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Biography & True Stories Imagine John Yoko Yoko Ono RRP $65 .00 Feature TITLES --------------------------------------------- Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the creative team, the artworks and the films, in the words of John & Yoko and the people who were there. Any Ordinary Day Leigh Sales RRP $34 .99 --------------------------------------------- In this layered book, Leigh talks with people who’ve faced the unimaginable. Warm, candid and empathetic, Any Ordinary Day is about what happens when ordinary people are forced to suddenly find the resilience most of us don’t know we have. On Air Back Roads To Obama Mike Carlton RRP $49 .99 Our Price $44 .99 Heather Ewart, Karen Michelmore RRP $32 .99 Jeanne Marie Laskas RRP $32 .99 --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- On Air is Mike Carlton’s story. With humour, he tells of the feuds and the friendships, writing candidly of the extraordinary parade of characters and events he has encountered in the unique life he has led. Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside the big Australian cities. Defined by their strength and humility, these are characters whose grit and good humour will uplift and inspire. Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every night, he read ten of them. This is the story of how they shaped his presidency. Together they reveal the diary of a nation. Hippie Brutally Honest Let Her Fly Paulo Coelho RRP $29 .99 Melanie Brown, Louise Gannon RRP $29 .99 Ziauddin Yousafzai, Louise Carpenter RRP $27 .99 --------------------------------------------- In Hippie Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. DUE 16TH NOVEMBER --------------------------------------------- With deep personal insight, remarkable frankness and trademark Yorkshire humour, Melanie Brown’s book removes the mask of fame and reveals the true story behind the Spice Girls, as well as the horror of her most recent marriage and her ten year struggle to be free. DUE 27TH NOVEMBER Beautiful Boy Never Grow Up David Sheff RRP $19 .99 Jackie Chan RRP $35 .00 --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help. This remarkable story is soon to be a major motion picture starring Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet. In Never Grow Up, Jackie Chan reflects on his early life, his big breaks, his numerous brushes with death, and his life as a husband and father. This is a candid memoir from one of the most influential cinematic personalities in the world. DUE 1ST DECEMBER Give a Gift Card this Christmas available in-store and online --------------------------------------------- In Let Her Fly, Malala’s father gives a passionate account of his amazing journey, the values that inspired Malala and how love drove him to fight for the rights of girls and women everywhere. DUE 19TH NOVEMBER Great Bush Stories Graham Seal RRP $29 .99 --------------------------------------------- Graham Seal has gathered classic stories from when most Australians lived outside the cities. True or a little exaggerated, these stories reflect the distinctive way of life of rural and outback folk which continues to this day. .com.au 5