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Sociopath: A Memoir
An utterly compelling, drily funny, and, at times, jaw-dropping account of life as a diagnosed sociopath from a music manager who retrained as a thera
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Legacy: A Memoir
Jean Barr opens the antique chest she inherited from her great-great-uncle Alexander and unravels the strands of his life as an evangelical Presbyteri
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Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir
Born in the cradle of upper-middle-class privilege in a Mumbai Parsi household and educated at one of IndiaÂ’s finest schools, Kobad GhandyÂ’s life an
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The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir
Anotace: In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the 1980s, her great-grandmother would take pains to avoid walking past it. In 2014, while the Russian state was annexing Crimea, Vi...
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Finding Dora Maar - An Artist, an Address Book, a Life
Merging memoir, biography, and cultural history, this distinctive book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907-1997) through a ser
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Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer - neuveden
Anotace: The Sunday Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 `Book of the Week`Full of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister`s memoir Nothing But The Truth tracks their transformation from hang `em and flog `em austerity-supporter to celebrated, campaigning, bestselling author.`Masterful, compassionate and hilarious` - Adam RutherfordIn a diary that takes us beh...
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Girl in a Band. A memoir - Kim Gordon
<p>Evocative and edgy, filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a transformative life, Girl in a Band is the fascinating chronicle of a remarkable journey and an extraordinary artist.</p> <p>In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about her...
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir - RuPaul
Anotace: From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspec...
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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir - RuPaul
<p>From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introsp...
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The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir - Victoria Belim
<p>In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands a building known as the Rooster House, an elegant mansion with two voluptuous red roosters flanking the door. It doesn't look horrifying. And yet, when Victoria was a girl growing up in the 1980s, her great-grandmother would take pains to avoid walking past it. In 2014, while the Russian state was annexing Crimea, Victoria ...
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Blue : A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces - Sutherland John
Anotace: A searingly honest memoir of life, policing and falling apart `Every contact leaves a trace` John Sutherland joined the Met in 1992, having dreamed of being a police officer since his teens. Rising quickly through the ranks, and compelled by the opportunity to make a real difference to people`s lives, he worked across the capital, experiencing first-hand the eno...
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When Time Stopped : A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains - Ariana Neumann
<p>'It's not always a grim story. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. But the message is stark. This is the way bullies work. When Time Stopped is more than just history. It's a warning.' Michael Palin In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the...
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Dostoevsky in Love : An Intimate Life - Christofi Alex
Anotace: Dostoevsky`s life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar`s inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Some...
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Quantum Life
An inspiring memoir of how the author succeeded against the odds to become a world-renowned astrophysicist
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Down With the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend - Serj Tankian
<p>The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj TankianWith nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At their core has always been Serj Tankian, whose journey from the streets of Beirut to rock superstardom is as re...
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Sonic Life
A study of a life lived in an environment of wild music and endless wonder, Sonic Life is the long-awaited memoir of iconic American musician and Soni
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Jail Bird - The Life and Crimes of an Essex Bad Girl
A hugely entertaining memoir of an Essex bad girl who did time in jail but turned her life around to become a successful farmer.
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The Happiest Man on Earth : The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor - Jaku Eddie
Anotace: Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the `happiest man on earth`. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom.Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud...
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The Happiest Man on Earth : The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor, 1. vydání - Eddie Jaku
<p>‘Eddie looked evil in the eye and met it with joy and kindness . . . [his] philosophy is life-affirming’ – Daily Express Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom. Life can be beautiful...
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Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time, 1. vydání - Pamela Anderson
<p>ACTRESS. ICON. ACTIVIST. Her story, in her voice, for the first time. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mould of the celebrity memoir while taking back the tale that has been crafted about her.Her blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the st...
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An Astronaut´s Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield
<p>Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how to make the impossible a reality. This edition contains a new afterword. Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours...
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An African Love Story - Sheldricková Daphne
Anotace: Daphne Sheldrick`s best-selling love story of romance, life and elephants, An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants is an incredible story from Africa`s greatest living conservationist. A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning the ever-present threat of poaching ...
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Life on Other Planets
A stunning and inspiring memoir charting a life as an astronomer, classically trained actor, mother, and Black woman in STEM, searching for life in th
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Life With Picasso
' Gilot is a superb witness to Picasso as an artist and to his views on art . . . This memoir is both a vivid portrait of a monstrously difficult man
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Seven Signs of Life
An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the reality of life on the NHS front line. â€Brilliant, compelling… A hugely life-a
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic : Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 - Mendelsohn Daniel
Anotace: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MEDITERRANEE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son`s transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer`s epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old retired scientist Jay unexpectedly enrols i...
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Life of Gluckel of Hameln
A fascinating memoir of one of Judaism's earliest female writers, translated from the original Yiddish, Gluckel of Hameln was a marvel of her time: an
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Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth is an inspirational memoir of space exploration and hard-won wisdom, from an astronaut who has spent a lifetime
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My Effin´ Life - Lee Geddy
Anotace: The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee`s Big Beautiful Book of Bass.Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll`s most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an ess...
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Reluctant Carer, Dispatches from the Edge of Life Pan Macmillan
An irresistibly moving and deeply urgent memoir about a life of caring....
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All That Remains: A Life in Death - Black Sue
Anotace: `Utterly gripping` - The Guardian `Fascinating` - The Sunday Times `Moving` - Scotsman `Engrossing` - Financial Times Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities ...
