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Boomer and Me: A Memoir of Motherhood and Asperger's
Me: 'Are you going to be a good boy this year?'Boomer: 'Uh huh. I have no interest in toilet humour.'Me: 'You don't?'Boomer: 'No. No interest at all. I mean, I...
Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World
A New York Times Bestseller Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty memoir on a creative life enriched by her...
Sigmund Freud
Not a typical biography, Ralph Steadman examines Freud using Freud's 1905 essay on Jokes and illustrates his points with 75 drawings. The result is a masterful interplay of text and...
Notes of a Russian Sniper
'As a sniper, I've killed more than a few Nazis. I have a passion for observing enemy behaviour. You watch a Nazi officer come out of a bunker, acting all...
The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pin-ups
At the height of her career, just before she disappeared, Playboy pin-up Bettie Page''s popularity rivalled that of Marilyn Monroe. This biography reveals her struggles for fame and love, and...
Victoria's Children of the Dark
Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel...
Where The Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese Australian Story
A family's sacrifice - A nation's struggle A family's sacrifice ... A nation's struggle In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese families set out on perilous journeys...
Everest, Guns and Money
In the autumn of 1973, Chris Dewhirst was living and working in Yosemite National Park, and part of a counterculture group of rock climbers tackling some of the most difficult...
Dad's Maybe Book
Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humour, and rewards of raising two sons. "We are all writing our...
Smacked
Smacked is the powerful, uncompromising story of one woman's struggle with addiction and her ultimate triumph over it. Hooked on heroin and crack cocaine, Melinda Ferguson gave up everything she...
Fear of the Collar: The True Story of the Boy They Couldn't Break
A shocking and frank account of the abuse and cruelty faced by one Irish boy under the protection of the Christian Brothers. Sent to an Industrial School in Dublin at...
I Will Find You: In Search of the Man Who Raped Me
A hard-hitting memoir about a woman's search to understand the man who raped her Joanna Connors was thirty years old when she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger. Many...
Come Back, Como
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The story of one man's uncommon experiences with a dog who was determined to have nothing whatsoever to do with him. Steven Winn wanted a dog for his family -...
A Matter of Style: Intimate Portraits of 10 Women Who Changed Fashion
From Coco Chanel and Grace Kelly to Twiggy and Lady Diana, here are ten women who changed twentieth-century fashion forever! Coco Chanel once proclaimed, "I don't do fashion, I am...
5 Seconds of Summer
*** AUSTRALIAN BAND *** Take four cute, likable boys from Sydney. Add a heavy dose of rock, the fast, electric and fun kind, enhanced by powerful melodies that lend themselves...
The Byerley Turk: The True Story of the First Thoroughbred
This is the true story of the most remarkable horse in history. In 1678, a beautiful mahogany bay Karaman colt is foaled in a stable on a feudal landholding in...
Saving Our Skins: Building a Vineyard Dream in France
Frost can be fatal to a fledgling wine business... gorgeous glitter with a high price tag. On a winter s day it is beautiful, but on a spring day after...
A la Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France
Three weeks into our hen ownership and there wasn't a single egg, there was nothing. Natalie's theory for this was that they were bored. Can hens be bored? Really? They're...
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: Five Years in Tibet
The very aptly named Mr Pong had the kind of breath that could stun at over ten feet...This wasn't just bad - there was something rotten down there. Something had...
Goats from a Small Island: Grabbing Mallorcan Life by the Horns
Life is never simple for PR consultant Anna Nicholas as she attempts to cut loose her ties with London for a more manana existence in rural Mallorca with her family....
Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily
You are a journalist. You should be writing on one of our great Indian papers, then you will really be starting to understand us.A chance conversation with her greengrocer about...
From the Mull to the Cape: A Gentle Bike Ride on the Edge of
Midges like damp areas, low sunlight, no wind and dark clothes (to land on, not to wear). So your best bet for a midge-free, summer Highland holiday is to don...
Second Chances: Facing my demons and finding a better me
A raw and honest story of alcoholism, recovery and courage in the face of loss Hayley Holt grew up in the public eye. Now it's time to share her side...
Horses Never Lie About Love
When Jana Harris first laid eyes on a beautiful mare named True Colors, something about her and the way she guarded her foal spoke to Harris. But when True Colors...
Just Yannis
The massacres of the Sierra Leone Civil War, the bloody struggle for liberation during the Arab Spring, the plight of the Kurdish refugees in the Gulf War and the ongoing...
Cry Me a River: One Man's Journey Down the Murray Darling with a Kayak
The account of one man's journey to the heart of Australia's water crisis. Steve Posselt put everything on the line to paddle or drag a kayak from Brisbane to Adelaide...
The Flaming Cow: The Making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother
Celebrating more than 50 years of the groundbreaking Atom Heart Mother. By the late 1960s, popular British prog-rock outfit Pink Floyd were experiencing a creative voltage drop, so they turned...
Smiling at Shadows: A Mother's Journey Raising an Autistic Child
Smiling at Shadows is the story of Junee and Rod Waites and their son, Dane. Junee and Rod have journeyed with their son for 26 years: from the first anxious...
Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South
The role of resident vet in the British Overseas Territories of the Falklands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha and Ascension encompasses the complexities of caring for the world's oldest land...
The Road from Coorain: A Woman's Exquisitely Clear-Sighted Memoir of
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In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood-a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds,...
PossAbilities: A Creative Life
PossAbilities is about finding the magic in whatever you do. Encompassing fourteen creative career incarnations, this grounded memoir includes bittersweet ruminations on uncertainty and trust. You'll find heartfelt inspiration to...
Growing in to Autism
What's it like to realise you're autistic? And how do you start to ask the world around you to accept that? From the outside looking in, Sandra Thom-Jones was living...
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "A tonic . . . Splendid . . . A respite . . . A summer cocktail of...
The Drovers
From the High Country to the Outback, there are extraordinary stories of the men and women who have travelled across Australia behind mobs of cattle, sheep and horses. 'For the...
Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box DSH838
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Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box Delve into the past with this curated collection of secondhand history and biography titles. Explore the lives of influential figures, journey through pivotal...
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm's Top
' Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL 'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITE On 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable'...
Keith Haring: The Story of His Life
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One of Them
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Murdering Mr. Lincoln: A New Detection of the 19th Century's Most Famous Crime
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Saving Bunji: The story of a girl, a rescued kangaroo joey, and the passion that led her to fight for change
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High Sobriety: my year without booze
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The Boy Who Loved Apples: A Mother's Battle with Her Son's Anorexia
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The Road to Lower Crackpot
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Secrets of the Beechworth Bakery
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