Schindler's Ark

by Thomas Keneally

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In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mer
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Australians: Origins To Eureka

by Thomas Keneally

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The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it is from their lives and their stories that Tom Keneally has woven a vibrant history
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life

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Now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth, this concise biography offers an incisive study of a turning point in America's history and a revealing portrait of a pivotal figure.
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Playmaker

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Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement.
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To Asmara: A Novel Of Africa

by Thomas Keneally

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This book is an attempt at fiction. There are none the less references to Eritrean events of 1987 and early 1988, though these have sometimes been compressed or relocated for fiction's sake. Thomas Keneally who, to research this tale, visited Eritrea under the protection of the Eritrean rebels -- memorably charts the experience of a group of travellers through the eyes of one of their own. Copyri
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Commonwealth Of Thieves: The Sydney Experiment

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"The tale begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences yet crime was rife. The gaols were bursting, and overflow prisoners were held in notorious hulks. Out of this situation was born the Sydney Experiment: criminals perceived to 'damage' British society would be transported. Australia was surrounded by sea and a very long way away. Thus Sydney was founded as '
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Commonwealth Of Thieves: The Story Of The Founding Of Australia

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In late-18th-century Britain, people were hanged for petty offences, yet crime was rife. The gaols were bursting and over-flow prisoners were kept in notorious 'hulks': rotting old ships moored offshore. Out of this situation was born the 'solution' - 'The Sydney Experiment': criminals perceived to 'damage' British society would be transported to Australia. Thus Sydney was founded as 'an open-air
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Flying Hero Class

by Thomas Keneally

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Office Of Innocence: A Novel

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Sydney, 1942, and in a nation threatened by a Japanese invasion, with husbands absent and sleek GIs present, a spirit of recklessness takes hold. Frank Darragh, an innocent young curate, finds the line between saving others' souls and losing his own begins to blur as he beomes entangled with a menage a trois and dangerously attracted to a married woman whose husband is a POW, who confesses that sh
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Commonwealth Of Thieves: The Improbable Birth Of Australia

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With the authority of a renowned historian and the narrative grace of a brilliant novelist, Thomas Keneally offers an insider's perspective into the dramatic saga of the birth of a vibrant society in an unfamiliar land. "A Commonwealth of Thieves" immerses us in the fledgling penal colony and conjures up colorful scenes of the joy and heartbreak, the thrills and hardships that characterized those
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Searching For Schindler

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This work is the engrossing chronicle of Keneally's pursuit of Oskar Schindler--one of history's most fascinating and paradoxical heroes. The author reveals how writing the book affected him as a writer and explores current attitudes about the Holocaust.
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Flying Hero Class

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From the award-winning author of "To Asmara" comes a riveting and richly-textured tale of magic, terrorism, the loss of dreams, and the extraordinary powers of the human spirit. After terrorists hijack his plane, a dance troupe manager is transformed into a hero.
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People's Train

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Artem Samsurov, a protégé of Lenin, makes an extraordinary escape from Tsarist Russia to reach sanctuary in Australia, but soon discovers that repression and injustice exist there too. Though distracted by an infatuation with a beautiful female lawyer, he throws himself back into the socialist cause, only to be imprisoned, then accused of murdering an informer. But he never loses his belief that
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Widow And Her Hero

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In 1943, when Grace and Leo Waterhouse married in Australia, they were part of a young generation ready to sacrifice themselves to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty years on, as Grace recounts what happened to her doomed hero, she can say what she suspected then: that men are fundamentally childish and for many of them, bravery is its own end. The tale she tells is one o
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Ned Kelly And The City Of Bees

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1995 As Ned Kelly lies in the hospital with appendicitis, the last thing he expects is to have a bee offer him a gold liquid that shrinks him to apian dimensions. Together with Nancy Clancy (who speaks only in irritating rhymes) Ned rides off on the bee's back to live in the hive, where he is enchanted by his new friends; Romeo the lovesick drone, Basil the activist, and haughty Queen Selma. A wit
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Schindlers List (Penguin Reader)

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People's Train

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THE PEOPLE'S TRAIN is firmly based in the truth. From the Russian uprising of 1905 to the early 1910s, a number of Russian victims of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, came to Queensland. They were socialists and revolutionaries.. In 1911 Artem (F.A.) Sergeiev, about 34 years of age, an educated peasant and a veteran agent of Lenin's, a man of considerable charisma, arrived with his friend S
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Season In Purgatory

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During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets-and loves-the fiery Moja Javich, a resourceful partisan. Their love gives Pelham the strength to endure the atrocities of war as he seeks to avoid capture. Keneally has vigorously fleshed out "a bloody good novel" (Washington Post).
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Commonwealth Of Thieves: The Improbable Birth Of Australia

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With the authority of a renowned historian and the narrative grace of a brilliant novelist, Thomas Keneally offers an insider's perspective into the dramatic saga of the birth of a vibrant society in an unfamiliar land. A Commonwealth of Thieves immerses us in the fledgling penal colony and conjures up colorful scenes of the joy and heartbreak, the thrills and hardships that characterized those fi
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Playmaker

by Thomas Keneally

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In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and  one of their captors unite to stage a play.  As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced.  For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of this primitive land, and, not least, in the convict and actress, Mary Brenham.
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