Escaping Daddy by Maria Landon
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The sequel to Daddy's Little Earner tells Maria's story as she tries to rebuild her life. Determined to escape from her past and be the best wife and mother she could possibly be, Maria throws herself into her marriage. But it is never that easy to escape from such a traumatic start in life. Maria tells ...Show more
Slash: The Autobiography by Slash
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world's greatest and most revered guitarists, a celebrity musician known by one name: Slash. Saul "Slash" Hudson was born in H ...Show more
Not without My Sister by Kristina Jones
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: General Adult
The devastating account of three sisters, torn apart and forced to suffer abuse and exploitation at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. They reveal three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting loyalty and unforgettable courage. From ...Show more
Damaged by Cathy Glass
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass... Cathy, an experienced foster carer, is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's chall ...Show more
Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (movie tie-in cover) by Jean-Dominique Bauby (tr from French Jeremy Leggatt)
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'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.' In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French 'Elle' and the father of tw ...Show more
Billy Connolly [10th Anniversary Edition] by Pamela Stephenson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all about the man behind the comic, his wife of over 20 years - Pamela Stephenson. Once in a lifetime, there strides upon the stage someone who can truly be called a legend. Such ...Show more
Kayang & Me by Kim Scott; Hazel Brown
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Kayang & Me is a powerful story of community and belonging, revealing the deep and enduring connections between family, country, culture and history that lie at the heart of Indigenous identity.
When We Remember, They Call Us Liars by Suzanne Covich
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Growing up in the 1960s in a small rural community, Suzanne Covich is the dux of her primary-school classes. But it's what she learns at home that shapes the Ten Out of Ten Kid into the girl who won't cry, who plays dead, whose vulnerability is disguised beneath Huck Finn bravado. The class clown who so ...Show more
House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley by Swingler Susan
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers - Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this ...Show more
Remember Me by Liz Byrski
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
When Liz is forcibly separated from her true love at the age of sixteen, she thinks life will never be the same...and it isn't, but it does go on. Then, forty years later, out of the blue, she receives a phone call. A voice from the past that still has the power to stop her in her tracks is on the other ...Show more
Shadow Lines by Stephen Kinnane
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East Kimberley and taken from her Aboriginal family at the age of five, and Edward Smith, a young Englishman escaping the rigid structures of London. In a society deeply divided on racial lines, Edward and Jessie met, fell in love and marrie ...Show more
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz - The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas c ...Show more