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By: Mike Pannett

ISBN: 9781845298111
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th May 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century.


(Paperback)

By: Torey Hayden

ISBN: 9780007199051
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
UK Publication Date: 6th December 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Dorothy Height

ISBN: 9781586482862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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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


(Paperback, Main)

By: Stephen Kuusisto

ISBN: 9780571196968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The astonishing story of an almost totally blind boy who parents refused to acknowledge his handicap.


(Paperback)

By: Jennifer Saginor

ISBN: 9780060761578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Debra Ginsberg

ISBN: 9780060004330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)

By: Nigel Whiteley

ISBN: 9780262731652
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An intellectual biography of the cultural critic Reyner Banham.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Emmett Grogan

ISBN: 9781590172865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Russ Federman

ISBN: 9780805242942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Schocken Books
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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").


(Paperback)

By: Nancy Milford

ISBN: 9780375760815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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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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By: Sophie Andrews

ISBN: 9780340937372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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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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By: Ronnie Thompson

ISBN: 9780755316663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
UK Publication Date: 24th July 2008
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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What really goes on behind bars - the truth about life as a prison officer


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By: Norah Vincent

ISBN: 9781843545040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2006
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Jasvinder Sanghera

ISBN: 9780340962091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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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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By: Jenny Tomlin

ISBN: 9780340898857
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2007
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Lee Stringer

ISBN: 9781583224786
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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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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By: Lee Stringer

ISBN: 9781583227015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Brunello Rosa

ISBN: 9781526675873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Elissa Wall

ISBN: 9780061628030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Alexander Masters

ISBN: 9780007200375
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Stuart does not like the manuscript. Hes after a bestseller, like what Tom Clancy writes. But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs, I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.


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By: Mark Edmundson

ISBN: 9780375708541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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In this testament to the magic of inspired teaching, an award-winning scholar offers a heartfelt tribute to his high school philosophy teacher, a man who was able to transform school-hating bullies into genuine scholars.


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By: Patricia Harman

ISBN: 9780807072912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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A 2008 Indie Next Pick

Despite nurse-midwife Patsy Harman's own financial and personal medical trials, including her private battle with uterine cancer, she devotes herself to her patients' well-being in all aspects of their lives. They, in turn, tell her intimate stories both heartbreaking and uplifting.


(Paperback)

By: Annabelle Forest

ISBN: 9781471136689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Colin MacCabe

ISBN: 9780141189598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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John Healy, the son of poor Irish immigrants in London, grows up hardened by violence and soon finds himself overwhelmed by alcoholism. He ends up in the grass arena: the parks and streets of the inner city, where beggars, thieves, prostitutes and killers fight for survival and each day brings the question of where to find the next drink.

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