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  Francisco Morazán Miguel Ángel...

  Jorge Alfonso Sierra Quintero

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  Volume containing the biographies in English of the following characters: Francisco Morazán, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Gabriel García Márquez, Justo Arosemena, Simón Bolívar, Alberto Masferrer and Rubén Darío

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  What the Trumpet Taught Me

  Kim Moore

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  Award-winning poet Kim Moore studied music and was a trumpet teacher for several years. What the Trumpet Taught Me is a collection of vivid and immediate snapshots, from first lessons to music college, and from teaching the trumpet in schools and conducting a brass band, through to playing in working men's clubs in a ten-piece soul band.
  Meditative and often funny, these short prose pieces are always open to experience and clear-eyed about the vagaries of class-prejudice and the intricacies of gender in a predominantly male world.
  The trumpet is the central character that we always return to as we are asked to consider the pivotal role of music in both an individual and social history.

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  Greed & Grace - One Woman's...

  Dena McCoy

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  ONE WOMAN'S STORY OF DISCOVERING UNEXPECTED GREED BEHIND A FAMILY SHE THOUGHT SHE KNEW AND LOVED, AND WHAT RENEWED FAITH TAUGHT HER DURING THE BATTLE TO BREAK FREE. 
  Greed & Grace is a powerful memoir of resilience, faith, and truth during the discovery of deception in a close family. When Dena requests unconditional love from hers, unexpected circumstances threaten to destroy her emotionally, financially, and spiritually. Can one remain hopeful when a lifetime of family love, emotional support, and inclusiveness suddenly becomes conditional and turns legal? Greed & Grace is an empowering story of personal clarity --- a memoir of a woman who discovers that her values and position in a complex family system have always been different from what she believed and with those she loved most.

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  Faces and Phases of Resilience -...

  Tinyiko Maluleke

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  In this captivating collection of essays, Tinyiko Maluleke invites his readers on a journey that begins with his eventful boyhood in Soweto and his life-changing upbringing in Limpopo. His heartfelt reflections on the roles of his mother, maternal grandmother and aunts in his childhood will resonate deeply with readers. In the truest sense, this is a 'feminist' book – one that powerfully highlights and celebrates the vital contributions of women to national development.
  This memoir traces Maluleke's journey through academia, his rise through the ranks, and the invaluable lessons he learned along the way. Woven into his personal narrative is a broader reflection on the South African experience, inviting readers to reconsider the history of the country – its villages, townships and even their own identities.
  Maluleke delivers unflinching analysis of critical issues facing South Africa, blending rigorous scholarship with a masterful command of diverse literary genres and writing styles. More than just a memoir, this book is both a tribute and a testament to the moments, places, and people – both celebrated and unsung – that have shaped his perspective. His incisive profiles of fellow university leaders are particularly compelling.
  Faces and Phases of Resilience will make you think, laugh, yell, and cry. More than just a personal memoir, it is the memoir of a country, a historical epoch, and a people – an invitation into the tragedy, beauty and hope that define South Africa.
  Forty-nine chapters later, the book closes with a haunting essay on the scourge of xenophobia, culminating in a chillingly titled reflection, 'The Day I Die' – an ironic foretelling of Maluleke's own death – that lingers long after the final page.
  A literary treasure trove for seekers of exemplars and of fountains of inspiration. It is an ode to resilience. – DR REUEL J KHOZA
  What a feast! – DR JUDY DLAMINI, Chancellor of Wits University
  Maluleke has the power and ability to engage a reader's senses ... Highly readable … – FRED KHUMALO, Journalist and Author

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  Rosalind - one woman did the...

  Jessica Mills

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  ONE WOMAN DID THE WORKTHREE MEN TOOK THE GLORY 
  ‘Excellent’ The Times‘One of the best novels I have read this year’ Iris Costello‘A luminous, pin-sharp portrait of a true trailblazer’ Zoe Howe 
  Societies are oiled with the unpaid, unaccounted for, work of women. It is the very glue that binds us together, and yet we are blind to it; a woman’s work remains invisible. 
  Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man’s world is to be invisible. In the 1950s science is a gentleman’s profession, and it appears after WWII that there are plenty of colleagues who want to keep it that way. 
  After being segregated at Cambridge, then ignored and put down in the workplace, she has no intention of being seen as a second-class citizen and throws everything into proving her worth. But despite her success in unlocking the very secret of life, the ultimate glory is claimed by the men she left in her wake. 
  Inspired by the true story of a woman so many tried to silence, Rosalind is a tale of hope and perseverance, love and betrayal … of real-life lessons in chemistry. 
  ‘A poignant, compelling novel that takes us into the heart and mind of Rosalind Franklin as she struggles for recognition in a man’s world’ Louisa Treger 
  ‘Loved this immersive journey into the life of a woman who changed the world’s understanding of what makes us who we are’ Emily Chung 
  ‘An engaging novel that intertwines the personal and the universal like braided strands of DNA’ Luna McNamara 
  ‘Rosalind paints a shocking and necessary portrait of institutional misogyny in mid-century science’ Nikki Marmery

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  Pandemic Diaries - The inside...

  Isabel Oakeshott, Matt Hancock

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  Matt Hancock served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2021, leading the UK government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the biggest health crisis the country, and the world, has faced for generations. 
   
  This unique book, based on the author’s contemporaneous records of those extraordinary months, candidly recounts first-hand the most important events and decisions as they unfolded throughout this unprecedented global emergency. 
   
  Pandemic Diaries provides the definitive account of Britain’s battle to turn the tide against Covid-19. 
   
  For the first time, Hancock reveals the crucial moments of the struggle to save lives and the race to develop the vaccine. The MP for West Suffolk gives his unique perspective on how the NHS rose to the challenge, recognising the incredible hard work and sacrifice of so many, and offers an honest assessment of the lessons we need to learn for next time – because there will be a next time.

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