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Kitchen Confidential meets Underbelly: The Golden Mile in this enthralling memoir by Jim Hearn, a working-class chef made good - and bad.

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An action packed, racy memoir that depicts a 23 year drug dealing career (never got busted) and all the unbelievable antics that come along with such a treacherous occupation. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll rule this raw and vulnerable retelling that spans decades and portrays the life-changing impact of the artists, filmmakers, and musicians on Buschel's life.

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A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.

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At the age of six Daniel Yamun Ukang fled in terror from his home in South Sudan when the Khartoum Government attacked his village. Forced to fend for himself, Daniel trekked more than a thousand miles across the Sahara to Ethiopia seeking refuge. Hinterlands of Hope is the real-life account of the challenges faced by a Lost Boy during the Second Sudanese Civil War.

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Few Australian writers have delved as deeply as Goldsworthy into the mysterious state of being that is childhood. Now he's applied his fascination with that stage of life to his own, from his bizarre first memories to the embarrassments of adolescence.

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It was published in an Italian edition of 2,060 copies in December 1948 and the first American edition of 4,000 copies, published by Harcourt, Brace in 1952, had to be reprinted almost immediately.

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An award-winning nature writer weaves natural history and personal experience into the dramatic story of the last days of six North American bird species. With a compelling blend of science, history, politics, and memoir, Cokino draws on unpublished photographs and documents to make these long-vanished birds come alive.

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In his remarkable memoir, Bridge reflects with acute perception and openness on a devastating young life. Struggling through the foster care system for 11 years, Bridge discovered that success in academia would bring him the escape he needed from the constant hell of his foster home.

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One courageous girl used her final wish to fulfill the wishes of 155 other children. When Hope Stout was diagnosed with bone cancer, the Stouts prayed for a miracle. The miracle occurred, but not in the way the Stouts expected.

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Luring, Exciting, Humorous, Educational - Bruno Tambellini takes us through a journey in his mind that makes us ponder, laugh out loud, tear up and read the wisdom of an immigrant who has lived a fulfilled life. A sweet portrayal of a man who worked hard, has more thoughts written than ever expressed verbally and reminds us all to hug when we can because it's more intimate than a handshake.

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With the same unremitting intensity he brought to Jarhead, Anthony Swofford describes his search for identity and meaning in the years after he returned from serving as a sniper in the gulf war.

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Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley looks back at the federally mandated racial integration of his school in 1966, remembering his own first real encounters with black children and their culture. The result is a true and moving personal narrative of race relations.

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The author has a major problem. He's about to turn 40 and hasn't seen it coming. He's not married, doesn't have a proper job or 2.4 children. But now, finally, it looks as if the world expects him to be a grown up. This book tells the story of how a self-confessed perpetual Big Kid deals with his greatest fear - getting older.

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A poignant, revealing and hilarious memoir about what happened when a former Playschool presenter (and brothel receptionist) woke up one morning in Munich four months pregnant, without a word of German under her belt, and surrounded by Bavarians! It's a tale about friendship, marriage and motherhood and how even a feminist can own a Dirndl.

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