Poum and Alexandre by Catherine de Saint Phalle
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Category: Biographies
This is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of keeping up appearances. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but they cannot quite free themselves from the many strings attached to them - the old aunts, the sisters, the cousins, the nuns and the ...Show more
One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville
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Category: Biographies
'Nance was a week short of her sixth birthday when she and Frank were roused out of bed in the dark and lifted into the buggy, squashed in with bedding, the cooking pots rattling around in the back, and her mother shouting back towards the house: Goodbye, Rothsay, I hope I never see you again!' When Kat ...Show more
Never Call Me a Hero - An Autobiography of a Battle of Midway Dive Bomber Pilot by N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss; Timothy Orr; Laura Orr
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Category: Biographies
National Bestseller * "An instant classic." --Dallas Morning News On the morning of June 4, 1942, high above the tiny Pacific atoll of Midway, Lt. (j.g.) "Dusty" Kleiss burst out of the clouds and piloted his SBD Dauntless into a near-vertical dive aimed at the heart of Japan's Imperial Navy, which six ...Show more
My Father's Wake by Kevin Toolis
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Category: Biographies
Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, death has a louder voice. Along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio station runs a thrice-daily roll-call of the recently departed. The islanders have no fear of death. They go in gre ...Show more
The Last Australian Childhood by Kevin Moloney
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Category: Biographies
The Last Australian Childhood, written by Kevin Moloney, is a collection of 40 vignettes written in the different voices of a child, reflecting his age at the time the story is set. The stories tell of Kevin's family life, growing up in suburban Melbourne inthe 1960s as a Catholic boy who lost his fathe ...Show more
Jacob's Room is Full of Books - A Year of Reading by Susan Hill
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Category: Biographies
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and t ...Show more
Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends by Debbie Reynolds
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Category: Biographies
The beloved Hollywood star and New York Times bestselling author of Unsinkable continues her intimate chat with fans in this entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes, and random musings from a woman who has seen it all-and done most of it. From her acclaimed performances to her headline-mak ...Show more
The Finch in My Brain by Martino Sclavi
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Category: Biographies
'It's eerily joyful to write a foreword for Martino Sclavi's book because five years ago I accepted that he was going to die.' Russell Brand. This is the story of a successful Italian-born, London-based film writer who is suddenly, wholly unexpectedly diagnosed with stage four brain cancer. The prognosi ...Show more
The Last Dog on the Island by Steve Kelleher
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Category: Biographies
Last Dog on the Island is a memoir, tracing the author's return to handling dogs for Customs after a 10-year break and a failed career change. The Customs Dog unit in Tasmania held the unusual position of being the drug detector dog unit for all the Federal and State Law Enforcement agencies on the isla ...Show more
"Gelignite" Jack Murray - an Aussie larrikin legend by Phil MURRAY
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Category: Biographies
The story of a legendary larrikin as told by his son Phil Murray. Murray was best known as the rally driver who in 1954 won the REDeX 'Around Australia' Reliability Trial without the loss of a single point; but Jack's sporting interests and achievements were eclectic and far-ranging.
Letters to my Grandchildren by David Suzuki
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Category: Biographies
In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren - and us - to do everything at full tilt. He explains why sports, fishing, feminism, ...Show more
Choosing Hope: The Inspiring True Story of the Teacher Who Saved the Lives of Her Children at Sandy Hook Elementary School by Kaitlin Roig-Debellis; Robin Gaby Fisher (As told to)
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Category: Biographies
. . . dramatically conveys how swiftly an 'ordinary' life can change, but also probes the depth of the struggle to rise from despair to hope.' - Publishers Weekly Kaitlin Roig - Debellis is the first - grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who saved her entire class of fifteen six - and - seven ...Show more