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'Tis
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes," has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have "'Tis," the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in "Angela's Ashes" comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his "Newsweek" review of "Angela's Ashes," "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's "'Tis" is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.
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'Tis
Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes," has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary landscape. And now we have "'Tis," the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. The same vulnerable but invincible spirit that captured the hearts of readers in "Angela's Ashes" comes of age. As Malcolm Jones said in his "Newsweek" review of "Angela's Ashes," "It is only the best storyteller who can so beguile his readers that he leaves them wanting more when he is done...and McCourt proves himself one of the very best." Frank McCourt's "'Tis" is one of the most eagerly awaited books of our time, and it is a masterpiece.
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12 Edmondstone Street
David Malouf
The autobiography of the internationally award-winning poet and novelist, first published in 1985. It explores the way places and things have shaped his life, especially his childhood home. The author's other works include Fly Away Peter and An Imaginary Life.
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A Big Ask
Ruth Wilson
Collection of interviews with over 20 well-known interviewers, including radio and television interviewers, print journalists, a doctor, a researcher, an oral historian, a judge and a mediator. They include Stephanie Dowrick, Jana Wendt, Robyn Williams, Caroline Jones, Phillip Adams, Hugh Mckay, David Leser and Kerry O'Brien. They analyse their way of working and present insights into the craft of interviewing. Includes an introduction that discusses the nature of interviewing. Condition: INscription on cover page but otherwise good.
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A Gift of Wings
Richard Bach
Once in a generation a book, a vision, a writer, capture the imagination and emotions of millions. \"Jonathan Livingston Seagull\" was such a book. Richard Bach\'s unique vision again shines forth, touching with magic the drama of life in all its limitless horizons. Once again Richard Bach has written a masterpiece to help you touch that part of your home that is the sky.
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A Letter to Joan
Roland E. Robinson
After an interval of eighteen years, Roland meets again the poet and beautiful former artists' model, Joan Mas. This is the story of their relationship of its mutually creative and ultimately destructive intensity.This is the third book in his autobiographical series.It covers the years 1962-73 when he was engaged in a series of lecture recitals around Australia and promoting the Poetry Society started by Dr. Grace Perry.
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A Long Season in Hell
Gail Graham
Describes the 13 year battle of Gail and Rollyn Graham to give their son Jim the rehabilitation treatment he needed after sustaining head injuries and brain damage in a car crash in Qld. The author has also written 'Staying Alive' which recounts Jim's experiences during the first year after his accident.
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A Rose by Any Other Name
Rose Hancock
On October 26, 1948 Amparo Lacson presented her husband Nicolas with an 8-pound baby girl - literally a pink bundle of joy. She had a rosy glow all over and hair the colour of sunset. Aptly, she was called Rosemarie. At the formal christening her fully name was Rosario Magdalena Teresita - the first two after her maternal and paternal grandmothers, the third after two Catholic saints whose feast days are in October, her mother being very religious. On July 6, 1985, Rose was married to Langley George Hancock, reputedly the richest man in Australia. Rags to riches? The classic Cinderella tale? As her maternal aunt, Mrs Soledad Lacson-Locsin, scoffed: "He didn't exactly find you in the ash heap!" Oh, but he did. That's exactly where she was when he first set eyes on her - in his kitchen, trying to put on a convincing act of being the experienced housekeeper she had lied she was in order to gain employment. The granddaughter of the legendary Don Aniceto Lacson, in his time the richest and most powerful landlord in Negros (one of the major islands of the Phillippines); the niece of the feisty Manila Mayor, the late Arsenio Hilario Lacson, was a domestic in the household of the man who was to be her husband! But that's going too far ahead of her story - and what a tale.
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A Sense of the Sacred
Kathryn Spink
Born into a middle class family, educated at Christ\'s Hospital and Oxford where he became a friend and confidant of C S Lewis and at one time member of the Benedictine community at Prinknash Abbey, Bede Griffiths has spent more than thirty years of his extraordnary life in India.His ashram is a centre of prayer and meditation open to any who seek the universal and eternal truth at the heart of all religion.
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A State of Mind My Story
JZ Knight
A State of Mind is JZ Knight\'s intimate and very special love story. She has fought disease, prejudice and loneliness - and triumphantly overcome them all: she is now one of the most charistmatic and controversial leaders of the New Age movement.
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A Step Further
Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni's heartfelt and biblically informed response to thousands of letters from people puzzled about the "whys" of suffering. These questions are answered by taking a personal look at how God has used circumstances, people, and events in Joni's life and others' lives. First published in 1978 and updated in 1990. New 16-page photo section.
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