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Abraham Bisno, Union Pioneer: An Autobiographical Account of Bisno's Early Life and the Beginnings of Unionism in the Women's Garment Industry

By: Abraham Bisno

Price: $17.50

Publisher: USA, The University of Wisconsin Press: 1967

Seller ID: 230167

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

244 pages. Dust jacket has protective non adhesive covering. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 230167. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Hardcover
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No Man Is An Island

By: Adele Dumont

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Australia, Hachette: 2016

Seller ID: 249901

ISBN: 0733636373

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good Condition

In 2010, 24-year-old Sydneysider Adele Dumont volunteered to teach English to men in immigration detention on Christmas Island. She didn't expect to find the work so rewarding or the people she met so interesting. So when she was offered a job working at Curtin detention centre near Derby in Western Australia, she took it. Working at Curtin required a fly-in fly-out lifestyle. Adele lived in a donga in WA, her life full of bus trips to the detention centre; back home in Sydney, she was overwhelmed by the choices and privileges people had. What kept her returning to Curtin were her students: me...
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Even After All This Time

By: Afschineh Latifi

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Australia, Harpercollins: 2005

Seller ID: 252645

ISBN: 0732282489

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good Condition

Growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, Afschineh Latifi and her sister and two brothers enjoyed a life of luxury. Their father had worked his way from nothing to become a colonel in the Shah's army. In 1979 he was arrested by members of the newly installed Khomeni regime. Fearing for their safety the children were sent to the west. 320 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0732282489. ISBN/EAN: 9780732282486. Inventory No: 252645. Paperback
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A Life Like Other People's

By: Alan Bennett

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Great Britain, Faber & Faber / Profile: 2009

Seller ID: 252207

ISBN: 0571248128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's descent into depression and later dementia comes hand in hand with the uncovering of a long-held tragic secret. A heartrending and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of the best-loved English writers alive today. 242 pages. Tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped W...
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Everything By Design: My Life As an Architect

By: Alan Lapidus

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2007

Seller ID: 247642

ISBN: 0312361661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine Condition

Alan Lapidus' life has been a "Zelig"-like romp through most of the cultural and political highlights of the recent past. He has popped up as architect for or observer of many of our era's most iconic figures, including Donald Trump, various mafia big-shots, mayors, Aristotle and Jackie Onassis, Bob Guccione, pit bosses, real estate legends and spies. "Everything By Design" takes us behind the scenes in Las Vegas, Disney World, Havana, Atlantic City, Moscow, the Amazon rainforest, and New York. Along the way we learn why Mickey Mouse never seems to use the restroom, why the bac...
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Trial By Tandem

By: Alan McCulloch

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Australia, F. W. Cheshire: 1950

Seller ID: 2104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

235 pages. Previous owners details on front blank endpaper. Illustrator: Alan McCulloch. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Travel & Places; travel. Inventory No: 2104. Hardcover
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Actor's Blood

By: Alastair Duncan

Price: $12.00

Publisher: NSW, Australia, Lexington Avenue Press: 2004

Seller ID: 242804

ISBN: 0975151045

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Foreword by Judy Nunn. The London born Fuller brothers migrated to New Zealand in the 1890s and became theatre, cinema & radio entrepreneurs in New Zealand & Australia, where Fullers Theatres rivalled J C Williamson. 218 pages. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography; Theatre & Plays; Theatre. ISBN: 0975151045. ISBN/EAN: 9780975151044. Inventory No: 242804. Paperback
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Reading My Father

By: Alexander Styron

Price: $15.00

Publisher: USA, Scribner: 2011

Seller ID: 244410

ISBN: 1416591796

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Bill Styron's writing and his depression dominated the Styron family landscape, and Alexandra, the youngest of four children and the one who spent the most time alone with her father, learned to navigate his storms in order to survive. She describes a man plagued by demons and not averse to imposing them on a young daughter. Part biography, part memoir, part elegy, Reading My Fathertells the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last. From Styron's Tidewater Virginia youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best known books and on through his devastating spiral int...
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Poking Seaweed With A Stick and Running Away from the Smell

By: Alison Whitelock

Price: $10.00

Publisher: South Australia, Wakefield Press: 2008

Seller ID: 249176

ISBN: 1862547572

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good Condition

Alison Whitelock dreamed of shooting her father with a sawn-off shotgun. Her brother planned to use the longest knife in the cutlery drawer, and her mother tried to poison him with out-of-date tranquillisers. This wee book is a bittersweet account of growing up in Scotland in the strange and brutal kingdom we call home. But Poking Seaweed with a Stick is anything but a tale of childhood suffering; it is an enchanted Scottish tale that will have you smiling through your tears and laughing till you cry. 223 pages. Light tanning to page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogr...
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Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life [Volume One]

