The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
At the heart of this title is Senator Obama's vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outs ...Show more
In My Skin: A Memoir by Kate Holden
25.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
An Australian memoir published to critical acclaim worldwide, In My Skin is the true story of Kate Holden's life as sex worker and a heroin addict. Kate was a nice middle-class girl: a dreamy bookworm, a classics scholar and an innocent. In this memoir she chronicles in frank and beautifully crafted pro ...Show more
Last Truck Out by Betty Lockyer
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
WWII, 1942 - Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 12 ...Show more
Rock Star - Story of Reg Sprigg by WEIDENBACH Kristin
32.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
This book tells the story of the life of an intrepid, determined and oft times irreverant pioneering Australian, Reg Sprigg, a man regarded by many as the greatest geologist of his generation and one of the best Australia has produced.
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists by Neil Strauss
34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Nothing you have heard about The Game will prepare you for it. Neil Strauss reveals the bizarre world of the pick-up artist - men who devote their lives to mastering the techniques of seducing women. None of this is fiction. These men have their own vernacular and codes of honour, they trade strategies ...Show more
The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays by John Hughes
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
A collection of autobiographical essays in which John Huges reflects on growing up in Cessnock, in a household rules by memories of the Ukgraine, which his mother and grandparents had to flee during the Second World War.
The Last Resort : A Zimbabwe Memoir by Douglas Rogers
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In The Last Resort, journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story of his parents' struggle for survival in war-torn Zimbabwe.
Sid James: Cockney Rebel by Robert Ross
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Everyone thinks they know the Sid James story the womaniser who carried on with his Carry On leading lady, Barbara Windsor, and drank himself to death after the affair ended. Sid was certainly a lover of the flesh be it chorus girls or race horses but the rumours that have enlivened hundreds of newspape ...Show more
Queen Elizabeth II: A Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Album by Jane Roberts
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Few monarchs have achieved a sixty-year reign and the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II will be an historic event in every sense. This souvenir charts every year of The Queens life from babyhood onwards. It also features colour illustrations, including personal documents and photographs to present a ...Show more
Chanel - An Intimate Life by Lisa Chaney
39.95 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
By the end of the First World War, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel had revolutionised women's dress. But dress was the most visible aspect of more profound changes she helped to bring about. During the course of her extraordinary and unconventional journey - from abject poverty to a new kind of glamour - "Chane ...Show more
Mud, Sweat and Tears by Bear Grylls
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on the Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Inevitably, it wasn't long before Bear was leading out-of-bounds night-climbing missions at school. As a teenager, he found identity and p ...Show more
Mud, Sweat and Tears by Bear Grylls
19.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
"Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on the Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. As a teenager he found identity and purpose through both mountaineering and martial arts, which led the young adventurer to the foothills ...Show more