The Other Side of Absence: Discovering My Father's Secrets by Betty O'Neill
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Betty O'Neill grew up knowing very little about her father, Antoni. She knew that he had fled Poland after World World Two, that he had disappeared overnight when she was just an infant, and that his brief reappearance when she was a young adult had been a harrowing, painful ordeal. Fifty-five years ...Show more
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying an ...Show more
The Life of Francesco Guicciardini by Roberto Ridolfi
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Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to ...Show more
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Biography and Autobiography
This first English language biography of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) in two decades paints a strikingly new picture of one of the twentieth century's most controversial cultural icons. Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, including Brecht's medical records, Parker offers a rich and enthr ...Show more
Rachman : The Slum Landlord Whose Name Became a Byword for Evil by Shirley Green
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Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
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'A really important book' RAYNOR WINN From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and, through it, our history of consumption. ...Show more
From Third World to First - The Singapore Story 1965-2000. The Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew by Lee Kuan Yew
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Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
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Andrea Ashworth's father died when she was five leaving her, her three-year-old sister and mother to fend for themselves. A succession of stepfathers, some violent and an itinerant life of poverty were her lot but reading was her escape route out of misery.
Sidney Myer - A Life, A Legacy by STELLA BARBER
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