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Animals Make Us Human by Leah Kaminsky; Meg Keneally
Category: Science
Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and revelation from encounters in the natural world- seeing a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, or the inexplicable leap of a t ...Show more
Doll's Eye by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Fiction
Vivid, haunting, unforgettable.LUCY TRELOARHas magnificent qualities of humane invention. It is my nomination for a book to read at the end of times.TOM KENEALLYSometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye.Germany, 1933. Anna Winter returns home to find a note from her father, warning her of ...Show more
The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Fiction
'I remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their special talents for mimicry. They steal the songs from others, you said. I want to ask you this: how were our own songs stolen from us, the notes dispersed, while our faces were turned away?'Berlin, 1936. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologi ...Show more
The Hollow Bones by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Fiction
Berlin, 1938. The eve of war. Ernst Schafer, a young, ambitious zoologist, keen hunter and devoted husband of the beautiful Herta, has come to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who invites him to lead a group of SS scientists to the frozen mountains of Tibet. Their secret mission - to search for the or ...Show more
The Hollow Bones audio cd by Leah Kaminsky; Tavia Gilbert (Read by)
Category: Audio
'I remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their special talents for mimicry. They steal the songs from others, you said. I want to ask you this: how were our own songs stolen from us, the notes dispersed, while our faces were turned away?'Berlin, 1936. Ernst Schäfer, a young, ambitious zoologi ...Show more
The Pen and the Stethoscope by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Non-Fiction
The Pen and the Stethoscope is a unique collection of fiction and non-fiction by doctor-writers that gives us a fascinating look behind the doctor's mask and gets inside the minds of those who deal with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis. It is through writing that man ...Show more
Waiting Room by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Fiction
Compelling, moving and memorable. Graeme Simsion. The Waiting Room captures the sights, sounds, accents and animosities of a country overflowing with stories. Dina is a family doctor living in the melting-pot city of Haifa, Israel. Born in Australia in a Jewish enclave of Melbourne to Holocaust survivor ...Show more
We're All Going to Die (PB) by Leah Kaminsky
Category: Self-Help
A joyful book about the necessity of celebrating life in the face of death. The one certainty about life is that everybody is going to die. Yet somehow as a society we have come to deny this central fact - we ignore it, hoping it will go away. Ours is an aging society, where we are all living longer, he ...Show more
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