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The Widow Clicquot The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who R
By Tilar J. Mazzeo. Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour and style- with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casablanca. But who was this young widow - the 'Veuve' - Clicquot- whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France- …
The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Will Smith- 'The Pursuit of Happyness' is the inspiring- rags-to-riches story of the charismatic Chris Gardner - a once homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San …
The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
By Jeffrey Zaslow. The Girls From Ames
Tell Me Why- Mummy: A Little Boy's Struggle to Survive. A Mother's Sha
By David Thomas. The inspirational true story of one man overcoming enormous odds - including sexual abuse from his alcoholic mother - to choose his own path in life and become a truly exceptional human being. From the age of four David Thomas …
Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance by Louisa Wa
By Louisa Waugh. '...But it feels like another war is still being fought here...a war against women. They are trafficked like cargo- and traded like stock; the price for each calculated according to how much profit can be extracted from her …
Scars That Run Deep: Sometimes the Nightmares Don't End by Patrick Tou
'By Patrick Touher. Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years- Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over. But the adult world was a dangerous place for a naive adolescent. From the Dublin Catholic boys' home to arriving …
Please Let it Stop: The True Story of an Abused Childhood by Jacquelin
'By Jacqueline Gold. 'In retrospect- I can see I was the perfect candidate for child abuse. My parents had divorced and my mother didn't show me much love. Her self-imposed isolation kept me away from other children. My abuser had nobody in his …
Nobody Heard Me Cry: An Irish Boy Sold on the Streets- a Whole Life Sh
By John Devane. John grew up in poverty in Limerick- Ireland- in the 1960s. Fatherless- and with a family in chaos- John fell prey to the predatory clutches of a neighbour- setting off a cycle of sexual abuse that eventually led to being sold as …
Mummy Knew: A Terrifying Step-father. A Mother Who Refused to Listen.
By Lisa James. Four-year-old Lisa's world turned upside down when her step-father moved in. Most of the time he was just violent but then he started making her do things she knew were wrong. Soon he was visiting her at night. Lisa begged her …
Leanne Preston And the Wild Child Story by Leanne Preston
By Leanne Preston. Leanne Preston left school early- married young and settled down. She tried to convince herself she was happy with her life- but when her marriage broke down and she fled to a refuge she had to face the daunting reality of …
I Did Tell- I Did by Cassie Harte
By Cassie Harte. Cassie was just a little girl who wanted to be loved. Betrayed by her mother in the most horrific manner, and abused by her 'uncle', she had to fight to survive the demons of her past. Cassie couldn't remember when the abuse …
Helpless: The True Story of a Neglected Girl Betrayed and Exploited by
By Marianne Marsh. Eight year old Marianne, the eldest of five children, was neglected by her slovenly mother and her violent alcoholic father. Uncared for and unkempt she was rejected at school by her peers and scarcely tolerated by her teachers…
Harry's War the True Story of Prince Harry's Heroism in Afghanistan by
By Robert Jobson. On February 28- 2008- to great international surprise- the British Ministry of Defense released a statement acknowledging that Prince Harry--son of the late Princess Diana and third in line to the British throne--had secretly …
Eleven Days of Hell by Yvonne Bornstein
By Yvonne Bornstein. A terrifying true story of kidnap, torture and dramatic rescue by the FBI and the KGB. Chechen terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda orchestrate a Moscow abduction, holding Yvonne and her husband, Danny, hostage for $1.6 million they …
Destroyed: A Secret That Can't be Told - A Life Forever Ruined by Jayn
By Jayne Sterne. When eight-year-old Jayne left bomb-torn Northern Ireland- her family stayed with relations and a distant relative began a campaign of abuse so horrifying that her world was shattered forever. When the family moved again- Jayne …
Destined to Live: One Womans War- Life- Loves Remembered' by Sabina Wo
By Sabina Wolanski. Destined to Live: One Woman's War, Life, Loves Remembered
Daughters of Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera
By Jasvinder Sanghera. 'I listen to those stories -- told by women who have been drugged, beaten, imprisoned, raped and terrorised within the walls of the homes they grew up in. I listen and I am humbled by their resilience.' Jasvinder Sanghera …
My Father's Secret War: A Memoir by Lucinda Franks
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By Lucinda Franks. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a haunting memoir about a daughter's relationship with her distant father and the shocking scars of war he could never reveal. My Father's Secret War: A Memoir
Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship by Dwayne Raymond
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In the spring of 2003 when Norman Mailer was 80 years old- he invited an improbable companion into his life: Dwayne Raymond- 40 years his junior- originally from a small town in Oregon- and now a waiter at a restaurant in Provincetown- Cape Cod- …
Life is So Good by George Dawson
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At 98- George decided to learn to read and enrolled in a literacy programme- becoming a celebrated student. In 'Life Is So Good'- he shares wisdom on everything from parenting to attitude.Life is So Good. George Dawson
It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton
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By Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures- First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton- chronicled her quest both deeply personal and- in the truest sense- public to help make our society into the kind of …
Dead Aid Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Afric
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'By Dambisa Moyo. There is no doubt: we want to help. The well-documented horrors of extreme poverty around the world have created a moral imperative that people have responded to in their millions. Yet the poverty persists. At a time of …
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By Shy Keenan. 'I was born and broken in Birkenhead. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed and ignored. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am …
Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency: v.2 by Nigel Hamilton
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By Nigel Hamilton. Nigel Hamilton's account of Bill Clinton's early life and career - 'Bill Clinton: An American Journey' - drew widespread praise. Now, in 'Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency', Nigel Hamilton charts the experience of the 42nd …
Arthur Conan Doyle A Life in Letters by Daniel Stashower
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'By Daniel Stashower. A collection of letters between Arthur Conan Doyle (author and creator of Sherlock Holmes) and his mother- covering most of his life- written between 1867 and the year of her death in 1921. Doyle was raised almost solely by …
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: My Year of Making News in Yemen- in t
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By Jennifer Steil. At a time of escalating tensions between the Middle East and the West- it's difficult to imagine a thirty-something single woman from Manhattan running The Yemen Observer in Sana'a- one of the oldest and most conservative …
Scarred: How One Girl Triumphed Over Shocking Abuse and Self-harm by S
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By Sophie Andrews. Growing up- Sophie carried a terrible secret. She was her father's slave- in the most horrific ways imaginable. At just a few months old she was adopted by a couple that seemed comfortably off and perfectly respectable to the …
Out of Captivity: Surviving 1-967 Days in the Colombian Jungle by Marc
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'By Marc Gonsalves. On February 13- 2003- a plane carrying three American military contractors - Marc Gonsalves- Tom Howes- and Keith Stansell - crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken- they awoke covered in blood with …
My Father's Keeper by Julie Gregory
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By Julie Gregory. A powerful and compelling memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father- who hid his mental illness behind a charismatic larger-than-life- gluttonous personality and found logical explanations for the most bizarre ways of …
My Father's Keeper by Julie Gregory
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By Julie Gregory. A powerful and compelling memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father- who hid his mental illness behind a charismatic larger-than-life- gluttonous personality and found logical explanations for the most bizarre ways of …