Heartstrong by Ellidy Pullin
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'If not with you, then for you.' It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin kissed his partner, Ellidy, goodbye to go spearfishing. Most days Ellidy would go to the beach too, but that day she didn't. Later, there was a knock at the door. A man had been found unconscious on the ocean ...Show more
High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China by Erika Fatland
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Category: Travel Memoir
An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by internationally bestselling, prizewinning writer Erika Fatland.The Himalayas meander for more than two thousand kilometres through many different countries, from Pakistan to Myanmar via Nepal, India, Tibet and Bhutan, where the world religions of Islam, Bud ...Show more
How I Met Your Father by Aminah Hart
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Born in London to an Australian mother and West Indian father, Aminah Hart was brought up in Melbourne by her gutsy single mum, Helen, and devoted grandparents. Despite their loving embrace, she grew into a rebellious teenager only too aware of racial and social prejudice. By her early thirties Aminah s ...Show more
How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' Tara Westover, author of Educated 'To read it is to believe that words can save' Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings 'One of the most gut-wrenching, soul-stirring, electrifying memoirs I've ever read' Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun There ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume o ...Show more
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee
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Category: Biography and Memoir
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACK TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red PSYCHIATRIST- So how can I help you?ME- I don't know, I'm ...Show more
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
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Category: Biography and Memoir
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming Archive. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, t ...Show more
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
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Category: Biography and Memoir
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook ...Show more
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
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Category: Travel Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Unabridged! When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen deprivation. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers wer ...Show more
Leaping into Waterfalls: The enigmatic Gillian Mears by Bernadette Brennan
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years. Gillian Mears appeared to many to be a shy woman from Grafton, but her lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive pass ...Show more
Lucid by Lucy Holden
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'In Bath I lay in a field with headphones on, drunk, and staring at an empty blue sky that reflected nothing of the chaos in the world. Below the fields flashed the seaweed-green of a London train and I imagined my former life at the end of it but felt more like it had been tied to the tracks and career ...Show more
Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, Li Cunxin
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Before you can fly, you have to be free.In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his scho ...Show more