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      • Trusted Partner
        Biography & True Stories
        June 2017

        Austerity baby

        by Janet Wolff

        Austerity Baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'. Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for creative expression. Stories mobilised, and people encountered, in the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester, New York, in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist, Henry Simon of Manchester, including his relationship with the Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the 1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. The text is supplemented and interrupted throughout by images (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which serve to illustrate the story, others engaging indirectly with the written word.

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        Biography & True Stories

        They Called us Girls

        Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men

        by Kathleen Courtenay Stone

        In mid-twentieth-century America, women faced a paradox. Thanks to their efforts, World War II production had been robust, and in the peace that followed, more women worked outside the home than ever before, even dominating some professions. Yet the culture, from politicians to corporations to television shows, portrayed the ideal woman as a housewife. Many women happily assumed that role, but a small segment bucked the tide-women who wanted to use their talents differently, in jobs that had always been reserved for men.​ In They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men, author Kathleen Stone meets seven of these unconventional women. In insightful, personalized portraits that span a half-century, Kathleen weaves stories of female ambition, uncovering the families, teachers, mentors, and historical events that led to unexpected paths. What inspired these women, and what can they teach women and girls today?

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        January 2009

        Sorbonne Confidential

        by Laurel Zuckerman

        After losing her high tech job in Paris, Alice Wunderland dreams of a new, unemployment-proof career as English teacher and decides to dedicate a year to training for France's prestigious competitive exam; After all, she reasons, how hard can it be for an educated American to pass a test in English? She enrolls at the Sorbonne, but her Arizona English fails to impress. Even Shakespeare's English falls short. Only one English will do: Sorbonne English! Even while learning this new language, Alice vows to investigate: Why devise an English exam that few native speakers can pass ? Could this explain why French schoolchildren rank last for English skills in Europe? Is it true that Frenchness is a question of formatting? If so, can a foreigner even one with French nationality ever become truly French? As riots break out in France among the children of immigrants, Alice cannot help but wonder: could there be any connection between her bewildering experience and theirs? A hilarious, hair-raising insider's look at the esoteric world of French Education. (Harriet Welty Rochefort --author of French Toast).

      • Biography & True Stories
        January 2012

        The Coconut Comes in Due Season

        by David Hurd

        Once the only man, black or white, to be taken into Somalia by the Shifta and live to tell the tale. Author of Kidnap at Kiunga. Mombasa Malindi Kenya Africa. biography, entrepreneurship, trial and error. Hut, restaurant, sail, fishing. Malindi’s Robinson Crusoe. Lion, hippo, snake, velvet monkeys, wild animals. Indian Ocean, dhow, creek, island. Swahili culture, Giriama tribes. Palm wine, biriani, ugali. Foreword by Aamera Jiwaji.

      • Autobiography: general
        August 2016

        The Big Cat Man

        An Autobiography

        by Jonathan Scott

        This new autobiography by Jonathan Scott reveals the extraordinary life of one of the word's most popular wildlife celebrities, who rose to international fame as presenter of Big Cat Diary, one of the BBC's most popular and long-running wildlife series. Artist, safari guide, author and TV personality, Jonathan's observations of wildlife over the eyars prompt him to reflect on his own life, revealing a side to his character that he has struggled to overcome since childhoold. Aged nearly forty, he finally finds peace through meeting and marrying his wife, Anglea, but their world is changed forever the day that Angie is diagnosed wtih a cranial aneurism requiring urgent brain surgery. Facing up to that challenge draws them even closer together and leads them on a spiritual journey to rival anything they have underaken before. Ultimately The Big Cat Man is a love story: one man's infatuation with Africa and his unfailing devotion to the woman who shares his passion. Jonathan's writing makes for a fascinating safari through a live lived in the world's most spectacular wilderness area. His book raises uncomfortable questions about the future of wildlife on a continent where the needs of the people sometimes seem overwhelming. It will bring hope to those who have struggled with their own demons and been afraid to seek help; but most of all it is an inspriation for those who long to follow their dream, whatever it may be. Foreword by Richard Leakey Stunning an photographs and illustrations throughout

      • Biography & True Stories
        March 2017

        Smoke

        by John Berger, Selcuk Demirel

        'Once upon a time, men, women, and (secretly) children smoked.' Following the success of Cataract, John Berger, one of the great soothsayers of seeing, joins forces again with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel. This charming pictorial essay reflects on the cultural implications of smoking.

