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Biography and Memoir August 2019
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Gentleman Jack : the real Anne Lister
by Anne Choma
Anne Lister was extraordinary. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to define her. She was a landowner, an industrialist and a prolific diarist, whose output has secured her legacy as one of the most fascinating figures of the 19th century.
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Six years in the Hanoi Hilton : an extraordinary story of courage and survival in Vietnam
by Amy Shively Hawk
Written by his stepdaughter, whose mother ultimately reunited with and married Shively in a triumphant love story, a biography of U.S. Air Force fighter pilot James Shively, based on extensive audio recordings and his own journals, chronicles the six brutal years he spent in Hanoi prison camps after being shot down over North Vietnam in 1967.
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Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class
by Alex Renton
This is the story of generations of parents, Britain's richest and grandest, who believed that being miserable at school was necessary to make a good and successful citizen. Childish suffering was a price they accepted for the preservation of their class, and their entitlement. The children who were moulded by this misery and abuse went on - as they still do - to run Britain's public institutions and private companies.
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My glory was I had such friends : a memoir
by Amy Silverstein
The award-winning author of Sick Girl traces the story of her second heart transplant, celebrating an extraordinary group of friends who flew across the country to support her throughout a wrenching wait and subsequent medical procedure.
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My (part-time) Paris life : how running away brought me home
by Lisa Anselmo
The author describes her experience searching for purpose and meaning in life after losing her mother to breast cancer and despite a fear of change, buys an apartment in Paris and discovers her life taking on a new, wonderful and completely unexpected shape.
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