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9781921656569
An Exclusive Love
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Johanna Adorjan
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The Text Publishing Company
She is a healthy seventy-one-year-old woman. He is a dying eighty-two-year-old man. This couple, who have been united through the horrors of twentieth-century Europe, and through the joys of love and family, cannot live up to the vows they made nearly fifty years ago to stay together 'until death do us part': they will die as one, never to be parted. On 13 October 1991, they take their own lives, together. Sixteen years later, their granddaughter Johanna Adorjan digs through her family history to piece together the puzzle of the exotic and mysterious couple she knew only in fragments. She dares to give voice to her grandparents' experiences as Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust, which her family has always labelled "something we don't talk about". She learns, too, how these experiences have shaped her family and the person she is today. Not only a Holocaust memoir, An Exclusive Love is both a love story and a journey of ...
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The Third Man Factor : The secret to survival in extreme environments
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John Geiger
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The Text Publishing Company
From Sir Ernest Shackleton on South Georgia Island to currency trader Ron DiFrancesco in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, to diver Stephanie Schwabe in the Mermaid's Lair of Grand Bahama. Hundreds of people in life-threatening situations have shared an experience that an unseen being - known as the Third Man - helped them survive apparently insurmountable odds. Over the years, the experience has occurred again and again - to mountaineers, prisoners of war, solo sailors, shipwreck survivors, aviators and astronauts. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having experienced the close presence of a companion and helper, and even 'of a sort of mighty person'. The mysterious force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention. Recent neurological research suggests something else. In The Third Man Factor, John Geiger combines history, science and story-telling to ...
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When Skateboards Will be Free : My reluctant political childhood
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Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Penguin Books Ltd
Said Sayrafiezadeh's parents believed that a worker's revolution was just around the corner. When it came all would change. So they sacrificed everything to bring it about - including their son's childhood. Said just wishes they'd asked him first. Moving from one makeshift home to another in Pittsburgh and New York, Said's family was at war with the rest of the world. Told to despise luxuries he longed for, he endured endless party meetings, lectures, demonstrations, even a visit to Cuba, all to make him the perfect child of the revolution. But what happens when the revolution never comes?
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9781596913448
West of Jesus : Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief
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Steven Kotler
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A spiritual and scientific surf quest, "West of Jesus" tracks a contemporary surfing myth and looks at the neuroscience that connects spirituality and high risk sport.
After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith. Why, he wondered, when there was nothing left to believe in, could he begin to believe in something as unlikely as surfing. What was belief anyway? How did it work in the body, the brain, our culture, and human history?
Into this mix came a strange story. In 2003, on a surf trip through Mexico, Kotler heard of "the conductor," a mythical surfer who could control the weather. He'd heard this same tale eight years earlier, in Indonesia, but this time something clicked. With the ...
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Eat, Pray, Love : One Woman's Search for Everything
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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Bloomsbury
Eat,Pray,Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression and heartbreak.
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it.
A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.
So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds,an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor,and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile.
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When Hungry, Eat
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Joanne Fedler
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Arena (Allen & Unwin imprint)
The story of one woman's journey through the emotional minefield that is women's relationship to food - a celebration of small portions, unexpected spiritual wisdom and the gifts of hunger.
First published 2010.
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9781408809365
Eat, Pray, Love ( Film Tie-In)
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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Allen & Unwin
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing pleasure, devotion and balance.
So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds, an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor, and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
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9781906021993
Keeper : A Book About Memory, Identity, Isolation, Wordsworth and Cake
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Andrea Gillies
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Short Books, London
Five years ago, Andrea Gillies-- writer, wife, and mother of three--seeing that her husband's parents were struggling to cope, invited them to move in. She and her newly extended family relocated to a big Victorian house on a remote, windswept peninsula in the far north of Scotland, leaving behind their friends and all that was familiar; hoping to find a new life, and new inspiration for work.
Her mother-in-law Nancy was in the middle stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and "Keeper" charts her journey into dementia, its impact on her personality and her family, and the author's researches into what dementia is. As the grip of her disease tightens, Nancy's grasp on everything we think of as ordinary unravels before our eyes. Diary entries and accounts of conversations with Nancy track the slow unravelling. The journey is marked by frustration, isolation, exhaustion, and unexpected black comedy. For the author, who knew little about ...
