How to Ruin Everything Essays by George Watsky
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition." --Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical Are you a sensible, universally competent individual? Are you tir ...Show more
Freeing Peter by Juris Greste
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"Freeing Peter tells the extraordinary true story of how an ordinary Australian family took on the Egyptian government to get Peter Greste out of prison. What would you do if a loved one were to suddenly find themselves in the most impossible of situations? That's the question addressed in Freeing Peter ...Show more
Lecretia's Choice: A Story of Love, Death and the Law by Matt Vickers
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Category: Biography & Memoir
I want to make things easier for people coming after me,' Lecretia told the interviewer. 'I want to make a difference to the law. And it's quite exciting that I'm in a position where I might be able to do that.' She had just learned that chemotherapy was no longer an option. A successful young lawyer i ...Show more
Grant and I by Robert Forster
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"Grant and I is the story of the friendship and collaboration of Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, who gave Australia The Go-Betweens, one of our best and most influential bands. The 1980s songwriting partnership of McLennan/Forster was a little like an Australian Lennon/McCartney. The pair wrote all t ...Show more
Full Life by President Jimmy Carter (Miller Center of Public Affairs)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In his major "New York Times" bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian ("Booklist"). At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with ...Show more
Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder by Greg de Moore; Ann Westmore
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives--if they survived--in and out of asylums accumulating life's wreckage around them. But late in 1948 that changed, when an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered a treatment that has become the gold ...Show more
Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies by Nick Frost
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Category: Biography & Memoir
'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness was laughter and time. With enough of both of these things I reckon you could get over just about anything.' Nick Frost burst onto our screens in a blaze of camo fatigues and weaponry as the Territ ...Show more
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley B. Sullenberger III; Jeffrey Zaslow
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger--the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving the lives of ...Show more
The Shot by Gary Ramage
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
The heart-stoppingly adrenalin-charged - and often dangerous - life and times of Australian war photographer, Gary Ramage. He goes where the troops go - but with a camera, not a gun. As Australia's premier war photographer - and as a former soldier - Gary Ramage has been in and out of just about every c ...Show more
Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide by Mcdaniels, Darryl 'Dmc'
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts--one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community today.As one third ...Show more
Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa by James Neff
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and intensified when his brother named him attorney general. RFK ...Show more