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  Me: Moir

  Vic Reeves, Kati Nicholl

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  Peopled with a wonderful collection of warm, wicked and weird characters, Vic Reeves’ memoir is an enchanting, surreal and utterly hilarious comic gem. 
  COMIC MASTERPIECE FROM ONE OF THE 
  BIGGEST NAMES IN BRITISH HUMOUR. 
  Vic, or Jim as he was known, grew up just like any other boy – terrified of his father’s immense moustaches, obsessed with owning his own crow and a master at writing his own name. Early brushes with evil prams, exploding model aeroplanes and consumption are soon swept away as Vic careers towards adulthood in this brilliant memoir of whimsical reminiscences and 
  flighty invention. 
  Vic Reeves autobiography is a bestseller that is not just a recounting of his life, but a hilarious comic masterpiece filled with a wonderful collection of characters. 
  For fans of Harry Hill (Fight!), Billy Connolly (Rambling Man), Sarah Millican (How to be Champion), and Romesh Ranganathan (As Good As It Gets).

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  One Day We'll All Be Dead and...

  Scaachi Koul

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  This program is read by the author. A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL MISERIES OF LIFEIn One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it's a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of flying while vacationing halfway around the world; dealing with Internettrolls, or navigating the fears and anxieties of her parents. Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of color: where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique, derision, or outright scorn; where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures, leaving little room for a woman not solely focused on marriage and children to have a career (and a life) for herself.With a sharp eye and biting wit, incomparable rising star and cultural observer Scaachi Koul offers a hilarious, scathing, and honest look at modern life.

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  The Story of the Unknown Soldier...

  Clara Greene

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  Never judge a book by its cover because no one knows what the next person has been through. Being an unknown soldier has its challenges. In this military memoir, the author describes how the wars of life did not kill her but made her stronger through everything surrounding her by God's grace. This is what the power of a positive mind can do.

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  Thunder of Freedom - Black...

  Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner, Cheryl...

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  A veteran of the civil right movement recounts the events of Freedom Summer in Mississippi through oral histories, personal reflections and photos. 
   
  The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists. Sue Sojourner and her husband arrived in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the wake of this historic time, known as Freedom Summer. 
   
  From September 1964 until her departure from the state in 1969, Sojourner collected an incredible number of documents, oral histories, and photographs chronicling the dramatic events she witnessed. In Thunder of Freedom, written with Cheryl Reitan, Sojourner presents a fascinating account of one of the civil rights movement's most active and broad-based community organizing operations in the South. 
   
  Sojourner shares her personal experiences as well as insights into race relations in the 1960s South, providing a unique look at the struggle for rights and equality in Mississippi. Illustrated with selections from Sojourner's acclaimed catalog of photographs, this profound book tells the powerful, often intimate stories of ordinary people who accomplished extraordinary things.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Alexandre Dumas, James Joyce, D...

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  The Top 10 – Western Europe - An Introduction 
   
  The West has often promoted itself as the crucible of democracy, civil society and the Arts.  The reality is far from that but its literature has, perhaps, more merit as a force for good.  Their authors use their talents wisely as they explore all manner of subjects with characters of literary brilliance. 
   
  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - Western Europe - An Introduction 
  2 - The Dead - Part 1 by James Joyce 
  3 - The Dead - Part 2 by James Joyce 
  4 - The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
  5 - Martin Guerre - Celebrated Crimes Part 1 by Alexandre Dumas 
  6 - Martin Guerre - Celebrated Crimes Part 2 by Alexandre Dumas 
  7 - The Force of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes 
  8 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 
  9 - The New Paris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
  10 - The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller 
  11 - War by Luigi Pirandello 
  12 - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee 
  13 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths...

  Martin Easdown, Linda Sage

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  Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone takes the reader on a sinister journey through the annals of crime in Folkestone, Hythe and the surrounding area. Along the way we meet villains, murderers and victims of many kinds, including cut-throat soldiers, a 'baby farmer', a Jack the Ripper imposter, two inexplicable suicides and five individuals who died violent deaths in the 'House of Horror'.There is no shortage of harrowing and revealing incidents of evil to recount, many of which will be unfamiliar to the reader. Infant murders were once so rife in Folkestone it was termed the 'infanticide capital of Kent'. This fascinating book recalls many such grisly events, as well as sad or unsavoury individuals who have darkened this otherwise pleasant corner of the Garden of England.

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