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The Boy Who Was Born a Girl: One Mother's Unconditional Love for Her Child

The Boy Who Was Born a Girl: One Mother's Unconditional Love for Her Child

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Author: Jon Edwards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The groundbreaking autobiography of the teenage boy who was born a girl, which is also a major documentary Brought...
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties

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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Arianna Huffington: Media Visionary and Wellness Evangelist

Arianna Huffington: Media Visionary and Wellness Evangelist

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Author: Leah McGrath Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Arianna Huffington is one of the world's most prominent business leaders in media. As co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington...
My Lucky Stroke

My Lucky Stroke

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Author: Sarah Brooker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Sarah Brooker was an ambitious young woman studying to be a neuroscientist. She had the world at her feet....
On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd

On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd

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Author: Axel Linden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 235 'Axel Linden is a shepherd-philosopher with James Herriot's knack for mishap and an almost Chekhovian deadpan humour.' Observer 'Endearing and liberating.'...
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival

The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival

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Author: Alaa Aljaleel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When the Syrian civil war forced the people of Aleppo to flee their homes, thousands of the city's pets...
Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior

Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior

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Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey

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Author: Frances Wilson (Chester University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary

Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary

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Author: David Patterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 328 This extraordinary book is based on more than fifty diaries of Jewish Holocaust victims of all ages, written while...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

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Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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Author: Richard P. Feynman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour...
In My Mother's Shoes

In My Mother's Shoes

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Author: Alison Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Honest, funny, heartfelt ...I loved it' Cathy Kelly Clear-eyed, touching, forthright and funny, In My Mother's Shoes is Alison Walsh's delightful...
Vessel: A Memoir

Vessel: A Memoir

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Author: Chongda Cai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general." -- Library Journal...
My Brother

My Brother

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Author: Jamaica Kincaid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

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Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local...
The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today

The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today

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Author: Shannon Bream Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The women of the Bible lived timeless stories-by examining them, we can understand what it means...
This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir

This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir

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Author: Jenny Pentland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding your own way in...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

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Author: Safiya Sinclair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' TARA WESTOVER 'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN...
Just as I Am: A Memoir

Just as I Am: A Memoir

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Author: Cicely Tyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 "In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of...
Worthy

Worthy

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Author: Jada Pinkett Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A gripping, painfully honest and ultimately inspirational, New York Times bestselling memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

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Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South Africa's...
Wildflower: An extraordinary life and untimely death in Africa

Wildflower: An extraordinary life and untimely death in Africa

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Author: Mark Seal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 WILDFLOWER is naturalist, filmmaker and lifelong conservationist Joan Root's gripping life story - a stunning and moving tale featuring a remarkable...
Wavewalker: Breaking Free

Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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Author: Suzanne Heywood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

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Author: Kate Andersen Brower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

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Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
Deaf Utopia: A Memoir-and a Love Letter to a Way of Life

Deaf Utopia: A Memoir-and a Love Letter to a Way of Life

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Author: Nyle DiMarco Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and celebration of Deaf culture by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time reality...
Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes

Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes

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Author: Pete Hegseth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A New York Times bestseller. From FOX & Friends Weekend cohost Pete Hegseth comes a collection of inspiring stories from fifteen...
Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

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Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using...
Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power

Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power

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Author: Tom Bower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest person to hold that office since...
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

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Author: Barbara Amiel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching...
And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

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Author: Margaret Kimball Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Named one of Publishers Weekly's Best of 2021 List in Comics. 2021 Top of the List Graphic Novel Pick In the...
The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

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Author: Casey Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Magnificent." -People Magazine The instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and...
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading

Love and the Novel: Life After Reading

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Author: Christina Lupton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah...
The Best of Both Worlds: The autobiography of the world's greatest living medium

The Best of Both Worlds: The autobiography of the world's greatest living medium

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Author: Gordon Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Best of Both Worlds is the true story of how childhood misery and trauma helped Gordon Smith discover a gift...
Inside Out

Inside Out

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Author: Demi Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on Sunday Book of the...
Jump: From the Streets to the Suites

Jump: From the Streets to the Suites

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Author: Larry Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company...
THE TURNING POINT

THE TURNING POINT

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Author: Gareth St Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 We've all heard the phrase 'the moment when my life changed forever'. Some of us can even pinpoint it in our...
Gangbuster

Gangbuster

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Author: Peter Bleksley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Four million quid. There it was, inches away from me on a hotel table. Not in conventional currency, but...
Elis and John Present the Holy Vible: The Book The Bible Could Have Been

Elis and John Present the Holy Vible: The Book The Bible Could Have Been

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Author: Elis James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Elis and John are my go-to place when I need a bloody good laugh. Properly funny!' Sarah Millican Comedians Elis James...
What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

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Author: Laura Shapiro Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of The Year One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017"...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

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Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Scenes and Apparitions begins where its predecessor, Splendours and Miseries, left off. It covers a period of Roy Strong's life...
A Recipe for Life

A Recipe for Life

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Author: Antonio Carluccio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Antonio Carluccio is a larger-than-life character who, over his 50-year career, has inspired thousands of people with his no-fuss Italian cooking...
Freedom

Freedom

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Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears...
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

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Author: Elizabeth Foyster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ... or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen...
The Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

The Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

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Author: Dr Peter Dorward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Everyone is a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult...
Marshall: Lessons in Leadership

Marshall: Lessons in Leadership

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Author: H. Paul Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a...