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2024 Australasian Sky Guide by Nick Lomb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Physical Sciences | Series: Australasian Sky Guide Ser.
This popular guide by astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb provides stargazers with everything they need to know about the southern night sky. It contains the latest information on the solar system, historical features, monthly sky maps, details of the year’s exciting celestial events, and viewing tips fo ...Show more
A Better Death: Conversations About the Art of Living and Dying Well by Ranjana Srivastava
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Australian Psychology
A powerful, timely exploration of the art of living and dying on our own terms by one of Australia's most respected voices Of all the experiences we share, two universal events bookend our lives: we were all born and we will all die. We don't have a choice in how we enter the world but we can have a say ...Show more
A Diamond in the Dust by Frauke Bolten-Boshammer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Aust | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The powerful true story of how one woman turned outback dust into a diamond empireWithin minutes of landing in Kununurra, Frauke Bolten had made up her mind to get on a plane back home to Germany. It was 1981 and the dusty frontier town was no place for a woman. However, Frauke stayed, determined to hel ...Show more
A Fortunate Life: Australian Children's Classics by A. B. Facey; John Rose (Afterword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bert Facey saw himself as an ordinary man, but his remarkable story reveals an extraordinary life lived to the full.Bert Facey was a battler, ever optimistic and hopeful despite the hardships of his lfe. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration.This edi ...Show more
A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off by Charlie Ward
$29.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in Aboriginal affairs. Now, after many years of research, A Handful of Sand tells the story behind the Gurindji people's famous Wave Hil ...Show more
A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton by Stuart Macintyre
$39.95 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Australian History
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the countrys regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just as revealing, the natural environment, social patt ...Show more
A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Australian | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
An uplifting and magical story of childhood, family and finding ways to change the inevitable ...Meet Willa Waters, aged 8 ... 33 ... and 93. On one impossible day in 1965, eight-year-old Willa receives a mysterious box containing a jar of water and the instruction: ‘One ocean: plant in the backyard.’ S ...Show more
A Lot With A Little by Tim Costello
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Australian
In this evocative memoir, Tim Costello explores the people and experiences that have shaped him into a socially active fighter for the world's most challenging issues. Tracing each defining stage of his life with stark insight and honesty, Tim untangles his ongoing struggle to align his self-perception ...Show more
A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: AUSTRALIAN
"[A Month of Sundays] demonstrates the capacity of a book to act as a mirror to the soul and an eloquent guide to a more contented future." WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN I wonder if we'll ever have the chance to actually be in the same room together,' Judy had ventured. For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Sim ...Show more
A New Australian: Kerenza by Rosanne Hawke
$15.99 AUD
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: New Australian
Kerenza isnt sure about leaving her village in Cornwall and taking a ship to Australia, but she can be brave for her das sake. Where he sees a farm, she and her mam see endless bush and flies millions of them and hard work from dawn to dusk. Its almost too much to bear, but the Mallee has its own beauty ...Show more
A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast by Amber Creswell Bell
$69.99 AUD
Category: THE ARTS | Series: Across Australia from Bush to Coast
I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror The wide brown land for me! Dorothea Mackellar's words have a knack for swelling the metaphorical chest of many Austr ...Show more
ANZAC Sons (Young Reader's Edition) by Allison Marlow Paterson
$14.99 AUD
Category: REFERENCE | Series: Australia Remembers Ser.
In the years of 1914-1918 over 330,000 Australians served their country in a war far from their homeland, more than 60,000 of them die. Five of these Australians were brothers; three of them were destined to never return to the home they loved. The Great War brought enormous sorrow to families all over ...Show more