Drink Smoke Pass Out (POD) by Judith Lucy
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Judith Lucy has looked everywhere for happiness. Growing up a Catholic, she thought about becoming a nun, and later threw herself into work, finding a partner and getting off her face. Somehow, none of that worked. More recently, she's been asking herself the big questions. Why are we here? Is there a G ...Show more
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry
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The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city's soul Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad's daring raids were only the beg ...Show more
North of Normal: My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family and How I Survived both by Cea Sunrise Person
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The true story of one girl's escape from the wilds of the counterculture movement . . . In the late 1960s, Cea Sunrise Person's family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the grid in Canada's idyllic wilderness. Led by Cea's eccentric grandfather, they called a canvas teepee home, gre ...Show more
Let's Just Say it Wasn't Pretty by Diane Keaton
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"I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right." From Academy Award winner and bestselling author Diane Keaton comes a candid, hilarious, ...Show more
Gazing at the Stars: Memories of a Child Survivor by Eva Slonim
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In March 1939, seven-year-old Eva Weiss's innocence was shattered by Germany's invasion of her homeland, Slovakia. Over the next five years, as the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews gathered momentum, Eva's parents were forced to send their children into hiding, but she and her sister Marta could not av ...Show more
A Child Called It (#1) by Dave Pelzer
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Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother - a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and unwashed, ...Show more
Go Ask Alice by anonymous
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"Alice could be anyone - she could be someone you know, or someone you love - and Alice is in trouble ... Being fifteen is hard, but Alice seems fine. She babysits the neighbour's kids. She is doing well at school. Someday she'd even like to get married and raise a family of her own. Then she is invited ...Show more
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
Locked In: One Man's Miraculous Escape from the Terrifying Confines of Locked-in Syndrome by Richard Marsh
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'The noises were fuzzy in the darkness. Like hearing a domestic dispute through an apartment wall. As a cop, it was a scenario I'd experienced many times as I'd approached a stranger's front door. But this was different. This time I wasn't going anywhere. I wasn't moving at all. Couldn't move at all.' I ...Show more
Falling in Honey: Life and Love on a Greek Island by Jennifer Barclay
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I came here looking for some kind of happiness. I think it might be the cleverest thing I have ever done. One difficult winter when her love life falls apart (and so does she), Jen decides on Three Gifts to Self. Gift One and Two are reducing her workload and staying away from relationships for a while. ...Show more
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family. At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the o ...Show more
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
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Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thi ...Show more