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Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird
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Category: Biography and Memoir
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett ...Show more
Untethered: A Memoir by Hayley Katzen
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Category: Biography and Memoir
When urban academic Hayley Katzen moves to a remote Australian cattle property to live with her farmer girlfriend, she hopes, at last, to find home. But this is no happy-ever-after tree change. Lecture halls, law reform and the arts are replaced with castrating calves, shovelling manure, fire-fighting ...Show more
Gulpilil (HB) by Derek Rielly
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
It's been almost fifty years since a teenage David Gulpilil illuminated screens worldwide with his breakout role in Walkabout. It was the first time we'd seen an Aboriginal cast in a significant role and only four years after Holt's referendum to alter the constitution and give Aboriginal people citizen ...Show more
How I Rescued My Brain by David Roland
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Category: Biography and Memoir
As a psychologist specializing in court assessments, David Roland often saw the toughest, most heartbreaking cases. The emotional trauma had begun to take its toll--and then the global financial crisis hit, leaving his family facing financial ruin. So when he found himself in a local emergency ward wit ...Show more
Sunshine - The Diary of a Lap Dancer by Samantha C. Ross
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Category: Biography and Memoir
There are a lot of Ambers in the stripping world. And Aprils and Summers, and Skys and Rains. There are quite a few gems: Sapphires, Diamonds, Rubies and even an Amethyst. And exotic creatures: Tigers, Cheetahs, Phoenixes and Kitties. Plenty of weather conditions, like Misty, Stormy and Cloudy. There ar ...Show more
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: Easy
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of th ...Show more
You've Got to Be Kidding: A Shed Load of Wine and a Farm Full of Goats by Todd Alexander
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The steep-climb highs and free-fall lows of my rollercoaster rural life They say it takes 10,000 hours to master a new skill. Well, seven years (60,000 hours) since former city boys Todd and Jeff moved to the country they should have nailed this whole farming gig, right? Yes, they make lovely wine and h ...Show more
Heroes Next Door by Johnson, Samuel & Hinton, Hilde
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Category: Biography and Memoir
From bestselling authors Samuel Johnson and Hilde Hinton comes a moving, funny, irreverent, inspiring and big-hearted book that shows us all that resilience and kindness are what make the difference, and that you don't have to travel far to find good people ... often they are right next door. When Samu ...Show more
The Tap Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life -- Without the Boring Bits (HB) by Paul Hogan
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The icon and legend at last tells his story his way - without the boring bits Paul Hogan first appeared on our screens in 1971 as a 'tap dancing knife thrower' on channel 9's New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger from Granville did it as a dare, but when the network's switc ...Show more
My Salinger Year by Joanna Smith Rakoff
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Category: Biography and Memoir
At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelled agency, where Dictaphones and typewriters still reig ...Show more
Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more