Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky
$28.00 AUD
Category: Junior Non Fiction | Series: Women in Science
Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes from the 1800s to today, including trailblazers, Olympians, and record-breakers in more than forty sports. The athletes featured include well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles ...Show more
A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing ...Show more
Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
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 always said that a combination of beauty and stren ...Show more
Make Life Beautiful by Shea McGee; Syd McGee
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Confidence in your craft is built by learning from one experience at a time. Now you can sharpen your skills, focus on your goals, and achieve your dreams with the inspirational, behind-the-scenes story of Syd and Shea McGee, the stars of the new Netflix series Dream Home Makeover. For the one million- ...Show more
Memories of Marie: Reflections on the Life and Work of Marie Clay by Jenny Clay
$32.00 AUD
Category: Biography
From the age of 25, when she first travelled beyond New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States, Marie Clay worked to establish international connections, while keeping her base in her homeland. Marie Clay joined the Education Department of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 196 ...Show more
The Personal History of William Buckley: Murrangurk among the First People by Robert Larkins
$44.00 AUD
Category: Biography
As a British soldier who fought against Napoleon, William Buckley served capably and truly but a drunken escapade led to his transportation to a short-lived settlement in Australia, and once there to his daring escape from custody and thirty years of isolation among the First People of the region, who s ...Show more
Dignity in a Teacup by Christine Cummins
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Chronicles the five years Christine Cummins spent working as a torture and trauma counsellor with asylum seekers detained on Christmas Island. It provides a firsthand account of Australian immigration detention, during a period of dramatic change and controversy. With exclusive access to the stories sha ...Show more
Queens of Print: Interviews with Australia's iconic women's magazine editors by JOHINKE REBECCA
$44.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Of Home Politics and World Trade by Bill Barry
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The son of William Peter (`Bill¿) Barry, the leader of the Democratic Labor Party in the Victorian Legislative Assembly after the Australian Labor Party broke in two in 1955, Bill Barry was at the very heart of the great ideological divide in Australian politics. This in itself makes for a fascinating p ...Show more
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust - A Continuing Australian Story by Margaret Walters Auchmuty
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The remarkable story of the beginnings and first twenty years of The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust was told by Margaret Walters Auchmuty in two early books. The first publication, Churchill Fellows of Australia 1966-1977, collates, classifies and analyses the overseas study projects of Churchill Fell ...Show more
365 Real-Life Superheroes by Valentina Camerini
$23.00 AUD
Category: Junior Non Fiction
365 Real-Life Superheroesis packed full of real stories about true superheroes- from Galileo to Greta Thunberg - or, in Australia, from Eddie Mabo to Lowitja O'Donoghue.Among the heroes profiled are sportspeople, scientists, journalists, explorers, doctors, astronauts, musicians, artists and activists. ...Show more