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By: Joseph Campbell

ISBN: 9780060972950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1990
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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In the tradition of "The Power of Myth", this is a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distils the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of this scholar and mythologist.


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By: Blake Morrison

ISBN: 9781783787654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Granta Books
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Blake Morrison's vibrant and deeply moving portrait of his father, and a raw, dazzling memoir of masculinity, family, and bereavement.


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By: Julia Scheeres

ISBN: 9780099493433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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All Julia Scheeres ever wanted was to have a normal, happy family. But with a mother who whose first concern is her church missionaries, and a distant father whose rare presence is resented by all and feared by others, home for Julia becomes a place of unspeakable secrets...


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By: Ziauddin Sardar

ISBN: 9781847080820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Granta Books
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An examination of British Asian identity which traces the history of Asians in the UK.


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By: Melissa Blake

ISBN: 9780306830426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Hachette Books
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Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank and illuminating memoir a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.


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By: Paul Monette

ISBN: 9780349105499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1994
UK Publication Date: 19th May 1994
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A memoir about growing up gay in America. From the 1950s through the rebellious 1960s to the self-creating 1970s, the author describes his life, and how he repressed his true sexuality until the day he met the man he feared he'd never meet.


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By: Amy Ellis Nutt

ISBN: 9781786490322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Becoming Nicole is the sometimes heartbreaking, always inspiring true story of a transgender girl, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey.


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By: Jenny Tomlin

ISBN: 9780340837924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2006
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The number one bestselling, heartbreaking childhood memoir of abuse and true story of the triumph of the human spirit.


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By: Russell J Rickford

ISBN: 9781402203190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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Biography of Dr. Betty Shabazz, the unsung and controversial champion of the Civil Rights era. A vital addition to the brooding and bloody Black Muslim saga, Rickford's penetrating biography portrays the exuberant yet tragic life of an African American heroine.


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By: Roxana Saberi

ISBN: 9780061965296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist working in Iran, was forced from her home by four men and secretly detained in Iran's notorious Evin Prison. This account describes the methods that Iranian hard-liners are using to try to intimidate and control many of the country's people.


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By: David Zagier

ISBN: 9781870015738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2000
Publisher: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
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Simultaneously humorous and tragic, this book is a memoir of Jewish shtetl life in Eastern Europe, before World War II, when life was ruled by religion and the Jewish calendar.


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By: Mick Flynn

ISBN: 9780753828045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A raw, honest and evocative account of life as the most highly decorated serving soldier in the British Army.


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By: Helen Forrester

ISBN: 9780008180935
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forresters childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s.


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By: Ken Perenyi

ISBN: 9781605985022
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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The true confessions of the most infamous art-forger in American history-a catch-me-if-you-can caper that reveals the inner workings of the art world.


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By: Jun'ichi Saga

ISBN: 9781568365046
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
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"Previously published as The gambler's tale"--T.p. verso.


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By: Julia Latchem-Smith

ISBN: 9780755316380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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This is the powerful story of a little girl's sexual abuse at the hands of the father she loved and trusted, and ofher triumph as a young woman in seeing him convicted for his crime


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By: Waris Dirie

ISBN: 9781844082513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* From the bestselling author of DESERT FLOWER and DESERT DAWN comes a new book. Waris Dirie reveals the shocking truth of FGM happening to thousands of young girls throughout Europe


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By: Jayne Sterne

ISBN: 9780755317998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A Secret That Can't Be Told. A Life Forever Ruined.


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By: Andrew S. Curran

ISBN: 9781635420395
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2020
Publisher: Other Press LLC
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A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who, along with Voltaire and Rousseau, helped build the foundations of the modern world.


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By: Saira Ahmed & Andrew Crofts

ISBN: 9780755318186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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This is more than straightforward misery. It shows us the difficulty faced by Muslim girls growing up in 1980s Britain; deals with the horror of arranged marriages and the fall out when it goes wrong; what it means to be alienated from those you love and details the trauma involved in being a prostitute who loathes what she does, whilst celebrating the freedom it brings


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By: Joseph D Pistone

ISBN: 9780340922651
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2006
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The incredible true story of the FBI's most successful undercover agent now reissued as a Great Read


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By: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

ISBN: 9781982136246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Robert Kanigel

ISBN: 9780345803337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2017
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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"Chronicles the life of a noted activist who wrote seven groundbreaking books, including her most famous, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; saved neighborhoods; stopped expressways; was arrested twice; and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates -- all of which she won, "--NoveList.


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By: Sara Holloway

ISBN: 9781862078574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Granta Books
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The pieces in Family Wanted reveal profound truths about identity, family, love and belonging

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