The first full portrait of Mark Felt, whose career with the FBI ranged from the end of the great American crime wave through the culture wars of the 1960s, provides a personal context to the "Deep Thr
Andy Garnett and his wife, the writer Polly Devlin, bought Cannwood Meadow in 1983. Realizing that this Somerset meadow, which has benefited from benign husbandry over many years, contains an amazing
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The mother–daughter relationship is one of the most rewarding––and baffling––relationship a woman may ever have. Books abound on the parenting of children, but little has
This book contains group exercises and mini-exercises for getting to know the lives of older adults, with the aims of building positive relationships, fostering self-awareness, and improving self-este
Bombshell, her first book, explodes all preconceived notions about the icon many have seen but few have known. From the deepest recesses of her shoeboxes comes this incredible compendium of photograph
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