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By: Josephine Duthie

ISBN: 9781780575193
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Four neglected siblings were taken into care following the breakdown of their parents' marriage. Sent to a small croft in north-east of Scotland, they endured an onslaught of physical and mental abuse at the hands of an elderly foster mother. For ten years the children's cries for help were ignored in the naive social-work climate of late 1950s.


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By: Patrick Touher

ISBN: 9780091925093
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over.


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By: Linda Greenlaw

ISBN: 9780143119562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Sharon Neill

ISBN: 9780752893587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The true story of Britain's most remarkable medium, told in her own words.


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By: Zara Gill

ISBN: 9780091946760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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'If you say anything to your mother, I'll tell her it was your brother. But at just seven years old Zara knew she could never tell anyone about what Hassan was doing to her.

For the next nine years, she kept the terrible secret, until eventually she found the courage to fight back.


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By: Barry Norman

ISBN: 9781784163426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: Howard Marks

ISBN: 9780099453932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career.


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By: Simon Parke

ISBN: 9781846041563
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The day I was appointed Chair of the shop union was the same day the Pope was elected. There the similarities end, however. For while his elevation took place beneath the fine art of the Sistine Chapel, with the mysterious white smoke rising, mine took place in the cold store, with nothing more mysterious than the bacon delivery.


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By: Jennifer Lauck

ISBN: 9780743476393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Atria Books
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By: Jonny Bealby

ISBN: 9780099414698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: Cornerstone
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While in Islamabad investigating the possibilities of setting up an adventure travel company, Jonny Bealby met the woman of his dreams.


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By: Elizabeth Bryan

ISBN: 9780091917166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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As a result of a genetically-transmitted gene, all three Bryan sisters, Felicity, Elizabeth and Bunny have had cancer. Eloquently setting Elizabeth's personal story against the universal fears, problems and worries that face those affected by cancer, this is an inspirational and encouraging read unlike any other on the subject.


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By: Helen Batten

ISBN: 9780091951771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Heart-warming tales of nursing and midwifery from the Sisters who worked with Jennifer Worth.

A seconds silence and then an almighty scream.


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By: Janet Walton

ISBN: 9780091959982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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On 18 November 1983, the author gave birth to the world's first all-female sextuplets. In this book, she takes us through the reality of parenting six children of the same age, the extreme sleep deprivation, the bottle-feeding, and later the chaotic routine of getting six girls to school on time.


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By: Rubina Ali

ISBN: 9780552776370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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She tells us how her co-star came to be covered head to toe in chocolate, and how she came to meet a tall pale lady named Nicole Kidman.


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By: Tim Bradford

ISBN: 9780091928773
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Tim is at that in-between phase between childhood and adolescence, where you are trying to be grown up and get your first snogs whilst at the same time still playing with airfix models and making dens.

Tim takes us through his first crushes, falling in love with the local beauty queen and an elusive Gallic beauty on a French exchange.


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By: Koren Zailckas

ISBN: 9780091905606
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The day Koren turned fourteen she tasted alcohol for the first time. At fifteen she was piecing together forgotten fragments of drink, men and misplaced clothes. This is the story of a young woman coming of age within a society that finds it easier to turn a blind eye to binge-drinking than address the problem head on.


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By: Pauline Prescott

ISBN: 9780007337170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A tale of Catherine Cookson-esque tragedy and Northern grit, Pauline Prescott's life story will shock and amaze.


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By: Da Chen

ISBN: 9780099453826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Cornerstone
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A memoir in which the author arrives in Beijing, armed with a dogged determination to learn English and familiarise himself with 'all things Western', he must compete with every other student to win a chance to study in the US - a chance that rests in the shrewd and corrupt hands of the all - powerful professors.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Oleg Kalugin

ISBN: 9780465014453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Basic Books
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A KGB general's impressively illuminating memoir of the final years of the Soviet Union


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By: Stanley Johnson

ISBN: 9780007296736
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A rip-roaring and hilarious memoir from Stanley Johnson father of London mayor Boris Johnson.


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By: Liz Jamieson-Hastings

ISBN: 9781869507015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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At 21 Liz Jamieson-Hastings she was a hopeless alcoholic; now she is a respected counsellor, decorated for her services to the community. Her inspirational story is one of privilege and social advantage preceding a spectacular fall from grace. Her hard-hitting story includes strategies for fellow sufferers and their families.


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By: Jennifer Lauck

ISBN: 9780349115139
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Separated from her brother Bryan, Jenny discovers that the past can never be truly locked away forever. Now the secrets, lies and loneliness that once imprisoned her are brought into sharp focus, where an adult Jenny can make her peace at last. But one more mystery demands her attention: the quiet troubled soul of Bryan.


(Paperback, ITPE Edition)

By: Annahita Parsan

ISBN: 9781400207510
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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There will be pain ahead, and trouble and problems that I wont be able to fix on my own. But in them all, I know God will be there, calling me to look to him. Inviting me to take the next step toward his open arms. And I will say yes. And yes. And yes.


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By: Lily Burana

ISBN: 9781860499340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Lily Burana accepts a marriage proposal - but first decides to strip across America. Lily looks at stripping with a writer's perspective. She takes the stage name of Barbie Faust. Her memoir describes the exhilaration that overtakes a dancer on stage - and the darker realities that assail her when she's out of the spotlight.

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