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Don’t Tell

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Goodbye Mickey Mouse

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At Preloved Book Shop we rescue second-hand books, ready to re-home via our online book store with a new forever family...

Why is the pursuit of beauty so relentless—and w

Why is the pursuit of beauty so relentless—and who really benefits?
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Born into the Lardil tribe on Mornington Island in 1923, Roughsey recounts her upbringing amid traditional tribal life and missionary influence.
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Explore groundbreaking psychological insights with The New Primal Scream: Primal Therapy Twenty Years On by Arthur Janov – available for $9 at PLB.

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Explore today's rescued reads, and uncover tales that captivate the heart and mind:

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Her cells changed science forever, but her story went unheard. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks unveils the hidden life of Henrietta Lacks, a tobacco farmer whose cells, taken without her consent, became the first “immortal” human cells in culture—HeLa cells. These cells have played a vital role in medical breakthroughs, from the polio vaccine to gene mapping, yet her family never benefited from the discoveries her cells enabled.
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Voltaire's Calligrapher by Pablo De Santis – $9
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