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Legend of a Suicide
Author: David Vann
ISBN: 9780141043784
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Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, commits suicide on the deck of his boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood. Finally, Roy lays his father's ghost to rest. But not before he exacts a gruelling, exhilarating revenge.
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The Boy in the Moon
Author: Ian Brown
ISBN: 9781921640339
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Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. 'Sometimes watching him,' Brown writes, 'is like looking at the man in the moon but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he ...
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A Magnificent Obsession
Author: Brian H. Fletcher
ISBN: 9781741752915
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The Mitchell Library, Sydney, was established as a result of the magnificent obsession of one man David Scott Mitchell who assembled the premier collection of books, manuscripts, maps and pictures relating to Australia and the Pacific. Mitchell bequeathed his collection to the State Library of New South Wales on his death in July 1907 with an endowment of 70,000 to fund additions. The library that emerged as a result was shaped in part by the richness of its continually expanding collections, th ...
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Ida Leeson
Author: Martin Sylvia
ISBN: 9781741148503
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Ida Leeson was no ordinary librarian. The first woman to be appointed Mitchell Librarian, in 1932, after a very public controversy over whether it was appropriate to appoint a woman to such a senior position, Ida Leeson was a girl from a working class background who successfully penetrated the bourgeoisie to become a woman of achievement in what was still predominantly a man's world.A diminutive, forceful and vibrant woman, Ida resists any easy classification. In what we now acknowledge to be a ...
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