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  • Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize
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    Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize

    Is it possible to be passionate about politics, football or R&B and still be a creative scientist? In this entertaining and inspiring account, Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty offers readers an insider's guide into discovery science and the...
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  • Letter To My Children
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    Letter To My Children

    Why do seemingly intelligent men and women leave their families to spend more than half the year travelling to Canberra, and spending night after night at electorate and campaign events? Surely there are easier ways to earn a living. A Letter to My...
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  • Field Notes from Death's Door
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    Field Notes from Death's Door

    This Is Going to Hurt meets Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) - a rollicking, smart and self-aware memoir about the extremes of the human experience, the limits to compassion, and what trying to save the world actually entails.In her early...
    $36.00

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    Inside a Pearl

    ______________'Paris may well be White's pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund White ... Entertaining and wry, White is worldly-wise and...
    $20.00

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  • The Faring Light Letters The Faring Light Letters
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    The Faring Light Letters

    "You'll be astonished to hear what I'm doing now - something that has always been a particular dream of mine."What happens when the life you thought you should want doesn't turn out as planned? What do you do when you'd rather be somewhere, somewhen, and...
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  • Courage in the Cape Courage in the Cape
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    Courage in the Cape

    Book two in the 'Courage Series' following the adventures of a single mother and her two sons who sell their hm in NZ and move to South African in 1991 and serve God.After a 10 year wait in NZ, single mother Christine and her 2 sons finally arrive in SA...
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  • Memories and Moving On Memories and Moving On
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    Memories and Moving On

    A light-hearted story on growing older. The tears flowed over parting with the family home and leaving behind treasures that couldn't come along for the ride to the retirement village. Six months on, my soul mate is settled in his new home and into his...
    $32.00

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  • A Soldier's Redemption A Soldier's Redemption
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    A Soldier's Redemption

    A Soldier's Redemption is a true, candid, no-holds-barred story of infamous former gangster disciple Lorenzo Louden, a.k.a. "Shorty G." His story immerses you in the notorious world of gangs, taking you on a bone-chilling ride through the streets of...
    $49.55

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  • Life & Legacy of a Volunteer Life & Legacy of a Volunteer
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    Life & Legacy of a Volunteer

    LIFE & LEGACY OF A VOLUNTEER provides ten tips for volunteer organizations and ten for volunteers based upon 20 real-life experiences over 60 years of a dedicated volunteer. It will hopefully help organizations recruit volunteers, nurture and keep...
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  • About A Life About A Life
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    About A Life

    The author decided to break her memoir into two books. "About a Life" is the second part of her life as a traveller, wife, mother, business person and so much more. She learns to take control of what she wants out of life. Travel, as in her first book,...
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  • Growing Up in Nevis Growing Up in Nevis
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    Growing Up in Nevis

    Lynell Nolan was born in the village of Mt. Lily on the island of Nevis, West Indies, in 1947. After his formal education in 1965, he joined the St. Christopher, Nevis & Anguilla Police Force. In 1972 he immigrated to Canada and served as a member of...
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  • To Hang the Masks Upon the Wall To Hang the Masks Upon the Wall
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    To Hang the Masks Upon the Wall

    From the pure simplicity in a cup of coffee to the challenges of undergoing therapy, Alex Eagleton explores the self, relationships, and their place in the world through a collection of intimate and heartfelt poems. In this debut work, witness a young...
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  • 21 Things You Should Never Do in Your Life 21 Things You Should Never Do in Your Life
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    21 Things You Should Never Do in Your Life

    Pain, suffering, doubt, regret, suicidal thoughts, legal issues, financial issues, tattered friendships, destroyed relationships, emptiness, loneliness, redemption, and hope. This is a true story about how one man lost everything but ultimately gained...
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  • Heart Disease & Me Heart Disease & Me
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    Heart Disease & Me

    Cardiac arrest is a very serious life threatening emergency. Immediate intervention is vital for survival. Every unattended minute will bring that person closer to their death!This book is about how a brave teenager saved his mother when she suffered a...
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  • Most Adventures Wins? Most Adventures Wins?
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    Most Adventures Wins?

    MOST ADVENTURES WINS?My urge for adventure started early in life right after I was born when Doctor Janowski slapped me to welcome me to a Tom Sawyer style of life that was full of mischief. When I was not fishing on Colquitz Creek, playing the piano at...
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  • A Good Heritage A Good Heritage
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    A Good Heritage

    Just an ordinary couple - a farmer and a teacher - whose lives spanned a century of the greatest changes this world has ever known. They suffered through the Spanish Flu of 1918 (an earlier pandemic), two world wars, and the great depression - like so...
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  • My Horror Within My Horror Within
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    My Horror Within

    Maybe I'm the broken one. I think there is something wrong with me. How does this keep happening to me? How the hell do I keep finding myself in this position. Why do I believe in people?Can life get better? Or is this all I deserve in life? You learn to...
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  • Awakening by Grief Awakening by Grief
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    Awakening by Grief

    Awakening by Grief is a book that brings you to the Author's misfortune, the death of her daughter, leaving her in a feeling of despair and sadness. Unfolding her daughter's life, she enters a world greater than sorrow, pain, or despair, where...
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  • Blessed by a Saint Blessed by a Saint
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    Blessed by a Saint

