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By: Robert W. Greene

ISBN: 9780241970478
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From hustling on the streets of the Bronx to selling bogus businesses and sham investments around the world, Mel Weinberg netted millions of dollars. So legendary were his skills that in the late 1970s he was recruited by the FBI to combat art thieves and counterfeiters. But the trail quickly led to even bigger targets.


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By: Anthony Hill

ISBN: 9780143569138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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A powerful account of one of the youngest-ever prisoners of war. Award-winning author Anthony Hill takes us into the hearts and minds of the POWs, who refused to ever wholly submit to their captors.


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By: Christopher Parnell

ISBN: 9780732271763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Christopher Parnell was wrongly imprisoned in an Indonesian jail for 11 years, for transporting drugs. During that time he was subjected to unthinkable sessions of torture. His story is one: of fatalism and bureaucracy, of corruption, the horrors of prison, and the endurance of the human spirit.


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By: Elena Cretella

ISBN: 9798350947052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Ben Sherwood

ISBN: 9780141031644
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sets out to discover what it is that helps ordinary men and women beat danger and death; what strengths do survivors share; what is the science of resilience; and, what are the secrets of beating the odds.


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By: Piers Paul Read

ISBN: 9780753541760
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of 2,500,000 (the equivalent of 41 million today).


(Hardback)

By: Lynn Terrell

ISBN: 9781667827056
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Celeste Hicks

ISBN: 9781786991836
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The extraordinary story of how one of Africa's most notorious tyrants was finally brought to justice.


(Hardback)

By: Celeste Hicks

ISBN: 9781786991843
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The extraordinary story of how one of Africa's most notorious tyrants was finally brought to justice.


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By: Edith Brady-Lunny

ISBN: 9781543962000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Pamela Burton

ISBN: 9780522862317
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Anthony Waterlow left his decrepit, rubbish-filled room in a run-down boarding house at 4.45 pm on Monday 11 November 2009. By 6 pm, the 42-year-old was seen leaving another home: his sister Chloe's in Randwick .He left behind her slaughtered body and that of their father; celebrated art curator Nick Waterlow.


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By: Evan S Connell

ISBN: 9781845951825
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Never has master storyteller Evan Connell been more enthralling than in these incandescent pages - tales of real-life adventure ranging from the archaeology of Olduvai gorge to the exploration of the Antarctic; from Viking voyages to an Ice Age xylophone. Never has reality so far surpassed mere fiction or fantasy than in this magnificent volume.


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By: Lotta Dann

ISBN: 9781988547220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
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'I deserve this.' 'This is my reward.' 'I'm allowed to treat myself.' Ever uttered these statements to yourself as you opened a bottle of wine at 5pm If so, you're not alone.


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By: Robin Gaby Fisher

ISBN: 9781743311882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The true but incredibly strange story of Tania Head and how she fooled America.


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By: Jon Hotten

ISBN: 9780224080262
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It would be impossible to invent a man like Rick Parker, a freakishly fat ginger-haired giant who modelled his personal style on Elvis Presley and wanted to become the next Don King. This title tells the story of two men who never should have met, and when they did, one killed the other.


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By: Roger Cross

ISBN: 9780586055267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1981
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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By: Pete May

ISBN: 9780007264315
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The hilarious true-life tale of one man's journey from self-confessed planet-killing lad to eco-friendly, green-crusader Dad set against the backdrop of Cool Britannia, Blair's Britain and the rise of the green movement.


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By: Paula Doneman

ISBN: 9781741142310
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A no-holds-barred account of the deadly rampage of rapist and serial killer, Leonard Fraser.


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By: Jonas Beiler

ISBN: 9781501159077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Sylvie Haisman

ISBN: 9780733325557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: ABC Books
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The Scottish clipper Strathmore sailed from London in 1875, laden with gunpowder, iron and immigrants. Wrecked at night in furious seas, half her passengers struggled ashore to the bare, inhospitable rocks of the remote Crozet Islands. Over 130 years later, Sylvie Haisman rediscovered her ancestors' epic adventure.


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By: Stan Wald

ISBN: 9781098367305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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Based on true events, Time to Die delves into the mind of a cunning psychopath while following the lighthearted escapades of two boys on a collision course with a bloodthirsty killer and their fight for survival.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Specht

ISBN: 9781524798895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Richard Davenport-Hines

ISBN: 9780007321667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, Titanic Lives is a fresh investigation of the lives of the passengers and crew on board the most famous ship in history.


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By: Peter FitzSimons

ISBN: 9780732286316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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In the early days of April 1941, the 14,000 Australian forces garrisoned in the Libyan town of Tobruk were told to expect reinforcement and supplies within eight weeks. eight months later, these heroic, gallant determined men were rescued by the British Navy having held the fort against the might of Rommel's Africa Corps.

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