Memoirs
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Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous
Cormorant Books£12.99| /“At least by reputation, I am a sex radical: gay activist dating back to the Cretaceous, defender of pedophiles, defender of (and participant in) s...
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Imprint
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /Imprint is a profound and courageous exploration of trauma, family, and the importance of breaking silence and telling stories. This book is a fres...
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In Search of a Family
Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc (US)£20.99| /This book takes the reader inside a personal journey through the unknowns of an international adoption. This true story takes place in the ex-Sovie...
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In the Flesh
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /Living is a process of continuous transformation: we have been embryos, children, adolescents, thin, fat, sick, better again. And as humans, we are...
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Inside Syria
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 in...
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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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Kaufman's Hill
Bancroft (US)£25.99| /Kaufman's Hill opens with a prosaic neighbourhood scene: The author and some other young boys are playing by the creek, one of their usual stomping...
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Kick the Tin
Spinifex Press£14.95| /When Doris Kartinyeri was a month old her mother died. Her family gathered to mourn their loss, and welcome the new baby home. But Doris never retu...
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Lasting Reward
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£22.99| /It was 1933 when Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov left Hamburg, the city of his birth. His traditional Jewish family made its way to the Land of Israel, fleein...
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Leaving New Jersey
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /This collection recounts the story of leaving America, where the author was born, and of arriving in Australia, where she did not plan to stay. It...
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Life at the Court of the Early Qajar Shahs
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£70.99| /This is a memoir translated into English for the first time, offers a uniquely intimate look at a world veiled by privilege and power. Its author, ...
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Life, Love and Laughter
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£15.99| /Luck played a major rolde in the life of John Ellis allowing him to survive WWII. Back home with his war-bride Joan, he worked his way up to being ...
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Lifetime for Hungary
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£15.99| /This is the memoir of Jeno halmaji Bor, Lieutenant-Field Marshal of the Royal Hungarian Army during World War II. During the course of his long lif...
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Light the Road of Freedom
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /Sahbaa Al-Barbari's story provides a unique perspective on Palestinian experience before and after the 1948 Nakba. Born in Gaza, Al-Barbari began h...
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Light within the Shadows
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£19.99| /This is a lively and moving memoir that chronicles Pnina Granirers life as an artist, wife and mother. Conceived as a play in three acts, it begins...
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Lorne Greenaway
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /A proud son of Bella Coola's Norwegian settlers, Lorne Greenaway grew up in the Okanagan in a time when kids left home after breakfast to face the ...
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Love the Work, But Hate the Business
Blue River Press (US)£17.99| /Join sportscaster Mel Proctor on his wild and wacky journey through the world of big time (and not so big time) professional sports broadcasting. R...
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Love Upon the Chopping Board
Spinifex Press£12.95| /Marou Izumo and Claire Maree met at a bar in Tokyo. Separated by seventeen years difference in age, by their cultural origins, and by the requireme...
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Master of None
Blacksmith Books (HK)£15.99| /From prison, company chairman John Hung recounts his life in a sweep of Hong Kong history -- from his family roots in the 19th century through Worl...
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Memories and Impressions
Ibex Publishers (US)£15.99| /Text in Persian. Bahram Erfan remembers and relates his impressions of growing up in the historical city of Isfahan, Iran and coming to the U.S, wh...
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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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Mission to Little Grand Rapids
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£19.99| /This posthumous memoir recounts the adventures of Luther Schuetze, who from 1927 to 1938 took the Gospel to one of Canada's First Nations, the Anis...
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Mountain Ranch at the End of the Road
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£25.99| /Two miles above the mighty Fraser River, the Empire Valley Ranch headquarters lay 80 gravel miles beyond the pavement. The range extended another 7...
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