A Child Called It (#1) by Dave Pelzer
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother - a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; no longer a boy, but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and unwashed, ...Show more
Go Ask Alice
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
"Alice could be anyone - she could be someone you know, or someone you love - and Alice is in trouble ... Being fifteen is hard, but Alice seems fine. She babysits the neighbour's kids. She is doing well at school. Someday she'd even like to get married and raise a family of her own. Then she is invited ...Show more
My Salinger Year by Joanna Smith Rakoff
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At 23, 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 reign and old-t ...Show more
Locked In: One Man's Miraculous Escape from the Terrifying Confines of Locked-in Syndrome by Richard Marsh
32.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
'The noises were fuzzy in the darkness. Like hearing a domestic dispute through an apartment wall. As a cop, it was a scenario I'd experienced many times as I'd approached a stranger's front door. But this was different. This time I wasn't going anywhere. I wasn't moving at all. Couldn't move at all.' I ...Show more
Falling in Honey: Life and Love on a Greek Island by Jennifer Barclay
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
I came here looking for some kind of happiness. I think it might be the cleverest thing I have ever done. One difficult winter when her love life falls apart (and so does she), Jen decides on Three Gifts to Self. Gift One and Two are reducing her workload and staying away from relationships for a while. ...Show more
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir by Hilary Mantel
29.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall', a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family. At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the o ...Show more
An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thi ...Show more
Love in the Outback by Deb Hunt
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The true story of an unlikely romance in the Australian outback. At forty-nine, Deb Hunt stopped dating men. It was just too painful. The men she loved didn't love her back. When she found herself stalking her last boyfriend, who'd become engaged to another woman, Deb knew it was time to make changes. F ...Show more
Bully For Them - 22 Successful Australians on Hard Lessons Learned by Fiona Scott-Norman (Editor)
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
One of the most difficult things about being bullied is the feeling that nobody else knows what it's like. Twenty-two of Australia's most talented and successful people know exactly what it's like. In candid and entertaining interviews, leading lights from across Australian life recount how they were ...Show more
Stand Strong : You can overcome bullying (and other stuff that keeps you down) by Nick Vujicic
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The inspirational and bestselling author of Life Without Limits offers insights, encouragement, motivation, and practical directions on how young people can overcome personal challenges - like poor self esteem, bullying and failure. With no arms, no legs and no defence, Nick Vujicic has been a bully's ...Show more
Power of Bones by Keelen Mailman
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
It looked bleak and predictable for little Keelen Mailman: an alcoholic mother, absent father, the horrors of regular sexual and physical assault and the casual racism of a small outback town in the sixties. But somehow, despite the pain and deprivation, the lost education, she managed to absorb her mot ...Show more
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home by Sue Halpern
27.99 AUD
Category: BIOGRAPHY
A layabout mutt turned therapy dog leads her owner to a new understanding of the good life.