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By: Granta
ISBN: 9781847081513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2009
Publisher: Granta Books
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A deeply thoughtful, honest and illuminating memoir about a phenomenon too often neglected in the contemporary world.
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By: Gregory Ladner
ISBN: 9781743798959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
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By: Vitale Lafaele
ISBN: 9781775542360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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By: Dave Pelzer
ISBN: 9781841883090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2019
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The unforgettable true story of one child's courage, resilience and unyielding determination to survive - this is the story that moved the world.
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By: Thea Hayes
ISBN: 9781760877156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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More fascinating and inspiring rural adventures from Thea Hayes, author of the bestselling An Outback Nurse.
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By: Margaret Ford
ISBN: 9781509891924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A heartwarming, moving story of a young girl escaping hardship and coming of age in the Second World War.
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By: David Jason
ISBN: 9781787465367
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th September 2021
Publisher: Cornerstone
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well, hopefully, at the very least you'll get to have a good old laugh at my expense.
So lean back, pour yourself a glass, and try not to fall through the bar flap . Offers wisdom in difficult times . like being invited into his living room' BBC BREAKFAST
'It's beautifully written .
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By: Dita Kraus
ISBN: 9781529106053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2020
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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From her earliest memories and childhood friendships in Prague before the war, to the Nazi-occupation that saw her and her family sent to the Jewish ghetto at Terezn, to the unimaginable fear and bravery of her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and life after liberation.
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By: Jill Baker
ISBN: 9780733642678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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A moving memoir of a dog dubbed Dirty Harry who helped a broken woman love life again.
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By: Melody Horrill
ISBN: 9781761067358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The compelling, heart-warming story of how a traumatised young woman found peace through her friendship with an injured dolphin called Jock.
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By: Caylin Louis Moore
ISBN: 9781400209941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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The astounding, against-all-odds story of a young man's rise from abject poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to the pinnacle of academic achievement as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford.
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By: Roanne Barnes Hautapu
ISBN: 9781991159168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Atuanui Press
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In 2013 the Hautapu family went through the extremely traumatic experience of their 7 year-old daughter Quinn being diagnosed with brain cancer. Quinns mother, Roanne Barnes Hautapu, has written a profoundly moving account of what the family went through, living at Ronald McDonald House whilst undergoing treatments at Starship Hospital.
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By: Mohsin Zaidi
ISBN: 9781529112207
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Originally published as "A dutiful boy: a memoir of a gay Muslim's journey to acceptance", London: Square Peg, 2020.
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By: Marius Kociejowski
ISBN: 9781771964562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Biblioasis
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By: Cathy Glass
ISBN: 9780008540845
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of something horrible, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to keep them safe.
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By: Ruth Park
ISBN: 9781925773385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Text Publishing
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The first volume of autobiography by celebrated writer Ruth Park, author of The Harp in the South, and winner of the Miles Franklin Award, theAge Book of the Year and the Colin Roderick Award.
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By: Jim Davidson
ISBN: 9781742235462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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I was written out of the family story. This book is my attempt to write myself, and my mother, back into it. In this singular memoir, historian and biographer Jim Davidson writes about his fraught relationship with his authoritarian and controlling father, whose South African background and time in Papua New Guinea and Fiji prompted his own post-war mini-empire of dominance.
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By: Kate Llewellyn
ISBN: 9781760292560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A deeply satisfying diary of gardening, family, friends, ageing and renewal.
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By: Noreen Masud
ISBN: 9780241994337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Helen Lehndorf
ISBN: 9781775542209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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By: Nuala Gardner
ISBN: 9780340934029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2008
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From the publishers of the bestselling BORN ON A BLUE DAY and MARLEY AND ME: the moving and bestselling story of how a devoted family dog helped free a little boy from the prison of his autism.
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By: James Bowen
ISBN: 9781473605800
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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As Street Cat Bob and James spend a cold and challenging December on the streets together, James once more draws strength and inspiration from his extraordinary cat - learning important lessons about the true meaning of Christmas along the way. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway as James, and Bob himself.
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By: Miranda K. Pennington
ISBN: 9781580056571
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Seal Press
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skillful and engrossing blend of the author's own coming-of-age story alongside her exploration of the Bront sisters' lives and works
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By: Olivia Potts
ISBN: 9780241380468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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