| Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen EllisFunny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynaecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.
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Body Image Warrior : An Insider's Fight for Change in the Modelling Industry
by Chelsea Bonner
In 2002 Chelsea Bonner founded BELLA, a modelling agency focused on healthy body size and dedicated to changing our dangerously narrow perception of 'beautiful'. Chelsea was born into the Australian entertainment industry, daughter of one of the country's most famous media couples, and grew up with the painful reality of her family life hidden behind a facade of gloss. She was expected to follow effortlessly in her parents' beautiful shadows, but her natural body shape led to teenage rebellion. Instead, Chelsea decided on a career as a modelling agent and, shocked at what she witnessed, became determined to change the industry from within.
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| Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen by Mary NorrisWhat it's about: New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris' passion for Greek language, history, and culture, which began in unlikely earnest after she saw the science fiction film Time Bandits, partially set in ancient Greece. A blend of memoir and travelogue. |
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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive
by Stephanie Land
An economic-hardship journalist describes the years she worked in low-pay domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
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Maybe Esther : a family story
by Katja Petrowskaja
A Kiev native traces the story of her family in 20th-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Germany, conveying in a series of short meditations the formative experiences of ancestors ranging from an assassin and a Bolshevik revolutionary to an orphanage manager and a victim of the Nazis.
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Madam, Where Are Your Mangoes? : an Episodic Memoir
by Desmond de Silva
This is the definitive account of high-profile lawyer Desmond de Silva's life and work, from the prosecution of Charles Taylor for war crimes in Sierra Leone, to defending household names such as John Terry, via murder, celebrity and spy cases
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Akhenaten : Egypt's False Prophet
by Nicholas Reeves
In Akhenaten, Nicholas Reeves presents an entirely new perspective on the turbulent events of Akhenaten’s seventeen-year reign. Reeves argues that, far from being the idealistic founder of a new faith, the Egyptian ruler cynically used religion for political gain in a calculated attempt to reassert the authority of the king and concentrate all power in his hands.
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From Cadet to Commodore : the End of a Sea-going Era
by Robert Royan
Robert Royan joined the maritime training ship HMS Conway in 1944 at the start of a career in the Merchant Navy which was to last forty-six years. During that time he was to witness the build- up of the UK merchant fleet after the war and also the end of this sea-going era during as British crews faded away and the fleet increasingly operated under flags of convenience. We follow the young Robert Royan’s two-year training course and early voyages as a cadet and trace his career through the ranks until he obtained a ship as master in 1970.
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War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line
by David Nott
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital.
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Homes : A Refugee Story
by Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah
The story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before the start of the Syrian civil war. In 2014 his family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada.
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Mademoiselle : Coco Chanel and the pulse of history
by Rhonda K. Garelick
An extensive portrait of the 20th-century fashion maven examines her critical place in history and the talents through which she internalized and transmitted cultural trends, drawing on extensive portraits of her intimates to offer insights into her creativity and business savvy.
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Untitled : the Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
by Anna Pasternak
"Untitled" presents Wallis Simpson as a warm, loyal, intelligent woman adored by her friends, who was written off by cunning, influential Establishment men seeking to diminish her and destroy her reputation. Far from being the villain of the abdication, she was the victim. Using testimony from their inner circle of friends, Pasternak presents a very different Wallis Simpson. With empathy, intimacy and thorough research, this book will make readers view her story as it has never been told before.
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| Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living by Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle A therapeutic and life-affirming family road trip. Nonagenarian Norma, forgoes intensive chemotherapy after her terminal cancer diagnosis to tour the country with her retired son Tim and his wife, Ramie, in their "mobile assisted living home."
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| In Other Words by Jhumpa LahiriPulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's bilingual memoir of how her love of Italian prompted her to move her family to Rome, where she made surprising discoveries about her identity as a writer.
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