When I Fell From The Sky: The True Story of One Woman's Miraculous Survival by Juliane Koepcke
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived. Juliane Koepcke, the seventeen-year-old child of famous German zoologists. She'd been thrown from t ...Show more
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
Arnold Schwarzenegger's TOTAL RECALL is a larger-than-life portrait of his illustrious, controversial and entertaining life in and out of the public eye. Total Recall is the unbelievably true story of Arnold Schwarzenegger's life. Born in the small city of Thal, Austria, in 1947, he moved to Los Angeles ...Show more
Iron Man - My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The name 'Tony Iommi' sends shivers down the spines of guitarists around the world. As lead guitarist and songwriter of Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of the past four decades and the inventor of heavy metal. From working class, Midlands roots, his un ...Show more
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnesstells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed waned ...Show more
Crazy in Love: The Beyonce Knowles Biography by Daryl Easlea
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Beyonce Knowles first rose to fame as lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the most successful girl groups of all time. Since striking out on her own as a solo artist in 2003, with her multi-platinum debut album Dangerously in Love, Knowles' career has gone from strength to strength.
Story of Che Guevara by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
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** NEW ** Che Guevara is something of a symbol in the West. But for the rest of the world he is different: a charismatic revolutionary who redrew the political map of Latin America and gave hope to those resisting colonialism everywhere. In The Story of Che Guevara Lucia Alvarez de Toledo follows Ch ...Show more
Under a Canvas Sky : Living Outside Gormenghast by Clare Peake
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Mervyn Peake was born in China, the son of medical missionaries, and the juxtaposition of his exotic surroundings and the very English manners at home had a lasting effect on him. Reading Treasure Island until he could recite it by heart and waiting for comics to arrive from England had him living a chi ...Show more
The Long Walk: The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture: The Way Back by Slavomir Rawicz
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Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19th November 1939, he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags. After a three month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with six companions, realising that to stay in t ...Show more
Wait For Me - Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: good
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she talks candidly about her brother and sisters, and thei ...Show more
Snowblind by Robert Sabbag
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Un-put-downable ... the best book ever written about cocaine.' Loaded
Rafa: My Story by Rafael Nadal & John Carlin
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
No tennis player since Andre Agassi has captivated the world like Rafael Nadal. He's a rarity in today's sporting arena - a true sportsman who chooses to let his raw talent, dedication and humility define him. This autobiography, written by Nadal with award-winning journalist John Carlin, includes memor ...Show more
Frank: The Making of a Legend by James Kaplan
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Who was Frank Sinatra? And how did who he was lead to him creating such incomparable music? In FRANK, fans finally have a biography that goes more deeply into who he really was than any previous book about this extraordinary man. Sinatra was a bundle of contradictions. At once both spoiled and neglected ...Show more