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Biography, Non-Fiction Audiobooks

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    Nanberry

    Black Brother White

    by Jackie French ...
    Narrated by Kris Dyer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    The amazing story of Australia's first surgeon and the boy he adopted.It's 1789, and as the new colony in Sydney Cove is established, Surgeon John White defies convention and adopts Nanberry, an Aboriginal boy, to raise as his son. Nanberry is clever and uses his unique gifts as an interpreter to bridge the two worlds he lives in.With his white brother, Andrew, he witnesses the struggles of the ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

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    The Happiest Refugee

    by Anh Do ...
    Narrated by Anh Do ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing – not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days – could quench their desire to make a better life in a country where freedom existed. Life in Australia ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    Speaking in Tongues

    by Tom Tilley ...
    Narrated by Tom Tilley ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    From the outside, Tom Tilley's childhood seemed ordinary. The first son of a pastor, he grew up in a beautiful country town where life revolved around football, his loving family and their Pentecostal faith. But behind church doors, a strictly enforced set of rules included a looming ultimatum – if Tom didn't speak in tongues, he'd go to hell and be outcast from his close-knit, devout community. ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    Yellow Notebook

    Diaries Volume I 1978-1987

    by Helen Garner ...
    Narrated by Helen Garner ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 36 min

    Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard. Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I spans a decade beginning in the ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Villain Edit

    A memoir about reality TV and taking control of the narrative

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    When former government staffer Alisha Aitken-Radburn was given a 'villain edit' on her first season of The Bachelor, she wasn't entirely surprised – there are only a handful of character tropes producers can manipulate into storylines. But the backlash on social media was unexpectedly intense, and Alisha found her sense of identity completely rocked by a single comment: 'You are a bad person'. ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Flying Vet

    by Ameliah Scott ...
    Narrated by Zoe Boesen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    Ameliah Scott isn't your average vet. She's a rare combination of flying vet and fifth generation farmer in remote Australia, and she often flies solo over a staggering territory of 200,000 square kilometres of red dirt and bush to tend to animals of all shapes and sizes. She brings much–needed solace, care and reassurance to remote farming communities in the heart of the country, while also ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    Jackson's Track

    Memoir of a Dreamtime Place

    Narrated by Peter Hosking ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    In 1936, Daryl Tonkin and his brother, Harry, leave home in search of adventure. They find themselves in West Gippsland, Victoria, and set up a timber mill at Jackson's Track - a dreamtime place, a place that was paradise. A bushman dedicated to his work, Daryl discovers happiness there - and unexpectedly falls in love. But Daryl is white and Euphie is black, and neither of them is prepared for ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    White Coolies

    by Betty Jeffrey ...
    Narrated by Beverley Dunn ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 54 min

    It is October 1942. From the doorway of this small three-roomed cottage, which houses thirty-two of us, we look out beyond to a steaming jungle in Sumatra. In 1942 a group of sixty-five Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore. Two days later their ship was bombed and sunk by the Japanese. Of the fifty-three survivors who scrambled ashore, ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There

    Detours into Mayhem

    by Paul Carter ...
    Narrated by Paul Carter ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 27 min

    Attempting 300 kph on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, Paul Carter and danger at high speed is his second name. Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera back to front in the midst of filming a TV series, or starting a new business and travelling the world, or dealing with ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    The Girl Who Touched the Stars

    Narrated by Bonnie Hancock ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    254 days, 12,700 kilometres, sea sickness, sharks, crocodiles and ocean. Bonnie Hancock broke numerous records on her fastest ever circumnavigation by paddle around Australia but that wasn't the achievement she is most proud of. Testing the limits of her mental and physical toughness, she learned what it means to overcome adversity and how important teamwork and perspective truly are. What looks ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Is That Thing Diesel?

    One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil

    by Paul Carter ...
    Narrated by Paul Carter ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 43 min

    At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul Carter happily nestled in the cotton wool of suburban life enjoying the fruits of his labour? Was he f**k! With his manic life left far behind and the perfect opportunity to take it easy stretched before him what else would a middle-aged, bike obsessed, man want? Yes, that's right, he ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Chinese Cinderella

    The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter

    Narrated by Adeline Yen Mah ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Late Bloomer

    How an autism diagnosis changed my life

    by Clem Bastow ...
    Narrated by Clem Bastow ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she’d missed a key memo on human behaviour. She found the unspoken rules of social engagement confusing, arbitrary and often stressful. Friendships were hard, relationships harder and the office was a fluorescent-lit nightmare of anxiety. It wasn’t until Clem was diagnosed as autistic, at age 36, that things clicked into focus. The obsession with sparkly things and ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Lust auf Musik!

    Series series Lust auf...

