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Katalin Karikó: Breaking Through

CROWN PUBLISHERS, 2023

Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables.

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Kobe Bryant: The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

MCD, 2018

The Mamba Mentality: How I Play is Kobe Bryant’s personal perspective of his life and career on the basketball court and his exceptional, insightful style of playing the game?a fitting legacy from the late Los Angeles Laker superstar.

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Lara Love Hardin: The Many Lives of Mama Love

OCTOPUS, 2023

New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot-caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.

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Le Journal d'Anne Frank

LIVRE DE POCHE, LE, 2017

Anne Frank est née le 12 juin 1929 a Francfort. Sa famille a émigréaux Pays-Bas en 1933. A Amsterdam, elle connaît une enfance heureuse jusqu’en 1942, malgré la guerre.

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Lucy Worsley: Agatha Christie

HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2023

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'.

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Maddie Ziegler:The Maddie Diaries:My Story

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017

Teen dance prodigy, breakout Dance Moms star, and judge on So You Think you Can Dance: The Next Generation, Maddie Ziegler presents her uplifting coming-of-age memoir about following her dreams and working hard to achieve success in both the dance world.

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Massimo Polidoro: Io, Leonardo da Vinci

PIEMME, 2019

Chi era veramente Leonardo da Vinci? Un genio che ha anticipato il Novecento? Un "alieno" catapultato dal futuro? Oppure, piu semplicemente, un uomo incredibilmente acuto ma pur sempre un uomo del suo tempo?

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Matthew McConaughey: Greenlights

CROWN PUBLISHERS, 2020

From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

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Matthew McConaughey: Greenlights

HEADLINE, 2023

From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

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Matthieu Mégevand: Lautrec

J'AI LU, 2021

Lautrec, c'est la légende de Montmartre, le peintre du Moulin Rouge. Mais c'est aussi un petit homme foutraque, issu d'une famille de la haute noblesse de province, atteint d'une maladie génétique qui interrompt sa croissance.

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Maye Musk: A Woman Makes a Plan

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2020

Maye Musk is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends--and is 71 years old.

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Michael Haag: The Durrells of Corfu

PROFILE BOOKS, 2017

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells?

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Michelle Obama: Becoming

VIKING, 2018

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era.

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Michelle Obama: Becoming

PENGUIN, 2021

Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady

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Michelle Zauner: Crying in H Mart

PICADOR, 2022

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth - My Autobiography

HARPERSPORT, 2014

Love him or loathe him, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson is an icon and one of the most fascinating sporting figures of our time. In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Tyson lays bare his demons and tells his story: from poverty to stardom to hell and back again.

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Morten Storm: Agent Storm - A Spy Inside Al-Qaeda

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015

He was the Western convert who would plunge deep inside al-Qaeda. He named his first son Osama after 9/11 and became a Jihadist. But then - after a sudden loss of faith - Morten Storm made a life-changing decision.

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Nadia Murad: The Last Girl

TIM DUGGAN BOOKS, 2017

My story of captivity, and my fight against the islamic state

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Nick Cave: Stranger Than Kindness

CANONGATE, 2020

Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.

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Oliver Stone: The Putin Interviews

HOT BOOKS, 2017

Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Pamela Anderson: Love, Pamela

HEADLINE, 2024

Her blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands of a football game, she was immediately rocket launched into fame, becoming Playboy's favourite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sexuality.

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Pamela Rhodes: Bobby on the Beat

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2013

Back in 1950 Pamela Rhodes became one of the first policewomen in the country. But the force's new female recruits faced a sceptical public in rural Yorkshire and even before they stepped out on the beat there were the prejudices of older male officers..

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Patti Smith: A Book of Days

BLOOMSBURY, 2022

In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!"

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Patti Smith: Just Kids

BLOOMSBURY, 2010

A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists--Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art.

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Patti Smith: Year of the Monkey

VINTAGE BOOKS, 2020

Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering.

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Paul Johnson: Socrates

PENGUIN, 2013

This brilliant biography of Socrates by historian Paul Johnson situates the father of philosophy in the fifth century BC Athens that he loved.

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Paul Johnson:Darwin - Portrait of a Genius

PENGUIN BOOKS (USA), 2013

Acclaimed historian and biographer Paul Johnson turns his keen eye on Charles Darwin, the towering figure whose work continues to spur scientific debate.

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Peter Ackroyd:Alfred Hitchcock

ANCHOR BOOKS, 2017

lfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled his public image, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring out all others.

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Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education

AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ, 2022

Pioneer Hungarian Women in Science and Education, edited by Réka M. Cristian and Anna Kérchy, presents thirteen portraits of Hungarian women born before 1945, all trailblazers in their scholarly or scientific fields.

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Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex: Spare

BANTAM, 2023

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror.

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Puskás Ferenc: Ferenc Puskas - Captain of Hungary

THE HISTORY PRESS, 2012

Provides an account of Ferenc Puskas: his growing up in Soviet-occupied Hungary, travelling the world with the national side and army team Honved, and his different achievements in the game of football.

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Renegades Born in the USA

CROWN PUBLISHERS, 2021

Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly produced expansion of their groundbreaking Higher Ground podcast, featuri

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Richard Branson: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography

VIRGIN BOOKS, 2009

This is the worldwide bestselling autobiography of iconic entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, featuring his take on his latest business ventures, personal achievements and intrepid adventures.

