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A LIFE IN JAZZ by BARKER DANNY
Category: Music Books | Series: Louisiana Artists Biography Ser.
As a musician who grew up in New Orleans, and later worked in New York with the major swing orchestras of Lucky Millinder and Cab Calloway, Barker is uniquely placed to give an authoritative but personal view of jazz history. In this book he discusses his life in music, from the children's 'spasm' bands ...Show more
A Picture Book of Anne Frank by David A. Adler; Karen Ritz (Illustrator)
Category: Judaica | Series: Picture Book Biography Ser.
A thoughtful and accessible look at the life of Anne Frank, author of Diary of a Young Girl and victim of the Holocaust. Anne and her Jewish family hid in a secret apartment in Amsterdam from 1942 through 1944, when they were discovered by the Nazis. During those harrowing years, Anne kept a diary wit ...Show more
A Picture Book of Florence Nightingale by David A. Adler; John Wallner (Illustrator); Alexandra Wallner (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Picture Book Biography Ser.
The founder of modern nursing comes to life in this accessible biography for young readers. Born and raised in a wealthy family, no one expected Florence Nightingale to grow up to do dirty work. But she found her life's calling after witnessing firsthand the atrocious conditions at hospitals in the mid ...Show more
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King Jr by David Alder
Category: Education | Series: Picture Book Biography Ser.
The story of the civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Alive in the Killing Fields : Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide by Martha E. Nawuth; Kendall Keat
Category: Fiction | Series: Nat Geo - Biography Ser.
Alive in the Killing Fields is the real-life memoir of Nawuth Keat, a man who survived the horrors of war-torn Cambodia. He has now broken a longtime silence in the hope that telling the truth about what happened to his people and his country will spare future generations from similar tragedy. In this c ...Show more
All Souls - A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
Category: Romance | Series: Biography and Memoir Ser.
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person's praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details."--Brent Staples, New York Times Book ReviewA breakaway bestsell ...Show more
Arthur Phillip Australias First Governor by PARKER Derek
Category: Australian History | Series: HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY Ser.
Over the two centuries since his appointment, commentators have been as surprised at the choice of Arthur Phillip as some were at the time (the First Lord of the Admiralty, to mention only the most distinguished critic). But was it really so surprising? What did the Home Office and the Admiralty expect ...Show more
Aust Dictionary Of Biography Vol 17 A-k by Diane Langmore
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Australian Dictionary of Biography Ser.
Contains 658 biographies of individuals who died between 1981 and 1990. This volume presents a mosaic of twentieth-century Australian life. It contains biographies of well-known identities such as Sir Henry Bolte, Sir Robert Askin, Sir Reginald Ansett, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento ...Show more
Banksia Lady: Celia Rosser - Botanical Artist by Carolyn Landon
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Banksia Lady is the story of Celia Rosser, internationally acclaimed botanical illustrator, who dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done so. Her dedication to the task put her at the centre of the Monash Banksia Project for twenty-five years, and culminate ...Show more
Bligh in Australia: A New Appraisal of William Bligh and the Rum Rebellion by Russell Earls Davis
Category: Australian History | Series: HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY Ser.
This fascinating account of early Australia focuses on Governor William Bligh (famous as the captain of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' fame). The Rum Rebellion has, for generations, been told to school children as one of the better stories of Australian history - how Bligh was a tyrant deposed by the New South ...Show more
Cathy Goes to Canberra - Doing Politics Differently by Cathy McGowan
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of Indi in 2013 and again in 2016 and passed Indi on to ...Show more
Colonel Despard - The Life and Times of an Anglo-Irish Rebel by Clifford D. Conner
Category: Biography | Series: Signpost Biography Ser.
In spite of having Admiral Nelson testify in his defense, Colonel Edward Marcus Despard went to the scaffold in 1803, accused of treason and plotting to assassinate King George III. Despard's execution ended a life of adventure and intrigue, and a career that encompassed the American Revolution, the Iri ...Show more