The Happiest Refugee
Author: Anh Do
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-03-22
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1459616057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling, laugh-out-loud, reach for your hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians.
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The Little Refugee
Author: Anh Do
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781742378329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of one Vietnamese family's survival against the odds, and the healing power of hope.
The Happiest Refugee
Author: Anh Do
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1742691161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe laugh-out-loud, reach-for-your-hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians.
Hot Dog 1&2 bind up
Author: Anh Do
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2019-08-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1407199773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet Hot Dog, the sausage dog, and his friends! There's Kev, the goofy cat, who's always dressed up in some silly costume, and Lizzie, the gutsy lizard, who eats bug burgers for breakfast! Together they're going on a mad adventure to help a baby bird find its missing mum! Hot Dog and his friends will go to any lengths, and dizzying heights, to find her! But can they handle dirty nappies and karate-chopping roosters along the way?
Crappiest Refugee
Author: Hung Le
Publisher: Affirm Press
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1925712362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the last day of the Vietnam War, nine-year-old Hung jumped on a leaking prawn trawler on the Saigon River, somehow cheating death to become one of the first Vietnamese boat people to arrive Australia, a land where a young man's potential is limited only by his imagination - that is unless you're Hung Le. Defying the stereotype, Hung wasn't a math or computer whizz, he had no doctoring or lawyering abilities, spoke Vietnamese with an Australian accent, and couldn't even play the violin. But what he was blessed with was funny bones, and through winning Red Faces on Hey Hey It's Saturday he managed to make an international career playing the violin out of tune. The Crappiest Refugee is an hilarious and endearing memoir about a boat person who never found his land legs, but who has always seen the funny side.
The Boat
Author: Nam Le
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1459621042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an ageing New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing tow...
Oppositions
Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1782838570
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBride Nuanced, daring and tender, these essays from the celebrated author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior, consistently fascinate and provoke. Mary Gaitskill takes on a broad range of topics from Nabokov to horse-riding with her unique ability to tease out unexpected truths and cast aside received wisdom. Written with startling grace and linguistic flair, and delving into the complicated nature of love and the responsibility we owe to the people we encounter, the work collected here inspires the reader to think beyond their first responses to life and art. Spanning thirty years of Mary Gaitskill's writing, and covering subjects as diverse as Dancer in the Dark, the world of Charles Dickens and the Book of Revelation with her characteristic blend of sincerity and wit, Oppositions is never less than enthralling.
The Helpline
Author: Katherine Collette
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2019-07-23
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 198211133X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eccentric woman who is great with numbers—but not so great with people—realizes it’s up to her to pull a community together in this charming, big-hearted debut perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project. Germaine Johnson doesn’t need friends. She has her work and her Sudoku puzzles. Until, that is, an incident at her insurance company leaves her jobless—and it turns out that there are very few openings these days for senior mathematicians with zero people skills. Soon enough though, Germaine manages to secure a position at City Hall answering calls on the Senior Citizens Helpline. But it turns out that the mayor has something else in mind for Germaine: a secret project involving the troublemakers at the senior citizens center and their feud with the neighboring golf club—which happens to be run by the dashing yet disgraced national Sudoku champion, Don Thomas, a celebrity of the highest order to Germaine. Don and the mayor want the senior center closed down and at first, Germaine is dedicated to helping them out—it makes sense mathematically, after all. But when Germaine actually gets to know the group of elderly rebels at the senior center, they open her eyes to a life outside of boxes and numbers and for the first time ever, Germaine realizes she may have miscalculated. Filled with an eccentric, totally unique, and (occasionally) cranky cast of characters you can’t help but love, The Helpline is a feel-good page-turner that will make you reexamine what it means to lead a happy life—and is bound to capture your heart along the way.
The Happiest People on Earth
Author: Demos Shakarian
Publisher: Hodder Christian Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780340908792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe amazing life of the Armenian dairyman who founded the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, a unique ministry to men and women in the business world. It is a story to make you laugh, to make you cry and to build faith. Today, with several thousand chapters around the world, the Fellowship reaches more than a billion people a year with the life-changing message of Christ's love. This book brings the story of its founder and those around him into vivid colour and will inspire all those who read it.
Inside Out & Back Again
Author: Thanhha Lai
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0702251178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
