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  Harry - A Biography of a Prince

  Angela Levin

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  An eye-opening, monumental biography of Prince Harry by a veteran journalist on royal affairs who accompanied the prince on his royal duties for a year and was granted privileged access to his home in Kensington Palace 
  Once a reckless rebel and now a respected role model, Prince Harry is one of the world’s most popular royals and the force behind giving the British royal family a twenty-first century makeover. How has he done it? This insightful new biography is a three-dimensional look at what Harry is really like as a person, both on and off royal duty. It is written by distinguished journalist and author Angela Levin, who accompanied Prince Harry on many of his engagements and had exclusive access to him at Kensington Palace. 
  The book unwraps the real man behind the camera, and his own perceptive insights. It delves into his troubled childhood and the lasting effect of losing his adored mother—Diana, Princess of Wales—so young. It explores his rebellious teenage years and the key defining moments that have enabled him to face his demons and use this experience to help others who struggle with mental, emotional, and physical pain. Angela Levin found a complex man who has inherited his late mother’s extraordinary charisma and is determined to “make a difference.” 
  After finding the love of his life in Meghan Markle, and in anticipation of their marriage this year, this is an investigation into the real life of Prince Harry.

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  Planting the World: Joseph Banks...

  Jordan Goodman

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  ‘Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated’ 
  Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books 
  A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting – centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks – transformed the earth. 
  Botany was the darling and the powerhouse of the eighteenth century. As European ships ventured across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, discovery bloomed. Bounties of new plants were brought back, and their arrival meant much more than improved flowerbeds – it offered a new scientific frontier that would transform Europe’s industry, medicine, eating and drinking habits, and even fashion. 
  Joseph Banks was the dynamo for this momentous change. As botanist for James Cook’s great voyage to the South Pacific on the Endeavour, Banks collected plants on a vast scale, armed with the vision – as a child of the Enlightenment – that to travel physically was to advance intellectually. His thinking was as intrepid as Cook’s seafaring: he commissioned radically influential and physically daring expeditions such as those of Francis Masson to the Cape Colony, George Staunton to China, George Caley to Australia, William Bligh to Tahiti and Jamaica, among many others. 
  Jordan Goodman’s epic history follows these high seas adventurers and their influence in Europe, as well as taking us back to the early years of Kew Gardens, which Banks developed devotedly across the course of his life, transforming it into one of the world’s largest and most diverse botanical gardens. 
  In a rip-roaring global expedition, based on original sources in many languages, Goodman gives a momentous history of how the discoveries made by Banks and his collectors advanced scientific understanding around the world. 
  This biography of Joseph Banks, one of Britain's top environmentalists and naturalists, is a testament to his scientific prowess and his unparalleled contributions to botany. His expeditions, driven by a thirst for knowledge and discovery, have left an indelible mark on the world, influencing not just the field of science, but also technology, medicine, and even fashion. 
  For fans of Tristan Gooley (How To Read Water), Lucille Clerc (Around the World in 80 Plants), Peter Frankopan (The First Crusade), Colm Tóibín (The Master), and Sathnam Sanghera (Tonight the Music Seems So Loud).

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  Born to be a Footballer: My...

  Liam Brady

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  'A brilliant insight into Liam's life in football' - Kevin Moran'Insightful, often joyous, and hugely entertaining. I loved it' - Roddy Doyle'One of our country's great footballers, and definitely our most beautiful' - John GilesBeing a footballer was my destiny.After being expelled from school for playing football for his country, fifteen-year-old Liam Brady travelled to London to join Arsenal, and soon became an indispensable part of their glorious 1970s team. Rightly considered one of the Republic of Ireland's best-ever footballers, he went on to enjoy successes with Juventus, Sampdoria and West Ham, as well as managing Celtic and Brighton and Hove, and becoming assistant manager of his national team. Today he is best known for his much-respected TV punditry and searingly intelligent insights into the game he adores. Full of honest insights, amusing anecdotes and recollections of extraordinary times, with Born to be a Footballer Brady delivers a compelling story of a fifty-year career that is unparalleled in Irish sport.

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  Sufferings in Africa - Captain...

  Captain James Riley

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  In this classic true adventure story, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, is captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert. 
  This dramatic account of Captain Riley’s trials and sufferings sold more than one million copies in his day and was even read by a young and impressionable Abraham Lincoln. The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under the most harrowing conditions have rarely been recorded with such painful honesty. 
   Sufferings in Africa is a classic travel-adventure narrative and a fascinating testament of white Americans enslaved abroad, during a time when slavery flourished throughout the United States.

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  Survival California Guide 101

  Janella Kennedy

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  All praises to God and thank you to my family.  This quick survival guide will help anybody along their journey. I was always waiting for that perfect moment, but you just have to do it! Like a surfer trying to catch that perfect wave or the musician trying to listen for that perfect beat. I did procrastinate at times and life events did slow me down. I had a habit of starting several projects, but never fully completing them. I’m a creative and always thinking. I have improved in this area; this e-book is proof and hope you have enjoyed my work. I’ve learned through the years that you will always have trial and error and circumstances of life should not stall your projects. You have to train yourself to still work under pressure and distractions. Once you have mastered this critical skill, you will be unstoppable. In essence, keep your poker face on, stay upbeat, stay blessed, and just live out your life as you envisioned it to be.

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  Marcel Schwob - A Short Story...

  Marcel Schwob

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  Mayer André Marcel Schwob was born in Chaville, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 23rd August 1867 into a cultivated Jewish family.  
   
  As a child he devoured the works of Poe and Stevenson in French and then again in English.  His attachment to the bizarre and dark was already forming. 
   
  His education at the Lycée of Nantes earned him the 1st Prize for Excellence.  In 1881, he was in Paris with his maternal uncle to study at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.  Schwob quickly developed his multilingual abilities and then studied philology and Sanscrit at the École pratique des hautes études before completing his military service in Vannes with the artillery. 
   
  After completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1888 he became a professional journalist and worked for the Phare de la Loire, the Événement and L'Écho de Paris. 
   
  The 1890’s marked his establishment as a brilliant writer with the publication of six short story collections.   
   
  He fell ill in 1896 with a chronic, incurable intestinal disorder.  He also suffered recurring bouts of influenza and pneumonia.  Intestinal surgery was given several times, at first with success but, by 1900, after two more surgeries, he was told that nothing more could be done for him.  Schwob now existed on kefir and fermented milk. 
   
  By the turn of the century, despite failing health, and often too ill to write, he embarked on several long travels, including to Vailima in the South Pacific where his literary hero Stevenson had died.  
   
  Schwob was regarded as a symbolist writer and a ‘precursor of Surrealism’.  He wrote over a hundred short stories, journalistic articles, essays, biographies, literary reviews and analysis, translations and plays.  
   
  Marcel Schwob died on 26th February 1905 of Pneumonia.  He was 37. 
   
  01 - Marcel Schwob - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - Arachne by Marcel Schwob 
  03 - Spiritualism by Marcel Schwob 
  04 - The Mouthless by Marcel Schwob 
  05 - The Opium Gates by Marcel Schwob 
  06 - The Strong by Marcel Schwob

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