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Becoming: The No. 1 International Bestseller
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, now a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. A genuine page-turner, full of intimacies and reflections' Evening Standard, A polished pearl of a memoir' New York Times, A rich, entertaining and candid memoir. And...
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Root. Chosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity Memoir "A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny Letter, In the...
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God's Generals, 1: Why They Succeeded and Why Some Fail
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In  God’s Generals , Roberts Liardon will help you recapture God’s glory with compelling spiritual biographies of some of the most powerful ministries to ever ignite the fires of revival. Liardon faithfully chronicles their lives in this work, along with their teachings, their spiritual...
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
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'A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like ... It's an amazing tale' Bill Gates 'The best book I read last year was  Shoe Dog , by Nike's Phil Knight. Phil is a very wise, intelligent and competitive fellow who is also a gifted...
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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Hillbilly Elegy  is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has...
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Robert Sobukwe - How can Man Die Better
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"On 21 March 1960, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe led a mass defiance of South Africa's pass laws. He urged blacks to go to the nearest police station and demand arrest. Police opened fire on a peaceful crowd in the township of Sharpeville and killed 69 people. The protest changed the course of South...
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Long Walk To Freedom
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The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time. Long walk to freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, this is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of...
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Good Morning Mr. Mandela
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There are numerous books about Nelson Mandela, but  Good Morning, Mr. Mandela  is the first by a trusted member of his inner circle. In addition to offering a rare close portrait, Zelda la Grange pays tribute to Madiba as she knew him—a teacher who gave her the most valuable...
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Bernard Magubane: My Life & Times
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Born in 1930 on a farm near Colenso in Natal, South Africa, Ben Magubane would almost certainly have grown up to be a farm worker had his father not moved the family suddenly to the city of Durban following a clash with the farm's owner. In Durban, the family lived in the Cato Manor squatter...
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Ramaphosa: Path To Power
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Ray Hartley reveals how Cyril Ramaphosa pulled off one of the greatest political comebacks of modern times, and what lies in store for the new president as he embarks on a hefty clean-up operation of a country in shambles. Ray Hartley's bestselling 2017 biography, Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would Be...
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The BEE Billionaires: Redressing the imbalances of the past, or creating new ones?
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South Africa is in the eye of a slow-building economic storm: junk status, political upheaval, civil unrest, spiralling unemployment, state capture and the fallout from Covid-19. There is no better time to assess the impact of one of the biggest economic experiments in Africa that began a...
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The Power Of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom
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Britain's most authentically prophetic voice -  Daily Telegraph 'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.' From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in 1991, through to his death in November 2020, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks made an...
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I Loved A Girl: A Private Correspondence
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The spiritual vision of Trobisch's classic answers to love's questions is reproduced here in a new edition. It presents a compilation of letters between a German missionary pastor and two young Africans, one of whom is attracted to a Christian girl. The book offers reflections on love,...
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You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
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“ You Got Anything Stronger?  continues the project of unshackling. It’s soul-baring work.” -  The Washington Post So. Where were we? Right, you and I left off in October 2017. When I released  We’re Going to Need More Wine , the response was so great people asked...
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