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Buckleys chance by garry linnell 9780143795742 dymocks. He is a former editor, senior journalist and london bureau chief with australian consolidated. Olympic swimming champion john devitt has cowritten a book. It is a down in the trenches account of an ordinary man who struggles to serve an extraordinary god. The australian book of heroism is a collection of true stories of courage from the. Continuing on as a series from the australian book of true crime, this book tells the amazing stories of australian hero.
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