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TAWNEY of Oxford
and their Relatives
2022 || Paperback || Martin K Thompson || Mybestseller.co.uk
Tawney of Oxford and their Relatives
is a collection of biographical notes, with accompanying family trees, drawing upon archival records and much other information that is available in the public domain. Illustrations help to provide context and bring the characters to life.
The biographical notes include some fascinating stories and characters, including a seventeenth century female James Bond, a national financial crisis, and a nineteenth century parliamentary election.
A series of famil...
The Criminal Mind
2024 || Paperback || Duncan Harding || Veltman Distributie Import Books
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The Chain
2024 || Paperback || Chimene Suleyman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that she and many other women had been subtly, poisonously and patiently betrayed.
In this remarkable memoir, she explores how women are duped every day by individuals, but also how society itself a...
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Behind the Silk Curtain
2022 || Paperback || Gulistan Khamzayeva || Vrije Uitgevers, De
The book Behind the Silk Curtain is about multiculturalism, adapting to new environments, socializing with people of different cultures, about linguistic integration, gaining experience, and facing challenges, about friends and family, about some of the Kazakh traditions and the country's mentality, about charity and weddings and many other fascinating contexts she was involved in.
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Road to Libya Boat to Italy
stories of ghanaian emigrants
Paperback || Ineke Bosman || Brave New Books
Truely amazing stories told by Ghanaian men who ventured over land or sea in search for a better future. They cross the Sahara desert to Libya where jobs are available if you accept the insults that go with them. Then on into shaky boats for Europe...
Stories by Ghanaian emigrants that you can feel in all their raw resiliance and beautiful sense of humor.
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Plato Meno
dramatic-historical dating 401 BC
Paperback || Ron Jonkvorst || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
The dramatic date of Plato’s dialogue Meno cannot be meaningfully determined until this character has been identified as one of the generals from Xenophon’s Anabasis. Researchers have attempted to date Plato’s dialogue immediately prior to this Voyage of the Ten Thousand that began in 401 BC, but have been pushed back to the winter of 403/402 based on conservative estimates. Renewed reading and factual research have filled the gaps so that Meno can finally be pushed forward to the year ...
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Friendaholic
Confessions of a Friendship Addict
2024 || Paperback || Elizabeth Day || Veltman Distributie Import Books
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Bravely revealing’ BERNADINE EVARISTO
‘Funny, moving, helpful and true, Friendaholic deserves a massive audience’ SATHNAM SANGHERA
‘This book is brilliant’ JO ELVIN
‘Essential reading… admirably candid and well-crafted’ GUARDIAN
As a society, there is a tendency to elevate romantic love. But what about friendships? Aren't they just as – if not more – important? So why is it hard to find the right words to express what these uniquely comp...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
An American Slave
2009 || Paperback || Frederick Douglass || Oxford University Press
Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. It is here reprinted with contexualizing source material and other writings by Douglass, as well as an introduction discussing its literary and historical significance.
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Broken
in the Best Possible Way
2022 || Paperback || Jenny Lawson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Hilarious, heart-warming and honest, Broken is about living, surviving and thriving with anxiety. A must-have for fans of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and David Sedaris.
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Wild
A Journey from Lost to Found
2023 || Paperback || Cheryl Strayed || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby