Think Better: Unlocking the Power of Reason
Lehner begins quoting Bruce Lee: “As you think, so shall you become,” and follows with a confirming phrase from Marcus Aurelius, that our life “is what our thoughts make it.” We need to find out what...
Young Adults
The Australian Book of Heroism
Stories of Courage and Sacrifice.
Continuing on as a series from The Australian Book of True Crime, this book tells the amazing stories of Australian heroes throughout history.
Each chapter...
Forgotten Fire
Forgotten Fire is a young adult novel by Adam Bagdasarian. The book is based on a true story and follows the young boy Vahan Kenderian through the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1923.
Freezing Order
When Bill Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step...
I miei genitori non hanno figli
Quando i genitori litigano e una famiglia si rompe a farne le spese sono sempre i figli. Questo romanzo descrive il mondo degli adulti visto dalla prospettiva di un diciottenne che non ha trovato nei suoi...
The sand-reckoner
The present novel is intended to be a biography of the great geometrician and exceptional inventor Archimedes. The novel begins with the return to Syracuse (his birthplace), from Alexandria, at the request...
Boy from Buchenwald
Romek Waisman, a Polish Jew, was only nine years old when Germany invaded Poland; his father tried to save him but he and other children ended up in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The camp was liberated...
Banned Book Club
The gripping true story of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime in the early 1980s, and how she defied state censorship through the rebellion of reading. In comic strip form,...
The Red Ribbon
Novel set in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, in 1944. The author imagines that four women are imprisoned there: Carla, Mina, Rose and the youngest, 14 years old, called Ella, who is the...
An Irish Country Doctor
Humorous novel of great beauty, which reflects the rural Northern Irish society through the lives of two rural doctors, an example of virtue and common sense. The plot is composed of small stories, more or...