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Life Inside
By Erwin James
Paperback
Published 10-Apr-2003
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In the mid 1980s Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment. Over recent years, he has written powerfully about prison life for the Guardian. James writes candidly about learning the who, what, why and when of the prison world.
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Home Stretch
By Erwin James
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Published 14-Apr-2005
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Nineteen years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment. Over the past 5 years, he has written powerfully about prison life for 'The Guardian' newspaper. 'The Home Stretch' picks up where 'A Life Inside' left off. It doesn't glorify wrongdoing, but sets out to answer some of the questions raised by his first collection of articles.
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3,096 Days
By Natascha Kampusch
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Published 16-Sep-2010
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On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old the author was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. Hours later she was lying on a cold cellar floor, rolled up in a blanket. When she emerged from captivity in 2006, having endured one of the longest abductions in recent history, her childhood had gone. This title tells her story.
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Stolen Life
By Jaycee Dugard
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Published 12-Apr-2012
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Jaycee Dugard's raw and powerful memoir: her own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years.
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Permanent Present Tense
By Suzanne Corkin
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Published 15-May-2013
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In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent an experimental psychosurgical procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. This title tells the story of the amnesiac Henry Gustave Molaison - known only as H M until his death in 2008 - and what he taught medical science, neuroscience and the world.
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Play it Again
By Alan Rusbridger
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Published 17-Jan-2013
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As editor of the "Guardian", the author's life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. It is not the kind of job that leaves much time for hobbies. But in the summer of 2010, he managed to make his annual escape to a 'piano camp'.
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
By Ralph Leighton
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Published 05-Jan-1993
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. This work presents the taped conversations that Feynman's had with his friend Ralph Leighton over a period of years.
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Girl with No Name
By Marina Chapman
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Published 04-Apr-2013
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In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went on to spend several years alone in the jungle, her only family a troop of capuchin monkeys.
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Year of Magical Thinking
By Joan Didion
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Published 04-Sep-2006
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From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.
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Diving-bell and the Butterfly
By Jean-Dominique Bauby
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Published 07-May-2002
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'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.'
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