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Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
By Doris Kearns Goodwin. 2009
In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how…
he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. Bestseller. 2009.Runaway: diary of a street kid
By Evelyn Lau. 1989
In 1986, at the age of 14, Evelyn Lau ran away from her strict and traditional parents who refused to…
accept her passion for writing. This book is based on the journal she kept during her two years on the streets of Vancouver. She explores the physical and emotional struggles of a young girl coping in a world of drugs, prostitution and attempted suicide. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1989.Playing the enemy: Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation
By John Carlin. 2008
24 June 1995. Ellis Park in Johannesburg. The Springboks versus The All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup final. Nelson…
Mandela steps onto the pitch wearing a Springboks shirt and, before a global audience of millions, a new country is born. This book tells the incredible story of Mandela's journey to that moment and how a sport came to unify the new nation. 2008.Missing, porté disparu
By Thomas Hauser. 1982
Un journaliste américain vivant au Chili est arrêté chez lui quelques jours après le coup d'état de 1973. Un mois…
plus tard son cadavre sera identifié à la morgue de Santiago. Sa femme et son père veulent faire toute la lumière sur cette affaire. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1982. Titre uniforme: Execution of Charles Horman.Docteur Bethune (Opuscule)
By Ted Allan, Sydney Gordon, Jean Paré. 1989
Qui était ce Canadien dont le nom est encore vénéré en Chine? Bagarreur, frondeur, séducteur, ce médecin souvent irascible, mu…
par une passion pour la vie, refusait au coeur de la Grande Depression des années trente, le refuge pharisien du monde des nantis. 1989. Titre uniforme: The scalpel, the sword.Fleur du désert: [du désert de Somalie au monde des top-models, l'extraordinaire combat d'une femme hors du commun]
By Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller, Alain Deschamps, Josiane Deschamps. 1998
Waris, excisée selon la tradition, n'a que treize ans lorsqu'elle décide de s'enfuir, de quitter ses parents afin d'échapper à…
un mariage forcé. Après une dangereuse cavale dans le désert somalien, elle rejoint Mogadiscio, puis Londres où elle devient domestique. C'est alors qu'elle est remarquée par un photographe de mode et que va démarrer sa prodigieuse carrière de mannequin. Avec émotion et sincerité, Waris Dirie raconte les détails de son étonnante histoire, évoquant sans détour les difficultées rencontrées tout au long de cette aventure. 1998. Titre uniforme: Desert flowerLady's choice: Ethel Waxham's journals & letters, 1905-1910
By John Love, Barbara Love, Ethel Waxham, Frances Love Froidevaux. 1992
A chronological record of a twenty-three-year old college graduate's pursuit of a teaching career while being courted by a thirty-five-year…
old Wyoming rancher. Compiled from diaries, correspondence, and poems. Material was used in the PBS series "The West." 1992.Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire: Duchess Of Devonshire
By Amanda Foreman. 1998
The story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, one of the most flamboyant women of the 18th century, and her times.…
Distantly related to the late Princess of Wales, she was, in turn, a compulsive gambler, political savante and operator, drug addict, adulteress and darling of the common people. Georgiana Spencer became the Duchess of Devonshire and mistress of Chatsworth in 1774 and consequently became a public figure. She also became an important campaigning figure in the Whig party. However, her success concealed a personal suffering, with her husband preferring her best friend. Georgiana's extravagances were her undoing - gambling and a pregnancy from an affair resulted in her exile. She returned, dishonoured and disgraced, yet she rose to the challenge and became one of the most respected politicians of the age. 1998.Fear and loathing in Las Vegas: a savage journey to the heart of the American dream (Fear And Loathing Ser.)
By Hunter S Thompson. 1993
In this savage dissection of the American dream, the narrator enters Las Vegas armed with an arsenal of 'heinous chemicals'.…
His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers and assorted representatives of the Silent Majority have a hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror. 1993.Biko
By Donald Woods. 1987
In the late 1960s, Steve Biko became a leader in the South African Black Consciousness movement. In September of 1977…
Biko was brutally murdered by the South African Security Police. The author, a white South African journalist, writes of his friendship with Biko, the life and death of Biko, and his own banning and exile from South Africa. 1987.84, Charing Cross Road
By Helene Hanff, Marie-Anne de Kisch, Thomas Simonnet. 2001
Échanges épistolaires entre une Américaine bibliophile et un libraire londonien. Une passionnée, un peu fauchée, réclame à un libraire des…
livres introuvables pour assouvir son insatiable soif de découverte. Cette correspondance entamée depuis plus de 20 ans qui se poursuit toujours rappelle avec une délicatesse infinie toute la place que prennent, dans nos vies, les livres et les librairies. Roman porté au grand écran. 2001.84, Charing Cross Road
By Helene Hanff, Frank Doel. 1993
This charming classic love story, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, at the…
time, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that has touched the hearts of thousands of readers around the world. 2017, c1993.Conversations with myself
By Nelson Mandela. 2010
South African statesman opens his personal archive to reveal private correspondence and meditations. Discusses his 1941-1962 antiapartheid activities, 1962-1990 imprisonment…
and separation from his family, doubts and triumphs, and rise to world prominence, including winning the 1994 presidential election. Companion to “Long Walk to Freedom”. 2010.Truman
By David G McCullough. 2004
David McCullough pens this sweeping biography of America's 33rd president, Harry S. Truman. Born and raised on the Missouri frontier,…
Truman fought in the Great War, later turned to politics, and moved on to be one of history's most courageous political leaders. 2004. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.The motorcycle diaries: notes on a Latin American journey (Che Guevara Publishing Project Ser.)
By Ernesto Guevara. 2004
The story of a road journey, in the words of a 23-year-old medical student known as "Che". There are fights,…
parties, and serious drinking, and moving examples of Guevara's idealism and solidarity with the oppressed. A record of Guevara's thoughts as he journeyed around South America in the early 1950's. 2004. Uniform title: Notas de viaje.Journal d'Anne Frank
By Anne Frank. 1991
Anne Frank commence à se confier à son journal le 12 juin 1942, le jour de ses treize ans, et…
y écrit pour la dernière fois le 1er aot 1944. En mars 1945, Anne meurt dans le camp de concentration de Bergen-Belsen, deux mois avant la libération de la Hollande. 1991.The Screwtape letters
By C. S Lewis. 1998
Screwtape is an experienced devil. His nephew Wormwood is just at the start of his demonic career, and has been…
assigned to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian. 1998.The last emperor
By Edward Behr. 1987
Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China, ascended the throne in 1908 at the age of 3. From a charmed…
existence in the Forbidden City, he was swept into the political intrigues of Asia and became the despised figurehead of Japan's Manchurian regime. 1987.The Hamilton affair: a novel
By Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth Cobbs. 2016
Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are firebrands in different parts of the world until they are brought together during the…
American Revolution. They both work for freedom and deeply love one another, despite challenges from both outside and inside their marriage. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2016This boy's life: a memoir
By Tobias Wolff. 1989