Boy Erased - A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family by Garrard Conley
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe, and Lucas Hedges, and directed by Joel Edgerton. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young ma ...Show more
Nelson Mandela : An Inspirational Leader by Russell, Alec
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Nelson Mandela An Inspirational Leader Through a series of revealing photographs and concise but illuminating text, this book charts Mandela's long journey from young firebrand to elder statesman and global icon. Another fantastic title in the Icons of Our Time Series.
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: Adult
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
Tough Love: The Amazing True Story of a Boxing World Champion turned Lawyer by Lovemore NDOU
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
Here was a young black boy who faced the hourly life-anddeath reality of growing up in a humble town on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border, with the edifice of apartheid beginning to crumble in South Africa and civil war raging in Zimbabwe. He only ever started fighting to protect himself, his parents and ...Show more
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: very good
The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times) What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of persona ...Show more
Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
A Fortunate Life by A B Facey
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
First sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer, farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then being rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy. He survived Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression, lost a son in the Second World War ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
In 1985, southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people--people like the boy, Salva Dut--caught in the middle. When Salva's village is attacked, he must embark on a harrowing journey that will propel him through horror and heartbreak, across a har ...Show more
A Mother's Story by Rosie Batty
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Reading Level: General Adult
Rosie Batty knows pain no woman should have to suffer. Her son was killed by his father in a violent incident in February 2014, a horrendous event that shocked not only the nation, but the world. Greg Anderson murdered his 11-year-old son Luke and was then shot by police at the Tyabb cricket oval. Rosie ...Show more
Able (Fully updated edition) by Dylan Alcott
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Category: BIOGRAPHY
The incredible life of an astonishing athlete and now disability advocate - fully updated to include Wimbledon and French Open wins and moreDylan Alcott has never let his disability get in the way of what he wanted to achieve.His family treated him no differently to any other kid, and it was the best th ...Show more