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| Kirsty Sword Gusmao: A Woman of Independence - A Story of Love and the birth of a new Nation
Book Number: 42245
Macmillan 2003 Trade paperback. Very Good. Story of the author, who worked with the East Timorese independence movement and went on to marry the leader, Xanana Gusmao and become First Lady of East Timor.
Keywords: President's Spouse, First Lady, East Timor, Women, Australia, East Timor History, Autonomy and independence movements, Politics and government
Price: $15.00 |
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| Smiley, Jane: Charles Dickens
Book Number: 42310
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2002 8vo hardcover 214pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w. Book Description: From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels of life in Victorian England. His well-documented life - the enormous quantity of work, his public readings and his difficult relationships have always made fascinating reading. As a novelist herself, Jane Smiley approaches her subject from a new angle making this biography a must for both aficionados and new recruits. Instead of tracing the events in his life chronologically, she reveals things only as he did - sometimes years after the event. Thus we see him as his contemporaries would have done and get to know him more intimately than ever before. At the same time Smiley offers interpretations of almost all of Dickens' major works showing how 'his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels'.
Keywords: Charles Dickens Smiley Jane study biography
Price: $18.00 |
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| Li, Cunxin: Mao's Last Dancer
Book Number: 42337
Viking Books 2003 8vo softcover 448pp. very good, a few light marks on outer page edges. Signed by author.
Keywords: Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin
Price: $35.00 |
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| McDonald, Tom and Audrey: Intimate union : sharing a revolutionary life
Book Number: 42339
Annadale, N.S.W. Pluto 1998 8vo softcover 422pp index, b/w illus. very good+.
Keywords: soviet union russia australia asio
Price: $14.00 |
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| Calder, Where the Road Leads: Where the Road Leads
Book Number: 42345
Hachette 2007 *vo. softcover. 326pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Fine. For over 25 years, Jean Calder has been working with people with disabilities in Lebanon, Egypt and the Gaza Strip. An outstanding and unassuming woman, Jean has led anextraordinary life, bringing hope and joy to people living in some of the most dangerous areas of the Middle East. Jeans work with young disabled children took her into Palestinian refugee camps where she worked tirelessly under extreme conditions. In 1982 when a civil war broke out and most foreigners fled Lebanon, Jean stayed and cared for disabled children under a bombed-out hospital staircase. Jean now lives and works in the Gaza Strip, where life is constantly interrupted by airstrikes, checkpoints,continual fighting and hostage threats. Yet, for the last ten years, Jean has built up an internationally admired rehabilitation program which brings hope and a profound difference to many people's lives, especially young children.
Keywords: Lebanon Egypt and the Gaza Strip Palestinian refugee camps children
Price: $25.00 |
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| Walsh, Maureen: May Gibbs, Mother of the Gumnuts
Book Number: 42473
Angus and Robertson 1994 8vo. softcover. 216pp. index, b/w illus. very good, foxing to edges, remainder mark on bottom edge.
Keywords: children authors may gibbs gumnuts australian
Price: $15.00 |
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| Amster, Gerald: Transit Point Moscow: The True Story of an American's Imprisonment in a Soviet Gulag and His Astonishing Escape
Book Number: 42487
Holt 1985 8vo hardcover 296pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Moscow American Imprisonment Soviet Gulag Escape Amster Gerald
Price: $10.00 |
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| Rytasha: Alchemy : The Autobiography of the Angel of Bengal
Book Number: 42498
Random House of Canada, Limited 1992 8vo hardcover 188pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: hare krishna indian religionfood relief international Autobiography Angel Bengal Rytasha
Price: $18.00 |
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| Edgar, Patricia [Janet Holmes a Court]: Janet Holmes a Court
Book Number: 42529
Australia: Harper Collins, 1999 8vo. Hard Cover. 390pp. index. b/w plates. very good. / very good d/w.
Keywords: australian biography Janet Holmes a Court robert heytesbury holdings business politics
Price: $22.00 |
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| Miles, Barry: Ginsberg: A Biography
Book Number: 42549
Simon & Schuster 1989 8vo hardcover 588pp index, b/w illus. very good, remainder mark on bottom edge / very good d/w with chipped top edge.
Keywords: Ginsberg alan Biography Miles Barry
Price: $28.00 |
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