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By: Lyndsey Uglow

ISBN: 9780008466541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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I knew dogs could make a difference to the childrens lives. I knew it the moment I watched a little boy, exhausted by pain and sickness, stretch out his hand to touch my dogs paw, and thenhe smiled.


(Paperback)

By: Tony Long

ISBN: 9781785033957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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But in the spring of 2005, coming face to face with suspected drug dealer and armed robber Azelle Rodney, a volley of point blank shots would bring his career crashing to an end, tarnish his reputation and leave him fighting a murder charge and possible life sentence.


(Paperback)

By: Simone de Beauvoir

ISBN: 9780099914907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1993
UK Publication Date: 21st January 1993
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The publication of de Beauvoir's letters to Sartre caused a storm of controversy in Paris in 1990. Frank and uncensored, they show her experimenting with her freedom within her love for Sartre, and trace the emotional and triangular complications of her life with him.


(Paperback)

By: Nien Cheng

ISBN: 9780006548614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1995
UK Publication Date: 9th May 1995
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.


(Paperback)

By: George Dawson

ISBN: 9780812984873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Includes reader's guide with discussion questions.


(Paperback)

By: Adam Henson

ISBN: 9781785940729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd March 2017
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Without him, I certainly would not be doing what I am today ...

Like Farmer, Like Son
is a truly remarkable account of Adams life that explores a hidden family history and the unbreakable bond between Adam and his life-long hero: his father Joe.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Mansfield

ISBN: 9781400336913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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Join New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield as he dives into the incredible story of Abraham Lincolns spiritual life and draws from it a deeper meaning thats sure to inspire us all.


(Paperback)

By: Dan Jarvis

ISBN: 9781408710715
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A deeply emotional combination of grief memoir and soldier's story.


(Paperback, Main)

By: John Osborne

ISBN: 9780571196494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2004
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The single-volume edition of Osborne's two autobiographical works, "A Better Class of Person: 1929-1956" and "Almost a Gentleman: 1955-1966". The book also contains a review of the former by Alan Bennett entitled "Bad John", and David Hare's eulogy delivered at Osborne's memorial service in 1995.


(Paperback)

By: Kerry Cohen

ISBN: 9780306827150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Hachette Books
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While there can be clean beginnings, true endings are so much more elusive. Redemption isn't in endings, anyway. It comes from authentic consciousness, from living more fully and honestly inside our story, and making it a story worth having lived.
--from the Introduction


(Paperback)

By: Eva Hoffman

ISBN: 9780099428664
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This personal memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.


(Paperback)

By: Charlotte Mosley

ISBN: 9780340599211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1994
UK Publication Date: 1st September 1994
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Contains Nancy Mitford's humorous letters to her family and friends. Mitford never wrote an autobiography, but this collection of letters provides a portrayal of her life and the times in which she lived.


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By: Christa Parravani

ISBN: 9781786580566
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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'Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at motherhood, in allgothic pain and glory. I could not stop reading.' - Lisa Taddeo, author of ThreeWomen


(Paperback, Main)

By: Virginia Vallejo

ISBN: 9781786891051
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2018
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The shocking, sensational memoir of Virginia Vallejo, Pablo Escobar's famous lover. Soon to be the major film Loving Pablo starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, released worldwide early 2018.


(Paperback)

By: Martha Long

ISBN: 9781845963132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2008
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.

As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food.


(Paperback)

By: Martha Long

ISBN: 9781845964498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Aged 13, Martha Long is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather and her feckless mother. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to be sent to a convent school. Her initial relief at escaping the abuse and neglect she suffered at home is, however, short-lived. This is her memoir.


(Paperback)

By: Martha Long

ISBN: 9781780575414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Martha returns and when she comes face to face with the evil, psychotic Jackser, she can no longer suppress the nightmares of her childhood.

A suicide attempt sees her admitted to the 'mad house', where a hunger strike takes her even nearer to death.


(Paperback)

By: Martha Long

ISBN: 9781845967031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2011
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever.

Before long, Martha is on the way to leading the normal life she has so long dreamt of.


(Paperback)

By: Frankie Fraser

ISBN: 9780753554036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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And by contrast, he also opens up with personal memories of growing up in poverty, in London's East End, and the reality of having to steal food to feed the family.

Frankie Frasier died in 2014, and this rare True Crime classic is first-hand history at its most compelling.


(Paperback)

By: Christina Noble

ISBN: 9781848548428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The inspiring sequel to Bridge Across My Sorrows


(Hardback)

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

ISBN: 9781598537246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2022
Publisher: The Library of America
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(Hardback)

By: Rosalie Wise Sharp

ISBN: 9781770417120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 8th September 2022
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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The love story of Rosalie and Issy Sharp: love, loss, business, and family.


(Paperback)

By: Allean Hale

ISBN: 9780141189291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Long self-identified as a gay man, America's greatest playwright Williams' candour in his book about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself. Here, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed.


(Paperback)

By: Maggie Fergusson

ISBN: 9780007531769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Discover the true life story of favourite storyteller Michael Morpurgo, in this biography specially edited for children. Also features seven original Morpurgo stories.

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