Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today
By: Alison Whittaker
4.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Curated and introduced by Alison Whittaker, Fire Front is a ground-breaking anthology of First Nati…
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1. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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- contemporary
"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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- australia
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
3. Bad Dreams and Other Stories
By: Tessa Hadley
3.69
Format: 224 pages, ebook
In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history… read more
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- contemporary
4. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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- poetry
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
5. The Golden Age
By: Joan London
3.02
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a story of resilience, the irrepressible, enduring nature of love, and the fragility of lif… read more
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- australia
6. The Boy Behind the Curtain
By: Tim Winton
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Audio CD
The remarkable true stories in The Boy Behind the Curtainreveal an intimate and rare view of Tim Wi… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
7. My Place
By: Sally Morgan
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiogr… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- australia
8. The Day of the Triffids
By: John Wyndham
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more
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9. The Sellout
By: Paul Beatty
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more
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10. The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (The Tribe #1)
By: Ambelin Kwaymullina
3.44
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
"There will come a day when a thousand Illegals descend on your detention centres. Boomers will bre… read more
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11. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
By: Emily Dickinson , Thomas H. Johnson
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON'S POEMS Only eleven of Emily Di… read more
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12. Like a House on Fire
By: Cate Kennedy
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
From prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly accla… read more
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13. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
By: Malka Ann Older
3.64
Format: 169 pages, Hardcover
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more
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14. When You Least Expect It
By: Haley Cass
4.33
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN moved from less recent edition Caroline Parker knows three things to be true. First, she is… read more
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- contemporary
"No one has ever looked at me the way she does."-Haley Cass, When You Least Expect It
"I like the idea that you’d come to me at the end of a hard day and know that I want to be there for you. And that it doesn’t have anything to do with taking anything away from your independence becau…"-Haley Cass, When You Least Expect It
15. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
16. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
17. Too Much Lip
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.06
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. Wise-cracking Ke… read more
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- contemporary
- australia
- indigenous
18. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
By: Irene Vallejo
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
19. Dropbear
By: Evelyn Araluen
4.13
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve rivers. This fierce debut from award-winnin… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- australia
- indigenous
20. The Yield
By: Tara June Winch
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spen… read more
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- contemporary
- australia
- indigenous
"My mummy, she said, 'The Aborigine is a pity, my son.' She said everyone was always insulted by her no matter what she did, so she let herself do the most insulting thing she could think of - take th…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The story goes that the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away. I’m writing about the other time, though, deep time. This is a big, big story. The big stuff goes …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"I was born on Ngurambang — can you hear it? — Ngu-ram-bang. If you say it right it hits the back of your mouth and you should taste blood in your words. Every person around should learn the word for …"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
"The evidence of their civilisation, after so many years of farming, was difficult to find on the surface of the land. But they said it was embedded in the language of Albert’s dictionary, that with t…"-Tara June Winch, The Yield
21. All The Young Dudes - Volume Three: ‘Til the End (All The Young Dudes, #3)
By: MsKingBean89
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
MsKingBean’s “All The Young Dudes” has been divided into three volumes. This third book covers... t… read more
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"I love you,"-MsKingBean89, All The Young Dudes - Volume Three: ‘Til the End (All The Young Dudes, #3)
"Is Lily ok?"-MsKingBean89, All The Young Dudes - Volume Three: ‘Til the End (All The Young Dudes, #3)
"I loved him."-MsKingBean89, All The Young Dudes - Volume Three: ‘Til the End (All The Young Dudes, #3)
"You’ve been fine,"-MsKingBean89, All The Young Dudes - Volume Three: ‘Til the End (All The Young Dudes, #3)
22. The Jaguar
By: Sarah Holland-Batt
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
With electrifying boldness, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- australia
23. Berlin
By: Joanna Murray-Smith
3.58
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
A spine-tingling romantic thriller. Charlotte is a Berliner through and through. Tom is a foreig… read more
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24. The Wonder of Little Things
By: Vince Copley
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A First Nations Elder shares his extraordinary story of finding kindness in the midst of prejudice,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- australia
25. Cosmoknights, Vol. 2 (Cosmoknights, #2)
By: Hannah Templer
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Escape was just the beginning. The sensational "gays in space" webcomic/graphic novel returns, with… read more
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26. Astronomy: Sky Country
By: Karlie Noon
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges seri… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- australia
- indigenous
27. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming
By: Bill Gammage
4.35
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges ser… read more
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- history
- politics
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- australia
28. The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat
By: Sara M. Saleh
4.59
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee cam… read more
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- poetry
29. Fire Front: First Nations poetry and power today
By: Alison Whittaker
4.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Curated and introduced by Alison Whittaker, Fire Front is a ground-breaking anthology of First Nati… read more
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- poetry
- history
- politics
- anthologies
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- australia
- contemporary
- anti racist
30. Guwayu - For All Times: A Collection of First Nations Poetry
By: Jeanine Leane
4.28
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Guwayu — For All Times is a collection of First Nations poems commissioned by Red Room Poetry over … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- australia
- indigenous
31. Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity
By: Ellen Van Neerven
4.28
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning First Nations author, a ground-breaking examination of sport's troubled relat… read more
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- nonfiction
- australia
- indigenous
