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By: Phil Shoenfelt

ISBN: 9780091914233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Phil and Cissy go about their daily routine of sex, shooting up and dodging the police. For a while they have each other and nothing else seems to matter. But as their addictions worsen, money runs short and Cissy's psychotic ex-boyfriend is released from prison, their relationship begins to disintegrate into mutual distrust and loathing.


(Paperback)

By: Chris Crutcher

ISBN: 9780060502515
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Whether trying to impress members of the girls' softball team--with disastrous dental results--or enduring the humiliation of his high school athletic club initiation, Crutcher's recollections of the tricky road to adulthood is peppered with hilarious, heartbreaking, and unforgettable events.


(Hardback)

By: KSI

ISBN: 9781409161233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Hilarious, in-your-face guide to the online universe from the BEAST of the internet, YouTube superstar KSI.


(Paperback)

By: Dan Mathews

ISBN: 9781501199998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Atria Books
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A hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about a mother and sons outlandish odyssey of self-discovery.


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By: Helen Forrester

ISBN: 9780008180942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st December 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The fourth and final part of Helen Forresters bestselling autobiography continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool


(Paperback)

By: Eva Hoffman

ISBN: 9780099428664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This personal memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.


(Hardback)

By: Dan Vittorio Segre

ISBN: 9781870015899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
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Migrant by necessity, cosmopolitan by choice, Dan Vittorio Segre has truly had an extraordinary life. The present volume continues the tale, tracing the development of Segre's unique personality, which attracts him to ever-more eccentric and paradoxical situations.


(Paperback)

By: Diane Lazarus

ISBN: 9780099509622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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At the age of eight, Diane Lazarus first experienced the power of her gift by seeing, hearing and speaking to spirits. This book recounts how she first discovered her gift and how she came to develop it despite the disapproval and disbelief of many of those around her. It also explains how Daine used the gift to help other people.


(Paperback, Special edition)

By: Howard Marks

ISBN: 9781784705909
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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He was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him. During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence. This book tells his story.


(Paperback)

By: Kristina Jones

ISBN: 9780007248070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage.


(Paperback)

By: Alan And Irene Brogan

ISBN: 9780340976401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2009
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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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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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: 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


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By: Frank Lucas

ISBN: 9780091928674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2012
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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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.


(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.


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By: Linda Grant

ISBN: 9781847082695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2011
Publisher: Granta Books
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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


(Paperback, Main)

By: Emmett Grogan

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



(Paperback)

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


(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.


(Paperback)

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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