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Man's Search For Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl
$19.99 AUD
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
My Year of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
$34.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
In early 2019, Rick Morton, author of acclaimed, bestselling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt, was diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder - which, as he says, is just a fancy way of saying that one of the people who should have loved him the most during childhood didn't. So, over the cou ...Show more
Meghan Misunderstood by Sean Smith
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Meghan Misunderstood is a pioneering book that sets the record straight on the most talked about, unfairly vilified and misrepresented woman in the world. Meghan was eleven when she first advocated for women's rights; a teenager when she worked in a soup kitchen feeding the homeless; a popular actress ...Show more
How I Clawed My Way to the Middle by John Wood
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
'Your job is to go out there, grab the audience by the balls, and drag them up on stage with you!' I was flabbergasted. This I understood. A language that I spoke - had spoken most of my life. It was the best acting note I ever got. John Wood grew up in working-class Melbourne; when he failed out of hig ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
THE NEW YORK TIMESNUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHESUNDAY TIMESNUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York TimesAt the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade?s training as a neur ...Show more
No Man's Land: The Untold Story of Automation on QF72 by Kevin Sullivan
$22.99 AUD
$34.99 (34% off)
Category: BIOGRAPHY
nstinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I'm not in control so I must neutralise controls. I never imagined I'd use this part of my military experience in a commercial airliner ... On routine flight QF72 ...Show more
The Watermill by Arnold Zable
$32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: near fine
Ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable's quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever- ...Show more
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After (PB) by Clemantine Wamariya; Elizabeth Weil
$22.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
____________________ 'Sharp, moving memoir . . . Wamariya tells her own story with feeling, in vivid prose. She has remade herself, as she explains was necessary to do, on her own terms.' New York Times A riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us Clemantine Wam ...Show more
Keith Murdoch: Founder of a Media Empire by R.M. Younger
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Fifty years after Keith Murdoch's death his career and influence remain the measure of the man. Founder of the Murdoch media empire Keith Murdoch came from humble beginnings as the son of a Scottish minister. He began his journalistic career on a Melbourne paper and first made a name for himself when he ...Show more
A Nurse's Story - My Life in A & E during the Covid Crisis by Louise Curtis
$18.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis.Working in A&E is a challenging job but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the ...Show more
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Stella Prize 2019 Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon. Telling the story of a splintered family, a mother who is unlike any other, and her daughters who have no choice but to come to the rescue, The Erratics has the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device. ...Show more