Author: | Richard Freadman |
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Biography & Memoir |
Stepladder to Hindsight is about a fascinating man who has reached a turning point in his life and looks back. In this work, renowned academic and life-writer Richard Freadman turns the pen on himself, producing an immensely compelling narrative of his life. Elegant and richly ... read more
Author: | Barack Obama |
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Biography & Memoir |
Reading Level: | near fine |
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal d... read more
Author: | Heather Morris |
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Biography & Memoir |
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Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-gran... read more
Author: | Julia Baird |
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Biography & Memoir |
A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' ... read more
Author: | Jerry Seinfeld |
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Biography & Memoir |
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The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy.
Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub Catch a Rising Star as a twenty-one-year-old student in autumn of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has w... read more
Author: | Alannah Hill |
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Biography & Memoir |
Part agony aunt, part moral philosopher and irrepressibly curious, Alannah Hill shares her unique take on how to fathom life's ticking timebombs of adversity with her inimitable blend of gothic hilarity and old-fas... read more
Author: | Geoff Blackwell; Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
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Biography & Memoir |
Series: | I know this to be true |
Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court and one of America's most admired jurists and social justice advocates, Ruth Bader Ginsburg answers fundamental questions about leadership, and what really matters to her.
Author: | Paul Jennings |
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Biography & Memoir |
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Honest, insightful, funny - a brilliant memoir about writing and teaching and life from one of Australia's most loved children's authors. Sometimes, rather than making you laugh or cry out in surprise, a story will instead leave you wondering about human frag... read more
Author: | Michael Parkinson |
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Biography & Memoir |
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A look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship with his late father John William ... read more
Author: | Rupert Everett |
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Biography & Memoir |
The extraordinary and outrageous memoir from award-winning writer and actor Rupert Everett.
They say that sometimes ghosts don't realise they're dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them any attention. Well, in show b... read more
Author: | Edith Eger |
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Biography & Memoir |
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith... read more
Author: | Stuart Rintoul; Lowitja O'Donoghue |
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Biography & Memoir |
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The profoundly moving biography of a truly great Australian who, against the greatest of odds, became one of Australia's most respected and recognisable Indigenous leaders. 'I am sometimes identified as one of the "success stories" of ... read more