The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts - Sian Rees

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Reducere. A seafaring story with a twist--the incredible voyage of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold...

Reducere. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and t...

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Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

Reducere. He escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962, a young student named Joachim Rud...

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Reducere. WEREWOLF: The True Story of an Extraordinary Police Dog is the raw, first-hand account of the life of a police K9 named "Brag" and his cop partner....

Reducere. DescriptionThe latest book from bestselling author Paul Connolly. An uncensored account of his extraordinary true life story and his lifelong strug...

Reducere. A gripping tale of one of history's most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature In the searing July he...

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A chilling true story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by an increasingly disillusioned detective.

Reducere. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared. Only one crew member survived: a young lieute...

Reducere. The harrowing story of the ill-fated Endurance, now in paperback. In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and 27 men sailed from England in an attempt to...

A gripping untold war story: using exclusive new archive material, letters and diaries, this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment cam...

The remarkable true story behind Britain's only war crimes trialPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Neil HansonIllustration(s): 2 x 8pp colou...

The true story of the most remarkable escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall, from the creator of the acclaimed BBC podcast.Publisher: Hodder & Stough...

An Lasair (The Flame) is a colorful new anthology of over sixty poems from one of the most dynamic periods of Gaelic literature.

DescriptionThe journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eigh...

Reducere. Eleanor Herman, the talented author of the New York Times bestselling Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen goes behind the sacred doors of the Cat...

The shocking and amazing true story of the first female US District Attorney and travelling detective, who solved the case the NYPD had given up on.

Reducere. DescriptionFrom award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of B...

This epic autobiography will grip all whose lives have been touched by Jennifer Rees Larcombe, and surprise those who thought they already knew her...

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A fascinating and powerful memoir about growing up black in the Falls road area of Belfast during the Troubles in the 1970s and 80s, and a moving t...

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The inspirational story of a female pilot who led the way for women in space, written by an award-winning British journalist.

Reducere. She was considered the greatest warship of its day. The Stonewell's problem was finding a war to go to or even a navy that wanted her. This story i...

Reducere. DescriptionSybil Rides tells the inspiring true story of events during the American Revolution which resulted in sixteen-year old Sybil Ludington b...

Osnat was born five hundred years ago - at a time when almost everyone believed in miracles. But very few believed that girls should learn to read....

The international bestselling story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.

For fans of The Queen's Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport wi...

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Beginning with a survey of the recurrent topics in utopian writing - power structures in the state, money, food, sex, the role of women, birth, edu...

Reducere. The book "" The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg; An Account of His Life & Times, & of His Craft, has been considered important throug...

Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

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Reducere. As her biographer Sarah H. Bradford mentions, Harriet Tubman is at par with biggest names like Jeanne D'Arc, Grace Darling, and Florence Nightingal...