Creator: Sara Salih
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-05-25
Dewey code: 306.362092
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.84
Review The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Daniel O'Connor
Publication date: 2002-05-20
Dewey code: 796.83092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.79
Review Iron Mike: A Mike Tyson Reader / Thunder's Mouth Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1993-12
Dewey code: 306.7420924
RRP: £6.95
Price: £3.54
Review Lyn: A Story of Prostitution / Attic Press:
Publication date: 2005-05-05
Dewey code: 363.45092
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.74
Review The Lone Brit on 13: A Prisoner's Hell in Spain's Toughest Jail / Mainstream Publishing:
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Dewey code: 576.82092
RRP: £11.50
Price: £4.90
Review Darwin and Evolution for Kids: His Life and Ideas: With 21 Activities (For Kids Series) / Chicago Review Press:
Publication date: 2007-03-26
Dewey code: 364.1092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.99
Review Mad Dog / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-09-05
Dewey code: 795
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.45
Review Big Deal: One Year as a Professional Poker Player / Abacus:
Publication date: 2008-08-07
Dewey code: 362.76092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.55
Review Searching for Daddy: Looking for a Family, Longing for Love / Hodder & Stoughton:
Publication date: 2002-03-04
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.99
Review Help Yourself : How You Can Find Hope, Courage and Happiness / Thorsons, London:Having shared his story of redemption through his previous bestselling autobiograhy, Dave Pelzer now draws lessons from that experience with Help Yourself-a highly personal self-help book. Dave survived one of the worst child abuse cases ever recorded in the state of California. His mother, a mentally disturbed alcoholic, tortured and abused him throughout his childhood-smashing his face into a mirror, forcing him to swallow ammonia and making him sit on a burning stove, among other heinous cruelties. In his bestselling memoirs, A Child Called It, The Lost Boy and A Man Called Dave, Pelzer recounts his horrific childhood, demonstrating how inner resilience helped him survive and even become a highly caring and accomplished adult. (He was eventually selected as one of 10 Outstanding Young Americans. ) Although Pelzer has a graduate degree in the school of hard knocks, he never got a chip on his shoulder. In this self-help book, Pelzer sticks with his warm and plainspoken narrative style (think Chicken Soup for the Soul) to offer advice on how to help yourself overcome adversity and let go of the past. Wisely, Pelzer often deflects attention away from his overpowering story, offering anecdotes that pertain to more common, everyday scenarios: you feel taken advantage of at work but are afraid to quit; you have unresolved issues with your spouse. His guidance is familiar, such as never go to bed upset and tackle problems as they arise-don't let them fester. It may sound simplistic, but sometimes that's just what we need-a trustworthy ally who can dole out "been there" advice in a straightforward style. [+]-Gail Hudson.
Publication date: 2007-02-02
Dewey code: 362.76092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.79
Review The Price of Love: Abused, Beaten, Trapped in a Terrifying Relationship - One Girl's Story of Survival / Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd:
Publication date: 1999-05-01
Dewey code: 616.89820092
RRP: £12.95
Price: £7.27
Review Pretending to Be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-02-05
Dewey code: 362.196810092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99
Review Time Out of Mind / Virago Press Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-10
Dewey code: 362
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.48
Review Breaking the Chain: Abuse, Revenge, Redemption: The True Story of a Damaged Childhood / Michael O'Mara Books:
Publication date: 2007-09-03
Dewey code: 613.25092
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.47
Review Diary of a Diet: A Little Book of Big / Accent Press Ltd:
Authors
- James Patterson
- Hal Friedman
- Cory Friedman
Dewey code: 616.830092
RRP: £13.73
Price: £12.41
Review Against Medical Advice: One Family's Struggle with an Agonizing Medical Mystery (Not Eligible for Ay) / Little Brown and Company:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2004-09-30
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.15
Review Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood / Arrow Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-03-20
Dewey code: 362.76092
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.25
Review Scarred: How One Girl Triumphed Over Shocking Abuse and Self-harm / Hodder & Stoughton General:
Publication date: 2008-06-02
Dewey code: 306.743092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.91
Review Nice Work If You Can Get It / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-09-30
Dewey code: 362.29092
Price: £8.12
Review Million Little Pieces (Oprah's Book Club) / Anchor Books:The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colourful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood. " Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment centre where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonising months of detox confronting "The Fury" head:I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want 50 bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, 500 hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can. One of the more harrowing sections is when Frey submits to major dental surgery without the benefit of anesthesia or painkillers (he fights the mind-blowing waves of "bayonet" pain by digging his fingers into two old tennis balls until his nails crack). [+]His fellow patients include a damaged crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship, a federal judge, a mobster, and a former championship boxer (who throws a hilarious surf-and-turf bacchanal, complete with pay-per-view boxing, upon his release). In the book's epilogue, when Frey ticks off a terse update on everyone, you can almost hear the Jim Carroll Band's brutal survivor's lament "People Who Died" kicking in on the soundtrack of the inevitable film adaptation. The rage-fuelled memoir is kept in check by Frey's cool, minimalist style. Like his steady mantra, "I am an Alcoholic and I am a drug Addict and I am a Criminal," Frey's use of repetition takes on a crisp, lyrical quality which lends itself to the surreal experience. The book could have benefited from being a bit leaner. Nearly 400 pages is a long time to spend under Frey's influence, and the stylistic acrobatics (no quotation marks, random capitalization, left-aligned text, wild paragraph breaks) may seem too self-conscious for some readers, but beyond the literary fireworks lurks a fierce debut. -Brad Thomas Parsons, Amazon. com.
Authors
- Bernie Mac
- Pablo F. Fenjves
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 790
Price: £7.61
Review Maybe You Never Cry Again / HarperEntertainment:
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