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Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector

Did you ever ask yourself whether you have lived before? Did you ask where or when? If you already believe in reincarnation, read this fascinating story from prehistoric Egypt about a previous life of the author that begins before birth and ends after death. This was the life of a priestess and pharaoh approx. 6000 years ago when Egypt was at its prime and the priesthood enlightened. It's an inspirational tale, and you cannot help wondering - why is our world not a better place?And if you don't believe in reincarnation - why not read the story and get to know a nearly Utopian society and ask yourself again: Is it really impossible that this did happen? And is it not possible that it may happen again? Memories of Joan Grant's historical novels from past lives and Elisabeth Haich's spiritual classic: "e;Initiation"e; come back to life. Joan Grant was the first to develop her gift of "e;far memory"e; into a form of reincarnation therapy with her psychiatrist husband, a therapy which is now popular worldwide.

The definitive biography of Johan Cruyff, the most influential European footballer of all time

An inspiring, all-American story from the former White House head chef, who made his way from a farm in rural Mississippi to West Point and a twenty-four-year military career, to holding one of the most prestigious culinary positions in the United States.

Boris Johnson, author of the international bestseller The Churchill Factor, explores the most famous British icon: William Shakespeare.

Record of Wilberforce's spiritual life

England Rugby Unions head coach gives the full insight into what it takes to be a great leader.

For readers of Anne Glenconner's Lady in Waiting or William Boyd's Any Human Heart, here lies a through-the-keyhole story of love, sex, war, tragedy and adventure that traverses the breadth of the 20th Century.

High above the shore of Loch Ness over 1,000ft above sea level lies a small community of scattered house, each with their own little croft. Blackfold and this is the place I was brought up in. A mystical place, miles from nowhere and full of ghostly tales and mysterious goings on. Each house had it's own unique, very special, very strange characters and as you read on you will meet them all. Each character had their own peculiar way of living on the crofts, a way of life long forgotten and faded away into the misty heathery hillsides. There are all sorts of revelations in this book from Ghosts to the Lochness monster. The hardships of living on the croft and I'll take you right up to the present day through all the changes that have taken place.

The beloved actress from Little House on the Prairie tells her raw, authentic story of growing up with a loving but alcoholic father and her ultimate success-despite her own struggles with self-doubt, alcoholism, and other self-destructive choices. She ultimately finds healing and redemption.

The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka's graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings

From Collins Classics and the author of 'The Great Gatsby' a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale.'Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.'Set on the French Riviera in the 1920s, American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of chic, living a glamorous lifestyle and entertaining friends at their villa. Young film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives in France and becomes entranced by the couple. It is not long before she is attracted to the enigmatic Dick, but he and his wife hold dark secrets and as their marriage becomes more fractured, Fitzgerald laments the failure of idealism and the carefully constructed trappings of high society in the Roaring Twenties.

On December 30, 2019, Carlos Ghosn became the world's most famous fugitive when the former chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance fled to Lebanon from house arrest in Japan. This political-judicial thriller describes in detail for the first time how the man behind Nissan's spectacular revival was arrested a year earlier and incarcerated for 130 days as part of a trap set by the Nissan Old Guard and the Tokyo Public Prosecutors' Office.

In The Pastor, Eugene H. Peterson, the translator of the multimillion-selling The Message and the author of more than thirty books, offers his life story as one answer to the surprisingly neglected question: What does it mean to be a pastor? When Peterson was asked by his denomination to begin a new church in Bel Air, Maryland, he surprised himself by saying yes. And so was born Christ Our King Presbyterian Church. But Peterson quickly learned that he was not exactly sure what a pastor should do. He had met many ministers in his life, from his Pentecostal upbringing in Montana to his seminary days in New York, and he admired only a few. He knew that the job's demands would drown him unless he figured out what the essence of the job really was. Thus began a thirty-year journey into the heart of this uncommon vocation?the pastorate.The Pastor steers away from abstractions, offering instead a beautiful rendering of a life tied to the physical world?the land, the holy space, the people?shaping Peterson's pastoral vocation as well as his faith. He takes on church marketing, mega pastors, and the church's too-cozy relationship to American glitz and consumerism to present a simple, faith-filled job description of what being a pastor means today. In the end, Peterson discovered that being a pastor boiled down to "paying attention and calling attention to 'what is going on right now' between men and women, with each other and with God." The Pastor is destined to become a classic statement on the contemporary trials, joys, and meaning of this ancient vocation.

This book tells the amazing story of one the Royal Australian Navy's most decorated officers. He joined the Navy as 13-year-old boy and served in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam. This is the story of the Navy during those dramatic years.

A fresh telling of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, the family that dominated political and cultural life in Florence for three centuries.

In Amkoullel, the Fula Boy, Malian writer Amadou Hampate Ba-one of the towering figures in the literature of twentieth-century Francophone Africa-tells in striking detail the story of his youth, which was set against inter-ethnic conflict and the arrival and installation of French colonialism.

A comprehensive work based on personal interviews and insider knowledge - bound to become a classic.

To this day, Beatrix Potter's tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. Respected biographer Sarah Gristwood discovers a life crisscrossed with contradictions and marked by tragedy, yet one that left a remarkable literary - and environmental - legacy.

A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to to find the truth about her family.'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest, curious and open' Menachem KaiserIt all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished, precious art collection.But the list drove her on a frenzied trail of research in the archives of the Louvre and the Dresden museums, through Gestapo records, and to consult with Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. What happened in 1942? And what became of the collection after Nazis seized her great-grandparents' elegant Parisian apartment?The quest takes Pauline Baer de Perignon from the Occupation of France to the present day as she breaks the silence around the wrenching experiences her family never fully transmitted, and asks what art itself is capable of conveying over time.