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Biography & True Stories, English
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The Happiest Refugee: My Journey from Tragedy to Comedy Anh Do
Anh DoThe laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians.Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as...
Best Selling, Biography & True Stories
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American journey by Ernesto Che Guevara
Ernesto Che GuevaraA new edition from Ocean Press of the young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary is published to coincide with the new movie from Robert Redford and Walter...
Biography & True Stories, English
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The Fiftieth Gate by Mark Raphael Baker
Mark Raphael BakerThis gate here, I recognise it. Behind it is a steep slope, a hill, fields, grass. We would slide down it in winter.' At last, an incontrovertible test through which...
Biography & True Stories, Children and Young Adults
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Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah (Penguin)
Adeline Yen MahJung-ling's family considers her bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her. They discriminate against her and make her feel unwanted yet she yearns and continuously strives for...
Biography & True Stories, English
The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey RobertsonGeoff Robertson was born in Australia, bu came to London in 1970. He made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at the celebrated trial and went on...
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Biography & True Stories, English
Joe Cinque's Consolation: True Story of Death, Grief & the Law by Helen Garner
Helen GarnerIn October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner...
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Biography & True Stories, English
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai and Christina LambIn 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in the Swat Valley as the Taliban gained control, at times banning girls from attending school. When...
Biography & True Stories, Classics and World Literature
Plutarch: Greek Lives (Oxford World's Classics)
Plutarch (translated by Robin Waterfield)Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time...
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Biography & True Stories, History
The Holocaust: The Nazi Genocide against the Jewish People - NSW Jewish Board of Deputies
NSW Jewish Board of DeputiesThe Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s deliberate, organised, state-sponsored persecution and genocide of European Jews. During the war, the Nazi regime and their collaborators systematically murdered over six million Jewish people....
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Biography & True Stories, English
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai and Christina LambIn 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in the Swat Valley as the Taliban gained control, at times banning girls from attending school. When...
Biography & True Stories, Children and Young Adults
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Jerry SpinelliThis is the true story of Jews and Gypsies in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. But it is also the story of a street orphan who survives on quick thinking...
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Biography & True Stories, Children and Young Adults
Stories from Country: My Pony Hooky and Other Tales by Bob Randall & Susan Haworth
Bob Randall & Susan HaworthIn this wonderful collection of stories, Bob tells of many adventures - from crocodile hunting to mustering cattle on his pony Hooky. Other stories, including theresa's story, Minjilung, are based...
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Biography & True Stories, English
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Half the Sky, How to Change the World by Nicholas D. Kristoff & Sheryl Wudunn
Nicholas D. Kristoff & Sheryl WudunnPulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women...
Biography & True Stories, Children and Young Adults
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler
Sara WheelerA modern classic on exploring and understanding the most uncharted place on our planet. A modern classic on exploring and understanding the Antarctic, the most uncharted place on our planet....
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Biography & True Stories, English
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The Mud House: Four Friends, One Block of Land, No Power Tools by Richard Glover
Richard GloverIn this frank, funny and thought-provoking memoir, Richard Glover describes how he and his friend Philip and their partners built a house in the bush on weekends. It was a...
Biography & True Stories, Cambridge
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Tacitus: Agricola by Tacitus (Cambridge Greek & Latin Classics) by Edited by A.J. Woodman et al
Edited by A.J. Woodman with C.S. KrausThe first work of any great historian has always commanded attention, and Tacitus was ancient Rome's very greatest historian. His biography of his father-in-law, governor of Britain in the years...
Biography & True Stories, History
Zuni : Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing Edited & Introduction Jesse Green
Edited with an Introduction by Jesse Green"Frank Hamilton Cushing's stay at Zuñi pueblo from 1879 to 1884 made him the first professional anthropologist actually to live with his subjects. Learning the language and winning acceptance as...
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Biography & True Stories, Children and Young Adults
Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen (Laurel-Leaf Books)
Gary PaulsenSoldier's Heart : Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers In June 1861, when the Civil War began,...
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Best Selling, Biography & True Stories
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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal (Vintage)
Edmund de Waal264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his...
Art/Art HIstory, Biography & True Stories
Out of the Cage: The Art of Isabel Rawsthorne by Carol Jacobi HC/DJ
Carol JacobiIsabel Rawsthorne's painting career at the centre of the Parisian and London avantgardes was eclipsed by the many occasions on which her friends made her the subject of their art,...
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Biography & True Stories, English
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Teen Edition) by Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormickWritten in collaboration with critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist Patty McCormick, this is Malala's story, written for her peers. Meet the girl behind the icon - a girl who...
Biography & True Stories, Shop
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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld
Josh NeufeldA.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge" is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up...
Art/Art HIstory, Biography & True Stories
A Life of Picasso Volume III The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 By John Richardson H/DJ
John RichardsonDrawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography, full of original, groundbreaking new insights into Picasso's...
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, 10th Anniversary Edition - James McBride
James McBrideWho is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores...
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