Publication date: 2006-08-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.44
Review Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance / The Friday Project Limited:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-05-10
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.93
Review A Million Little Pieces / John Murray:When he entered a residential treatment centre at the age of twenty-three, James Frey had destroyed his body and his mind almost beyond repair. He faced a stark choice: accept that he wasn't going to see twenty-four or step into the fallout of his smoking wreck of a life and take drastic action. Surrounded by patients as troubled as he, Frey had to fight to find his own way to confront the consequences of the life he had lived so far, and to determine what future, if any, he has. A Million Little Pieces is an uncommon account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-01-04
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review A Child Called 'It' / Orion:David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care but not to David, her son, whom she referred to as "an It". This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom. Sometimes she claimed he had violated some rule-no walking on the grass at school-but mostly it was pure sadism. Inexplicably, his father didn't protect him; only an alert schoolteacher saved David. One wants to learn more about his ordeal and its aftermath, and now he's written a sequel,The Lost Boy, detailing his life in the foster-care system. Though it's a grim story, A Child Called "It" is very much in the tradition of Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul and the many books in that upbeat series, whose author Pelzer thanks for helping get his book going. It's all about weathering adversity to find love and Pelzer is an expert witness. -Christine Buttery.
Publication date: 2005-05-03
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Tiger's Child: The Story of a Gifted, Troubled Child and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her / Harper Element:
Publication date: 2007-12-03
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.83
Review When Daddy Comes Home / Harper Element:
Publication date: 2004-12-06
Dewey code: 371
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.01
Review One Child / Element Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-05-09
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.92
Review An Unquiet Mind / Picador:
Creator: Richard Moore
Publication date: 2008-06-02
Dewey code: 796.62092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.21
Review In Search of Robert Millar: Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding Britain's Most Successful Tour De France Cyclist / HarperSport:
Authors
- Juliana Buhring
- Celeste Jones
- Kristina Jones
Publication date: 2008-01-07
Dewey code: 362.760922
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.89
Review Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted / Harper Element:
Publication date: 2006-03-01
Dewey code: 792.7
RRP: £25.00
Price: £14.17
Review Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese / HarperEntertainment:
Publication date: 2007-04-02
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.75
Review Beautiful Child: The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her / Harper Element:
Publication date: 2007-05-03
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.56
Review The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-08-23
Dewey code: 362
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.49
Review No Way Home: The Terrifying Story of Life in a Children's Home and a Little Girl's Struggle to Survive / Vermilion:
Publication date: 2008-01-03
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.75
Review Three Cups of Tea / Penguin Books Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-05-03
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.35
Review It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life / Yellow Jersey Press:People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong-a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de France, the multiday bicycle race famous for its gruelling intensity. Armstrong is a thoroughgoing Texan jock, and the changes brought to his life by his illness are startling and powerful, but he's just not interested in wearing a hero suit. While his vocabulary is a bit on the he-man side (highest compliment to his wife: "she's a stud"), his actions will melt the most hard-bitten souls: a cancer foundation and benefit bike ride, his astonishing commitment to training that got him past countless hurdles, loyalty to the people and corporations that never gave up on him. There's serious medical detail here, which may not be for the faint of heart; from chemo to surgical procedures to his wife's in vitro fertilization, you won't be spared a single x-ray, IV drip, or unfortunate side effect. Athletes and coaches everywhere will benefit from the same extraordinary detail provided about training sessions-every aching tendon, every rainy afternoon, and every small triumph during his long recovery is here in living colour. It's Not About the Bike is the perfect title for this book about life, death, illness, family, setbacks, and triumphs, but not especially about the bike. -Jill Lightner, Amazon. com.
Publication date: 2002-08-01
Dewey code: 618.9289820092
RRP: £12.95
Price: £6.04
Review Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-06-07
Dewey code: 796.62092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.65
Review Rough Ride / Yellow Jersey Press:
Authors
- Christopher Stevens with Nicola Stevens
Dewey code: 618.92858820092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.53
Review A Real Boy: How Autism Shattered Our Lives - and Made a Family from the Pieces / Michael O'Mara Books:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-10-06
Dewey code: 364
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.97
Review Powder Wars: The Supergrass Who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers / Mainstream Publishing:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-06-02
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.57
Review Mr. Nice / Vintage:What an extraordinary fellow Howard Marks is. His autobiography takes him from his South Wales childhood and Oxford University education through his life dealing marijuana and the enormous mythology that accrued around what the tabloids called "the English Toff Drugs King of the World". This book is called Mr Nice after one of the many aliases Marks's life as a merchant of pot obliged him to assume, but it describes him perfectly too: the epitome of British niceness, the nicest international criminal you could hope to meet. It's not hard to see why this has become a cult book-Marks is a brilliant version of a mate down the pub, telling you the gobsmacking stories of his many adventured life. The writing is direct and the narrative will detain you as comprehensively as Marks himself was detained for seven years at Terre Haut Penitentiary, Indiana. He was released the same day as Mike Tyson. "I had," he observes mildly, "been continuously in prison for the last six-and-a-half years for transporting beneficial herbs from one place to another, while he had done three years for rape. " Truly there is no justice; but there are eye-popping adventures, hilarious touches and a thorough-going wisdom in this excellent book. -Adam Roberts.
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Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance, A Million Little Pieces, A Child Called 'It', The Tiger's Child: The Story of a Gifted, Troubled Child and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her, When Daddy Comes Home, One Child, An Unquiet Mind, In Search of Robert Millar: Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding Britain's Most Successful Tour De France Cyclist, Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese / Fetish and the Art of the Teese, Beautiful Child: The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her, The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left, No Way Home: The Terrifying Story of Life in a Children's Home and a Little Girl's Struggle to Survive, Three Cups of Tea, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome: A User Guide to Adolescence, Rough Ride, A Real Boy: How Autism Shattered Our Lives - and Made a Family from the Pieces, Powder Wars: The Supergrass Who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers, Mr. NiceTop headlines: Hirsh: Democracy's Strange Bedfellows: The champions of democracy often share an overly romantic view of how quickly it can flower in hostile soil. ›16:56, 11.10 Lawn chair balloonist achieves his dream: Gas station owner Kent Couch has realized his dream of flying a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 helium-filled party balloons across the Oregon high desert to Idaho. ›01:13 Pondering an Oniontown trip? 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