Not all Superheroes Wear Capes by Quentin Kenihan
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
When he was a kid, Quentin Kenihan loved Superman. Ironic, really. Quentin didn't need kryptonite to reveal his weakness - born with a rare bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta, his bones broke all on their own. When Quentin was seven, Mike Willesee made a documentary about him. Australians fell in l ...Show more
The Crappiest Refugee by Hung Le
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On the last day of the Vietnam War, nine-year-old Hung jumped on a leaking prawn trawler on the Saigon River, somehow cheating death to become one of the first Vietnamese boat people to arrive Australia, a land where a young man’s potential is limited only by his imagination – that is unless you’re Hung ...Show more
Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community by Born This Way Foundation Reporters with Lady Gaga
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Series: Lady Gaga | Reading Level: near fine
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
Butterfly on a Pin: A Memoir of Love, Despair and Reinvention by Alannah Hill
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'Raw and real and funny and sad - I could not put this book down' - Jane Kennedy'You might expect fluff and fashion ... what you get is harrowing, full-strength, funny and deeply satisfying - Zoë Foster BlakeUnflinching, funny, shocking, inspiring and tender: this is a story like no other.Alannah Hill ...Show more
Mary Quant - Autobiography by Mary Quant
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Not many names epitomise an era, but Mary Quant is such a name. Her life, her ideas, her style touched (and still touch) everyone. Mary Quant is fashion. Most people connect Mary with one thing - the mini skirt - that ground-breaking design that is as potent now as it was when it first appeared in the e ...Show more
Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela
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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom. "I ...Show more
My Polar Dream by Jade Hameister
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Fourteen-year-old Jade Hameister had a dream: to complete the Polar Hat Trick. In 2016, she skied to the North Pole. In 2017, she completed the Greenland Crossing. In 2018, she arrived at the South Pole. This is the story of an adventurer who never gave up - who set herself incredible challenges beyond ...Show more
Journeys to Impossible Places: In Life and Every Adventure by Simon Reeve
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In Journeys to Impossible Places, best-selling author and presenter Simon Reeve reveals the inside story of his most astonishing adventures and experiences, around the planet and close to home.Journeys to Impossible Places continues the story Simon started in his phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller Step ...Show more
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship - The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: very good
Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was also highly intelligent, reading widely and writing poetry. Of Nancy's many affairs the five included in this book are the ones with the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous Huxley an ...Show more
Weekends with Matt: A memoir of an unlikely friendship forged over wine by Peter Coleman, Matt Fowles
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS
The peacock's tail is used to describe a wine that is wonderfully complex and ultimately rewarding. Surely there s no better metaphor for life. Weekends with Matt is a classic odd-couple tale of two very different men and the common ground that can be found over a shared passion. It was at the bottle sh ...Show more
Unfollow - A journey from hatred to hope - Leaving the Westboro Baptist church by Megan Phelps-Roper
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Category: Biography/Memoir SPECIALS | Reading Level: good
'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - LOUIS THEROUX 'A beautiful, gripping book about a singular soul, and an unexpected redemption' - NICK HORNBY As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' It was an upbringing in many ways norm ...Show more
Featherhood by Charlie Gilmour
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'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can't recommend it too highly' Helen Macdonald'One of those rare, enchanted books' Isabella Tree'Beautiful - it made me cry' Simon Amstell'I was entranced' Cathy ...Show more