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9781905147960
A Cry from the Heart
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Author:
Margaret Crosland
Published by:
Arcadia Books
This definitive biography sheds new light on the phenomenon that was Edith Piaf, enlarging on and, in some cases, correcting the half-truths provided by Piaf in her two autobiographies. Piaf's rise to international stardom, her lifelong addiction to alcohol and heroin, and her turbulent love affairs are documented, as are her friendships with such stars as Jean Cocteau, Marlene Dietrich, Maurice Chevalier, Yves Montand, and Charlie Chaplin. This detailed account concludes with a moving description of Piaf's early death at the age of 47, when some two million fans followed the funeral procession through the streets of Paris to Pere Lachaise cemetery.
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9781583942710
Angel of Auschwitz
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Author:
Tarra Light
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Frog Ltd
Natasza Pelinski is a young Polish Jew taken to Auschwitz. Her childhood stolen from her, she quickly matures and in the process discovers she has psychic gifts. She develops a relationship with the ghost of a professor, who becomes her spirit guide. He in turn enlists her aid on a mission of salvation for the Jewish people. As well as helping her survive in the brutal conditions of the camp, he teaches Natasza the secret of healing and how to move past anger toward compassion. She forms the Sisters of Light, a group of young women who, although they have few medicines to offer, bring gifts of love and forgiveness to their fellow prisoners. They form a bond of the heart that sustains them and keeps them connected through the horror of their daily existence.
Author Tarra Light was raised in an East Coast Jewish family but had little knowledge of the Holocaust while growing up. During past-life regression therapy in 1996, she began to ...
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9780965633840
Edge of Never
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Author:
William A. Kerig
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Stone Creek Publications
Capturing the romance and risk of extreme big-mountain skiing, this non-fiction adventure follows 15-year-old Kye Peterson as he attempts to conquer the same mountain in Chamonix, France - known as 'the death sport capital of the world' - that claimed the life of his father more than a decade earlier. Aided by some of the greatest ski mountaineers of the day, and followed by a documentary filmmaker and ski enthusiast, this book tells a story of surviving against nature, overcoming mental and physical challenges, and coming of age in a world of extreme adventure.
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9781589806399
Francois Coty
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Author:
Roulhac Toledano
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Pelican Publishing Co
This is a thrilling biography of Francois Coty - the visionary who revolutionised the fragrance industry. Artist, financier, politician, industrialist, philanthropist, and above all, parfumeur - Francois Coty revolutionized the fragrance industry during the first part of the twentieth century and gave the world such legendary scents as Chypre and La Rose Jacqueminot. Born in 1874, in the same house as his relative and idol Napoleon Bonaparte, Coty was orphaned at the age of seven. He spent his childhood under the care of Jesuit priests and distant family in Ajaccio, Corsica. After a brief stint in the French army, he became a parliamentary attache for a prominent Parisian senator. Coty spent the next four years absorbing Paris' political and cultural scene before discovering his extraordinarily sensitive sense of smell. He set out to create his first fragrance in 1904, and by 1906, he was a millionaire. Drawing on Coty's personal ...
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9781556527227
Lady Q
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Author:
Reymundo Sanchez
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Chicago Review Press
This is a raw and powerful memoir not only of one woman's struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new Mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs were members of her own. At age five Sonia Rodriguez's stepfather began to abuse her; at 10 she was molested by her uncle and beaten by her mother when she told on him; and by 13 her home had become a hangout for the Latin Kings and Queens who were friends with her older sister.Threatened by rival gang members at school, Sonia turned away from her education and extracurricular activities in favour of a world of drugs and violence. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became her refuge, but its violence cost her friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly her life. As a Latin Queen, she experienced the exhilarating highs and unbelievable lows of gang life. From being shot at by her own gang and ...
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9780981600208
Last Man Out: Memoirs of the Last U.S. Reporter Castro Kicked Out of Cuba During the Cold War
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Author:
John Fenton Wheeler
Published by:
DeMers Books LLC
Written as a unique firsthand account, this poignant memoir of John Wheeler, the last American journalist in Cuba in the late 1960s, reveals the untold story of Cuba's struggle to reform in the early days of the Cold war. For nearly three years, Wheeler was the only U.S. reporter in Cuba and one of the few Americans to directly witness Castro's attempts at economic, political, and social reform. The real-life stories of spies, counter spies, dissidents, defectors, revolutionary patriots, Soviet journalists, and, of course, Castro himself are featured in this remembrance of the gripping international political tension that characterized the late 1960s.
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9781877257803
Looking For Answers : A Life of Elsie Locke
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Author:
Maureen Birchfield
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Canterbury University Press
Writer and activist Elsie Locke was a remarkable woman whose contribution to New Zealand went largely unrecognised during her lifetime. In a long and eventful life she campaigned for birth control, women's rights, nuclear disarmament, social justice and the environment before such causes were popular. She wrote almost 40 books, numerous articles and School Journal stories, and was a published poet.
Forthright she might have been, but the diminutive Elsie Locke was a very private and modest person. In this insightful and compelling biography, Maureen Birchfield peels back the layers of the public firebrand to find an ordinary woman who negotiated enormous personal obstacles to raise four children while striving tirelessly to improve the world around her.
