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Stories to Tell: A Memoir

Stories to Tell: A Memoir

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National Bestseller Legendary musician Richard Marx offers an enlightening, entertaining look at his life and career. Richard Marx is one of the most accomplished singer-songwriters in the history of popular...
How I Rescued My Brain: a psychologist's remarkable recovery from

How I Rescued My Brain: a psychologist's remarkable recovery from

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How I Rescued My Brain is an amazing tale of one man's resilience, and his determination to overcome one of the most frightening situations imaginable - the fear that he...
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

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Feminist icon Gloria Steinem's inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and her path to becoming one of the world's most influential voices, with reflections on hope, happiness and...
Only Ever Evonne

Only Ever Evonne

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'The most elegant player to have ever graced a tennis court, Evonne brought her career to life with dedication, talent, love and fierce commitment. She has inspired millions to be...
Big Blue Sky: A memoir

Big Blue Sky: A memoir

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Peter Garrett's life has been fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, intelligence and creativity, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives. From his idyllic...
The Thirty-Six

The Thirty-Six

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Do I believe in the Thirty-Six? I believe in miracles. Do I believe in the Thirty-Six? I believe in miracles. Sigi had just turned 15 and was living a carefree...
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South, with

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South, with

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WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive...
Plot Twist: A Memoir of a Writing Life

Plot Twist: A Memoir of a Writing Life

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Part deeply personal memoir, part masterclass in storytelling, Plot Twist is a refreshingly honest look at the life of a writer whose stories have thrilled us for decades. Part deeply...
Fictional Selves

Fictional Selves

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In this highly anticipated memoir, the beloved actor and star of Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, and Sex and the City shared his unconventional journey in Hollywood and every unforgettable story...
The other side

The other side

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Hillary Rohde has lived the kind of life not often found outside of fiction; a life which seems to have had a bit of every genre all rolled into one...
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the

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The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk with over $1 billion in gold and silver-and one man's obsessive quest to find it-from the Sunday Times bestselling...
It's a Scorcher!: Tales of the Australian summer

It's a Scorcher!: Tales of the Australian summer

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Bestselling author and acclaimed actor William McInnes returns with a collection of hilarious and heartwarming stories about those magical, roastingly hot months that make an Australian summer. There is something...
Another Day, Another Town

Another Day, Another Town

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The book titled Another Day, Another Town by the author Slim Dusty. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Midwife Trilogy: Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse,

The Midwife Trilogy: Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse,

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This omnibus edition of Call the Midwife, Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End chronicles Jennifer Worth's career as a midwife from start to finish, from her...
Letters between Nin and Henry Miller

Letters between Nin and Henry Miller

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A "lyrical, impassioned" document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June ( Booklist ). This exchange of letters between the two...
Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1943-46

Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1943-46

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The book titled Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1943-46 by the author Earl Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Adult Fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages,

Adult Fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages,

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'I pictured myself a wine-dark streak in a TV desert, ears too full of the summer wind to hear that ominous ticking in the sky- the sound of a cultural...
Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption

Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption

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Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted lawyer's coming of age, a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring...
The Audacious Adventures of Dr Louis Lawrence Smith

The Audacious Adventures of Dr Louis Lawrence Smith

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L. L. Smith, medico, writer, publisher, politician, litigant, showman, speculator, collector, vigneron, farmer, breeder and rider of racehorses, guiding hand for thirty years of Melbourne's great exhibition complex...The Audacious Adventures...
The Profound Benefits of a Stint in Prison: Locked up and lucked out

The Profound Benefits of a Stint in Prison: Locked up and lucked out

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Andrew Hamilton thought he had life sorted: beautiful fiance, a popular pizza restaurant, two beloved dogs and a thriving side business supplying massive quantities of magic mushrooms and LSD to...
You Will Go, Won't You?

You Will Go, Won't You?

