Frood - The True Story of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Jem Roberts
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: good-very good
As a wise ape once observed, space is big - vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely at space, it becomes nothing but lumps of rock and sundry gases. Sometimes it's necessary to take a step back, and let a few billion years go by, before any of the true wonder and scope of th ...Show more
My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
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'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a lea ...Show more
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar offers the definitive account of a heart-stopping survival story: the 2010 collapse of the San Jose mine and the international rescue effort that somehow managed to save all 33 miners, who had been trapped half a mile beneath the surface for 69 days. The re ...Show more
Agincourt: My Family, the Battle and the Fight for France by Ranulph Fiennes
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
25 October 2015 is the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt - a hugely resonant event in English (and French) history. Sir Ranulph Fiennes casts new light on this epic event, revealing that three of his own ancestors fought in the battle for Henry V, and at least one for the French. This is a un ...Show more
Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac, The Autobiography by Mick Fleetwood & Anthony Bozza
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
"After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you." Mick Fleetwood has been part of one of the world's most successful and adored bands for over four decades. Here he tells the full an ...Show more
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned by Lena Dunham
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dunham - the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls - as one of the brightest and most original writers working today. "Not That Kind of Girl i ...Show more
A Fig at the Gate by Kate Llewellyn
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In A Fig at the Gate, author Kate Llewellyn, now in her seventies, embraces a new phase in her life, asking the question, 'How does one live well?'Following the joyful crafting of her gardens in the Blue Mountains (The Waterlily) and north of Wollongong (Playing with Water), Kate creates a new garden ne ...Show more
Dog Eat Dog by Michael Browning
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A fascinating insider's account of the formation and early success of two of the world's greatest bands, AC/DC and INXS from the man who helped them on the road to international stardom.
Walking Free: From Iraqi Refugee to Pioneering Surgeon by Munjed Al Muderis
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff. ...Show more
The Rite by Matt Baglio
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 2005 a Vatican-run university opened its doors to priests from around the world, running a course for would-be exorcists. Looking for a story, Rome-based investigative journalist Matt Baglio attended the class, and there met Father Gary Thomas -- a Californian priest who had been chosen to attend by ...Show more
The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari; Robert Hillman
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
From the authors of the bestseller The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif comes their latest book, The Honey Thief. A superb collection of spellbinding tales from Afghanistan that portray a vivid landscape of hardship and brotherhood, catastrophes and miracles. These tales of peasants, poisoners and kings leap ...Show more
Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif by Najaf Mazari, Robert Hillman
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
This book traces an Afghan refugee's extraordinary journey-from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern Afghanistan to his forced exile after being captured and tortured by the Taliban, to incarceration in an Australian detention centre...and finally to freedom. A poignant and powe ...Show more