All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Funny, unique, and gleeful in her obsession, Pearl-McPhee speaks to knitters of all skill levels in this celebration of craft and creativity.
Through a Glass Darkly: A Journey of Love and Grief with My Father by Caroline Jones
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This is Caroline Jones' moving and deeply personal diary, written as she watched her much-loved father die, and in the years since.
I Feel Bad About My Neck and other thoughts on being a woman by Nora Ephron
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
'If I said to you “I absolutely cannot stand my neck” , you’d undoubtedly respond by saying something nice, like, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” You’d be lying, of course, but I forgive you. You can put makeup on your face and concealer under your eyes and dye on your hair, you can shoot coll ...Show more
RICH: LIFE OF RICHARD BURTON by BRAGG, MELVYN
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
This is the first biography of the actor, Richard Burton, to be supported by his own 300,000-word unpublished journals that cover the years of his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, plus all his papers and unpublished memoirs of his adopted father. Many of those close to Burton have talked for the first time ...Show more
Capturing the Light: The Birth of Photography by Roger Watson
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This is the story of two lone geniuses and the extraordinary race to invent photography. Capturing the Light starts with a tiny scrap of purple-tinged paper, 176 years old and about the size of a postage stamp. On it you can just make out a tiny, ghostly image of a gothic window, an image so small and ...Show more
Stones into Schools : Promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where "Three Cups of Tea" left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and th ...Show more
One on One by Craig Brown
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101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They speak, or don't speak. They get on, or fall out. They laugh, the ...Show more
Paris Letters by Janice MacLeod
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What do you do when your great life-plan works out, and you're still unhappy? Successful, but on the verge of burnout, Janice MacLeod saved enough money to buy herself two years of freedom in Europe. Days into her stop in Paris, she met Christophe, and her fate was sealed. Forced to find a way to fund h ...Show more
A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea by David Vann
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Work so that you can keep working. It seemed a proposition that could easily end in suicide. I wanted to escape this. I wanted to free myself from the working world and have time to write. And I wanted adventure. Grendel could never free me, but this boat could. David Vann has loved boats all his life. ...Show more
Tracks (Film Tie-In Edition) by Robyn Davidson
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WITH A NEW POSTSCRIPT BY THE AUTHOR AND A STUNNING COLOUR PICTURE SECTION 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' So begins Robyn Davidson's perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian des ...Show more
An Idiot Abroad : The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington
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Presenting the Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Idiot. Karl Pilkington isn't keen on travelling. Given the choice, he'll go on holiday to Devon or Wales or, at a push, eat English food on a package holiday in Majorca. Which isn't exactly Michael Palin, is it? So what happened ...Show more
Art of Sleeping Alone by Sophie Fontanel
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
At the age of twenty-seven, after many years of having (and, for the most part, enjoying) an active sex life, beloved French author, journalist, editor, and fashion blogger Sophie Fontanel decided she wanted to take a break. Despite having it all-a glamorous job, plenty of dates and boyfriends, stylish ...Show more