Difficult Patient: the Woman with the World's Rarest Disease, the Doctors Who Left Her in Agony, and the Maverick Who Saved Her Life by Sue Curry
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Category: Biographies
Imagine having a life-threatening illness only for doctors to think you?re faking it. Sue Currie suffers from a strain of porphyria so rare that she was only the 18th known case in the world. In 1991, the medicine she needed had a guaranteed Fed Ex delivery date of four days from Europe. But hers took f ...Show more
Six Days in Leningrad by Paullina Simons
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Category: Biographies
The never-before-told story of the journey behind THE BRONZE HORSEMAN From the author of the celebrated, internationally bestselling Bronze Horseman saga comes a glimpse into the private life of its much loved creator, and the real story behind the epic novels. Paullina Simons gives us a work of non-fic ...Show more
Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me by Lily Collins
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Category: Biographies
In this ground breaking debut essay collection, featuring never-before-seen photos, actress Lily Collins - Star of Mortal Instruments and Rules Don't Apply - is opening a poignant, honest conversation about the things young women struggle with: body image, self-confidence, relationships, family, dating ...Show more
Colette's France: The Lives and Loves of the Belle Epoque Writer by Jane Gilmour
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Category: Biographies
French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the renowned artistic period of Belle Epoque Paris, the art scene in the South of France and war time Paris. Colette's France is the remarkable life story of thi ...Show more
Available - A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch by Black Inc. Staff; Matteson Perry
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Category: Biographies
"Matteson Perry is a nice guy. He remembers birthdays, politely overts his eyes on the subway, and enjoys backgammon. A serial monogamist, he's never asked a stranger out. But when the girl he thought might be The One dumps him, he decides to turn his life around. In Available, Matteson bring sus into t ...Show more
Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
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Category: Biographies
Who would I be if I lived in a world that didn t hate women? Hailed by the Washington Post as one of the most visible and successful feminists of her generation, Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a memoir that Publishers Weekly c ...Show more
Poum and Alexandre by Catherine de Saint Phalle
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Category: Biographies
This is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of keeping up appearances. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but they cannot quite free themselves from the many strings attached to them - the old aunts, the sisters, the cousins, the nuns and the ...Show more
Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography by Richard Branson
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Category: Biographies
"Compelling. Brilliant. Revealing. Funny. Inspirational. Extraordinary. Sir Richard Branson s amazing memoir is now updated to include the effect on the Virgin Group of 11 September, his views on the war in Iraq, the rise of Virgin Blue and the flotation of Virgin Mobile. Discover how Virgin is moving i ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
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Category: Biographies
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more
Never Call Me a Hero - An Autobiography of a Battle of Midway Dive Bomber Pilot by N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss; Timothy Orr; Laura Orr
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Category: Biographies
National Bestseller * "An instant classic." --Dallas Morning News On the morning of June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD Dauntless into a near-vertical dive aimed at the heart of Japan's Imperial Navy, which six ...Show more
My Father's Wake by Kevin Toolis
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Category: Biographies
Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, death has a louder voice. Along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio station runs a thrice-daily roll-call of the recently departed. The islanders have no fear of death. They go in gre ...Show more
The Last Australian Childhood by Kevin Moloney
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Category: Biographies
The Last Australian Childhood, written by Kevin Moloney, is a collection of 40 vignettes written in the different voices of a child, reflecting his age at the time the story is set. The stories tell of Kevin's family life, growing up in suburban Melbourne inthe 1960s as a Catholic boy who lost his fathe ...Show more