Mercenary Mum: My Journey from Young Mother to Baghdad Bodyguard by Neryl Joyce
$29.99 AUD
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Mercenary Mum is the true story of Neryl Joyce, a young single mother who went from working at her local Woolworths to serving as a soldier in the Australian Army's elite Close Personal Protection Unit. She later left the army to become a high - risk security contractor, where she was responsible for pr ...Show more
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
$24.99 AUD
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Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiti ...Show more
Wish You Happy Forever: What China's Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains by Jenny Bowen
$22.99 AUD
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Wish You Happy Forever chronicles Half the Sky founder Jenny Bowen's personal and professional journey to transform Chinese orphanages--and the lives of the neglected girls who live in them--from a state of quiet despair to one of vibrant promise.After reading an article about the thousands of baby girl ...Show more
Modi Effect: Inside Narendra Modi's Campaign to Transform India by Lance Price
$32.99 AUD
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How did a 'chai wallah' who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India? On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted anywhere in the world, having fought a campaign unlike any before. Political parties in Britain, Australia and North Ameri ...Show more
My Paris Dream by Kate Betts
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When Kate Betts graduated from Princeton, she was desperate to stand on her own two feet and discover who she really was.Kate decided to take a leap of faith and move to Paris where she would throw herself into Parisian culture, master French and a find a job that would give her a reason to stay.After a ...Show more
Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness by Neil Strauss
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Everyone Loves You When You're Dead is a hilarious and revealing collection of celebrity interviews by Neil Strauss. In this book he: makes Lady Gaga cry, tries to keep Motley Crue out of jail and gets kidnapped by Courtney Love; shoots guns with Ludacris, takes a ride with Neil Young and goes to church ...Show more
Glitter and Glue: A Compelling Memoir About One Woman's Discovery of the True Meaning of Motherhood by Kelly Corrigan
$19.99 AUD
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond - sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine - between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarised the the division of labour ...Show more
Girl in Glass: How My "Distressed Baby" Defied the Odds, Shamed a CEO, and Taught Me the Essence of Love, Heartbreak, and Miracles by Deanna Fei
$35.00 AUD
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Deanna Fei was just five-and-a-half months pregnant when she inexplicably went into labor. Minutes later, she met her tiny baby who clung to life support inside a glass box. Fei was forced to confront terrifying questions: How to be the mother of a child she could lose at any moment. Whether her daughte ...Show more
The Promise : Three Mates, Two Wars by Jamie Zimmermann
$39.99 AUD
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It was a blood oath between best friends. As Sergeant Brett Wood prepared for a third tour of Afghanistan, he made fellow Commando Jamie Zimmermann promise to take care of his wife and financial affairs should the worst unfold. When Brett was killed two months later, it tore two worlds apart. The Promis ...Show more
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by Howard Eiland
$89.00 AUD
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Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings--mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology--defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existence has ...Show more
The Tsarnaev Brothers - the Road to a Modern Tragedy by Masha Gessen
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An important story for our Era: How the American dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. The facts of the tragedy are established: on 15 April 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 264 others. The el ...Show more