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Life is a Joke - A Writer\\\'s Memoir by Rosemary Friedman
An optimistic, poignant and often very funny account of how creativity can banish the disagreeables that permeate life – ‘a sexually transmitted disease with a hundred per cent mortality.’
ISBN: 9781906413811
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 4th November
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Usain Bolt - Fast As Lightning by Mike Rowbottom
Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet – and one of the most popular athletes of all time. His dramatic world record-breaking feats in the 100 and 200 metres have earned him Olympic and world gold medals in the last couple of years. But what has endeared this young Jamaican above all else is his playful attitude and winning personality.
ISBN: 9781906413828
Format: B Format
Publication Date: 18 November 2010
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Carlos Acosta: The Reluctant Dancer by Margaret Willis
This is about a boy, a Cuban boy, who roamed the streets barefoot when he should have been in school, stole fruit from neighbours’ orchards, was always hungry and wanted nothing more than to be a football star, just like any other young boy.
ISBN: 9781906413712
Format: B Format
Publication Date: 24 September 2010
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Willard White: Rise Up Singing by Sonia Mills
His is a voice that makes the earth rumble, and for many of his contemporaries that is their earliest memory of Willard White – the sound of his voice.
ISBN: 9781906413446
Format: B Format
Publication Date: 19 August 2010
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Lord Bill: A Trade Union Miracle by Geoffrey Goodman
Lord Morris of Handsworth OJ is the first black man to rise to the top of any major British institution. When, in 1992, he became general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union – then the largest trade union in the country – it marked a huge break in the culture of British working class attitudes towards racial discrimination.
ISBN: 9781906413422
Format: B Format
Publication Date: April 2010
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1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall by Peter Millar
It was an event that changed history, bringing the Cold War to a sudden, unexpected end. Peter Millar was in the middle of it, literally: caught in Checkpoint Charlie between bemused East German border guards and drunk western revellers prematurely celebrating the end of an era.
ISBN: 9781906413439
Format: C Format
Publication Date: February 2009
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Barack Obama: The Movement for Change by Anthony Painter
BlackAmber Inspirations
Every now and again America confronts its demons, walks away from deep internal division, and strives towards justice.
Barack Obama: The Movement for Change tells the story of a visionary leader who refuses to be limited by America’s history and determines instead to change it. His plan for change is the latest expression of a movement for justice: a movement that has swept forward with the collective energy of great leaders like Martin Luther King, Robert F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black Mayor, and countless others who have bent the ‘arc of morality’ towards justice.
ISBN: 978-1-906413-23-1
Format: B Format
Publication Date: January 2009
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