216 books (11 pages) in this category
Me Against the Mumbai Underworld
by Isaque Bagwan
<p>On some days, you are no less than Sherlock Holmes. But on others, you are just a regular policeman on bundobast duty. Me against the Mumbai Underworld is the story of Isaque Bagwan, three-time recipient of the President's Police Medal for ...
ISBN: 9789353051129
Binding: Kobo eBook
eBookA Memoir of Love and Loss
by Genevieve Fox
<p><strong>Honest, heartrending and full of humour, this is an extraordinary memoir about an unconventional childhood and the absurdities of the cancer experience. It is also, most importantly, a celebration of life.</strong></p> <p>When ...
ISBN: 9781473548886
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eBookby Fela and Felix Rosenbloom
<p><strong>In 1933, a ten-year-old Jewish girl, Fela Perelman, befriended a new family that had moved into her street in Lodz, Poland. There were three children in the Rozenblum family — Rose, Felix, and Maria. Fela and Rose became best friends,
ISBN: 9781925548525
Binding: Kobo eBook
eBookby Alexander Sinclair
<p>As a young boy, Alexander Sinclair was the target of his mother's irrational hatred. She stopped at no lengths in her campaign to tear him to pieces both mentally and physically. In his chilling memoir, Alex describes how he received the most
ISBN: 9781407026572
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eBookby Nikkia Roberson
<p>'<em>Why did you leave me? Why did you get messed up with all of those drugs? Why did you kill my brother and sister? Didn't you love us enough?</em>'</p> <p>Nikkia Roberson has been asking these questions for most of her life. But how else ...
ISBN: 9781448148431
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eBookMummy’s Little Soldier: A troubled child. An absent mum. A shocking secret.
by Casey Watson
<p>Casey’s Unit is, as ever, full of troubled, disaffected pupils, and new arrival Leo is something of a conundrum. Thirteen year old Leo isn’t a bad lad – in fact, he’s generally polite and helpful, but he’s in danger of permanent exclusion for
ISBN: 9780007595150
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by Frederick Douglass
<p>In Frederick Douglass' autobiography 'My Bondage and My Freedom' we can see the power of literacy and belief. Douglass transforms himself from slave to an abolitionist, journalist, orator, and one of the most powerful voices to emerge from ...
ISBN: 9781515409755
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eBookMy Dear Ones: One Family and the Final Solution
by Jonathan Wittenberg
A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people. Growing up in the safety of Britain, Jonathan Wittenberg was deeply aware ...
ISBN: 9780008158064
Binding: Paperback
With Linked Table of Contents
by Booker T. Washington
<p>In My Larger Education, Booker T. Washington explains how he came by his positions on race relations, by describing the people who influenced him during the founding of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute of Alabama. Washington was ...
ISBN: 9781515409724
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eBookMy Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
by Emmeline Pankhurst
<p><strong>Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form</strong></p> <p>WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPS</p> <p>Soldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in ...
ISBN: 9781473559561
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eBookMy Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette
by Emmeline Pankhurst
<b>Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture <i>Suffragette.</i></b><i></i>Emmeline Pankhurst was raised in a world that valued men over women. At fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting and returned home
ISBN: 9781784871253
Binding: Paperback
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
With Linked Table of Contents
by Frederick Douglass
<p>Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one of the most influential autobiographies ever written. This classic did as much as or more than any other book to motivate the abolitionist to continue to fight for freedom in American. ...
ISBN: 9781515409977
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eBookNo Mercy: True Stories of Disaster, Survival and Brutality
by Jenny Tabakoff
Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off. But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained ...
ISBN: 9781922147240
Binding: Paperback
by Joanne Lees
<i>My intention is simple - to take the reader on the same journey I took, and have them experience the real truth of it. This book is for me, my family, the Falconios, for Pete - and for anyone who has been the victim of violent crime.' ...
ISBN: 9780733638626
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eBookOne Man’s Extraordinary Escape from Mao’s Infamous Labour Camps
by Xu Hongci
<p>‘One of the greatest escape stories I’ve ever read’ <em>Mail on Sunday</em></p> <p><strong>An ordinary man’s extraordinary escape from Mao’s brutal labour camps</strong></p> <p>Xu Hongci was an ordinary medical student when he was ...
ISBN: 9781473528222
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eBookMy terrifying story of abuse at the hands of a vile sex ring
by Kate Elysia
<p><em>“They’d degraded me to the point where I’d become this sex thing – this thing that wasn’t human, but just an object. To the point where I believed that’s what I was.”</em></p> <p>Kate’s ordeal began when she was living in sheltered ...
ISBN: 9781473552340
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eBookNobody's Child - Against All the Odds, He Managed to Escape the Horrors of a Stolen Childhood
by Michael Seed & Noel Botham
<p>‘IF YOU READ ANY BOOK THIS YEAR, READ THIS ONE – MARTINA COLE</p> <p>‘A LIFE STORY FAR MORE INCREDIBLE THAN ANY BESTSELLER’ - JEFFREY ARCHER</p> <p>‘Sometimes today I still cry for the lonely, frightened little boy I was then – so unhappy ...
ISBN: 9781786064356
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eBookNobody’s Son: Part 3 of 3: All Alex ever wanted was a family of his own
by Cathy Glass
<p>Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows. When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can’t he stay with his present carers for the last ...
ISBN: 9780008187613
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eBookby Annabelle Brayley
The work of a nurse is challenging enough, but when you add a remote location, the stakes are so much higher. Meet fifteen courageous people who prove that the inland runs on nurse power. There's Anna, who is on duty as the fury of ...
ISBN: 9780143572688
Binding: Paperback
On a Wing and a Prayer: The Race that Stopped the World
by Di Websdale-Morrissey
In 1934, Melbourne's Lord Mayor announced a London-to-Melbourne air race to celebrate his city's centenary.<BR><BR>The audacious plan captured imaginations across the globe- newspapers and magazines everywhere were filled with it; the world's ...
ISBN: 9781925773989
Binding: Paperback