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I Shouldn't Be Telling You This

I Shouldn't Be Telling You This

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'I kept going and here I am.' There are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn't be telling you. Many of them are in this book: Some are embarrassing (like when she...
Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude

Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude

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"Nicole Avant gives a raw and courageous look into how she found the light in her darkest moment. She reminds us that grief is different for everyone, and we have...
With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well

With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset' Sunday Times'Illuminating and beautiful' Cathy Rentzenbrink What if everything you thought you knew about death was wrong?How...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide Scandal

Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide Scandal

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Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-FictionThe shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She...
Damaged: Jodie's parents were supposed to protect her...

Damaged: Jodie's parents were supposed to protect her...

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The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. At just eight years old, Jodie is violent, aggressive and extremely challenging. Five carers in four months have been unable to cope, but there...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

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An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

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A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated with exclusive new content exploring the personal and cultural forces that inspired the music, the author's...
Crisis

Crisis

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We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out...
Little Girl Lost: Amelia just wants a home she feels safe in...

Little Girl Lost: Amelia just wants a home she feels safe in...

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The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson Six-year-old Amelie lives with her mother, Kelly, who suffers from bipolar disorder. After Kelly attempts to burn down...
We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True

We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary WorkNamed a Best Book of the Year by The RootChosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity...
My Brother Jaz

My Brother Jaz

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A profoundly moving memoir on grief and resilience In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother...
A Thousand Miles From Care: A hunt for a brother's killer - a new compelling Australian true crime story about murder & corruption for readers of The Boy in the Dress and Getting Away With Murder

A Thousand Miles From Care: A hunt for a brother's killer - a new compelling Australian true crime story about murder & corruption for readers of The Boy in the Dress and Getting Away With Murder

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A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles From Care tells the 30 year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother's brutal murder in Manly....
View from the Second Row

View from the Second Row

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The most capped All Black in history speaks for the record about his storied career, spanning four World Cups, nine Super Rugby finals and 153 appearances in the black jersey....
Hope: The inspiring and deeply moving new book about finding peace from the bestselling author of A MOTHERS STORY, for readers of Leigh Sales, Julia Baird, Turia Pitt and Indira Naidoo

Hope: The inspiring and deeply moving new book about finding peace from the bestselling author of A MOTHERS STORY, for readers of Leigh Sales, Julia Baird, Turia Pitt and Indira Naidoo

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After tragedy, how do we find hope? A memoir about what it takes to get through the very worst of times from Rosie Batty - a woman who has experienced...
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS, THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY AND HUDSON FYSH

Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map

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  The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth...
Nothing Significant To Report: A Kiwi soldier's hilarious true stories of mischief and misadventure in the New Zealand Army

Nothing Significant To Report: A Kiwi soldier's hilarious true stories of mischief and misadventure in the New Zealand Army

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Laugh-out-loud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand Army When new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training...
On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

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Stories of life, death and bravery by a Kiwi female general surgeon 'Ruthlessly honest and viscerally beautiful. The book I wish I had read as a medical student.' Emma EspinerThe...
Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe

Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe

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WINNER, INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 BOOK OF THE YEARTrent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a...
Dropping the Mask: The long-awaited inspiring new memoir from the legendary Australian screen icon beloved by all

Dropping the Mask: The long-awaited inspiring new memoir from the legendary Australian screen icon beloved by all

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An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood....
Bloody Minded: War, womanhood and finding my voice

Bloody Minded: War, womanhood and finding my voice

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'A story of grit and determination from a woman who writes the way she lives - fiercely, with passion and in full colour.' - Michele A'Court 'There are times, admittedly...
Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way round from Australian rock legend & bestselling author of WORKING CLASS BOY, WORKING CLASS MAN & KILLING TIME

Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way round from Australian rock legend & bestselling author of WORKING CLASS BOY, WORKING CLASS MAN & KILLING TIME

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The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change, from the bestselling author of CLEO and BONO

Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change, from the bestselling author of CLEO and BONO

