The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night, he spent it as fast as he could on drugs, sex and travel. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab; to the wife and kids who waited for him at home; and the fast-talking, hard-partyi ...Show more
The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World's Greatest Detective by Andrew Lycett
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Category: Biography and Memoir
An exploration of all that encompasses the world of Sherlock Holmes - tracing the infamous character's own interests, personality and mythologised biography alongside that of his creator's. Questing was Sherlock Holmes's business. He famously adopted the latest forensic techniques, channelled the Victor ...Show more
The Writing On The Wall by Juliet Rieden
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1938, as Hitler's troops are marching on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but destroy their family. Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s wondering why she had so few relatives, why her family ...Show more
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One by David Sedaris
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Category: Biography and Memoir
David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making.For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations ...Show more
Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made international headlines. She was in her thirties and was beginning to burn out - her hectic London life of work and social activity and striving to do more and do b ...Show more
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRYBAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treas ...Show more
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back in ...Show more
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas: Festive Hospital Diaries From the Author of Multi-Million-Copy Hit This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The number one Sunday Times bestseller. Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt.Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfe ...Show more
Under a Venice Moon by Margaret Cameron
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Category: Travel Memoir
Life isn't a sort of practice run, something you can afford to play around with. They don't offer second and third chances to get it right. Use it better. Live it fuller. A week in Venice ignites Margaret Cameron's interest in the private city behind the tourist facade and the obscure tales from its hi ...Show more
Understory by Inga Simpson
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Category: Biography and Memoir
A memoir about staying in one place, told through trees, by the award-winning author of MR WIGG, NEST and WHERE THE TREES WERE. "The understorey is where I live, alongside these plants and creatures. I tend the forest, stand at the foot of trees and look up, gather what has fallen." Each chapter of this ...Show more
Waleed Aly (I Know This to Be True): On Sincerity, Compassion and Integrity by Waleed Aly; Geoff Blackwell
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: I Know This to be True | Reading Level: new
One of Australia's leading commentators on national and international issues, Waleed Aly answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to him. Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project, a daily primetime television news ...Show more
What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young: The Art And Science Of Growing Up by Rachel Sylvester, Alice Thomson
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Loss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isn’t always an indicator of what’s to come. This book traces a pattern: why is it that often the people with the hardest beginnings in life – children who experience displacement, disease, financial ruin, abandonment or bereaveme ...Show more