William Collins The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless. A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic Lamb Christina

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A story of poverty, generosity and worlds colliding in modern Britain • When Covid-19 hit the UK and lockdown was declared, Mike Matthews wondered how his four-star hotel would survive. Then the council called. The British government had launched a programme called ‘ Everyone In ’ and 33 rough sleepers – many of whom had spent decades on the street – needed beds.The Prince Rupert Hotel would go on to welcome well over 100 people from this community, offering them shelter, good food and a comfy bed during the pandemic • This is the story of how that luxury hotel spent months locked down with their new guests, many of them traumatised, addicts or suffering from mental illness. As a world-leading foreign correspondent turning her attention to her own country for the first time, Christina Lamb chronicles how extreme situations were handled and how shocking losses were suffered, how romances emerged between guests and how people grappled with their pasts together подробнее

Победа была близка, и Ялтинская конференция проходила в течение напряженной недели в феврале 1945 года, когда Франклин Рузвельт, Уинстон Черчилль и Иосиф Сталин пытались договориться о прекращении войны и стать посредниками в установлении послевоенного мира • В "Дочерях Ялты" Кэтрин Кац раскрывает драматическую историю трех молодых женщин, которые отправились со своими отцами на Ялтинскую конференцию, каждую из которых связывали неистовые амбиции и переплетенные романы. Двадцатисемилетняя Кэтлин Харриман была чемпионкой по лыжным гонкам, военным корреспондентом и дочерью посла США в России Аверелла Гарримана. Она выступала в качестве его переводчика и организовала большую часть конференции в мельчайших деталях. Сара Черчилль, актриса, ставшая офицером Королевских ВВС, была предана своему блестящему отцу, который, в свою очередь, зависел от ее проницательного политического ума

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Penguin The Gypsy Code. The true story of hide-and-seek in a violent underworld Woodhouse Mike

The Gypsy Code is a true story of secret identity, revenge and forbidden love that's perfect for fans of Running with the Firm, Undercover and Soldier Spy • Mike Woodhouse had everything: an engineering business, a wine bar, a home, a Range Rover and a boat. Then he caught a group of travellers stealing from his warehouse. A car chase, petrol bombing and court case later, and everything had changed • A marked man, Mike was forced to leave everything behind and move to the Peak District for a fresh start. But his old life was never far behind and when he fell for Rhoda, a Romany Gypsy, kin to the very people he was hiding from, he knew he wouldn't be safe for much longer

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Penguin Lost and Found. True tales of love and rescue from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

In the heart-warming Lost and Found, discover tales from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home that celebrate the power of animals to transform people's lives • We hear from the young boy whose Battersea dog helped him to deal with a serious autoimmune disease, and from a woman whose Staffie was the friend who got her through cancer • We meet the couple who were brought together by a Battersea dog; the man who took on a three-legged kitten which changed his life; and the former Battersea hound who became a search and rescue dog • Read these and many other powerful stories from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home. Lost and Found has something for dog and cat lovers alike, and is perfect reading for fans of A Streetcat Named Bob and Paul O'Grady's For The Love Of Dogs

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Harpercollins The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz. A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival Geve Thomas, Inglefield Charles

‘We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis’ evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to survive.’ • Thomas Geve was just 15 years old when he was liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on 11 April 1945. It was the third concentration camp he had survived. Upon arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau, Thomas was separated from his mother and left to fend for himself in the men’s camp of Auschwitz I, at the age of 13. During the 22 months he was imprisoned, he was subjected to, and forced to observe first-hand, the inhumane world of Nazi concentration camps • On his eventual release Thomas felt compelled to capture daily life in the death camps in more than eighty profoundly moving drawings

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William Collins We Were Dreamers. An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story Liu Simu

The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime • In this honest, inspiring and relatable memoir, Simu Liu chronicles his family's journey from China to the bright lights of Hollywood with wit and humour • As a child, Simu's parents left him in the care of his grandparents, bringing him to Canada when he was four. However, Simu soon senses that his new guardians lack the gentle touch of his grandparents, resulting in harsh words and hurt feelings between him and his parents, who find their son emotionally distant and difficult to relate to

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William Collins It All Adds Up. The Story of People and Mathematic Launay Mickael

From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. The story of our best invention yet • From our ability to calculate the passing of time to the algorithms that control computers and much else in our lives, numbers are everywhere. They are so indispensable that we forget how fundamental they are to our way of life • In this international bestseller, Mickael Launay mixes history and anecdotes from around the world to reveal how mathematics became pivotal to the story of humankind. It is a journey into numbers with Launay as a guide. In museums, monuments or train stations, he uses the objects around us to explain what art can reveal about geometry, how Babylonian scholars developed one of the first complex written languages, and how ‘Arabic’ numbers were adopted from India

