Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia
By: Samantha Faulkner
4.14
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
A journey through Torres Strait Islander culture and identity, past and present "My people are e…
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1. Am I Black Enough For You?
By: Anita Heiss
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What do… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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2. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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3. Women & Children
By: Tony Birch
4.22
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more
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4. Safe Haven
By: Shankari Chandran
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more
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- australia
5. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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- nonfiction
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
6. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Audre Lorde
4.55
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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- essays
"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
7. Praiseworthy
By: Alexis Wright
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more
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8. Le transizioni
By: Pajtim Statovci
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Bujar è un uomo che sa diventare una donna: può essere una meravigliosa ragazza di Sarajevo che att… read more
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"It's the first thing people notice,' she says despondently. 'Difference. As if it's a crime."-Pajtim Statovci, Le transizioni
"Katson häntä ja asuntoa hänen ympärillään, elämää jota hän elää, paikkaa johon hän maailmassa kuuluu, miten osaton hän kaikesta huolimatta on. Opiskelupaikka yliopistossa, tällainen asunto ja tällais…"-Pajtim Statovci, Le transizioni
"Menen hetkeksi istumaan kirkon etuosaan, kaivan laukusta uuden ristikoruni ja ripustan sen kaulalleni, ja kun muuan pappi tervehtii minua nyökkäämällä suuntaani mitä hienovaraisimmalla eleellä, joka …"-Pajtim Statovci, Le transizioni
9. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
By: Clementine Ford
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more
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10. Ready When You Are
By: Gary Lonesborough
4.20
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, … read more
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"Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs."-Gary Lonesborough, Ready When You Are
11. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
12. The Glass House
By: Anne Buist
3.89
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more
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13. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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14. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
By: Bruce Pascoe
4.20
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
15. The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
By: Christine Féret-Fleury
3.04
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Amelie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose … read more
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"she plunged her nose into the fragrant mist, closed her eyes and imagined herself far away, very far away, at one of those Middle Eastern markets that the bombs had reduced to rubble, in one of those…"-Christine Féret-Fleury, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
"It must be part of the inescapable human condition--each person ultimately deaf, impervious to other people's emotions, incapable of deciphering gestures, looks, or silences, all condemned to give pa…"-Christine Féret-Fleury, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
"He was talking about books as if they were alive - old friends, powerful adversaries at times, insolent teenagers and elderly ladies sitting by the fire. In our bookcases? Grumpy wise men and mistres…"-Christine Féret-Fleury, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
16. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
By: Anita Heiss
4.31
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning au… read more
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- memoir
- anthologies
- nonfiction
- australia
- essays
"We’ve never been alone, and we have each other. Not everyone gets everything, and we are so lucky for so much. I’m learning my place, my responsibilities."-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
"I love that I’ve been lucky enough to travel to every Australian city and work with some of the best, most forward-thinking individuals, and coach many to extraordinary feats. I love the friendships …"-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
"P.S. I truly love every square inch of Australia. I look forward to when we realise that this country is our giver of life and will survive long after we have passed on. Maybe, then, we will each cho…"-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
17. The Babysitter
By: Emma Curtis
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Three women. Three secrets. Claudia 's life imploded ten years ago when she was convicted of the… read more
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18. Hospital
By: Sanya Rushdi
3.70
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis. In Melbourne, Australia, a woman in h… read more
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19. Growing Up Torres Strait Islander in Australia
By: Samantha Faulkner
4.14
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
A journey through Torres Strait Islander culture and identity, past and present "My people are e… read more
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- anthologies
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- essays
20. All the Beautiful Things You Love
By: Jonathan Seidler
3.63
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
Elly and Enzo love each other.Elly and Enzo are breaking up.Now, everything must go.When Enzo sudde… read more
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21. Love & Autism
By: Kay Kerr
4.29
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
'Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am d… read more
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22. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum
By: Bex Ollerton
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more
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- memoir
- anthologies
23. One of Us is Missing
By: B.M. Carroll
3.96
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
There's no such thing as safety in numbers ...Rachel and Rory Sullivan decide to celebrate making i… read more
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24. The Honeyeater
By: Jessie Tu
3.59
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more
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25. A Language of Limbs
By: Dylin Hardcastle
4.56
Format: 277 pages, ebook
The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more
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26. The Mires
By: Tina Makereti
4.41
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around … read more
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27. No Church in the Wild
By: Murray Middleton
3.55
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
Five years after violence erupted between young migrants and local police in Melbourne's inner west… read more
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28. The Little Clothes
By: Deborah Callaghan
3.58
Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition
Audrey Mendes is a clever lawyer but has never made partner. Her weeks are filled with long hours i… read more
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29. Woo Woo
By: Ella Baxter
3.50
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful … read more
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30. Love Unleashed
By: Melanie Saward
3.99
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
When Bigambul woman Brynn Wallace leaves Brisbane to pursue her dreams in the Big Apple, she imagin… read more
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31. If You Go
By: Alice Robinson
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When Esther wakes with a breathing tube down her throat, she has no idea where she is or how she go… read more
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