Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship by Bee Rowlatt
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry? May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars and battling through blockades to ...Show more
Charles Dickens - A Life by Claire Tomalin
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
"Charles Dickens" is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the cr ...Show more
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: good
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a terrifying an ...Show more
An Autobiography, or the story of my experiments with truth by Mahatma Gandhi
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians, instituting his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915 he returned to British-controlled India, bringing to a ...Show more
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter
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Three cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin. As cousins, George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II and the last Tsar Nicholas II should have been friends - but they happened also to rule Europe's three most powerful states. This potent combination together with their own destructive personalities - petty, ins ...Show more
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most acclaimed books of the last three decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted ...Show more
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read by Dawn French
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Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades. Loved for her irreverant humour, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here she describes the journey that would eve ...Show more
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
When "Daily Telegraph" correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H. M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a ruc ...Show more
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed by Alan Alda
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"He s one of America s most recognisable and acclaimed actors a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing during his 11 years on M*A*S*H. Now he has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest perfor ...Show more
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
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For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. This book presents the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. ...Show more
Kiss & Make-up by Simmons Gene
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
"Delivered in Gene's own honest, outrageous and uncensored voice, he tells of his early beginnings in Israel, of his arrival in New York at the age of eight, his first tast of 1950s pop culture and his developing thirst for fame, fun and girls. ndoubtedly one of the most infamous rock and roll legends a ...Show more
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
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For fans of Toni Morrison, an unforgettably powerful novel about a mother's courage, sacrifice and love, set against the volatile history of twentieth century America. When Hattie clambered from a train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud and the dream of Philadelphia sitting round as a marble in h ...Show more