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Queen of The Savoy: The Extraordinary Life of Helen DOyly Carte 1852-1913
Elisabeth KehoeCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Born in 1852 in a small coastal town in Scotland, Helen DOyly Carte, through academic brilliance and an incredible talent for managing chaos, devel...
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Constance Villiers Stuart in Pursuit of Paradise
Mary Ann PriorCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99In 1903, after a fire completely destroyed her family home in Norfolk, UK, the 27- year-old Constance helped her mother redesign their house and re...
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Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last
Wright ThompsonCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99Current price €20.89Original price €21.99Save 5% -
Blaise Cendrars: The Invention of Life
Eric RobertsonCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99In 1912 the young Frederic-Louis Sauser arrived in France, carrying an experimental poem and a new identity: Blaise Cendrars was born. Over the nex...
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The Armistice Day Killing: The Death of Tommy Ball and the Life of the Man Who Shot Him
Colin BrownCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99This is the dramatic story of the death of the only English professional footballer deemed by law to have been murdered. A key member of Aston Vill...
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Inexplicably Me: A Story of Labels, Worthiness, and Refusing to Be Boxed In
Chelsea Austin Montgomery-Duban WachterCurrent price €12.87Original price €16.50A hilariously moving and inspirational memoir of a girl with two gay dads, navigating her way through life with joy, love, gratitude, and an excell...
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Honest Broker: A Biography of António Guterres
Filipe DominguesCurrent price €29.90Original price €32.50Based on exclusive interviews with the United Nations Secretary-General himself, this is the first book to explain how António Guterres thinks and ...
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The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders
Ari Rabin-HavtCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50Bernie Sanders is one of the most influential figures of our time, a politician who inspires fervent love and, even among his enemies, a measure of...
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The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Gregory NoblesCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50The first full-length biography of an extraordinary woman born into slavery who, through grit and determination, became a historic social and educa...
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I Am Someone
Aisling CreeganCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Aisling Creegans childhood was dominated by an abusive, alcoholic mother, who tortured her at every turn. From insults through beatings and being t...
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Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison''s American Utopia
Thomas HagerCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American historyHenry Ford and Thomas Edisonand their attempt to create an electric-powered city ...
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Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life, A Memoir
Carol SmithCurrent price €14.93Original price €17.99A powerful exploration of grief and resilience that combines memoir, reportage, and lessons in how to heal Everyone deals with grief in their own w...
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Gun to the Head
Keith BanksCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Keith Banks was a member of the Queensland Police Force when not everyone with a badge could be trusted. Raw and confronting, Gun to the Head revea...
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Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage
Jarrod ShanahanCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50Captives combines a thrilling narrative account of Rikers Island's descent into infamy with a dramatic retelling of the last seventy years of New Y...
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Prison Break
Arthur TaylorCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99New Zealander career criminal Arthur Taylor was paroled from prison after more than 38 years behind bars and Prison Break tells his story in a wart...
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Lies My Mother Told Me: Tall Tales from a Short Woman
Melissa RiversCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50As seen on The View and Good Morning America! If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait 'til you read t...
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The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
Barry StraussCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99The gripping story of one of history''s most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, whose ...
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