Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof: Drug Busts and Helicopter Rescues One Cop's Extraordinary True Story by Cameron Hardiman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Cameron Hardiman lived a life most young boys could only dream of. Every morning he put on a navy blue police flight suit, grabbed his flight helmet, and prepared to work on the police helicopter. He could be called to anything during a shift, to search for a missing child, to pull an injured driver fro ...Show more
War Gardens: A Journey Through Conflict in Search of Calm by Lalage Snow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
"This extraordinary book...warm and engaging...like a photograph magicked to life." Spectator A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war In this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria ...Show more
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer reveals the shocking truth behind the rise of Andrew Wakefield the so-called father of the anti-vaccine movement. In February 1998, a then-unknown British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, published an explosive scientific paper in a top medical journal, The Lan ...Show more
The Nine Hundred - The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few ...Show more
Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3
Caro Llewellyn's family was unconventional from the beginning. Her parents met in hospital, where her father, confined to an iron lung after contracting polio, seduced his nurse and married her. Growing up, Caro watched her father embrace life, undaunted and ingenious in the face of his severe paralysi ...Show more
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. From their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia ...Show more
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
For centuries, Tibet was known as a hermit kingdom. Its charms were hidden by the natural barrier of the Himalayas to its west and by a reclusive theocratic government ruled by a succession of Dalai Lamas...Nowadays it is not the Tibetans shutting the door, but a paranoid Chinese Communist Party. China ...Show more
Meghan and Harry: The Real Story by Lady Colin Campbell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
This blockbuster narrative provides the first behind-the-scenes, authoritative account of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's marriage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Diana in Private. The fall from popular grace of Prince Harry, the previously adulated brother of the heir to the British thron ...Show more
Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid insight and devastating humour. Shifting between his 1970s upbringing and his life today, Davies moves poignantly from innocence to experience to the clarity of hindsi ...Show more
When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback by Michael Leahy
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
For fans of Netflix's The Last Dance, this is the definitive account of Michael Jordan's spectacular and disastrous return to basketball. As one of the greatest, most celebrated athletes in history, Michael Jordan conquered professional basketball as no one before. Powered by a potent mix of charisma, n ...Show more
Bachar Houli by Bachar Houli
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Bachar Houli is as accomplished an AFL footballer as they come. He's been part of two Richmond Premiership sides, he was an All-Australian in 2019, and with over 200 games to his name he remains a key part of a champion team. Picked at number 42 in the 2006 National Draft by Essendon, Houli played 26 ga ...Show more
Lioness: The extraordinary untold story of Sue Brierley, mother of Saroo, the boy known as LION by Sue Brierley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Saroo Brierley's journey home to a small village in India with the help of Google Earth became an internationally bestselling book and inspired the major motion picture LION. But the story of how his adoptive mother, Sue, came into his life half a world away in Tasmania is every bit as riveting. In this ...Show more