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1 .Can a Duck Swim?: An autobiography [hardback]
Porter, June
Kent Town, SA Wakefield Press 2013.
Summary: Can a duck swim? Young June Porters reply was immediate when Lady Rutherford, wife of the Governor of Bihar, invited her to India to become her lady-in-waiting. This was in 1944, when June was twenty-five and the world was at war.
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2 .Ma, I've Reached for the Moon an I'm Hittin the Stars [paperback]
Long, Martha
Edinburgh, UK Mainstream 2012.
Summary: 'Never again will I let myself plunge so low, it nearly cost my life then ended in the mad house,' Martha vows, as she sits back in the taxi wrapping the fur coat around her. A young Russian monk from the mental hospital has proposed marriage. Then she receives a shock.
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3 .Kitty's War [paperback]
Butler, Janet
St Lucia, A University Of Queensland Press 2013.
Summary: Kittys War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering creeks, except many decades apart.
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4 .Aprons and Silver Spoons: The heartwarming memoirs of a 1930s scullery maid [paperback]
Moran, Mollie
London, UK Penguin 2013.
Summary: What was it really like to live below stairs in the 1930s? At just fourteen, Mollie Moran left behind her days of running wild in the Norfolk countryside to take up a position in the kitchens of a stately London townhouse.
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5 .Running With the Firm: My double life as an undercover hooligan [hardback]
Bannon, James
London, UK Ebury Press 2013.
Summary: In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down the 'generals' of a football hooligan gang, achieved cult status for it's sheer brutality and unsettling insight into the dark and often bloody side of the so-called beautiful game.
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6 .The Cooked Seed [hardback]
Min, Anchee
London, UK Bloomsbury 2013.
Summary: The sequel to Anchee Min's internationally bestselling memoir, Red Azalea, in which she leaves China for America, struggles to find her way, her voice and her love - and succeeds in all.
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7 .The Outsider [paperback]
Connors, Jimmy
London, UK Bantam Press 2013.
Summary: Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the game. A shaggy-haired working-class kid from the wrong side of the tracks, he was prepared to battle for every point, to shout and scream until he was heard, and he didn't care whom he upset in doing so. He was brash, he was a brat.
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8 .I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford and the Most Important Car Ever Made [hardback]
Snow, Richard
New York, USA Scribner 2013.
Summary: From an acclaimed popular historian comes a fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model-T--the machine that defined the dawning age in America. Every century or so, our republic has been changed by a new technology: 170 years ago it was the railroad; today it's the microprocessor.
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9 .The Ghost Horse [paperback]
Layden, Joe
Sydney Macmillan London 2013.
Summary: The Ghost Horse is the true story of a one-eyed club-footed racehorse and trainer., Tim Snyder, who scraped together every penny he had to purchase the unwanted filly.
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10 .Dear Girls Above Me: Inspired by a True Story [paperback]
McDowell, Charles
New York, USA Three Rivers Press 2013.
Summary: Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed, a roman clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man.
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11 .Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made it Possible [hardback]
Tuckey, Harriet
London, UK Rider 2013.
Summary: Marking the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest in May 1953, Everest u The First Ascent tells the story of the doctor and physiologist Griffith Pugh, without whom the successful conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay would not have been possible.
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12 .Flappers: Women of a Dangerous Generation [paperback]
Mackrell, Judith
London, UK Macmillan 2013.
Summary: This is a gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s. Glamorized, mythologized and demonized - the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s in their determination to reinvent the way they lived.
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13 .The Unmarried Mother [paperback]
Tofield, Sheila
London, UK Penguin 2013.
Summary: It was a different, less-tolerant age . . . Sheila grew up in Rotherham, the daughter of an uncaring mother who made her believe she was useless, stupid and -- most painfully of all -- unlovable. As a young woman, her worst childhood fears were confirmed when her fianc broke off their engagement without an explanation.
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14 .Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding In Plain Sight [paperback]
Thomas, M.E.
London, UK Sidgwick & Jackson 2013.
Summary: M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning non-criminal sociopath. She is charismatic, ambitious and successful. You would be charmed by her if you met her, might even be seduced by her. You would not realise that she is studying you to find your flaws, that she is ruthlessly manipulative, has no empathy and does not feel guilt or remorse.
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15 .Breaking the Silence: Two Little Boys, Lost and Unloved. One Foster Carer Determined to Make a Difference [paperback]
Watson, Casey
London, UK HarperCollins 2013.
Summary: The Watsons are astonished when they answer their front door to find their case worker with a small boy on the doorstep. Jenson is just nine years old. He was removed from his home thirty minutes earlier when it was discovered his mother had left him at home while she went on holiday with her boyfriend.
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16 .If only I Had Told [paperback]
Esther, W.
London, UK Ebury Press 2013.
Summary: 'On 27 February 1991 social workers snatched nine children from four families, on a tiny Orkney island, amid allegations of a satanic sex abuse circle. Those false allegations had been made by my younger brothers and sisters. It wasn't their fault.
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17 .Pray for me : the life and spiritual vision of Pope Francis / Robert Moynihan.
Moynihan, Robert, 1936-
Francis Pope, 1936-
London : Rider, 2013.
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18 .Secrets of a Webcam Girl: A Memoir [paperback]
Baxter, Annabelle T.
Melbourne, Vic Black Inc 2013.
Summary: From video vixen to happy endings - one woman reveals all! Secrets of a Webcam Girl is the true story of a girl's transition from business suit to birthday suit as a way to solve mounting financial problems.
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