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Being a Scot
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Sean Connery,Murray Grigor |
Summary:Being a Scot is a vivid and highly personal portrait of Scotland and its achievements. With Murray Grigor, co-writer, film-maker, friend and fellow Scot, Sean's personal quest has been to see… |
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Girl with a pearl earring
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Tracy Chevalier |
This book "centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. The appointment of the quiet, perceptive heroine of the novel, the servant Griet, gradually throws the household into turmo… |
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An Italian in Italy
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Beppe Severgnini |
A journey through Italy with foreign friends; 10 days, 30 places, explaining the country and its people, from an incomprehensible highway code to ordered anarchy in the office, from food to politics,… |
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Bombay Anna
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Susan Morgan |
If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Vict… |
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Kabul Beauty School
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Kristin Ohlson,Deborah Rodriguez |
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills--as d… |
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