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They didn't know it, but Patti Miller and her brother, Barney, shared something in common - a passion for the illuminating joy of wild nature - with all its challenges and dangers. In this extraordinary book, Patti tells the story of her own long-distance walking over hundreds of kilometres in Europe and of her brother's obsession with paragliding.

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The Mahogany Pod is a deeply moving account of falling in love with someone who only has a few months to live. Through honest prose, Jill Hopper's story explores the joy and pain of loving and losing, and the beginnings that come after endings.

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The Pen is Mightier tells of how a troubled start can lead to a happy ending. Tudor Pole writes a fast-paced account of a life spent exploring every avenue of show business before finding out where you belong, taking the reader through his eclectic career as a punk rock band leader, hit songwriter, top 10 pop star, movie actor,...

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Set against Argentina's turbulent years following the collapse of the corrupt Peronist regime, this is the story of Juan Salvador the penguin, rescued by Tom from an oil slick in Uruguay just days before a new term.

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Para was barely five years old when civil war erupted in Sri Lanka. Nearly three decades later it ended in appalling horror and bloodshed. Tens of thousands of innocent civilians died. Survival required courage, ingenuity - and the kindness of strangers. This is Para's story of survival against all odds.

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Writing and mental illness make excellent bedfellows, for better or worse. The Rapids is an extraordinary personal memoir peppered with film and literary criticism, as well as family history. It manages to be both a wild ride and introspective at once, exploring a condition that touches thousands of people, directly or indirectly.

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A memoir combined with rigorous thinking and analysis, a book that prompts insightful questions about how we live. One of the age-old questions of philosophy is what does it mean to live a good life In this extraordinary book, scholar and writer, Julienne van Loon, applies a range of philosophical ideas to her own experience.

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Kidnapped girls trapped in a remote theater surrounded by mountains and jungle are forced into illegal performances, displayed in cabinets with curiosities, their delicate limbs bound by straps, and accompanied by dancing puppets fashioned of dead children's bones.

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In 1943, with the war still raging in Europe and the Pacific theater, the author French artist first released the extraordinary story of his brutal experiences as a POW and his incredible escape from the Nazis. This title presents his story.

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60 years of observation: an American journalists memoir about Tokyos modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball.

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An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.

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A true story about discovering positive selfhood, from a woman who moved beyond stereotypes to explore the world of corsetry first hand.

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Born into a Croatian migrant family, Tom Dusevic spent his childhood roaming the streets of Canterbury/ Bankstown in the 1970s. He vividly describes the experiences of his family as they grow into a new culture. Its a tale of discomfort and regeneration, of people not quite settled in their new skin; feet in both camps, with hearts and head tugged between the two.

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A brutally honest memoir that completely rethinks what it means to be a man.

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The unforgettable true story of one child's courage, resilience and unyielding determination to survive - this is the story that moved the world.