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  Tom Longboat

  Will Cardinal

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  One of the greatest marathon runners of all time, Tom Longboat was one of the best-known athletes of the western world in the early 20th century.
  		 
  Longboat was an astonishing long-distance runner who grew up on the Six Nations reserve near Brantford, Ontario.
  		 
  He won the Boston Marathon in record time, 2:24.24, almost five minutes faster than the 10 previous winners.
  		 
  Longboat then raced in the Olympic Marathon in 1908, but he collapsed on the course amid rumours that his manager had drugged him with strychnine.
  		 
  At a rematch the following year in New York City, Longboat won the race handily, beating his nearest competitor.
  		 
  In 1916, Longboat enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces and worked as a dispatch carrier for the 107th Pioneer Battalion in France.
  		 
  He was left for dead on the battlefield, but somehow survived and returned to Canada only to discover that his wife, Lauretta, thinking he was dead, had remarried.
  		 
  Longboat’s independent spirit and passion for running carried him through the many difficulties he faced as an Aboriginal person.
  		 
  His enduring legacy has been honoured with the Tom Longboat Awards, established in 1951 to celebrate outstanding First Nations athletes in Canada.
  		 
  He is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the Indian Hall of Fame.

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  Memories of an orphan boy

  Francis Ravel Harvey

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  Orphaned by losing his mother at three and his father - whowent missing at eight – Sydney author Francis Ravel Harveyavoided the Welfare State by being raised by four older sistersin the colourful environs of Sydney in the nineteen thirties.The search for his cultivated English father is a constant threadthroughout the book and reaches an amazing andheartbreaking conclusion when the author finally uncovers thetruth surrounding his father’s death.Harvey’s writing has been compared by one critic with that ofGabriel Garcia Marquez, for his ability to create a real sense ofsuspense and drama from his memories and for the descriptionof the colourful characters who inhabited his world.Journalist and author, Francis Ravel Harvey was born at Homebush, New SouthWales in 1930 and began his career as a cadet journalist on the Sun newspaper in1947. In 1950 he worked for almost ten years as producer of the independentmonthly music journal The Canon. He worked as a freelance journalist in the livetheatre in Sydney, wrote scripts for the ABCs Tales of Many Lands, and episodes ofHomicide for Crawford’s in Melbourne. In 1959 he founded his own bi-monthlymagazine Theatregoer which ran for five years and published the first theatreyearbook for the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust (1959-60). He was theatrecritic for the Canberra Times in the 70s. and then worked as an editor and writer forHorwitz Publications and Ure Smith, founding the first magazine in Australia onindustrial design, Design Australia, for the Industrial Design Council of Australia,which was endorsed by the Duke of Edinburgh.

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  Becoming a Man - Half a Life Story

  Paul Monette

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  The National Book Award–winning coming-out memoir. “One of the most complex, moral, personal, and political books to have been written about gay life” (LA Weekly). Paul Monette grew up all-American, Catholic, overachieving . . . and closeted. As a child of the 1950s, a time when a kid suspected of being a “homo” would routinely be beaten up, Monette kept his secret throughout his adolescence. He wrestled with his sexuality for the first thirty years of his life, priding himself on his ability to “pass” for straight. The story of his journey to adulthood and to self-acceptance with grace and honesty, this intimate portrait of a young man’s struggle with his own desires is witty, humorous, and deeply felt. Before his death of complications from AIDS in 1995, Monette was an outspoken activist crusading for gay rights. Becoming a Man shows his courageous path to stand up for his own right to love and be loved. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

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  The Unselfishness of God

  Hannah Whitall Smith

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  In this autobiography, centered around her own testimony, Hannah Whitall Smith also reveals her beliefs on the truly loving, entirely unselfish, and genuine caring nature of God. Walking through the doubt she struggled with and the journey that brought her to faith, these elements of the Father’s character become easily apparent. Discussing theology, real world struggles, and finding the nearness of God even in the midst of pain and discouragement, Smith uses her story to tell of the loving faithfulness of God.  This series, published by ONE Audiobooks, seeks to produce Classic Christian titles read by handpicked audiobook narrators. ONE takes great care to cast these titles with readers who will provide an unmatched listening experience for these important works.

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  The Girl I Never Knew - Who...

  LaDonna Humphrey

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  For over two decades the identity of Melissa Witt's murderer has been hidden among the dense trees and thorny undergrowth rooted deeply in the uneven ground of a remote mountaintop in the Ozark National Forest. 
   
   
   
  Determined to find answers, LaDonna Humphrey has spent the past seven years hunting for Melissa's killer. Her investigation, both thrilling and unpredictable, has led her on a journey like no other. 
   
   
   
  The Girl I Never Knew is an edge-of-your-seat account of LaDonna Humphrey's passionate fight for justice in the decades-old murder case of a girl she never met in person. Her unstoppable quest for the truth has gained the attention of some incredibly dangerous people, some of whom would like to keep Melissa's murder a mystery forever.

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  We Come with This Place

  Debra Dank

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  We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in time and place to tell an unforgettable story of country and people. There is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great love, in marriage and in family, and for the land. Dank faces head on the ingrained racism, born of brutal practice and harsh legislation, that lies always under the skin of Australia, the racism that calls a little Aboriginal girl names and beats and rapes and disenfranchises the generations before hers. She describes sudden terrible violence, between races and sometimes at home. But overwhelmingly this is a book about strong, beloved parents and grandparents, guiding and teaching their children and grandchildren what country means, about joyful gatherings and the pleasures of eating food provided by the place that nourishes them, both spiritually and physically.Dank calibrates human emotions with honesty and insight, and there is plenty of dry, down-to-earth humour. You can feel and smell and see the puffs of dust under moving feet, the ever-present burning heat, the bright exuberance of a night-time campfire, the emerald flash of a flock of budgerigars, the journeying wind, the harshness of a station shanty, the welcome scent of fresh water. We Come with This Place is deeply personal, a profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs, but it is much more than that. Here is Australia as it has been for countless generations, land and people in effortless balance, and Australia as it became, but also Australia as it could and should be.

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