When Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old member of the Aboriginal community of Palm Island, was arrested for swearing at a white police officer, he was dead within forty-five minutes of being locked up. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but the pathologist likened his injuries to those received in a plane crash. The main suspect was the handsome, charismatic Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, an experienced cop with decorations for his work. In following Hurley's trail to some of the wildest and most remote parts of Australia, Chloe Hooper explores Aboriginal myths and history and uncovers buried secrets of white mischief. Atmospheric, gritty and original, "The Tall Man" takes readers to the heart of a struggle for power, revenge and justice.

Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island

Chlor Hooper

History

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Shakespeare of London

Chute, Marchette

Biographies & Memoirs

Set in Geneva in the 1930s, Albert Cohen's endlessly inventive satire of middle-class manners and ambition revolves around Solal, a man of remarkable gifts and disappointed ideals. As Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become disillusioned with a world dominated by personal and national interest. His one hope for redemption is through love, and he embarks on the seduction of the beautiful Ariane, wife of the dull-witted Adrien Deume, who works for Solal.

Belle du Seigneur

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Cohen, Albert

World Literature

Originally published in 1995 by Penguin Books (South Africa), How to Escape Your Comfort Zones was the #1 best seller in the country for eight consecutive weeks and eliciting letters from people all around the world saying how their lives have been changed for the better. .Almost twenty years later, it continues to be a source of insight and inspiration. Vancouver therapist Ted Kuntz calls it a "life-changing book". So, what's it about?We all have our own safe places, our comfort zones.  But, comfort zones can be very insidious.  Because they are so comfortable, there is little incentive to make decisions or to take action.  We become stuck, and afraid to move on.  We continue to put up with unsatisfying relationships and dead-end jobs.  We become complacent, in a rut.  Often, we use defense mechanisms like denial, rationalization, and suppression to avoid confronting the truth. This book helps you recognize them and escape them.ESCAPING YOUR COMFORT ZONES is a powerful book that could be the catalyst that will allow you to:    -  Break free from your stuckness    -  Escape your frustrations and limitations     -  Feel alive again in each moment     -  Gain insights into a whole new youHOW TO ESCAPE YOUR COMFORT ZONES is a book for anyone who wants to discover their most noble, most valuable, most eternal qualities... the qualities that will give perspective and meaning to your life... the qualities that will bring true inner peace and fulfilment.

How to Escape Your Comfort Zones

Johnson, Lee

Koopman

Health, Fitness & Dieting

A new edition of this classic reference work, with many new entries ranging from acid rain, aspartame and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to liposomes, mass spectograph and nematocide, more abbreviations explained and cross-referenced and numerous entries revised and updated.

The Penguin Dictionary of Chemistry: New Edition

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Whoops! But It Wasn't Me (Charlie and Lola)

Charlie has this little sister, Lola. Lola has been playing with Charlie’s very special rocket. Charlie says, Did you break my rocket?” Lola says, You absolutely told me to not ever never touch it ever.”

Whoops! But it Wasn't Me (Charlie and Lola)

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Growing Up & Facts of Life

Sam Jameson, eight years old at the time of his father George's death, decides, some forty years later, to go through the box of his father's papers which his mother had passed on to him. In trying to piece together the life of a parent he never really knew, Sam discovers a sensitive, inherently kind but insecure man. George has seemingly spent his working life as a native commissioner conscientiously carrying out his duties, but has never quite been able to come to terms with the white man's place in Africa. As his doubts deepen he is overwhelmed by despair.

Native Commisssioner,The

Johnson, Shaun

Durban in a Word: Contrasts and Colours of eThekwini

Dianne Stewart

Set in Nigeria, a country failing to come to terms with the atrocity of a recent civil war and the echo of that violence, "Dangerous Love" tells the story of a young man, Omovo, an office-worker and artist, who lives at home with his father and his father's second wife. In the communal world of the compound in which he lives, Omovo has many friends and some enemies, but most important of all there is Ifeyiwa, a beautiful young married woman who he loves with an almost hopeless passion - not because she doesn't return his love, but because they can never be together. Okri builds a vivid picture of Nigerian life: of the compound with its complete lack of privacy, the gossip, the good times, the street life, the complex nature of family relationships and the kindness and treachery of friends. Overshadowing everything is the image of a nation struggling to come to terms with the atrocity of the recent civil war, the echoes of which presage the story's tragic tale.

Dangerous love

BEN OKRI

CJ and his Grandma take a bus ride together, discovering the beauty and wonder of their vibrant neighborhood.

Last Stop On Market Street

De La Peña, Matt

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