Memoirs
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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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My Planets
Interactive Press£23.99| /Imagine this. You're 50 years old. An only child, from a Jewish family. The people you thought of as your mother and father are dead. Then, in the ...
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My Precious Abalone
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /It all started with a pure and honest prayer in one of the holiest and most sacred places on earth. Follow one womans incredible journey of courag...
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My Private China
Blacksmith Books (HK)£10.99| /What do normal people in China look forward to when they get up in the morning? What is the mentor of Lang Lang like? What about the personal frien...
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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me...
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New Ground
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /In the late fifties, Ann Kujundzic, her husband and artist Zeljko, and three children -- with a fourth on the way -- packed up their lives in post-...
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Nga Kete Matauranga
Otago University Press£31.00| /In this beautiful and transformative book, 24 Māori academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Māori has meant for them in their...
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No One's Child
Digital Publishing Centre£23.99| /In No One's Child, Judith takes you on a haunting pilgrimage to her life 'along the railway tracks,' with an intense and vivid portrait of Australi...
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North of Iskut
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /In 1971 Tor Forsberg was twenty-three and her life was at a crossroads. Having returned to Watson Lake in the Yukon after five years in Montreal, s...
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O Sister Swallow
Spinifex Press£14.95| /In this exquisite elegy, Suniti Namjoshi reflects on the life of her sister Bharati, their overlapping yet disparate lives, their nearness and dist...
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Of Earthly and River Things
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /"One could do worse than to grow up on a river." In his new collection of essays, Wayne Curtis voyages back through the tributaries of his past, th...
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On Foot to Canterbury
University of Alberta Press (CA)£20.99| /Setting off on foot from Winchester, Ken Haigh hikes across southern England, retracing one of the traditional routes that medieval pilgrims follow...
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One Minute Crying Time
Massey University PressOriginal price £30.99Current price £26.99| /This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in We...
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Open Hearts
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£19.99| /From his childhood in South Africa to his education and marriage in England and his eventual career in Israel, renowned cardiac surgeon Professor J...
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Operation Ark
Claret Press£12.99| /"Operation Ark was always about people and animals. Pen Farthing’s actions were nothing short of heroic." -- Ricky Gervais 67 People. 171 Animals. ...
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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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Our Backs Warmed by the Sun
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /For many, the Doukhobor story is a sensational one: arson, nudity and civil disobedience once made headlines. But it isnt the whole story. Our Bac...
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Our Trip Around the World
Rocky Mountain Books£22.99| /A spirited 1950s travelogue that takes the reader around the world during a time when two independent young women travelling alone was considered a...
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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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Paris Nights
Primedia Elaunch LLC£17.99| /Paris Nights: My Year at the Moulin Rouge opens with a bored twenty-seven-year old Cliff Simon staring out at the ocean from his beachfront house, ...
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Paul and Paula
Monash University Publishing£25.99| /'In fifty years … nobody will then know anything about our troubles.' 1939: Paul Kurz – engineer, refugee from Vienna and Dunera Boy – is separated...
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Paul Driessen
At Bay Press£19.99| /PAUL DRIESSEN was born in 1940, just before The Netherlands were invaded by Nazi Germany and his family lived through the Nazi occupation of Hollan...
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Peculiar Lessons
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £19.99Current price £7.99| /Part memoir, part social history, this collection of ten essays explores the various physical and natural elements that form the backdrop to Braun...
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Pickled Punks and Girlie Shows: A Life Spent on the Midways of America
Schiffer£22.99| /Step down a little closer; you don't want to miss a thing. Join fifty-year sideshow veteran, Rick West, on a strange and wonderful trip through beh...
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Pilgrimage to the Saga-Steads of Iceland: 2015
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£30.00| /In 1897 W G Collingwood and Jón Stefánsson undertook a journey to Iceland in order to visit, explore and paint the locations of some of the most pr...
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