To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit
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Category: General
One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour, 110 floors up above the earth, as a hundred thousand people ...Show more
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr
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This is The New York Times Best-seller. This is a gripping true story of violence, double-cross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover, exposing one of the most outrageous scandals in FBI history. Boston, 1975. Under a harvest moon,'Whitey' Bulger, godfather of the Irish Mob, waits for an o ...Show more
Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius by John Carlin
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"In Chase Your Shadow, journalist and author John Carlin tells the gripping story of Oscar Pistorius's tragic journey from sporting icon to accused murderer. Before Valentine's Day of 2013, Pistorius was best known as an extraordinary athlete, the 'Blade Runner' who became the first amputee in history t ...Show more
No Such Thing as Failure: The Extraordinary Life of a Great British Adventurer by David Hempleman-Adams
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If there's an adventure to be had, it's likely that David Hempleman-Adams has been there first. Ranking alongside Ranulph Fiennes and Chris Bonnington in the pantheon of British explorers, he is the first person in history to achieve what is termed the Adventurers' Grand Slam, by reaching the Geographic ...Show more
Richest Man Who Ever Lived by Steven K Scott
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After Steven Scott flunked out of six jobs in his first four years after college, his best friend, Gary Smalley, offered one simple suggestion that would transform his life: study a chapter in Proverbs every day. Two years later, using the amazing strategies he gleaned from Solomon, Scott started a smal ...Show more
Almost Somewhere: Twenty-eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts
$39.95 AUD
Category: General | Series: Outdoor Lives
Day One and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993 Suzanne Roberts had just finished college and when her friend suggested they hike Californiaa's John Muir Trail the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagine ...Show more
Ocean Notorious. Journeys to lost and lonely places of the deep south by Matt Vance
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
For lovers of exciting non-fiction about remote and rarely visited places - and maritime adventures. True first-person stories of the Southern Ocean from NZ to Antarctica - the windiest, roughest, most isolated body of water on earth. Can be compared with: - Simon Winchester's Atlantic - Johnny Wray's S ...Show more
The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Food and Love in Iran by Jennifer Klinec
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Category: General
A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that their Iranian son could feel desire for someone six years his senior,someone who didn't come to him pure ...Show more
Whole of A Morning Sky by Grace Nichols
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'There is something holy about Georgetown at dusk. The Atlantic curling the shoreline ...' It is 1960 and the Walcotts are moving into the city from the village of Highdam. School headmaster Archie Walcott knows that he will miss the openness of pastureland; his wife, Clara, the women and their nourishi ...Show more
Orange is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
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With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and senten ...Show more
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men by Peter FitzSimons
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The must-read story of the boy from Brisbane who became a wartime hero and aviation trailblazer. In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he ...Show more
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It by Mark Pendergrast
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Category: General
From its invention as a cocaine-laced patent medicine in the Gilded Age to its globe-drenching ubiquity as the ultimate symbol of consumer capitalism in the twenty-first century, Coca-Cola's dramatic history unfolds as the ultimate business saga. In this fully revised and expanded edition of "For God, C ...Show more