Births Deaths and Marriages
Births Deaths and Marriages; A brutally honest account of love, marriage, families and death. It wasn't until years later that I realized the obvious - the difference between us and the mythical normal family I was certain existed, was in fact the fiction.
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The Steele Diaries
The Steele Diaries; The only child of two famous but self-absorbed artists, Zelda Steele is adopted by her parent's patrons when she is just a baby. Great things are expected of this privileged young woman, but at twenty- seven Zelda is dead, leaving two young children and a body of work that only hints at her promise.
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The Last Concubine
The Last Concubine; Epic history and romance combine in a sweeping novel featuring the beautiful mistress of the last shogun emperor.
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Beautiful Boy & Tweak
Beautiful Boy written by David Sheff tells of a father's journey through his son's meth addiction showing the addiction and the real-time chronicle of a son's shocking descent into substance abuse and his gradual emergence into hope.
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The Biographer
The Biographer; A forthright investigation of human frailty and emotion with a plot that keeps you in its thrall until the last word.
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The After Life
The After Life; A powerful, heartbreaking and yet at times irresistibly comic memoir of childhood and madness. Centre'd on the author's experiences in her last year of school, drug addiciton, her love affair, attempted suicide and an interlude in a psychiatric hospital.
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Not the Girl Next Door
A personal biography written by Charlotte Chandler, titled Not the Girl Next Door, this is a compelling Hollywood story- this time exploring the ever-complex Joan Crawford.
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Stanley and Sophie
Stanley and Sophie; I fell in love with a prideful bundle of muscle that stood seventeen inches high. You would see a small brown dog; I saw perfection.
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Mahtab's Story
Mahtab's Story; The vivid and compelling story of a young girl fleeing Afghanistan with her family and their journey to Australia. Inspired by a true story.
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The Second Plane
The Second Plane; Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.
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