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  • Nurse Fortescue and Doctor Paddon

    by Dave Paddon ...
    Dave Paddon collects and retells the stories of his parents, Sheila Fortescue and Tony Paddon. This book is a tribute to the storytellers that shaped the younger Paddon and a glimpse into the lives of frontier health care workers “scarcely comprehensible in the modern era.” ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Half the Lies You Tell Are Not True

    by Dave Paddon ...
    The world of Dave Paddon's recitations is quirky, riotously funny, and utterly unique; a place of tall tales and plain foolishness, where fog is so thick you can use it for cannonballs, and a polar bear hijacks a bingo tournament. Berry pickers turn combatants and the result is a bay full of jam; a local handyman turns doctor and uses the spare parts in his shed to patch up his neighbours.Half the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Kimmy and Mike

    by Dave Paddon ...
    Illustrated by Lily Snowden-Fine ...
    Dave Paddon and Lily Snowden-Fine team up in this hilarious tall tale about a brother and sister who set out to find some fish for their father’s supper. The fish aren’t biting, so Kimmy and Mike head off to see if they’ll have luck on the other side of the ocean. En route they encounter a hurricane, a giant squid, pirates, a merman, an iceberg and much more. Theirs is a round-the-world adventure ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ralph, Flying Hound

    by Dave Paddon ...
    Illustrated by alex kolano ...
    In the tradition of Robert Service's poetic tall tales, Dave Paddon's Ralph, Flying Hound brings readers a hilarious recitation about a dog that just won't give up. Along with his canine comrades, Ralph chases anything that moves, and usually catches it too. But when his aspirations go skyward, even his four furry friends—Nance, Lucky, Spot 1 and Spot 2—wonder if Ralph's aiming too high. Will ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Small Town to Great Big Sea

    by Alan Doyle ...
    From the lead singer of the band Great Big Sea comes a lyrical and captivating musical memoir about growing up in the tiny fishing village of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, and then taking to the world stage.Singer-songwriter and front man of the great Canadian band Great Big Sea, Alan Doyle is also a lyrical storyteller and a creative force. In Where I Belong, Alan paints a vivid, raucous and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Edmund Hillary - A Biography

    The extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest

    by Michael Gill ...
    Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man who gave so much to Nepal yet lost his family to its mountains.The author, Michael Gill, was a close ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killing Time

    Sequel short-stories to the award winning WORKING CLASS BOY & WORKING CLASS MAN

    by Jimmy Barnes ...
    Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy.Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Memphis, a night in a haunted studio in upstate New York, and a doomed haircut in Thailand to a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

    The extraordinary life story of the world's greatest modern explorer

    Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced Sean Connery as James Bond.In his autobiography he ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Fish with a Wish

    A Fish with a Wish

    Series series children books
    If you only had one wish to make, would you change your life, or would you change someone else's? Can a Goldfish find happiness in his dreary surroundings? Trapped in a tiny glass tank, a miserable goldfish makes it perfectly clear how disappointed he is with life. A series of wishes granted by a magic star reveal that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Will the fish ever find true ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • 10 Ukulele Oh So EASY 3 & 4 chord tunes

    by Michael James ...
    The Ukulele is…Oh so easy to learn – just 3 or 4 chords will open up hundreds of tunes.cheap to buy – go to the toy store and buy a cheap child's ukulele for not a lot of cash.fun to play – and a great party piece for a great singalong.Plus, even you play it badly "…it's still good enough for jazz"A deceptively easy instrument, so long as you're not planning on being a rock-star.Copy the 4 chords ... Read more

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  • Frozen in Time

    The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

    **AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “CHILLING … WILL KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT TURNING PAGES.”—The Chicago TribuneThis “remarkable piece of forensic deduction” (MARGARET ATWOOD) “captures the excitement and peril of the explorers’ harrowing journey” aboard the HMS Erebus, and offers “a compelling explanation of what might have transpired over their final weeks and days (including, in a final act of ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shots

    by Don Walker ...
    This remarkable memoir begins with Don Walker's early life in rural Australia and goes up to the late ’80s. In mesmerising prose, Walker evokes childhood and youth, wild times in the ’70s, life on the road and in Kings Cross, music-making and much more. Shots is a stunningly original book, a set of word pictures – shots – that conjure up the lowlife and backroads of Australia.‘Singular, strong and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD