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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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"An introduction to the life and work of the philosopher Jacques Derrida"--

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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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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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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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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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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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An examination of British Asian identity which traces the history of Asians in the UK.

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The sensational sequel to Papillon.

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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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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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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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The number one bestselling, heartbreaking childhood memoir of abuse and true story of the triumph of the human spirit.

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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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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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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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A raw, honest and evocative account of life as the most highly decorated serving soldier in the British Army.

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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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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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"Previously published as The gambler's tale"--T.p. verso.

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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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Among his tasks were developing the founding myth of North Korea, posing undercover as a South Korean intellectual and writing epic poems in support of the dictator, Kim Jong-il.

Young and ambitious, his patriotic work secured him a bizarre audience with Kim Jong-il himself, thus granting him special status as one of the 'Admitted'.

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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