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William Collins Self-Confidence. 10 Lessons for Life in the Age of Anxiety Pepin Charles

An essential read for anyone who has encountered a crisis of confidence • Where does self-confidence come from? How does it work? Why are some people more confident than others? On the surface, these seem like simple questions – but answers can feel hard to come by when we need them most • In this bestselling book, Charles Pepin brings to light the strange alchemy that is self-confidence. Pepin examines the role confidence plays in the lives of our most respected public figures including the likes of Madonna, Mozart, Frieda Kahlo, Martin Luther King and Serena Williams, and argues that above all, to live a life of confidence is to live a life of action • Drawing on the collective wisdom of philosophers, psychologists and the lives of people we encounter on a daily basis, Pepin invites us to probe the mystery and mastery of self-confidence

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William Collins End Game. Tipping Point for Planet Earth? Barnosky Anthony D., Hadly Elizabeth A

What happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or environment? Or the planet's biodiversity? What happens if these all become critical at once? Just what is our future? • In End Game, world-renowned scientists Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly explain the growing threats to humanity as the planet edges towards a resource war for remaining space, food, oil and water. And as they show, these wars are not the nightmares of a dystopian future but are already happening today. They explore the origins of Ebola in densely populated areas of south-eastern Guinea, witness raging fires in Yellowstone and Colorado and explain how drought-induced food shortages are already causing problems in the Sudan, Gaza Strip and Iraq

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William Collins Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Брайсон Билл

С самого момента своего основания в 1660 году Лондонское королевское общество оставалось пионером в области научных открытий и исследований. Это старейшая из существующих академий наук. Ее основой стало Братство, в рядах которого были такие выдающиеся ученые, как Чарльз Дарвин, Исаак Ньютон и Альберт Эйнштейн. На сегодняшний день его стипендиатами являются одни из самых влиятельных мужчин и женщин в науке, многие из которых внесли свой вклад в создание этого новаторского тома наряду с некоторыми из самых знаменитых писателей, эссеистов и историков • В книге Seeing Further рассказывается о достижениях Лондонского королевского общества, о его увлекательном прошлом, а также о влиянии на современную науку • Редактором и автором вступления Seeing Further стал Билл Брайсон

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William Collins No Boys Play Here. A Story of Shakespeare and My Family’s Missing Men Bayley Sally

В детстве Салли Бейли часто не хватало мужчин. Пропавшие без вести из-за алкоголя, или безработицы, или бродяжничества. Или пропавшие без вести, потому что из-за их поведения женщины не пускали их в дом • Человеком, который был рядом с Салли, был Шекспир, и он привел с собой людей, чтобы заполнить пробелы. Салли выросла в труппе печальных королей и одиноких героев. Ее разум сбежал из дома с Фальстафом и принцем Хэлом, с обманщиками, одиночками и гениями • В ее фирменном и экстраординарном стиле роман "Мальчики здесь не играют. История Шекспира и пропавших без вести мужчин моей семьи" - это история Салли Бэйли о ее детстве - о том, как она жила, когда темнота наступала на пятки, когда реальные и воображаемые люди сменяли друг друга, а травма была острым воспоминанием, которое нужно обходить стороной

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William Collins Exactly. How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Winchester Simon

Точность - ключ ко всему. Это неотъемлемый, неоспоримый и существенный компонент нашего современного социального, коммерческого, научного, механического и интеллектуального ландшафта. Предметы, которые мы ценим в повседневной жизни – фотоаппарат, телефон, компьютер, велосипед, автомобиль, возможно, посудомоечная машина, – все это спортивные компоненты, которые точно сочетаются друг с другом и работают практически идеально. Мы также предполагаем, что чем точнее устройство, тем оно лучше. И все же, хотя мы живем жизнью, насыщенной точностью, мы, когда задумываемся об этом, не совсем уверены в том, что такое точность и что она означает. Как и когда она начала строить современный мир? • Рассказывая об умах и методах, изменивших современный мир, Винчестер исследует фундаментальные вопросы

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Ebury Press Bitter Herbs. Based on a true story of a Jewish girl in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands Minco Marga

‘The evening the men came I fled through the garden gate…’ • The Netherlands, World War II • When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in May 1940 it's clear that life is changing for the girl and her family. Step by step, the Nazis close in on the Dutch Jews. But when the authorities finally come to the family home a split decision will have devastating consequences • Marga Minco’s autobiographical novel Bitter Herbs is a Dutch classic that has been translated into more than fifteen languages. This deceptively simple and profoundly moving tale is now reissued with a new translation by Jeannette K Ringold

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