By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 2004

Seller ID: 250751

ISBN: 1400080452

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Offering a revealing glimpse of what it means to be a woman at the dawn of the twenty-first century, an offbeat memoir is written in the form of an encyclopedia in which the author chronicles her life through a series of alphabetical entries that cover both the trivial and the essential elements of her world as it ponders everything from love and truth to shower tiles. 40,000 first printing. Remnant of sticker to front cover. 220 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1400080452. ISBN/EAN: 9781400080458. Invento...
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The Journals Of Anais Nin - Volume Seven 1966-1974

By: Anais Nin [Edited by Gunther Stuhlmann

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, Quartet: 1983

Seller ID: 235347

ISBN: 0704334518

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good Condition

This is Volume 7 of Anais Nin's Journals that were recorded later in her life. 355 pages. Front blank endpaper has been removed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Family & Relationships; ISBN: 0704334518. ISBN/EAN: 9780704334519. Inventory No: 235347. Paperback
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The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love and Loss

By: Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt

Price: $10.00

Publisher: USA, HarperCollins: 2017

Seller ID: 251502

ISBN: 0062454951

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good Condition

A touching and intimate correspondence between Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, offering timeless wisdom and a revealing glimpse into their lives Though Anderson Cooper has always considered himself close to his mother, his intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS affords him little time to spend with her. After she suffers a brief but serious illness at the age of ninety-one, they resolve to change their relationship by beginning a year-long conversation unlike any they had ever had before. The result is a correspondence of surprising honesty and depth in which ...
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Inside Outside: Life Between Two Worlds

By: Andrew Riemer

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Australia, Imprint / Angus & Robertson: 1992

Seller ID: 248845

ISBN: 0207173982

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good Condition

Autobiographical account of the changes observed in Australian society in the years following World War II as experienced by the author and his family after leaving Hungary. The author's return to Budapest in 1990 prompts comparisons to the situation in Australia. 218 pages. Light tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0207173982. ISBN/EAN: 9780207173981. Inventory No: 248845. Paperback
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Sunshine on Sugar Hill: Once Upon a Time, An Australian Girl Moved to Harlem

By: Angela Gilltrap

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Australia, ABC books: 2009

Seller ID: 238185

ISBN: 0733321917

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good Condition

From Bondi Beach to the backstreets of Harlem, Angela Gilltrap hilariously recounts the culture shock of transplanting herself in New York. From Bondi Beach to the backstreets of Harlem, Angela Gilltrap hilariously recounts the culture shock of transplanting herself in New York. In a story that even she will admit borders on the surreal, Angela Gilltrap, ex-StRICtLY DANCING star, finds herself living in Sugar Hill in Harlem, New York City. For a performer who has always sung soul, jazz and gospel music, it is a dream come true. Sharing a six-floor walk-up with her boyfriend, a composer/musicia...
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Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a year in Paris

By: Ann Mah

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books: 2013

Seller ID: 241284

ISBN: 0670025992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

The memoir of a young diplomat s wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris one dish at a time When journalist Ann Mah s diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic adventures a deux. Then her husband is called away to Iraq on a year-long post alone. Suddenly, Ann s vision of a romantic sojourn in the City of Light is turned upside down. So, not unlike another diplomatic wife, Julia Child, Ann must find a life for herself in a new city. Journeying through Paris and the surr...
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Bird Cloud: A Memoir

By: Annie Proulx

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Australia, Fourth Estate: 2011

Seller ID: 252737

ISBN: 0007265085

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good Condition

Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. 'Bird Cloud' is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400 foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, ...
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Eighteen Months

By: Anthony Heckstall-Smith

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Allan Wingate: 1954

Seller ID: 228632

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good Condition

240 pages. A bit worn around the edges with a few bumps collected no doubt over the years from normal use.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 228632. Hardcover
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger

By: Archie Thompson

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Australia, Victory Books: 2010

Seller ID: 249027

ISBN: 0522857671

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good Condition

What does it take to become a success? How can setbacks make you stronger? Where do you find guidance on the road to the top? Archie Thompson is one of Australia's best-loved footballers, a ten-year veteran of the Socceroos and marquee player for the A-League's power club, Melbourne Victory. His positive messages will inspire young footballers but are also for anyone wanting to make a difference in sport, business and life. Archie tells how he has been inspired by legendary teammates like Harry Kewell and friend Tim Cahill and guided by some of the greats in the game. But as he explains, the d...
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