Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
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Category: Politics and Society | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice' JON KRAKAUER 'A fiercely entertaining mystery story and ...Show more
Miami by Joan Didion
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Category: Politics and Society
An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West.In Miami, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit islands, and ...Show more
The First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition by Helen Garner
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Category: Politics and Society | Series: GARNER. HELEN
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its auth ...Show more
The Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
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Category: Politics and Society | Reading Level: very good
"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out- Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed abo ...Show more
The Displaced : Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Category: Politics and Society
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and l ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
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Category: First Nations Voices | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Gender and Society
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more
A Brief History of France by Cecil Jenkins
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Category: Politics and Society | Series: Brief Histories
When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, France is home to extraordinary diversity. The idea of 'Frenchness' emerged through 2,000 years of history and it is this riveting story, ...Show more
Man’s Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust (With New Material) (HB) by Viktor E Frankl
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and ...Show more
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtIn this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chi ...Show more
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have m ...Show more