A Celtic Childhood by Bill Watkins
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Category: Biography
A Celtic Childhood is the lyrical narrative of a gifted and animated storyteller. With humour and charm, Watkins blends history, song, and Celtic identity into a wonderful tale of misadventure and merriment.Watkins vividly portrays his eccentric and richly colloquial Celtic family; his vibrant Irish mam ...Show more
Cave in the Snow by Vicki Mackenzie
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Category: Biography
In 1976 Diane Perry - by then known by her Tibetan name, Tenzin Palmo - secluded herself in a remote cave, 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, cut off from the world by mountains and snow. She entered the cave aged thirty-three and left it when she was forty-five; there she faced unimaginable cold, wild an ...Show more
Celeste: The Parisian Courtesan Who Became a Countess and Bestselling Writer by Roland Perry
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Category: Biography
Courtesan, countess, bestselling author - the tempestuous true story of a woman far ahead of her time ...The true story of the Countess Celeste de Chabrillan is a rich and tempestuous tale of an extraordinary woman. Born in the gutters of Paris in 1824, Celeste made her name as a dancer in the Parisian ...Show more
Caught in the Crossfire: An Australian Peace Keeper's Perilous Journey by Matina Jewell
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Category: Biography
In 2006, while part of an unarmed UN peacekeeping team at the border junction of Lebanon, Israel, and Syria, Australian Major Matina Jewell and her colleagues were caught in a full-scale war with tragic consequences. In the days that followed she and her teammates reported hundreds of violations of the ...Show more
Catherine's Gift: Inside the World of Dr Catherine Hamlin by John Little
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Category: Biography
Dr Catherine Hamlin has been described as a living saint and one of our greatest Australians. Since 1959 she has lived and worked in Ethiopia, helping the victims of fistulas - devastating injuries caused by obstructed labour in childbirth, which condemn women to a lifetime of incapacity and degradation ...Show more
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
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Category: Biography
In the go-go nineties, Jordan Belfort proved that you didn't need to be on Wall Street to make a fortune in the stock market. His company was good at separating wealthy investors from their cash and spending it as fast as it came in--on hookers, yachts, and drugs. But when Jordan's empire crashed, the m ...Show more
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale
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Category: Biography
"The amazing true story of the most extraordinary liar in the history of fun and profit! 'Irresistible! ... touches that current of larceny that lies within all of us.' (Houston Chronicle) Frank Abagnale wrote US$2.5 million in bad cheques, practised law without a licence, practised medicine with no med ...Show more
Carry a Big Stick by Tim Ferguson
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Category: Biography
Tim Ferguson was a star of the international comedy circuit. Along with Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler he was part of the edgy, provocative and very funny Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS). In 1994 they were at the height of their powers, performing in a season at the Criterion Theatre on Piccadilly Circ ...Show more
The Casuals by Sally Breen
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Category: Biography
"Three things happened at the dawn of the 1990s that would change everything about how we had lived before. We graduated high school, Microsoft shipped Windows 3.0 and America started the Gulf War. We became adults in the 1990s. The start of the world gone mega. Gone global. Gone mad. We became The Casu ...Show more
Carl Sagan: a Life by Keay Davidson
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Category: Biography
This biography paints a portrait of Carl Sagan - the most celebrated scientist of his time and the leading visionary of the "Space Age". He was also a highly controversial figure who inspired wildly opposed opinions.
Capturing Asia by WURTH Bob
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Category: Biography
Cameraman Willie Phua has unflinchingly stood beside a bevy of ABC correspondents in Asia, recording murderous race riots in Singapore and Malaysia, genocide in East Pakistan, bloody coups in Thailand, the assassination of Indira Gandhi in India, the rise of People's Power in the Philippines and the war ...Show more