Memoirs
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Stories Best Left Untold
Great Plains Publications£23.99| /Gord Mackintosh was not your typical politician and this book is not your typical political memoir. Mackintosh steps out of his familiar role as th...
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Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police
Blacksmith Books£13.99| /Fighting to survive on a police patrol launch during a typhoon, and investigating a murder by a Vietnamese gangster in a refugee camp. Battling rio...
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Stories My Father Told Me
Cune Press (US)£24.99| /Twenty-five paintings by Helen Zughaib accompanied by text based on favorite stories told by her father about life in Syria and Lebanon in the 1930...
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Strange Relation
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /In 2004 Rachel Hadas's husband, George Edwards, a composer and professor of music at Columbia University, was diagnosed with early-onset dementia a...
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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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Taken by the Muse
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /Laced with humour and revelation, Anne Wheelers creative non-fiction stories tell of her serendipitous journey in the seventies, when she broke wi...
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Te Papa to Berlin
Otago University Press£20.00| /Ken Gorbey is a remarkable man who for 15 years was involved with developing and realising the revolutionary cultural concept that became Te Papa T...
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Teaching English to Refugees
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£24.00| /Robert Radins Teaching English to Refugees does it all, weaving together memoir, philosophy of language, social-justice advocacy, and graphic narr...
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The Alam Diaries: Volume VII
Ibex Publishers (US)£61.99| /The Diaries of Asadollah Alam may be the most important document about the inner workings of the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi period. These candid, almost...
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The Art of Disappearing
Interactive Press Australia£23.99| /A memoir about surviving a childhood navigating around a violent and abusive father, and how the past influenced the author's professional life and...
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The Australian Dream and $1 Properties
Interactive Press£29.99| /Self-made multi-millionaire Peter Yong Huang talks about how he arrived in Australia with US$100 in his pocket and then, out of sheer dedication an...
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The Co-op Revolution
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /We were undercapitalized, inexperienced, practiced democratic decision-making and some of us smoked dope occasionally. All elements that would make...
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The Dog Comes With The Practice
Clinical Press Ltd£14.50| /Tom Baskett's The Dog Comes With The Practice is a memoir that is in turns both deeply touching and laugh-out-loud funny. He recalls his early year...
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The Dragon Run
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Tony Robinson-Smith, his wife Nadya, and ten Bhutanese college students set out to run 578 kilometres (360 miles) across the Kingdom of Bhutan in t...
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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 Girl Who Dreamed
Blacksmith Books£13.99| /At the age of 14, Sonia Leung was raped by her ping-pong coach. She had moved from China two-and-a-half years earlier to join her family in Hong Ko...
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The Girl with the Cardboard Port
Digital Publishing Centre£25.99| /Starker than a tabloid report, more vivid than a television feature, McNeil's extraordinary, uncompromising autobiography takes you to the dark pla...
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The Grand Tour
Boulder Publications£19.99| /Like young people today, Dave Quinton yearned to explore the world after finishing his university studies. In 1960, four years before becoming host...
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The Grass Library
Brandl & Schlesinger£20.99| /A philosophical and poetic journey that recounts the authors relationship with his four sheep and other animals in his home in the Blue Mountains....
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The Importance of Being Cool
Interactive Press£25.99| /Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear! Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searin...
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The Light Through the Trees
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /This is a remarkable and deeply wise reflection on land, farming, a sense of place, connecting with nature and what it means to live on this earth....
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The Paper Nautilus
Otago University Press (NZ)£19.00| /The Paper Nautilus is about loss the forms it takes, how we go on living in the face of it, and the mysterious ways that new life and new beginni...
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The Rage Less Traveled
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /After being brutally hacked at with a machete multiple times and with her friend murdered in front of her eyes, Kay Wilson somehow managed not only...
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