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(Hardback)

By: Gerald Shea

ISBN: 9780306821936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Hachette Books
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An intimate and original view into the hidden world of deafness by an international lawyer who survived Andover, Yale, Columbia Law School and partnership in a prestigious New York law despite severe hearing loss not diagnosed until he was 34.


(Paperback)

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


(Paperback)

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.


(Paperback)

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.


(Paperback)

By: Jennifer Lauck

ISBN: 9780349115139
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
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.


(Paperback)

By: Lily Burana

ISBN: 9781860499340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 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.


(Paperback)

By: Martin Rowson

ISBN: 9780099502654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A few months after two of his parents had died, Martin Rowson had a dream about the house he grew up in which was crammed with tons and tons of stuff, both physical and emotional. weaving together dreams, family anecdotes and gossip, jokes, advice, history, smells, sounds and sights of the past.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Marsh

ISBN: 9780733330551
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Paperback)

By: Peter Alson

ISBN: 9780743288378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Atria Books
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(Paperback)

By: Dr Arthur Jackson

ISBN: 9780751547924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The entertaining episodes in the life of a young country doctor in the 1950s


(Paperback)

By: David Thomas

ISBN: 9780007256372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The inspirational true story of one man overcoming enormous odds including sexual abuse from his alcoholic mother to choose his own path in life and become a truly exceptional human being.


(Paperback)

By: Elizabeth Kim

ISBN: 9780553812640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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I don't know how old I was when I watched my mother's murder, nor do I know how old I am today.'

The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside.


(Paperback)

By: Shauna Reid

ISBN: 9780552162722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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A true story of a young woman who defeated her demons and conquered her cravings to become a weight-loss superhero to inspire us all.


(Hardback)

By: Che Rawick

ISBN: 9780837163130
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1972
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Marie Helvin

ISBN: 9780753824153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The candid and revealing autobiography of supermodel Marie Helvin


(Paperback)

By: Georgie Edwards

ISBN: 9780091951368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Yet Georgie wants to fall in love and start a family as well as have a career is this one dream too many for a woman in the 1950s

Warm and full of humour, The Best Medicine is Georgies fascinating memoir of her early years as a nurse and doctor.


(Paperback)

By: Helga Schneider

ISBN: 9780099443735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin.


(Paperback)

By: Eve Claxton

ISBN: 9780091908461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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From childhood through to adulthood - if not necessarily maturity - The Book of Life offers the literary journal of a lifetime, in the company of the most fascinating and talented figures in history.

From Alan Bennett's wartime childhood in Yorkshire to Mahatma Gandhi's experiment with cigarettes;


(Paperback)

By: Ken Sears

ISBN: 9781471113574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Paperback, Media tie-in)

By: Simon Carr

ISBN: 9780099547389
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Cornerstone
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When Simon Carr's wife, Susie, tragically loses her battle with cancer, Simon is left to raise his five-year-old son, Alexander, on his own.


(Hardback)

By: Elyn R Saks

ISBN: 9781401301385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Hyperion
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Saks managed to achieve both professional and personal success in spite of being diagnosed as schizophrenic and given a grave prognosis. In this memoir, she frankly and movingly discusses the disease, and the treatments that helped her to cope and thrive.


(Paperback)

By: Albert Einstein

ISBN: 9780691102504
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents Einstein's writings for the two-year period starting in October 1909. This volume concludes with the report that Einstein, by then a full professor at the German-language university in Prague, gave to the original Solvay Congress, the first international meeting devoted to the problems of radiation and the quantum theory.

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