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By: Juno Dawson
ISBN: 9781473648593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Why we are all being messed up by gender, and what we can do about it
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By: Alice Garner
ISBN: 9780522852783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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A memoir of the author's university years, which tells the story of share-house dramas, the entanglements and the debates which characterised her student years, and also describes the challenges of striking out alone.
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By: Pete Carter
ISBN: 9781775594338
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Exisle Publishing
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This is Us is a collection of over 200 interviews with New Zealanders, spanning the country, that reflects the diversity of New Zealand and its people. The result is a book that provides fascinating insight into the common threads that weave the fabric of New Zealand and, in the wake of the Christchurch attacks, is a tribute to the Kiwi spirit.
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By: Richard B. Pelzer
ISBN: 9780751536003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2005
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Richard, brother of Dave 'A Child Called It' Pelzer, tells his harrowing story of being physically abused by his mentally unstable mother -- the Number 1 Sunday Times hardback bestseller.
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By: Zana Muhsen
ISBN: 9780751543698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Moving true-life story of a young woman's 10-year attempt to free her abducted sister from Yemeni slavery.
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By: Sanam Maher
ISBN: 9781526607607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Debra Ginsberg
ISBN: 9780060522032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Willard Sterne Randall
ISBN: 9780060954666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Alexander Hamilton lead a short life but left a huge legacy. As the first Secretary of the Treasury he helped to create the American banking system and invent the modern corporation. He lived through the American Revolution, went on to build a successful legal career and build a life in politics.
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By: Andy Seed
ISBN: 9780755362226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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The concluding volume in Andy's trilogy about his life as a young teacher in the Yorkshire Dales.
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By: Andy Seed
ISBN: 9780755362189
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A yearon fromthe end of ALL TEACHERS GREAT AND SMALL, Barbara and Andy Seed are settled into their Yorkshire Dales village, but at school trouble arrives for Andy in the form of nine-year-old Sheena.
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By: Jon Roberts
ISBN: 9780091949419
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The best crime book since Wiseguy Rich Cohen
A real-life Scarface, Jon was born into the Gambino Mafia family and witnessed his first murder aged seven.
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By: Marie Fleming
ISBN: 9781444791228
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Salmon
ISBN: 9781788732802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Verso Books
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Philosopher, film star, father of 'post truth': the real story of Jacques Derrida
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By: Peter Salmon
ISBN: 9781788732819
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Verso Books
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"An introduction to the life and work of the philosopher Jacques Derrida"--
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By: Brian Keenan
ISBN: 9780099990307
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1993
UK Publication Date: 15th April 1993
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years.
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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: Colin Grant
ISBN: 9780099552390
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, but now his wife Blossom has set her heart on her sons going to private school and she will not settle for anything less.
This is the story of a father seen through the eyes of his ten-year-old son.
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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: Henri Charrire
ISBN: 9780586040102
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1991
UK Publication Date: 5th December 1991
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The sensational sequel to Papillon.
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By: Richard Beard
ISBN: 9780099507734
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A brave and intelligent book Daily Telegraph
An unforgettable memoir about gender, journeys and enduring friendship
For years Richard Beard would take spontaneous holidays with his motor-cycling friend Drew.
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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.
