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Biography & True Stories, Humour
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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 Studies
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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage)
Kurt Vonnegut"In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum...
Biography & True Stories, English Studies
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 Studies
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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, English Studies
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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 Studies
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 Studies
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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, English Studies
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 Studies
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Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey (Vintage)
Peter CareyConvinced that there is 'a whole history and culture hidden between the frames', Carey hopes that this journey will help him to break the skin of Japanese culture. Charley, on...
Biography & True Stories, Military, Warfare and Weapons
Fire by Sebastian Junger (SIGNED on the title page)
Sebastian JungerA collection of essays on wildfire and wars around the world. Includes a new essay on Afghanistan and a new Afterword on the significance of the attack on 9/11. SIGNED...
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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...
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, Shop
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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld Graphic Book
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...
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 Studies
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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, English Studies
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, English Studies
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 Studies
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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, English Studies
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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...
Art/Art HIstory, Biography & True Stories
Secrets in the Shadows: The Life and Art of Gene Colan by Tom Field
Tom FieldFrom Daredevil to Dracula, from Batman to Brother Voodoo, from Howard the Duck to Stewart the Rat, Secrets in the Shadows: The Art & Life of Gene Colan is the...
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Biography & True Stories, English Studies
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Bad Boy Memoir by Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean MyersIn his own words... As a boy, Walter Dean Myers was quick-tempered and physically strong, always ready for a fight. He also read voraciously-he would check out books from the...
Biography & True Stories, English Studies
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The Pigman & Me: A Memoir by Paul Zindel, Hardcover
Paul ZindelThis is Paul Zindel’s autobiography of his teenage years. He tells of comic and painful experiences of adolescence: his move to Staten Island, his turbulent relationship with his eccentric mother,...
Biography & True Stories, English Studies
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The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir by John & Cylin Busby
John & Cylin BusbyWith their lives unraveling around them, the Busby family left everything and everyone they had ever known--and simply disappeared. As told by both father and daughter, this is a harrowing...
