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Chronicles bureaucratic control over everything from the press to people's clothing in wartime Japan. This diary traces the gradual disintegration of Japan's war effort and the looming certainty of defeat.

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Bradlee offers this frank, funny, inspiring memoir of growing up with developmental and learning disabilities as well as his famously accomplished parents--a "Washington Post" editor and bestselling author. Illustrations throughout.

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Jon and his wife live in a New Jersey suburb with two perfectly behaved Labradors. Then into the mix comes Devon, who creates havoc from the moment he arrives at the airport, when it takes Jon, two baggage handlers and three police officers to track him down after he escapes.

Jon learns the hard way how to encourage Devon to behave.

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Although it would take time and deep, hard-won trust before any of Karen's alternated personalities presented themselves in her psychiatrist's office, over the next five years Baer would encounter seventeen distinct personalities, all of whom had been living inside Karen since she was a young child, shielding her from an otherwise unbearable life.

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Inspirational and moving memoir about a woman who survived the Rwandan genocide.

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Surprising Matron as well as herself, Evelyn Prentis managed to pass her Finals and become a staff-nurse. Encouraged, she took the brave leap of moving from Nottingham to London. This title offers an account of a nurse in action, that shows a nurse's life would always revolve around the comforting discomfort of porridge and rissoles, and bandages.

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'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.' - Small ad in the New York Review of Books

Jane Juska placed her ad in the New York Times and the response was overwhelming.

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The rest is history - Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm - but a history that until now has been known only on the surface.

A Soldier's Way is the powerful story of a life well lived and well told.

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This work is an often boisterous and poignant look at growing up Irish, Catholic and poor on the sidewalks of New York. Even as he dodges the slaps of merciless nuns and learns how to wallop a punch-bag, Smith is haunted by the spectre of his mysteriously absent father.

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Like most authors, Mark Twain wrote from personal experience, but, unlike many authors, he left behind a wealth of autobiographical material recording those personal experiences. His autobiography, letters, speeches, and notebooks contain many references to events similar to those presented in Tom Sawyer.

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An extraordinary, perceptive memoir of Spain and Mallorca by the daughter of the classic English poet, Robert Graves. As a child, Lucia Graves grew up near the beautiful mountain village of Deja on the island of Mallorca. Neither Spanish, Catallan nor Catholic by birth, she nevertheless absorbed the different myths and languages of her homeland.

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In her funny and disarmingly candid voice, Brisbane-born porn star Monica Mayhem reveals the ins and outs of making it big in Los Angeles, the pornography capital of the world. Absolute Mayhem lifts the lid on the sex, rock and mayhem of Monica's truly extraordinary professional life - and unveils the private person behind it all.

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Scottish aristocrat, rebellious youth, expert horseman, MP and poet - beneath the image of rake and hellraiser, Gordon remained a frustated conservative. A flawed hero, he was acclaimed as Australia's National Poet in 1933. Hutton examines him as a man and a poet against his culture and his times.

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He was our abusive father.
We were just children.
No one could know.

Heidi was 18 when she read her little sister Chloes diary, and discovered that they shared a terrible secret: they had both been abused by their father.

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Presents an account of the life experiences of an Africanist archaeologist. This title takes readers on a journey across the world, from his origins in a small Jewish community in Manchester to his adventures on archaeological sites in the villages of Africa before finally settling down to teach in Los Angeles.

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Alek Wek, supermodel, campaigner, spokesperson and entrepreneur, tells her amazing story, from war-torn Sudan to the catwalks of London, Paris and New York

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A memoir of growing up Catholic in Northern Ireland.

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Growing up, Kelly Denley had dreamed of the perfect family, and of being a perfect mum. But as the mother of eight descovered, almost perfect was actually perfect enough. This is the story of how she turned her life around, and stopped her family from falling apart. Australian author.

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The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.

No strangers to the demon booze, her parents were deeply involved in a passionate relationship that rose to exciting highs and plunged to terrible and often frightening lows.

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To his relief and surprise, however, Preece was fully acquitted by the court.

Amongst the Marines is an unflinching expos of the culture of the Marines, from foul practical jokes and rough justice to the off-duty orgies of drink, sex and violence.

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Previously published in hardcover by Dutton, 2013.

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