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Sub-Categories of True stories
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Dead Men's Silver: The Story of Australia's Greatest Shipwreck Hunter
Hugh Edwards
Biography; Biography: general; True stories: discovery, historical & scientific; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Maritime history; Geographical discovery & exploration; Ships & shipping: general interest
Paperback
This is a romantic story of shipwreck hunting, with pieces-of-eight, Dutch ducatons, German talers, Burgundian crowns, and... [more]
Pack of Bloody Animals: The Walsh Street Murders Revisited
John Kerr, Ray Mooney
Biography; True crime; Cultural studies; Social services & welfare, criminology
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The killings referred to as ‘Walsh Street’ arose when police and armed robbers went to war. Both sides, convinced the other... [more]
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Death in the City of Light: The True Story of the Serial Killer Who Terrorised...
David King
Biography; True crime; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; The Holocaust
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The sensational true story of the serial killer who stalked the streets of Nazi-occupied Paris. [more]
Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley and the Moorebank Killings
Peter Corris
Biography; True crime
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William Cyril Moxley was hanged at Sydney's Long Bay Gaol in 1932 - the first execution in New South Wales for eight years.... [more]
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Bigwig: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of Tony Mokbel
Liam Houlihan
Biography; True crime; Drugs trade & trafficking
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Top crime writer Liam Houlihan documents the extraordinary rise and fall of the man they call Fat Tony, from his ascension... [more]
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Satan's Choice: My Life as a Hard Core Biker with Satan's Choice and Hell's...
Lorne Campbell, Peter Edwards
Biography; Memoirs; True crime
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A gripping, no-holds-barred story of life as an enforcer for two of the world's most dangerous biker societies. [more]
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Eugenia: A True Story of Adversity, Tragedy, Crime and Courage
Mark Tedeschi
Biography; Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; True crime
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The true crime account of Eugenia Falleni, a woman who in 1920 was charged with the murder of her wife.This is the true crime... [more]
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Free the Bears: How an Ordinary Perth Grandmother Became an Extraordinary...
Mary Hutton
Biography; Biography: general; True stories; Animals & society
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In 1993, Perth grandmother Mary Hutton started a petition at her local shopping mall after seeing a news story about the extraction... [more]
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Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker...
Charles M. Falco
Biography; True crime
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The gripping account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the ATF infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangs.... [more]
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Australian Heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos & the Western Front...
Susanna de Vries
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; Military history
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This is the story of eight women who had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renown. Nursing sister Hilda Samsing... [more]
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Holy Hell
Patricia Feenan
Biography; True crime; Child abuse
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When Senior NSW Police Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox told the ABC's Lateline programme on November 8, 2012, that the... [more]
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Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War
Frances Harrison
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Military history: post WW2 conflicts
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While the world looked the other way, Sri Lanka's Tamils, civilians and rebels alike, were systematically and pitilessly attacked... [more]
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The Best Crime Stories Ever Told
Dorothy L Sayers
True crime; Anthologies (non-poetry); Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery
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Offers a collection of over thirty stories from the 1920s and 1930s, originally chosen by Sayers, a leading expert and connoisseur... [more]
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Hell's Bells and Mademoiselles: A True Story of Life, Love and Larrikinism...
Joe Maxwell
Biography; Autobiography: historical, political & military; Memoirs; True war & combat stories
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Originally released in the 1930s, this is the rollicking eyewitness account of the role of 18th Battalion AIF in the First... [more]
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The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schindler...
Robin de Crespigny
Biography; Biography: general; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; Refugees & political asylum
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After his father, brother and he were incarcerated and tortured in Saddam's Abu Ghraib, Ali al Jenabi escaped from Iraq first... [more]
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Bravest: Australia's Greatest War Heroes and How They Won Their Medals
Robert Macklin
Biography; True war & combat stories; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours; Military history; Warfare & defence
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The Victoria Cross is the highest award for valour that can be won by an Australian; just 96 Australians have been awarded... [more]
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She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me
Emma Brockes
Biography; Biography: general; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival
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When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.'... [more]
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Please Don't Take My Baby
Cathy Glass
Memoirs; True stories; Health & Self-Help
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'I'm going to love my baby and give her lots of attention,' Jade said. 'I'll show my mum she's wrong.' Jade, 17,... [more]
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White Shotgun: The Sicilian Mafia in Their Own Words
Attilio Bolzoni
Biography; True crime; Organised crime
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An extraordinary look inside the mind of the men of cosa nostra [more]
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Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders
Peter T Maiken, Terry Sullivan
Biography; Autobiography: general; True crime
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Originally published: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1983. [more]
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom...
Blaine Harden
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History
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Introducing the incredible story of Shin Dong-hyuk - the only person born in a North Korean gulag ever to escape ... [more]
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Kiss of the She-Devil
M. William Phelps
Biography; True crime
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When librarian Martha Gail Fulton was gunned down in a Michigan parking lot on a quiet evening, there were two obvious suspects... [more]
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Bush Nurses: Inspiring True Stories of Nursing Bravery and Ingenuity in...
Annabelle Brayley
True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; History; Nursing
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It takes something special to be a bush nurse working in rural and remote Australia. They patch people up and keep them alive... [more]
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Australia's Most Evil Women
Paul B. Kidd
Biography; True crime; Crime & criminology
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It's a little-known fact that Australia has some of the most evil murderesses in history. This is arguably the most chilling... [more]
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