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  Not Ours To See - A Memoir

  Anne Sauter Lieb, Beth Huffman

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  What if… 
  •What would you do if your quick-tempered father controlled you unfairly? 
  •What would you do if you realized that the man you married didn’t love you? 
  •What would you do to change your life? 
  NOT OURS TO SEE is the inspirational story of a woman who faced adversities as a child, teenager and adult. Anne Sauter Lieb struggled to learn in school, struggled to feel understood in her family and struggled to find peace in a marriage where her feelings didn’t matter. In spite of everything, this devoted mother refused to give up and vowed to provide her daughters with better lives.

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  Courage to Lead The - Resilience...

  Allan Sicard

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  In a world full of leaders who put their egos first, and crave power and the spotlight, here is a story about a leader who did exactly the opposite the autocratic arena of policing.  This is a story about Allan Sicard, a leader who empowered others to lead.  Allan Sicard was a New South Wales Police Officer for 40 years and Police Commander for the last 15 years of that career.  During this time, he was renowned for creating a workplace where people did their best working together in some of the most challenging crises Australia has ever seen including the Mosman Collar Bomb in 2011 and the first two hours of the Lindt Cafe Seige in 2014.  This is a different book about leadership.  Leadership where mistakes are made.  Leadership where mistakes are learnt from.  Over a period, Allan Sicard developed a leadership style that created a workplace and a community where people do their best because they know they are trusted, included, supported, and cared for.  
  "All I can say is wow.  What a read.  Every chapter really is a story to identify a leadership learning."  Rebecca Pinkstone, CEO Homes NSW 
  "His legacy and this book is sure to inspire generations to come."  Alex Greenwich, MP, Member for Sydney 
  "I especially enjoyed your humility and candour.  We learn from our mistakes. More than anything I enjoyed the compassion that comes through your stories. Compassion and leadership can go together despite traditional authoritarian styles. Great message." Andrew Colvin, APM, Former Australian Federal Police Commissioner

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Sherwood Anderson

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  The Top 10 – Sherwood Anderson – An Introduction 
   
  The lives of the everyday person are beautifully observed in Anderson’s beguiling prose.  These miniature gems draw us in to streets, towns and situations that, in his words, reveal perhaps a truer and more realistic document of America than reality ever can.  
   
  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  1 - The Top Ten - Sherwood Anderson - An Introduction 
  2 - Hands by Sherwood Anderson 
  3 - An Awakening by Sherwood Anderson 
  4 - Adventure by Sherwood Anderson 
  5 - The Strength of God by Sherwood Anderson 
  6 - Death by Sherwood Anderson 
  7 - Seeds by Sherwood Anderson 
  8 - The Other Woman by Sherwood Anderson 
  9 - Brothers by Sherwood Anderson 
  10 - War by Sherwood Anderson 
  11 - Discovery of a Father by Sherwood Anderson

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  Goodbye Russia - Rachmaninoff in...

  Fiona Maddocks

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  In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland—his iconic "Symphonic Dances." What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece? 
   
   
   
  Rachmaninoff left Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1917 during the throes of the Russian Revolution. He was forty-four years old, at the peak of his powers as composer-conductor-performer, moving in elite Tsarist circles, as well as running the family estate, his refuge and solace. Reeling from the trauma of a life in upheaval, he wrote almost no music and quickly had to reinvent himself as a fêted virtuoso pianist, building up untold wealth and meeting the stars. 
   
   
   
  Using a wide range of sources, including important newly translated texts, Fiona Maddocks's book conjures impressions of this enigmatic figure, his friends, and the world he encountered. It explores his life as an emigré artist and how he clung to an Old Russia which no longer existed. That forging of past and present meets in his Symphonic Dances (1940), his last composition, written on Long Island shortly before his death in Beverly Hills, surrounded by a close-knit circle of exiles. Goodbye Russia is a moving and prismatic look at Rachmaninoff and his iconic final work.

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  Voices from the Hills -...

  Steve Chilton

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  'A must read for anyone with a passion for women's equality and sport.' -Sue Anstiss
  Voices from the Hills is the story of the barriers encountered by the first female fell runners who fought to participate in the early days of this male-dominated sport. Despite experiencing discouragement and resistance, these women responded with personal courage and self-confidence. Thanks to them, women now compete at traditional fell races, international mountain races and endurance challenges such as the Bob Graham Round in increasing numbers.
  Told predominantly through interviews with pioneering female athletes who recount their lives and running careers, this is the story of a fight for equality of opportunity and reward.

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  Open Door An - A True Story of...

  Maud Kells, Jean Gibson

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  'I was aware of a slight unease. In all my years at the hospital, I had never had a hoax call. Suddenly out of the darkness ran two masked figures in camouflage clothing pointing something shaped like a gun, covered in leaves. "You won't scare me. You won't get the better of me." flashed through my mind as I reached out to grab the weapon . . .' 
   
   
   
  When twenty-five-year-old Maud Kells gave up her home in Ireland to replace martyred missionaries in Congo, she was acutely aware of the risk she was taking. Despite the state of the war-torn country, her own reserved nature and the objections of her family, she chose to follow the God who promised, 'I am with you. That is all you need.' This is the remarkable story of an ordinary woman who decided to walk through the door God opened for her, whatever the cost.

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