Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life

by Leigh Sales

As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking ...

ISBN: 9780143789963

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Arctic Survival

by Penguin Books Ltd

<p><strong>THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE</strong> <strong>for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do.</strong></p> <p>-----------------------------</p> <p>First issued to airmen

ISBN: 9781405933919

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Bad Things in the Night

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

ISBN: 9781446491751

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Beautiful Joe

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 ...

ISBN: 9781515416654

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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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Beyond the Outback

Gulf Women of Remote North West Queensland

by Bronwyn Blake

ISBN: 9780733642203

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Black Rebellion

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. ...

ISBN: 9781515416616

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Bush Doctors

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, ...

ISBN: 9780143799696

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Bush Doctors

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 ...

ISBN: 9781743485644

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Bush Nurses

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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Caged Bird

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 ...

ISBN: 9781473553651

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Castaway

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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Catch Me Before I Fall

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, ...

ISBN: 9780753547779

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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 ...

ISBN: 9781789460131

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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 ...

ISBN: 9781789460049

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Crossing the Borders of Time

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 ...

ISBN: 9781921942549

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Cruel To Be Kind

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

ISBN: 9780008252045

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Cry Salty Tears

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 ...

ISBN: 9781446455678

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