True Stories

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  A Long Way Gone

  by Ishmael Beah

  The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. This is the story of how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2007-05-21

  ISBN: 9780007247080

  Binding: Hardback Book
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  A Song for Jenny

  by Julie Nicholson

  On 7 July 2005, Julie Nicholson's life was changed forever. Her daughter, Jenny, was killed on her way to work in the London bombings, shaking Julie's beliefs. With heartbreaking honesty and integrity...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2010-06-24

  ISBN: 9780007250790

  Binding: Hardback Book
  $35.99
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• Punished

  by Vanessa Steel

  The inspiring true story of Vanessa Steel, whose childhood was overshadowed by a terrible secret. Plagued by torture and abuse by both her mother and grandfather, little Vanessa was nearly destroyed u...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2008-07-01

  ISBN: 9780007256808

  Binding: Paperback Book
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• For the Love of Julie

  by Ann Ming

  In this incredible and moving memoir, a mother tells of her fight for justice to convict her daughter's murderer for a crime that he thought could never be punished. When her 22-year-old daughter, Ju...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2008-09-01

  ISBN: 9780007262632

  Binding: Paperback Book
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• Raising the Dead

  by Phillip Finch

  A true story of death and survival in the world's most dangerous sport, cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into a water-filled crater in the Kalahari Desert to raise the body of a diver who h...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2008-03-03

  ISBN: 9780007265244

  Binding: Hardback Book
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  Street Kid Fights on

  by Judy Westwater

  How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you? Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childho...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2008-02-04

  ISBN: 9780007266630

  Binding: Paperback Book
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  Raising the Dead

  by Phillip Finch

  A true story of death and survival in the world's most dangerous sport, cave diving. Two friends plunge 900 ft deep into the water of the Komali Springs in South Africa, to raise the body of a diver w...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2008-03-03

  ISBN: 9780007275533

  Binding: Paperback Book
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  Helpless

  by Marianne Marsh, Toni Maguire

  Eight year old Marianne, the eldest of five children, was neglected by her slovenly mother and her violent alcoholic father. Uncared for and unkempt she was rejected at school by her peers and scarcel...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2009-03-05

  ISBN: 9780007281138

  Binding: Paperback Book
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• More Than Just a Game

  by Prof. Chuck Korr

  'It is amazing to think that a game that people take for granted all around the world, was the very same game that gave a group of prisoners sanity - and in a way, gave us the resolve to carry on the ...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2008-10-06

  ISBN: 9780007284115

  Binding: Paperback Book
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• No One Listened

  by Isobel Kerr

  When Isobel and Alex came home from school to find their abusive father had brutally murdered their mother, their world was thrown into chaos. Plunged into a care system that neglected them, Isobel an...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2008-11-03

  ISBN: 9780007289936

  Binding: Paperback Book
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• The Real Band of Brothers

  by Max Arthur

  Max Arthur is Britain's foremost oral historian, with over 10 books to his name, including the bestselling The Last Post and Forgotten Voices of the Second World War. He lives in London.

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2009-04-02

  ISBN: 9780007295098

  Binding: Hardback Book
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  My Prison, My Home

  by Haleh Esfandiari

  Robbed in Iran and imprisoned for over 100 days for suspected espionage, this is the true story of one woman's shocking ordeal in the country she called home.

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2009-10-01

  ISBN: 9780007343294

  Binding: Paperback Book
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  World's Toughest Cops

  by Vinnie Jones

  Welcome to the World's Toughest Cops. This is a no holds barred look at a the people who risk their lives to serve and protect, in the front line of a war against drugs, gangs, gun crime, violence and...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2010-02-04

  ISBN: 9780007344499

  Binding: Hardback Book
  $39.99
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  Real Heroes

  by Jeremy Clarkson & Ross Kemp

  A unique, full-colour, action-packed collection of true stories of heroism from the British Armed Forces. 'Real Heroes' is packed full of everything you could want to know about the inspirational bra...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2009-11-26

  ISBN: 9780007348749

  Binding: Hardback Book
  $27.99
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  Real Heroes: v. 2

  by Jeremy Clarkson

  A unique, full-colour, action-packed collection of true stories of astounding bravery from the front lines of present and past conflicts fought by the British Armed Forces. 'Real Heroes' combines fas...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2010-11-11

  ISBN: 9780007379033

  Binding: Hardback Book
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  My Life Among the Serial Killers (5/360)

  by Helen Morrison

  An intense, probing memoir by a pioneer female forensic psychiatrist who has profiled 80 serial killers in nearly 30 years of work. Some of her profiling has included killers such as Richard Macek, Ed...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 1990-01-01

  ISBN: 9780060586836

  Binding: Hardback Book
  $44.95
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  Mission: Black List #1

  by Eric Maddox

  Everyone has seen the footage: a heavily bearded Saddam Hussein blinking under the bright lights of infantry cameras, dazed to find himself in U.S. Army custody. Yet while the breaking news was broadc...

  publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

  publication date: 2008-12-01

  ISBN: 9780061714474

  Binding: Hardback Book
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• Stage Mum

  by Lisa Gee

  Features the author's six year old daughter, Dora, playing one of the Gretls in the Connie Fisher production of "The Sound of Music in the West End". This book presents a narrative of the open auditio...

  publisher: Cornerstone

  publication date: 2008-07-03

  ISBN: 9780091921392

  Binding: Paperback Book
  $37.95
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  The Killing Season

  by Miles Corwin

  Meet Pete Razanskas and Marcella Winn. He's a seen-it-all, 22-year veteran homicide cop who dresses like a cowboy and spits tobacco, while she's a rookie detective who grew up in the 'hood and takes n...

  publisher: Ebury Press

  publication date: 2010-08-05

  ISBN: 9780091938925

  Binding: Paperback Book
  $36.95
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• Every Day's a Good Day

  by William Pike

  William Pike, a 22-year-old school teacher from Auckland, came to the attention of the nation on 25 September 2007 when, while tramping on Mt Ruapehu, he was critically injured during a volcanic erupt...

  publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)

  publication date: 2008-08-04

  ISBN: 9780143304197

  Binding: Paperback Book
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