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  Out of the Ashes

  Megan Norris

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  Healing the scars of the Bali Bombings – An inspirational story of an Australian mother’s journey back from hell and the enduring love for her children that gave her the will to wage her own war on terrorism. 
  On Saturday 12th October 2002, Australian nurses, Therese Fox and Bronwyn Cartwright’s idyllic holiday descended into their worst nightmare when they unwittingly found themselves in the midst of a callously orchestrated terrorist attack on two popular Balinese tourist nightspots which claimed the lives of 202 innocent holiday-makers and maimed and injured hundreds more. 
  Tragically, while Bronwyn, 28, perished in the deadly bomb blast which ripped through Paddy’s Irish Bar in the party precinct of Kuta, her good friend Therese, 29, crawled out of the carnage with such horrific burns that doctors believed she would not survive the flight home, and she was left on the tarmac at Denpasar Airport to die. 
  Fortunately, the single mum’s anguished pleas to be reunited with her children prompted a last-minute change of heart and on the urgings of a Balinese nurse, she was airlifted onto the last plane back to Darwin. 
  Back in Australia she was resuscitated and flown to Sydney’s Concord Hospital where burns specialists performed emergency surgery to remove debris and shrapnel from third degree burns covering 90 per cent of her body. 
  Therese spent the next twelve months defying such odds that hospital staff nicknamed her ‘The Miracle of Bali.’ 
  Now, twenty years after the Al-Qaeda-linked attacks, award-winning journalist and author, Megan Norris, follows the agonising road back to recovery and looks beyond the suffering and life-saving surgeries at the extraordinary courage of an ordinary suburban Aussie mum whose love for her kids has helped heal her scars and given her back her life.

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  John Lennon Nelson Mandela...

  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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  Glossy - The inside story of Vogue

  Nina-Sophia Miralles

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  Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone's house. But unlike other such makeshift projects that flare up then fizzle away, Vogue burnt itself onto our cultural consciousness. 
   
   
   
  Today, 128 years later, Vogue spans twenty-two countries, has an international print readership upwards of twelve million, and nets over sixty-seven million monthly online users. Uncontested market leader for a century, it is one of the most recognizable brands in the world and a multi-million dollar money-making machine. It is not just a fashion magazine, it is the establishment. But what—and more importantly who—made Vogue such an enduring success? 
   
   
   
  Glossy will answer this question and more by tracing the previously untold history of the magazine, from its inception as a New York gossip rag, to the sleek, corporate behemoth we know now. This will be a biography of Vogue in every sense of the word, taking the listener through three centuries, two world wars, plunging failures, and blinding successes, as it charts the story of the magazine and those who ran it.

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  Through Fog and Fire - A Journey...

  Jason Kearney

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  Through Fog and Fire: A Journey Between Nations 
  In this gripping short story, Jason Kearney takes us on a single day’s journey that will linger in your memory long after the final word. Set against the backdrop of Eastern Europe, this is more than just a tale of travel—it’s an odyssey through the raw, unfiltered challenges of life on the road. 
  When Jason and his companion Monique set out to cross the border from Romania into Bulgaria, they are met with obstacles that test their resilience, courage, and trust in each other. From corrupt officials demanding bribes to wild dogs pursuing him across frozen landscapes, Jason weaves a vivid narrative of survival, defiance, and the power of human connection. 
  A tale of suspense and heart, Through Fog and Fire is not just a story of borders crossed but of lessons learned and strength discovered. Poetic, reflective, and deeply personal, this short story is a journey in itself—through the fog of uncertainty and the fire of challenge. 
  Will they make it through? Turn the page to find out.

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  Toy Fights - A Boyhood

  Don Paterson

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  For fans of Douglas Stuart and Nick Hornby comes an uproarious, tenderhearted memoir of growing up in working-class Dundee in the 1970s and 1980s. 
   
   
   
  Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of "an infinite sensitivity to the world" (Zadie Smith). But his current standing gives few hints of his hilariously misspent youth. An indifferent student prone to obsessions (with girls at school and . . . origami), Paterson nevertheless made clear early on his immense gift for observation. In Toy Fights, he vividly re-creates the customs of the Scottish working class, from the titular childhood game ("basically twenty minutes of extreme violence without pretext") to the virtues of the sugary sweet known as tablet. When American pop culture arrived, Paterson fell hard for the so-called outlaw sound; by his teens, he was traveling with his father, a Stetson-wearing "country" musician, and becoming guitar-mad himself. A memoir of family, music, and highly inventive profanity, Toy Fights is an unforgettable account of the years we all spend in rehearsal for real life.

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  Silicon Valley Secrets: The...

  Bennett Harlow

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  Silicon Valley Secrets: The Ultimate Leadership Guide from Tech Titans 
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