TO THE END OF HELL ONE WOMAN'S STUGGLE T by AFFONCO DENISE
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Category: Biography & Memoir
p"To be permanently hungry and to watch your little eight-year-old girl slowly dying . . . is an unbearable torment."pA French citizen, Denise Affonco, was brought up in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975, she was deported with her family to the countryside, where they end ...Show more
Sorrows of the Moon by Iqbal Ahmed
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Ahmed's first book is a moving portrait of a forgotten city. Arriving in London in 1994, he tried to find a place to call home. On his odyssey, he encountered a number of fellow immigrants - the Indian woman who works in the post office, an African hotel doorman, the Egyptian newspaper stallholder in Ch ...Show more
Unimagined by Imran Ahmad
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Part White Teeth, part Adrian Mole, Unimagined is the beguiling memoir of a Muslim boy born in Pakistan, who moves to London aged two and grows up to embrace the West. The endearing narrator recalls his childhood in a series of vivid snapshots: outrage as deserved victory is snatched away from him in th ...Show more
The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I by John Adamson
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Category: Biography & Memoir
John Adamson's book traces the careers and fortunes of the small group of English noblemen who risked their lives and fortunes to challenge the king's attempt to create an authoritarian monarchy in the Stuart kingdoms during the 1630s. What was achieved in 1641 astonished - and alarmed - contemporaries: ...Show more
No Way Home by Carlos Acosta
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult childhoodm living in poverty in the backstreets of Cubam to his astronomical rise to international stardom. In 1980, Carlos Acosta was just another Cuban kid of humble origins, the youngest son in a poor family named af ...Show more
When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption by Wesley Adamczyk
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. This book gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet barbarism. It presents one of the darkest periods of European history and stands as an intimate chronicle of a ...Show more
Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky by NIJINSKY VASLAV
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In his prime, Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) was the most celebrated man in Western ballet--a virtuoso and a dramatic dancer such as European and American audiences had never seen before. After his triumphs in such works as The Specter of the Rose and Petrouchka, he set out to make ballets of his own, and ...Show more
Poe : A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the Ameri ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare. He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground. Written with intuition and imagination ...Show more
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Pre-eminent as a courtier and a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of "Utopia", Thomas More is one of the great figures of England's history. This is a portrait of the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr, and of the social and cultural world in which he lived.