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by Beth Ellis
<p>A young girl at the mercy of her abusive stepfather and the religious community that protects him - <em>Bad Things in the Night</em> is a moving true story of pain and triumph.</p> <p>As a child Beth was imprisoned within a Jehovah's Witness
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by Marshall Saunders
<p>Beautiful Joe was a dog from the town of Meaford, Ontario, whose story inspired the bestselling 1893 novel Beautiful Joe, which contributed to worldwide awareness of animal cruelty. The real Beautiful Joe was an Airedale-type dog. He was ...
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Being Kurdish in a Hostile World
by Ayub Nuri
<p>In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war, of living in refugee camps, and of years of ...
ISBN: 9780889774964
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Gulf Women of Remote North West Queensland
by Bronwyn Blake
ISBN: 9780733642203
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Five Slave Revolts
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
<p>Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. ...
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by Annabelle Brayley
Imagine yourself critically injured or seriously ill in the middle of nowhere. You'd be hoping like hell there was a doctor nearby to take charge; someone resourceful, who'd think quickly and stay calm under pressure; or even someone who could, ...
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by Annabelle Brayley
<p>Imagine yourself critically injured or seriously ill in the middle of nowhere. You'd be hoping like hell there was a doctor nearby to take charge; someone resourceful, who'd think quickly and stay calm under pressure; or even someone who ...
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by Annabelle Brayley
It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. These remarkable women patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive. They drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver ...
ISBN: 9780143571407
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by Katy Morgan-Davies
<p><em><strong>'I was the shadow child no one ever saw...'</strong></em></p> <p>From the day she was born until she escaped aged 30, Katy Morgan-Davies knew nothing but a life in captivity. Her father was the deluded and cruel leader of a cult ...
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The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
by Robert Macklin
ISBN: 9780733638497
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by Rosie Childs
<p>Because she was black, Clare Malone was the talk of her Liverpool council estate. Her mother and her mother's husband were both white and from birth she was stigmatised for this proof of her mother's infidelity. Clare was left in a bare, ...
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Cobbled Streets and Penny Sweets - Happy Times and Hardship in Post-War Britain
by Yvonne Young
<p>Born in 1950s Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Yvonne Young's childhood was spent at the heart of the city's industry. With her grandfather working as a ship painter, her Uncle Tom helping to build them, and neighbours working for the local armaments ...
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Conversations with a Gentle Soul
by Ahmed Kathrada
Without much fanfare Ahmed Kathrada worked alongside Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and other giants in the struggle to end racial discrimination in South Africa. He faced house arrest and many court trials related to his activism until, finally,
ISBN: 9781770105416
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Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars
by Norman Jacobs
<p>In this revealing memoir of childhood, the author shows not only what affected his family, but also reveals a large slice of social history concerning the lives of all ordinary working-class people struggling to live in the slums of the East ...
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a true story of war, exile, and a love reclaimed
by Leslie Maitland
<p>France, 1941. Janine, a Jewish teenager, and Roland, her Catholic boyfriend, are passionately in love, and believe that nothing can come between them. But World War II intervenes, and Janine is forced to flee the Nazis with her family. They ...
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by Cathy Glass
Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even ...
ISBN: 9780008252007
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Cruel to Be Kind: Part 1 of 3: Saying no can save a child’s life
by Cathy Glass
<p>Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is
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by Dinah O'Dowd
<p>Cry Salty Tears is the tale of a mother's survival and eventual triumph over almost unbelievable domestic hardship. Not only did Dinah O'Dowd face the harsh and unforgiving elements of her background - an upbringing in poverty-stricken 50s ...
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by Barry McGuigan
<p>On a hot summer's night, in June 1985, in one of the most emotionally charged fights of all time, Barry McGuigan beat Eusebio Pedroza to become the featherweight champion of the world. An epic battle that lasted a full 15 rounds, it remains ...
ISBN: 9780753547489
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