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    God Spoke to Me
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    God Spoke to Me

    God’s still small voice “There is great joy in doing something on the spur of the moment. When you do this, you find true freedom of the Spirit. You will find a new joy and freedom, which I long for all My children to have. “Life is so simple. Keep it so...
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    Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga
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    Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga

    Sharply observed, funny and poignant, a tree-change story with a twist‘Never before have I felt the responsibility for someone’s tree change … Todd and Jeff’s ups and downs made me laugh out loud, and “verjuice schmerjuice” says it all’ Maggie Beer ...
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    Denali
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    Denali

    In the bestselling tradition of Finding Gobi and Marley & Me, the moving story of a dog, his human, and the friendship that saved both their lives – and inspired countless others.Ben Moon had no intention of getting a dog until he met the soulful...
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    Classic Science Fiction
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    Classic Science Fiction

    Classic works of speculative fiction from the earliest masters of the genre.Classic Science Fiction includes nine stories from masters of early science fiction: H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Fitz James...
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  • DC Comics: Batman: Quotes from Gotham City (Tiny Book)
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    DC Comics: Batman: Quotes from Gotham City (Tiny Book)

    A compact and colorful guide to Batman’s best quotes from his many comic adventures. Batman has gathered a lot of valuable wisdom in his seventy-five years of comic history. Now readers can enjoy his sage advice in this collectible tiny book.Part of...
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    Green River, Running Red
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    Green River, Running Red

    In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America’s most prolific...
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    Amazing Fantastic Incredible
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    Amazing Fantastic Incredible

    In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee—comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes—shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern...
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    Make Something Good Today
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    Make Something Good Today

    From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because...
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    How to Be Alone
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    How to Be Alone

    The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive...
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    Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies
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    Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies

    Now a major motion picture starring Jim Parsons! A “heartbreaking but surprisingly hilarious memoir” (People) about the lessons, love, and laughter of the fourteen years a respected TV columnist shared with his late husband before he succumbed to cancer...
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    Selected Works of Alexander Hamilton
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    Selected Works of Alexander Hamilton

    The vital words of Alexander Hamilton, including essays, private correspondence, and public statements.Alexander Hamilton is best known as the United States’ first Secretary of the Treasury and the author of the majority of The Federalist Papers, a...
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    Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy
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    Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy

    Blast off into the unknown with this collection of ten classical works of science fiction and fantasy.Long before we ventured into outer space or explored the most remote regions of the planet, writers have spun stories of what might lie in those unknown...
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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories
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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories

    Scurry down the rabbit hole and step through the looking glass with this luxurious compilation of works from Lewis Carroll.  Don’t be late--it’s a very important date!Witty, whimsical, and often nonsensical, the fiction of Lewis Carroll has been...
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    My Husband and I
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    My Husband and I

    A vivid and revealing portrait of the royal marriage of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip—perfect for fans of the popular Netflix TV series The Crown. When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant...
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    Whiskey in a Teacup
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    Whiskey in a Teacup

    Academy Award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother Dorothea...
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    King of Strong Style: 1980-2014
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    King of Strong Style: 1980-2014

    The life of the internationally famous professional wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura, from his childhood to the International Wrestling Grand Prix championship, and beyond!Before he became a star of American professional wrestling, Shinsuke Nakamura was...
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    True Tales From An Expert Fisherman
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    True Tales From An Expert Fisherman

    In ten hugely entertaining and well-illustrated fishing tales, internationally renowned author, photographer and angler John Bailey recounts some of the best and worst aspects of his worldwide pursuit of fish.Bailey shares his horrifying brushes with...
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    Murder at Myall Creek
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    Murder at Myall Creek

    One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the prosecutor who conducted it.In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at...
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    Simple Dreams
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    Simple Dreams

    In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ‘70s.Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda...
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    Strong Looks Better Naked
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    Strong Looks Better Naked

    Khloé Kardashian shares her secrets for finding strength of body, heart, mind, and soul with inspirational, revealing stories of her own struggles with weight, relationships, and her self-image.In a culture that worships skinny, Khloé Kardashian writes...
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    JFK and the Unspeakable
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    JFK and the Unspeakable

    The acclaimed book Oliver Stone called “the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance,” JFK and the Unspeakable details not just how the conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy was carried out, but WHY it was done…and why...
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    How Far Can You Go
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    How Far Can You Go

