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    Chasing Africa
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    Chasing Africa

    Chasing Africa delicately explores the loss of identity, the gift of health and adventure, and the courage to put oneself first despite guilt, fear, and the pull of family.As a teenager, Lisa couldn't wait to escape suburbia and travel the world. Years...
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    A Time of Light and Shadow
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    A Time of Light and Shadow

    An inspiring travel adventure memoir that explores a young woman's quest to live life on the front lines, chasing adventure, and confronting the harsh realities of crisis work in Asia and Africa.In 1975, a time of new freedom for women, Ella Harvey lived...
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    The Art of Misadventure

    Experience the quirky missteps, humorous adventures, and professional development of a renowned Canadian photographer in this entertaining memoir.Join Canadian photographer, explorer, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, father, and writer...
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    Lights to Guide Me Home
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    Lights to Guide Me Home

    This debut memoir is at once a captivating travelogue and an introspective look at what it takes to navigate the unfamiliar and find your way back home.Meghan J. Ward was 21 years old when she journeyed across the country for a summer job in the Canadian...
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    Lucky Dog
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    Lucky Dog

    Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets.What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen's term: cancer...
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    The Naturalist
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    The Naturalist

    ** Shortlisted, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, NSW Community & Regional History Prize ** For lovers of natural history, this is the first book to explore Allan Riverstone McCulloch's scientific genius, artistic talents and his crucial...
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    Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters
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    Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters

    ** Shortlisted, The Age Book of the Year Award 2023, Non-fiction **The trailblazing McDonagh sisters were the first women in Australia to form their own film production company. Between 1926 and 1933, while they were in their mid-twenties, these sassy...
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    The Education of Young Donald Trilogy
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    The Education of Young Donald Trilogy

    A compelling insight into the making of one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals.A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne's three autobiographies The Education of Young Donald (1967),...
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    Picturing a Nation
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    Picturing a Nation

    The untold story of a major Australian artist. Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (18631930) was also the most widely viewed BritishAustralian artist of the Heidelberg era.Fullwood's illustrations...
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    Caroline's Dilemma
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    Caroline's Dilemma

    Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for HistoryCaroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma.Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of six when her husbanddied in Melbourne in 1865. Having no legal rights herself to the sheep stationin Wimmera,...
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    Into the Loneliness
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    Into the Loneliness

    Shortlisted, National Biography Award 2022Shortlisted, Margery Medal for Biography 2022Shortlisted, Chief Minister's NT Book Awards 2022Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2021, Nonfiction Book AwardAn original and riveting biography of two of the...
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    A Certain Style
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    A Certain Style

    Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert and Hal...
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    The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
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    The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

    Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of theAustralian Imperial Force's actions and battleson the Western Front than anyone. Bean'sextensiveprivate wartime diaries, held by the Australian...
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    The Battle Within
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    The Battle Within

    Head-aches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just don't seem to make a success of our return - ROBERT, A RETURNED POWThis landmark and compelling book follows...
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    Stranger Thingies
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    Stranger Thingies

    John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book...
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    Escape Artist
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    Escape Artist

    The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete...
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    Valiant for Truth
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    Valiant for Truth

    Chester Wilmot (19111954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic...
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    Not Just For this Life
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    Not Just For this Life

    Not Just For This Life is a salute and tribute to Gough Whitlam, commemorating what would have been his 100th birthday. Upon his death in October 2014 there was a national outpouring of grief and affectionate remembrances across the nation. This book...
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    The Worst Woman in Sydney
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    The Worst Woman in Sydney

    Matriarch of the criminal underworld ... or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney's famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV's Underbelly and every other account of Sydney's criminal history...
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    Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo
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    Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

    For many complaints and conditions, the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated...
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    W-3
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    W-3

    An extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. With an introduction by Yiyun Li.'For a long time it had seemed to me that...
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    Claude Coats: Walt Disney's Imagineer
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    Claude Coats: Walt Disney's Imagineer

    Claude Coats: Walt Disney's Imagineer-The Making of Disneyland: From Toad Hall to the Haunted Mansion and Beyond is the story of artist and designer Claude Coats who, for more than half a century, was one of the most prolific creative talents at The Walt...
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  • Rascal's Republic
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    Rascal's Republic

    "Rascal's Republic" is a catalogue of the author's early twenties through poetry, unstructured prose, and photographs. While there is a table of contents, the book is not designed to be read in any particular order. Many passages have been informed by...
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    A Room with a Darker View
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    A Room with a Darker View

    'Unsurprisingly, feminists have been at the forefront of writing illness narratives, from Virginia Woolf to Audre Lord and Susan Sontag. My family's inability to accommodate my mother's illness, the perniciousness of her particular subtype of...
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    The Dream Machine
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    The Dream Machine

    The story of the man who instigated the work that led to the internet-and shifted our understanding of what computers could be.Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time is the vision of J.C.R...
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    Badge of Courage

    World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage before he ever experienced war first-hand. So true was his portrait of a young man who runs from his first confrontation with...
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    Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life
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    Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life

    The Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky Addams Family in this first biography, written with...
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    The Original Six
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    The Original Six

    Since the inception of the National Hockey League on November 26, 1917, the sport of hockey has been one of the most popular games across the globe.After the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had been founded in 1909, ceased operations, the NHL...
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    I Should Be Dead By Now
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    I Should Be Dead By Now

