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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

  • The Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in)

    Matt Bai
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    Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman. When politics went tabloid... In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed ...

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  • The game ranger, the knife, the lion and the sheep: 20 tales about curious characters from Southern Africa

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    David Bristow offers spellbinding stories of some amazing, little-known characters from South Africa, past and very past. There is Krotoa, the Khoi...

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  • The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia

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  • The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida's Story

    Farida Khalaf
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    In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attac...

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  • The Girl with Nine Wigs: A Memoir

    Sophie van der Stap
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    Sophie is 21 when she is diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of cancer. A striking, fun-loving student, she finds her world reduced overnight to...

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  • The Girl Who Smiled Beads

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    A riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save usClemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and fat...

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  • The Glass Castle (Paperback)

    Jeannette Walls
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    Now a major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson.This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey fr...

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  • The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

    Amy Schumer
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    The highly anticipated first book from award-winning comedian, writer, producer and actress, Amy Schumer. In The Girl with the Lower Back...

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  • The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

    Dava Sobel
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    AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twink...

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  • The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on The World's Most Powerful Mafia

    Alex Perry
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    You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family....

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  • The Gospel According to Luke

    Wordsworth Books
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    No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant pop-culture soun...

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  • The Great Boer Escape

    Willie Steyn
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  • The Great Escape of the Boer Pimpernel: Christiaan De Wet - the Making of a Legend

    Fransjohan Pretorius
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  • The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

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    The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's...

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  • The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom

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    An ambitious and gripping exploration of the world's most secretive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obs...

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  • The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History

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  • The Grifter's Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency

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    'Many of the world's great leaders request to come to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. They like it. I like it. We're comfortable.' - Donald TrumpA bit to...

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  • The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance

    Matt Ortile
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    When Matt Ortile's family moved from Manila to Las Vegas, the locals couldn't pronounce his name. Bullied for his brown skin, accent, and femininit...

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  • The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win (Paperback)

    Mark "Billy" Billingham
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark 'Billy' Billingham. They are the backbone of the Bri...

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  • The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

    Edmund de Waal
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    THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edm...

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    The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, i PAPER, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTAT...

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  • The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

    Gail Crowther
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    The Haunted Reader & Sylvia Plath takes an unusual approach to Sylvia Plath studies focusing on the readers of Sylvia Plath rather than the his...

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  • The Heart Of A Woman

    Dr Maya Angelou
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    From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights...

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  • The Heavens Are All Blue: A memoir of two doctors, a marriage and a life of love before loss

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    When Dr Kate McGarry was diagnosed with an advanced cancer of unknown origin she resolved to write a book to chart her experience: as a woman comin...

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