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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved,...
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Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia Pope claimed it as a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a 500 hundred year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking new work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonisation of the eastern seaboard of America is fully examined, taking into account...
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Publisher
Portfolio Penguin
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
What do the world's best bosses do that others don't? Sydney Finkelstein has spent the last decade investigating this question, conducting in-depth interviews with visionary leaders including Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels, trumpeter Miles Davis, billionaire tech CEO Larry Ellison, designer Ralph Lauren, investor Julian Robertson and more. In this book, he reveals the techniques these luminaries employ to find, develop and nurture extraordinary...
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English
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Two single parents, Scott and Frankie, meet by chance. Their homes are thousands of miles apart: Frankie lives amid mess and chaos with her children on the shoreline of North Norfolk, while Scott's life is in the mountains of British Columbia. Distance divides them - but it seems that a million little things connect them. A spark ignites, one so strong that it dares them to take a risk. But fate has one more trick in store. There are some truths about...
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Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. The story begins with the arrival of twenty Ndongo people on the shores of the first British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of...
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