Six Square Metres : Reflections from a Small Garden by Margaret Simons
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Category: Biography
Life lessons from the ground up. Sometimes you reap what you sow. Sometimes you reap what other people sowed. Sometimes you haven't got a clue what you are sowing, and sometimes you just get lucky, or unlucky. All these things are true of life, as of gardening. In this thoughtful and beautifully observe ...Show more
Where Hummingbirds Dance by Susi Prescott
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Category: Biography
Susi Prescott had it all. A large, busy family, a school teaching job she loved, a home on Sydney's leafy North Shore. But with the sudden demise of her thirty-year marriage, her world crumbles. To everyone's surprise, especially her own, Susi makes a momentous decision. She packs up her former life an ...Show more
Dying to Wake Up by Rajiv Parti
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Category: Biography
Before his near-death experience, Dr Rajiv Parti was a wealthy man of science with a successful career as the Chief of Anaesthesiology at the Bakersfield Heart Hospital in California. All in all, Dr Parti was the last man to believe in heaven or hell - that is, until he saw them with his own eyes...When ...Show more
Obama: From Promise to Power by David Mendell
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Category: Biography
Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more about the man, David Mendell's Obama is essential ...Show more
Forgotten Women: The Leaders by Zing Tsjeng
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Category: Biography | Series: Forgotten Women Ser.
Forgotten Women is a brand-new series, which will uncover the lost histories of the women who, over thousands of years, have refused to accept the hand they were dealt, and have changed the course of our futures forever. Forgotten Women: The Leaders shines a light on the rebellious women who defied the ...Show more
Year to Live by Stephen Levine
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Category: Biography
In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller "Who Dies?, " teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live ...Show more
High Notes: Selected Writings of Gay Talese by Gay Talese
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Category: Biography
When Gay Talese left the New York Times in 1965 to write for Esquire, he brought with him a journalistic style entirely his own, which combined his literary sensibility and craftsmanship with a talent for cultural observation and an interest in American everyday life--in taboo topics and overlooked trut ...Show more
On Rabbits, Morality, Etc.: Selected Writings of Walter Murdoch by Imre Salusinszky
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Category: Biography
Love & Terror On The Howling Plains Of Nowhere by Poe Ballantine; Cheryl Strayed (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography
Fans of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will embrace Poe Ballantine's Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere. For well over twenty years, Poe Ballantine traveled America, taking odd jobs, living in small rooms, and wondering the big ...Show more
Young Eliot: From St Louis to the Waste Land by Robert Crawford
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Category: Biography
Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T S Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up to the publication of his most famous poem, The Wast ...Show more
Turning: A Swimming Memoir by Jessica J. Lee
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Category: Biography
'The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, my breasts, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my ears. The sound of it is a muffled roar, the vibration of the body amplified by water, every sound ...Show more
The Footy Lady The Trailblazing Story of Susan Alberti by Stephanie Asher
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Category: Biography
No tragedy, no challenge, has proved too hard for Susan Alberti. The woman from the working-class suburbs has battled boardrooms, courts, lymphoma and adult diabetes;and was one of the driving forces behind the AFL's move into women's football. When her first husband was killed by a truck, Susan took ...Show more