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"Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author's ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they experience the joys and challenges of Black American womanhood"--
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Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands. He lives alone, with no electricity or running water. His home is a log cabin nestled near Loch Treig, known as 'the lonely loch', where he lives off the land: he fishes for his supper, chops his own wood, and even brews his own tipple. He is, in the truest sense of the word, a hermit. For the first time, Ken shares the story of his life. From his working-class origins in Derbyshire,...
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On 13 June 2020, Patrick Hutchinson, a black man, was photographed carrying a white injured man to safety during a confrontation in London between Black Lives Matter demonstrators and counter-protestors. The image went viral and quickly travelled around the world with Patrick being widely praised for his actions. In the press interviews that followed Patrick revealed a simple philosophy for his own personal beliefs on racism and why he had responded...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family rich • Cornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in the USAW. K. Kellogg who started the world's biggest cereal company • Elizabeth Arden who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company • Walt Disney who started the famous entertainment company • Soichiro Honda who started the Honda motorbike...
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is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley, 13, has been sectioned under the mental health act after attempting suicide. She was spotted climbing the railings on a footbridge that crossed a busy motorway and pulled to safety by a member of the public. After six weeks in hospital, social services are looking for a short-term placement so she can be kept safe while family therapy takes place. Harley has...
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In this inspiring memoir, undefeated five-time world champion boxer Andre Ward-aka "Son of God"-shares the gripping narrative of his unforgettable career, his rock-solid faith, and why boxing was never the biggest fight of his life.
Andre Ward was the undefeated middle weight boxing champion of the world when he walked away from the ring and did not look back. Now that he has taken off his gloves for the final time, the Olympic gold medalist is ready...
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Transport yourself into a world of magic, secrets and never-before-told stories with Joel M — TikTok's favourite magician star. Interwoven with hilarious anecdotes that will leave you on the edge of your seat, Joel delves into his own personal story, including why he turned to magic, how it helped him transform his life and how it could do the same for you. Touching on his favourite tricks, on-stage slip-ups and successes, magical heroes, social...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook • Humphry Davy who discovered 'laughing gas' • Charles Darwin who changed people's ideas with his theory of evolution • Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science of genetics • Louis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germs • Francis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA BRITISH...
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This is the heartbreaking story of the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a personal and heartfelt account of a crime that shocked the nation in a unique way and tore a family in two. A vulnerable and shy girl, Becky Watts was brutally murdered and dismembered by her own step-brother on 19 February 2015. As her father Darren discovered the horrific details of what happened to his darling girl, his world fell apart. Writing about...
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Crime meets Too Fat to Fish with the mad flavor of The Corporation in the highly anticipated debut memoir by Joey "Coco" Diaz. Born in Havana in 1963, Joey is brought to New York City as a toddler when his single mother flees Cuba under an alias after killing her sister's rapist. As she pursues her American Dream opening a bar and a bookmaking operation, Joey struggles to find his place as an immigrant in the world of violence, drugs, Santeria, and...
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'I knew dogs could make a difference to the children's lives. I knew it the moment I watched a little boy, exhausted by pain and sickness, stretch out his hand to touch my dog's paw, and then...he smiled.' Lyndsey Uglow has endured and overcome mental health challenges and much personal pain, including her young son's battle with Leukaemia. Lyndsey knows only too well the emotional rollercoaster experienced by parents supporting their children through...
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And yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view: one that details the realities and contradictions of patriotism, examines the role of class and privilege in Nigerian society, juxtaposes inherited tradition with the diasporic experience and explores the power of storytelling and its intrinsic link to Nigeria's history. Within these pages, acclaimed and award-winning writers share memories and experiences...
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Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon: Harry Styles.
Harry Styles has grown up. The One Direction boy band member so loved by millions has become a truly global superstar – and he’s done it without shouting from the rooftops or displaying a mammoth ego.
In this captivating biography for fans from day one as well as a whole new generation, Sean Smith chronicles the development of a...
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The 80s transformed life as we knew it. Music, style and culture exploded in a haze of dayglo colour. There were hardships, but there were opportunities too. And I lived through - and helped to shape - Britain's last real youth movement. is my time-warp trip down memory lane, reliving that truly unforgettable decade. Join me as I recall what it was like to lead the New Romantics, stay up all night at the Blitz with Sade and Boy George, travel the...
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Magnus's first book was a humble yet heart-warming look at the impact of Mary's Meals, and how it transformed the lives of over a million children throughout the world. It sat firmly within the 'inspirational memoir' genre and told the extraordinary story of how Mary's Meals was established.
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PC Gareth Greaves first met Theo, a German Shepherd, when he was a 14-week-old puppy. Since then they have been inseparable. The best partner Gareth's ever had, Theo has saved his handler's life many times as well as the lives of countless others. In six-and-a-half years of active service, police dog Theo has located, tracked and detained suspects leading to more than 200 arrests. In that time, he has endured broken ribs, been bitten by assailants...
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In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother. Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but desperate to keep hold of her daughter, Alice's mother snatches her from her parents' house and disappears. Cathy spends three anxious days worrying...
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When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be brought to Cathy with a police escort as it's vital her extended family don't know where she is. Abandoned at birth, Cathy and her family quickly bond with little Darcy-May although they have to accept she will...
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'May you live in interesting times' says the proverbial Chinese curse. And it is difficult to think of a recent period in which politics have been so unpredictable and fast-changing. As Political Editor of the Sunday Times, Tim Shipman has been at the forefront of it all. His book of last year, All Out War has become the book on the 2016 Referendum campaign. With unprecedented access to all key players on all sides, the book was hailed on publication...
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Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, “Accordion Eulogies” is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument.
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure: That he had abandoned his family, and had possibly done something awful that put a curse on his descendants. About his grandfather,...