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After an idyllic early childhood in Surrey, Linda's life descended into poverty and chaos when her parents' marriage crumbled and her unstable mother's sanity declined.

She experienced a brief period of comfort in a caring foster home before being plunged into the dark, terrifying world of a 1960s institution.

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The shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons.

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This biography will offer a seldom seen glimpse into the life of Elvis, tracing his family life, musical career, films, and legacy. This biography offers a seldom seen glimpse into the life and career of Elvis, tracing his family life, musical career, films, and legacy.

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Having left behind sauna where she was top girl, the author moves to London to start work as a stripper. But after one of other dancers burns her in back with a cigarette, she decides to try her hand at something new. This title offers true stories of what really goes on behind scenes in sex industry, including fetish clubs and swinging parties.

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Sent to an Industrial School in Dublin at the age of seven, Patrick Touher was forced into a tough regime of education and training, prayer and punishment, strict discipline and fearful nights.

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Jan Ruff O'Herne's idyllic childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended when the Japanese invaded Java in 1942. In February 1944, when Jan was just twenty-one years old, she was taken from the camp and forced into sexual slavery in a military brothel. This title tells about what she had suffered.

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Tells the story of a ten-year-old in top hat, cane and a red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's 'Get Happy' by an alarmed mother at the bedroom door exclaiming, in shame and exasperation: 'Son, you're a boy'.

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I warn society against the child who has been hurt
Peter Tyrrell

A tormented childhood in Letterfrack industrial school with the Christian Brothers left an enduring mark on Peter Tyrrell.

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First published forty years ago, Gentlemen's Gentlemen gives an insight into the golden age of service - a profession now almost completely lost.

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Doty examines the nature of AIDS as opposed to other illnesses, the responses of society, the frustration of medical care and the exhausting - and occasionally uplifting - burden of caring for the dying at home.

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This full-length biography explores the multifacetedand altogether fascinatinglife, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars.

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At just five years old, Dana learned that there was no one she could trust. For years, Dana and her younger sister suffered at the hands of one of Britain's largest ever-known paedophile rings. And their mother did nothing to protect them.

Only now is Dana's nightmare coming to an end as she crusades to put her abusers behind bars.

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The story of a 10-year-old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands, beginning with the very first night of her married life, and ending the day she slipped away during an errand.

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The satanic sex ring takes place around a quarry, near your friends house. .
If Only I Had Told is Esthers personal and very brave memoir that tells the truth about Orkneys 1991 satanic sex scandal.

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But when he arrived at Artane, instead of receiving the care he so desperately needed, he entered into months of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of some of the brothers

Now, for the first time, he feels able to tell his story - and reveal the devastating truth of what really happened in Ireland's industrial schools.

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One of the most remarkable stories of triumph over adversity that you will ever read.

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In 1998 John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft . Then a trip to Nepal inspired him to set up schools and libraries in the developing world.

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An Italian psychoanalyst and raconteur reflects on life and the common experiences that make us human. These ten essays tell stories from his life, from encounters with a Giant Caucasian Sheepdog and a martial arts master to a journey through a remote Italian village, and draws out the meaning of these experiences for himself and his readers.

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The final part of Helen Forrester's autobiography continues the story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool.