Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Books that have changed my life!















"Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use" Leonardo Da Vinci

"When all else fails, read." AOB



The Bone Setter's Daughter,
by Amy Tan, published by Flamingo

Pilgrim State - A story of mothers and daughters and the bondes which can never be broken, by Jacqueline Walker, published by Sceptre

Shooting the Moon - the true story of an American Manhunt unlike any other, ever., by David Harris, published by Little Brown

Winter's Bone, by Daniel Woodrell, published by Sceptre.

The Colour of Water, by James McBride, published bySceptre.

Things that must not be forgotten - a childhood in wartime China, by Michael David Kwan, published by Flamingo.

The Forgotten Children - Fairbridge Farm School and Its Betrayal of Australia's Child Migrants, by David Hill, published by Random House Australia.

Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally, published by Sceptre.

Year of Wonders - A novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks, published by Fourth Estate.

The Road of Lost Innocence - a true story of a Cambondian heroine who fled sexual slavery and now devotes her life to rescuing others, by Somaly Mam, published by Virago.

Debt free, Ca$hed Up and Laughing - The Cheapskates way to living the good life, by Cath Armstrong & Lea-Anne Brighton, published by ABC Books.

Buddha - A story of enlightenment, by Deepak Chopra, publoished by Harper San Francisco

Bleeding Kansas, by Sara Paretsky, published by Hodder & Stoughton

Aman - The Story of a Somali Girl, by Aman, published by Bloomsbury

After Port Arthur, by Carol Altmann,published by Allen & Unwin

The Art of War, by Sun Tsu, translated by Thomas Cleary, published by Shambhala

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