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Percy Granger by John Bird
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
In few creative figures can such artistic brilliance, a demonic drive idiosyncracy and uncompromising ideology be so inextricably mixed as the extraordinary life of Australia's popular pianist, Percy Grainger. From the world's foremost Grainger scholar now comes the definitive revision of Grainger and h ...Show more
Persons of Interest: An Intimate Account of Cecily and John Burton by Pamela Burton, Meredith Edwards
Category: Biography | Series: ANU Lives Series in Biography Ser.
A world in upheaval; two lives lived under stress ... This story is set in the social and political landscape of pre- and post-World War II. It tells two vastly different tales of Cecily and John's lives in Australia and overseas, as nations clashed, and governments and international organisations trie ...Show more
Princess Diana by Joanne Mattern
Category: Biography | Series: DK Biography Ser.
Perfect for book reports or summer reading, DK's acclaimed Biography series tackles one of history's most inspiring and colorful women: Princess Diana. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
Rattler One-Seven - A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's War Story by Chuck Gross
Category: Military | Series: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Ser.
Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat, to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. When Chuck Gross left for Vietnam in 1970, he was a nineteen-year-old Army helicopter pilot fresh out of flight school. He spen ...Show more
Seven Big Australians - Adventures with Comic Actors by Anne Pender
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Comic actors have made a particularly strong contribution to cultural life in Australia over the past sixty years. They have brought a range of memorable characters to the stage, television and film; they have transformed our image of ourselves, helped to overturn the crippling cultural cringe, and brou ...Show more
Tell Me I'm Okay: A Doctor's Story by David Bradford
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
'Throughout my years of practice, people have often asked me why I decided to specialise in sexual health. The question is not surprising given that sexual health doctors are not held in the same regard as those who work in other medical specialties ... We sexual health physicians don't grow rich, but w ...Show more
The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought of Vere Gordon Childe by Terry Irving
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
A new and radically different biography of the Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian, Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). In his early life he was active in the Australian labour movement and wrote How Labour Governs (1923), the world's first study of parliamentary socialism. At the end of the Firs ...Show more
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 by William Feaver
Category: Art and Design | Series: Biography and Autobiography Ser.
The second half of William Feaver's Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted work of biography- the definitive story of the epic life of one of the twentieth century's most important artists William Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most. Ove ...Show more
The Power Broker - Mark Leibler, an Australian Jewish Life by Michael Gawenda
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in the world bar Israel. Mark Leibler grew up in this community, and in time became a leader of it. This book shows how Leibler rose to a ...Show more
The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman, who looked like a Sunday school teacher, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of sonnets. She was hailed as a genius, and many expected her to endure as a hous ...Show more
The Story of Abraham Lincoln - A Biography Book for New Readers by Carla Jablonski
Category: Children's | Series: The\Story of: a Biography Series for New Readers Ser.
Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States, and many people still say he was the most important president. Before he made history by ending slavery and reuniting America, Abraham was a hard-working kid who believed in equality for everyone. By learning as much as he could, he would h ...Show more
The Story of Albert Einstein - A Biography Book for New Readers by Susan B. Katz
Category: Children's | Series: The\Story of: a Biography Series for New Readers Ser.
Discover the life of Albert Einstein--a story about unleashing your imagination and discovering big things Albert Einstein became one of the most important scientists in history for his discoveries about physics and how our universe works. Before everyone knew him as a genius, Albert was a curious kid w ...Show more