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My Father's Fortune: A Life.

Journalist, novelist and playwright, Frayn has journeyed back in time to rediscover his past which he tries to see through the eyes of his parents and others who helped shape his life. A searching and moving memoir in which he comes to see how much he...

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Nurse! Nurse!: A Student Nurse's Story.

A true account by Jimmy, a middle-aged man, who came relatively late to the nursing profession. While detailing his student nurse days and the different departments he worked in, he tells us sad tales as well as funny stories, and exposes the things that...

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The Pharmacist's Mate.

Publisher Description Named It Discovery writer of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Fusselman writes of her father's death and her own attempts to become pregnant, weaving in excerpts from her father's World War II journal written while he was a...

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In the Danger Zone.

Publisher Description In the acclaimed series, Cooking in the Danger Zone, award-winning food writer Stefan Gates eats fat-tailed sheep with Taliban warlords in Afghanistan, yak penis with Communist officials in China and UN subsistance rations with...

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The Natural Laws of Good Luck: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage.

Ellen was a divorced 46 year old living in a ramshackle farmhouse in upstate New York, and having little luck finding romance again. She decided to take a chance with her Chinese girlfriend's brother and despite their only speaking a few words of each...

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The Man Behind the Nose: Assassins, Astronauts, Cannibals, and Other Stupendous Tales by Larry 'Bozo' Harmon.

Harmon created the popular character Bozo the Clown. You know - giant shoes, bulbous red nose, big red grin, and spiky red hair erupting from the sides of his head. Bozo became a cultural icon, and was part of a huge TV franchise. The story of an amazing...

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Swimming with My Father: A Memoir.

Publisher Description Swimming with My Father is a piercingly honest account of growing up in the convention-bound 1950s. Tim Jeal spent his childhood torn between a worldly mother and a father who was a Christian mystic, conscientious objector, and...

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Nervous System: The Story of a Novelist Who Lost His Mind.

Publisher Description A few months after selling his first book to a major publisher, Jan Lars Jensen woke in a psychiatric ward, only to find that the ideas that had inspired his fiction now roamed through his waking nightmares. Gripping and...

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'We Ain't Got No Drink, Pa': A Little Girl's Struggle to Survive in the Slums of 1920s South East London.

Growing up in the slums of 1920s and 30s Bermondsey, Hilda Kemp's childhood was one of chaos and fear. Every day was battleground, a fight to survive and a fight to be safe. For Hilda knew what it was to grow up in desperate poverty: to have to scratch...

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Husband of a Fanatic: A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, and Hate.

Publisher Description Throughout, Kumar retraces the scenes of ruthless killings and rioting while reconsidering history, literature, film, and forms of popular culture, producing a fiercely personal essay on the idea of the enemy.

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Bits of Me are Falling Apart: Dark Thoughts from the Middle Years.

Publisher Description One morning in August 2007, William Leith wakes up and realises that something is wrong. He is not in a bed, but on an old mattress on the floor. He is not in a house. He is in his office. He is alone. He no longer lives with his...

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The Cassandra Chronicles.

Publisher Description Hypochondriac, neurotic, habitual sweater-of-the-small-stuff, Cassandra is one of life's losers. She counts it a good day if she manages to get out of bed. If someone should ask: what's the worst thing that can happen? She has a...

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Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer: A Memoir.

I laughed out loud while reading this - we are going through a flurry of weddings of present which make the trials of a wedding photographer seem very amusing. Her world is 'populated by stressed out brides and the mothers who reared them, grooms who...

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Rise and Fall of the Murdoch Empire.

When Murdoch won his battle for the'News of the World' in 1968, few people were aware of the true nature of the man. He was regarded as a gambler who was brash and unsophisticated, showing little respect for the establishment and British Royalty and...

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Please, Nurse!

A humorous account of her three years as a student nurse in regional England in the 1950s, in which she and her fellow students tested their strict Sisters' patience. The discipline was strict and the hours were long. They dealt with temperamental...

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Committed: The Adventures of PETA's Rebel Campaigner.

An offbeat memoir by the irreverent force behind People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which is one of the most effective and enduring pressure groups in the world. 'Aided by humour, luck and friends like Pamela Anderson and Morrissey, he...

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In the Thick of It: My Life in the Sierra Club.

He began working for what was then an outdoor club in 1961, fresh out of law school. He and the club grew together - he became executive director and built up membership to over half a million. McCloskey pushed for the 1964 (US) Wilderness Act and over...

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A Monk Swimming.

The author is the younger brother of Frank, who wrote Angela's Ashes. This is the story of his (Malachy's) hell-raising days in New York when he was seeking fame and fortune. Light-hearted, very funny it is 'the story of a life lived uproariously'. ...

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The Kiss of Saddam.

Publisher Description One woman's extraordinary story of life, love and her fight for freedom After growing up in a privileged and cosmopolitan Iraq during the 1950s and 1960s, Selma Masson is plunged into a world of despair and intrigue when she...

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Continents of Exile: The Red Letters: My Father's Enchanted Period.

The famous writer provides us with a memoir of his father, unravelling a family mystery which takes him into his father's British past in Simla, and the passionate, clandestine affair he had with a socialite there. A fascinating story, beautifully...

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Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir.

Publisher Description "A moving and emotional story about one girl's adoption"While growing up in an Indian orphanage, Asha Miro dreamed of someday being adopted. Her wish finally came true, but only at the misfortune of another. When Asha was six, a...

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Stones into Schools.

Publisher Description From the author of the phenomenal No.1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through education. In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks...

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Learning How to Breathe.

Publisher Description When musician Linda Neil returns home to Brisbane to care for her ailing mother, Joan, a singing teacher, she has no idea what she is committing to, or even that she is committing at all. The experience will change her life. ...

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Line of Fire: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Controversial Policeman.

He had a dramatic and distinguished police career and ended up the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. His policy on cannabis, his status as an openly gay man and his outspoken clashes with the Met over the mistaken shooting of Jean...

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