Anne Frank Remembered - The Story of the Woman Who Help...
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young G...
Winning the Story Wars - Why Those Who Tell (and Live) ...
Does your brand tell a story? In Winning the Story Wars, glo...
Crew - The story of the men who flew RAAF Lancaster J f...
On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J ...
Smart Baseball - The Story Behind the Old STATS That Ar...
Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran write...
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain - Revised Edition
Includes a new chapter that examines the latest research dem...
The Panama Papers - Breaking the Story of How the Rich ...
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer...
Terrified - The heartbreaking true story of a girl nobo...
Terrified tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately ...
What Goes Around - If you could get revenge on the woma...
A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell an...
The Story of the Lost Child - The Neapolitan Novels, Bo...
Winner, Readers Choice Award, International Book of the Ye...
The Story of the Lost Child - The Neapolitan Novels, Bo...
The Story of the Lost Child is the long-awaited fourth volum...
The Shadow Men - The leaders who shaped the Australian ...
Australian military history is full of heroes big names t...
Victoria - The Woman who Made the Modern World
The extraordinary story of the worlds most influential, in...
Anne Frank Remembered - The Story Of The Woman Who Helped To Hide
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Mus...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful musical selections on an accompanying 70-minute CD lead children aged 8 to 12 (and parents too!) on an exciting and educational listen-while-you-learn tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. The Composers, name by name Baroque Classical Romantic Modern - The Orchestra, instrument by instrument String ...
The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night - an enchanting collection of modern fairy tales
Modern fairy tales of magic, outsiders and lost soulsWHAT A BOOK. ITS SO STRANGE AND MAGICAL AND THE WRITING IS JUST BEAUTIFUL. I LOVED IT. Louise ONeill ENCHANTING AND ILLUMINATING Carys Bray, author of A Song For Issy Bradley LIKE WALKING THROUGH A MIRROR. Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry THIS BOOK IS FULL OF CHARACTER AND MAGIC, AND I FOUND MYSELF...
The Fall of the House of Wilde - Oscar Wilde and His Family
`Emer OSullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature
Compelling, informative and fascinating Stephen Fry Oscar Wildes father scientist, surgeon, archaeologist, writer was one of the most eminent men of his generation. His mother poet, journalist, translator hosted an influential salon at 1 Merrion Square. Together they were one of Victorian Irelands...
The Story of The Streets
WINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD i> i>This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously thats something I should be fairly well-qualified to know about, and Im going to be as honest as the publishers lawyers will allow. i> With the 2001 release of The Streets debut single Has It Come To This? the landscape...
The Girl Who Thought in Pictures - the Story of Dr. Temple Grandin
Age range 5 to 10 If youve ever felt different, if youve ever been low,if you dont quite fit in, theres a name you shouldknow
Meet Dr. Temple Grandin-one of the worldsquirkiest science heroes! When young Temple wasdiagnosed with autism, no one expected her to talk, let alonebecome one of the most powerful voices in modern science.Yet, the determined visual thinker did just that. Her u...
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Amy Schumer. Frank, fearless and so freaking funny. Her story. In her own words. Ive only had one one-night stand in my life. Yes, one. I know, Im so sorry to disappoint anyone who thinks I walk around at all times with a margarita in one hand and a dildo in the other. In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy shares stories about her family, her relationships, her career, good and ...
The Dealer is the Devil - An Insiders History of the Aboriginal Art Trade
Adrian Newsteads explosive memoir lifts the lid on what Robert Hughes once described as the last great art movement of the 20th century. After thirty years sitting round campfires with Aboriginal artists all over Australia, Newstead has produced the definitive expose of the first great art movement of the 21st century. From remote indigenous communities with their dispossessed population...
Anne Frank Remembered - The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Giess own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives every day to bring food, news, and emotional support to its victims. From her remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the...
The Hero and the Outlaw - Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes
This book describes a system of meaning management, the first-ever systematic approach to successful brand meaning. This book illuminates the most ancient grooves in our mental architecture, which Carol Jung described as archetypes, and shows how they can be employed to bring meaning and profit to a brand. There is a nascent power here, which, if understood correctly, can bring a rare vitali...
The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition
The definitive 70th anniversary edition of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, the worlds most famous diary and one of the greatest books of the century. 12th June, 1942:I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support. In ...
Mother Tongue - The Story of the English Language
More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to
Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the worlds most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its decepti...
The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
A heart-warming classic full of animal antics by Jill Tomlinson. Plop, the Baby Barn Owl, is like every Barn Owl there ever was, except for one thing he is afraid of the dark. Dark is nasty he says and so he wont go hunting with his parents. Mrs Barn Owl sends him down from his nest-hole to ask about the dark and he meets a little boy waiting for the fireworks to begin, an old lady, a sc...
Terrified - The heartbreaking true story of a girl nobody loved and the woman who saved her
Terrified tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angelas doorstep unwanted and unloved after suffering years of emotional abuse at the hands of her mother. Desperate never to return home, Vicky is haunted by many demons and waking nightmares. This book tells the moving story of Angelas determination to set Vicky free. PRAISE FO...
The Girl in the Green Sweater
The last surviving member of a group of ten Polish Jews who hid from the Nazis in the underground sewers of Lvov tells the story of her family and of the Catholic sewer worker who saved them.In 1943, with Lvovs 150,000 Jews having been forced into ghettos and facing extermination, Krystyna Chigers family daringly sought refuge in the citys sewer system. The Girl in the Green Sweater is Chige...
TOTAL CHAOS - The Story of the Stooges
TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy Pops story of The Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legends home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection. Featuring a trove of unseen photos, TOTAL CHAOS shows and tells, with the help of best-selling author Jon Savage, the story of the Stooges from those tell-a...
The Missing Wife - The Unputdownable Bestseller
Readers of Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell and Santa Montefiore will love Sunday Times bestselling author Sheila OFlanagans THE MISSING WIFE the riveting story of a woman determined to escape, the man who wants to find her and the friends and family unaware of the dark truth. Set in the glorious, sunny south of France.Have you ever wanted to disappear? When Imogen Naughton vanishes, everyone who ...
Madame de Villeneuve's the Story of the Beauty and the Beast - The Original Classic French Fairytale
Think you know the story of Beauty and the Beast? Think again! This book contains the original tale by Madame de Villeneuve, first published in 1740, and although the classic elements of Beauty giving up her freedom to live with the Beast, during which time she begins to see beyond his grotesque appearance, are present, there is a wealth of rich back story to how the Prince became cursed and r...
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
Mma Ramotswe is not one to sit about. Her busy life as the proprietress of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency gives her little time for relaxation. Nonetheless, she is persuaded by her co-director Mma Makutsi to take a holiday. But Mma Ramotswe finds it impossible to resist the temptation to interfere with the agencys cases secretly, she intends . . . This leads her to delve into the past ...
The Future of the Professions - How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
This book predicts the decline of todays professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions ex...
Hidden Figures - The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREThe #1 New York Times BestsellerSet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASAs African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in Americas space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as `Human Computers, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic a...
Mistress in the Regency Ballroom - The Rake's Unconventional Mistress / Marrying the Mistress
The Rakes Unconventional Mistress Miss Letitia Boyce has chosen her path and Lord Seton Rayne, one of the most notorious rakehells in town, made it abundantly clear that an unmarried schoolmaam was of no interest, even to him-no matter her connections. So his sudden desire to kiss the unconventional Letitia takes them both by surprise. Marrying the Mistress Helene Follet hasnt had close cont...