Autobiography: General
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Goja
Spinifex Press£14.95| /Suniti Namjoshi grew up between the rich and the poor, between the ruling house of the Ranisaheb and the servant woman Goja, between the East of ex...
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Growing With ELI
Acadian House Publishing£18.99| /This is the third in a trilogy of inspiring, heartwarming books that tell the story of a Lafayette, La., couple and their child, Eli, who was born ...
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Home and Away
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /In her best-selling first book, Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (2005), Anny Scoones introduced readers to historic Glamorgan Farm. In Home and Away...
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Home to the Nechako
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /The people of the Nechako region are not unfamiliar with hardship, environmental devastation and protecting what they hold dear. June Wood chronicl...
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I Am Full Moon
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /In this lyrical memoir, Lily Hoy Price writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cari...
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Inside Syria -- A Physician's Memoir
Cune Press (US)£20.99| /This is a street level view of Syria from 1965 that is far more nuanced than most reports in the US media. Tarif Bakdash, MD, was born and raised i...
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Invisible Country
Paul Dry Books (US)£25.99| /Stephan Wackwitz's family "never spoke about the fact that the scene of their childhood and the site of the century's greatest crime were separated...
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J Paul Taylor
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£25.99| /This biography of one of New Mexico's most distinguished citizens, J Paul Taylor (born 1920) recounts the life of the legislator, educator, communi...
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Jiddu's Journey
Wisdom Tree (IND)£7.95| /In 1909 Charles Leadbeater, the leading member of the Theosophical Society, came across a young Brahmin boy on a beach in Adyar in Tamil Nadu. The ...
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Joan Martin (Yaarna)
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£23.99| /Joan Martin was born in the country town of Morawa, Western Australia, in 1941. She was a proud Widi woman whose traditional territory extended fro...
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Journeywoman
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Since women started working in the trades in the 1970s, very little has been published about their experiences. In this provocative and important b...
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Keeper of the Mountains
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£23.99| /Beginning in 1946, Elizabeth Hawley worked for Fortune magazine as a researcher. Shortly thereafter, she left both her job and the United States it...
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Kurlumarniny
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£24.99| /We come from the desert is the story of Minyjun (Monty Hale), a senior Ngulipartu man from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Written in his ...
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Leaning with Intent to Fall
Garrett County Press (US)£15.99| /This is the first literary book to emerge from bike-punk subculture. Author Ethan Clark -- who has passed the time riding bikes, drinking too much,...
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Lillian Alling
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /In 1926, Lillian Alling, a European immigrant, set out on a journey home from New York. She had little money and no transportation, but plenty of d...
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Materials Science Researcher Biographical Sketches & Research Summaries
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£194.99| /This book compiles biographical sketches of top professionals in the field of materials science, as well as research summaries from a number of dif...
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Matthew
Paul Dry Books (US)£25.99| /From the moment she first held her new-born son in her arms, Anne Crosby knew something was wrong with him. Although the staff at the London hospit...
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Memory is Our Home
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£20.00| /This is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of World War I, gre...
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My Father's Dream
Evelyn Kent (UK)£9.99| /In 1934, Jacob Lyon Gold emigrated to Palestine from the US, the teenage Harriett protested vehemently and vowed not to remain more than a year, ho...
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No Way to Run
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /On 3 September 2010, the RCMP in Grande Prairie, Alberta, received a 911 call from Mat Crichton about a shooting on a local farm. Seconds later, mi...
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Oscar of Between
Caitlin Press (CA)£13.99| /In 2007, at the age of sixty, Betsy Warland finds herself single and without a sense of family. On an impulse, she decides to travel to London to c...
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Out of the Blue
Jan Wong£16.99| /What happens when the place you've loved working at for twenty years asks for a divorce and breaks your heart?"Tapping into her journalistic rigour...
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Paint Me Black
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£18.99| /Claire Henty-Gebert's life is remarkable and inspiring. Born in the late 1930s, the daughter of a white settler and an Alyawarra woman, Claire was ...
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Passing Through Missing Pages
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Annie Garland Foster was born in Fredericton, NB, in 1875. She was an educator, nurse, politician, social reformer, journalist and biographer of Pa...
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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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