    Whether it was helping Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win three consecutive NBA titles in the 1990s, or showing up to a book signing in a dress and full makeup, Dennis Rodman has always distinguished himself as one of the great and most polarizing...
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    Amazing Tales from the Chicago Bears Sideline
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    Amazing Tales from the Chicago Bears Sideline

    The Chicago Bears are more than a football team-they are a legend. Founded in 1919, the Bears have won more regular season games than any other NFL franchise. With twenty-six players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and thirteen retired jerseys, it's no...
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    Stifled Laughter
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    Stifled Laughter

    Pulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnson's extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics from Florida classrooms. Part memoir, part courtroom drama, and part primer for advocates...
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    Moving the Bar
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    Moving the Bar

    Michael Ratner (19432016) was one of America's leading human rights lawyers. He worked for more than four decades at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) becoming first the Director of Litigation and then the President of what Alexander Cockburn...
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    Always Red
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    Always Red

    "Len tells his story as only he can: forthright, confident and witty. What emerges is a hard-hitting assessment of dramatic times, and a message of hope for the future." -Jeremy CorbynLen McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the...
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    The Real Deal
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    The Real Deal

    Photographer and best-selling author Joe McNally shares stories and lessons from a life in photography.When Joe McNally moved to New York City in 1976, his first job was at the Daily News as a copyboy, "the wretched dog of the newsroom." He was earning...
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    Fists Raised
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    Fists Raised

    What does Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer of all time, have in common with Megan Rapinoe, the badass pink-haired female soccer player? They achieved perfection, won medals, and lived the glory. But it is above all their raised fists, when, at a time of...
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    Alfred HITCHCOCK
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    Alfred HITCHCOCK

    "Psycho" traumatized viewers around the world. Never before had the angst or the suspense been so well presented in cinema. But where does the talent of this Alfred Hitchcock come from, the one nicknamed the "Master of Suspense"? To find out, we must...
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    DJANGO, Hand On Fire
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    DJANGO, Hand On Fire

    Django Reinhardt is a legend. But Django -which may have meant "He who wakens"- was twice born. A first time in the snow, during the winter of 1910 in a nomadic gypsy family stationed in Liberchies, Belgium. The second in Saint-Ouen, near Paris, in the...
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    Love Me Please
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    Love Me Please

    A lively, fascinating story of one of the greatest stars of Rock, who was way ahead of her time. A biography in comics of the amazing rock singer Janis Joplin with the highlights of her journey from childhood after the Second World War to her abrupt...
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    Rolling Stones In Comics
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    Rolling Stones In Comics

    When the Rolling Stones hit the scene in the 60s it was to play Rhythm & Blues, nothing more. They were far from imagining that they are not just going to change music but also become the mouthpiece of a changing world. Sticking their tongue out at...
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    The Initiates
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    The Initiates

    The sold out hardcover now in paperback. A nominee for the Slate Cartoonist Studio Award and winner of Gourmand magazine's best U.S. wine book translation, this graphic novel explores the nature of one's vocation and offers a look at the daily devotion...
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    40 AOS DE AGRONIMA
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    40 AOS DE AGRONIMA

    This book is presented to celebrate the 40 years of graduation and contains some of the anecdotes lived as a student at the National School of Agriculture, now Chapingo Autonomous University (UACH) during the years of study from 1973 to 1980, from where...
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    Friendship
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    Friendship

    Mrs. Daniels and Paula spend their afternoons after school having tea and learning about all the different places Mrs. Daniels has visited. Their friendship grows over cups of tea and bouquets of roses, and becomes an instrumental part of Paula's...
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    You Can't Always Have It All
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    You Can't Always Have It All

    This isn't just any ordinary story this is my story, A story filled with lust, love, lies. A story about a young, successful, beautiful black woman who just wanted to have it all. A story about men, drama and my trauma I've experienced. In this book you...
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    No Risk, No Reward
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    No Risk, No Reward

    No Risk, No Reward examines the life and career of golf course architect John Sanford, from an insider's point of view. After a childhood spent on major league baseball fields, Sanford turned a passion for golf into a successful design career. Explore...
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    YOU WILL BE A BUILDER OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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    YOU WILL BE A BUILDER OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

    Edward Victor Dick began life as a simple farm boy but was always attracted to music. Growing up amidst the cultural revolution of the 1960's was fertile ground for his exceptionally active imagination. A dramatic epiphany in his early 20's led him to...
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    Rooster - Fighter Pilot
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    Rooster - Fighter Pilot

    "Rooster-Fighter Pilot" is a riveting story about a boy who had a dream about flying that he has never let go. He would concentrate while dreaming and lifted off the ground and flew over the fields and farms where he lived in France.He lived out his...
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    Ghost of Our Grandfather
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    Ghost of Our Grandfather

    A lifetime of questions led us to discover that the grandfather we never knew had led a surprisingly interesting and varied life, having occupied himself as a farmer and a Populist, a town builder and a merchant, a Freethinker and a pioneer of the Great...
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    The Days Planned For Me
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    The Days Planned For Me

    Why does God heal some and not others? When caring for a seriously ill parent, spouse or child, when is it appropriate to pray for healing and when is it time to simply accept things as they are? These questions circled in Jean Sullivan's mind when faced...
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