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Sub-Categories of Biography
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Real George Freemen: Thief Race Fixer Standover Man and Underworld Crim...
Tony Reeves
Biography
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Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders
Peter T Maiken, Terry Sullivan
Biography; Autobiography: general; True crime
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Originally published: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1983. [more]
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The Book of My Lives
Aleksandar Hemon
Biography; Memoirs
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Begins in Sarajevo, a small city where a young boy's life is consumed by football, by resentment of his younger sister, and... [more]
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom...
Blaine Harden
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History
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Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape ... [more]
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Sinning Across Spain: A Walker's Journey from Granada to Galicia
Ailsa Piper
Memoirs; Christian worship, rites & ceremonies; Travel & holiday; Travel writing
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Sinning Across Spain is the story of Ailsa Piper's 1300 kilometre walk from the southern city of Granada to Galicia, the... [more]
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Kiss of the She-Devil
M. William Phelps
Biography; True crime
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When librarian Martha Gail Fulton was gunned down in a Michigan parking lot on a quiet evening, there were two obvious suspects... [more]
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Sex, Drugs and Meditation: A Memoir
Mary-Lou Stephens
Biography; Biography: general; Memoirs
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Miraculously, Mary-Lou Stevens has just made it into her forties. With the aid of therapy and NA/AA she has overcome a tricky... [more]
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The Portable Malcolm X Reader
Garrett Felber, Professor Manning Marable (Columbia University)
Autobiography: general; Anthologies (non-poetry); Black & Asian studies
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A new look at Malcolm X's life and times. Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,... [more]
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Cliffy: The Cliff Young Story
Julietta Jameson
Biography: general; Track & field sports, athletics
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When a 61-year-old potato farmer from Colac came out of nowhere to win the most arduous road running race ever attempted in... [more]
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Bush Nurses: Inspiring True Stories of Nursing Bravery and Ingenuity in...
Annabelle Brayley
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; Nursing
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It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. They patch people up and keep them alive... [more]
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The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of...
Kim Ghattas
Autobiography: historical, political & military; History; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Political leaders & leadership; Diplomacy
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The first inside account to be published about Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state, anchored by Ghattas's own perspective... [more]
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Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir
Kristina Olsson
Biography; Memoirs
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A powerful family memoir from the award-winning author of The China Garden Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter,... [more]
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Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts
Stacy A Cordery
Biography; Autobiography: general; Autobiography: historical, political & military; Gender studies: women
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In celebration of the Girl Scouts' centennial, a lively salute to its maverick founder. Born at the start of the Civil War,... [more]
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Cocaina: A Book on Those Who Make it
Magnus Linton
Biography; History of ideas; Crime & criminology; Drugs trade & trafficking; Geopolitics
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A brilliant work of immersive journalism. [more]
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The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola
Paul Theroux
Memoirs; Travel & holiday; Travel writing
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Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari, the author sets out this time from Cape Town, heading... [more]
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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
Orlando Figes
Biography; History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Political oppression & persecution
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Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and the Gulag, stayed true to each other and exchanged... [more]
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Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John
Helen Trinca
Biography; Biography: general; Autobiography: general; Biography: literary; Autobiography: literary; Gender studies: women
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The remarkable, moving story of the troubled life of Madeleine St John, author of The Women in Black. [more]
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Kitty's War
Janet Butler
Biography; Memoirs
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<div>The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton</div><div><br /></div><div>Kitty’s War is based upon the previously... [more]
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Why God Hates Me: A Memoir
Patricia Barton
Biography; Autobiography: general; Memoirs; Social services & welfare, criminology
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A beautifully written and inspiring memoir, Why God Hates Me is the before and after story of a gutsy teenager who succeeds... [more]
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Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
Ben Macintyre
Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; General & world history; History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Ethnic studies
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From the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat and Agent Zigzag comes the fascinating story of Elisabeth Nietzsche--sister... [more]
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Drive Around the World: One Family, One Car, One Year, One Planet
Danny Blay, Sandra Khazam
Memoirs; Travel & holiday; Travel writing
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'We've driven around Australia, how about we drive around the world?' And with this one fanciful remark, the seeds were sown... [more]
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Australia's Most Evil Women
Paul B. Kidd
Biography; True crime; Crime & criminology
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It's a little-known fact that Australia has some of the most evil murderesses in history. This is arguably the most chilling... [more]
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Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
Neil McKenna
Biography: general; True stories; History; Social & cultural history; Gender studies, gender groups
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28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre.... [more]
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The Velvet Pouch
Holly Hill
Biography; Memoirs
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Holly Hill's Sugarbabe, the true and very sexy story of Holly's search for a sugardaddy to bankroll her day-to-day expenses... [more]
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Shirl: The Life of Legendary Larrikin Graeme 'Shirley' Strachan
Jeff Apter
Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: general; Biography: arts & entertainment
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He was always 'Shirley', from the time his teenage surfie mates re-christened him to the day he died in a helicopter crash... [more]
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