New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families by Colm Toibin
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
In his essay on Tennessee Williams, Colm Toibin reveals an artist profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, Toibin examines a world of family relations, and in Roddy Doyle's writing on his parents illuminates an Ireland reinvented. F ...Show more
Never Stop Believing: Heartache, Hope and Some Very High Heels by Sally Obermeder
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When Sally Obermeder woke up on 13th October 2011, she thought her life was perfect. She had a glamorous, successful career as a reporter for Today Tonight, she had a wonderful husband and she was about to give birth to her baby who she had conceived through IVF following years of struggle to conceive n ...Show more
Shamed by Sarbjit Kaur Athwal
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The courageous and inspiring story of Sarbjit Kaur Athwal, who bravely fought for justice - risking her own life - after her sister-in-law, Surjit, was murdered in an honour killing by her husband's family. It is foreword by DCI Clive Driscoll.
My Salinger Year by Joanna Smith Rakoff
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At 23, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J.D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and old-t ...Show more
Epilogue: A Memoir by Will Boast
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When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents unravels when he discovers he has two half-brothers living in England. In exquisite prose Will Boast sets about piecing togethe ...Show more
Without You, There Is No Us: My Secret Life Teaching the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim
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A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, ...Show more
Gurkha: Better to Die Than Live a Coward: My Life in the Gurkhas by Colour-Sergeant Kailash Khebang
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For the first time in its 200 year history, a soldier of the Brigade of Gurkhas has been given permission to tell his story in his own words Colour Sergeant Kailash Limbu was born in one of the most remote hill villages of Nepal. His family had no running water or electricity. The nearest town was sever ...Show more
Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott by Gavin Stamp
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George Gilbert Scott was the most prolific and most famous of Victorian architects. For many, however, blinded by prejudice to the merits of Victorian architecture and the Gothic Revival, he was the most notorious. The rehabilitation of his reputation after a century of abuse is symbolised, above all, b ...Show more
Elsa Schiaparelli - A Biography by Meryle Secrest
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"A wonderful insight into a life that history hasn't remembered as well as it should have." (Vogue). One of the most extraordinary fashion designers of the twentieth century, Elsa Schiaparelli was an integral figure in the artistic movement of the times. Her collaborations with artists such as Man Ray, ...Show more
Ugly: My Memoir by Robert Hoge
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Home for the Hoges was a bayside suburb of Brisbane. Robert s parents, Mary and Vince, knew that his life would be difficult, but they were determined to give him a typical Australian childhood. So along with the regular, gruelling and often dangerous operations that made medical history and gradually i ...Show more
Planet Elephant by Tammie Matson
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From the jungles of Borneo, to the civil strife of Assam, to the black markets of Vietnam, Dr Tammie Matson continues her quest to help reduce the human-elephant conflict around the world. In this follow-up to her bestselling memoir Elephant Dance, Tammie takes on the black markets of Asia determined to ...Show more
Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir by Frances Mayes
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
The long-awaited memoir of her Southern childhood from the bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun. Growing up, Frances Mayes longed to leave the small town of Fitzgerald, Georgia, but now she's been drawn back to explore her past ...Beautifully written and very intimate, this memoir evokes the Deep ...Show more