    'If you look up mental toughness in the dictionary you'll find a picture of John Maclean' Steve Waugh AO Walking on the beach and holding hands with a loved one is a dream taken for granted by most. But when aspiring athlete John Maclean was struck down...
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    White Line Fever
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    White Line Fever

    Lemmy’s name was synonymous with notorious excess. His blood would have killed another human being. This is the up-to-date story of the heaviest drinking, oversexed speedfreak in the music business who tragically passed away earlier this year.  ...
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    Unknown Pleasures
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    Unknown Pleasures

    'Genuinely funny; indeed, the story will keep you entertained for a very long time' Sunday Times   Joy Division changed the face of music.Godfathers of the enduring alternative scene, they reinvented rock in the post-punk era,...
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    Beating the Street
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    Beating the Street

    Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio.Develop a Winning Investment Strategy—with Expert Advice from “The...
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    One Up On Wall Street
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    One Up On Wall Street

    More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to achieve...
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    Wishful Drinking
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    Wishful Drinking

    'Wishful Drinking is a touching and incisive account of bipolarity, addiction and motherhood.' Independent ‘No motive is pure. No one is good or bad – but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.' Carrie Fisher...
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    My Name is Barbra
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    My Name is Barbra

    The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and THE TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023. The exhilarating and startlingly honest autobiography of the living legend. Barbra Streisand is by...
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  • Chickenhawk
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    Chickenhawk

    Robert Mason's devastating bird's eye-view of the Vietnam war in all its horror'I read this as a young pilot about to embark on a career flying military helicopters. It should have put me off for life. Robert Mason tells a gripping account of the...
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  • Alexander Goehr, Composing a Life
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    Alexander Goehr, Composing a Life

    Alexander ('Sandy') Goehr is a leading British composer and teacher. Born into a Jewish musical family in Berlin in 1932, he arrived in England in 1933 with his father, Walter, a composer, conductor, and pupil of Arnold Schoenberg; and his mother Laelia,...
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    Resorting to Murder

    Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss...
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    Miraculous Mysteries

    Locked-room mysteries and other impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective story that became so...
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    The Horned God

    The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.In 1894, Arthur Machen's landmark novella The Great God Pan was published,...
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    The Edinburgh Mystery

    "Cara!" Mr. Wilkinson stood on the jetty looking out at the long, low shadow of the island, dark against the setting sun. "A beautiful place, and a beautiful name.""It's the Gaelic word for a corpse."From the dramatic Highlands to bustling cities and...
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    The Book Lover's Almanac

    Enjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors' diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative twists and transformative moments in their favourite...
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    Our Haunted Shores

    The sea that night sang rather than chanted; all along the far-running shore a rising tide dropped thick foam, and the waves, white-crested, came steadily in with the swing of a deliberate purpose.From foreboding cliffs and lonely lighthouses to rumbling...
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    Spectral Sounds

    Darkness now was around me and sound. I seemed to stand in the centre of some yelling planet, the row resembling the resounding of many thousands of cannon, punctuated by strange crashing.The violent peals of a disconnected bell in the night; a trudging...
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    Final Acts

    "... and what a motive! Murder to save one's artistic soul... who'd believe that?"Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and...
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    Cornish Horrors

    A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods near St. Ives, only to wonder whether it was he himself...
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    A Children's Literary Treasury

    Great stories ignite a child's imagination and can fill a childhood with unforgettable characters, wondrous places and superb illustrations. They also allow young readers to explore, and to understand, their different feelings and experiences.In her...
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    The Progress of a Crime

    The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes' night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green. There were definitely a number of witnesses. And yet, was it definitely clear to anybody exactly what they had seen? In the...
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    Murder by the Book

    'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.' Otto PenzlerA bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher...
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    Dangerous Dimensions

    'I have stood on the dim shore beyond time and matter and seen it. It moves through strange curves and outrageous angles. Some day I shall travel in time and meet it face to face.' Unlike nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, which tends to fixate on the...
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Biographies & True Stories | Inspirational Real Life Stories & Books Based on True Events Australia

Discover a powerful collection of inspirational real life stories books and famous Australian biographies to read on BookLoop. Whether you're fascinated by historical figures, inspired by sports legends, or drawn to heroic survival stories, our collection will move you, challenge you, and stay with you.

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