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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BESTSELLER "An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon's story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those...
Real Life Portrait: The Life of Wallace Anderson, Australian War

Real Life Portrait: The Life of Wallace Anderson, Australian War

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Real Life Portrait is the compelling and powerful story of Wallace Anderson, a noted Australian sculptor from the 1920s to the 1950s; a time when being an artist was considered...
The Puzzle People: Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon

The Puzzle People: Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon

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Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the...
Thank you, Elisabeth: Self-awareness when working with people at the

Thank you, Elisabeth: Self-awareness when working with people at the

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When beginning her career in Palliative Medicine, the author first met Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. This meeting introduced her to the importance of being aware of one's own emotional issues when...
Midnight In Garden Of Evil Knieval

Midnight In Garden Of Evil Knieval

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Manchester United scooping the treble, Schumacher barging Hill off the track, Tyson chewing Holyfield, England being beaten on penalties by just about everyone, name a defining sporting moment of the...
Visions of the Prophet

Visions of the Prophet

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Each text in its own way invites reflection and meditation. The theme running through the pieces is love - a love that is coloured with both tears and smiles. Gibran's...
What It Feels Like for a Girl

What It Feels Like for a Girl

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'I don't know what it is about heights. I'm scared of 'em. Dead scared. But not of fallin'. I'm scared of jumpin'. Coz whenever I'm high up, I get this...
Unjust Justice

Unjust Justice

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This is a true story. More than fifteen years after he left the scouts, the scout leader was falsely accused of raping a scout. What was the evidence? How could...
Mother Land

Mother Land

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Mercenary Mum: My Journey From Young Mother To Baghdad Bodyguard

Mercenary Mum: My Journey From Young Mother To Baghdad Bodyguard

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Mercenary Mum is the true story of a young single mother who went from working at her local Woolworths store to serving as a soldier in the Australian Army's elite...
Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me

Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me

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'Read any history of the Nineties in Britain and you will read about Britpop, Blair, the birth of the Premier League and the rise of new lads. I played no...
Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Midlife

Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Midlife

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A frank, funny and tender new book from Christie Watson about the search for meaning in mid-life 'A wildly entertaining and necessary book' ELIZABETH DAY 'A must-read for every woman'...
Stronghold: One man's quest to save the world's wild salmon - before

Stronghold: One man's quest to save the world's wild salmon - before

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Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey s enthralling account of an unlikely visionary, Guido Rahr, and his crusade to protect the world s last bastion of wild salmon. One of the most...
Alphabet Soup: My Life On And Off Screen

Alphabet Soup: My Life On And Off Screen

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Australia's best loved morning TV presenter, Mel Doyle, invites you inside her home and her life. Now, for the first time, Mel shares what it is like to juggle a...
The Words Inside

The Words Inside

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Emmah is young and beautiful, with the world at her feet. She is also a true survivor... Emmah is young and beautiful, with the world at her feet. She is...
A Brief Affair

A Brief Affair

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I have witnessed a remarkable but true story that just had to be shared.In the spring of 2017, I found myself walking down the aisle of a small New England...
Grandpa and the Library: How Charles White Learned to Paint

Grandpa and the Library: How Charles White Learned to Paint

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A children's book that describes Charles White's childhood influences and inspiration . Every day, young Charles White's mother took him to the Chicago Public Library, where the librarians looked after...
In Spite of My Disability

In Spite of My Disability

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Do you or someone you love have a disability? Do they need encouragement and hope that their future will be productive or meaningful? This book will take you on a...
A Global Life: My Journey Among Rich and Poor, from Sydney to Wall

A Global Life: My Journey Among Rich and Poor, from Sydney to Wall

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As President of the World Bank for a decade, James Wolfensohn tackled global poverty and its consequences with a passion and energy that made him a uniquely important figure in...
Mary: A Flesh-And-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother

Mary: A Flesh-And-Blood Biography of the Virgin Mother

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Arguably the most influential of all women throughout history, Mary, the Virgin Mother is also, paradoxically, the least known. In this unprecedented brilliantly wrought biography, Mary comes believably to life....
You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir

You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir

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The Instant New York Times Bestseller--Featuring a Foreword by Joss Whedon "Felicia Day is a lot of fun, and so is her book." --George R. R. Martin From online entertainment...
Jo Cox: More in common

Jo Cox: More in common

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'Jo Cox's selfless service to others made the world a better place' Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A desperately tender account...
Walking the Americas: 'A wildly entertaining account of his epic

Walking the Americas: 'A wildly entertaining account of his epic

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LONGLISTED IN THE ADVENTURE TRAVEL CATEGORY OF THE 2017 BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS , WINNER OF THE 2016...
Wildfire: My Ten Years Getting High in The Prodigy

Wildfire: My Ten Years Getting High in The Prodigy

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Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to...
The Fortune Hunter

The Fortune Hunter

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The Fortune Hunter, the New York Times bestselling novel by Daisy Goodwin, is a lush, irresistible story of the public lives and private longings of grand historical figures. Empress Elizabeth...
Secret Service Dogs: The Heroes Who Protect the President of the

Secret Service Dogs: The Heroes Who Protect the President of the

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In an age fraught with terrorism, United States Secret Service canine teams risk their lives to safeguard the president, vice president, their families, visiting heads of state, and a host...
Misadventures in the Screen Trade

Misadventures in the Screen Trade

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A young woman in a man's world takes on the media industry. Can she hit the heights of her dreams, or will she fall flat on her face? Sydney 1981...
Adventures of a Balloon Girl

Adventures of a Balloon Girl

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Despina Karatzias struggled over the years of managing a hot air balloon business to find a resource in the tourism industry that would assist her grow the tour operation she...
How I Met My Son

How I Met My Son

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'The sky didn't fall, and our family didn't fall apart. We just started using different pronouns. Oh, I had to change the name stored in my phone with his number....
Monet (Abradale)

Monet (Abradale)

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Examines the works of Monet from a new perspective, and traces the changes in his style as brought about by the changes and problems in his personal life
The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places

The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places

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The Adventurist is one man's story, a story that will change the way you think about travel, survival, where you have been, and where you are going. Enter the world...
On A Making Tide

On A Making Tide

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Horatio Nelson is our most famous military hero. His statue dominates the capital, he has adorned our currency, his last words have passed into folklore, and HMS Victory, his flagship...
Cherry: A Memoir

Cherry: A Memoir

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This memoir of adolescence follows the earlier volume by Mary Karr, "The Liars' Club". In "Cherry", we find Karr once again trying to run from the thrills and terrors of...
Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math

Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math

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The irresistibly engaging book that "enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers" (Oliver Sacks, MD). Thinking in Numbers is the...
Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Running with Scissors: A Memoir

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"Running with Scissors" is a true story, compelling and funny. Above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.
The Smallest Things: Thoughts on Making a Happy Family

The Smallest Things: Thoughts on Making a Happy Family

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From the high profile and popular journalist Angela Mollard, this is a wholly delightful, funny and charming book - part memoir, part how-to manual - about giving your kids a...
Pope Joan

Pope Joan

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A Paper Inheritance

A Paper Inheritance

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'A dynamic portrait of a true creative partnership and a vital chapter in Australian literary culture.' Caroline Baum, author of Only When Dymphna Stella Rees - named after family friends...