      • Biography & True Stories

        Leben & Kunst / Life & Art

        by Janosch

        The first authorized biography of Mr Janosch Everyone knows them: the Tiger and the Bear, the yellowblack striped Tigerduck, and all the other figures created by Janosch. The artist has become a myth himself, because he likes to tell tales about himself as much as he loves to entertain with his stories. And one should never believe everything he says. There it is: the first (auto-)biography of the worldknown author and painter. The book contains several interviews with the artist and an article about the meeting between Astrid Lindgren and Janosch, along with a rich selection of his works. And of course: many pictures of the man himself - working or lying in the hammock.

      • Biography & True Stories

        Hinkepott

        by Horst Janssen

        The autobiography of the famous painter This first part of Horst Janssen’s „autobiographical hop skips“ outlines moments of his childhood in Oldenburg, impressions from the NAPOLA in Haselünne, episodes from his times at the academy in Hamburg, loves and passions and pranks he did out of sheer high spirits together with friends. Furthermore, there are quiet and angry contemplations about the contemporary situation. These autobiographical letters and essays result in an unity of past and present in which the past is enriched by reflections and moods of today. In Hinkepott there is a variety of contemplative and humorous anecdotes, aggressive poetry, obscenity, clear analysis, despairing sadness and tender entreaty: “And these games of course lack of any chronological order. Naturally. This is close to their ‘object’ because ‘I’ did not live in strict chronology according to the rules.“

      • Biography & True Stories
        October 2020

        Namen und Werke. Auf 12 Bände erweiterte Neuausgabe!

