re-creates the life story of Fritz Pfeffer, a German born Jewish dentist, who under the name of 'Dussel' -- which means 'day-dreamer' o...
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Roots of the Future
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /A rabbi, an arms smuggler, a collaborator and a spy, he has flirted with danger, been trailed and jailed, and broken his share of laws. Yet through...
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Rosine, the Midwife
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Between 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States in search of wo...
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Ross Perot
History Publishing Co. Llc (US)£35.99| /Born in Texas and worked as a cowboy before attending the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he joined IBM and left to form Electr...
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Ruffles on my Longjohns
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£18.99| /Autobiographical account of a young couple's adventures homesteading in the Canadian wilderness. Isabel Edwards was in her early twenties when she ...
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Rufus
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£15.99| /As they shook hands and sat down across from each other in the stark office, Rufus knew that history was being made... Chronicling the true life of...
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Run As One
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £19.99Current price £7.99| /Errol Ranville has been running all his life: from chronic poverty and racism in rural Manitoba; a discriminatory music business; alcohol and drug ...
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Running Uphill
Dragon Hill Publishing (US)£14.99| /Running Uphill showcases Harry Jerome's race upon the treadmill of ârace,' where progress against racism is glacial, even for an Olympic sprinter...
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Russell Crowe
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /Russell Crowe has been compared to Marlon Brando, Errol Flynn, Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart. He demonstrates a versatility as an actor rarely ...
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Rutherford B Hayes
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£101.99| /It had never occurred to Rutherford B. Hayes that he could be a presidential contender until he won an unprecedented third term as Ohios governor ...
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Rutherford B Hayes
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /It had never occurred to Rutherford B. Hayes that he could be a presidential contender until he won an unprecedented third term as Ohios governor ...
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Saga of Bishop Thorlak
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /CONTENTS: Introduction; Translation; Notes; Bibliography & Abbreviations; Index of Personal Names; Index of Place Names.
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Sailing Uphill
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Sam McKinney has spent many of the best parts of his life on the water -- sailing a dory along Canada's west coast, crewing on the deck of a river ...
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Saladin
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£10.99| /Text in Arabic. Saladin was an outsider whose life was filled with paradox. Famous for driving the crusaders out of Jerusalem, and becoming the mos...
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Salar al-Dowleh
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£43.99| /Salar al-Dowleh, the madcap prince and serial rebel, was a reflection of the unsettled political times during the early 1900s when Iranian society ...
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Sam Steele
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Sam Steele, "the man who tamed the Gold Rush," had a high-profile public career, yet his private life has been closely protected. Sam Steele: A Bio...
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Sam Steele & the Northwest Rebellion
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at...
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Sanctuary
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Design Edge Regional Design AwardShortlisted, Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice AwardAuthentic. Original. Inimitable. Mary Majka was...
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Saudade
Ariadne Press (US)£29.99| /In 1831 a young princess is forced to leave her home in Brazil and follow her father into exile. After the forcible overthrow of her tyrannical unc...
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Saxon -- Never Surrender (or Nearly Good Looking)
IP Verlag (D)£15.99| /For over thirty years, Saxon has been led from the front by charismatic and larger-than-life vocalist Biff Byford. In 'Never Surrender', he tells h...
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Scientists Greater than Einstein
Quill Driver Books (US)£25.99| /Scientists Greater than Einstein tells the stories of ten scientists whose discoveries have had an amazing impact on humanity. Combined, these ten ...
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Serenade to the Big Bird
Schiffer Military£27.99| /After completing a tour of duty (thirty-five missions) in B-17s, Bert Stiles transferred to a fighter squadron. Just four months later he was kille...
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Seven Big Australians
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Comic actors have made a particularly strong contribution to cultural life in Australia over the past sixty years. They have brought a range of mem...
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Seven Slovak Women
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£22.99| /This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Slovak women. The seven life stories, ...
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Sex & the Singer
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£69.99| /The most famous Russian Opera Star of the 20th Century Feodor Chaliapin, as stated by some memoirists, was known in Europe as a womanizer, while th...
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Shadow of Doubt
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-FictionShortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book AwardOn July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of...
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Shadow of Doubt
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /A national bestseller, now updated, expanded, and revised to tell an even bigger story.On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewi...
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