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A powerful love story that touched the heart of the nation when it was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century.

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This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden's battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and realise her full potential.

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A heroine of the Civil Rights Movement tells the remarkable story of her life, her work, and what it means to be both black and a woman

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Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and Frank Lucas is no exception. At the age of six he watched his cousin die in a lynching and in that moment of Southern brutality, Frank Lucas, notorious gangster, billion-dollar-heroin importer was born. This title tells the story of this most notorious black gangster to ever rule the streets of New York.

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The astonishing story of an almost totally blind boy who parents refused to acknowledge his handicap.

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The daughter of Hugh Hefner's personal physician, Saginor was six when she visited the Mansion for the first time. It became her fantasy escape from the rules of her parents and structure of school. More than a peek into a sex-infused world, this is a candid exploration of a complex, confused, dysfunctional family set against the backdrop of the ultimate playground.

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'A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline . It is an investigation of memory, which concludes that Memory, I have come to understand, is everything, it's life itself' - Scotland on Sunday

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An intellectual biography of the cultural critic Reyner Banham.

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Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s.

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The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan's Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family's journey from a pushcart in 1907 to "New York's most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken chopped liver" (Jason Epstein, "The New York Times Magazine").

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An authorized portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet draws on Millay's intimate diary, letters, and other papers to capture her flamboyant and turbulent life.

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The shocking story of how exceptionally violent abuse turned one girl to desperate self-harm before turning her life around.

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What really goes on behind bars - the truth about life as a prison officer

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A memoir that tells how the author dated women, joined a bowling league, visited strip bars, retreated to a monastery, got a job in sales and even infiltrated a men's therapy group. It provides an account of what it is to be a man - and a woman - in the modern world.

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Jasvinder Sanghera, international bestselling author of SHAME, describes her life-changing journey to the rural Punjabi village of Kang Sabu - the village where her parents grew up.

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The improbable but thrilling story of how a Colorado farm boy built a navy, how a decrepit ocean liner learned to be a hospital, and how a boat load of volunteers are literally changing the face of the world ... one face at a time.

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The harrowing sequel to number-one-bestselling BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. A top 10 bestseller in hardback, Jenny and her sister Kim tell the shocking story of an abusive relationship, teenage pregnancy, and their brother's early death.

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"Sleepaway School" is Stringer's recounting of his years at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls--a school for kids at risk--and the events that led up to them. This is a "boy-meets-world" story, the chronicle of one child's struggle simply to be.

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Tells of the hardships of the author's early childhood: his time in foster care, the pain of being poor and black, his expulsion from school and the years he spent at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls - a 'sleepaway school' for children at risk.

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An urgent and timely manifesto on how digital currencies will win the New Cold War and the struggle for geopolitical supremacy in the twenty-first century.

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Smoke in the Lanes is the fascinating firsthand account of a bygone age of the Romani traveller way of life in 1950s England.

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In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This title tells the story of one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her life.