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The untold stories of mountaineering achievements and tragedies - an oral history of the Sherpas.

It's 1913 and a young, carefree and recklessly innocent girl, Mina, goes out into the forest on the edge of the Baltic sea and meets a gang of rowdy young men with revolution on their minds. It sounds like a fairy tale but it's life.The adventure leads to flight, emigration and a new land, a new language and the pursuit of idealism or happiness - in Liverpool. But what of the stories from the old country, how do they shape and form the next ge...

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1989. Ria Nachtmann hat ihre große Liebe geheiratet und sich als Spionin zur Ruhe gesetzt. Ihre Tochter Annie allerdings ist Teil einer kirchlichen Basisgruppe und will die Wahlfälschung der DDR auffliegen lassen. Da wendet sich ein alter Weggefährte vom BND mit einer Warnung an Ria: Die Stasi will den Aktivisten eine Falle stellen. Um ihre Tochter zu retten, lässt sich Ria unter einer Tarnidentität in das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit eins...

A momentous look at the private companies driving the revolutionary new space race, from the 3-million copy, New York Times bestselling author of Elon MuskIn 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. Suddenly Silicon Valley, not NASA, was the epicentre of the new Space Age. Start-ups and investors began to realise that the heavens - ungoverned and unregulated - were open for bu...

A momentous look at the private companies driving the revolutionary new space race, from the 3-million copy, New York Times bestselling author of Elon MuskIn 2008, Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. Suddenly Silicon Valley, not NASA, was the epicentre of the new Space Age. Start-ups and investors began to realise that the heavens - ungoverned and unregulated - were open for bu...

Vom Bau bis zum Fall der Berliner Mauer - das Finale der großen deutsch-deutschen Romantrilogie1989. Ria hat ihre große Liebe geheiratet und sich als Spionin zur Ruhe gesetzt. Ihre Tochter Annie allerdings ist Teil einer kirchlichen Basisgruppe und will die Wahlfälschung der DDR auffliegen lassen. Da wendet sich ein alter Weggefährte vom BND mit einer Warnung an Ria: Die Stasi will den Aktivisten eine Falle stellen. Um ihre Tochter zu retten, ...

Sound is explored through illustrated scenes showing science in action in everyday life

States of matter are explored through illustrated scenes showing science in action in everyday life

A helpful book for families affected by dementia." - CARERS UKI love visiting my grandma. We read together, play her piano, feed the birds in the garden and we love looking through her big box of photos . . . But when Grandma starts to forget who the people in the photographs are, Mum explains that Grandma is living with something called dementia. She says, "Grandma is still the person we know and love, she's just a little different now . . . ...

Sort the truth from the lies with the Fact or Fake series packed full of unbelievable, mind-boggling facts

Sort the truth from the lies with the Fact or Fake series packed full of unbelievable, mind-boggling facts

Scale at Speed gets your business over the hump of doing fine to triple revenue in two years.Unlike other business growth books, this is a how-to guide, matching theory with easily actionable steps.Scale at Speed has helped founders, entrepreneurs and business leaders: - Chart a clear route to business transformation- Build enthusiastic and talented support for your vision- Uncover your unique value proposition- Introduce processes and KPIs- U...

A searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the United States. “No one told me about America.�  Born in Somalia and raised in a valley among nomads, Boyah Farah grew up with a code of male bravado that helped him survive deprivation, disease, and civil war. Arriving in America, he believed that ...

Duke's Company actress Kitty Burgess has a stunning future before her - until she vanishes after the opening performance of Aminta Grey's new play, The Summer Birdcage. One of her fellow actors swears he saw her being bundled into a black coach driven by six black horses outside the theatre. Then no more is heard of her - until the body of a young woman is found dead beside the road in Hertfordshire. It appears to be Kitty, so Aminta and her h...

The Darkhaven Saga continues! There's a new vampire in town, and he's out for blood.

The day I took my wedding ring off for the last time - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched inside - my thumb at first kept on reaching across my palm for the warm bright circle that had gone. I didn't fling the ring into the sea, like women do in the movies, but a feeling bubbled up nevertheless, from my stomach to my throat: it could fling my arms out. I was free . . .A few years into her marriage and under p...

A piercing blend of memoir, criticism and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves - and how others might do the same.

In the spirit of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Roz Chast's Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a beautifully illustrated black-and-white memoir that empathetically explores a family's history with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and one woman's quest to find healing. Margaret Kimball's visceral graphic memoir explores the state and stages of a woman's life, including motherhood, marriage, divorce, and mental health. And Now I Spi...

Mitch Rapp confronts a very different kind of killer in the explosive new thriller in Vince Flynn's bestselling series, written by Kyle Mills.