    Abridged

    9 hours 1 min

    Wie sie lebten … Kurz, anschaulich und genau spüren wir den Lebensgeschichten großer Komponisten nach. Richard Wagner lebte in seiner Bayreuther Villa umgeben von schwelgendem Prunk. Doch wozu brauchte er Handgranaten? Franz Liszt hielt in Weimar verschwenderisch Hof. Weshalb ging er ins Kloster? Johann Strauß wohnte großzügig in einem Wiener Prachtbau. Warum aber hatte er Angst vor Indianern? ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Warhead

    The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World

    by Jeff Henigson ...
    Narrated by Jeff Henigson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 23 min

    An often hilarious and always relevant memoir about one teen boy's battle with brain cancer and his Starlight Children's Foundation wish: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and plead for nuclear disarmament and world peace.It's 1986, and Jeff is an average fifteen-year-old: he thinks a lot about dating, he bounces around with his friends, and he's trying his hardest to get a car. Conversely, the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Straight Up

    Honest, Unfiltered, As-Real-As-I-Can-Put-It Advice for Life’s Biggest Challenges

    by Trent Shelton ...
    Narrated by Trent Shelton ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 5 min

    Navigating life can be tough sometimes, especially as a teen. Bestselling author and former NFL player Trent Shelton has been through some hard times as well, and he shares his own story of finding himself and a better path forward, providing straight-up truths and uplifting advice to help you through the issues you face at school, at home, or within yourself.Who do you have in your life who’s not ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

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    Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies

    Narrated by Kitty Flanagan ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 19 min

    Kitty Flanagan has been locked in an industrial freezer in Western Australia, insulted about the size of her lady parts in Singapore and borne witness to the world’s most successful wife swap in suburban Sydney. It’s these valuable lessons from The University of Life that have taught her so many things, including the fact that cliches like ‘The University of Life’ are reeeally annoying. In these ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    So Far, So Good

    On Connection, Loss, Laughter and the Torres Strait

    Unabridged

    9 hours 23 min

    ‘I am a descendant of the Samu and Koedal clans of Saibai Island. My people are warriors, but we are storytellers too.’ On his long path to success – from aspiring professional footballer to actor, director and producer – for every opportunity Aaron Fa’Aoso had, there were setbacks and heartache. He was six when his father and grandfather both died. His fiercely proud mother and even fiercer ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Great Australian Outback Yarns

    Volume 1

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    When he'd finished playing, a solemn silence fell as Brian and the gravediggers stared down into that three-quarter-filled hole. 'I must apologise,' Brian said to the two men, 'this's the first time I've played at a pauper's funeral, and I'm a bit emotional.' 'Well,' said one of the diggers, sniffling back the tears, 'it's the first time we've ever had a piper play at one of our septic tank ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, by NY Times bestselling author, James L. Swanson.NAACP Image Award NomineeChicago Public Library Best Book of the YearKirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year* "[James L. Swanson's] masterful work... reveals, in gripping style, how one individual can impact history. ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    You'll Like It Here: The Story of Donald Vitkus--Belchertown Patient #3394

    Narrated by Ed Orzechowski ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 32 min

    Abandoned by his unwed mother during World War II, Donald Vitkus becomes a ward of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is 27 days old. Six years later as "Patient #3394," he is committed to Belchertown State School, where he is labeled a "moron" with an I.Q. of 41. Like hundreds of other institutions across the country, Belchertown is a de-humanizing environment of barred windows, locked doors, ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Labour of Love

    A Story of Generosity, Hope and Surrogacy

    Narrated by Shannon Garner ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    Shannon Garner met and married the man of her dreams, had two gorgeous children and lived an idyllic life on the New South Wales coast. So why did she decide one day to pursue altruistic surrogacy? And what made her choose a gay male couple from Sydney? Labour of Love is Shannon’s honest and engaging story – a rollercoaster of emotion set against the backdrop of a highly regulated ‘industry’. This ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Socrates

    A Life Worth Living

    by Devra Lehmann ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...
    Series series PHILOSOPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Vom Bauernjungen zum Selfmade-Millionär

    Das turbulente Leben des Unternehmers Erwin Kaeß

    by Renate Blaes ...
    Narrated by Stephan von der Decken ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 14 min

    Sein erstes Geld verdient er mit dem Verkauf von Maulwurffellen auf dem Schweinemarkt. Da ist Erwin Kaeß zwölf Jahre alt und wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als kein Bauernjunge zu sein. Mit 17 geht dieser Wunsch in Erfüllung. Aus gesundheitlichen Gründen gibt seine Mutter den Hof auf, und Erwin macht eine Lehre zum Elektriker. Mit 25 ist er Meister, führt sein eigenes Elektrogeschäft, verdient ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus