Social Sciences / Politics / Government
COSTER, DJ
D.J. Coster describes his life journey against the background of profound socioeconomic change in Australia in the 80 years since the end of WWII. It is not a story of personal achievement against the odds, but a description of factors that made the baby boomer generation more privileged than any other generation before or since, and the way national and global events, chance encounters, and luck, shape lives.
TANNER, Lindsay
The Warriors explores the appalling realities of male violence against women, the twisted mentalities that impel otherwise ordinary men to extremes of brutality and murder, and the challenges facing decent men caught in a bewildering maze of rapidly changing gender roles and expectations.
POLA, Geoff
Author Geoff Pola’s two-book series following protagonist, Avril Maguire: “The Shit Fairy” and “The Circle”.
WALES, Stephen
“Unbreakable”: On their honeymoon in remote Northern India, Steve and Terri’s lives would be forever changed when their tour vehicle collides with an oncoming bus. “Fork in the Road”: Putting the pieces of lives torn apart back together is a challenge that will test Steve and Terri well beyond the accident that forever changed them.
NOOROA, Iotia
The effect of the Good News concerning Jesus Christ has transformed the lives of our people from a life of hopelessness to that of hope and blessings.
de MORSIER, Yves
The crisis in our relationship with our natural environment is much more than a problem of excess of CO². Climate change, collapse of ecosystems, loss of biodiversity: these many signs of decay are drastic symptoms that call for a deep transformation in the way we live together and a reassessment of our priorities.
IRWIN, Stephen
When down-and-out Aussie horse trainer Logan Weston drove an upper cut into rival trainer Angus Masters, his whole word changed forever. He joined Baker Racing in the UK and, under their banner, swiftly becomes the most successful trainer in the world.
GREEN, Michael
Abbervale, mining village, 1940s country Australia. The McCanns a local family, Grace the wise and strong wife and mother, Gordon, a mining team boss with elder son, Bruce. His brother, William, works in the mine office. Delicate daughter, Millie, dies.
LAWLESS, James
An African villager on the Zambian Plateau made the remark that inspired the title of this book. He was describing the impact of western medicine on a community where it was previously unknown.
KENNEDY, David
The plight of Charlie’s parents, a full-blood Chinaman and an 18-year-old English Jewess in the 1850’s, escaping their respective homelands and settling in Ararat, Victoria, is difficult to comprehend, but it’s true.
SMITH, Richard & HOUGHTON, Henry
This book is a must read for anyone concerned with climate change and lack of Government action addressing this rapidly unfolding crisis.
SELOCHAN, Viberto
The Portuguese Lady’s Earrings covers the rich tapestry of the de Oliveira Evora family. Their rise to power and wealth began with their role in the Portuguese Empire, the Church predominantly through Jesuits, and with military regimes.
MORGANELLA, Tina & ISABEL JIMINEZ, Maria
Love (or at the very least, desire) always finds a way, right? The true stories in this collection reflect our basic human need to connect with others…
BAKER, Andrew
A collection of modern-day fables for today’s children.
It’s a world full of fear. 13 fables to enable you and your children to live a fear free future.
MILES, Greg
Why is it that wildlife in the Top End began disappearing in the late 1990’s? Some of Australia’s best biologists have been trying to answer this question for decades. But no clear answer has yet appeared. This book approaches the tragedy of these declines from a different angle than most, and offers a solution (at least in part ), which has so far received little attention.
SLEE, Max
In 2021 Old Canowie celebrates the 175th Anniversary of its foundation in 1846. This historic homestead, mid-way between Hallett and Jamestown in South Australia’s Mid North, is a remnant of the former Canowie station
and Canowie Pastoral Company.
GILLAN, Brian
Ten year old Sam loves to watch the river. But her world soon changes that there are lethal dangers lurking in the water–and they are killing the dolphins. Sam and her friends could not have foreseen the impact of their quest to save the dolphins, nor the danger they were in.
STUART, Patricia
My story is about my heart being torn between two worlds, even at a young age, I remember the struggle was there within me, those strange feelings inside of me, not knowing what the feelings were? Who am I?
ANDERSON, Robert
A Lawyer in Paradise is an eyes-wide-shut attempt to avoid the stereotypical slow- Volvo-driving, old lawyer in a black hat, Rob Anderson leapt at the opportunity to become Assistant Attorney General of Western Samoa.
ARCHER, Emily
Let My Voice Be Yours. Domestic Violence: A Survivor’s Guide For Every Woman