Roadside Sisters
by Wendy Harmer

Nina, Meredith and Annie have been friends for a long, long time. Like most old friends, they can't quite remember what initially drew them together. Elegant Meredith, motherly Nina and the determinedly single Annie are as unlikely companions as you could find.

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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
by Peter Fitzsimons

In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier among the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front, to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron - for which he won the Military Cross for gallantry - before becoming the greatest peacetime aviator of his generation.

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Wanting
by Richard Flanagan

Shortlisted for Miles Franklin 2009. Sir John Franklin, the most celebrated explorer of his age, and his Wife Lady Jane. adopt Mathinna a young Aboriginal girl to prove that a savage can be civilised.

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Shooting Balibo
by Tony Maniaty

Maniaty returns to Timor for the first time after fleeing for his life 30 years before. He's there to watch five young actors play out the last days of five friends of his - men who were murdered by the Indonesian army in one of the most infamous incidents (and cover-ups) in Australian foreign affairs.

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Journey to the Edge of the World
by Billy Connolly

In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a ten-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by way of the Northwest Passage - a fabled route deep within the Arctic Circle that has thwarted explorers and fortune-hunters for centuries.

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The Weight of Silence
by Catherine Therese

The Weight of Silence is the gravity of all the unsaids, the unseens, and how they shape our lives. A father's drinking, a mother's shame, a daughter's longing to hold on to a trouser leg to hear someone speak of what never happened. The Weight of Silence = 9 lbs 4 ozs.

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