Memoirs
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Pinch Me
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£15.99| /Pinch Me. Why pinch me? So I can be sure that this happiness I feel is not a dream, that my life has really changed so much since I was a fat littl...
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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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Porcupines to Polar Bears
Dragon Hill Publishing (US)£14.99| /Storyteller Jerry Haigh shares his adventures as a wildlife veterinarian with the University of Saskatchewan and coming from a clinic at the base o...
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Prostitution Narratives
Spinifex Press£19.95| /For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that sex work is...
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Pursuing China
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and so...
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Put the Billy On
Interactive Press£23.99| /Winner, 2008 IP Picks Best Creative Non-fiction Award. A nostalgic insight into what it was like to grow up in Australia in the 1930s and 40s, mixe...
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Rebooting in Beverly Hills
Bancroft (US)£23.99| /This is Sex & the City for the next generation. It's the witty, charming, and absolutely true account of Marcy Miller, a competent, attractive ...
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Redemption
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £19.99Current price £14.99| /Why do people join gangs? Once entrenched in a life of crime with its realities of incarceration, addiction, power, and money, is it possible to ev...
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Redfern
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£26.99| /In the 1970s, Redfern, an inner-city suburb of metropolitan Sydney, became the epicentre for Aboriginal intellectuals and ambitious young radicals....
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Reefer Gladness
Huntington Press Inc (US)£16.99| /Best-selling author Michael Konik abstained from using, or even trying marijuana until he was nearly 40. Then he went to Amsterdam. No longer able ...
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Reena
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Shortlisted for the 2009 George Ryga Award. This is the story of an average family that has never been the same . . . since its eldest child was sw...
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Rehtaeh Parsons Was My Daughter
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Rehtaeh Parsons was a gifted teenager with boundless curiosity and a love for family, science, and the natural world. At 15, she aspired to become ...
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Return to Vienna
Ariadne Press (US)£19.99| /In Austrian literary circles, Hilde Spiel (1911-1990) [BJ1]is known as the grande dame of post-war Austrian literature. Published widely in both En...
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Road to Australia
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£21.99| /The road to Australia was a very long one indeed for Russian ethnographer -- Vladimir Kabo whose lifetime passion has been the study of this commen...
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Roadtripping
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Roadtripping documents a decade of road trips through the fiefdom of Alberta. The men and women who make up the Buffalo Gals first set out in July ...
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Sand for Snow
DC Books (US)£12.99| /Robert Edison Sandiford moved from Canada to his parents' native Barbados in 1996. He went for 'wife and work' -- his new bride was a Bajan, and he...
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Sawdust... When the Dust Has Settled
Digital Publishing Centre£25.99| /Sexual abuse of children is all too common in society today. Media reports focus on the crime and its consequences without offering constructive ad...
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Seen and Unseen
Interactive Press Australia£25.99| /Malaria, cockfights and magic are confronting realities in the Asia-Pacific region, yet beyond these more remains unseen and misunderstood. These c...
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Shadows in Paradise
Digital Publishing Centre£25.99| /An insightful account of a woman's perseverance through adoption secrecy and red tape, Shadows in Paradise traces Carolann Dowding's search for her...
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Sheriff of Wan Chai
Blacksmith Books (HK)£10.99| /In 1976, Peter Mann left a gloomy England for the last corner of the British empire: Hong Kong. As a police inspector, he commanded a sub-unit and ...
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Small Courage
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /"A moving and inspiring memoir of a same-sex couple as they create a life together, adopt twins, and overcome challenges, from outside and within, ...
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Somebody's Child
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /UNIVERSAL STORIES OF LONGING AND BELONGING Our quest for origin and, by extension, identity is universal to the human experience. For the twenty-f...
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Song for Rosaleen
Massey University Press£23.99| /A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mothers dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmonds life an...
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South Away
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /South Away is an adventure story of the authors bicycle trip with her sister from Terrace, BC along the West coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja...
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