        Biographien und Beiträge zur Soziologie der Jugendbewegung

        by Hinrich Jantzen ; Alexander Glück

        Nach 35 Jahren umfassend erweitert: Die maßgebliche Personendokumentation zur deutschen Jugendbewegung. Neuausgabe mit allen (überwiegend bisher unveröffentlichten) Personenakten im Faksimile. Zusammen zwölf Bände. Gefördert von der Deutschen Stiftung Denkmalschutz. Faksimile der fünf Originalbände, ergänzt um hunderte bio-/bibliographische Fragebögen, meist in Originalhandschriften! Das gesamte verbliebene Fragebogenmaterial der Redaktion. Studienausgabe: fünf Bände mit je ca. 360 S. Ergänzungen, Manuskripte und Fragebögen: sieben Bände mit je ca. 360 S. und einem umfangreichen Nachwort im letzten Band. Namenliste: Abetz, Otto; Aff, Johannes; Ahlborn, Knud; Ahlemann, Joachim; Ahrens, Heinrich; Aigles, Alma de l‘; Alfken, Hans; Althaus, Richard; Altmann-Reich, Hilde; Altpeter, Werner; Alverdes, Paul; Amanshauser, Helmut; Apel, Fritz; Avenarius, Ferdinand; Bahner, Georg; Bahrs, Hans; Baldes, Hermann; Ballerstedt, Kurt; Ballerstedt, Walther; Barthel, Max; Baumann, Hans; Bayer, Maximilian; Becker, Marie-Luise; Behrends, Ernst; Berghäuser, Ernst; Bergstraesser, Arnold; Berthold, Jörg; Blüher, Hans; Blunck, Hans Friedrich; Böhme, Herbert; Bohnenkamp, Hans; Bojarzin, Otto; Bondy, Curt; Borinski, Fritz; Bösche, Hermann; Bötel, Fritz; Brandt, Willy; Brauns, Friedrich; Brehm, Bruno; Bresgen, Cesar; Breuer, Hans; Brües, Otto; Brundert, Willi; Brunner, Heinz; Brunotte, Heinz; Bryk, Kurd; Buber, Martin; Burger, Fritz; Burgstaller, Ernst; Burkart, Hans; Buske, Ernst; Caesar (Keyser), Julius; Chester, Richard; Christaller, Walter; Claudius, Hermann; Claussen, Wilhelm; Conti, Leonardo; Copalle, Siegfried; Cornelius, Friedrich; Cramm, Walter; Daur, Rudolf; Deckart, Martin; Degenhard, Franz Josef; Dehmel, Hans; Diederich, Werner; Diederichs, Eugen; Diehl, Guida; Dienel, Kurz; Diete, Kurt; Dietrich, Karl; Dombrowski, Hermann; Droste, Johannes; Duis, Ernst; Dwinger, Edwin Erich; Ege, Clara; Ehlen, Nikolaus; Ehrenthal, Lutz-Günther; Ehrentreich, Alfred; Eichelberg, Max; Eichen, Heinrich; Eimermacher, Harald; Engelhardt, Emil; Ewald, Otto; Fabricius, Wilhelm; Fallada, Hans; Finckh, Ludwig; Fischer, Karl; Fischer, Walter; Fitz, Oskar; Flach, Jakob; Flex, Walter; Flitner, Wilhelm; Fort, Gertrud Freiin von le; Frank, Ernst; Frank, Karl Hermann; Franz, Günther; Friederichsen, Roland; Fulda, Friedrich Wilhelm; Fulda, Leopold; Gambke, Gotthard; Gardiner, Rolf; Gast, Lise; Gättke, Walter; Geiger-Hof, Anna; Geißler, Wilhelm; Gerber, Kurt; Gerber, Walther; Gerlach, Dankwart; Gerlach, Kurt; Gerlach, Richard; Gerstner, Hermann; Geyer, Wilm; Gilardoni-Hildebrand, Hannes; Gneist, Werner; Goebel, Ferdinand; Gollwitzer, Gerhard; Gollwitzer, Helmut; Görres, Ida Friederike; Götsch, Georg; Götze, Rudolph; Gräff, Otger; Gregori, Ellen; Greiff, Walter; Groß, Julius; Grünewald, Ernst; Grzimek, Bernhard; Guardini, Romano; Haase, Hugo; Habbel, Franz Ludwig; Hachtmann, Rüdiger; Hammer, Walter; Harhammer, Leopold; Harmsen, Hans; Hauck, Ernst; Hauer, Jakob Wilhelm; Hausmann, Manfred; Heeren, Hanns; Heinrich, Fritz; Heise, Heinrich; Heisenberg, Werner; Heister, Bernhard; Hellmuth, Fritz; Helwig, Werner; Hensel, Walther; Hesse, Gerda; Hesse, Kurt-Werner; Heybey, Wolfgang; Heyck, Hans; Hockl, Hans Wolfram; Hoffmann, Adolf; Hoffmann, Fritz Hugo; Hoffmann-Fölkersamb, Hermann; Hoheisel, Will; Holtorf, Hans; Höppener, Hugo (Fidus); Horstmann, Erwin; Hubatsch, Walther; Hübotter, Wilhelm; Hüser, Fritz; Hüttenmeister, Josef; Illgen, Walter; Inderfurth, Wilhelm; Italiaander, Rolf; Iwowski, Klara; Jacob, Max; Jahn, Willie; Jannasch, Hans-Windekilde; Jansen, Willie; Jantzen, Walther; Jarmuth, Kurt; Jöde, Fritz; Jünger, Ernst; Jüngling, Eberhard; Just, Herbert; Kauenhoven, Kurt; Keil, Georg; Keil, Theo; Kistner, Albrecht; Kittel, Helmuth; Klages, Ludwig; Klönne, Arno; Klose, Werner; Kneip, Rudolf; Knoch, Willi; Knothe, Elisabeth; Köbel, Eberhard; Koch, Rudolf; König, Franz; Körber, Normann; Kötschau, Georg; Kotzde-Kottenrodt, Wilhelm; Krauss, Friedrich Emil; Krebs, Albert; Kreisky, Bruno; Kreppel, Friedrich; Kroeber-Keneth, Ludwig; Kröher, Heinrich und Oskar; Kroug, Wolfgang; Kügler, Hermann; Kuhn, Martin; Küppers-Sonnenberg, Gustav Adolf; Kurella, Alfred; Kutzleb, Hjalmar; Kynast, Karl; Lampel, Peter Martin; Laß, Werner; Lehmann, Wilhelm; Lehnartz, Emil; Leibl, Ernst; Leip, Hans; Lenk, Rudolf; Lensch, Otto; Lenzen, Heinrich Jacob; Leut geb. Buch, Dora; Licht, Ernst; Lienhard, Ludwig; Lietz, Hermann; Linz, Armin; Linz, Bernhard; Lion, Alexander; Lippe, Ferdinand v. d; Lischke, Kurt; Lißner, Hans; Löns, Hermann; Losch, Sebastian; Löwe, Hans; Luntowski, Adalbert; Luserke, Martin; Lüth, Erich; Mahraun, Artur; Manstein, Bodo; Matthes, Erich; May, Werner; Medau, Hinrich; Mehnert, Klaus; Mehnert, Rudolf; Melchers, Georg; Menzel, Wilhelm; Merkel, Heinrich Georg; Messerschmid, Felix; Metzger, Ludwig; Meusel, Anton; Mewes, Fritz; Meyer, Kurt; Meyer, Werner; Mirbt, Rudolf; Mitgau, Hermann; Mittelstraß, Gustav; Mülhause, Therese; Müller, Karl Christian; Münker, Wilhelm; Nasarski, Peter E; Nawothnig, Walter; Neuendorff, Edmund; Nitsche, Ernst; Noack, Helmut; Nöldeke-Christaller, Erika; Nolte, Heinrich; Nopitsch, Antonie; Oberländer, Theodor; Oelbermann, Karl; Oelbermann, Robert; Oertel, Hans Joachim; Ollenhauer, Erich; Oppenberg, Ferdinand; Oschilewski, Walther G; Paasche, Hans; Pabst, Helmut; Paetel, Karl O; Paetow, Karl; Perleberg, Gilbert; Pfannenstiel, Ekkehart; Pfeiffer, Hermann; Pleyer, Wilhelm; Pohl, Werner; Popert, Hermann; Poppe, Richard; Prellwitz, Gertrud; Prütz, Siegfried; Rabe, Hanns-Gerd; Rasmus, Claus Friedrich; Rehm, Max; Reichwein, Adolf; Reinemann, John Otto; Richter, Hans; Ritter, Heinz; Roßberg, Martin; Roth, Eugen; Roth, Fritz; Schafft, Hermann; Schierer, Heinz; Schirrmann, Richard; Schmid, Carlo; Schmitz, Heinz; Schneehagen, Christian; Schoeps, Hans-Joachim; Scholz, Erich (Olka); Schomburg, Burkhart; Schönfelder, Otto (Cölner); Schottky, Ernst; Schrammen, Bertchen; Schriefer, Werner; Schröcke, Helmut; Schubmehl, Emma; Schulze, Harry Paul; Schumann, Gerhard; Schumann, Heinrich; Schütte, Hermann; Schweitzer, Horst; Sckerl, Else; Sckerl, Lucie; Seidelmann, Karl; Seidler, Georg; Seiler, Karl-Günther; Severing, Adolf; Shaltiel, David; Sievers, Johannes; Sinkwitz, Paul; Sohnrey, Heinrich; Sonntag, Karl; Sperling, Erich; Springenschmid, Karl; Stachowitsch, Alexej; Staebler, Johannes; Staffen, Rudolf; Stählin, Wilhelm; Stark, Leonhard; Steglich, Arno; Stengel-v. Rutkowski, Lothar; Steudtner, Fritz; Stoehr geb. Maladinski, Marianne; Strüver, Erwin; Süßmuth, Richard; Sydow, Kurt; Tegtmeier, Wilhelm; Thomas, Joachim; Thon, Alfred; Thums, Karl; Tormin, Helmut; Uhsadel, Walter; Voelkel, Martin; Vogel, Theodor; Voggenreiter, Ludwig; Völker, Wolf; Vötterle, Karl; Walter, Theo; Weber, A. Paul; Wecke, Gerhard; Weichmann, Herbert; Weidemann, Magnus; Weismantel, Leo; Welter, Günther; Wendland, Heinz-Dietrich; Werner, Karl; Wilker, Karl; Wittek, Erhard; Wolf, Hans; Wolff, Günther; Wurche, Ernst; Wyneken, Gustav; Zacharias, Alfred; Zadek, Walter; Zaese-Fell, Johanna; Zastrau, Alfred; Ziemer, Gerhard; Zimmer, Erich; Zimmermann, Werner; Zimprich, Richard; Zinserling, Heino; Zombat von Zombatfalva, Gyula; Zuckmayer, Carl

