Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI by The RNLI; Steve Backshall (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Story
She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending a lifeboat out.' 'The RNLI?' I said, surprised. 'They do that?' Saved from the Waves is a heart-warming collection of first-hand accounts from RNLI volunteers of the myriad dangers they face dur ...Show more
Guiding Lights - The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women by Shona Riddell
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Story | Reading Level: near fine
Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights includes stories from around the world, such as the dramatic torching of Puysegur Point, one of New Zealand' ...Show more
Currowan: A story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer by Bronwyn Adcock
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Story
An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed worldCurrowan is the gripping account of the massive fire that engulfed the south coast of New South Wales in 2019-20. Ignited by a lightning strike near the Currowan state forest and bur ...Show more
Don't Ask Me about My Dad: an Inspiring True Story of a Scared Little Boy with a Dark Secret by Tom Mitchelson
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Story
Growing up with him was like being in my own war zone, living in perpetual fear of when the bombs would fall. I was terrified of becoming him, and in moments I could feel I might. He still lives within me grimly like some battered demon spright. And I'm fearful of his shadow. The rage, and his blood. T ...Show more
Cloaked in Bravery: A Rescue Mission Like No Other by Tony Matthews
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Story
Experience the extraordinary journey of a woman who risked everything to follow her man into battle in a desperate attempt to rescue him from the death that inevitably beckoned. Christian, driven by an unwavering devotion to her missing husband, cast aside her comfortable life, family, and even her chil ...Show more
Great Australian Ambos Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Story | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Yeah, while some of my stories are quite gory, others can be very enlightening. Though, in hindsight, the best outcomes are when the patient pulls through. It's then that you know you've done your job, and you get a bit of a buzz out of that. Put the sirens on and get ready to hit the road, because fact ...Show more
Outback Women's Stories: Amazing Australian Amazons by Paul Bugeja
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Story
The word "amazon" generally conjures up images of wild and powerful warrior women, fighting off foes in some primitive matriarchal society where they rule over men who have been subverted to more menial roles. Outback Women's Stories is a compilation of significant Australian women of simple but importa ...Show more
Shackleton's Endurance: An Antarctic Survival Story by Joanna Grochowicz
$16.99 AUD
Category: True Story
Adrift on the Antarctic pack ice with no means of escape and no hope of rescue, Ernest Shackleton and his men are surely doomed. In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his men set sail for Antarctica, where they plan to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, his ship, the Endurance, ...Show more
Stories of Hope - Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Story | Reading Level: near fine
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Towns & Pubs Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Story | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has been on yet another adventure, this time gathering more stories from outback towns and pubs; from the green fields of Tasmania to the vast red sands of Simpson Desert.The unique characters of the outback will touch your heart as Swampy presents all the drama and delight of life i ...Show more
Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life by Leigh Sales
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Story
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-cha ...Show more
Escape from Manus: The untold true story by Jaivet Ealom
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Story
The awe-inspiring story of the only person to successfully escape from Australia's notorious offshore detention centre on Manus Island. In 2013 Jaivet Ealom fled Myanmar's brutal regime, where Rohingya like him were being persecuted and killed, and boarded a boat of asylum seekers bound for Australia. ...Show more