Category: Biography/Memoir
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
An inspiring illustrated story for children about Jacinda Ardern, and her meteoric rise to become the world's youngest female leader.Nobody is too young to start changing the world.When Jacinda was little, she wanted to be a clown. But when she saw schoolmates who didn't have lunch, or even shoes, she k ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation - and is a character in THE CROWN this spring. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: W ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Funny, honest, confronting, wise, this is a compelling and bitter-sweet true story of breaking up and breaking through. 'I hear you're divorced?' a friend greets me. 'Congratulations!' The Divorce Diaries outlines the difficult and often heart-breaking process of leaving a marriage and beginning again. ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir
This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, their eldest daughter has stopped eating and speaking. Alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, her parents slowly become aware of another source for her distress- her imperilled future on a rapidly h ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir
The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of Auschwitz Born in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys o ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir
Chosen by Evening Standard as one of the best books to look forward to in 2020. 'a must-read memoir for even those beyond the fashion set.' - Evening Standard Chosen by Stylist as one of 2020's best non-fiction books. 'In the funny and opinionated Clothes... and other things that matter, former Vogue U ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir
Wendyl's story of living the simple life in the country: gardening, foraging, fishing and the freedom she has found in ageing. Beautifully illustrated and including 100 new and delicious recipes. 'An absolute cracker of a guide to feeling content by living more naturally.' - Lynda Hallinan 'When I rea ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir
A New York Times BestsellerA Midwest Connections PickA National BestsellerNamed one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People"A Time and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 So FarLab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1942, the Gestapo would stop at nothing to track down a mysterious 'limping lady' who was fighting for the freedom of France. The Nazi chiefs issued a simple but urgent command: 'She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.' The Gestapo's target was Virginia H ...Show more
Category: Biography/Memoir
Ith friends, social media, body image, and more, navigating young adulthood can seem impossible, Follow Instagram's loveable Chrostin as she provides humorous and relatable advice for all of the struggles you face, like: Sticking up for yourself, Dealing with your body, Creating your own fashion, Eating ...Show more
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