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo, a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped guide...
Woman Uninterrupted

Woman Uninterrupted

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Yarns on a life lived at a million miles, from beloved broadcaster, podcaster and go-getter Brodie Kane 'A romp through glorious (and gross) adventures, Brodie writes as if you're her...
The Life of Dai

The Life of Dai

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A deeply moving and profoundly uplifting story about living with joy, even in the face of adversity. 'Part memoir and part masterclass in finding hope and joy in the face...
The Worst Girl Gang Ever: A Survival Guide for Navigating Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss

The Worst Girl Gang Ever: A Survival Guide for Navigating Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss

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'Bex and Laura really have pieced together the parachute we all need to help us land safely after falling into the world of loss and fertility struggles.' Elle Wright, author...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma

Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy of Trauma

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Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...
Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality

Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality

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Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map - the Soviet Union. On the site where the famous...
The Comfort Book

The Comfort Book

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'Profound, witty and uplifting' - Observer'Full of eloquent, cogent and positive reminders of the beauty of life' - IndependentThe Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times...
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said

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Author: Timothy Brennan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual...
Edward Albee: A Singular Journey

Edward Albee: A Singular Journey

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Author: Mel GussowFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 466 pagesPublished: Hal Leonard Corporation, United States, 2000Mel Gussow's critically-acclaimed biography of the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (ESeascapeE EA Delicate BalanceE EThe Zoo...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain

'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain

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Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir

Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir

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Author: Leslie JonesFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 360g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023"You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain

'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain

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Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
God's Generals
The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad

God's Generals The Military Lives of Moses, the Buddha, and Muhammad

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Author: Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 It is one of the more startling facts of military history that the founders of three of the four "great...
Tibet: The Jesuit Century

Tibet: The Jesuit Century

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Author: Phillip Caraman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 166
Kuki Shuzo: A Philosopher's Poetry and Poetics

Kuki Shuzo: A Philosopher's Poetry and Poetics

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Author: Michael F. Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 Kuki Shžz™ (1888Ð1941), one of JapanÕs most original thinkers of the twentieth century, is best known for his interpretations of...
The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays

The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays

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Author: Christopher C Meyers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays offers teachers of Georgia history an alternative to...
Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

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Author: Jack CharlesFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 197mm, 224g, 272 pagesPublished: Penguin Random House Australia, Australia, 2020Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life- actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict,...
The Girl Who Touched The Stars: One woman's inspiring true story of adventure, resilience and love, for readers of SHOWING UP and TRUE SPIRIT

The Girl Who Touched The Stars: One woman's inspiring true story of adventure, resilience and love, for readers of SHOWING UP and TRUE SPIRIT

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Author: Bonnie HancockFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 235mm, 443g, 336 pagesPublished: ABC Books, Australia, 2024It took an ocean to learn it's not how fast you paddle but how deep inside you...
Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan for readers of BECOMING, I AM MALALA and RISING HEART

Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan for readers of BECOMING, I AM MALALA and RISING HEART

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Author: Dr Sima SamarFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 233mm, 415g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, Australia, 2024The inspiring memoir of the warrior for women who's defied the Taliban at...
Louis Pasteur and the Power of Observation

Louis Pasteur and the Power of Observation

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Author: Jordi Bayarri DolzFormat: Paperback, 229mm x 184mm, 109g, 40 pagesPublished: Lerner Publishing Group, United States, 2023Louis Pasteur's passion for laboratory experiments led to major, life-saving changes in medicine. His...
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

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Author: Daniel MendelsohnFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 120g, 128 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2022Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.'Astounding'...
Small Fry

Small Fry

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Author: Lisa Brennan-JobsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 357g, 416 pagesPublished: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, United States, 2019'A remarkable book, much more than the lurid celebrity tell-all it might...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

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Author: Timothy Garton AshFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 183g, 208 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2019The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making,...
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

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Author: Michael Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional...
Jenson Button: Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

Jenson Button: Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

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Author: Jenson Button Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 Jenson Button is one of the greatest racing drivers of...