How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liv ...Show more
Hazelwood by Tom Doig
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Early in the afternoon of 9 February 2014, during the worst drought and heatwave south-eastern Australia had experienced in over a century, two separate bushfires raged towards the massive Hazelwood open-pit brown-coal mine, near Morwell in the Latrobe Valley. The fires overwhelmed local fire-fighting e ...Show more
The Eastern Curlew by Harry Saddler
$30.00 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Every year around August, large flocks of Eastern Curlews leave their breeding grounds in the Arctic and embark on a perilous 10,000km journey to the coast of Australia. The birds cannot swim; if they become exhausted and fall into the ocean, they die. But it’s a journey they have taken for tens of thou ...Show more
It’s Your Money: How Banking Went Rogue, Where It Is Now and How To Protect and Grow Your Money by Alan Kohler
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Category: Business | Series: Australian on ABC TV
Now, more than ever, we all need to invest wisely and prudently.Want to invest in shares but don't know where to start? Worried about how to make the most of your super? Need a financial adviser but don't know how to find someone reliable? In It's Your Money, Alan Kohler, one of Australia's most truste ...Show more
Cheeky Dogs : To Lake Nash and Back by Johanna Bell; Dion Beasley (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this exuberant illustrated memoir, action-packed images and poetic words trace Dion Beasley's fascination with cheeky dogs and his unconventional journey into the world of contemporary art.
Authentic Power and Greatness by Joseph Rodarick Law
$27.99 AUD
Category: Business
Throughout recorded human history, many insightful teachers, thinkers, and philosophers have explored the topic of finding purpose and living a life filled with happiness. These ideals, insights of spiritual wisdom, and higher principles are valid, but most of them were written thousands of years ago. H ...Show more
The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Praise for Corey White's stand-up- 'Captivating' Tom Gleeson 'It's a spiritually enriching show. Whitey has safer hands than Gilchrist circa 2003 ... Strap in for this one, it's a harrowing little number that leaves you in a good mood, quite a feat.' Herald Sun 'Corey White runs the full gamut of human ...Show more
Penny Wong: Passion And Principle - The Biography by Margaret Simons
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from workplace relations to foreign affairs, she is admired by members of parliament and the public from across the political divide. In this first-ever biography of Penny Wong, a ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: Astronomy | Reading Level: very good
Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe 'Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all' - Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson is arguably the most influential, acc ...Show more
Walking Towards Thunder: The true story of a whistle-blowing cop who took on corruption and the church by Peter Fox
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Category: True Crime | Reading Level: near fine
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' Former Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox is a hero in many people's eyes. A police officer with 36 years' service in the Hunter region, he rose to national prominence in 2012 for his major role in speaking out for the victims ...Show more
Curious: Life hacks through maths by Lily Serna
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nature and Science
Find love. Win at games and sport. Look smart. Save time.Lily Serna, a curious mathematician, believes passionately that 'mathematics is our golden key to unlocking the secrets of the universe'. She is on a quest to share her own sense of wonder about maths, and to leave all of us - even the maths phobi ...Show more
Twelve Summers by Adam Zwar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Cricket fans, where were you during the disaster that was the 2013 Ashes? Adam Zwar was making a documentary about bodyline and filming a stunt that involved Brett Lee bowling bouncers to him while he wasn't wearing a helmet. Matthew Hayden warned him not do it. But the cameras were set up. What was he ...Show more