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A promised land

Obama, Barack2020
In this first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory th...
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Red dog vet : Pip

Fenny, Richard, 1948-2020
This is the first of four books by Rick Fenny. It is the first era of four eras of his life punctuated by four red kelpie dogs. This story is about his life growing up, firstly on a small farm and orchard in the Hills region on the outskirts of Perth, and later, with his dog Pip, in Albany Wester...
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And they lived happily ever after

Beharrie, Therese2022
Successful romance author Gaia Anders has a secret: anything she dreams at night is magically written into her novels. After a lonely childhood in foster care, her dream life is the only one she trusts. Gaia's waking life just can't compare -- until she gets caught in one utterly surprising, craz...
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Cider with Rosie

Lee, Laurie2014
In this idyllic pastoral setting, unencumbered by the callous father who so quickly abandoned his family responsibilities, Laurie's adoring mother becomes the centre of his world as she struggles to raise a growing family against the backdrop of the Great War. The sophisticated adult author's ret...
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My family and other animals

Durrell, Gerald, 1925-19952025
'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas.' It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive 'like a troupe of medieval tumblers' on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell's be...
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Birds, beasts and relatives

Durrell, Gerald, 1925-19952025
'It was as though England had never really existed'. Budding zoologist Gerald continues to explore the natural wonders around him, enjoying a night fishing trip, receiving a donkey as a birthday present and accidentally bringing a bear home for tea. Here too are more stories of the eccentric crea...
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The garden of the gods

Durrell, Gerald, 1925-19952025
The island of Corfu, where the Durrell family live in agreeable chaos, is paradise for aspiring naturalist Gerald. His battalion of creatures has grown to include eleven puppies, a toad named Deirdre and an unwelcome infestation of scorpions. Yet the human visitors to their sun-drenched villa are...
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Cannon fire : a life in print

Cannon, Michael, 1929-20222022
Michael Cannon is best known as the author of landmark and popular works of Australian history, including The Land Boomers (1966), and as the founding editor of Historical Records of Victoria. But Cannon, the child and grandchild of important figures in Australian independent journalism, develope...
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Davison, Graeme, 1940-2023
A great-aunt's bequest - a 200-year-old grandfather clock - sends historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father's family's past. From their tribal homeland in the Scottish Borders he follows them to the garrison town of Carlisle, from industrial Birmingham to Edwardian Australia, and...
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Snake dancing

Sykes, Roberta B.1998
2nd part of autobiographical trilogy; moves on from her childhood in Townsville to the big wide world of Sydney during the 70s including her major period of activism in Aboriginal politics, for which she is most remembered today.
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