      • Biography: general
        January 2019

        Alice, Christ’s Caring and Cheerful Servant – Without Eyes or Legs

        by Alice Lai

        Can see without eyes the spiritual needs of others and the value of eternity! Can go out without feet to bless others and walk by the will of God! To many, the writer’s life may be a complete tragedy! Because of delayed treatment, she lost her sight at an early age. Added to this were the repeated onsets of cancer in recent years which ended up with the amputation of both of her feet. Still, she rises to all these challenges with joy and faith, living her life to the fullest and kindling the lives of others with her sharing. She is able to do this because of her faith in God who turns curses into blessings, walks with her in the valley of death and wipes away her tears. By the grace of God, life to her is a stage on which she is dancing with God and acting out the many blessings in disguise she has experienced.   This book fully testifies how the grace of God is perfected in man’s weakness and how what seems impossible to man is perfectly possible in God. May readers of this book get to know the God from whom the writer draws her strength, place their faith and thanks in Him, walk with Him and live out their lives in abundance regardless of whether they are in good times or bad.

      • Biography & True Stories

        Memories of Life

        by Hamka

        This book is an autobiography written by Hamka since he was a child until he took part in politics and government. He felt the Japanese and Dutch colonial period. He also shared the times of looking for identity and a place to work.

      • Autobiography: general

        Shadows in Wonderland

        A Hospital Odyssey

        by Colin Ludlow

        When television producer Colin Ludlow was admitted to hospital for an operation, he expected to be home in ten days. In the event, he ended up staying for five months, nearly died on several occasions, contracted MRSA, and was still recovering from his experiences more than three years later.In "Shadows in Wonderland" he tells his story, and takes a fascinating philosophical journey through chronic illness as he explores its wider significance. The book is a moving account of how the author pieced together the shattered fragments of his life and sought to make sense of them again. It is the record of a quest - which we all face - for health and wholeness in a fractured, disjointed world.

      • Autobiography: general
        November 2009

        Caribbean Chemistry: Tales from Saint Kitts

        by Christopher Vanier

        In this fascinating picture of life in the West Indies in the 40's and 50's, Christopher Vanier presents a collection of anecdotes from his early childhood on St. Kitts to English-style boarding school on Antigua and his return to St. Kitts where he must prepare to compete for an all-important scholarship that offers the only real chance to leave the islands and obtain a university education. Vanier speaks with both affection and a restless resentment of the encapsulated world of a small island.

      • Biography & True Stories
        January 2013

        The Man Who Moved the World

        The Life & Work of Mohamed Amin

        by Bob Smith

        Foreword by Michael Buerk; Preface by Salim Amin

      • Biography & True Stories
        January 2013

        The Story of Mohamed Amin

        Frontline Cameraman

        by Brian Tetley

        Foreword by Bob Geldof; Preface by Salim Amin

      • Autobiography: general
        March 2010

        Cheapjack

        The Adventures of a Fortune-Teller. Knocker-Worker and Mounted Pitcher

        by Philip Allingham

        New edition of unique 1930s fairground memoir which achieved extraordinary success on first publication in both UK and US. Philip Allingham, brother to detective novelist Margery, was a young man uncertain of his direction in life. Setting out from his London office one morning, sporting a top hat and tails, he discovered his vocation as a fortune teller and salesman in the farigrounds and market places of working class England in the Depression era. Cheapjack is of interest to linguists as marking the first printed use of many Romany words. Essentially it is a delightful and completely individual coming-of-age autobiography, told with modesty and humour. This new edition includes many illustrations as well as biographical material and an introduction by Francis Wheen. It has been well reviewed in national newpapers.

      • Autobiography: general
        March 2011

        The Oaken Heart

        The Story of an English Village at War

        by Margery Allingham

        Enduringly popular WW2 memoir written during 1940 and first published in 1941. Golden Duck edition praised in its own right for the quality of the editing and the wealth of additional material included.

      • Mind, Body, Spirit

        Flight Into Freedom and Beyond

        by Eileen Caddy

        Eileen Caddy co-founder of the world famous Findhorn Community in the North of Scotland is an ordinary woman who has lived an extraordinary life. She has allowed herself to be a channel for her still small voice within that she recognises as the word of God. She has always followed it fearlessly and with total obedience. Her early life showed no sign that it would be anything other than thousands of others of her generation - marriage children a quiet life of domesticity and child rearing. However when Peter Caddy burst into her life everything changed. Eileen's life was turned upside down and the journey both outer and inner to Findhorn had begun. It is now 50 years ago since Eileen first heard that voice announcing Be still and know that I am God. Her life since then has not been easy. There was the hell of her dark night of the soul when life seemed to hold no more meaning for her. Losing her home and living for years in a tiny caravan next to a rubbish dump with Peter and their three boys. Eventually even losing her husband and partner to another woman - the man with whom she had worked to create the Findhorn was suddenly no longer there to support her. But somehow Eileen's faith and trust in God have helped her to adjust to all the challenges and changes in her life. Now in her 80s she continues to be an inspiration and beacon of hope to millions around the world. She still lives in the centre of the Findhorn Community and is a source of stability continuity and wisdom for each new generation of people drawn there.

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