What My Mother and I Don't Talk About by Michele Filgate (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 Selection by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, and The Week* Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don't talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about bein ...Show more
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About - Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In the early 2000's, as an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took many years for her to realize what she was actually trying to write about: the fracture this caused in her relationship with her mother. When her essay, "What My Mother and I ...Show more
When All is Said & Done by Neale Daniher
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Neale Daniher sat down to pen a letter to the grandchildren he'll never get to know. And then he kept on writing ... In 2013, the AFL legend was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease - a cruel and incurable condition. He had a choice. He could spend his remaining time focused on himself, or he could seiz ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
$17.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the ne ...Show more
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"I raise my glass to my eldest son. His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping above us. Outside, the March evening is cold and clear. 'To life!' I say as the glasses clink with a delicate and pleasing sound. My mother says something to the dog. Then the phone rings. We don't answer it. Who could be ca ...Show more
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt; Denise Newman (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE KIRKUS REVIEW AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION & LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE* 'Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers and ...Show more
When It All Went to Custard by Danielle Hawkins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Odds of saving marriage - slim. Farming expertise - patchy. Chances that it'll all be okay in the end - actually pretty good ... I wasn't enjoying the afternoon of 23 February even before I learnt that my husband was having an affair ... The news of her husband's infidelity comes as a nasty shock to Jen ...Show more
When Minutes Matter by Jennifer Jamison (Editor); Robert Mitchell (Editor); Leanne Tolra (Editor)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From a late-night crocodile attack in Australia's remote outback, or a volcanic eruption off the coast of Aotearoa New Zealand, to a Palestinian city under aerial bombardment or a cardiac arrest in a remote Pacific atoll, emergency clinicians are every society's safety net.When Minutes Matter is a colle ...Show more
When They Call You a Terrorist - A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; Asha Bandele
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
"Narrating her own work, Patrisse Khan-Cullors shares the salient moments of her life that led her to become a founder of Black Lives Matter...pain, frustration, and joy emblazon] each word she utters." -- AudioFile MagazineThis program is read by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and includes a bonus conversationT ...Show more
When They Call You a Terrorist - A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors; asha bandele; Angela Davis (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. New York Times Editor's Pick.TIME Magazine's "Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far."O, Oprah's Magazine's "10 Titles to Pick Up Now." "This remarkable book reveals what inspired Patrisse's visionary and courageous activism and forces us to face the consequence of the choi ...Show more
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by ...Show more