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Helen-Alice Dear was only fifteen when she left London to visit Bulgaria on a family holiday in 1937. Despite these hardships, Helen refused to give up hope and bravely managed to protect and raise her family.

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Helen was finally able to fulfil her dream of returning to her homeland.

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Ron Reagan celebrates the centenary of his father's birth by visiting the towns that shaped him to share both his own memories and a uniquely privileged portrait of a young "Dutch" Reagan.

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The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the Maguire Seven, wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA.

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Includes three additional articles by the author which were published in "The Electrical Experimenter" magazine and represent the breadth of his interests: "Tesla would pour Lightning from Airships to Consume Foe" (1916), "The Action of The Eye" (1893), "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy" (1900).

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A master filmmaker, inimitable, and unrelenting in his assault on bourgeois values. Like Pasolini, his work offers a remarkably sophisticated political analysis, but remains based in the essentially peasant values of storytelling, and the purposefully unsystematic supervisions of laughter.

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African American historian Gerald Early refers to Jack Johnson (1878-1946), the first African American heavyweight champion of the world, as the first African American pop culture icon.

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"My Life As A Black Gay Man" is a memoir of Randall's struggle with acceptance. His family abandoned him when he came out as a black gay man at the age of nineteen. He was bullied and made fun of, and he had no mentor for guidance. Mistakes were made along the way and hard lessons were learned, which has made him the happily openly gay man he is today.

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Spanning pre-deployment to combat zone, World War I to Vietnam, boredom to blood lust, roadside bombs to open mic nights, this book shows what it means to be a soldier and a human being.

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Then, in 2006, after half a decade of happy gardening, Terry's allotment was adopted by the Jeremy Vine Show and he became an unlikely media star.

In this absorbing and entertaining memoir, Terry documents how the valley has changed over the years, his own conversion to organic gardening, and the colourful characters he meets;

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In 1920, a baby girl was born at Table Rock Ranch in northern California. In My Little Shasta Valley, she tells the story of growing up north of Mount Shasta and the adventures she had as she, just like her mother and grandmother before her, fell in love with the land, the people, and the animals that inhabit it.

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Describes the author's own experience to launch a strong defense of America and American values at a time when he fears that his fellow conservatives are in danger of following the path of the New Left into contempt for their native land.

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A memoir of how a young woman descended into the world of prostitution and drug abuse, yet found the strength to rebuild her life. Rhea Coombs grew up with a hippy mother who always moved house and lived in a succession of squats and communes before settling in Bristol. In Bristol, Rhea had her first introduction to drugs, pimps and prostitution.

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One of the 'alternative comedians' who shook up light entertainment in the eighties and nineties, Arthur Smith (and Brian) is also a broadcaster, an opening bat for Grumpy Old Men, a West End playwright and a guest on many radio and TV panel shows. This memoir shows his days as a scruffy kid on the bombsites of Bermondsey.

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Witty and moving, this debut memoir in essays from the dynamic rapper and singer Dessa explores life in the van as a hard-touring musician.

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In this comic memoir with a mission, Decker defines his life of medical drama as a hemophiliac who has contracted HIV from tainted blood products.