Broken by Lisa Jones
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Writer Lisa Jones went to Wyoming for a four-day magazine assignment. She was committed to a long-term relationship, building a career, and searching for something she could not name. At a dusty corral on the Wind River Indian Reservation, she met Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho who seemed to tran ...Show more
Scandalous Freddie McEvoy by Frank Walker
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Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected Nazi agent who died a mysterious death - this is the fascinating story of the scandalous Freddie McEvoy. Born in Melbourne in 1907, Freddie's life took him from socialising with a young Errol F ...Show more
Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
Barry Jones' Dictionary of Word Biography by Barry Jones
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There is no other book to turn to for a comprehensive guide to history's biggest names including, to name just a few... Homer, Julius Caesar, Jesus, Christopher Columbus, Michelangelo, William Shakespeare, J S Bach, Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong. And ...Show more
Debrett's : A Modern Royal Marriage by Debrett s
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Debrett's, Britain's leading authority on the peerage and Royal Family, commemorates and celebrates the year of the Royal Wedding
Like Father Like Son - A family story by Michael Parkinson
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: near fine
A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love stor ...Show more
Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: near fine
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsi ...Show more
Marching with the Devil - Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion by David Mason
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Series: Hachette Military Collec Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'An unpretentious Aussie's experiences in one of the most ramshackle and soul-destroying military organisations on Earth.' COURIER-MAIL A real-life boy's own adventure, MARCHING WITH THE DEVIL is a hell-raising account of five years in the infamous French Foreign Legion. 'In 1894 a French Foreign Legion ...Show more
From Scratch - A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
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Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! **A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food ...Show more
Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family by Jacques Peretti
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'My son Jacques is telling my story. I always wanted to tell it myself but never could. Maybe my English wasn't good enough. I never had the courage. I never imagined for a second it would be written down.' As a reporter, Jacques Peretti has spent his life investigating important stories. But there was ...Show more