Rafa: My Story by Rafael Nadal & John Carlin
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
No tennis player since Andre Agassi has captivated the world like Rafael Nadal. He's a rarity in today's sporting arena - a true sportsman who chooses to let his raw talent, dedication and humility define him. This autobiography, written by Nadal with award-winning journalist John Carlin, includes memor ...Show more
Frank: The Making of a Legend by James Kaplan
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Who was Frank Sinatra? And how did who he was lead to him creating such incomparable music? In FRANK, fans finally have a biography that goes more deeply into who he really was than any previous book about this extraordinary man. Sinatra was a bundle of contradictions. At once both spoiled and neglected ...Show more
Life with My Sister Madonna by Christopher Ciccone
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Christopher Ciccone's extraordinary memoir is based on his forty-seven years of growing up with, working with and understanding the most famous woman of our time. Throughout most of the iconic star's kaleidoscopic career, Christopher played an important role in her life: as her back-up dancer, her perso ...Show more
Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Motley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction. When Motley Crue were at the height of their fame, there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alo ...Show more
Task Force Helmand: A Soldier's Story of Life, Death and Combat on the Afghan Front Line by Doug Beattie
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Doug Beattie MC returns to Helmand Province for one final tour before retiring - and it's the most bloody and brutal conflict yet. In 2006 Doug Beattie of 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment was awarded the Military Cross for his part in recapturing the town of Garmsir from the Taliban. He was due to ret ...Show more
From Eskimo Point to Alice Springs by Anne Watts
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
This is the moving and heartwarming memoir of a British nurse who has spent her life working in the world's most remote and hostile environments. In the early 1960s, Anne Watts was a newly qualified nurse, eager to use her skills. Her father expected her to work locally, not too far from North Wales, wh ...Show more
The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Handpicked in 1999 by the 'Family' surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience beyond having served as deputy mayor of St Petersburg, seemed like the perfect choice in the eyes of an oligarchy bent on moulding ...Show more
Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube by Andrew Martin
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
This is an entertaining and enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railway. Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from Kings Cross to Kings Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most spraw ...Show more
Dreaming in Hindi: Life in Translation by Katherine Russell Rich
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'I took up with Hindi at a time when it seemed my life had buckled out from under me - I no longer had the language to describe my own life. So I decided I'd borrow someone else's.' Having survived a serious illness and now at an impasse in her career, Rich spontaneously accepts a freelance assignment ...Show more
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the same person ...' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no ...Show more
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson by Hunter S. Thompson
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone showcases the evolution of a writer through his work at the magazine that he helped to put on the map. Jann S.Wenner, Hunter Thompson's editor and friend for nearly thirty-five years, has chosen the pieces, including many never collected before. They show how Thompson ...Show more
Eva Braun: Life with Hitler by Heike B. Gortemaker
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
"I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison". (Eva Braun, 1945). Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage and double suicide in Berlin. Braun was obsessed with sport, fashion, photography and films, and seems to have had no ...Show more