A fascinating portrait of a woman ahead of her time.
560 pages. 200x210mm Cased and jacketed. Full colour throughout.
First published September 2009, Christchurch, NZ
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9781905147540
L'Oreal Took My Home
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Author:
Monica Waitzfelder
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Arcadia Books
'Monica Waitzfelder has dedicated herself to this David versus Goliath struggle represented by the attempt to recover the land where their fine family home once stood...It was resold in 1954 to a German subsidiary of L'Oreal in spite of the proven continued existence of its owners who had been dispossessed by the greed and violence of the Nazis. In 1961, L'Oreal became the direct owner of the land...L'Oreal's past should have led this giant company to develop greater understanding of (the family): Eugene Schueller, the creator of L'Oreal, was also one of the founders of La Cagoule, the extreme right-wing movement which collaborated with the Nazis and, which, among other things, blew up six synagogues in Paris in 1941' - Serge Klarsfeld, from his Preface.
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9781556524011
My Bloody Life
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Reymundo Sanchez
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Chicago Review Press
Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs are members of your own gang, who in one breath will say they'll die for you and in the next will order your assassination.
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9780856832680
No End to Snowdrops : A Biography of Kathleen Raine
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Author:
Philippa Bernard
Published by:
Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
This authorised biography of the poet Kathleen Raine tells the story of how she developed from a small girl, who knew at the age of eight that she wanted only to write poetry, into a world-renowned poet and literary scholar. Philippa Bernard follows Kathleen Raine’s struggle against the constrictions of her suburban childhood to her exciting days at Girton College in the twenties, where she became friends with many brilliant writers, artists and scientists, including William Empson, Julian Trevelyan, Jakob Bronowski and the film maker Humphrey Jennings, friendships which lasted all her life. After a short marriage to Hugh Sykes Davies, she eloped with the poet Charles Madge to live in Blackheath where two children were born.
An affair led to a break with Charles, who was involved at the time with Inez Spender, wife of the poet Stephen, and at the outbreak of war in 1939, she ran away with her children to the Lake District to the ...
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9780908990979
So Old So Quick
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Author:
Patrick Eisdell Moore
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David Bateman Ltd
The story of a remarkable life, told with charm, honesty and insight. It is a book about children, war, Pakeha, Maori, medicine, murder, hunting and horses by someone who first wanted to write and draw but was convinced to become a surgeon.
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9781852247010
The Long and the Short of It
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Roy Fisher
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd
The Long and the Short of It celebrates the 50-year-long writing career of Roy Fisher and the all-too-short 75 years (thus far) he has lived on this planet. Playing the language, pleasuring the imagination and teasing the senses, Fisher's witty, inventive and anarchic poetry has given lasting delight to his many dedicated readers. Roy Fisher's most notable achievements have included his exploration of the modern city, his experiments with perception and sensory experience, his jazz-inspired prose and his political and cultural comedies. His voice too has made its argumentative presence strongly felt: uplifting but also down-to-earth, sometimes cantankerous but also companionable, sarcastic yet sociable, playfully extravagant while wise and grounded. The Long and the Short of It covers the entire range of Fisher's work, from its fraught beginnings in the 1950s through major texts of the 1960s and 1970s as City, The Ship's Orchestra and ...
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9781877257810
The Seven Lives of Lady Barker
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Author:
Betty Gilderdale
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Canterbury University Press
This compelling biography of Lady Mary Anne Barker is a fascinating account of a Victoria woman who, through the course of her life, lived in England, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Mauritius, Australia and Trinidad. Momentous historical events of the period, such as the Indian Mutiny (Revolt) and the Zulu Wars, all directly impacted upon her personal life and resulted in huge domestic upheavals.
Lady Barker wrote 18 books, and is perhaps best known for "Station Life in New Zealand", which was republished by Vintage in 2000.
The Seven Lives Of Lady Barker, published here for the first time in paperback, is a full account of the rich and turbulent life of this extraordinary woman.
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9788860734273
The Versace Legend
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Author:
Minnie Gastel
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Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore
An intimate portrait of an incredibly talented and respected fashion icon, this biography traces Gianni Versace's life from his youth in Reggio Calabria, Italy, to his early shows at museums in Milan to his untimely, tragic murder by serial killer Andrew Cunanan in Miami. An extraordinary talent with an appetite for world cultures, a nostalgia for the past, and an ability to artistically anticipate the future--all of which manifests itself in his glamorous designs worn by Elton John, Princess Diana, The Notorious B.I.G., Elizabeth Hurley, and many other movie stars, models, and celebrities--Versace's name is equated with beautiful women, grandiose sexiness, and decadent boldness. This account looks beyond the icon, detailing his home and personal life, including relationships with his lovers and with his sister and brother, who both currently run the Gianni Versace clothier.
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9781854143259
Beneath the Wires of London
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Author:
Charlie Wyatt
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Capital Transport Publishing
Charlie Wyatt began as a conductor on London’s trolleybuses in 1951 and became a driver in 1955. He worked throughout his trolleybus career at Finchley depot in north London, here he was on trolleybuses until their last day there. With an exceptional memory, backed up by official documents from the time, Charlie recounts what it was like to work beneath the wires of the largest trolleybus system in the world and brings in many of the amusing incidents and characters he encountered.
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