Choose 7 pre-loved books from the following list:
- Victor Change-A Tribute to my Father | Vanessa Chang
- Why Mummy Doesn't give a **** | Gill Sims
- The Legend of Colton H. Bryant |Alexandra Fuller
- Goodbye Girlie | Patsy Adam-Smith
- Lady Spy,Gentleman Explorer | Heather Rossiter
- The Olive Grove | Patrice Newell
- Firelover|| Joseph Wambaugh
- White Demon | Chris Weyers
- Roden Cutler, V.C | Colleen McCullough
- The Time of my life | Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi
- Chasing the Sun | Neville Williams
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Victor Chang - A Tribute to my Father | Vanessa Chang
Vanessa Chang presents an intimate and touching portrait of her father, internationally acclaimed heart surgeon Victor Chang. When Victor died, his family received thousands of letters from people all around the country and from every walk of life. Inspired by this outpouring of emotion and as a tribute to her adored father, Vanessa decided to write this book. The result is an outstanding memoir in celebration of Victor Chang's life, which will delight and move everyone who reads it.
Why Mummy doesn't give a **** | Gill Sims
I'm wondering how many more "phases' I have to endure before my children become civilised and functioning members of society? It seems like people have been telling me 'its just a phase!'for the last fifteen bloody years! Not sleeping through the night is 'just a phase'. The tantrums of the terrible twos are 'just a phase'. The picky eating, the back chat,the obsessions. The toddler refusals to nap, the teenage inability to leave their beds before 1pm without a rocket being put up their arse. The endless singing of Frozen songs, the dabbing, the weeks where making them wear pants was apparently akin to child torture. All 'just a phase!.' When do the 'phases'end though? WHEN
The Legend of Colton H.Bryant |Alexandra Fuller
When Alexandra Fuller set out to write about the oil rigs on Wyoming's high plains, she was expecting the big skies, the roughnecks and the industry men, but she wasn't expecting to encounter a real-life cowboy. Then Colton H. Bryant happened into her life, a soulful boy with a big heart and blue eyes that'll look right through you, and took over her writing with his bittersweet story. Colton loves all thing Wyoming: horses,hunting,pick-up trucks and camping out. But all too soon it is time to grow up and, against his wife's wishes, he joins a crew of roughnecks on the oil rigs. Here he discovers the new and unkind greed that has possessed his beloved home during the latest mineral boom. Tragedy seem inevitable.
Goodbye Girlie | Patsy Adam-Smith
In Goodbye Girlie, Patsy recounts a rich but often troubled life. She writes with wit and insight of her illegitimacy, her family, her short-lived war-time marriage, her years at sea and her loves.
Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer - The life of Herbert Dyce Murphy | Heathe Rossiter
Herbert Dyce Murphy was born in 1879 to a wealthy Melbourne family. Rejecting his father's staid plans for him, he instead signed on to a wool clipper as a teenager apprentice then went whaling in the Arctic. This was followed by a stint at Oxford University where he so convincingly played a woman on stage that British Intelligence recruited him to spy, in drag, on the Continent, pre-World War 1. (on one outing in London while dressed as a woman, Murphy ran into his mother, an incident that inspired Patrick /White's The Twyborn Affair). In 1911 Murphy sailed to the Antarctic with the Mawson expedition for a gruelling exploration of the frozen continent, a trip of terrible harship which claimed lives-probably unnecessarily-as this controversial view of Mawson demonstrates. On his return to Australia, the resourceful and charismatic Herbert was still only aged in his thirties; he lived for another six decades, amusing his family and friends with his witty stories, but even they didn't know whether to believe his account of his last, unsought adventure. Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer gives Murphy's unforgettable story its due at last.
