The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy; Hugo Vickers
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Reading Level: very good
'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'One of the funniest, most eccentric books of the year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's offici ...Show more
Elizabeth Taylor - The Grit and Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower
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Category: Biography & True Stories
The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biog ...Show more
The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Weird Fiction Ser.
A chilling tale for H.P. Lovecraft fansMiskatonic University, Arkham, 1908. Professor Nathaniel Peaslee collapses in front of a class of students, only coming to his senses five years later. Horrified to discover that his body has been far from inactive during the intervening period--and plagued by unse ...Show more
You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck
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Category: Biography & True Stories
There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck has lived every one of those miles in his own iconoclastic and joyful way. Frank, funny and open-hearted, Y ...Show more
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui
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Category: Biography & True Stories
The true story of a 10-year-old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. Nujood's childhood came to an abrupt end when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujoo ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
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Category: Biography & True Stories
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya
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Category: Biography & True Stories
"With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful front. But no one could conceal from her the ominous ...Show more
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
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Category: Biography & True Stories
'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir ... and it may just save lives' Daily Mail'Funny, fascinating, compelling ... also a wonderful read for fans of Friends' The TimesThe beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funn ...Show more
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
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Category: Biography & True Stories | Series: Picador Collection
Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's histor ...Show more
If You Would Have Told Me - A Memoir by John Stamos
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Category: Biography & True Stories
"...I love him, and I respect him, and I need him. We all do."--from the foreword by Jamie Lee Curtis If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad's fast-food joint that one day he'd be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he'd be living alone, divorced, wit ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke Marcus
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Category: Biography & True Stories
This great Australian classic was first published in 1874 - a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper. It follows the story of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder which he did not commit. The harsh and inhumane treatmen ...Show more
The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot
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Category: Biography & True Stories
<b>The fourth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series <i>All Creatures Great and Small.</i></b> Finally home from London after his wartime service in the RAF, James Herriot is settling back into life as a country vet. While the world has change ...Show more