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  • Dark Dreams

    Australian refugee stories

    Edited by Sonja Dechian, Heather Miller, Eva Salis ...
    "Dark Dreams: Australian refugee stories" is a unique anthology of essays, interviews, and stories written by children and young adults. The stories are the finest of hundreds collected through a nationwide schools competition in 2002. The essays and stories represent many different countries and themes. Some focus on survival, some on horrors, some on the experiences and alienation of a new world ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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  • Walking Free

    The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, spent months in a detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon.

    by Munjed Al Muderis, Patrick Weaver ...
    One man's phenomenal tale of escaping a death sentence in Iraq, surviving the Australian Refugee system and becoming a pioneering surgeon at the forefront of Orthopaedic medicine.In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Songs of a War Boy

    The bestselling biography of Deng Adut - a child soldier, refugee and man of hope

    by Deng Thiak Adut, Ben Mckelvey ...
    The true story of Deng Adut - Sudanese child soldier, refugee, man of hopeDeng Adut's family were farmers in South Sudan when a brutal civil war altered his life forever. At six years old, his mother was told she had to give him up to fight. At the age most Australian children are starting school , Deng was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He began a harsh, relentless military ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • After the Tampa

    by Abbas Nazari ...
    The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere.When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere.The family's desperate search for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman

    by Anne Aly ...
    From Cairo to Canberra -- the irresistible story of an irrepressible woman'Anne Aly's ... influence will be felt for years to come ... It sinks in how significant she may be to public life.' -- The Good WeekendIn 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counter-terrorism expert to be elected to federal parliament. She was also most probably ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Man Who Went to War

    A Reporter's Memoir from Libya and the Arab Uprising

    by Patrick Graham ...
    Almost a decade since deciding to give up war reporting full-time, and at the unexpected prodding of his wife, award-winning journalist Patrick Graham travels to the heart of the Libyan Revolution and the Arab Spring. He delivers a story by turns harrowing and comic, rich in both dramatic, on-the-ground reportage and historical detail, of a nation on the brink of transformation.“If you’re a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A State of Fear - My 10 Years Inside Iran's Torture Jails

    by Dr Reza Ghaffari ...
    This is the book the Iranian authorities have been dreading you might one day read and have taken drastic measures to ensure that you don't. It is a story of such horrific brutality that anyone who was sceptical about claims that Iran is part of the 'axis of evil' will have that scepticism dispelled by the time they finish reading it. A real insight into the sickening torture jails of Iran and the ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Carpet Wars

    by Christopher Kremmer ...
    THE CARPET WARS is foreign correspondent Christopher Kremmer's riveting and timely account of a decade spent living, travelling and reporting from Asia and the Middle East.During his time reporting from Asia and the Middle East he formed an obsession with carpets and the 'perfect rug' - an obsession that saw him trace the threads of the carpet-making trade through the Islamic nations of Pakistan, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Minefields

    A life in the news game - the bestselling memoir of Australia's legendary foreign correspondent

    by Hugh Riminton ...
    Minefields is a compelling exploration of a foreign correspondent's life - proof of Hugh's belief that 'if you go looking for trouble, you'll probably find it'.Over nearly forty years as a journalist and foreign correspondent, Hugh Riminton has been shot at, blown up, threatened with deportation and thrown in jail. He has reported from nearly fifty countries, witnessed massacres in Africa, wars ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fear

    Our Ultimate Challenge

    by Ranulph Fiennes ...
    Explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes explores the concept of fear, and shows us through his own experiences how we can push our boundaries in everyday life.Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in Oman. And yet he confesses that his fear of heights is so great that he'd ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • And Then God Created the Middle East and Said 'Let There Be Breaking News'

    by Karl reMarks ...
    `You may wonder why the Middle East gets so much airtime. Well, regions of the world were competing to host the apocalypse and the Middle East won.' Online sensation Karl reMarks disagreed with the idea that reality had become too strange to satirise. Then he read that bin Laden was radicalised by Shakespeare. Since then, Karl has been bringing the best of the Middle East news and views to his ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Through Her Eyes

    Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine

    by Trevor Watson, Melissa Roberts ...
    In Through Her Eyes Australian women correspondents tell their own stories from the frontline – covering the breaking news, the issues and the events that are changing the world. They tell of Russian tanks and Ukrainian mothers fleeing with their children, vicious Afghan warlords, anti-government rebels in Central Africa, terrorist attacks in the United States, and the chaos faced by ordinary ... Read more

    $8.69 USD