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341) Our Dementia Diary
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This is a love story from start to finish, Irene and Rachael's.
Based on the diaries of Rachael Dixey who looked after her civil partner Irene after she developed early onset Alzheimer's disease.
The story charts the daily decline and inexorable loss of Irene to dementia. With the dramatic deterioration in Irene's health Rachael turns from lover and soul mate to carer and, finally, single woman. Eventually, no longer able to cope with Irene at home,...
342) Piel roja: Diario
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¡Descubran la sucesión del Diario del hombre pálido!
Un hombre pálido y cautivo fue admitido por la tribu de los hombres libres. Ahora luchará por ser uno más entre los habitantes de la pradera. ¿Lo conseguirá? Esta obra es la narración de un cuerpo que desea cambiar su mórbida palidez por la piel curtida por el sol que todo lo renueva. He aquí la narración de una veloz cabalgada.
Piel roja es la última entrega de lo que el autor denomina...
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"All the world appears to be going that way," wrote Daniel Jenks. It was the mid-nineteenth-century craze and scramble for gold that pulled many to California. Countless amateur treasure seekers making the treacherous trek there from all corners of the globe. Jenks was one of these, pulled by the gravity of gold from a peaceful and prosperous Pawtucket Rhode Island life.
Yet the true treasure of Jenks' travels, toil, trials and triumphs turned out...
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From the time they established formal ties with Great Britain in 1730, the Cherokees had a rocky relationship with whites. They found grounds for dispute over trade practices, territorial control, and the complicated loyalties among the various Indian tribes and European powers. Over the years, the Cherokees struggled to maintain their ancient traditions as the tribe was assimilated into the white man's culture. Cherokee Voices uses the participants'...
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In Catching Fire, the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art, illuminating both in the process. The problems and pleasures of conveying literature into another language-what happens when you meet a pun? a double entendre?-are met by translator Daniel Hahn's humor, deftness, and deep appreciation for what sets Eltit's work apart, and his evolving understanding of what this particular...
346) Nine Days' Wonder
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Step into a world where artistry and adventure collide in William Kemp's Nine Days' Wonder, a new edition of the picaresque tale that chronicles the extraordinary journey of William Kemp, a celebrated actor, comedian and colleague of Shakespeare in the Elizabethan era. Known for his physical comedy and vibrant jigs, Kemp embarks on an unprecedented 110-mile morris dance from London to Norwich, an endeavour that not only challenges his endurance but...
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Anthony Barne started his diary in August 1939 as a young, recently married captain in the Royal Dragoons stationed in Palestine. He wrote an entry for every day of the war, often with great difficulty, sometimes when dog-tired or under fire, sometimes when things looked dark and desperate, but more often in sunshine and optimism-"surrounded by good fellows who kept one cheerful and helped one through the sad and difficult times." His diary ends in...
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A rare day-to-day account by a young German squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35 during the grim last year of World War I.
Originally published in 1933, Wings of War provides minute descriptions of kills, losses, and the Germans' step-by-step retreat in the face of increasingly overwhelming Allied forces in the air.
Brutally honest and vividly written, Rudolf Stark's account of the end-game of the Imperial German Army Air Service provides an intimate,...
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The private diary of James G. McDonald (1886—1964) offers a unique and hitherto unknown source on the early history of the Nazi regime and the Roosevelt administration's reactions to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Considered for the post of US ambassador to Germany at the start of FDR's presidency, McDonald traveled to Germany in 1932 and met with Hitler soon after the Nazis came to power. Fearing Nazi intentions to remove or destroy Jews in Germany,...
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The activist and author of A People's History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta.
During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into the historic protests occurring across Atlanta. At the time, Howard Zinn was a history professor at Spelman and served as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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The third volume of the former Israeli prime minister's journals from the nation's early years.
My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country's fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett's candid comments on Israel's first-generation leaders and world statesmen of the day,...
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The second volume of the former Israeli prime minister's journals from the nation's early years, centering on his time in office.
My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country's fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett's candid comments on Israel's first-generation leaders...
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The first volume of the former Israeli prime minister's journals from the nation's early years.
My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country's fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett's candid comments on Israel's first-generation leaders and world statesmen of the day,...
355) Mantel Pieces
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From the twice Booker Prize winner and internationally bestselling Hilary Mantel, a collection of writing — essays, book reviews, memoir — from over thirty years contributing to the London Review of Books In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection of twenty...
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