Biographies & Memoirs
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Frank McCourt $8.00Frank McCourt was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents; grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For t…
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100 Things
Grylls, Sebastian Terry $5.00At the ripe-old age of 26, Sebastian realised that like most people, he has not achieved anything on his long-forgotten list. The death of a close fri…
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50 Years Of Silence
No Description Available
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A Boy Made Of Blocks
Keith Stuart $8.00“Alex loves his family, and yet he struggles to connect with his eight-year-old autistic son, Sam. The strain has pushed his marriage to the breaking …
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A Damned Serious Business
Rex Harrison $8.00One of the twentieth century’s most popular actors recounts his extraordinary career, from his early days touring seaside piers and palaces, to his le…
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A Feast Of French And Saunders
Dawn French $6.00No Description Available
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A Fellow No More
Traci Felloes $7.00No Description Available
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A Hundred And One Days : A Baghdad Journal
Asne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen $4.00Provides a narrative of life in Iraq just before, during, and after the American invasion of March 2003, presenting the opinions and experiences of or…
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A Letter To Sophie
Carolyn Martin, Ron Delezio, Sally Collings $8.00“18/12/03 Princess, your lips were red today! What beautiful lips You are a miracle to have survived your serious injuries this long and I am so proud…
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A Long Way From Paradise : Surviving The Rwandan Genocide
Leah Chishugi $8.00Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo and moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model when she was 17. She married and had a son. Then i…
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A Lotus Grows In The Mud
Goldie Hawn, Wendy Holden $6.00Be careful what you wish for — Joy — Growing pains — First steps — Compassion — Fear — First love — Integrity — Life’s purpose — Trusting men…
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A Million Little Pieces
James Frey $5.00James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises. He has no wallet and …
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A Million Little Pieces
James Frey $8.00A memoir of drug and alcohol abuse and the rehabilitation experience examines addiction and recovery through the eyes of a man who had taken his addic…
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A Month And A Day
The moving last memoir of the outspoken critic of the Nigerian regime and international oil companies he held responsible for the destruction of his h…
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A Mother’s Ordeal
Steven W. Mosher $2.00The true story of Chi An, a young Chinese woman from Manchuria who experienced the horror of China’s one couple, one child policy. Told in the first p…
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A View From The Ridge : The Testimony Of A Twentieth-century Christian
Morris West $7.00Years, West sketches a story that in its travails and joys reflects the evolution of both the Catholic faith in this century and the journey that ever…
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A Woman In Charge
Carl Bernstein $12.50Carl Bernstein’s stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag…
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After Eleanor
Alison Haynes $8.00Immersed in this sensitive memoir, we travel with Alison Haynes from her family home in Australia to her mother’s village in rural England. Organising…
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Alias Jungle Doctor
Paul Hamilton Hume White $4.00Autobiography of the missionary doctor to Tanzania who authored the Jungle Doctor series.
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Always Liza To Me
Cecilia Rice $7.00This is the story of the Rice family and of Liza, Cecilia Rice’s severly mentally retarded sister. As children the kids in the family always believed …
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America’s Mistress : The Life And Times Of Eartha Kitt
John Williams $6.00eartha kitt
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America’s Queen
Sarah Bradford $12.50Using personal testimonies from the golden couple’s friends, this work seeks to present the private Jackie – neglected wife, vigilant mother, obsessiv…
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Among The Heroes : United Flight 93 And The Passengers And Crew Who Fought Back
Jere Longman $8.00The events of September 11 are etched in our minds, but perhaps the fate of United Airlines Flight 93 intrigues us most. As we helplessly watched two …
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An Evil Cradling
Brian Keenan $4.00Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi…
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An Umbrian Love Story
Marlena de Blasi $6.00A tale of love, food, renovations, recipes and wine from the author of the best-selling A Thousand Days in Venice. A lush and evocative account of whe…
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Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir
Frank McCourt $6.00“My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four … When I look …
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Angelina
Andrew Morton $10.00An award-winning biographer goes behind tabloid headlines to provide coverage of topics ranging from the A-list actress’s childhood under father Jon V…
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Another Day, Another Town
Joy MacKean, Slim Dusty $25.00Autobiography of this well-known Australian country music performer, first published in 1996, describes his eventful career over 50 years, with his wi…
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Antarctica
David Day $30.00A groundbreaking history of human interaction with Antarctica, the last continent on earth. For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undis…
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Around The World In 80 Days
Grylls, Michael Palin $10.0020th anniversary edition
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Athina: The Last Onassis
BY way of light relief as Greece continues to stand face-to-face with financial meltdown, it is well worth visiting the story of Athina Onassis Rousse…
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Baby Doll
Carroll Baker $5.00The actress candidly discusses her personal life, her roles in “Baby Doll,” “Giant,” “Harlow,” and “The Carpetbaggers,” and her memories of James Dean…
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Back From The Dead
Patrick Lindsay $10.00Saturday, October 12, 2002 was the day Australia changed forever.477.It was our ‘September 11’. It was the bombing of Bali. Peter Hughes was the man w…
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Barney Greatrex
Grylls, Michael Veitch $12.00From Bomber Command to the French Resistance – the stirring story of an Australian hero
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Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother
Amy Chua $8.00A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what Chinese parents do to produce so many math whi…
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Bette Midler
Ace Collins $4.00No Description Available
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Beyond Belief
Jenna Miscavige Hill, Lisa Pulitzer $12.00Jenna Miscavige Hill was born into the Church of Scientology and grew up strictly adhering to its beliefs and practices. But aged twenty-two she made …
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Bigwig
Liam Houlihan $6.00Top crime writer Liam Houlihan documents the extraordinary rise and fall of the man they call Fat Tony, from his ascension in the drug trade to the de…
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Vincent Lam $6.00Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shocklingly realistic portra…
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Blowing The Bloody Doors Off : And Other Lessons In Life
Michael Caine $10.00No Description Available