A study of a man in glorious retreat from the absurdities of life, set against a background of social manners and international upheaval, from the colonial heyday of the Raj in the 1890s to the traumatic austerity and confusion of the...
Biography
- Author:MAYNE, HenrieSummary:
- Author:Castro, JuliánSummary:
A candid and compelling memoir about race and poverty in America from Julián Castro, the keynote speaker at the 2012 DNC, former San Antonio mayor, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, that chronicles his journey from...
- Author:Crouch, MichaelSummary:
The author has written an absorbing account of his time as a political officer in South Arabia with Her Majesty's Overseas Service. He also tells of his family background and of his life in Western Australia after the British...
- Author:SCHUBERT, L. ASummary:
A family escaping from religious persecution in Prussia to settle in South Australia in 1838 migrate to Western Australia in 1929. The Odyssey moves away from the family home to the Pilbara and the Kimberleys.
- Author:Pringle, Laurence P.Summary:
A biography of William Clark's personal slave, who provided invaluable assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Author:Solomon, DeborahSummary:
The long-awaited biography of the defining illustrator of the twentieth century by a celebrated art critic.
- Author:Morgan, Edmund S.Summary:
Historian Edmund S. Morgan delivers 17 stirring essays about heroic Americans. John Winthrop's unpopular stand saves Massachusetts Bay Colony. William Penn's principles forge a Philadelphia miracle. George Washington's...
- Author:Turner, SteveSummary:
Telling stories specific to Columbia Plateau farmers and farmland, this journalist puts the lives and difficulties of individual farmers into national and global contexts. He interweaves family narratives, historical episodes and his...
- Author:Tootoo, JordinSummary:
"It seemed as though nothing could stop Jordin Tootoo on the ice. The captain of Canada's Under-18, a fan favourite on the World Junior squad, and a WHL top prospect who could intimidate both goalies and enforcers, he was...
- Author:Griffin, MarkSummary:
Drawing on more than 100 interviews, Mark Griffin shows how beneath Rock Hudson's suave movie star persona, was a deeply insecure man continually threatened with public exposure of his closeted homosexuality and contraction of AIDS...
- Author:Fraser, LauraSummary:
As a divorced 30-year-old travel writer, Laura experienced an affair with a Frenchman. Now 40, Laura wonders if her traveling lifestyle has deprived her of the kind of life she truly wanted.
- Author:HARWOOD, DavidSummary:
These true stories of courage and endeavour are an example to us all. They also show how wise it is to be prepared.
- Author:BACKHOUSE, ElizabethSummary:
An imaginative recreation of the history of two families, commencing in Yorkshire and extending to Australia. Covering pre and First World War periods, the goldrushes, Great Depression, and the Second World War and its aftermath.
- Author:SCOTLAND, Laurel, SCOTLAND, TomSummary:
This book tells the stories of Tom and Laurel Scotland, a West Australian couple. The book deals with their meeting, marriage and twenty-two years work as missionaries with WEC International, and subsequent chaplaincy and counselling...
- Author:Kuchinka, JenniferSummary:
Jennifer Kuchinka was a new mother in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, struggling with postpartum depression when she ran out of the hospital, onto the highway, and was hit by a tractor-trailer truck. Jennifer survived that harrowing...
- Author:Sonik, MadelineSummary:
- Author:Tilley, GeoffSummary:
By thirty Geoff Tilley had attained his Foreign-Going Master Certificate, the highest qualification in the merchant marine. Not long after he took a job with the Fremantle Stevedoring Company. Soon he was the youngest and highest paid...
- Author:Greenberg, JanSummary:
Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses.
- Author:McPherson, James M.Summary:
McPherson follows Abraham Lincoln from his early frontier days to his turbulent years in the White House.
- Author:Farquhar, MichaelSummary:
From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their...