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A Lot With A Little by Tim Costello
Category: Biography | Series: Australian
In this evocative memoir, Tim Costello explores the people and experiences that have shaped him into a socially active fighter for the world's most challenging issues. Tracing each defining stage of his life with stark insight and honesty, Tim untangles his ongoing struggle to align his self-perception ...Show more
A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski
Category: Fiction | Series: AUSTRALIAN
"[A Month of Sundays] demonstrates the capacity of a book to act as a mirror to the soul and an eloquent guide to a more contented future." WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN I wonder if we'll ever have the chance to actually be in the same room together,' Judy had ventured. For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Sim ...Show more
A Naturalist's Guide to Dangerous Creatures of Australia: Australia by Peter Rowland, Scott Eipper
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC
Photographic identification guide to the 280 species of dangerous creature most commonly seen in Australia which is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from Australia's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, si ...Show more
A New Australian: Kerenza by Rosanne Hawke
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: New Australian
Kerenza isnt sure about leaving her village in Cornwall and taking a ship to Australia, but she can be brave for her das sake. Where he sees a farm, she and her mam see endless bush and flies millions of them and hard work from dawn to dusk. Its almost too much to bear, but the Mallee has its own beauty ...Show more
A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne by Andrew Markus; Margaret Taft
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution, and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourn ...Show more
A Soldier's Soldier : A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly by Jeffrey Grey
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General Staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a significant re-organisation of the Army as he fought a war under political and resource restrictions. In t ...Show more
A TO Z AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS by Australian Geographic
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Australian Geographic
A Tale of Two Families: The Diary of Jan Packard, Melbourne 1974 by Jenny Pausacker
Category: Children's Educational | Series: My Australian Story
Jan Packard's family and the family next door meet once a month for a barbeque. One family has a son who went to the Vietnam War; the other has a son who was a draft resister. Then...Jan's mother joins the Women's Movement...and Jan wants to play football but is rejected by the boys. It is a time of cha ...Show more
A Trip to the Dominions - The Scientific Event That Changed Australia by Lynette Russell (Editor)
Category: History | Series: Australian Studies
On the eve of the Great War, in 1914 the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to?travel to Australia for their annual conference. Over 150 scientists were fully funded by the Australian Commonwealth government and they travelled on three s ...Show more
A Very Different War: RAAF Operations in the Korean War (#8 Australian Air Campaigns) by Owen Zupp
Category: Military History | Series: Australian Air Campaign Ser.
The Korean War lies between the enormity of the Second World War and the controversy of Vietnam. Although it often slips through the cracks of history, it represented a global shift as two opposing ideologies clashed and the Cold War heated up. The fledgling United Nations was called to act, and Austral ...Show more
A White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett, Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice by Sue Taffe
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
"A white hot flame indeed - here is an important contribution to our national story." --Kim Scott *** Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, she became a voice for reform at a time when Aboriginal ...Show more