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True Whit: Designing a Life of Style, Beauty and Fun – Whitney Port

May 18, 2012
Nafisah

True Whit: Designing a Life of Style, Beauty and Fun - Whitney PortTrue Whit: Designing a Life of Style, Beauty and Fun
Whitney Port

Fashion icon and MTV mega-star Whitney Port shares personal stories, beauty and fitness secrets and invaluable advice on everything girls need to know to start out their independent lives in style. Intimate, honest and funny, this is Whitney Port revealed. Whitney shares her philosophy on fashion, beauty, romance and careers, balancing it all in this conversational guide for twenty-somethings setting up on their own, something she knows plenty about…

MTV’s The City followed Whitney Port as she moved from Los Angeles to New York City and learned to navigate her new life in the Big Apple. From backstabbing co-workers and bitchy bosses to cheating boyfriends and a daring new career in fashion design, Whitney – the ‘everygirl’ – handled it all with grace and style. For the first time ever, through personal stories and private snapshots, Whitney shares the true reality of being an emerging fashion designer, including her creative process, sketches and fabrics. Beautifully illustrated with Whitney’s private photos, and with advice from her friends Lauren Conrad (star of The Hills) and Kelly Cutrone (The City), this book is everything a girl could possibly need to figure out what she wants from her life, and how to make it happen.

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How To Be A Woman – Caitlin Moran

Jul 3, 2011
Sarah

How To Be A Woman - Caitlin MoranHow To Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran

“Spectacular! Very, very funny, moving and revealing.” — Jonathan Ross

“I have been waiting for this book my whole life.” — Claudia Winkleman

“I adore, admire and – more – am addicted to Caitin Moran’s writing.” — Nigella Lawson

“Moran’s writing sparkles with wit and warmth. Like the confidences of your smartest friend.” — Simon Pegg

“Ever since I was eighteen I’ve wanted to be as cool as Caitlin Moran. Now this book has shown me how. Witty, wise and wonderful, this is an indispensable guide to Ladyhood. I laughed. I cried. I found out what my favourite writer calls her vagina.” — Lauren Laverne

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Inside WikiLeaks – Daniel Domscheit-Berg

Apr 4, 2011
Lauren

Inside WikiLeaks - Daniel Domscheit-BergInside WikiLeaks
Daniel Domscheit-Berg

An explosive exposé of the inner workings of the whistle-blowing phenomenon and the dissent and infighting that has rocked it.

This is the true story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks from the insider who lived it all.

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Cameron on Cameron – David Cameron and Dylan Jones

Mar 19, 2011
Rachel

Cameron on Cameron - David Cameron and Dylan JonesCameron on Cameron: Conversations with Dylan Jones
David Cameron and Dylan Jones

Just who does David Cameron think he is?

In an engaging series of landmark interviews that will define the would-be prime minister ahead of the next election, Dylan Jones finds out. David Cameron is asking you for the keys to Number 10 – but is he a smartly dressed smoothie with all the right lines, or a gifted politician who instinctively understands the country’s priorities? A throwback to the age when privilege brought power, or a dynamic alternative to a Labour Party that has run out of ideas?

Award-winning journalist Dylan Jones set out to answer these questions in a series of wide-ranging and candid interviews that will define David Cameron ahead of the next election – and for years to come.

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Dreams from my Father – Barack Obama

Mar 14, 2011
Sarah

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Barack Obama

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father’s life and reconcile his divided inheritance.

Written at the age of thirty-three, Dreams from my Father is an unforgettable read. It illuminates not only Obama’s journey, but also our universal desire to understand our history, and what makes us the people we are.

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Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter – Adeline Yen Mah

Feb 12, 2011
Amy

Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen MahFalling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Adeline Yen Mah

Snow White’s stepmother looks like a pussycat compared to the monster under which Adeline Yen Mah suffered. The author’s memoir of life in mainland China and – after the 1949 revolution – Hong Kong is a gruesome chronicle of nonstop emotional abuse from her wealthy father and his beautiful, cruel second wife. Chinese proverbs scattered throughout the text pithily convey the traditional world view that prompted Adeline’s subservience… Falling Leaves is an Asian Mommie Dearest.

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Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self – Joseph Galliano

Feb 8, 2011
Zoë

Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self - Joseph GallianoDear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self
Joseph Galliano

If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say?

In Dear Me, some of the world’s best loved personalities have written just such a letter. Dear Me includes letters from three knights, a handful of Oscar winners, a bevy of Baftas, an intrepid explorer, a few teenage pop stars, an avid horticulturalist, pages and pages of bestselling authors, a dishy doctor, a full credit of film directors, a lovey of top actors, a giggle of comedians and an Archbishop!

The letters range from the compassionate to the shocking via hilarity and heartbreak, but they all have one thing in common: they offer a unique insight into the teenager who would grow up to be…. Stephen Fry, Annie Lennox, Paul O’Grady, Jackie Collins, Fay Weldon, Alan Carr, Peter Kay, Debbie Harry, Brenda Blethyn , Jonathan Ross, Liz Smith, Will Young, Alison Moyet, Rosanne Cash, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Yoko Ono, Emma Thompson… to name but a few.

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Loose Girl – Kerry Cohen

Jan 12, 2011
Nikki

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Kerry Cohen

“There is a new boy I like. I see him every other day when our classes let out at the same time. He has long, dark hair and unbelievably beautiful eyes. Almost immediately I can feel the energy between us, the promise of something to come.”

Kerry first noticed the power she had over the opposite sex at the age of eleven. By the time she was in her teens she was obsessed by boys, and soon she needed sex just to feel alive. Sleeping with countless partners, Kerry’s misguided search for love was getting out of hand. But would she ever find what she really needed?

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