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By: Esther McKay

ISBN: 9780143203322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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NSW forensic investigator Geoff Bernasconi was called to investigate the scene of a horrific car accident in which an entire family had been wiped out - which it was impossible for him to forget, and he found himself in the grip of post-traumatic stress disorder. A harrowing account of what it is like to work on the frontlines of crime and tragedy.


(Paperback)

By: Michael J. Gilbert

ISBN: 9781667895680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: BookBaby
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This Story is one of life, failure, death, birth and triumph over alcoholic situations along with final choices that had to be made. In Diving casualties or emergencies, the decision process consisted of the good, better, and best factor or total failure resulting in death! "The Naval Diving Manuals are written in blood and of courageous souls, paid for by life itself!"


(Paperback)

By: Neil Root

ISBN: 9780099557760
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Cornerstone
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John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer who killed between six and nine men and women;


(Paperback)

By: Mick Colliss

ISBN: 9780733326448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: ABC Books
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Four blokes had a dream. A dream of playing for Australia, of being a Wallaby. Mick Colliss and his mates Skiffo, Hamish and Sandy, first played rugby together when they were in their twenties. Two decades later, they realise that desire is no substitute for ability. A laugh-out-loud true story about never giving up, no matter what the odds.


(Hardback)

By: Bruce McNall

ISBN: 9780786868643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: Hyperion
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In the tradition of "Liar's Poker," here is a wildly entertaining account by one of America's high-stakes players--who lost it all when he was indicted for fraud.


(Paperback)

By: Roderick C. Lankler

ISBN: 9781667825052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)

By: Susanna Lobez

ISBN: 9780522857375
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Gangland Australia details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have made up the criminal and gangland scene in Australia. It traces the developments in and the shifting dynamics of Australia's criminal underworld from the early 1800s until the Melbourne gangland killings of recent years.


(Hardback)

By: Allan R. May

ISBN: 9780313339271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Organized crime and the mob figures who run it have long captured the imagination of the American public, appearing since the early twentieth century as characters in a host of popular books, movies, and television programs.


(Paperback)

By: James Morton

ISBN: 9780522858693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Melbourne from the late 1800s to the present day.


(Paperback)

By: James Morton

ISBN: 9780749928810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The fascinating history of Soho's criminal activity


(Paperback)

By: James Morton

ISBN: 9780522858709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Sydney from the mid-1800s to the present day. In this compelling book, James Morton and Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Sydney's standover men, contract killers, robbers, brothel keepers, biker gangs and drug dealers.


(Paperback)

By: James Morton

ISBN: 9780751536096
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* A look at gangland killing - and contract killers in particular - worldwide by the author of the successful GANGLAND series.


(Paperback)

By: Larry Olmsted

ISBN: 9780007284252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Getting Into Guinness is the hilarious true story of record breaking attempts, how record obsession has become a global phenomenon, the weird and wonderful characters that set records and the history of the Guinness Book of World Records.


(Paperback)

By: Michael Morton

ISBN: 9781476756837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Paperback)

By: Lorraine Gamman

ISBN: 9781448213535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Steve Milner

ISBN: 9781543915587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)

By: Graham Seal

ISBN: 9781760110857
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Stories of heroism, suffering and endurance - and also humour - from the main wars in which Australians have fought.


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By: Ian Mannix

ISBN: 9780733323973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: ABC Books
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A collection of remarkable stories from all around Australia that tell of the country's fiercest natural phenomenon: the bushfire. Some stories are funny, some tragic and some courageous, but all the storytellers exhibit tenacity and grit in their fight to save their homes, their animals, their towns, and, in some cases, their lives.


(Paperback)

By: Bill Marsh

ISBN: 9780733332128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Marsh

ISBN: 9780733322303
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: ABC Books
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This collection of amazing, hilarious, controversial stories pack a real punch. Listen as these drovers, ringers, stockmen, stockwomen and scoundrels speak about their way of life in an Australia that is fast disappearing.


(Paperback)

By: Ian Mannix

ISBN: 9780733325304
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: ABC Books
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From ABC Books' Australiana range comes GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLOOD STORIES, stories of humour, survival and courage in the face of one of our country's most powerful natural forces, flood.


(Paperback)

By: John Bryant

ISBN: 9780733332661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Marsh

ISBN: 9780733325496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: ABC Books
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(Paperback)

By: Bill Marsh

ISBN: 9780733333156
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: ABC Books
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