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  • Worlds Within a World

    First Nations women share their stories

    by Carol Foley, Valerie Swift, Lois May, Deborah Green, Barb Hostalek ...
    How do you inhabit multiple worlds at the same time? Five First Nations women show what it is like to navigate challenges and deprivations while staying connected to Country and the world' s oldest living culture. They recount memories of growing up – as members of the Stolen Generations, in an adopted family, or within loving families shadowed by adversity. With honesty and courage, these women ... Read more

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    The Award-Winning Memoir of Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief

    by Katriona O'Sullivan ...
    From an impoverished childhood shaped by her parents' addictions to becoming a prize-winning academic, this is the incredible memoir from an inspiring voice, told with devastating candour, humour and warmth.THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLERWINNER OF BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS'One of the best [books] I have read about the complexities of poverty . . . one of the most remarkable people you will ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

    Edited by Anita Heiss ...
    Childhood stories of family, country and belongingWhat is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia?This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile identities sit alongside those from newly discovered writers of all ages. All of the contributors ... Read more

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  • The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

    A memoir

    by Grace Tame ...
    Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground.From a young age, her life was defined by uncertainty - by trauma and strength, sadness and hope, terrible lows and wondrous highs. As a teenager she found the courage to speak up after experiencing awful and ongoing child sexual abuse. This fight to find her voice would not be her last.In 2021 Grace stepped squarely into the public eye as the ... Read more

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  • There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

    by Emma Wehipeihana (Espiner) ...
    “I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking about how the tohu, once awarded, can never be taken back. There are few things in life that emphatic. Better not fuck it up.” From award-winning writer Dr Emma Espiner comes this striking and profound debut memoir. Encompassing whānau, love, death, ’90s action movies... ... Read more

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  • Otherhood

    Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent

    Edited by Alie Benge, Kathryn van Beek, Lil O'Brien ...
    In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they're pushing back against the narrative that if they don't, their lives will be somehow 'less than'.Otherhood's essays are by writers who've felt on the outside looking in, who've lived unexpected lives and who've given the finger to social expectations. Some chose to be childfree, some didn't get to choose and some ... Read more

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  • Matters of the Heart: The inspirational and deeply moving memoir from one of Australia's most significant Indigenous voices, for readers of Anh Do, Ash Barty and J.D. Vance

    by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price ...
    The moving story of an Indigenous woman who beat disadvantage and violence to become one of Australia's most influential political voices.Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was nine months pregnant and due to give birth the night she attended her high school formal. With her baby tucked in her arms, she completed year 12 from her hospital bed. Early in their relationship, she took her future husband, Colin, ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of Women

    Intimate Stories of Love, Loss and Laughter

    by Candida Baker ...
    A celebration of the highs and lows of one woman's life through the experiences of many othersThe first and most important woman in my life was my mother. As it should be, in an ideal world.Candida Baker grew up in a colorful family, with an actor father and costume designer mother. Her parents' complex, and at times chaotic, lives made for a challenging environment, and from an early age Candida ... Read more

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  • The Art of Not Falling Apart

    by Christina Patterson ...
    We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don't find it all that funny when things go wrong. Most of us want love, a nice home, good work, and happy children. Many of us grew up with parents who made these things look relatively easy and assumed we would get them, too. So what do you do if you don't? What do you do when you feel you've messed it all up and your friends seem ... Read more

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  • Outback Spirit: Inspiring True Stories of Australia's Unsung Heroes

    Inspiring True Stories of Australia's Unsung Heroes

    by Sue Williams ...
    Five kids orphaned by a terrible accident . . .A struggling family living in the most isolated spot on earth . . .A single dad battling to cope in a house falling down around his ears . . .A desperately ill woman in the middle of nowhere . . .In the great Outback traditions of mateship, resilience and generosity come these stories of ordinary people who, against seemingly insurmountable odds, help ... Read more

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  • Yeah, Nah!

    A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are

    by William McInnes ...
    Have you ever bunged it on?Behaved like a drongo?Added mayo to a story?Lost your Reg Grundies?Join bestselling storyteller William McInnes as he offers his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. From the simpler times of childhood to today's testing (and unprecedented!) times, or when we're wasting time, enjoying sporting times or hitting the big time, Australians have a turn of ... Read more

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  • National Identity: Confessions of an outsider

    by Simon Bridges ...
    An open, honest and at times intensely personal memoir about race, fatherhood, marriage, masculinity, fitting in, and the things that shape our national character.Simon Bridges grew up as the son of a working-class Baptist preacher in Te Atatu, as the youngest of six children. In many ways he had a typical Kiwi upbringing, at a time when having little didn't seem to matter much. Yet for Bridges, ... Read more

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