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James Saunders

The story of Captain Reginald Saunders MBE, Australia's first openly Indigenous military officer, a true leader who served with daring and distinction in World War II and Korea, as told by his nephew James Saunders.**'As a life-long soldier, I can assert the vibrancy and value of legends - battles, places and always, people. Reg Saunders was such a legend - courageous, inspirational and much admired by all who served alongside or under him. By the way, he was an ex...

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David MacPhail

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James Saunders

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Top-Secret Grandad and Me

You'd think a ghost grandad would be a great sidekick for a wannabe detective. Unfortunately, if there was a 'being a good ghost' exam, Jay’s grandad would fail spectacularly – he hates walking through walls, he can't touch anything and he's rubbish at haunting. Since his dad literally did a vanishing act (he's a magician), Jay Patel has turned detective, and now, with the help of his granddad, he’s on the case of a dead body that vanished from the library of his Glasgow primary school. Bu...

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John Stensholt, Perry Williams

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James Saunders

The extraordinary story of Atlassian - how two university friends with a billion-dollar idea created a global tech company.In a cramped share house in inner-city Sydney, university classmates Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar started working together to create a $160 billion company from scratch and revolutionise the way the world works.They couldn't have been more different - Cannon-Brookes the son of a wealthy banker and educated in one of Sydney's top private school...

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David MacPhail

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James Saunders

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Top-Secret Grandad and Me

You'd think a ghost grandad would be a great sidekick for a wannabe detective. Unfortunately, if there was a 'being a good ghost' exam, Jay’s grandad would fail spectacularly – he hates walking through walls, he can't touch anything and he's rubbish at haunting. Jay is investigating a murder in a fancy country hotel where the cause of death appears to be – soup! While Jay is surrounded by suspects, Grandad has his own informants – the ghosts haunting the hotel. But will they catch the kill...

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Jeremy Williams

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James Saunders

When we talk about racism, we often mean personal prejudice or institutional biases. Climate change isn't racist in that way. It is structurally racist, disproportionately caused by majority White people in majority White countries, with the damage unleashed overwhelmingly on people of colour. In this eye-opening audiobook, author and environmental activist Jeremy Williams takes us on a short, urgent journey across the globe – from Kenya to India, the USA to Australia – to understand how W...

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Tonia Eckfeld

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Tonia Eckfeld, James Saunders

A moving portrait of two Dunera Boys, from Kristallnacht in Vienna to VE Day in Melbourne, that complicates the traditional story of the Dunera.Popular culture has mythologised the Dunera Boys – but who were the real men who sailed on the infamous ship, and how did the voyage transform their lives?Art historian Tonia Eckfeld draws on a deeply personal history to tell the story of her father and her uncle, Jewish refugees whose lives were shaped indelibly by their wartime ex...

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Roland Perry

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James Saunders

6 August 1945. The United States launches the world's first nuclear attack on Japan. J. Robert Oppenheimer will be remembered as the father of the bomb, but it was Australian physicist Sir Mark Oliphant and his lab who discovered how it could be built. Faced with Hitler's determination to acquire atomic weapons, Oliphant shared his secret research with Oppenheimer – a decision both would come to regret. Oliphant's brilliance was not limited to atomic science, he was also central to the dev...

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James Saunders

Feast your eyes on the world's most luxurious cruise ships, carnival cruise ships, the world cruise ship, cruise ship jobs, best cruise ships and much more.

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Mark Sennen

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James Saunders

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Holm & Da Silva

One man's truth. A nation's downfall. Speedbird 117, a Boeing 787 flight to New York, takes off like any other flight from Heathrow. Except this plane will never reach its destination. The cause? Taher, an utterly ruthless terrorist with a score to settle. With the country’s Secret Service on red alert, senior analyst Stephen Holm is given an ultimatum – find Taher, confiscate his devastating surface-to-air missiles and bring him to justice, or witness his nation’s descent into disaster. M...

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James Sanders

One of the most important factors that determine success in trading is the mindset a trader has. Starting out trading we don't have the most beneficial thoughts and beliefs in our mind to allow us to think like a successful trader.The process of developing our minds to think like a profitable trader can take a long time before the benefits become apparent. Reading through this book will make you more aware of some of the problems traders face as well as give you id...

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James Saunders

Outwardly this story is a gripping futuristic sci-fi techno-thriller: A story about a survivalist group in a post-plague future, an escape thriller about the struggle of a few people to free themselves from the totalitarian grip of an obsessive leader in an inhospitable Arctic environment.In 2039 AD an unforeseen water-borne plague envelops the earth in its deadly grip. Threatened with outright extinction, the surviving remnant of mankind is forced onto the northernmost reaches of ...

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James Phelps

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James Saunders

The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich.On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret naval codebook. The fledgling Australian Navy had an opportunity to immediately change the course of the war. But what exactly had they found? Enter the Australian c...