11 must-read nonfiction books like A Country Nurse: From Wave Hill to rural Queensland and almost everywhere in between by Thea Hayes

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A Country Nurse: From Wave Hill to rural Queensland and almost everywhere in between

By: Thea Hayes

3.92

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Thea Hayes spent twenty years living and working on Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory. Sh…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Country Nurse: From Wave Hill to rural Queensland and almost everywhere in between by Thea Hayes , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Choice: Embrace the Possible

By: Edith Eger , Edith Eva Eger

4.58

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1944 and sixteen-year-old ballerina and gymnast Edith Eger is sent to Auschwitz. Separated fro… read more

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"Time doesn’t heal. It’s what you do with the time."

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

"...By the time I would finish school I'll be fifty? He smiled. "You're going to be fifty anyhow"

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

"Survivors don't have time to ask, "Why me?" For survivors, the only relevant question is, "What now?"

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

"We cannot choose to have a life free of hurt. But we can choose to be free, to escape the past, no matter what befalls us, and to embrace the possible."

-Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

2. The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)

By: J.K. Rowling , Robert Galbraith

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym … read more

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3. Head Over Heels: A Story Of Tragedy, Triumph and Romance in the Australian Bush

By: None , None

3.43

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

At the age of 19, a young farmer, Sam Bailey, miscalculated a bend in the road, overturned his ute … read more

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4. Daughter of the Territory

By: None

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

A future Australian classic--an epic story of love and survival in the wilds of the Northern Territ… read more

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5. The Dictionary of Lost Words

By: Pip Williams

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the… read more

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"The past came towards me, and I closed the book."

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

"Sometimes I think there may be more than two sides."

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

"It is context...that gives meaning. [Harry Nicholl]"

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

"She lived between the lines of the Dictionary as much as I did."

-Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

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6. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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7. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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8. The Storyteller of Casablanca

By: Fiona Valpy

4.40

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

In this evocative tale from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker’s Gift, a strange new city off… read more

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9. Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

By: Heather Morris

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A promise to stay together. An unbreakable bond. A fierce will to survive. From international … read more

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"Looking at these photos in this special light we have remembered the past without grief and if we can do that, we can also look ahead without fear."

-Heather Morris, Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

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10. One Italian Summer: Across the World and Back in Search of the Good Life

By: Pip Williams

3.83

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and… read more

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11. Lisa

By: Lisa Curry

4.25

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple … read more

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12. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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13. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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14. Outback (DS Walker, #1)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.18

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Two missing backpackers. One vast outback. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie… read more

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15. Sister Viv

By: Grantlee Kieza

4.65

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to s… read more

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16. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

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17. A Light in the Forest

By: Melissa Payne

4.22

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspens… read more

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18. The London Girls

By: Soraya M. Lane

4.41

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Last Correspondent comes a remarkable story of three young women… read more

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"Typical; something exciting was announced for women, and everyone just carried on as normal, without a second thought."

-Soraya M. Lane, The London Girls

"That was the last time a man was ever going to make a fool of her. From now on, she was going to learn to look after herself, and no man was ever going to control her life or tell her what to do."

-Soraya M. Lane, The London Girls

"Flo, one thing I’ve learned is that life is too short,’ Olivia told her. ‘If you have feelings for the man,’ she whispered, ‘take a chance, have some fun. Lord knows you deserve it. And don’t forget …"

-Soraya M. Lane, The London Girls

"I’m riding motorcycles for a job, Mother! They’re calling us the Flying Wrens, and in case you’ve forgotten, there’s a war going on! People are losing their families.’ She shook her head. ‘It’s not a…"

-Soraya M. Lane, The London Girls

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19. The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

By: Edith Eger

4.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This practical and inspirational guide to healing from the award-winning, New York Times bestsellin… read more

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20. Dancing in the Dust: Three Nurses' misadventures in the Australian Outback

By: Ann Martin

4.23

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Dancing in the Dust is the funny, irreverent, and sometimes heartbreaking story of three nurses wor… read more

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21. The Outback Court Reporter

By: Jamelle Wells

3.61

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

One of Australia's most experienced court reporters goes on a judicial road trip. Outback Court … read more

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22. Not Just the Wife of the General Manager: Life in the Outback and a Whole Lot More

By: Sally Warriner

4.11

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Not Just the Wife of the General Manager is a rollicking memoir of one woman’s life on outback catt… read more

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23. Bush Doctors

By: Annabelle Brayley

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Sixteen stories of amazing outback doctors and their heroic deeds, from the bestselling author of  … read more

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24. Diamonds and Dust

By: Sheryl McCorry

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sheryl McCorry grew up in the outback carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was… read more

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25. An Outback Life

By: Mary Groves

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

All I could think of as my heart thumped in my chest and the rumble of 900 stampeding buffalo rocke… read more

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26. A Country Nurse: From Wave Hill to rural Queensland and almost everywhere in between

By: Thea Hayes

3.92

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Thea Hayes spent twenty years living and working on Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory. Sh… read more

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27. Second Chance

By: Diana Thurgood

4.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A life-affirming true story of kindness, courage and one horse's extraordinary journey from a derel… read more

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21 Best fiction books like What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Darling Girls

Sally Hepworth

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Sanctuary

Garry Disher

3.99

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