The Bookshop That Floated Away by Sarah Henshaw
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In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a GBP30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat and a small hoard of books. The manager said no. ...Show more
Finding Me : A Decade of Darkness, A life Reclaimed by Michelle Knight
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Michelle Knight was just 21 when she was kidnapped by Ariel Castro. Held captive for eleven years in Cleveland, she finally made her escape in 2013. In FINDING ME, MIchelle tells the story of her early life, her abduction and the present day. She reveals new details about her year alone in captivity as ...Show more
The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472 by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of the murder of three white people and sentenced to ...Show more
Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand by William J Mann (Director, Department of Medical Education and OB/GYN, Riverside Regional Medical Center, Newport News, VA)
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"Barbra Streisand's story may be the most triumphant case of revenge in show business history . . . Mann vividly evokes the atmosphere of Streisand's New York."--"New York Times" In 1960, Barbra Streisand was just a seventeen-year-old Brooklyn kid with plenty of talent but no connections and certainly n ...Show more
Skeleton Cupboard by Tanya Byron
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Tanya Byron shares powerful stories inspired by her years of training as a clinical psychologist. The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her years of training as a clinical psychologist, when trainees find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers. Through the eyes of h ...Show more
Me by Ricky Martin
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Throughout a career spanning nearly three decades, Ricky Martin drew a clear line between the person within and the one he shared with the world, choosing to keep his deepest emotions to himself. Now the very private Martin opens up about where life has brought him and the remarkable journey it took to ...Show more
Drink Smoke Pass Out (POD) by Judith Lucy
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Judith Lucy has looked everywhere for happiness. Growing up a Catholic, she thought about becoming a nun, and later threw herself into work, finding a partner and getting off her face. Somehow, none of that worked. More recently, she's been asking herself the big questions. Why are we here? Is there a G ...Show more
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry
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The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city's soul Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad's daring raids were only the beg ...Show more
North of Normal: My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family and How I Survived both by Cea Sunrise Person
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The true story of one girl's escape from the wilds of the counterculture movement . . . In the late 1960s, Cea Sunrise Person's family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the grid in Canada's idyllic wilderness. Led by Cea's eccentric grandfather, they called a canvas teepee home, gre ...Show more
Let's Just Say it Wasn't Pretty by Diane Keaton
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"I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right." From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, ...Show more
Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor by Eva Slonim
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In March 1939, seven-year-old Eva Weiss's innocence was shattered by Germany's invasion of her homeland, Slovakia. Over the next five years, as the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews gathered momentum, Eva's parents were forced to send their children into hiding, but she and her sister Marta could not av ...Show more
A Child Called It (#1) by Dave Pelzer
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Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother - a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and unwashed, ...Show more