    A mysterious coincidence? A Miracle? Part of a Greater Plan. When experiencing the extraordinary, we are sometimes compelled to invoke the term miracle.  But what is a miracle anyways?  In this refreshingly honest, captivating,...
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  • Travellers with Two Hats Travellers with Two Hats
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    Travellers with Two Hats

    Back in seventeenth century, a Grand Tour of Europe was a rite of passage for the offspring of the rich. By the 1960s and 70s, it was fast becoming one for those of lesser means too. Being of lesser means, the peasantry couldn't tour it quite as grandly,...
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  • Emily Dickinson Face to Face
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    Emily Dickinson Face to Face

    "Emily Dickinson springs to life in this remarkable, long-out-of-print biography written by her niece . . . Though millions of pages have been written about Dickinson . . . few have provided such a thrilling close-up portrait. Readers will be rapt from...
    $33.00

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  • No Words for This
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    No Words for This

    The much anticipated memoir by media personality Alison Mau In my family, we never talked about the past...Since the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist just like her dad. A beer-swilling, straight-talking man who was rough around the...
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  • Griffith Review 88: Culture Vultures
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    Griffith Review 88: Culture Vultures

    There's no escaping the onslaught of content these days. But it seems increasingly tricky to determine what's good and what's not as we stream, tap and swipe our way through our endless entertainment feeds. How can we tell our own taste? Have we reached...
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    Find me at the Jaffa Gate

    'What is the task but to find my way back to the unfragmentation of the world as we knew it; to collect the uncollected, to make the unmade. To refuse victimhood even when annihilation seems to insist on it. To make a thing out of nothing, to make a...
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  • Reminiscences of a Student's Life
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    Reminiscences of a Student's Life

    The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar Mary Beard has called "my hero."First published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1925, Jane Ellen Harrison's Reminiscences are the irreverent memoirs of a student who declared...
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  • The Mystery Guest
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    The Mystery Guest

    A "frank and wry, mad and graceful" (Slate) true story about getting dumped, and getting over it.When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Gregoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that the caller was the woman who had left him, without...
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  • Inner Warrior
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    Inner Warrior

    A redemptive story about second chances. Jaye Pukepuke committed 15 armed robberies before he was caught by police and sent to prison. He tells people that while he spent almost six years inside, he served 16, because it took him another decade simply...
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    Night Divides The Day: The Doors Anthology
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    Night Divides The Day: The Doors Anthology

    'We were reflecting on our own career as it was happening. It's not that we weretrend-conscious, we were doing exactly what we would have been doing anyway.' - Jim Morrison'We didn't sit down and have a meeting to say, 'Hey, we want to change theminds of...
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    Running Water Limited Edition 3-Pack

    This limited edition 3-pack of Running Water Community Press titles is a perfect gift for summer reading. It includes three titles from the world's first ever First Nations author run co-operative publisher:Living In Hope: the complete memoirs...
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    Searching for Charmian
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    Searching for Charmian

    Thirty years ago, Gina Chick’s mother Suzanne wrote a bestselling memoir after discovering that her birth mother was none other than iconic Australian writer Charmian Clift. That book, Searching for Charmian, is now being rereleased for Mothers’ Day 2025...
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    Ariise
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    Ariise

    Are you living the life you truly want? In Ariise, Zoe Marshall invites you to learn the powerful tools and techniques of manifestation to help you cultivate the life you deserve. This isn't just another self-help book – this is a blueprint for...
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    Maybe This Will Save Me
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    Maybe This Will Save Me

    From filmmaker, writer, producer and actor Tommy Dorfman -- currently starring in Broadway's Romeo + Juliet -- comes a beautifully written, bracingly original memoir, structured through the profound revelations of a single tarot card reading, chronicling...
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  • Between the salt and the ash
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    Between the salt and the ash

    A writer's quest to understand the deep past and uncertain future of his homeland.After inheriting the miner's safety lamp that belonged to his great-grandfather, Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage across his homeland...
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    This Is Not About You

    A memoir of first love, first lust, first heartbreak and the many disappointments in between.Rosemary Mac Cabe was always a serial monogamist never happier than when she was in a relationship or, at the very least, on the way to being in one. But in her...
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    Pioneering Spirit, American SuccessIn panam.captain, Tim Mellon, issue of one of America's most illustrious banking dynasties, narrates his journey from the legacy of the Mellon family to his success as an audacious entrepreneur who carved his own path...
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  • High Heels and Gumboots
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    High Heels and Gumboots

    For anyone who has dreamed of living in the country. . . here's the brutal, hilarious and heart-warming reality.Rebecca Hayter was a high-profile yachting journalist based in Auckland, when she followed a whim to buy a lifestyle block on the beach at...
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  • Immemorial
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    Immemorial

    "Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization... Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget."-Publishers WeeklyA speculative essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe: how we memorialize what has been lost...
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  • Mad About Shakespeare
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    Mad About Shakespeare

    ‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLENFrom the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. ‘The web of our...
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    Portrait in Red
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    Portrait in Red

    The quest to uncover the history of a mysterious painting, and a joyous exploration of art in the twentieth century and beyond.While wandering the streets of Paris in 2015, L. John Harris finds an abandoned, unfinished, and strangely compelling painting...
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  • Inshallah United
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    Inshallah United

    Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023 'There was always hope. There was always next season. Inshallah.'Inshallah United is about growing up as a strictly halal Stretford Ender; a devout Muslim and diehard Manchester Red...
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