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Heretic: A Memoir

Heretic: A Memoir

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A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community. Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a...
When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable

When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable

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"Kenan is a master storyteller with extraordinary stories to tell. I wouldn't miss this for the world."-Leslie Jones When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode...
'What's Wrong With Me?': From Unravelling to Reinvention: A Midlife

'What's Wrong With Me?': From Unravelling to Reinvention: A Midlife

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'This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife' Davina McCall, author of Menopausing From the bestselling author of 'Mum, What's...
Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the spectre of polio

Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the spectre of polio

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Acrossmost of the world, an entire generation has lived free from the spectre ofpolio, but for fifty years during the twentieth century that fear wasoverwhelming. Dancing in My Dreams investigatesthe...
The Prison Book Club

The Prison Book Club

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Ten years ago Ann Walmsley was mugged outside her house in Hampstead. She suffered PTSD and for a long time afterwards was afraid to walk down the street alone. A...
Honey Blood: A pulsating, electric memoir like nothing you've read

Honey Blood: A pulsating, electric memoir like nothing you've read

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'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down' Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win...
The Man Who Returned From The Dead

The Man Who Returned From The Dead

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Hugh Glass was left to die. Attacked Whilst hunting in the fur-rich, Native American-held territory of the Upper Missouri River, Hugh Glass was attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear....
Punished: A mother's cruelty. A daughter's survival. A secret that

Punished: A mother's cruelty. A daughter's survival. A secret that

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The inspiring true story of Vanessa Steel, whose childhood was overshadowed by a terrible secret. Plagued by torture and abuse by both her mother and grandfather, little Vanessa was nearly...
What I Would Do If I Were You

What I Would Do If I Were You

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Re-issued with new jacket to coincide with the publication of Mandy's new title, BOYFRIENDS. Welcome to the wonderful, slightly-wacky world of Mandy Nolan. She is a stand-up comedian, an artist...
#OP No Way to Behave at a Funeral: A Tale of Personal Loss through

#OP No Way to Behave at a Funeral: A Tale of Personal Loss through

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This is the story of Noel who lost Maris, his beloved wife of 42 years, to suicide following years of struggling with depression. The abrupt ending of a life by...
Is it Just Me?: Confessions of an Over-sharer

Is it Just Me?: Confessions of an Over-sharer

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"You know what I want? I want to be able to have fun wherever I am. I want to laugh. All. The. Time. I want to have one holiday every...
A Chorus of Cockerels: Walking on the Wild Side in Mallorca

A Chorus of Cockerels: Walking on the Wild Side in Mallorca

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A merger in Anna's PR agency gives her more time to explore the culture and history of the island that she calls home (along with her 40 hens and cockerels,...
India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

India Uniform Nine: Secrets From Inside a Covert Customs Unit

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Mark Perlstrom is no stranger to money laundering, drug smuggling and crooked firms. In the early 1980s he started working for HM Customs and was quickly thrown in the deep...
Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood and Asperger's

Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood and Asperger's

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Me: 'Are you going to be a good boy this year?'Boomer: 'Uh huh. I have no interest in toilet humour.'Me: 'You don't?'Boomer: 'No. No interest at all. I mean, I...
Everest, Guns and Money

Everest, Guns and Money

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In the autumn of 1973, Chris Dewhirst was living and working in Yosemite National Park, and part of a counterculture group of rock climbers tackling some of the most difficult...
Dad's Maybe Book

Dad's Maybe Book

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Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humour, and rewards of raising two sons. "We are all writing our...
A Backpack, A Bear, And Eight Crates Of Vodka, A

A Backpack, A Bear, And Eight Crates Of Vodka, A

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Lev Golinkin's memoir is the vivid, darkly comic, and poignant story of a young boy in the confusing and often chilling final decade of the Soviet Union. It's also the...
Smacked

Smacked

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Smacked is the powerful, uncompromising story of one woman's struggle with addiction and her ultimate triumph over it. Hooked on heroin and crack cocaine, Melinda Ferguson gave up everything she...
5 Seconds of Summer

5 Seconds of Summer

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*** AUSTRALIAN BAND *** Take four cute, likable boys from Sydney. Add a heavy dose of rock, the fast, electric and fun kind, enhanced by powerful melodies that lend themselves...
A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France

A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France

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Three weeks into our hen ownership and there wasn't a single egg, there was nothing. Natalie's theory for this was that they were bored. Can hens be bored? Really? They're...
Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily

Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily

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You are a journalist. You should be writing on one of our great Indian papers, then you will really be starting to understand us.A chance conversation with her greengrocer about...
From the Mull to the Cape: A Gentle Bike Ride on the Edge of

From the Mull to the Cape: A Gentle Bike Ride on the Edge of

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Midges like damp areas, low sunlight, no wind and dark clothes (to land on, not to wear). So your best bet for a midge-free, summer Highland holiday is to don...
Second Chances: Facing my demons and finding a better me

Second Chances: Facing my demons and finding a better me

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A raw and honest story of alcoholism, recovery and courage in the face of loss Hayley Holt grew up in the public eye. Now it's time to share her side...
Just Yannis

Just Yannis

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The massacres of the Sierra Leone Civil War, the bloody struggle for liberation during the Arab Spring, the plight of the Kurdish refugees in the Gulf War and the ongoing...
The Road from Coorain: A Woman's Exquisitely Clear-Sighted Memoir of

The Road from Coorain: A Woman's Exquisitely Clear-Sighted Memoir of

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In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood-a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds,...
PossAbilities: A Creative Life

PossAbilities: A Creative Life

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PossAbilities is about finding the magic in whatever you do. Encompassing fourteen creative career incarnations, this grounded memoir includes bittersweet ruminations on uncertainty and trust. You'll find heartfelt inspiration to...
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

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One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "A tonic . . . Splendid . . . A respite . . . A summer cocktail of...
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm's Top

Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm's Top

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' Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL 'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITE On 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable'...
One of Them

One of Them

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Saving Bunji: The story of a girl, a rescued kangaroo joey, and the passion that led her to fight for change

Saving Bunji: The story of a girl, a rescued kangaroo joey, and the passion that led her to fight for change

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High Sobriety: my year without booze

High Sobriety: my year without booze

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The Boy Who Loved Apples: A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia

The Boy Who Loved Apples: A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia

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The Road to Lower Crackpot

The Road to Lower Crackpot

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Chasing Bohemia: A Year Of Living Recklessly in Rio de Janeiro

Chasing Bohemia: A Year Of Living Recklessly in Rio de Janeiro

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Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration

Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration

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Leaning Towards Pisa

Leaning Towards Pisa

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Deadliest Waters: A Story of Survival on Alaskan Seas

Deadliest Waters: A Story of Survival on Alaskan Seas

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You'll Die in Singapore

You'll Die in Singapore

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Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women

Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament's Working Women

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Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

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Dear Eddie: God, Turtles and Letters About Mum

Dear Eddie: God, Turtles and Letters About Mum

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Sugarbabe

Sugarbabe

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Bloodletting: A memoir of secrets, self-harm and survival

Bloodletting: A memoir of secrets, self-harm and survival

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