Autobiography: General
Subjects
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Pomegranate Years
Paul Dry Books (US)£19.99| /This is an intimate account of three years lived on the island of Crete, documents a turbulent, stressful time of economic and political crisis in ...
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Portrait of a Holocaust Child
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /Portrait is an artistic book which uniquely tells the true story of Rita Kasimow Brown's experience of hiding in an underground pit from the Nazi d...
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Prisoner of Dreams
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /An African American soldier returns home to New York City from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. It is a time and turbulence and change. Racism is...
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Proteins Researcher Biographical Sketches & Research Summaries
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£84.99| /This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of proteins, as well as research summaries from a number of different fo...
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Ralph Edwards of Lonesome Lake
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£15.99| /A trilogy of stories by the Edwards family about their fascinating life in the Bella Coola area. Often called "The Crusoe of Lonesome Lake," becaus...
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Reflexions
Brick Tower Press (UK)£14.95| /The book begins in New York in 1951 where Olney, a struggling artist, waited tables in Greenwich Village, then moves to Paris and weaves a magical ...
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Rittenhouse Writers
Paul Dry Books (US)£20.99| /James Rahn has led the Rittenhouse Writers' Group since he founded it in 1988, making it one of America's longest-running independent fiction works...
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Rolling On
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Gary McPherson contracted life-threatening polio during the epidemic of 1955 which left him a quadriplegic. He retains just enough coarse movement ...
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Rosine, the Midwife
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Between 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States in search of wo...
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Sailing Uphill
Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Sam McKinney has spent many of the best parts of his life on the water -- sailing a dory along Canada's west coast, crewing on the deck of a river ...
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Sam Steele & the Northwest Rebellion
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at...
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Sir John Franklin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Ere...
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Snippets from the Trenches
Freda Wagman (US)£18.99| /"The really extraordinary thing about this book is that it tells the story of how one mother embarked on her feverish course of involvement in the ...
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Snow Bodies
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Snow Bodies is a memoir of a young woman's life on the streets of Calgary and Vancouver in the early 1970s, in the vein of Evelyn Lau's Runaway. Di...
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Soul to Soul
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /When she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2007, Deborah Masel's life collapsed. Two and a half years later, her struggle to find mean...
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Standing My Ground
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.95| /For over five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-gras...
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Survivors
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This is not just another Holocaust photo album. It is a special work that confirms optimism and vitality. It deals with the cycle of life and its w...
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Take It Lying Down
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /Six months shy of retirement and on a family vacation in Mexico, Jim Linnell steps off the porch of a rented guest house and breaks his neck. He is...
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The Ballad of Jacob Peck
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hal...
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The Earth Remembers Everything
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /This is a masterful blend of history, travel and poetic narrative, tracing the author's journeys to some of the most difficult destinations in the ...
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The Fisher Queen
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /It's 1981, and Sylvia Taylor has signed on as rookie deckhand on a wallowy 40-foot salmon troller. Looking forward to making money for university, ...
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The Legendary Betty Frank
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /She grew up playing on log booms and living in float houses, and at nine years old she learned to shoot a rifle and hunt game. Strong-willed and in...
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The Ranch on the Cariboo
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /It was the summer of '43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on th...
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The Trouble with Lions
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the...
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