The Tailor and The Shipwright by Robert Westphal
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Historical Convict History in Sydney | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Sydney, Australia 1800s. Thomas O'Neil, an Irish convict and tailor, arrives in Sydney having left his two daughters on the shores of Dublin. Appointed as Governor King's tailor, O'Neil establishes a successful business in Upper Pitts Row and soon finds a wife, Anne Kennedy. They are to be among the f ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Patterns of Life) by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: Patterns of Life | Reading Level: very good
Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What ma ...Show more
Troll Hunting Inside the World of Online Hate and its Human Fallout by Ginger Gorman
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online. She received scores of hateful tweets, including a death threat. A picture of Ginger heavily pregnant alongside her husband and two-and-half year old daughter appeared on a fascist website. Understandably she was terrified, but once the attack subsid ...Show more
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: 4
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting h ...Show more
Pilgrim Spy by Tom Shore
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Colditz Castle is famous as the German prisoner of war camp, subject of a popular TV series in 1980s. It was supposed to impossible to escape from this castle set high on a rocky escarpment, and yet a series of daring, even foolhardy escape plans involving tunnels cut into solid rock and a glider led to ...Show more
Shade - A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a potent commentary on the Presidency--and our country. As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost anyone else. His years photograp ...Show more
By Sea and Stars: The Story of the First Fleet by Trent Dalton
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to t ...Show more
The Second World War in 100 Objects - The Story of the World's Greatest Conflict Told Through the Objects That Shaped It by Julian Thompson; Allan R. Millett
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
See the history of World War II in an entirely new light through 100 carefully chosen items, from the public to the deeply, poignantly personal. Selected by two specialists in military history, the objects in this book offer a unique perspective on the Second World War. Ranging from iconic items like t ...Show more
The First World War in 100 Objects - The Story of the Great War Told Through the Objects That Shaped It by Gary Sheffield
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Trace the history of the first truly global conflict through this collection of 100 iconic items, from posters, hats, and a soldier's bible to a battleship, tunnel, and POW camp.Archduke Ferdinand's car. A rum jar. And rifles, helmets, and barbed wire. Written by a renowned expert on World War One, this ...Show more
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decis ...Show more
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. In Pale ...Show more
Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Series: How a Besieged Syrian Town Found Hope
Darayya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Yet it lives in another world. Besieged by Syrian government forces since 2011, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by bombs and missiles, and shot at by snipers. Its buildings lay in ruins; office buildings, shops an ...Show more