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Tells the story of James Boyle's close friendship, in his teens, with James Lafferty, who joined his class at the local grammar school. This friendship allowed John and Laff to escape from the harshness of their lives in the worst housing scheme in the West of Scotland - as well as from the pariah status this conferred on them at school.

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What are the things we live for What matters most in life when your time is short This brave, frank and heartbreaking book shows what it means to die before your time; how to take charge of your life and fill it with wonder, hope and joy even in the face of tragedy.

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In pursuit of the answers to these questions - and more - writer and comedy obsessive, Steven Jacobi has set himself a horrifying task: to perform as a stand-up comic in six comedy clubs around Britain.

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The posthumous memoirs of one of America's greatest lawyers offers a provocative look inside his high-profile, high-stakes practice and at the progress of law and politics over the last half-century

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"Tony Wagner is an eminent education specialist: he's taught at Harvard and MIT, done significant work for the Gates Foundation, and speaks across the country and all over the world. But before he found his success, Tony was kicked out of middle school, expelled from high school, and dropped out of two colleges. [This] is his ... account of his years as a student and teacher"--

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It was to take a near-psychotic event to finally get him to clean up.

With graphic descriptions of life on crystal meth - the insatiable sex drive, the paranoia, the desperate need for more drugs to sustain the high - James' writing mimics the emotional detachment of the drug and the wired yet aimless life it induces.

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Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one woman's lifetime struggle to overcome a dark secret buried in her childhood.

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Beck Weathers went snow-blind in the Death Zone below the summit and who spent a night out in the open during a blizzard that took the lives of a dozen colleagues and friends .Even as he staggered back into Camp 4 the next morning, Beck's condition was such that the other survivors assumed he would not make it back down the mountain.

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Superbly readable and revealing letters, full of malice and gossip, from a master historian

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When Lisa Williams was four years old, she discovered she had a gift: communicating with those who are no longer with us. Since those first experiences, Lisa has seen and communicated with thousands of people who have passed over. This is the story of Lisa's development into one of the world's most accurate, respected, and popular mediums.

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From the heady days of her Miss Universe win to the tragic death of her soulmate Martin Crowe, Lorraine Downes' life has been full of highs and lows.

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A powerful story about family and adoption, and the tensions and joys between the old world of Europe and the new world of Australia.

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These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; Little Wilson and Big God moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling Burgess's time as an education officer in the tropics, his tempestuous first marriage, his struggles with Catholicism and the beginning of his prolific writing life.

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The author goes in search of his old childhood haunts and instead finds an England changed beyond recognition. This book takes you on a poignant journey to a time and a place we will never see again.

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A personal journey into Africa's past.

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An extraordinary memoir from a man in his nineties who remembers everyday life in a North London now long gone: the hardships and deprivations of a life of poverty but also the resourcefulness and fortitude of a community determined to survive between the wars.

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From the time he was three or four, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, much to his distress, and by the time he was a teenager his odd habits, such as a tendency to blurt out non sequiturs, had earned him the label 'social deviant'.

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As he came to terms with his injury, treatment and rehabilitation, Tim faced an entirely new life, in which suddenly many of life's simplest tasks became monumental challenges.