Dying: A Memoir (PB) by Cory Taylor
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Cory Taylor wrote this remarkable book in the space of a few weeks before her death from cancer in July 2016. In a tremendous creative surge, as her body weakened, she described the experience of knowing she would soon die. Her powerful and beautifully written book is a clear-eyed account of the tangle ...Show more
NostradamusHow an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom by Stéphane Gerson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
WE ALL KNOW THE NAME NOSTRADAMUS, BUT WHO WAS HE REALLY? WHY DID HIS PREDICTIONS BECOME SO INFLUENTIAL IN RENAISSANCE EUROPE AND THEN KEEP RESURFACING FOR NEARLY FIVE CENTURIES? AND WHAT DOES NOSTRADAMUS'S ENDURANCE IN THE WEST SAY ABOUT US AND OUR OWN WORLD? In Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance A ...Show more
I am Melba by Ann Blainey
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. When a chance arose to go to Paris, she trusted in her musical talent and hoped for a lucky break.Within a few y ...Show more
The Roman Catholic Church: An Illustrated History by Edward Norman
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Here is the paperback edition of the book described by "The Sunday Telegraph" as the most intellectually bracing short history of the Roman Catholic Church to have appeared for decades. The history of the Roman Catholic Church is the gateway to understanding 2,000 years of Western and often world civili ...Show more
Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real about the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism. In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator ...Show more
Steve Smith's Men: Behind Australian Cricket's Fall by Geoff Lemon
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: 3 Biography
He was top of the world, with numbers bettered only by Don Bradman - then captain Steve Smith led his Australian team into a cheating scandal that stunned cricket. Media exploded and million-dollar contracts were torn up. Australia's prime minister expressed the public anger and disappointment: 'Our cri ...Show more
Finding Freedom: Harry And Meghan And The Making Of A Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world's attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son ...Show more
Banksy: The Man Behind The Wall by Will Ellsworth Jones
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Banksy is amongst the art world's more subversive elements, an accomplished and acclaimed provocateur for whom the art is seemingly of greater importance than the artist himself. Ellsworth-Jones portrays Banksy as creative, hardworking, and not a little calculating or controlling (which follows his over ...Show more
Blasphemy by Asia Bibi
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45° and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours. It's exhausting, sweaty work, but Asia and her husband have five children to feed. At midday she goes to the nearest well, picks up a cup and takes a long drink of cool water. She refills the cup, ...Show more
Under the Knife by Arnold van de Laar
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future of surgery. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Unde ...Show more
The Good Book - A Humanist Bible by A. C. Grayling; Bill Swainson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible, drawn from the wealth of ...Show more
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all ...Show more