| Author: | Francisco Cantú |
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"A must-read for anyone who thinks "build a wall" is the answer to anything." --Esquire
For Francisco Cant , the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunt... read more
| Author: | Sarah Krasnostein |
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| Awards: | Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2017 (Australia). Long-listed for Indie Book Award for Non-fiction 2018 (Australia). |
A fascinating, incredible true story about the person who spends her life cleaning up after traumas."Absolutely stunning."--PopSugarBefore she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small... read more
| Author: | Saroo Brierley |
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When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the ... read more
| Author: | John Safran |
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No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would pref... read more
| Author: | Veronica Chambers |
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A NEW IN NONFICTION PEOPLE PICK | NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Huffington Post • Glamour • Bustle • RedEye
A Los Angeles Times bestseller**One of BookRiot's '11 Books to Help Us... read more
| Author: | Fela;Rosenbloom, Felix; Rosenbloom |
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In 1933, a 10-year-old Jewish girl, Fela Perelman, befriended a new family that had moved into her street in Lodz, Poland. There were three children in the Rozenblum family - Rose, Felix, and Maria. Fela and Rose became best friends, while Felix kept his distance. Five years la... read more
| Author: | Kim Noble |
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Kim Noble is an accomplished artist whose work has been exhibited around the world. She is a mother with a 13-year-old daughter. She is a bubbly and vivacious woman. To meet her you wouldn't think a... read more
| Author: | Graham Norton |
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| Awards: | Winner of Irish Book Awards: The National Book Tokens Nonfiction Book of the Year 2014. |
'It seems to me that we are all made up of the things we adore, and by telling my stories through the prism of my passions I hope you will get an insight into my life' In his new autobiography, written with characteristic humour and often outrageous candour, Gra... read more
| Author: | Michael Smith |
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British-Australian university dropout Michael Smith built a multimillion-dollar business fitting out movie theatres around the world, before restoring Melbourne's Sun Theatre and becoming one of the last independent cinema operat... read more
| Author: | Anthony Kiedis |
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Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scen... read more
| Author: | Miriam Lancewood |
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It tells how one woman learned to dig deep and push the boundaries in order to discover what really matters in life. Miriam is a young Dutch woman living in the heart of the mountains with her New Zealand husband. She ... read more