The Olive Grove- An exhilarating account of leaving the city for life on the land | Patrice Newell
At the age of thiry, having travelled the world many times over, I settled on a farm called Elmswood, near a little town called Gundy, near a larger town called Scone, in the Upper Hunter Valley in the state of New South Wales. When Patrice Newell left a highly charged urban life to live in the country, friends warned her she'd be bored in no time. Fifteen years later, she's doing more in a day than most of us do in a week. And Elmswood is no ordinary property, itls a biodynamic farm with beef cattle and olives. The Olive Grove is a celebration of rural life, from the disastrous to the comic. It also has any eye on the bigger issues: localism versus globalism, natural farming versus the use of chemicals; the need for sustainability. And in a nation where city dwellers own shares in huge, anonymous agricorporations, there are welcome reminders of the value of personal involvement. Not to mention the odd cooking trip. An intensely human story, The Olive Grove is instructive, insightful, inspiring and full of commonsense. At Elmswood, where life is vigorous and never dull. Patrice Newell proves that growing food can be as creative an act as cooking it
Fire Lover | Joseph Wambaugh
On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home-improvement centre, snuffing out the lives of four people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fire broke out in two nearby stores. Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man requested as on of California's foremost arson investigation, a captain in the Glenside Fire Department... From former LAPD sergeant Joseph Wambaugh, comes the extraordinary true story of a firefighter who may hve been, according to US government profilers, 'the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century'John Leonard Orr was a fire captain and one of southern California's best know and most respected arson investigators. While he busted a string of petty arsonists, there was one serial criminal he could not track down. But after years of terror, death, and countless millions of dollars worth of property damage, the arsonist would make a mistake - he would leave behind a precious clue. Wanbaugh fashions a powerful narrative that will change the way you look at fire forever.
White Demon | Chris Weyers
'As we went deeper and deeper into the ice, it seemed I was travelling further into an understanding of what made me human'. At the limits of physical endurance, in the harshest environment on earth, what drives someone to keep going? When Chris Weyers decides to fulfil his childhood fantasy of trekking 1150 km to the South Pole he's in for more than he bargained. Within days of setting out on the expedition with two hardened Arctic experts as his companions, fear, pain and physical collapse become Chri's constant companions. An Adventure story that quickly morphs into a psychological thriller, White Demon is a true and powerful first-hand account of a modern Antarctic journey.
Roden Cutler, V.C - The Biography | Colleen McCullough
Hero's represent the finest in human nature. their value to all of us is incalculable. Roden Cutler's list of honours is long and impressive, but it is his sole decoration, the Victoria Cross, that marks him as a hero. Over 8000,000 men and women served in the Australian armed forces during the Second World War, but only twenty were awarded the V.C. Colleen McCullough vividly shos us the life and times of the young soldier with the dashing good looks, the laconic humour and dislikes of pretension who came back from the war determined to continue to support his mother, but, having lost a leg, with no idea how to do so. Yet by the age of 29 he was the Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand. His diplomatic career was to include stints to Ceylon, Egypt during the Suez crisis of 1956, Pakistan and New York. in 1966 he was appointed Governor of NSW; during his 15 years in that office he shared with Captain Arthur Phillip and Lachlan Macquarie, he earned his own niche among them as 'the people's governor'. Much loved, he is still remembered as a man equally at home in the company of royalty or trade unionists. His story is embedded in Australian history, and part of it. But it is also the story of a man who pulled himself up by his bootstraps to serve his country with courage and dignity in the face of all obstacles.
The Time of My Life | Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi
In a career spanning more than thirty years, Patrick Swayze has made a name for himself on the stage, the screen, and television. Known for his versatility, passion, and fearlessness, he's become one of our most beloved actors. But in February 2008, Patrick announced he had been diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Always a fighter, he refused to let the disease bring him to his knee's, and his bravery has inspired both his legion of fans and cancer patients everywhere. A behind-the-scenes look at a Hollywood life and a remarkable love, this memoir is both entertainment and inspiration. Patrick and Lisa's marriage is a journey of two lives intertwined and lived as on-throughout their years in Hollywood and at home on their working ranch outside LA, and culminating in the hope and wisdom they're imparted to all who know them.
Chasing the Sun | Neville Williams
This inspiring story of delivering solar electricity to 50,000 families in eleven countries raises the obvious question: If millions of people in the developing world can use solar power, why can't we in North America? Chasing the sun is a story of dreamers and doers who succeeded in their mission to make the world a better place by delivering nature's energy to poor people and by building organizations to put the sun at their services in practical, affordable and effective ways. A fun and eye-opening green-energy development narrative, the book is also part autobiography as the author describes.
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