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Rob Wilkins: Terry Pratchett - A Life with Footnotes

DOUBLEDAY, 2022

The creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, Terry Pratchett was known and loved around the world for his hugely popular books, his smart satirical humour and the humanity of his campaign work. But that's only part of the picture.

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Robert Capa: Slightly Out of Focus

MODERN LIBRARY, 2001

In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England.

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Robert Coles: Bruce Springsteen's America

RANDOM HOUSE, 2004

In this compelling book, Robert Coles, the celebrated Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, turns his attention to popular music legend Bruce Springsteen.

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Roland Lazenby: Michael Jordan - The Life

BACK BAY BOOKS, 2015

The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is responsible for sublime moments so ingrained in sports history that they have their own names.

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Roland Lazenby: Showboat - The Life of Kobe Bryant

W&N, 2019

Bryant is one of basketball's greatest-ever players, a fascinating and complicated character who says he knew when he was a boy that he would be better than Michael Jordan.

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Samuel Pepys: Diary of Samuel Pepys

MODERN LIBRARY, 2003

On 1 January 1660 ("1 January 1659/1660" in contemporary terms) Pepys began to keep a diary. He recorded his daily life for almost ten years. This record of a decade of Pepys’s life is over a million words long and is often regarded as Britain’s most cel

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Sarah Bradford: Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2012

Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication, the Blitz and World War Two, the sex and spy scandals of the swinging sixties, the Cold War and the nuclear threat and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Saroo Brierley: Lion: A Long Way Home

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017

Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.

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Sharon Stone: The Beauty of Living Twice

ALLEN & UNWIN, 2021

Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame.

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Sharon Stone: The Beauty of Living Twice

ALLEN & UNWIN, 2022

Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame.

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Stanley Tucci: Taste - My Life Through Food

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2022

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.

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Stephen King: On Writing

HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2012

Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.

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Steven Gerrard: My Story

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2016

Steven Gerrard is the former captain of Liverpool football team and of the England national football team, and is the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a UEFA cup final and a champion's league final.

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Steven Patrick Morrissey: Autobiography

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2013

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England...

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Susana Fortes: Esperando a Robert Capa

BOOKET, 2010

París, 1935. Escritores, pintores, poetas, fotógrafos? se mezclan en las calles y en los cafés de la Rive Gauche con miles de refugiados que llegan huyendo del nazismo.

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Sylvia Plath: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

ANCHOR BOOKS, 1998

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets.

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Tara Westover: Educated

WINDMILL, 2018

Selected as a book of the year in THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER and RED MAGAZINE.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927

FABER & FABER, 2012

This correspondence with friends and mentors vividly documents all the stages of Eliot's personal and artistic transformation during these crucial years, the continuing anxieties of his private life, and the forging of his public reputation.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

FABER & FABER, 2013

Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and spiritual consolidation.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931

FABER & FABER, 2014

Volume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the poet, between the ages of forty-two and forty-four, reckoning with the strict implications of his Christian faith for his life, his work, and his poetry.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 7: 1934–1935

FABER & FABER, 2017

T. S. Eliot's career as a successful stage dramatist gathers pace throughout the fascinating letters of this volume.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 8: 1936–1938

FABER & FABER, 2019

The volume covers his separation from first wife Vivien, and tells the full story of the decision taken by her brother, following the best available medical advice, to commit her to an asylum - after she had been found wandering in the streets of London.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9: 1939–1941

FABER & FABER, 2021

This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume One: 1898-1922

FABER & FABER, 2009

Volume One of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot in 1988, covered the period from Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published The Waste Land.

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 2: 1923-1925

FABER & FABER, 2009

Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of The Criterion (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady Rothermere's backing in 1922), publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste La

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Tom Felton: Beyond the Wand

EBURY SPOTLIGHT, 2023

They called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard. He and I were often to be found outside the stage that housed the Astronomy Tower, having 'a breath of fresh air' as we referred to it.

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Verdone Carlo: La carezza della memoria

BOMPIANI, 2021

La memoria e una scatola. Aprirla, guardare, ricordare, raccontare sono atti naturalmente concatenati in questa raccolta di storie e racconti di Carlo Verdone.

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Virginia Woolf:The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 1: 1915-19

GRANTA, 2023

This diary begins in January 1915. Virginia Woolf was about to publish her first novel, The Voyage Out. By the end of 1919 she had published many essays and reviews, as well as a second novel, Night and Day.

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Warren Ellis: Nina Simone's Gum

FABER & FABER, 2021

Nina Simone's Gum is about how something so small can form beautiful connections between people. It is a story about the meaning we place on things, on experiences, and how they become imbued with spirituality.

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Wayne Gretzky with Kirstie McLellan Day: 99: Stories of the Game

G.F.PUTMAN' SONS, 2016

From minor-hockey phenomenon to Hall of Fame sensation, Wayne Gretzky rewrote the record books, his accomplishments becoming the stuff of legend. Dubbed “The Great One,” he is considered by many to be the greatest hockey player who ever lived.

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William Friedkin: The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir

HARPER PERENNIAL, 2013

The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award-winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in LA, The Friedkin Connection.

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William Taubman: Gorbachev

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017

When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the world’s two superpowers.

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Yolanda Arencibia: Galdós. Una biografía

TUSQUETS EDITORES, 2020

Benito Pérez Galdós (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1843?Madrid, 1920) sigue siendo en gran medida un escritor mal conocido, cuyo genio, a los cien anos de su muerte, aún no es apreciado a la altura que merece.

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