Ask Jules: Love yourself and live your dream by Jules Robinson
Category: Memoir
Get ready to transform your life with honest, first-hand advice from the beloved TV personality, entrepreneur, wife and mother. Since finding love on Married at First Sight, Jules Robinson has had a whirlwind five years – she got married (for real), had a baby, and became a purpose-driven entrepreneur ...Show more
The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
Category: Memoir
From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- cancer is a gift. I'm lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.' What lessons might cancer t ...Show more
Taylor Swift: American Girl by Carolyn McHugh
Category: Biography
This illustrated biography celebrates Taylor Swift's many hits and achievements Taylor Swift's discography spans multiple genres, and her narrative songwriting, which is often inspired by her personal life, has received widespread media coverage and critical praise. She has scored eight Billboar ...Show more
Quaint Deeds: Unlikely Adventures in Teaching and Treasure-hunting: A Memoir by A.J. Mackinnon
Category: Memoir
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life. A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon is best known to readers as a much-loved travel writer. But between eccentric voyages, he has for almost forty ye ...Show more
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
Category: Biography
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, from the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award-winning author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service. Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find him ...Show more
The Bright Side (HB) by Jack Riewoldt
Category: Memoir
In his gritty and inspirational memoir, Jack Riewoldt reveals all about his remarkable AFL career and his personal journey of growth off the field. Jack grew up in picturesque Tasmania, playing sport with his family and admiring his older cousin Nick. When Nick was drafted in the AFL, Jack’s focus shif ...Show more
American Mother by Colum McCann Dianne Foley
Category: Biography
The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss. It has been eleven years since Diane Foley's son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped ...Show more
The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel
Category: Memoir
The Swift Dark Tide tracks the struggle of loving a man and a woman at the same time. Taking us to her roots in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, and back to the onrushing present in Melbourne, Australia, Katia Ariel introduces us to a lineage of wild and strident women and a few beautifully nuanced men. Sh ...Show more
Servo: Tales from the Graveyard Shift by David Goodwin
Category: Memoir
We've all filled up at a servo, but what's it like behind the counter, late at night, as a plethora of unhinged and maniacal souls totter in through the parting glass? David Goodwin worked the graveyard shift for six years in his home suburb of Werribee, and this is his hilarious and darkly mesmeric acc ...Show more
The Blues Brothers by Daniel de Vise
Category: Biography
"They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theatres on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage; but Aykr ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
Category: Memoir
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year Trent Dalton goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a travelling priest. A wid ...Show more