(Paperback)
By: Jane Bowron
ISBN: 9781877551406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Awa Press
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By: Fiona Farrell
ISBN: 9781927145296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
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The collection of stories focuses on the lives of ordinary people from Christchurch, New Zealand, who have had to cope with the devastation caused by the earthquake that struck the city on September 4, 2010. This book highlights the stoicism of the people of Christchurch as they dealt with the ongoing aftershocks and undertook rebuilding their city and their lives.
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By: Jonathan Franklin
ISBN: 9781509800193
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 16th June 2016
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The incredible true survival story of one man's record-breaking 438 days lost at sea
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By: Cathy Glass
ISBN: 9780008436612
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband and eldest son. Struggling to cope, she puts Jackson into foster care.
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By: Brett Archibald
ISBN: 9781472139368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Lost overboard at night in a storm - no one saw him fall, and no one could hear him shout
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By: Cathy Glass
ISBN: 9780008466480
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 16th September 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned.
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By: Leigh Sales
ISBN: 9781760893637
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2020
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: James Lovell
ISBN: 9780340638064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1995
UK Publication Date: 17th August 1995
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The classic story of endurance, heroism and survival, co-authored by the commander of the Apollo 13 mission.
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By: Tony Wright
ISBN: 9781743361481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Murdoch Books
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The exclusive, authorised account of the Beaconsfield mine crash, from the two survivors who were trapped underground, Brant Webb and Todd Russell.
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By: Bronwyn Blake
ISBN: 9780733642203
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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Twenty women share their incredible stories of surviving and thriving in the remote Australian 'Gulf Country'.
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By: Carly-Jay Metcalfe
ISBN: 9780702268359
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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(Paperback)
By: Joe Parkinson
ISBN: 9781800750906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Swift Press
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In the spring of 2014, an American rap star unwittingly triggered an online hurricane with the ease of a tweet. Hitting an unprecedented nerve on Twitter, accompanied with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, the message called for the release of 276 Nigerian schoolgirls who'd been kidnapped by a little known Islamic terrorist sect called Boko Haram.
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By: Annabelle Brayley
ISBN: 9780143799696
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Annabelle Brayley
ISBN: 9780143571407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. These remarkable women patch people up and keep them alive while waiting for the doctor to arrive. They drive the ambulances, operate the clinics and deliver the babies. They are on call around the clock and there are no days off.
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By: Michael Smith
ISBN: 9781913068752
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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The harrowing story of the Zaandam cruise ship, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway - Covid-19 - days before the world shut down in March 2020. A story of human kindness, peril and bravery.
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By: Robert Macklin
ISBN: 9780733645068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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By: Elise Downing
ISBN: 9781787839816
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2021
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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Elise had a new job, flat and relationship and they were all making her utterly miserable. Then the obvious solution hit her: run 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain. Over the next 301 days, she saw Britain at its most wild and wonderful, and discovered that running away doesnt solve your problems but it's more fun than dealing with them.
Denied a Mummy: The heartbreaking story of three little children searching for someone to love them.
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By: Maggie Hartley
ISBN: 9781409177098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th December 2018
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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In one of the toughest cases of her career, Maggie Hartley is forced to fight against the very system she is part of to get three vulnerable siblings returned to her care
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By: Horace Greasley
ISBN: 9781789461619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2019
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
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The incredible true story of how of one British soldier escaped a prisoner war camp 200 times to see the girl he loved.
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By: Wendy Davis
ISBN: 9781760991227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Fremantle Press
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(Paperback)
By: Abbott Kahler
ISBN: 9780008729745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galpagosfrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park
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By: Levison Wood
ISBN: 9781801102575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Levison Wood
ISBN: 9781801102568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An anthology of the best writing on endurance, survival, adventure and exploration.
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By: Cameron Hanes
ISBN: 9781761261183
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
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