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Animals Make Us Human by Leah Kaminsky; Meg Keneally
Category: Animals & Nature
Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and revelation from encounters in the natural world- seeing a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, or the inexplicable leap of a t ...Show more
Animals Make Us Human by Meg Keneally; Leah Kaminsky
Category: Audio Books
A response to the devastating 2019-20 bushfires, Animals Make Us Human both celebrates Australia's unique wildlife and highlights its vulnerability. Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and reve ...Show more
Animals Make Us Human by Meg Keneally; Leah Kaminsky
Category: Audio Books
A response to the devastating 2019-20 bushfires, Animals Make Us Human both celebrates Australia's unique wildlife and highlights its vulnerability. Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and reve ...Show more
Doll's Eye by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Fiction
Vivid, haunting, unforgettable.LUCY TRELOARHas magnificent qualities of humane invention. It is my nomination for a book to read at the end of times.TOM KENEALLYSometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye.Germany, 1933. Anna Winter returns home to find a note from her father, warning her of ...Show more
Stitching Things Together by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Languages and Reference
This is fluent, well crafted poetry but it is not always comfortable as Leah Kaminsky takes us on a journey with her father fleeing from Poland to escape the holocaust, then as a doctor struggling to keep her commitment to her patients, and finally to Haifa, raising children under constant danger from r ...Show more
The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Fiction
'I remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their special talents for mimicry. They steal the songs from others, you said. I want to ask you this: how were our own songs stolen from us, the notes dispersed, while our faces were turned away?'Berlin, 1936. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologi ...Show more
The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Fiction
Berlin, 1938. The eve of war. Ernst Schafer, a young, ambitious zoologist, keen hunter and devoted husband of the beautiful Herta, has come to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who invites him to lead a group of SS scientists to the frozen mountains of Tibet. Their secret mission - to search for the or ...Show more
The Hollow Bones Audio by Leah Kaminsky; Tavia Gilbert (Read by)
Category: Audio Books
'I remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their special talents for mimicry. They steal the songs from others, you said. I want to ask you this: how were our own songs stolen from us, the notes dispersed, while our faces were turned away?'Berlin, 1936. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologi ...Show more
The Hollow Bones audio cd by Leah Kaminsky; Tavia Gilbert (Read by)
Category: Audio Books
'I remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their special talents for mimicry. They steal the songs from others, you said. I want to ask you this: how were our own songs stolen from us, the notes dispersed, while our faces were turned away?'Berlin, 1936. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologi ...Show more
The Pen and the Stethoscope by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Biography
The Pen and the Stethoscope is a unique collection of fiction and non-fiction by doctor-writers that gives us a fascinating look behind the doctor's mask and gets inside the minds of those who deal with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis. It is through writing that man ...Show more
Waiting Room by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Fiction
Compelling, moving and memorable. Graeme Simsion. The Waiting Room captures the sights, sounds, accents and animosities of a country overflowing with stories. Dina is a family doctor living in the melting-pot city of Haifa, Israel. Born in Australia in a Jewish enclave of Melbourne to Holocaust survivor ...Show more