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Sad, humorous and confronting-the first hand account of Bob Handby's experiences throughout his day-to-day life in the field as an aid worker. Discover not only the dangerous circumstances and challenges...
Tramps, Workmates and Revolutionaries: Working Class Stories of the

Tramps, Workmates and Revolutionaries: Working Class Stories of the

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The book titled Tramps, Workmates and Revolutionaries: Working Class Stories of the by the author H. Gustav Klaus. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Darcey Bussell: Evolved

Darcey Bussell: Evolved

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The first book from Darcey Bussell in over six years, retired darling of the British Ballet and beloved judge of Strictly Come Dancing, this publishing extravaganza coincides with the the...
Kindness: What surviving on the kindness of strangers taught me about

Kindness: What surviving on the kindness of strangers taught me about

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Kath Koschel has faced almost unimaginable hurdles. In her mid-twenties, she broke her back and was told she may never walk again. Shortly afterwards, she lost her beloved partner to...
Swimming Home: A Memoir

Swimming Home: A Memoir

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Introducing a major new Australian literary voice - an unforgettable memoir of the complicated love between a mother and daughter 'Easily the most vivid memoir I have ever read' -Sebastian...
Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult

Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult

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In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her family questioned...
I Am Bound to be True: The Life and Legacy of Arthur A Calwell

I Am Bound to be True: The Life and Legacy of Arthur A Calwell

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Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896-1973) played a dominant role in Australia's development into a free, confident and independent nation in the twentieth century. This new biography tells the story of his...
Mr China

Mr China

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A Wall Street banker, an Englishman, an ex-Red Guard...and $418,000,000 disappearing every day In the early nineties, China finally opened for business and Wall Street wanted to get in on...
Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance,

Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance,

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From the legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower and anti-war activist-a posthumous collection of Daniel Ellsberg's previously unpublished writings that offers a window into his courageous life, work, and most deeply held...
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

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In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the...
A Son of the Game

A Son of the Game

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When acclaimed golf writer James Dodson leaves his home in Maine to revisit Pinehurst, North Carolina, where his father first taught him the game that would shape his life and...
How Life Imitates Chess

How Life Imitates Chess

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The most successful chess player of all time shares his insights into life as a game of strategy, drawing on his own story as well as the worlds of business...
Bloom: A Tale of Courage, Surrender, and Breaking Through Upper Limits

Bloom: A Tale of Courage, Surrender, and Breaking Through Upper Limits

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International bestselling author, Bronnie Ware, reminds us that whether life's lessons arrive through illness, trauma, or any other unexpected upheaval, life really does love us As a free-spirited, independent woman,...
No Flight from the Cage: The Compelling Memoir of a Bomber Command

No Flight from the Cage: The Compelling Memoir of a Bomber Command

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Originally published in 1956, former Second World War prisoner-of-war Calton Younger's 'No Flight from the Cage' received critical acclaim. One critic wrote, 'the book goes below the surface of prison...
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

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Rhoda Janzen had reached a crossroads: she had just hit forty when her brilliant husband of fifteen years left her for a guy he met on Gay.com. In the same...
Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories

Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories

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From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. On Monday...
Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies

Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies

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In Switchbacks, Sid Marty draws on his own memories and those of friends and former colleagues in relating a series of true mountain tales. Among his subjects are: the old...
Iron Ambition: Lessons I've Learned from the Man Who Made Me a

Iron Ambition: Lessons I've Learned from the Man Who Made Me a

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The story of the relationship between the most devastating heavyweight boxer in history and the mentor who made him. When legendary boxing trainer Cus D'Amato saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar...
Millennium Eyewitness: A Thousand Years of History Written by Those

Millennium Eyewitness: A Thousand Years of History Written by Those

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Millennium Eyewitness is a fascinating look at the last 1000 years. This anthology comprises over 250 eyewitness accounts of historical events and vanished ways of life throughout the world. What...
Amateur Fisherman

Amateur Fisherman

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The wisdom of hindsight along with superb storytelling, brings to life the nostalgia of being a child in the sixties and the thrills, spills and horrors of living dangerously in...
Dare to Dream

Dare to Dream

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The story of Tom Hayson, a remarkable Australian who was born in a small bush town of Barraba in northern NSW to a poor migrant family just after WW1. He...
Isadora: A Sensational Life

Isadora: A Sensational Life

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Known by many as the greatest dancer of her time, Isadora Duncan was the matriarch of creative self-expression. A pioneer in the dance world and the women's movement, her name...
When Skateboards Will Be Free: My Reluctant Political Childhood

When Skateboards Will Be Free: My Reluctant Political Childhood

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The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite imminent. And when the time comes, my father will lead it. Said Sayrafiezadeh's...
Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Personality

Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Personality

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The book titled Sir Walter Scott: His Life and Personality by the author Hesketh Pearson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Caribbean Lives Jimmy Cliff

Caribbean Lives Jimmy Cliff

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The book titled Caribbean Lives Jimmy Cliff by the author David Katz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
With the Old Breed

With the Old Breed

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This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands Landing on the beach at Peleliu in...