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For over three decades, director Ken Kwapis has charted a career full of exceptional movies and television, from seminal shows like The Office to beloved films like He's Just Not That Into You.
He is among the most respected directors in show business, but getting there wasn't easy. He struggled just like everyone else. With each triumph came the occasional faceplant. Using his background and inside knowledge, But What I Really Want To Do is Direct...
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For anyone who has ever loved a Jane Austen novel, a warm and witty look at the passionate, thriving world of Austen fandom
They walk among us in their bonnets and Empire-waist gowns, clutching their souvenir tote bags and battered paperbacks: the Janeites, Jane Austen's legion of devoted fans. Who are these obsessed admirers, whose passion has transformed Austen from classic novelist to pop-culture phenomenon? Deborah Yaffe, journalist and Janeite,...
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Brace yourself for a whirlwind tour through the wacky world of education."Teacher Bloopers and Potty Mouth Stories" is the perfect read for anyone who appreciates the humour in life's unexpected moments.With her trademark wit and candour, Maxine Blake offers a refreshingly honest and amusing take on the rollercoaster ride that is life in the classroom. She has an uncanny ability to turn even the most awkward classroom moments into hilarious anecdotes.Maxine...
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Mark Williams led a content life; from a working-class background, he worked his way up into a promising career and then met the love of his life. When his wife Michelle fell pregnant, it seemed as though everything had fallen into place for them.
Except Michelle's labour didn't go well. She was forced to undergo a C-section, an experience which deeply traumatised both of them. And when it was time to take their child home, Michelle seemed different....
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Sobering Thoughts, a memoir about the humor and horror of living with alcoholics.
The effects of alcoholism in the family last more than a lifetime. They are passed down to your children even if you, yourself, did not become an alcoholic. Family alcoholism can deeply affect your development, personality, and expectations for life.
More than any other wish I could wish, I wish and hope that my experiences and realizations will make you more...
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A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America-including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more-with a foreword by Jelani Cobb
This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision and artistic inspiration. It reaches back across...
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The critically acclaimed memoirs of one female police officer's sixteen-year odyssey, beginning with day one at the Police Academy and spanning assignments on Chicago's West Side, one of the most dangerous areas in the city.
The notorious cops' code of silence is broken as the author recounts incidents in the West Side projects: shoot-outs, ambushes, and what it feels like to kill a man-just four days out of the Academy.
The stories told are sometimes...
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Amy Amy Amy unravels the all too short life and career of one of Britain's most brilliant and troubled stars.
Amy Winehouse's erratic journey to fame – from her North London family home, through her meteoric rise to stardom and the two seminal albums that captured the world – has been consistently tangled with her well-publicised problems with alcohol and drugs, self-harm and personal relationships. Her extraordinary musical gifts are often...
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This new biography is a fascinating account of the period in which Chopin lived, and the way in which the political scene helped shape his music. The important people and places in the composer's life are brought vividly to life by the use of contemporary engraving, paintings and lithographs. The author has made extensive use of contemporary accounts, letters and notebooks, and reproduces little known caricatures drawn by Chopin. This is an ideal...
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A sweeping insider look at the life of William Brennan, champion of free speech and widely considered the most influential Supreme Court justice of the twentieth century
Before his death, William Brennan granted Stephen Wermiel access to volumes of personal and court materials that are sealed to the public until 2017. These are what Jeffrey Toobin has called "a coveted set of documents" that includes Brennan's case histories-in which he recorded...
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"She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: 'You are the God who sees me,' for she said, 'I have now seen the One who sees me'" (Genesis 16:13).
There are times in our lives when we wonder if God truly sees us. When we are going through trials that seem to have no end... we wonder if God sees us. When we are faced with problems that seem to resurface again and again... we wonder if God sees us. When an illness we thought was defeated returns...
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On the morning of August 22, 1485, in fields several miles from Bosworth, two armies faced each other, ready for battle. The might of Richard III's army was pitted against the inferior forces of the upstart pretender to the crown, Henry Tudor, a twenty–eight year old Welshman who had just arrived back on British soil after fourteen years in exile. Yet this was to be a fight to the death-only one man could survive; only one could claim the throne....
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Cynthia Reyes has done it again. Picking up from the early days of her recovery from a car accident, as told in her first book, A Good Home, she shares in this new book intensely lyrical stories of life in her historic farmhouse north of Toronto.
You will hear the birds sing, smell the flowers in their lavish gardens, and taste the red currant jelly and other dishes from plants grown on her property.
You will be challenged as the author immerses...
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From heroic George Washington to the dastardly Richard Nixon, the oval office has been occupied by larger-than-life personalities since 1789. The position comes with enormous power and responsibility, and every American president thus far has managed to achieve great things. However, the President of the United States is only human-and oftentimes far from perfect. While some men suffered through only minor mishaps during their time in office, others...
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Tom Chapman had never had any reason to worry about his - or anyone else's - mental health, until one of his close friends took his own life. Devastated to learn that suicide was the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK, Tom knew he wanted to do something to help.
Working as a barber, he saw an opportunity to harness the special bond between a trusted barber and client and turn his barbershop into a safe space where men could talk...
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After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Ellen Estilai and her family attempt to leave Tehran, their home of nine years. At the airport, her Iranian husband is inexplicably prevented from leaving. As he confronts hostile colleagues and the Islamic Republic's opaque bureaucracy, Ellen examines their lives, trying to understand what might have brought them to this point. Exit Prohibited is a story of a complex Iran, at once welcoming and hostile, progressive...
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From PinkCadillac to Low Rider to Little Red Corvette, rock music hasalways had a racy love affair with cars. And AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson isnot only a rock legend, second-to-none at infusing razor-sharp lyrics with thescreaming metal energy of a true rock and roller, but also a dyed-in-the-woolcar fanatic. Books like AC/DC:Maximum Rock and Roll and Why AC/DC Matters revealed the secretsof the the world's greatest rock band-now, in Rockers...
1719) Anxious Black Belt
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Would you take up martial arts to fight anxiety?"Strong and caring people are the pillars of society, and Karate helps to cultivate them."This is the maxim that Les has developed through his life journey.The Anxious Black Belt details the transformation of a happy child into a troubled teenager who discovered the benefits of the Japanese art of Karate, and his fight to overcome his anxiety.This is a light, fun and easy to read book that touches on...
1720) Lloydyman: The Statesman
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Born and raised in Jamaica, schooled with Bob Marley, emigrated to Birmingham, club-owner and music promoter, father of twelve…what a life and Lloyd George Blake describes it in wonderful bite-sized chunks, evoking the atmosphere of every decade from the '60s onwards, and justifiably name-checking so many along the way from Mohammed Ali and Bishop Desmond Tutu to reggae stars like Dennis Brown and Dennis Bovell, not to mention politicians and the...
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