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Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An
The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale...
Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break out of
Among the 600 foreigners jailed in the 'Bangkok Hilton', one man resolves to do what no other has done: Escape. This is the true story of drug smuggler David McMillan's...
Trust No One: One girl's harrowing and disturbing tale of
Thrust into care at six months of age because of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, Teresa Cooper's life began in a less than perfect way. Little did she...
Do They Hear You When You Cry
Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from...
A Life Inside: A Prisoner's Notebook
Nineteen years ago, Erwin James was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was in his twenties. Over the past three years, he has written powerfully about...
Autobiography of Martin Luther King
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr. himself, this astounding autobiography brings to life a remarkable man changed the world --and still inspires the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all....
Forever Family: A Story of Adoption
John Houghton and his wife - middle class, highly educated, well-travelled - learned that they could not have children of their own. Instead they adopted three siblings, two boys and...
Nothing Green: The Sequel to the Bestselling 'Evelyn'
After the heady days of the trial which released her from the care of the State Industrial schools and succeeded in changing the law, Evelyn returns to the same grinding...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'No, I don't hate being black. I'm just tired of saying it's beautiful. No, I don't hate myself. I'm just tired...
My Fathers' Daughter
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A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time. What a story. So...
Daring to Drive: A gripping account of one woman's home-grown courage
THE STORY OF THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED CHANGE WITH HER CALL FOR GREATER FREEDOMS FOR WOMEN. FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2018 UN PEACE PRIZE THE GUARDIAN: 'MANAL AL-SHARIF BECAME...
One Step Beyond
Chris Moon knows about tough' - The Times 'This man is a hero for our times' - Daily Mail While supervising mine-clearance in Mozamique in 1995, Chris Moon was blown...
Beyond the Red Door
Janet Shaw was adopted as a baby. At thirteen months, she was diagnosed as having an inherited condition - a malignant cancer called retinoblastoma. While she was still a baby,...
Drinking: A Love Story
The book titled Drinking: A Love Story by the author Caroline Knapp. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
An Unseemly Man
This autobiography details the story of Larry Flynt's rise from small town beginnings to become one of the richest men in America, owning a string of nightclubs, sex outlets and,...
Family Wanted: Adoption Stories
Family has always been fertile ground for writers. To the usual familial themes, adoption adds its own potent elements: mystery, luck, the questing for origins, the yearning for a child,...
Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, and Survival
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On the outside, she appears to have it all. She's creative, beautiful, confident. But inside Victoria Leatham struggles with silent, secret, and unbearable pain. In her late teens, Leatham is...
Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad
Sunday Times bestseller (over 7k copies TCM in 5 months) by leading generation expert on why work isn't working and how parental support shapes our lives, for fans of bestselling...
Inspiring Men of the Faith
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Ratchet up your faith with these riveting accounts of four mighty Christian men. Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on a cathedral door and sparked the fire of the German...
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace
In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the American Marines, and he sought...
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Roots' 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018 "A writer to be reckoned with." -Roxane Gay Named one of the Most Anticipated...
Seeking Rapture: A Memoir
Now a mother herself, Harrison has written a memoir about the ties that bind mothers to their children - and the forces that can drive them apart. She reveals the...
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free
Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings, and listens as the men and women he works with...
The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice
An astonishing story of bravery and honour: One man's quest-against incredible odds-to make a stand against crime...and to uncover the painful truths of his own background. From the sagging row...
Desert Dawn
Now in B format. I wanted to return to the place where I was born and see it with new eyes. I had no idea where my family was in...
Straight Up and Dirty
When Stephanie Klein hit her twenty-fourth birthday she thought she had everything she could possibly have wanted from life- A good job, a succesful husband, a Manhattan apartment and a...
My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill's travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through...
The Other Side of the Dale
Gervase Phinn - "your name sounds like a brand of French yoghurt" he is told - is appointed as school inspector in North Yorkshire, visiting schools in and around the...
Bridge Across My Sorrows
On the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, the destitute children swarm and the rich turn a blind eye. To these needy children "Mama Tina" has become an irrepressible, unorthodox...
Back on the Block: Bill Simon's Story
Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn't want him that he was 'the...
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
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Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. Queen Noor of Jordan provides a compelling portrait of her...
A Promise To Nadia
Ten years ago Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son,...
Criminal
When Caspar Walsh was three years old his mother rejected him in favour of a boyfriend. His father became his primary carer. But Caspar's father robbed banks. He dealt drugs...
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...
The Lonely Margins of the Sea
The Lonely Margins of the Sea was runner up to the Duetz Medal for Fiction at the 1999 Montana book awards. Stephanie is visiting her cousin Louise, who has had...
Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture
In Rabelais's tale, the giant prince Gargantua is a vast and inescapable cluster of qualities and activities; his violence, greed and incontinence are incomparable. In the old giant's size, ubiquity,...
Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths
A rare and extraordinary glimpse into the reality of life in North Korea, by a member of the powerful elite SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER Dear Leader contains astonishing new...
Runaway: Wild Child, Working Girl, Survivor
Beaten by her mother and whipped by her stepfather, Emily eventually finds her way into the care system at the age of twelve, and has an abortion after being gang-raped...
Adventures with Barefoot Critters
Fans of the adorable characters in The Quiet Book will love this seasonal romp through the alphabet. Will have definite trade and gift appeal due to Teagan White's sweet anthropomorphic...
Next Stop Execution
Oleg Gordievsky was the highest-ranking KGB officer working in Britain in the heart of the Soviet system. His escape, meticulously planned and executed with the help of the British, is...
Waltzing Matilda Meets Lazy Jack
In this book you will meet the characters who roam our mythical landscape - the pioneers, adventurers and dreamers, and the stories they tell. This collection introduces some of our...
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
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"In loving yet unsentimental prose, Sy Montgomery captures the richness that animals bring to the human experience. Sometimes it takes a too-smart-for-his-own-good pig to open our eyes to what most...
The Formula: The Sensational 40-30-30 Fat Burning Nutrition Programme
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A Matter Of Blood: The Dog-Faced Gods Book One
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The Little Prisoner: How a childhood was stolen and a trust betrayed
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