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History is the essence of inumerable biographies. Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays.
 
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Author: Nia Wyn
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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"My heart has reshaped a thousand broken pieces, and for every moment I still want to heal him, there are a thousand when I know he's perfect, exactly as he is."

Set between the summers of 1998 and 2005 in Cardiff, Blue Sky July is the story of a mother, Nia, whose son, Joe, suffers a devastating brain injury. It traces her journey into a world hidden away in society's pockets as she battles against impossible odds to heal him.

Blue Sky July is the story of a mother and a son; of enormous courage and love; of the strength of the human spirit. Lyrical, inspiring and utterly compelling, Nia Wyn's powerful but acutely sensitive account of her experiences will make an indelible impression on all who read it. If you have healthy children this book will make you count your blessings. If you have a child who faces the challenges Joe and Nia face, this book will make you cheer.
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Zimmer Men : The trials and tribulations of the ageing cricketer order quantity
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Author: Marcus Berkmann
Published by: Abacus
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Ten years after his classic Rain Men - 'cricket's answer to Fever Pitch,' said the Daily Telegraph - Marcus Berkmann returns to the strange and wondrous world of village cricket, where players sledge their team-mates, umpires struggle to count up to six, the bails aren't on straight and the team that fields after a hefty tea invariably loses. This time he's on the trail of the Ageing Cricketer, having suddenly realised that he is one himself and playing in a team with ten others every weekend. In their minds they run around the field as fast as ever; it's only their legs that let them down. ZIMMER MEN asks all the important questions of middle-aged cricketers. Why is that boundary rope suddenly so far away? Are you doomed to getting worse as a cricketer, or could you get better? How many pairs of trousers will your girth destroy in one summer? Chronicling the 2004 season, with its many humiliating defeats and random injuries, this ... more
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Author: Ray Avery
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
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Ray Avery is an amazing person. He is the current NZer of the Year because of his clever work in the third world using his scientific and business knowledge to provide cheap cataract operations, cheap and more effective incubators for babies and other creative scientific solutions. His childhood was very 'Angela's Ashes' - brought up in an orphanage (his own mother had tried to sell him?, then ran away and lived on the streets. But Ray went on to become a scientist, a millionaire, very successful businessman and now someone who literally does help to change the world. During the mid-nineties Ray spent most of his time working in Eritrea and Nepal setting up two world class Intraocular lens laboratories. At that time the cost of an Intraocular lenses was about US$300 but Ray managed to put the technology together to produce lenses for under US$10.00 making modern Cataract surgery accessible to the poor throughout Africa and Asia.Today ... more
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Author: Lance Armstrong
Published by: Touchstone Books
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After three years in retirement following his record-setting 7th Tour de France win -- which he accomplished after successfully battling the testicular cancer that almost killed him -- Lance Armstrong announced to the world on September 24, 2008 at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, that he would return to professional cycling to help promote a Global Cancer Campaign. "Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal" is Lance Armstrong's first-person photo-journal of his 2009 comeback season with the goal to take the LIVESTRONG message around the world. Heavily illustrated with color photos and text, Lance will take readers on a thrilling ride through his dramatic comeback year.

Comeback 2.0 includes an introduction by Lance that frames his decision to return to competitive cycling followed by journal-like entries written through the course of his comeback season beginning with the Tour Down Under, followed by the Tour of ... more

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Death by Teenager : One Mum's Hilarious Account of Raising Teenagers order quantity
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Author: Sonia Neale
Published by: ABC Books
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Sonia Neale has had enough.
Her sons are crusty, smelly and permanently hooked to the TV, her daughter has so many piercing she sets off theft-detectors in stores, and as for Sonia herself, well, there's only one thing she wants more than chardonnay and steamy sex with Keanu Reeves:
chardonnay and a bit of peace and quiet!
But with a house full of teenagers, what are her chances?

Funny stories from the lives of an average family as a mother recounts of the delights and horrors(mainly horrors)of parenting three teenagers.
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Author: Christopher Hitchens
Published by: Allen & Unwin
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The acid, hilarious, confessional and provocative memoirs of the bestselling author of God is Not Great - a story of a life, lived large. Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide.
Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, Oxford and provides vivid accounts of his friendships and famous feuds - Gore Vidal, Martin Amis, Tariq Ali and Edward Said to name but a few - as well as his blistering attacks ... more
 
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