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  • Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement 1971 to 1977

    by Robert (Bob) Hunter

    This is the story of early Greenpeacers sailing around the Pacific, bickering over internal politics, risking their lives and staving off bankruptcy while somehow managing to start a global movement.

    One part action adventure and one part memoir, this gripping and moving account of the birth of Greenpeace was written by one of the movement’s Read more »

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  • Women of Note: The Rise of Australian Women Composers

    by Rosalind Appleby

    ‘This much-welcomed book profiles those women, largely unacknowledged, who stand as the major landmarks in the Australian musical landscape.’
    John Davis, CEO Australian Music Centre, President International Society for Contemporary Music

    In the early twentieth century being a female composer was a dangerous game; one composer was diagnosed…Read more »

    Price $35.00 Add to cart

  • Warriors of the Rainbow eBook

    by Robert (Bob) Hunter

    This is the story of early Greenpeacers sailing around the Pacific, bickering over internal politics, risking their lives and staving off bankruptcy while somehow managing to start a global movement.

    One part action adventure and one part memoir, this gripping and moving account of the birth of Greenpeace was written by one of the movement’s first…Read more »

  • Brothers: Justice, Corruption and the Mickelbergs

    by Antonio Buti

    When somebody swindled the Perth Mint out of gold worth more than half a million dollars — local police thought they had the culprits. The Mickelberg brothers, Ray, Peter and Brian, were their prime suspects. Already accused of defrauding millionaire Alan Bond by manufacturing a phony gold nugget, the Mickelbergs were tried and convicted despite the…Read more »

    Price $32.95 Add to cart

  • Big Mobs: The Story of Australian Cattlemen eBook

    ‘In almost all respects I found Australian ranching customs and traditions far more intriguing, more dangerous, more “western” than those of North America’ — Professor Jim Hoy, Emporia State University, Kansas.

    Previously overshadowed in the public imagination by notions of American cowboys and the wild west, Big Mobs gives Australian stockmen…Read more »

  • Pirate Outrages: True Stories of Terror on the China Seas eBook

    by Douglas R G Sellick

    You won’t be immune to a frisson of fear as you peruse these gripping stories of piracy on the China seas. After all, piracy is as prevalent today as it was in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuriesRead more »

  • Hetty: A True Story

    by Hetty Verolme

    This is one of the remarkable, largely untold, stories of the Holocaust, a story of hope. It is a heartwarming tale that traces the extraordinary struggle and survival of a family through those terrible years.

    Hetty was just twelve years old in 1943 when her family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands.

    Rounded up by…Read more »

    Price $19.95 Add to cart

  • Hetty: A True Story eBook

    by Hetty Verolme

    This is one of the remarkable, largely untold, stories of the Holocaust, a story of hope. It is a heartwarming tale that traces the extraordinary struggle and survival of a family through those terrible years.

    Hetty was just twelve years old in 1943 when her family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands.

    Rounded up by…Read more »

  • Orphans of the Living

    by Joanna Penglase

    In August 2004, Parliamentary senators wept as they presented Forgotten Australians, the report from the Senate Inquiry into the treatment of children in care. Half a million children grew up in ‘care’ in twentieth-century Australia, and most often these children lived with daily brutal physical and emotional abuse in the sterile environment of an institution…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

  • Aussie Legends

    by Tom Baddeley with illustrations by Tracey Gibbs

    The story of Australia is full of amazing facts,
    Of men and women, young and old, and their amazing acts…

    Discover the stories of six famous — and infamous — Aussies in rollicking rhyme. From divas to rabblerousers, explorers to sports stars, on two legs and four, this is history minus the boring bits! Read more »

    Price $19.95 Add to cart

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Outdoor Reading in Freo

The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.

Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading

When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au