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9781408801246
Nine Lives: In Search of Sacred Modern India
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Author:
William Dalrymple
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story.
William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day.
This title is longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
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9781921640629
Rainbow Pie : A Redneck Memoir
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Joe Bageant
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Scribe Publications
Rainbow Pie is a coming-of-age memoir wrapped around a discussion of America's most taboo subject - social class. Set between 1950 and 1963, Joe uses Maw, Pap, Ony Mae and other members of his rambunctious Scots Irish family to chronicle the often heartbreaking post-war journey of 22 million rural Americans into the cities, where they became the foundation of a permanent white underclass. The book offers an intimate look at what Americans lost in the massive and orchestrated post-war social and economic shift from an agrarian society to an urban consumer society. Along the way, he also gives insight into how 'the second and third generation of displaced agrarians', as Gore Vidal described them, now fuel the discontent of America's politically conservative, God fearing, Obama hating, 'red staters.' These are the gun-owning, uninsured, underemployed white tribes inhabiting America's urban and suburban heartland: the ones who never got a ...
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9780340980507
My Stroke of Insight : A brain scientist's personal journey
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Author:
Jill Bolte Taylor
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Hodder Paperback
On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain.
A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she lost the ability to walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four hours. As the damaged left side of her brain -- the rational, logical, detail and time-oriented side -- swung in an out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realities: the euphoric Nirvana of the intuitive and emotional right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical left brain, that realized Jill was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely.
In My Stroke of Insight
Taylor brings to light a new perspective on the ...
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9780330457651
The Worst Date Ever, or How it Took a Comedy Writer to Expose Africa's Secret War
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Author:
Jane Bussmann
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Picador
When scriptwriter Jane Bussmann ("South Park", "The Fast Show", "Brass Eye" and "Smack the Pony") moved to Hollywood, it was supposed to be the start of something better. But a day job interviewing Paris, Britney and Co. left her trapped in the Golden Age of Stupid. Then she saw a photograph of John Prendergast in Vanity Fair. His day job was ending war. He was also extremely attractive. Jane 'may have inferred she was a Foreign Correspondent', because suddenly she found herself on route to Africa on the trail of this modern-day Indiana Jones. There was one problem: when she got to Uganda John had left. Alone in a war-torn country, appalled by 25,000 child abductions, Jane must investigate the war crime of the century - to make John fancy her. Combining a maverick heroine, an idealist hero, comic disasters and moving tragedy, this is brilliant storytelling by a hugely talented writer. 'Jane Bussmann's romantic odyssey from Hollywood to ...
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9781408803387
Inheritance : The story of Knole and the Sackvilles
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Author:
Robert Sackville-West
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and images, the current incumbent of the seat, Robert Sackville-West, paints a vivid and intimate portrait of the vast, labyrinthine house and the close relationships his colourful ancestors formed with it. "Inheritance" is the story of a house and its inhabitants, a family described by Vita Sackville-West as 'a race too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent and too melancholy; a rotten lot, and nearly all stark staring mad'. Where some revelled in the hedonism of aristocratic life, others rebelled against a house which, in time, would disinherit them, shutting its doors to them forever. It's a drama in which the house itself is a principal character, it's fortunes often mirroring those ...
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9780141044057
Tormented Hope : Nine hypochondriac lives
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Brian Dillon
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Penguin Books Ltd
Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping.
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9781555974459
Findings : Essays on the Natural and Unnatural World
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Author:
Kathleen Jamie
Published by:
Graywolf Press
"A book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language." --"The Daily Telegraph"
"I had noticed, more than noticed, the cobwebs, and the shoaling light, and the way the doctor listened, and the flecked tweed of her skirt, and the speckled bird and the sickle-cell man's slim feet. Isn't that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?" During her husband's hospital stay for a life-threatening illness, Kathleen Jamie didn't pray, but she did find herself paying very close attention to the world around her. In "Findings," she shares her direct, uncluttered observations of the natural and unnatural world--seen from her kitchen window, on the streets of Edinburgh, in hospital corridors, in the Outer Hebrides.
What she finds: an awe-inspiring salmon run that turns out to have been reengineered so that no salmon can possibly ...
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