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Biography and Memoir October 2019
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My Girls : A Lifetime With Carrie and Debbie by Todd FisherIn December 2016, the world was shaken by the sudden deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds, occurring less than 24 hours apart. Debbie's only remaining child, Todd Fisher, somehow retained his grace and composure under the glare of the media spotlight as he struggled with his own overwhelming grief. In My girls, Todd shares his heart and his memories of Debbie and Carrie with deeply personal stories from his earliest years to those last unfathomable days.
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Superdocious! : racing insights and revelations from legendary Olympic sailor Rodney Pattisson by Rodney Pattisson "Rodney Pattisson MBE, the three-time Olympic medallist and multi-world champion, is an iconic figure within the sailing world. A world champion in dinghies, multihulls and offshore, he has set race and speed records and with Lawrie Smith led Britain's challenge for the America's Cup in 1983. They were beaten only in the challenger finals by Alan Bond's eventual winner, Australia II. A perfectionist when it comes to preparation, and passionate about speed on the water, Rodney's successes stem from a selfless focus on the end goal, a ruthless desire to win and an unquenchable thirst to succeed in everything he does. An intensely private individual, Rodney has always kept his own council and the media at arm's length, seeing press attention as an unwanted distraction from winning. His untold story not only charts his own trials and tribulations in becoming one of the best sailors in the world, but also reveals the double standards, deceit, political and sporting interference and outright cheating he had to face on the way. This is an explosive commentary, with a foreword by Sir Ben Ainslie CBE, on a lifetime of remarkable achievements in an international sport that Rodney made his own. His story will shock, amaze and inspire not just today's young sailors looking to realise their own dreams, but every sportsman and woman around the world. His narrative will also be essential reading for coaches, providing them with unique analogies that can be applied equally to sport and business"--Dust jacket flap.
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Long way back
by Charley Boorman
The UNICEF ambassador and author of Race to Dakar recounts the 2016 accident in Portugal that threatened his abilities to walk and ride, tracing his difficult journey toward recovery and how his extended disability prompted a reevaluation of his childhood, love of biking and formative relationships. Original.
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Rough beauty : forty seasons of mountain living
by Karen Auvinen
A memoir by an award-winning poet describes her retreats to a wilderness cabin to write in solitude and find answers to life's big questions, describing how a catastrophic fire forced her to reconcile her conflicting needs for isolation and community.
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Mad, bad & dangerous to know
by Ranulph Fiennes
The author recounts his exploits as an explorer-adventurer, including traveling the Nile in a Hovercraft, four thousand miles of wild river journey in Alaska and Canada, and an overland trek to the North Pole
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Spies and Stars : Mi5, Showbusiness and Me by Charlotte Bingham London in the 1950s. Lottie is a reluctant typist at MI5 and the even more reluctant daughter of the organisation's most illustrious spy. Now she has had the bad luck to fall in love with Harry, a handsome if frustrated young actor, who has also been press-ganged into the family business, acting as one of her father's undercover agents in the Communist hotbed of British theatre. Together the two young lovers embark on a star-studded adventure through the glittering world of theatre - but, between missing files, disapproving parents, and their own burgeoning creative endeavours, life is about to become very complicated indeed.
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CSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
by Peter Doggett
Focusing on their highly influential early years, a 50th anniversary portrait of Crosby, Still, Nash and Young at their most successful and influential heights includes discussions of the personal and political inspirations behind their music. 50,000 first printing.
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The sun is a compass : a 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilds by Caroline Van HemertDocuments the biologist adventurer's treks in the vast wilderness region spanning the Pacific rainforest through the Alaskan Arctic, where her husband and she tested their physical boundaries while making profound natural-world connections and discoveries about animal survival.
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In Your Defence : Stories of Life and Law
by Sarah Langford
She must become their voice: weave their story around the black and white of the law and tell it to the courtroom. With remarkable candour, Sarah describes eleven cases which reveal what goes on in our criminal and family courts: these are tales of domestic fall out, everyday burglary, sexual indiscretion, and children caught up in the law.
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