I'm Fine (and Other Lies): Postnatal Depression, Motherhood, and Trying to Actually Be Fine by Megan Blandford
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Category: Auto/Biography
"I slept through my first labour. 'Eventually a midwife woke me. 'It's time to push,' she said, pointing to the machine that was monitoring my baby. It showed contraction after contraction, spiking and declining with mountainous patterns like the heart rate machines on medical shows. Beside the machine ...Show more
A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena De Blasi
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Category: Auto/Biography
When Fernando spots her in a Venice caf and knows immediately that she is The One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American chef and food writer travelling in Italy, she is happy with her life. Yet within a few months of meeting Fernando, she quits her job, sells her house, kisses her t ...Show more
The Truth Hurts by Andrew Boe
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Category: Auto/Biography
Criminal justice systems have not been designed to seek the truth. In places like Australia, it remains an adversarial blood sport often distracted by smoke and mirrors. Navigating through it is difficult and uncertain for any one of us but more so if you are poor, not white - or not white enough - not ...Show more
Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions by Russell Brand
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Category: Auto/Biography
My qualification for writing this book is not that I am better than you; it's that I am worse. I am an addict-addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, money, love, and fame. This is the age of addiction, a condition so endemic, so all-encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an ext ...Show more
The Kowloon Kid: A Hong Kong Childhood by Phil Brown
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Category: Auto/Biography
From the author of Travels with My Angst and Any Guru Will Do a vivid, nostalgic, and funny memoir of growing up in Hong Kong in the 1960s.Phil Brown's life begins in small town Australia - Maitland to be precise - but in 1963 his father Ted hankers to return to the Hong Kong of his childhood and to cas ...Show more
Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell
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Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty. Set be ...Show more
What's It All About? by Michael Caine
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Category: Auto/Biography
Michael Caine is the best-loved film actor Britain has ever produced. Here, for the first time, he reveals the truth about his childhood, his family and his hard-fought journey from London to Hollywood, bringing to life the lean years and the triumphs with astonishing candour. And with typical charm and ...Show more
On Air (TP) by Mike Carlton
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Category: Auto/Biography
Mike Carlton was born to controversy. His father Jimmy, a renowned Olympic athlete and later a Catholic priest, married his mother after a whirlwind wartime courtship. This scandal was hushed up at first, but eventually it made headlines. Six years later, Jimmy Carlton died in his wife's arms, felled by ...Show more
How to Fall in Love With Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len Catron
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Category: Auto/Biography
In 2014, 33-year- old Mandy Len Catron went on a date with an acquaintance. They decided to try an experiment: inspired by a study designed to create romantic feelings, Mandy and Mark spent the evening asking each other 36 increasingly intimate questions, wondering if it would lead to them falling in lo ...Show more
Carrying The Fire by Collins, Michael
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Category: Auto/Biography
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events - technical and spiritual - of our lifetime.In ...Show more
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
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Category: Auto/Biography
The sensational Sunday Times #1 Bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.'An urgent clarion call.' The Financial TimesIn his massive Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of h ...Show more
Under the Wire by Paul Conroy
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Category: Auto/Biography
NOW A MAJOR FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria's civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin,one of the foremost war correspondents of her generation, decided to smuggle themselves acros ...Show more