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All That Remains: A Life in Death - Sue Black
<p>'Utterly gripping' - The Guardian 'Fascinating' - The Sunday Times 'Moving' - Scotsman 'Engrossing' - Financial Times Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities d...
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Life´s Work - Milch David
Anotace: I feel like I`m on a boat sailing to some island where I don`t know anybody. I`m on a boat someone is operating and we aren`t in touch.So begins David Milch`s urgent accounting of his increasingly strange present and often painful past. From the start, Milch`s life seems destined to echo that of his father, a successful if drug-addicted surgeon. Almost every ach...
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Taste : My Life Through Food, 1. vydání - Stanley Tucci
<p>From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen. For Stanley and foodie fans, this is the perfect, irresistible gift.From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.Before Stanley Tucci became a househ...
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Rambling Man: My Life on the Road - Billy Connolly
A book of global adventures with Billy Connolly - an unconventional travel memoir that criss-crosses the world, encapsulating a lifetime of incredible journeys and hundreds of fascinating encounters. <p></p> <p>In my fantasy of the Rambling Man who is something of a hobo, walking - or maybe jumping into the car of a moving train - is what he does. He sli...
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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie
Anotace: `This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.` -Elton John`Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan`s delight. Divine. I couldn`t put it down.` -Pete Townshend`In Bernie Taupin`s miraculous memoir Scattershot you`ll meet legends, cowboys, geniuses, unforgettable faces in the night, shady p...
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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin
<p>'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan's delight. Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'In Bernie Taupin's miraculous memoir Scattershot you'll meet legends, cowboys, geniuses, unforgettable faces in the night, shady pu...
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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie
Anotace: An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, the lyrical master and longtime collaborator of Elton John. This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, a...
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Rambling Man: My Life on the Road - Connolly Billy
Anotace: In my fantasy of the Rambling Man who is something of a hobo, walking - or maybe jumping into the car of a moving train - is what he does. He slings his guitar or banjo over his shoulder and strides out along the road to the next town. There he plays a few songs at a local gig and meets a beautiful woman who feeds and shags him. It`s a wonderful life, and a mill...
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Feline Philosophy : Cats and the Meaning of Life - John Gray
<p>'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity, astringency and tenderness, wit and lament' Jane O'Grady, Daily Telegraph'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' M...
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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie
Anotace: *THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*`Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.` -Elton John`Self deprecating and refreshingly honest` - Sunday Times`Divine. I couldn`t put it down.` -Pete Townshend`Hilarious and so emotionally true` -Cameron Crowe`Taupin`s words need no musical accompaniment. They sing with a poet...
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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin
<p>*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Self deprecating and refreshingly honest' - Sunday Times'Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'Hilarious and so emotionally true' -Cameron Crowe'Taupin's words need no musical accompaniment. They sing with a poets...
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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin
<p>"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug."This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half...
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood - Bryson Bill
Anotace: From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bryson grew up ...
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood - Bill Bryson
<p>From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24 carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generation, Bryson grew up w...
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science - Richard Dawkins
<p>In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run thro...
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science - Dawkins Richard
Anotace: In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to fame as one of the most exciting new scientists of his generation. In Brief Candle in the Dark he continues his autobiography, following the threads that have run thr...
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Face Pressed Against a Window
An evocative and candid memoir that charts the key moments in the life of Britain's most successful bookseller.
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Face Pressed Against a Window
An evocative and candid memoir that charts the key moments in the life of Britain's most successful bookseller.
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Rabbit Stew And A Penny Or Two
* An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of a forgotten way of life* Previously published as Our Forgotten Years
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The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life´s Final Moments - THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Vlahos Hadley
Anotace: *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - `Heartfelt ... Gentle, refreshingly forthright` New York TimesHospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.`The combined beauty, f...
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The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life´s Final Moments - THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Hadley Vlahos
<p>*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - 'Heartfelt ... Gentle, refreshingly forthright' New York TimesHospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.'The combined beauty, fa...
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A Moveable Feast - Hemingway Ernest
Anotace: Hemingway`s memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in ...
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Reluctant Carer
An irresistibly moving and deeply urgent memoir about a life of caring.
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Let's Talk About Doubt
An honest but hopeful memoir about navigating life, faith and church as a doubtful believer.
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Once Upon a Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up (1784740683)
Kniha - autor Xiaolu Guo, 318 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons: how to be an artist when censorship kills creativity, how to be a woman when sexual abuse is commonplace, how to love when you've never been shown how. A story of modern China, it is WILD SWANS for a new generat...
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Spare Us!: A Harrody - Bruno Vincent
<p>'All I had ever wanted was privacy. In order to get it, it seemed that an exceptionally detailed 500,000-word book was in order...' He was born into an ancient powerful dynasty and, through no fault of his own, became one of the most recognisable men on the planet.His life was a constant barrage of press intrusion and manipulation. Until finally, he demanded that...
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A Heart That Works - Rob Delaney
<p>In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the question of purpose for those left behind.When you're a parent and your child gets hurt or sick, you not only try to help them get better but you also labour under the general belief that you can help them get better. That's...
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How to Build a Car
'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.' Damon Hill The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir. How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian's unri...
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Reading Cure
A luminous memoir about recovery and how one woman discovered an appetite for food and life through reading
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