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  Big Dreams: The Adventures of...

  Sachin Naha

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  Have you ever dreamed of spaceships, electric cars, and a future on Mars? Elon Musk, the real-life Tony Stark, has made these dreams his mission! "Big Dreams: The Adventures of Elon Musk" takes you on a journey from his childhood curiosity to his daring ventures in technology. Discover how he overcame challenges, defied expectations, and changed the world. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn about innovation, perseverance, and the power of believing in the impossible.

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  The Wah-Wah Diaries - The Making...

  Richard E. Grant

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  Ten years after the publication of With Nails, Richard E Grant’s brilliant memoir of his years in Hollywood, Macmillan Digital Audio are proud to be publishing Wah-Wah, the very personal diaries of his debut behind the camera, as writer and director of his autobiographical movie of the same name. It is both a fascinating insight into the intrigues and agonies he encounters along the way, and also a deeply moving portrait of his childhood and his love affair with Swaziland, where he was born and brought up during the last throes of the British Empire. Through the mayhem – never-ending financial pressures; hostilities and finally breakdown of communication with his Producer; the nerve-racking quest to persuade the King of Swaziland to grant permission to film in his country; the assembly of a stellar cast including Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, and Julie Walters – Richard E Grant has written and reads, with characteristic humour and charm, an extraordinarily honest and revealing account of a labour of love and the realisation of a dream.

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  A Fragment of Stained Glass -...

  D H Lawrence

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  David Herbert Lawrence was born on the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, a coal mining town where the reality of a harsh life was only useful as experiences for future literary works. 
  He was educated at Beauvale Board School and became the first local boy to receive a scholarship to attend Nottingham High School. After 3 years he became a junior clerk in Haywood’s surgical appliances factory. He was also attempting a literary career which, in the short term, led to a teacher training position in Eastwood and later a teaching qualification from University College, Nottingham.  
  Lawrence’s first efforts were poems, short stories and a draft of ‘The White Peacock’. Moving to London and a teaching position in Croydon his writing attracted the attention of Ford Madox Ford, editor of The English Review, and he commissioned him to write ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’.  
  Wanting to write full-time he now began work on what would become ‘Sons and Lovers.   
  In 1912 he met the older and married mother-of-three Frieda Weekley. They eloped to Germany and here Lawrence could see for himself the growing tensions with France.  So keen was his interest that he was arrested and accused of being a British spy.  
  In early 1914 Frieda obtained her divorce and they returned to Britain to be married just days before the outbreak of war. Owing to her German parentage, and his own public dislike of militarism and violence, the couple were treated with contempt and suspicion throughout the war years.  
  Despite this he continued to write but his reputation in England was so tarnished and, mirrored by his own disdain for the country, he and Frieda left England in November 1919, first for Europe and then America via Ceylon and Australia. 
  They bought a ranch in Taos, New Mexico and visited Mexico several times. The third visit in March 1925 caused a near fatal attack of malaria. To convalesce they moved to Florence. Here he continued work on ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ which for many years would cause controversy. A renewed interest in oil painting resulted in an exhibition in 1929 which was raided by the police and several works were confiscated.  
  D H Lawrence died of complications arising from a bout of tuberculosis on the 2nd of March 1930 in Vence, France.  He was 44.

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  A Silver Cigarette Case and The...

  Sally Cook

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  This compelling story centred on the famous Great Escape is a story of love, friendship, and optimism. It focuses on Great Escaper Jack Francis Williams who was held captive in Germany's Stalag Luft III during World War II and his life before and after the Escape. It is told based around love letters dating back 76 years and holds many poignant moments and twists..

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  Elizabeth Taylor: An Icon...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  In part two of this master work on the life of Elizabeth Taylor she discusses her marriages, sometimes uneven acting career, and unending crusade to afford HIV suffers the love, compassion, respect, and care they deserve. At the end of her life, above all, Liz dedicated her time to her many charities unselfishly giving millions to worthy causes and personally joining protests for equal rights for homosexuals and other oppressed persons. With an unobtrusive narration by the author and a carefully plotted timeline, Taylor is very much the star of her own show.

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  Healed in the fire - my miracle...

  Rudi Marcelino Aspeling

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  Fires shaped my healing, though no one saw it coming. I survived an overdose, my body stayed broken - doctors said walking was gone, speech blurred beyond repair, independence lost for good. 
  I sat still, wheels fixed beneath me, days stretching out like walls. A presence arrived then, quiet yet certain, when shadows crowded every hour. Healing did not skip past pain; it moved through bone-deep effort, voiceless cries, breath after slow breath. Prayer wore no rhythm, just persistence - hour upon stubborn hour. Strength returned unevenly, breathless at first, then steady. Not everything mended became visible. Some changes lived where eyes could not reach. 
  What if pain could lead somewhere real? This one does. For those who’ve been left behind, cracked open, lost in the noise - here’s proof that fire doesn’t only destroy. It shapes. A life pulled through heat isn’t ruined; it’s redirected. Purpose shows up late sometimes. Often wearing scars.

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