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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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Romulus My Father by Raymond Gaita (Text Publishing)
Raymond GaitaRomulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son soon after the...
Biography & True Stories, English
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Jon KrakauerJon Krakauer's acclaimed account of a disastrous expedition on Mt Everest.This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in...
Biography & True Stories, Children and Young Adults
My Australian Story: Who Am I? Diary of Mary Talence by Anita Heiss
Anita HeissThe Diary of Mary Talence, Sydney, 1937. "I woke up this morning and I couldn't stop crying cos this place is not my home, even though everyone says it is....
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Biography & True Stories, Comics/Graphic Novels/ Manga
$29.95
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Book 1 by Marjane Satrapi (Graphic Novel)
Marjane SatrapiWise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life...
Biography & True Stories, English
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Romulus My Father by Raymond Gaita (Text Publishing)
Raymond GaitaRomulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son soon after the...
Biography & True Stories, English
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris *SIGNED* Paperback
Heather MorrisThe incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport...
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Biography & True Stories, English
$19.99
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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, Religion
The Case for Christ: Youth Edition - A Journalist's Person Investigation of the Evidence of Jesus
Lee Strobel with Jane Vogelhere's little question that he actually lived. But miracles? Rising from the dead? Some of the stories you hear about him sound like just that--stories. A reasonable person would never...
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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, 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, 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, English
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Night by Elie Wiesel (Penguin Books)
Elie WieselElie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born into...
Art/Art HIstory, Biography & True Stories
The Boyds: A Family Biography by Brenda Niall
Brenda NiallA portrait of the Boyd family, one of Australia's most remarkable artistic dynasties. Among the descendants of landscape painter Emma Minnie a Beckett and her husband Arthur Merric Boyd are...
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Biography & True Stories, Film and Movie Books
Who the Devil Made It, Conversations with Legendary Film Directors by Peter Bogdanovich
Peter BogdanovichIn this fascinating chronicle of Hollywood and the grand art of making movies, Peter Bogdanovich, director, screenwriter, actor, and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of...
$75.00
Biography & True Stories, Film and Movie Books
Leonardo (DiCaprio) by Lisa Degnen (Hardcover/Dust Jacket)
Lisa DegnenBiography of actor Leonardo DiCaprio, from his earliest films to Titanic. Includes interviews with his costars. This book is profusely illustrated with many colour photos. Publisher: Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc...
$20.00
Biography & True Stories, Film and Movie Books
Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History by Jonathan Rigby, Paperback
Jonathan RigbyIn Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History, Jonathan Rigby (English Gothic) celebrates one of British cinema's greatest legends. George Lucas's foreword enthusiastically commemorates Lee as ""breathing life into every character...
$25.00
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, Film and Movie Books
The Hollywood Book of Death : The Bizarre, Often Sordid, Passings of More Than 125 American Movie and TV Idols by James Parish
James Robert ParishDiscover the tantalizing details of Hollywood's famous and infamous fatalities The death of a celebrity is often as fascinating as--and sometimes more fascinating than--a star's actual life. From the grisly...
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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, 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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