What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
Eleven Bats: A Story of Combat, Cricket and the SAS by Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt spent more than twenty years in the SAS. His decades of service and his multiple tours in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan made him one of the regiment's most experienced and recognised figures. Alongside the SAS, Harry's other lifetime love is cricket. An improvised game of cr ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Educated by Tara Westover
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't b ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the ne ...Show more
A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
1st November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty-two days later he dies, killed from the inside by Polonium - a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. This is the inside story of the life and death of L ...Show more
An Unquenchable Thirst by Mary Johnson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
An Unquenchable Thirst is the story of Mary Johnson's twenty years as a Missionary of Charity working for Mother Teresa in service to the world's poor. It is a fascinating depiction of the daily struggle to live a life of religious service. At seventeen, Johnson experienced her calling when she saw a ph ...Show more
One Day I'll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Diaries
Helen Garner's second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the bombshell that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in l ...Show more
Everything to Live For: The Inspirational Story of Turia Pitt by Turia Pitt
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: General Adult
In September 2011, Turia Pitt, a beautiful 25-year-old mining engineer working her dream job in the far north of Western Australia, entered an ultra-marathon race that would change her life forever. Trapped by a fire in a gorge in the remote Kimberly region, Turia and five other competitors had nowhere ...Show more
The Devil and James McAuley by Cassandra Pybus
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'In this stylish, confronting and marvellously written biography, scarifying precision and measured compassion are held in delicate balance as Cassandra Pybus relentlessly anatomises the demons that drove James McAuley through a lifetime of labyrinthine politics, art and nightmare." Brian Matthews
A Forger's Tale by Shaun Greenhalgh
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 2007, Bolton Crown Court in the United Kingdom sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world's greatest museums. During the court cas ...Show more